NAME¶
darktable - a digital photography workflow application
SYNOPSIS¶
darktable [options] [IMG_1234.{RAW,...}|image_folder/]
Options:
-d {all,cache,camctl,control,dev,fswatch,
input,lighttable,masks,memory,nan,opencl,
perf,pwstorage,sql}
--disable-opencl
--library <library file>
--datadir <data directory>
--moduledir <module directory>
--tmpdir <tmp directory>
--configdir <user config directory>
--cachedir <user cache directory>
--localedir <locale directory>
--conf <key>=<value>
--help
--version
DESCRIPTION¶
darktable is a digital photography workflow application for
Linux
and
Mac OS X in the lines of
Adobe Lightroom and
Apple
Aperture.
The application is designed to ease editing and consistent processing of large
photo sessions and provides a easy to use digital light-table and a set of
sophisticated post-processing tools.
Most processing is done in 32-bit floating point per channel mode in device
independent
CIE L*a*b* color space.
darktable is also fully
color managed, which gives you full control over the look of the photos.
The application relies on a modern plug-in architecture thus making it easy for
3rd party developers to extend the existing capabilities of the application.
All light-table and darkroom features are implemented as plug-ins, so you can
create your plug-ins reusing existing code.
COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS¶
- IMG_1234.RAW or image_folder/
- You may optionally supply the filename of an image or the
name of a folder containing image files. If a filename is given darktable
starts in darkroom view with that file opened. If a folder is given
darktable starts in lighttable view with the content of that folder as the
current collection.
- -d <debugoption>
- This option enables debug output to the terminal. There are
several subsystems of darktable and debugging of each of them can be
activated separately. You can use this option multiple times if you want
debugging output of more than one subsystem.
A few of those debugoptions are:
- control
- Enable job queue debugging. If you redirect darktable's
output to control.log and call ./tools/create_control_svg.sh
control.log, you will get a nice control.svg with a
visualization of the threads' work.
- cache
- This will give you a lot of debugging info about the mipmap
cache for light table mode. If compiled in debug mode, this will also tell
you where in the code a certain buffer has last been locked.
- perf
- Use this for performance tweaking your darkroom modules. It
will rdtsc-measure the runtimes of all plugins and print them to
stdout.
- all
- Enable all debugging output.
- --disable-opencl
- Prevent darktable from initializing the OpenCL subsystem.
Use this option in case darktable crashes at startup due to a defective
OpenCL implementation.
- --library <library file>
- darktable keeps image information in an sqlite database for
fast access. The default location of that database file is
"$HOME/.config/darktable/library.db". You may give an
alternative location, e.g. if you want to do some experiments without
compromising your original library.db. If the database file does not
exist, darktable creates it for you. You may also give
":memory:" as a library file in which case the database is kept
in system memory - all changes are discarded when darktable
terminates.
- --datadir <data directory>
- This option defines the directory where darktable finds its
runtime data. The default place depends on your installation. Typical
places are "/opt/darktable/share/darktable/" and
"/usr/share/darktable/".
- --moduledir <module directory>
- darktable has a modular structure and organizes its modules
as shared libraries for loading at runtime. With this option you tell
darktable where to look for its shared libraries. The default place
depends on your installation; typical places are
"/opt/darktable/lib64/darktable/" and
"/usr/lib64/darktable/".
- --tmpdir <tmp directory>
- The place where darktable stores its temporary files. If
this option is not supplied darktable uses the system default.
- --configdir <config directory>
- This option defines the directory where darktable stores
the user specific configuration. The default place is
"$HOME/.config/darktable/".
- --cachedir <cache directory>
- darktable keeps a cache of image thumbnails for fast image
preview and of precompiled OpenCL binaries for fast startup. By default
the cache is located in "$HOME/.cache/darktable/". There may
exist multiple thumbnail caches in parallel - one for each library
file.
- --localedir <locale directory>
- The place where darktable finds its language specific text
strings. The default place depends on your installation. Typical places
are "/opt/darktable/share/locale/" and
"/usr/share/locale/".
- --conf <key>=<value>
- darktable supports a rich set of configuration parameters
which the user defines in "darktablerc" - darktable's
configuration file in the user config directory. You may temporarily
overwrite individual settings on the command line with this option -
however, these settings will not be stored in
"darktablerc".
