Darktable 2.6 released – Install Darktable 2.6 in Linux Ubuntu Systems. Darktable 2.6 brings over 1600 commits to darktable+rawspeed since 2.4, 260+ pull requests handled and 250+ issues closed. Very soon it will have an updated user manual too.
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.
Darktable 2.6 – New Features & Changes
- search from the map view is now fixed
- visual rework of the lighttable (color label, image kind, local copy)
- an option make it possible to display some image information directly on the thumb
- add optional scrollbars on lighttable, or lighttable and darkroom
- allow each masks of the clone module to have the opacity adjusted
- lightroom import module supports the creator, rights, title, description and publisher information.
- enhance TurboPrint support by displaying the dialogue with all possible options (print cancellation will be fixed in TurboPrint 2.47)
- new sort filter based on the image’s aspect
- new sort filter based on the image’s shutter speed
- new sort filter based on the image’s group
- new sort filter based on a personalized sorting order (drag&drop on the lighttable view)
- collection based on the local copy status
- group image number displayed on the collection module
- new zoom level at 50%; 400%, 800% and 1600%
- better support for monochrome RAW
- add contextual help pointing to the darktable’s manual
- better copy/paste support for multiple instances
- add support for renaming the module instances
- add frequency based adjustment for the RAW denoise module
- add frequency based adjustment for the denoise profile module
- all widgets should be themable via CSS now
- add support for configuring the modules layout
- different way to select hierarchical tags in the collection module (only the actual parent tag, all children or the parent and children)
- better handling of grouped images by allowing setting stars, color label for the whole group.
- make it possible to apply a preset to a new module instance using the middle click
- new script to migrate collection from Capture One Pro
Darktable 2.6 – Other Big Changes
- new module retouch allowing changes based on image frequency layers
- new module filmic which can replace the base curve and shadows and highlights
- new module to handle duplicates in the darkroom with possibility to add a title, create standard or virgin duplicate, delete duplicate and quickly compare with a duplicate
- new logarithm controls for the tone-curve
- new mode for the unbreak profile module
- add mask preview to adjust size, hardness before placing them
- make it possible to change the cropped area in the perspective correction module
- the mask blur has been complemented with a guided-filter to fine tune it (this works on RGB and Lab color space).
- color balance module has two new modes based on ProPhotoRGB and HSL
Install Darktable On Ubuntu Linux
Run the following commands in terminal to install Darktable on Ubuntu Linux Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install darktable
Once installed, please restart the system to apply changes.
If you want to uninstall and remove the Darktable PPA, run the command:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
sudo apt-get update