{"id":47783,"date":"2024-12-22T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T11:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47783"},"modified":"2024-12-22T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T11:16:40","slug":"darktable-5-0-0-camera-specific-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/darktable-5-0-0-camera-specific-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Darktable 5.0.0 Released! Camera-specific Styles &#038; UI Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36501\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and RAW developer, released new 5.0.0 version yesterday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.<\/p>\n<p>Darktable 5.0.0 is a new major feature release. It now <b>shows a splash screen at startup<\/b>, including app loading process bar, which is useful for the user who has a large library. For choice, it can be disabled in the Preferences dialog, under miscellaneous tab.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47784\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-startupsplash.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47784\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47784\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-startupsplash-700x356.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-startupsplash-700x356.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-startupsplash-300x152.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-startupsplash.webp 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darktable startup splash screen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The release also introduced <b>camera-specific styles for more than 500 camera models<\/b>. These styles only affect contrast, brightness, and saturation and do not attempt to match sharpening, denoising, or hue shifts.<\/p>\n<p>It also added a Lua script to auto-apply the appropriate style on import and manually apply styles to a collection of previously-imported images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-styles.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47785\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-styles-534x700.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-styles-534x700.webp 534w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-styles-229x300.webp 229w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-styles.webp 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Darktable release also has great improvements on its UI. User can now <b>drag and drop the module headers to reposition them<\/b> across the left and right panels.<\/p>\n<p>And, right-click on blank area below the modules will pop-up a menu with toggle options to <b>show or hide modules from the panels<\/b>. While, there&#8217;s a &#8220;restore defaults&#8221; option in that menu to reset modules, as well as &#8220;reset view panels&#8221; in preferences to reset all views.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47786\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47786\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47786\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-700x412.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-700x412.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-300x177.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-768x452.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-1536x904.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules-1320x777.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-addremove-modules.webp 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">drag&#8217;n&#8217;drop to rearrange, or right-click menu to show\/hide modules<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UI has also been improvements with a busy cursor or a process bar, while processing bulk image operations such as rating, tagging, applying styles, and edit history management.<\/p>\n<p>Besides UI changes, there are also great performance improvements. The release added OpenCL implementation of color equalizer, improved the speed of bulk image operations, and significantly accelerated loading of PFM files.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New high contrast theme.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced tooltips to provide more information.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for editing any live color-picker samples<\/li>\n<li>Significantly boost AVIF encoding speed.<\/li>\n<li>A warning pop-up first time user presses Tab key.<\/li>\n<li>Import JPEG 2000 files with .jpf and .jpx file extensions.<\/li>\n<li>Add read support for HEIF files with AVC (H.264) compression and .avci file extension.<\/li>\n<li>Add read support for JPEG 2000 encoded images in HEIF containers with .hej2 file extension.<\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/darktable-org\/darktable\/releases\/tag\/release-5.0.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Github release page<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install Darktable 5.0.0<\/h3>\n<p>Darktable website provides Linux AppImage, Windows exe, macOS dmg, as well as source tarball in its install page:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darktable.org\/install\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Darktable<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Linux, just download the AppImage, add executable permission from file &#8216;Properties&#8217; dialog, finally click Run to launch the photography app.<\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE:<\/b> Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box, run <code>sudo apt install libfuse2<\/code> to enable!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47787\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage-700x464.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage-700x464.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darktable-appimage.webp 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For choice, there are also universal <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.darktable.Darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> (unverified) works in most Linux, official <a href=\"https:\/\/software.opensuse.org\/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&amp;package=darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deb\/Rpm packages<\/a> for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE.<\/p>\n<p>While, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10, may also install Darktable 5.0.0 from this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/darktable<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt install darktable<\/pre>\n<h3>Uninstall Darktable<\/h3>\n<p>Depends on which packages you installed, remove the AppImage by just deleting that file from file manager window.<\/p>\n<p>To uninstall the Flatpak package, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.darktable.Darktable<\/pre>\n<p>Uninstall Deb package installed from either official package or Ubuntu PPA by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove darktable<\/pre>\n<p>And, remove the PPA repository if you want by using command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/darktable<\/pre>\n<p>Linux Mint users need to run <code>sudo apt update<\/code> manually to refresh cache.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and RAW developer, released new 5.0.0 version yesterday. 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