Darktable for Mac
Edit digital negatives.
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Darktable overview
Darktable is an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable, and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
What’s new in version 5.4.1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed wrong handling of scaling factor during multi-preset export.
- Fixed missing help URL, pointing to the online documentation, for
- the new AgX module.
- Fixed wrong handling of overwrite if changed in export.
- Fixed images exported with wrong settings when using multi-preset
- export.
- Fixed wrong RAW specific auto-applied preset being applied to non
- RAW images.
- Fixed subtle color casts in bayer dual demosaicers.
- RustiCL gets the default optimizing compiler flags as other
- platforms.
- Fixed loading some Olympus ORF files (e.g. E-410 and E-510)
- due to a possible crash or memory corruption when parsing
- highlight-preservation Exif tag.
- Fixed the mask support in scale pixels module.
- Fixed a possible crash when using workspace due to the non
- deterministic ordering of the list of workspace read on disk.
- The list of the allowed tags in the metadata editor preferences has
- been restricted to tags which are supposed to be user-editable.
- Fixed the thumbnail information update in the overlay or the tooltip
- when some metadata variable are used. That is, when changing the
- metadata we need to recompute the thumbnail information.
- Fixed a possibly standstill while discarding history on fast
- systems.
- Fixed a possible crash in the way the Color Equalizer module GUI is
- initialized.
- Fixed an issue in culling layout where switching to the darkroom
- sometimes failed with an error message.
- Fixed an inconsistency in the styles module UI when shown in the
- darkroom view. It is not possible to create a duplicate to which the
- style is applied, and the setting of the corresponding checkbox has
- just been ignored. To avoid confusion, the checkbox is now hidden in
- the darkroom view.
- Fixes resets to default OpenCL per device setting.
- Fixed possibly outdated metadata when returning from darkroom. For
- example if the image is cropped in darkroom, the metadata $(WIDTH.x)
- and $(HEIGHT.x) where not correct on lighttable.
- Fixed a missing thumbnail overlays with $(CATEGORY[n,m]) variables
- update when a tag is assigned.
- Fixed jumping of curvature slider when used on the mask manager.
- Fixed a crash when mounting a camera from Darktable due to the
- current locale. Mounting is now done using the C locale.
Full list of changes available here
Darktable for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.4.1
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User Ratings
Feb 12 2025
Version: 5.0.1
Version 5.x requires MacOS 13.5 as a minimum.
MacUpdate people - please update 🙂
Jul 6 2022
Version: 3.8.1
The current version on the Darktable website is version 4.0.0
Oct 18 2021
Version: 3.6.1.5
I really wanted to give it a chance, but it exits every time I just click the Darkroom tab.
Jun 21 2020
Version: 3.0.2
very good app but painfully slow on my late 2018 imac (16 GB ram, 3,8 GHz i5 cpu, Radeon Pro 580 8GB) . I have tried everything to configure it to run quickly but with no effect. due to very slow running almost unusable
Apr 17 2020
Version: 3.0.1.2
I was able to run Darktable 3.0.1.2 for a while on my iMac and edited several photographs. But then it crashed while importing images. It now refuses to open at all. I uninstalled and reinstalled 3.0 and even tried the same with previous versions. None will open either from the dock or from clicking the icon. I wish it were more reliable. To those who complain about the small screen font size, it really is adjustable. You just need to know where to look to make the changes.
