[PenPusher]

Finally figured out why darktable would not work on Mac OS 10.13.6.

I had been dragging darktable's ikon into the folder on the dialog box which pops up when you are installing it.

This time I dragged it straight into the Finder's Application Folder and it now runs no problem.

[house]

I would but there seems to be no support page and the I find the mailing lists totally confusing.

If you need help with darktable the best way is probably to post in the pixls.us forums. Some of the developers are very active there and there are many knowledgeble non-devs able to help.

darktable - discuss.pixls.us

[Mikesul]

If you need help with darktable the best way is probably to post in the pixls.us forums. Some of the developers are very active there and there are many knowledgeble non-devs able to help.

darktable - discuss.pixls.us

This is a good spot for anyone seeking info on the open source projects like Darktable and Rawtherapee.

[PenPusher]

If you need help with darktable the best way is probably to post in the pixls.us forums. Some of the developers are very active there and there are many knowledgeble non-devs able to help.

darktable - discuss.pixls.us

Thank you very much for that suggestion, I will wander over and see whats going on.

[Moto Fotoe]

Yeah, on occasion there are a few issues when exporting, but haven't seen what you got here. I mainly see on 1st export or multiple exports at one time of one or more photos that I've used the spot removal tool on. It seems really bad lately with latest GIT build of darktable or maybe I'm just noticing it more while I edit our recent beach photos.

In the darkroom I'll use multiple instances of the spot removal tool on a photo and all looks fine, switch to the lighttable and sometimes the thumbnail doesn't update to show all the spot removal tool instances you made. If I go back into the darkroom, then back to lighttable it seems to fix it.

Sometimes on exporting a photo I made one or more spot removal tool adjustments on by itself or in a group of photos will export that photo(s) with one of the spot removal tool instances missing. If I export the same photo again its fine.

So Darktable decided to create art on one of my photos while exporting it.



So I exported again and this time it came out right. No idea what happened!

[totsmuyco]

I just downloaded a 2.4.4 and I'm really a newbie when it comes to post processing. I've only used the silkypix that goes with the camera I purchased. I find darktable a bit difficult to use. I can't find a tool bar to access and try things out. I'm a little lost in this thing. Do tool bars ever exist in this editor? I hope you guys can help. Thanks.

[beholder3]

I find darktable a bit difficult to use. I can't find a tool bar to access and try things out. I'm a little lost in this thing. Do tool bars ever exist in this editor? I hope you guys can help. Thanks.

For you it is just typing in the word "darktable" in youtube and then you get tons of explanations and tutorials. Add your google search "darktable tutorial" to that.

[ddharriman]

See my post here:
The Darktable Users Coterie - PentaxForums.com

Spend some time seeing all the youtube posts advised in the two channels (preference with Darktable open too for testing what you see on the videos) and you will be confident in using Darktable fast.

Best regards,

[totsmuyco]

Yes I did and I found a video for newbees. I just need to spend some time on this thing. Thanks

[ddharriman]

You will not spend time but, instead, earn a lot (time and much) more, trust me...

As according to Abraham Lincoln:
«Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.»

Best regards,

[totsmuyco]

I can't believe it my laptop froze. I had to close darktable and open it again. And I'm using a core I5 gen 7 with 32 gig memory. It must be windows 10. Hmmm, but darktable is exciting.

So long plans for buying Lightroom 6. Good bye.

[jbinpg]

Here are the recently published release notes from one of the darktable developers for the upcoming 2.6 release which should be out in a couple of weeks unless there are some showstoppers that come to light:

- Over 1600 commits to darktable+rawspeed since 2.4
- 260+ pull requests handled
- 250+ issues closed
- Updated user manual is coming soon™

## The Big Ones

- 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
- color balance module has two new modes based on ProPhotoRGB and HSL
- Experimental support for PPC64le architecture (OpenCL support needs
to be disabled, `-DUSE_OPENCL=OFF`)

## New Features And 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
- 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

## Bug fixes

- Fix the color pickers behavior in all modules
- Fix liquify tools switching
- Many more bugs got fixed

## Lua

- No changes

## Changed Dependencies

- CMake 3.4 is now required
- In order to compile darktable you now need at least gcc-5.0+/clang-
3.9+
- Minimal clang version was bumped from 3.4+ to 3.9+
- Packagers are advised to pass ```-DRAWSPEED_ENABLE_LTO=ON``` to CMake
to enable partial LTO.

## RawSpeed changes

- GoPro '.GPR' raws are now supported via new, fast 'VC-5' parallel
decompressor
- Panasonic's new raw compression ('.RW2', GH5s, G9 cameras) is now
supported via new fast, parallel 'Panasonic V5' decompressor
- Panasonic's old (also '.RW2') raw decompressor got rewritten, re-
parallelized
- Phase One ('.IIQ') decompressor got parallelized
- Nikon NEF 'lossy after split' raw support was recovered
- Phase One ('.IIQ') Quadrant Correction is now supported
- Olympus High-Res (uncompressed) raw support
- Lot's and lot's and lot's of maintenance, sanitization, cleanups,
small rewrites/refactoring.
- NOTE: Canon '.CR3' raws are *NOT* supported as of yet.

