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Darktable 4.0.0 announced
The version 4.0.0 of Darktable , which aims to enable photographers to easily process
a large number of photographs and enables detailed changes on images, was announced
by Pascal Obry.
Stating that they are proud to announce the 4.0.0 version of Darktable, the development
team stated that this is an important release.
Coming with a color and exposure mapping feature that allows color pickers to define and save
a target color/exposure to match any source object in the image with a random target color,
the new version can be used to ensure color consistency of an object across a series of
images.
It is stated that the new version of the software, which is made available under the GNU General
Public License 3 and runs under GNU/Linux, OS X and Solaris, comes with the default darktable
theme.
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Darktable 4.0 Released to Celebrate 10 Years of Open Source RAW Image Editing
The darktable team announced today the release and general availability of darktable 4.0,
in celebration of the project’s 10th anniversary since version 1.0, a major release that brings
numerous new features and enhancements.
Coming more than five months after darktable 3.8.1, the darktable 4.0 release is here to
introduce a new feature called Color and Exposure Mapping to ensure uniform color rendition,
which is implemented in the Exposure and Color Calibration modules and lets you define and
save a target color/exposure for the color pickers.
For example, you can use it to perform white balance against non-gray objects of known
color.
Darktable 4.0 also introduces a new color science called Filmic v6, which replaces the
mandatory desaturation with a true gamut mapping against the output color space, a new “guided
laplacian” method to the “highlight reconstruction” module to help you extract
valid details from non-clipped RGB channels, as well as color glossary support in the Global
Color Picker.
Among other noteworthy changes, the new darktable release adds white balance presets for the
Nikon D4S, Panasonic DC-S5, and Sony ILCE-7M4 digital cameras, introduces the darktable
Uniform Color Space 2022 (UCS 22), and a new guided laplacian reconstruction method in
the highlight reconstruction module.
The graphical user interface has been completely revamped to improve darktable’s look and
consistency, along with alignment, color, contrast, collapsible sections, icons, margins,
and padding.
Moreover, the vignetting module was split into two sections for clarity, there’s support
for the IPAPGothic font, and Elegant Grey was assigned as the new default theme.
Among other changes, there’s support for DNG GainMap EXIF information and EXR 16-bit
(half) float export, tagging suggestion mode was improved, and there’s new “collection
filters” module and “contrast” parameter.
Numerous performance improvements are present as well in Darktable 4.0, along with countless
bug fixes.
Check out the release notes for more details on all the changes introduced in Darktable
4.0, which you can download right now from the official website as a source tarball that
you’ll have to compile on your GNU/Linux distribution.
If that’s not your cup of tea, you will be able to install it as a Flatpak app from
Flathub or from your distro’s repositories in the coming days.
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