

Speaks your language: darktable currently comes with 21 translations:Albanian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian and Portugese), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.Tethered shooting: support for instrumentation of your camera with live view for some camera brands.

Zero-latency, zoomable user interface: through multi-level software caches darktable provides a fluid experience.Image formats: darktable can import a variety of standard, raw and high dynamic range image formats (e.g. JPEG, CR2, NEF, HDR, PFM, RAF … ).Filtering and sorting: search your image collections by tags, image rating (stars), color labels and many more, use flexible database queries on all metadata of your images.Cross platform: darktable runs on Linux, Mac OS X / macports, BSD, Windows and Solaris 11 / GNOME.Professional color management: darktable is fully color managed, supporting automatic display profile detection on most systems, including built-in ICC profile support for sRGB, Adobe RGB, XYZ and linear RGB color spaces.GPU accelerated image processing: many image operations are lightning fast thanks to OpenCL support (runtime detection and enabling).Take advantage of the real power of raw: All darktable core functions operate on 4×32-bit floating point pixel buffers, enabling SSE instructions for speedups.Non-destructive editing throughout the complete workflow, your original images are never modified.You can also have a look at the online manual. To learn more and to master it, we recommend you follow Rico Richardson feed on YouTube where you’ll find lots of tutorials.


The video below by Anthony Morganti gives you a very good overview. Darktable is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and it won’t cost you a penny. It has the features that most Lightroom users need. 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. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. Ever wondered if you could use a photo cataloging and editing software for free, without renouncing to powerful features, and across computer platforms? Enter Darktableĭarktable ( learn more) is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
