After 7 months of active development release of a program for organizing and processing digital photos acts as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom and specializes in non-destructive work with raw images. Darktable provides a large selection of modules for performing various photo processing operations, allows you to maintain a database of source photos, visually navigate through existing images and, if necessary, perform distortion correction and quality improvement operations, while maintaining the original image and the entire history of operations with it. Project code licensed under GPLv3. Binary assemblies в .
Major changes:
- The lighttable mode has been completely rewritten with significant performance and interaction improvements up to 8K resolution. Improved display of overlay hints on top of thumbnails. Added a menu for configuring pop-ups and overlay tips.
- The timeline display mode has been redesigned.
- The comparison and culling mode has been redesigned.
- Completely redesigned interface, configurable via CSS. Added a dialog for selecting available themes and a CSS editor for making edits to existing themes.
- Redesigned icons inside the application and color pipette.
- The application settings dialog has been completely redesigned.
- A new module for working with negative film scans (negadoctor) has been added.
- New histogram mode (RGB Parade). Added the ability to change the height of the histogram using the Ctrl+Scroll key combination.
- The module for displaying and editing metadata has been redesigned and expanded. Added the ability to exclude the import of individual metadata fields.
- Introduced the ability to set a new set of modules by default using the "Film RGB Tonal Waveform" module instead of the only previously available set based on the "Basic Curve". The option is available in the corresponding item of the settings dialog (“Processing Options”).
- The new version of the RGB Film Tonal Waveform module includes a built-in highlight recovery mode.
- Added new gradient mode.
- Enabled support for AVIF images (requires libavif >= 0.7)
- The order of the modules has been completely redesigned and the corresponding version selection dialog has been added.
- Added the ability to temporarily hide masks in the "Retouch" and "Spot Removal" modules.
- The operation of the "Transformations" module has been improved and the ability to measure only in the horizontal or vertical planes has been added.
- Improved operation of the "Vignetting" module.
- Improved operation of the "White Balance" module. Added the ability to quickly return to the previous settings.
- Added the ability to edit the color picker selection.
- New variables available when working with labels. Increasing the number of available label nesting levels up to 9.
- Added the ability to edit (in drag & drop mode) geotags for several images at once.
- New dialog for editing keyboard shortcuts.
- Optional mode for exporting TIFF images in grayscale. Ability to export masks for TIFF format.
- Better icon support in HiDPI mode on Windows systems.
- Added confirmation dialog for deleting and editing presets.
- Now you can delete, apply and export several styles at once.
- Added the ability to apply a style in the mode of adding to an existing story or overwriting it with style settings.
- Added messages in case of dt database version mismatch. The backup is automatically saved in the settings directory.
- The limit of 500 shots in shooting mode with a directly connected camera (tethering) has been removed.
- Numerous minor optimizations and bug fixes.
- Lua API updated to version 6.0.0
- The RawSpeed image import module, which is being developed as part of a separate repository, has added support for almost 30 new cameras and accelerated the process of unpacking images.
- Updated translations.
Source: opennet.ru