## Camera support, compared to 2.4.0

### Base Support

- Canon EOS 1500D
- Canon EOS 2000D
- Canon EOS Rebel T7
- Canon EOS 3000D
- Canon EOS 4000D
- Canon EOS Rebel T100
- Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (sRaw1, sRaw2)
- Canon EOS 5DS (sRaw1, sRaw2)
- Canon EOS 5DS R (sRaw1, sRaw2)
- Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III
- Fujifilm X-A5
- Fujifilm X-H1 (compressed)
- Fujifilm X-T100
- Fujifilm X-T3 (compressed)
- GoPro FUSION (dng)
- GoPro HERO5 Black (dng)
- GoPro HERO6 Black (dng)
- GoPro HERO7 Black (dng)
- Hasselblad CFV-50
- Hasselblad H5D-40
- Hasselblad H5D-50c
- Kodak DCS Pro 14nx
- Kodak DCS520C
- Kodak DCS760C
- Kodak EOS DCS 3
- Nikon COOLPIX P1000 (12bit-uncompressed)
- Nikon D2Xs (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
- Nikon Z 6 (except uncompressed raws)
- Nikon Z 7 (except 14-bit uncompressed raw)
- Olympus E-PL8
- Olympus E-PL9
- Olympus SH-2
- Panasonic DC-FZ80 (4:3)
- Panasonic DC-G9 (4:3)
- Panasonic DC-GH5S (4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1)
- Panasonic DC-GX9 (4:3)
- Panasonic DC-TZ200 (3:2)
- Panasonic DC-TZ202 (3:2)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ2000 (3:2)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ2500 (3:2)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ35 (3:2, 16:9)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ38 (3:2, 16:9)
- Panasonic DMC-GX7MK2 (4:3)
- Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (3:2)
- Paralenz Dive Camera (chdk)
- Pentax 645Z
- Pentax K-1 Mark II
- Pentax KP
- Phase One P65+
- Sjcam SJ6 LEGEND (chdk-b, chdk-c)
- Sony DSC-RX0
- Sony DSC-RX100M5A
- Sony DSC-RX10M4
- Sony DSC-RX1RM2
- Sony ILCE-7M3

### White Balance Presets

- Canon EOS M100
- Leaf Credo 40
- Nikon D3400
- Nikon D5600
- Nikon D7500
- Nikon D850
- Olympus E-M10 Mark III
- Olympus E-M1MarkII
- Panasonic DC-G9
- Panasonic DC-GX9
- Panasonic DMC-FZ300
- Sony DSC-RX0
- Sony ILCE-6500
- Sony ILCE-7M3
- Sony ILCE-7RM3

### Noise Profiles

- Canon EOS 200D
- Canon EOS Kiss X9
- Canon EOS Rebel SL2
- Canon EOS 750D
- Canon EOS Kiss X8i
- Canon EOS Rebel T6i
- Canon EOS 760D
- Canon EOS 8000D
- Canon EOS Rebel T6s
- Canon EOS 77D
- Canon EOS 9000D
- Canon EOS 800D
- Canon EOS Kiss X9i
- Canon EOS Rebel T7i
- Canon EOS M100
- Canon EOS M6
- Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
- Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III
- Canon PowerShot G9 X
- Fujifilm X-T3
- Fujifilm X100F
- Nikon COOLPIX B700
- Nikon D5600
- Nikon D7500
- Nikon D850
- Olympus E-M10 Mark III
- Olympus TG-5
- Panasonic DC-G9
- Panasonic DC-GX9
- Panasonic DMC-FZ35
- Panasonic DMC-FZ38
- Panasonic DMC-GF6
- Panasonic DMC-LX10
- Panasonic DMC-LX15
- Panasonic DMC-LX9
- Panasonic DMC-TZ70
- Panasonic DMC-TZ71
- Panasonic DMC-ZS50
- Pentax K-01
- Pentax KP
- Samsung NX1
- Sony DSC-RX100M4
- Sony DSC-RX10M3
- Sony ILCE-7M3

## Translations

- Afrikaans
- Czech
- German
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Nepal
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovenian
- Albanian
- Thai
- Chinese

[ddharriman]

Extraordinary goodies to come with the new version 2.6 (around Christmas!) as one can check by the “on development” article at darktable 2.6 | darktable

Note 1 - the expected publication date of the article is “Mon 24 December 2018”, so one can expect the release of this new version of Darktable around that date.

Note 2 – the first release candidate “darktable 2.6.0rc0” is out; more info can be had at [darktable-user] darktable 2.6.0rc0 released.

Best regards,