We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.8.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.8.0.
As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz file. The checksums are:
$ sha256sum darktable-4.8.0.tar.xz 419849e9015270e4075f2341c6b5532d3d1cccccfa8f19592cb2ea3ad17f9255 darktable-4.8.0.tar.xz $ sha256sum darktable-4.8.0-x86_64.dmg (macOS 13.5) bded6986f72af8901f0fa28686d6d06e6b766d831c29abe8a0163b5a503a50e6 darktable-4.8.0-x86_64.dmg $ sha256sum darktable-4.8.0-arm64.dmg (macOS 14.0) 628442bf336e4f51fdf39f8b144372cbd855fe7b17812e359b5f8f3e6b6d99fb darktable-4.8.0-arm64.dmg $ sha256sum darktable-4.8.0-win64.exe a1396ca8640df4b25ae41ef0dec1649e2c9f33018e955090e770737abf9d2160 darktable-4.8.0-win64.exe When updating from the stable 4.6 series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new library and configuration will no longer be usable with 4.
What am I looking at here? I just read their about page and feel more confused, lol.
Open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom
That only helps people who know what Adobe Lightroom is for.
In short, Darktable is a tool to generate images out of camera raw image formats. (Edit: You can think of Raw image formats as “kind of” source code for images, which requires to be interpreted as a traditional pixel based image format to be displayed.) The workflow is much different from a traditional image editor. I didn’t watch this video tutorial series here, but it looks good enough for linking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMcA6MIhg0Q&list=PLqazFFzUAPc6ZUGNzA0cHEm0M06SsMYx7
I added a description.