Open source photography workflow application and RAW developer

Darktable for Mac

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Download Darktable 4.6.1

Darktable for Mac

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Darktable for Mac is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

Raw is the unprocessed capture straight from the camera's sensor to the memory card, nothing has been altered. There are multiple alternatives in the open source world for raw development (ufraw, dcraw, rawtherapee) but Darktable tries to fill the gap between the excellent existing free raw converters and image management tools (such as e.g. ufraw, rawstudio, f-spot, digikam, shotwell). It focuses on the workflow to make it easier for the photographer to quickly handle the thousands of images a day of shooting can produce. It's also one of the very few FOSS projects able to do tethered shooting.

The internal architecture of the app allows users to easily add modules for all sorts of image processing, from the very simple (crop, exposure, spot removal) to the most advanced (simulation of human night vision).

The user interface is built around efficient caching of image metadata and mipmaps, all stored in a database. The main focus lies on user interaction, both in terms of a smooth interface design as well as processing speed. High quality output is also one of goals.

All editing is fully non-destructive and only operates on cached image buffers for display. The full image is only converted during export. Raw image loading is done using rawspeed, high-dynamic range and standard image formats such as jpeg are also supported. The core operates completely on floating point values, so Darktable for macOS can not only be used for photography but also for scientifically acquired images or output of renderers (high dynamic range).

Features and Highlights
  • darktable runs on GNU/Linux / GNOME, Mac OS X / macports and Solaris 11 / GNOME.
  • Fully non-destructive editing.
  • All darktable core functions operate on 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, enabling SSE instructions for speedups. It offers GPU acceleration via OpenCL (runtime detection and enabling) and has built-in ICC profile support: sRGB, Adobe RGB, XYZ and linear RGB.
  • A collect module allows you to execute flexible database queries, search your images by tags, image rating (stars), color labels and many more. Filtering and sorting your collections within the base query or simple tagging by related tags are useful tools in your every-day photo workflow.
  • Import a variety of standard, raw and high dynamic range image formats (e.g. jpg, cr2, hdr, pfm, .. ).
  • darktable has a zero-latency fullscreen, zoomable user interface through multi-level software caches.
  • Tethered shooting.
  • darktable currently comes with 21 translations: Albanian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian and Portugese), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
  • The powerful export system supports Picasa webalbum, flickr upload, disk storage, 1:1 copy, email attachments and can generate a simple html-based web gallery. darktable for macOS allows you to export to low dynamic range (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), 16-bit (PPM, TIFF), or linear high dynamic range (PFM, EXR) images.
  • darktable uses both XMP sidecar files as well as its fast database for saving metadata and processing settings. All Exif data is read and written using libexiv2.
Also Available: Download Darktable for Windows

  • Darktable 4.6.1 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

The Big Ones:
- Documentation is now complete for darktable 4.6 including translation
- into Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch

Performance Improvements:
- Fixed some OpenCL code paths that could produce garbled or unprocessed output without reporting the issue back to the pixel-pipe

Other Changes:
- Image discovery from the import dialog is now performed asynchronously. This means that a long parsing (due to using recursive mode in a directory with a huge number of sub-directories and files) can be interrupted by selecting another place/directory or un-checking recursive mode.

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue with importing images in recursive mode. Using this mode without having first selected a directory could freeze darktable due to it having to parse the whole disk (though it would recover eventually).
- When importing images in recursive mode, the thumbs for images discovered in sub-directories are now properly displayed
- Fixed memory and resource leaks in the QOI image loader
- Fixed RGBE image loader
- Fixed possible issue with guide lines not being displayed in the Rotate and Perspective module
- Fixed non-persistent zoom level in culling mode when switching images
- Fixed crashes related to details mask when running low on GPU or system memory
- Fixed incorrect rendering of an initial snapshot after creating a second snapshot
- Keep selected styles in the style dialog after editing them
- Fixed collection selection for ISO, aperture and aspect ratio to work in all locales (independent of any locale-specific decimal separator)
- Fixed RAW Chromatic Aberrations module, which could crash due to a rounding issue while computing an internal buffer size. This could cause a buffer overflow and possibly crash darktable.
- Avoid undershoots while interpolating in Lens Correction, Rotate and Perspective, Retouch and Liquify modules
- Include LibRaw fix for artifacts when decoding high-ISO Canon CR3 files
- Fixed possible incorrect module name when applying styles, whereby the module name was showing garbled text
- Fixed possible incorrect default value initialized in Lens Correction legacy parameter migration from version 2
- Fixed garbled output and possible OpenCL errors for very dark regions in Color Balance RGB
- Fixed OpenCL startup for various cards
- Fixed issue where the right-click-and-drag rotation line was not being displayed on the image when a darkroom module was expanded
- Fixed lighttable scrolling freeze when using a track-pad
- Fix compatibility issues with HDR created DNG files
- Fix possible crash when using the capture's live view mode
- Fixed a zooming bug in lighttable culling mode where some images' area could be plain grey or having a very small thumb
- Fixed some missing pipe recomputing making processing modules' graph (Tone Equalizer for example) not properly updated
- Fixed several mouse scroll-wheel issues on macOS when used in combination with the Shift modifier key (color harmonies width, module height, geotagging date/time, ...)

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