Darktable 2.0 rc3 recently released, is the third release candidate in the new feature release of darktable 2.0. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.
Darktable 2.0 rc3 changelog:
- camera support improvements
- add support for the Canon PowerShot G5 X
- basic support for Olympus SP320
- Panasonic LF1 noise profile and white balance presets
- noiseprofiles: add Sony A77mk2
- high-dpi fixes
- fixed a few memleaks
- 3:1 aspect ratio as preset in crop&rotate
- magic lantern-style deflicker has been activated in the exposure module
- updated translations
- darktable has been ported to gtk-3.0
- new thumbnail cache replaces mipmap cache (much improved speed, less crashiness)
- added print mode
- reworked screen color management (softproof, gamut check etc.)
- removed dependency on libraw
- removed dependency on libsquish (solves patent issues as a side effect)
- unbundled pugixml, osm-gps-map and colord-gtk
- text watermarks
- color reconstruction module
- raw black/white point module
- delete/trash feature
- addition to shadows&highlights
- more proper Kelvin temperature, fine-tuning preset interpolation in WB iop
- noiseprofiles are in external JSON file now
- monochrome raw demosaicing (not sure whether it will stay for release, like Deflicker, but hopefully it will stay)
- aspect ratios for crop&rotate can be added to conf (ae36f03)
- navigating lighttable with arrow keys and space/enter
- pdf export – some changes might happen there still
- brush size/hardness/opacity have key accels
- the facebook login procedure is a little different now
- export can upscale
- we no longer drop history entries above the selected one when leaving darkroom or switching images
- text/font/color in watermarks
- image information now supports GPS altitude
- allow adding tone- and basecurve nodes with ctrl-click
- new “mode” parameter in the export panel
- high quality export now downsamples before watermark and frame to guarantee consistent results
- Lua scripts can now add UI elements to the lighttable view (buttons, sliders etc …)
- a new repository for external Lua scripts was started
Install Darktable 2.0 rc3 on Ubuntu OS
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install darktablecomments powered by Disqus