Release of the program for professional photo processing Darktable 3.0 RC

After almost a year of active development, the community of developers of the program for organizing and processing digital photos Darktable released the first candidate for 3.0 branch releases. Darktable acts as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom and specializes in non-destructive work with raw images. Project code spreads licensed under GPLv3. Binary assemblies prepared by for Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu.

Main changes:

• Complete redesign of the interface and porting to GTK/CSS. Now all interface elements can be controlled using CSS themes. Prepared a series of themes optimized for low and high resolution monitors: darktable, darktable-elegant-darker, darktable-icons-darker, darktable-elegant-dark, darktable-elegant-grey, darktable-icons-dark, darktable-icons gray. The requirements for the minimum version of GTK have been raised to 3.22.
• Support for reordering modules in the order applied to the image (Ctrl+Shift+Drag).
• Lighttable undo/redo support for labels, color labels, ratings, metadata, edit history, and applied styles.
• Support for bitmap masks.
• The image feed and histogram modes have been redesigned.
• New versions of the "film tone curve" and "tone equalizer" modules.
• The profile noise suppression module has been redesigned.
• New "3D Color Lookup Tables" module with support for PNG Hald-CLUT and Cube formats.
• A new "basic settings" module that allows you to quickly adjust the black, white and gray points, change the saturation and automatically calculate the exposure of the image.
• New "RGB Levels" and "RGB Tone Curve" modules that support working with individual channels in RGB space, in addition to the already existing modules that work in Lab space.
• The Color Picker tool in the Blending, Tone Curve, Color Zones, and Glow modules that supports sampling the average value over a selected area (Ctrl+Click on the eyedropper icon).
• Support for quick search of modules by name.
• Added export metadata settings dialog that allows you to manage the export of Exif data, tags, their hierarchy and geotagging data.
• Migrated from POSIX threads to OpenMP.
• Made multiple optimizations for SSE and OpenCL.
• Added support for over 30 new cameras.
• Support for the new Google Photo API with the ability to create albums directly from darktable.

Error messages can be posted to GitHub or contact the developers on the mailing list [email protected].

Source: opennet.ru