It’s our pleasure to announce that darktable-1.0.5 has been released. Find the tarball on sf.net:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/1.0/darktable-1.0.5.tar.gz/download
The Ubuntu PPAs have been built already, you should get them with your next update automatically if you subscribed to Pascal’s PPA.
This has a good chance of being the last one in a series of stable releases (with stuff backported from our latest and greatest). Thanks to Pascal for maintaining it! As such, it comes with a short list of maintenance things as change log:
- Update to RawSpeed r438
- Update to LibRaw 0.14.7
- White balance presets for Nikon Coolpix P7100 and Panasonic GF3
- White balance preset updates for Canon EOS 7D, Canon EOS 350D
- Standard Color Matrices for Canon EOS 650D, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EOS 1D X, Canon PowerShot G1 X, Canon PowerShot SX220, Nikon D3200, Nikon D4, Nikon D800, Olympus E-M5, Panasonic GF5, Sony SLT-A37/A57, Leica X1/X2, Sony DSC-RX100
- A few memory leaks were resolved
- A few generic bugs were resolved
We’d like to take the opportunity this time to thank some other projects we depend on, and their authors for being awesome:
- RawSpeed: Klaus Post
- LibRaw: Alex Tutubalin
- UFraw: (white balance presets), Niels Kristian Bech Jensen, Udi Fuchs
- DCraw: Dave Coffin
- Adobe (standard matrices)
- Exiv2: Andreas Hugel
- Lensfun: Andrew Zabolotny, Sebastian Kraft
Commits on top of 1.0.4 proudly brought to you by:
Pascal de Bruijn, Tobias Ellinghaus, Simon Spannagel, johannes hanika, Christian Tellefsen, Richard Wonka, Olivier Tribout, Ger Siemerink, Ulrich Pegelow, Petr Styblo, madanyang, Jesper Pedersen, James C. McPherson, Boucman, Bastien Bouclet.
Thanks for playing everyone!
All the rest: hope you enjoy the release and bear with us while we prepare git master for 1.1 …
Finally we've got real piece of RAW editing software under Linux.
System: Debian Squeeze + backports
Arch: AMD64
I try tuning options but problems persists. :(
You mention an update to camera presets for whitebalance. Do imported photos get whitebalanced automatically for the detected camera? Or how do these presets you mentioned affect the editing workflow?
For most cameras, darktable automatically applies the whitebalance settings the camera embedded in the RAW's EXIF data (these are often called the whitebalance multipliers).
Thank you very much !!!!
Keep up the excellent work!
/Bosse
[ 34%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/common/exif.cc.o
/darktable-1.0.5/src/common/exif.cc: In function ‘int dt_exif_read_blob(uint8_t*, const char*, int, int)’:
/darktable-1.0.5/src/common/exif.cc:560:22: error: cast from ‘gpointer {aka void*}’ to ‘gint {aka int}’ loses precision [-fpermissive]
[ 36%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/common/history.c.o
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/common/exif.cc.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Any ideas?
could you please open a bug ticket for this:
http://darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable/issues/new
thank you!
Simon
@Anton, OSX is very much a secondary platform, as we do not have a dedicated OSX developer.
Just some questions. Does it means that the WB presets in DT matches the Camera WB at the same settings? For example, if we choose the Daylight WB in DT, will the color tint and temperature we get be exactly as what we will get from the in-Camera WB of the same preset?
Also, is it possible to make Spot WB the default WB when opening new pictures? I always shoot using in-camera AWB and it seems that when I use the DT's Spot WB (with the whole picture evaluated) I get better colors, but it is tedious to have to open each picture just to change the WB to Spot.
Thanks again!
I've tried compiling 1.0.5 from sources on my mac (and it passed all stages). However compiled binary doesn't work, complaining about missing DISPLAY. I believe that's somehow related to missing X11 in OS X 10.8… unfortunately I've switched from linux to mac only recently and don't understand that system well.
I do believe it shouldn't be a big problem to actually build a working .dmg with recent version of darktable for OS X 10.8. Or, at least provide some instructions of how to build it from sources properly :)
I have an option to bye Apple Aperture for 80$, but I would rather pay someone same amount for making OS X builds of Darktable.
What a great application. Goodbye Lightroom and other applications and hello Darktable. Great GUI, flat learning curve, loaded with options and the tethering really rocks! An application worth paying for, but is is FREE!!
I am very very pleased I discovered Darktable and I have already started to migrate from Mac OS X to Linux. However, I think it will be great for MAc users to have this application also to there arsenal. I believe many users will switch from Bridge, Lightroom or Aperture to Darktable.
I love it and want to thank the developers and translators for the very nice work they have done and still do.
Best Regards from a satisfied customer.
- do I hear you standing up doing it? :)
The problem really is not OS X not being "popular" like in "liking it" but none of us has a Mac for darktable and the additional time to focus on this.
What we really need is somebody continuously doing the builds and reporting problems. The code modifications needed should really be almost neglectable.
thank you for your feedback - we are very pleased to hear photographers using our software!
If you have any suggestions from your professional point of view what could be improved or what stands in your way when developing pictures we would be glad to hear from you.
Feel free to join our IRC channel for quick questions/discussions or send a mail to our developer mailing list: http://www.darktable.org/contact
As stated in the comment above, we really want to provide an OS X version - it's just the missing manpower that prevents us from having a recent Mac build ready at hand.
best regards,
Simon
Actually, after numerous of efforts, I figured out that on OSX I would need to install XQuartz and compile GTK and related libs with support for XQuartz. And Darktable from master even finished compiling (version 1.0.5 failed), but it's unusable, as the whole GUI is ruined.
