If you don't have Darktable installed, you can either grab it for Linux or MacOS from /darktable-org/darktable/releases or, if you're on Linux, then you can probably find the latest version in your distribution's software repository.

I don't have the access to studio space the way I did at my previous job, so my use for Darktable now is solely as a digital darkroom. One that kept popping up was Darktable, which I use on a semi-regular basis, so I thought I'd write up a quick intro to this fine open source, cross-platform application.ĭarktable is designed to be a photography workflow application, meaning that if you want it to act as the center of your photo studio, it can be exactly that you can tether your camera to it, bypass the need for an SD card tool, shoot straight into Darktable, and then review your photos, do filter-based non-destructive edits, and publish. As it happens in open source, the collaboration that followed his article (in this case, in the form of comments by lots and lots of readers) generated a whole new list of great open source photo tools. Last month, Jason Baker wrote a great article on photo managers. (See the 'Interview with Johannes Hanika' box. Because the tool uses the Vulkan programming interface, which was previously mainly used in computer games, he has dubbed the software Vulkan darktable, or vkdt for short. This group has recently been joined by a completely new program: Johannes Hanika, the founder of the darktable project, is now working on a RAW converter, the biggest highlight of which is its processing speed. PhotoFlow and Filmulator are also two interesting new programs.

In addition, a new version of LightZone was released a few months ago, after a gap of several years. ART tries to make it easier for beginners and technically less-experienced users to get started.

Some time ago a RawTherapee fork named ART saw the light of day. Both are aimed at demanding amateur users and professional photographers and have an enormous range of functions. Open-source photographers have access to a massive selection of RAW developers, the two best-known and most mature representatives of this category being darktable and RawTherapee.

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