How to install DarkTable 2.0.1 (photo manipulation software) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
The software brings many powerful editing features such as basic and advanced image operations, tone image operations, color image operations, correction modules and effects/artistic image postprocessing. Darktable has a zero-latency fullscreen, zoomable user interface through multi-level software caches.
Darktables’s powerful export system supports Picasa webalbum, flickr upload, disk storage, 1:1 copy, email attachments and can generate a simple html-based web gallery. darktable allows you to export to low dynamic range (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), 16-bit (PPM, TIFF), or linear high dynamic range (PFM, EXR) images. The software uses both XMP sidecar files as well as its fast database for saving metadata and processing settings. All Exif data is read and written using libexiv2.
Darktable 2.0.1 is the latest version of the Darktable photo manipulation software. It has been relesed with a huge list of changes:
New features:
- add export variables for Creator, Publisher and Rights from metadata
- add support for key accels for spot removal iop
- add some more info to –version
- add collection sorting by group_id to keep grouped images together
- add $(IMAGE.BASENAME) to watermark
- OSX packaging: add darktable-cltest
- OSX packaging: add darktable-generate-cache
Bugfixes:
- make sure GTK prefers our CSS over system’s
- make selected label’s background color visible
- make ctrl-t completion popup nicer
- fixed folder list scrolling to the top on select
- scale waveform histogram to hidpi screens
- really hide all panels in slideshow
- add filename to missing white balance message
- fix wrong tooltip in print scale
- changing mask no longer invalidates the filmstrip thumb, making it faster
- fix calculated image count in a collection
- don’t allow too small sidepanels
- fixes white balance sliders for some cameras
- fix some memleaks
- code hardening in color reconstruction
- validate noiseprofiles.json on startup
- no longer lose old export presets
- fix some crash with wrong history_end
- don’t load images from cameras with CYGM/RGBE CFA for now
- some fixes in demosaicing
- fix red/blue interpolation for XTrans
- fix profiled denoise on OpenCL
- use sRGB when output/softproof profile is missing
- fix loading of .hdr files
- default to libsecret instead of gnome keyring which is no longer supported
- fix a bug in mask border self intersections
- don’t allow empty strings as mask shape names
- fix a crash in masks
- fix an OpenCL crash
- eliminate deprecated OpenCL compiler options
- update appdata file to version 0.6
- allow finding Saxon on Fedora 23
Camera support:
- Fujifilm XQ2 RAW support
- support all Panasonic FZ150 crop modes
- basic support for Nikon 1 V3
- add defs for Canon CHDK DNG cameras to make noise profiles work
White balance presets:
- add Nikon D5500
- add Nikon 1 V3
- add missing Nikon D810 presets
- add Fuji X100T
Basecurves:
- copy X100S to X100T
Noise profiles:
- fix typo in D5200 profiles to make them work again
- add Panasonic FZ1000
- add Nikon D5500
- add Ricoh GR
- add Nikon 1 V3
- add Canon PowerShot S100
- copy Fuji X100S to X100T
Translations:
- add Hungarian
- update German
- update Swedish
- update Slovak
- update Spanish
- update Dutch
- update French
Install Darktable on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install DarkTable 2.0.1 (photo manipulation software) on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivative Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install darktable
Once installed, open the Darktable from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Darktable software, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove darktable