{"id":49175,"date":"2025-06-23T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49175"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:11:59","slug":"darktable-5-2-0-raster-mask-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/darktable-5-2-0-raster-mask-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Darktable 5.2.0 Released with Raster Mask Import [Ubuntu PPA]"},"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 app and raw developer, released new 5.2.0 version few days ago!<\/p>\n<p>The new release introduced <b>side-by-side view<\/b> (aka split view) to preview the different between snapshot and current images. And, it can be enabled by clicking on the &#8220;X|Y&#8221; icon next to &#8220;take snapshot&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49176\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-700x412.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-700x412.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-300x177.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-768x452.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-1536x904.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside-1320x777.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-sidebyside.webp 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this view, images are placed side by side either vertically or horizontally. You may click on image to switch between them, and zoom or hold &#8220;a&#8221; + drag to pan synchronously.<\/p>\n<p>The release also added <b>new raster mask import module<\/b>. After setting a root folder for raster mask files under <code>Preferences -&gt; processing<\/code>, a <b>.pfm<\/b> file can be selected to be used as a raster mask. And, it allows to choose which RGB components of that file to be used.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-rastermasks.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49177\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-rastermasks.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-rastermasks.webp 516w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/darktable-rastermasks-300x256.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides that, export module now has new <b>multi-preset export<\/b> section, allowing to export selected images with multiple presets in one single export run.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata module is fully configurable and allows to add &amp; maintain any tags supported by exiv2.<\/li>\n<li>Sigmoid module is now the default tone-mapper selected for new installation.<\/li>\n<li>Replaced zoom range widget with a spin button.<\/li>\n<li>ctrl+click to pick the actual color in Color Balance RGB 4 ways tab.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the levels and contrast brightness saturation modules.<\/li>\n<li>Reading support of Cineon (.cin) and DPX (.dpx) file formats.<\/li>\n<li>Disable the workaround for old broken AMD OpenCL drivers<\/li>\n<li>Add 45&#215;35 aspect ratio to the crop module<\/li>\n<li>Add auto login to the piwigo export module.<\/li>\n<li>Update Luna API to 9.5.0, and add <code>apply_sidecar<\/code> to <code>dt_lua_image_t<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Darktable 5.2.0 also added based support for the following cameras:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canon EOS R5 C<\/li>\n<li>Fujifilm GFX100RF<\/li>\n<li>Fujifilm GFX100S II<\/li>\n<li>Nikon COOLPIX P1100<\/li>\n<li>Nikon Z5_2<\/li>\n<li>OM System OM-3<\/li>\n<li>Olympus SP510UZ<\/li>\n<li>Panasonic DC-G97, DC-G9M2, DC-GH6, DC-S1RM2, DC-S5M2, DC-S5M2X, DC-S9, DC-TZ99, DC-ZS99 (4:3)<\/li>\n<li>Phase One IQ150<\/li>\n<li>Phase One P40+<\/li>\n<li>Sigma BF (DNG)<\/li>\n<li>Sony DSC-RX100M7A<\/li>\n<li>Sony ILCE-6100A, ILCE-6400A, ILME-FX3A<\/li>\n<li>Sony ZV-1A, ZV-E10M2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are as well white balance presets and noise profiles support for new cameras, suspended support for some cameras as no samples are available on raw.pixls.us, bug-fixes, translation updates. For more, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/darktable-org\/darktable\/releases\/tag\/release-5.2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Darktable 5.2.0<\/h3>\n<p><b>NOTE: Please backup old database (if any) before upgrading!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The official packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, as well as the source tarball are available to download in Darktable website via the link below:<\/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>Linux user may choose using the AppImage to launch software directly without installation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.darktable.Darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak<\/a> that runs in sandbox, or <a href=\"https:\/\/software.opensuse.org\/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&amp;package=darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OBS repository<\/a> contains native DEB and RPM packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE.<\/p>\n<p>While, I&#8217;ve also made the new release package into this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10 and 25.04.<\/p>\n<p>Just open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one to add PPA and install:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/darktable\r\nsudo apt update\r\nsudo apt install darktable<\/pre>\n<p><b>NOTE for Ubuntu 22.04, &#8216;libheif&#8217; (use exiv2 for HEIF) is disabled to avoid dependency issue! Please leave comment if you do need the feature.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall PPA &amp; Darktable<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the PPA, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/darktable<\/pre>\n<p>And, remove darktable installed from the PPA via:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove darktable<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darktable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.2.0 version few days ago! The new release introduced side-by-side view (aka split view) to preview the different between snapshot and current images. 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