The Big Ones
A full rework of the GUI. The whole GUI is now fully
controlled by GTK+ CSS rules. There is
no more size, color, position in Gtk C code, which makes the whole GUI themable. This version comes
with several themes:
darktable : the default theme
darktable-elegant-darker : more condensed fonts
best experience with Roboto font installed
darktable-icons-darker : as elegant, with module icons
best experience with Roboto font installed
darktable-elegant-dark : lighter version
darktable-elegant-grey : even lighter version
darktable-icons-dark : lighter version. with module icons
darktable-icons-grey : even lighter version, with module icons
New shortcuts have been introduced to quickly collapse borders, sidebars, histogram and
navigation modules, allowing a new borderless editing experience.
Note that the new GUI requires Gtk+ 3.22 or higher to work properly.
It's now possible to associate dynamic key shortcuts to sliders, then
use them with the mouse wheel or arrow keys to move the value up and down.
For example, associating the E key to the exposure slider, you can press
it and scroll to increase the exposure without having to open the module.
You get fast heads-up access to all your favorite settings, as if you
were using a dedicated multimedia console.
The color picker on the 'tone curve', 'color zones' and 'fill light' modules,
as well as the parametric mask controls, now allows you to select an
area when enabled by using Ctrl+click on the button.
Added undo/redo support in lighttable for tags, color labels, ratings,
metadata, deleted history stack, pasted history stack and applied
styles.
IMPORTANT:
The 'preview' and 'preview with focus detection' actions
(previously Z and Ctrl+Z respectively) are now assigned to
W and Ctrl+W in order to follow the convention of
using Ctrl+Z for the "undo" function (Ctrl+Y for redo).
A new timeline view has been introduced in the lighttable.
A new 'culling' mode has been added to the lightable view. It
displays a fixed number of consecutive images starting from the first
selected, and allows you to pan & zoom them. The number of displayed images
can be set by the user, and they can be navigated with the mouse wheel
and keyboard.
A quite extensive rewrite of the lighttable view (including the filmstrip in darkroom view)
has been made to greatly improve the overall performance. The lighttable is now
usable on 4K and 5K monitors.
Added support for the new 'raster mask', a copy of a parametric mask
which is stable during the whole pixel-pipe.
The processing order of the pixel-pipe can now be changed by using
Ctrl+Shift+drag on the module headers to arrange them relative
to each other. It is VERY IMPORTANT to understand that this feature is NOT
for creating a more convenient GUI layout, but for changing the actual
processing of the image. DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE unless you understand the
reason behind the default ordering, and have a specific reason for changing it.
The default order is still the correct order for most purposes.
The 'color zones' module now shows a histogram based on the chosen ‘select
by’ channel, and if the color picker is in 'select area' mode, the range within
the selected area will also be shown. By default, the spline adjustment is
now similar to the curve controls, allowing you to add and delete nodes, but
these nodes can still be moved with the old-style size control by selecting
the 'edit by area' checkbox. There is also a new 'strong' processing option,
and a new color picker which creates a curve based on selected image area.
A new module 'filmic RGB' which, like the previous 'filmic', is designed
to replace 'base curve', 'shadows and highlights' and other global tone-mapping modules.
This new version replaces the one introduced in 2.6.2; it should be easier to use,
and it will reduce color casts. The old 'filmic' module is now deprecated and
is only available on images where it was already used for editing.
A new module 'tone equalizer' is designed to merge the features of 'zone system',
'shadows and highlights', and (local) 'tone mapping' modules in a scene-referred
RGB space. It brings an easy and safe way to remap tones locally, performing a quick
zone-based dodging and burning using Ansel Adam's zone system logic.
The module provides an interface similar to audio graphic equalizers,
with 9 bands (available as fixed sliders or nodes on a spline view),
allowing you to selectively push or pull the exposure for each band in the
range from blacks to specular highlights. It also features an interactive
cursor that allows to push or pull the exposure gains directly from
the image preview by simply hovering over an area and scrolling. It uses a guided filter
internally to refine the dodging and burning mask, which preserves local contrast
without producing halos along edges.
