Darktable 3.0: a great renovation to edit RAW photographs

DarktableMany times, when we shoot a photo, it already has a quality and looks more than professional, especially with the latest cameras, both SLR and mobile. Even on smartphones, these photographs are automatically enhanced before being saved thanks to AI. However, there are always more demanding users who want to give a more professional touch to their photographs. And this is where photo development programs come in, such as Adobe‘s Lightroom, or Darktable, one of its main rivals that, moreover, has just been updated for Christmas.

Darktable is not a program as well known as it can be, for example, Lightroom. But the purpose of the program is practically the same: process all kinds of photos to improve their quality and give them a professional finish. The difference is that, while the Adobe application is paid, Darktable is completely free and open source.

Some of the main features of this photography suite are, for example, its excellent support for virtually all types of RAW images and the great ease with which we can make adjustments to our photos by applying non-destructive changes. In addition, Darktable has more than 60 modules that allow us to perform all kinds of editing operations with the photos.

Just a few hours ago, its developers launched a new version of this program. Version that, in addition, has arrived full of changes and news.

What’s new in the new Darktable 3.0

Regarding version 2.6, released a year ago, this new update of Darktable comes with more than 3000 changes . There are many things that have been changed with this new version. However, if we have to talk about the main features of this new update, we certainly highlight the following:

  • Full review of the entire user interface. It is still written in GTK, but it is controlled by CSS rules. The entire GUI has an appropriate theme and you cannot use code to modify it.
  • Several official themes are included to customize the interface and adapt it to the needs of each user.
  • Now the undo and redo functions support a greater history of changes.
  • The light table now has better performance, in addition to new functions such as a selection mode and a timeline. In addition, you can access much more easily to the other works that are in this section.
  • Support for 3D RGB LUT.
  • Optimization for 4K and 5K screens.
  • Improvements in the instructions for CPU and SSE.
  • OpenCL cores are now compiled again each time the drivers are updated.
  • New modules
  • A lot of bug fixes and improvements of all kinds.

Darktable 3.0

We can see the complete list with all the changes and all the corrections of this new version in the following link .

Download Darktable 3.0

Darktable 3.0 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The program is completely free for all users, and in addition to open source.

The new version is already available in the same link in which we have listed the changes. The Darktable website will also be updated in the next few hours and, in the case of Linux, the corresponding repositories.