An photography workflow application and raw developer (GPLv3)

darktable

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.

https://www.darktable.org/

Contributing

• Write a blog about darktable
• Create a tutorial for darktable
• Help expand the user wiki
• Answer questions on the user mailing list
• Share your ideas on the developer mailing list
• Test releases
• Review pull requests
• Start hacking on darktable

Building

Note that rawspeed is tracked via a git submodule, so after checking-out the darktable, you need to update/checkout rawspeed,

git submodule init
git submodule update

Easy way

./build.sh --prefix /opt/darktable --build-type Release

Manual way

mkdir build/
cd build/
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/darktable/ ..
make
sudo make install

Further reading

There is a comprehensive list of build instructions for all the widely used Linux distributions.

Tip:Check that you have the latest gphoto2 library installed in order to support the newest cameras.

Wiki

• GitHub wiki
• User wiki
• Developer wiki

Mailing lists

• Users [ subscribe | archive ]
• Developer [ subscribe | archive ]
• CI (read-only, high traffic!) [ subscribe | archive ]