It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images, enhance them and export them on local or remote storage. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. The core operates completely on floating point values, so darktable can not only be used for photography but also for scientifically acquired images or output of renderers (high dynamic range). darktable is an open source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer. The frontend is written in gtk+/cairo, the database uses sqlite3, raw image loading is done using libraw, hdr, exr and low dynamic range are supported through imagemagick (magickcore). The full image is only converted during export. This behavior can be changed in the preferences dialog (see Section 8.2, Core options). Subsequent changes to the XMP file by any other software are not visible to darktable any changes get overwritten the next time darktable synchronizes the file. The user will always be able to interact, even if the full resolution image is not yet loaded.Īll editing is fully non-destructive and only operates on cached image buffers for display. Once an image has been imported into darktable the database entries take precedence over the XMP file. The user interface is built around efficient caching of image metadata and mipmaps, all stored in a database. This project tries to fill the gap between the many excellent existing free raw converters and image management tools (such as UFRaw or F-Spot). It also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

It manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. Darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.

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