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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

Download Darktable for Mac Latest Version

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What's new in this version:

Performance Improvements:
- Improved performance of discarding history of selected images

Other Changes:
- Harmonized style selection in print settings with the update made in the export module for release 5.0
- Darktable now includes the Lensfun database into the AppImage
- Center collapsible module section labels

Fixed:
- Fixed a scrolling bug in the collections module where the collection tree was not scrolled to the previous position when returning from darkroom
- Fix crash when attempting to move up the top or only shape in a group in the mask manager
- Fix collection module when using the "module" filter which was listing none of the processing modules
- Fix iop-order user presets use. It was not possible to get a user's iop-order preset to be applied as the Darktable internal presets where always picked up first
- Fixed a crash in variable expansion for $(SEQUENCE[n,m])
- Fixed handling on click from filmstrip when in map and print view. On map we now properly center the image on the map. On the print view, we use the selected image as content of the main print area.
- Fixed a regression introduced in 5.0.0 where we lost the ability to read 2-channel TIFF files and files with more than 4 channels. This fix allows them to be read by the TIFF loader, whereas previously the TIFF loader rejected such files and they were loaded by a fallback loader (GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick).
- Fixed not being able to pan with a mouse in the zoomable layout
- Fixed possibly collapsing the module header when restoring defaults
- Fixed a case of XMP being written without actual image modification
- Fixed a crash of Darktable when reimporting XMP having overlay images referenced
- Fixed the support for single lib module opened at a time when in darkroom
- Fixed xmp sidecar writing while working as a gimp plugin
- Fixed issues when applying a style in darkroom using the Styles module
- Fixed a possible crash when using Ctrl+z reproduced on macOS
- Fixed Darktable crashing in enlarge-canvas module
- Fixed Darktable crashing using details mask due to bad tiling
- Fixed a hash calculation bug leading to pixelpipe instabilities
- Fixed issue to handle auto-presets when the focal length is greater then 1000
- Fixed crash on macOS when closing the darkroom's second window
- Fixed possible jump in filmstrip when entering darkroom from full preview
- Fixed a performance regression in haze removal module
- Fixed reading palette-based PNG with transparency
- Fixed possible crash in lens correction module when changing camera and/or lens model
- Fixed crash after deleting style or preset that was selected in shortcuts dialog
- Fixed a crash when the currently active module instance is being deleted
- We now support the correct orientation for JPEG XL if it was specified in the format's metadata but not in Exif (or Exif is missing). We also avoid over-transformation if it is specified in both the basic data and Exif.

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