New Features And Changes
A new module for handling 3D RGB Lut transformations (PNG Hald-CLUT and
Cube files are supported).
Many improvements to the 'denoise (profiled)' module. The degree of shadow
denoising can be controlled, including the correction of color casts
(mainly improves high-ISO images). "Auto" modes which infer some parameters
from the profile are available, allowing users to create presets
which are adaptive to various ISO values. The default values of the sliders
are also adapted dynamically on module activation, giving a good trade-off
between noise smoothing and detail preservation. The non-local means mode
has 2 new options: one to coarse-grain denoising, and one to control the
amount of fine detail to preserve. The controls now have soft boundaries,
which means that users can use the keyboard to enter values outside the
range of the sliders if they need to.
Along with selecting the 'soft proof' color profile, users can now select an
additional profile for the color space of the histogram, color picker and
overexposed checker. When gamut or softproof checks are active the histogram
and color picker use the softproof profile, otherwise they use the new
histogram profile (which is always used for overexposure checking).
A new setting for 'working profile' has been added to the input color profile
module. This color space will be used by RGB modules between the input and
output color profile modules.
A new color picker has been added to the parametric masking controls which
adjusts the range sliders based on the selected area from the image. Click the
picker button to adjust the input image slider, Ctrl+click the
button to adjust the output image slider.
The 'picasa' target storage in the export module has been completely rewritten
to support the new Google Photo API, and renamed 'google photos'. It is again
possible to create albums directly from the export module.
A new single-line image information display can be positioned at the top (left, right,
or center) or bottom (center) of the darkroom view to replace the information previously
overlaid on the histogram. The specific information shown can be configured in preferences.
The 'tagging' module is faster, and can now display hierarchical tags in a
tree view. Tags can now be designated as 'private' (not exported by default),
'synonym' (to help search engines), and 'category' (not exported, for organizing
the tag library). The metadata exported with images can now be configured in the
'export selected' module, allowing you to choose which main types are exported,
as well as define values for specific tags based on formulas.
Many code optimizations for CPU and SSE paths. The tone equalizer module
introduces a new optimization paradigm (GCC target clones), aimed toward users
of pre-built Linux packages. The image-processing code will be cloned for several
CPU generations (SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, AVX, AVX2) at compilation time, and the best-suited
version of the code will be chosen by the system at run time. This experiment is
to be generalized to other modules if proven successful, and will allow users of pre-built
packages to get the same performance as if the program was specifically compiled for their
computer. It needs GCC 9 compiler and does not yet work on Windows
due to the lack of support of target clones on the OS side.
A new preference to expand/collapse a darkroom module when it is
activated/deactivated.
The 'collect images' module has a new single-click option featuring range selection
for date-time and numeric values.
The orientation of drawn masks using the 'gradient' shape is now clearly displayed
with an arrow.
The 'graduated density' module has better accuracy when computing the
rotation to avoid sporadic flipping of the gradient.
Make sure the OpenCL kernel code is recompiled when the driver
version is updated.
Add color pickers for 'split toning', 'graduated density' and 'watermark' modules.
The color picker positions are kept during editing within a module.
The map view can zoom on the images of the selected collection.
The slideshow will now start at the selected images if any, and supports
changing the delay between images. It will also now be more responsive when
manually moving backward and forward through the images.
A new 'basic adjustments' module has been added. It allows to adjust
the black level, exposure, highlight compression, contrast, middle grey,
brightness and saturation. It also has an auto feature based on Rawtherapee's
auto levels that can work on the entire image or a user selected area.
A new 'rgb curve' module has been added. It has modes for linked and
independent RGB channels. The curves and histogram can be displayed using
the working profile or can be scaled to be 50% grey. A secondary color
picker will add 4 nodes to the curve based on the area selected in the
image: min, average, middle, and max.
A new 'rgb levels' module has been added. It has linked and
independent channels, preserve colors option and is native RGB.
A new search box has been added to the module groups in the darkroom
view, with configuration options to show only the module groups, only
the search box, or both. Modules are searched for by (localized) name,
and when displaying only the search box, the active modules are shown
when the box is empty. A shortcut can be set for focusing the box.