No offense to darktable developers in any way :) I just want to continue using darktable after switching from linux to mac, but my programming skills doesn't allow me to make appropriate changes in sources :(
I've got another idea that seems reasonable to me: create an kickstarter project to raise money to port darktable to OSX. I'm not in USA and can't do it myself. But anyone in US should be able to do. I do believe it's not a big problem to raise enough money just to hire professional programmer for a week or so :)
Keep on it, guys :D
http://www.darktable.org/install/
Our resources page even links to a video about how to install Darktable on Ubuntu:
http://www.darktable.org/resources/#screencasts
That said, it might make sense to learn more about Linux in general before jumping into the deep end.
1. It would be great if you could put up an "app" page for developers and users to showcase their plugins, presets, and styles. You'd soon have a rich ecosystem around the product.
2. Could you add layers and selective editing tools too? Gimp and PSP have this feature but those tools are complex and hard to use. ASP has it too and the integration in an easy to use interface makes ASP really nice.
3. Wavelet sharpen and noise reduction would be a nice addition.
4. The crop tool is a little awkward to use. Its location as a plugin is also non-intuitive. It should be located on the margin of the image so that users can crop easily at any time.
5. Printing - I use Turboprint. Gimp integrates Turboprint if you have it installed. Would be wonderful if you could add this too.
Many thanks and keep up the marvelous work!
I'd like to second Steven Adler's request for selective editing. I would love to see some means to manipulate shadows & highlights for a selected part of the image, and do other stuff too. As for now, it's the only major feature that lacks in Darktable.
Also, I hope that you will keep up the great work on increasing the speed of the application and ensure that it doesn't crash so much.
All in all, great job, thanks again!!
glad to hear you like darktable. A few comments:
1. We already thought about this, maybe we'll get something like this.
2. Interesting that you compare darktable (so: a raw development tool) to Gimp and PS instead of Aftershot and LR. The purpose is completely different and if you need really sophisticate edits you'll need one of the others anyway. Having said this: We already have some selective editing (called blend-if, see here: http://www.darktable.org/2012/03/upcoming-features-conditional-blending/) and we started working on "masks" that can be drawn onto the image. But since the implementation is complex and we don't want to deliver half-done stuff don't expect this soon.
3. Taker a look at our equalizer, Imho one of the most powerful wavelet based tools out there, for both sharpen and/or denoise. Described here: http://www.darktable.org/2011/11/darktable-and-research/
4. I don't agree here.
5. There are plans to provide a printing interface in darktable - but this is nothing that will come on a short time scale. We just don't have the manpower to do this in a few months.
I recommend you reading our blog - you will discover lots of partly hidden functions and features you will love.
http://www.darktable.org/category/blog/
cheers,
Simon
there is - use the blend-if feature in shadows&highlights. Descibed here:
http://www.darktable.org/2012/03/upcoming-features-conditional-blending/ and here http://www.darktable.org/2012/07/some-enhancements-to-conditional-blending/
:)
best regards,
Simon
The Blend-if feature does provide some selective editing, but its not obvious unless you know its there and it really works best for solid colors. I can't see how you can use it to select an entire region in a photo, or several regions. The layers feature in ASP, with rectangular, round, anyshape, and brush controls is much more flexible. I think this is what Duott and I are describing.
That said, I find it totally wonderful that Darktable developers are so responsive. That alone augurs well for the future of this tool. Keep up the great work!
:) Thanks for the latter. We try our best...
Regarding selective editing:
Of course you are right, blend-if is neither obvious (it's a pro feature! :D) nor the same or closely comparable to a masks/layers feature. We know that and there is some effort towards masks - but as stated above, this needs careful thoughts and more time to be implemented.
Stay tuned, I'm sure - one day you'll get masks and layers in darktable!
Simon
I use it exclusively for all my RAW development.
1) It is nice to see that color matrices for my Dad's G1X were added. Any chance we could have this for lens correction data as well? Or where could I find them?
I tried fiddling with other lens types, but the outcome is not nice at all...
2) And I was looking for a chance to donate to the project, but I could not find anything. How do you finance it all?
cheerios.fred.
http://lensfun.berlios.de/lens-calibration/
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/creating-lens-distorsion-models-with-hugin-lens-calibrator
If you manage to create a good correction model, please do contribute it to the Lensfun project.
Cheers
1. Export is confusing and often doesn't produce results at all. I have tried to export several photos converted to HDR, B&W, or just with lots of changes and I always get empty images, or images that don't look in export like they did in Darktable. Also, export is quite a lot slower than ASP.
2. There is no print feature.
Without accurate and reliable file export with consistent results or print, this tool is severely limited. I hope these can be fixed soon because the rest of the software is super.
1. This shouldn't happen at all, export should always give you the same image you had in the darkroom preview. But since I never header of such a problem before I'm not sure where to look. You might want to join us on IRC or the user's mailing list and I'm sure we figure out the problem...
2. Ouch, you hit the spot that hurts. :) Actually advanced printing is a wish for us which is almost as old as darktable is. The thing is, it's quite a huge project and we don't have anyone who started coding it. But be sure this will be there at some point.
Simon
Just wanted to say thanks for this wonderful piece of software. I too will stay tuned waiting anxiously for the layer masks.. Until then, thank you, and keep up the good work!