Install Darktable 1.6.0 on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Mac OS X [PPA]

Install Darktable 1.6.0 on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Mac OS X via PPA

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.

New features on darktable 1.6.0 :

general/misc:

• high DPI monitor support
• signed OSX packages
• map view now allows to only show images from the current collection on the map
• slideshow
• darktable-cli now works without a running X server for use on headless systems
• support for audio notes playback
• sticky preview
• added the option to overwrite files when exporting to disk
• crawler that syncs all xmp files on start
• support huge images (> 32 bit pixel index). darktable can open 26770x13385 TIFFs and should in theory be able to process arbitrary sized images. don't try this on a 32 bit system though!
• lens iop presets are copy/pastable between different images

output:

• tiff read/write rewritten, works on 32-bit float now, supports compression
• allow setting PPI for exported JPEGs, defaulting to 300
• pwstorage libsecret
• use HTTPS when exporting to flickr

darkroom:

• new defringe image operation
• automatic mode for levels module
• allow to disable white balance
• new colour reconstruction mode for highlight recovery that tries to add both colour and structure to clipped areas. thanks to a1ex from magic lantern!
• better basecurve tool to create basecurves from raw/jpg pairs
• soft boundaries in sliders (right click and type 8 in exposure compensation for example)
• input colour gamut mapping to avoid problems with saturated blues causing purple artefacts

colour:

• color conversion speedup (openmp for lcms2 case)
• add linear Rec2020 as a build-in profile
• embedded icc profile support for png/tiff (read/write)

lua scripting:

• copy, move, reset and delete images via lua
• handle progress bars via lua
• limited manipulation of libs an views UI via lua
• import and export styles via lua
• trigger lua when the grouping mode changes
• trigger lua when the overlay mode changes
• trigger lua when the active view changes
• manipulate snapshots via lua
• handle more types of preferences, including enums, directories and file names
• lua API is now versioned: use darktable.configuration.check_version to check
• lua API incompatibilities: darktable.modules has been removed, use darktable.new_format and darktable.new_storage to access the constructors

To Install Darktable 1.6.0 on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), , open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install darktable

The source is available now and available for Mac OS X. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

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