A preview window has been added to the darkroom that displays the edited image
on a separate window.
A new option 'skip' is added to the 'on conflict' setting on the export module
which skips the exporting to existing destination files.
Allow to switch between clone/heal and blur/color modes in 'retouch' module
after creating a shape.
An accels window has been added to summarize all available shortcuts and mouse
actions available in the current context.
Dynamic shortcuts have been added for darkroom module sliders. They allow to
change slider values with an accel + mouse scroll.
A zoom & pan feature has been added to lighttable full preview..
Bug fixes
The color picker support has been fixed by a complete rewrite. It
should now give correct values in all cases.
Fix overexposed display.
Do not disable SSL for storage modules.
A long standing bug on mask distort in Liquify module has been
fixed. This was visible when a liquify mask was used together with
the perspective correction module activated.
A bug on mask distort from crop & rotate when using flip and
some angle has been fixed.
Fix manual crop in perspective correction module when not in default
orientation.
The modification of date/time is now stored into the XMP. This
ensures that removing the picture and reloading will keep the changes.
Fix orientation to support all cases as exposed in these examples:
https://github.com/recurser/exif-orientation-examples Store the panel states for each lighttable mode.
Fix crop&rotate and orientation in the lightroom importer.
Fix ProPhoto RGB profile.
Fix exif lens metadata parsing containing comma.
Lua
The displayed image in darkroom view can now be changed.
GUI panel visibility can now be queried and changed.
Lighttable view toolbox (rating filter, rating comparator, sort
field, and sort direction) can now be changed.
Lighttable layout and zoom level can now be changed.
All images containing a specific tag can be searched and returned.
Changed Dependencies
CMake 3.10 is now required.
OpenMP 4.0 is now required (optional dependency).
RawSpeed changes
Changed Dependencies
CMake 3.10 is now required.
Pugixml 1.8 is now required.
OpenMP 4.0 is now required (optional dependency).
POSIX threads are no longer required.
zlib 1.2.11 is now required (optional dependency).
Changes
Threading was migrated to OpenMP from POSIX threads.
Phase One IIQ decompressor fixes (quadrant scaling, bad column).
Large-scale code cleanup, hardening is still a work in progress.
A CMake infrastructure was added to allow integration of RawSpeed into LLVM LNT / Test-Suite.
Widespread performance tuning, most affected decompressors:
Sony ARW2
Panasonic V5
Samsung V1
Phase One
Continuation of collaboration with LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project.
Camera support, compared to 2.6.0
Base Support
Epson R-D1s
Epson R-D1x
Fujifilm FinePix F770EXR
Fujifilm FinePix S7000
Fujifilm GFX 50R (compressed)
Fujifilm X-T30 (compressed)
Fujifilm XF10
Kodak DCS Pro 14N
Kodak EasyShare Z981
Kodak EasyShare Z990
Leica C (Typ 112) (4:3)
Leica CL (dng)
Leica Q (Typ 116) (dng)
Leica Q2 (dng)
Leica SL (Typ 601) (dng)
Leica V-LUX (Typ 114) (3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 1:1)
Nikon Z 6 (14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
Nikon Z 7 (14bit-uncompressed)
Olympus E-M1X
Olympus TG-6
Panasonic DC-G90 (4:3)
Panasonic DC-G91 (4:3)
Panasonic DC-G95 (4:3)
Panasonic DC-G99 (4:3)
Panasonic DC-ZS200 (3:2)
Panasonic DMC-TX1 (3:2)
Phase One P30
Sony DSC-RX0M2
Sony DSC-RX100M6
Sony ILCE-6400
Sony ILCE-7RM4
White Balance Presets
Leica Q2
Nikon D500
Nikon Z 7
Panasonic DC-LX100M2
Sony ILCE-6400
Noise Profiles
Leica Q2
Nikon D3
Nikon D3500
Nikon Z 6
Nikon Z 7
Olympus E-PL8
Olympus E-PL9
Panasonic DC-LX100M2
Sony DSC-RX100M5A
Sony ILCE-6400
Sony SLT-A35
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