DEFAULT KEYBINDINGS¶
All modes
- l
- Switch to lightroom view
- d
- Switch to darkroom view
- t
- Switch to tethered capture view
- m
- Switch to map view
- F7
- Decrease contrast
- F8
- Increase contrast
- F9
- Decrease brightness
- F10
- Increase brightness
- Esc
- Leave fullscreen mode
- <Primary>q
- Quit
- period
- Switch between lighttable and darkroom views
- F11
- Switch between fullscreen and normal modes of the
application's window
- <Primary>h
- Show/hide header
- Tab
- Show/hide sidebars
Lighttable mode
- g, <shift>g
- Navigate to top, bottom row
- PageUp, PageDown
- Navigate one page up, down
- '
- Scroll center
- Down, Left, Right, Up
- Scroll down, left, right, up
- z
- Preview image
- F1, F2, F3, F4, F5
- Color labels: toggle red, yellow, green, blue and
purple
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Star rating
- 0
- Strip all stars
- r
- Mark as rejected
- l
- Realign images to the grid
- alt-1
- Zoom in on first visible image
- alt-2, 3
- Adjust zoom
- alt-4
- Zoom out completely
- <Primary>a
- Select all images
- <Primary><Shift>a
- Select no images
- <Primary>i
- Invert selection
- <Primary>g, <Primary><Shift>g
- Group/ungroup selected images
- Delete
- Remove image from collection
- <Primary>c, <Primary><Shift>c
- Copy all, selected history
- <Primary>v, <Primary><Shift>v
- Paste all, selected history
Darkroom mode
- alt-1, 2, 3
- Zoom to 1:1, fill, and fit, respectively
- ctrl-f
- show/hide film strip
- Space, Backspace
- Step to next, previous image
- <Primary>e
- Export current image
- o
- Toggle show of over- and under-exposure
- <Primary>c, <Primary><Shift>c
- Copy all, selected history
- <Primary>v, <Primary><Shift>v
- Paste all, selected history
- g
- Toggle gamut check
- s
- Toggle softproofing
- Enter
- In Crop & Rotate module, commit the crop
- [, ]
- In Flip module, rotate 90 degrees ccw, cw
Tethered mode
- <Primary>f
- Show/hide film strip
- v
- Toggle live view
Map mode
- <Primary>f
- Show/hide film strip
- <Primary>z
- Undo
- <Primary>r
- Redo
Film strip (when the cursor is on top of the film strip)
- F1, F2, F3, F4, F5
- Color labels: toggle red, yellow, green, blue and
purple
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Star rating
- 0
- Strip all stars
- r
- Mark as rejected
- <Primary>d
- Duplicate image
- <Primary>c, <Primary><Shift>c
- Copy all, selected history
- <Primary>v, <Primary><Shift>v
- Paste all, selected history
SEE ALSO¶
darktable-cli(1)
OTHER INFO¶
Please visit
darktable's website for news, bug tracker and forum:
<
http://www.darktable.org/>
- darktable-viewer screensaver version of darktable.
Shows the last active collection in full screen as a slideshow.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Please use the bug tracker on
<
http://www.darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable/issues/> to report
bugs, feature requests and so on.
AUTHORS¶
The principal developer of darktable is Johannes Hanika. The (hopefully)
complete list of contributors to the project is:
* developers: Henrik Andersson, Johannes Hanika, Tobias Ellinghaus, Ulrich
Pegelow.
* ubuntu packaging, color management, video tutorials: Pascal de Bruijn.
* opencl pipeline, usermanual: Ulrich Pegelow.
* networking, battle testing, translation expert: Alexandre Prokoudine.
* translation: a3novy, Alexandre Prokoudine, Anocha Yimsiriwattana, Artur de
Sousa Rocha, Daniele Giorgis, Dimitrios Psychogios, Ger Siemerink, Guilherme
Brondani Torri, Henrik Andersson, José Carlos Casimiro, Josep Puigdemont,
María Leandro, Mauro Bartoccelli, Michał Prędotka, Mikko
Ruohola, Milan Knížek, Olivier Tribout, Pascal Obry, Richard
Levitte, Roberto Quintero, Sebastien Delcoigne, Thomas Costis, Thomas Pryds,
Tobias Ellinghaus, Victor Lamoine.
* contributors: Aldric Renaudin, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alexey Dokuchaev, Ammon
Riley, Anton Keks, Antony Dovgal, Ari Makela, Benjamin Cahill, Brian Teague,
Bruce Guenter, Cherrot Luo, Chris Mason, Christian Tellefsen, David Morel,
Denis Cheremisov, Dennis Gnad, Diego Segura, Dimitrios Psychogios, Eckhart
Pedersen, Edouard Gomez, Edward Herr, František Šidák, Gaspard
Jankowiak, Ger Siemerink, Gianluigi Calcaterra, Guilherme Brondani Torri, Ivan
Tarozzi, James C. McPherson, Jan Kundrát, Jean-Sébastien
Pédron, Jérémy Rosen, Jesper Pedersen, Joao Trindade, Jon
Leighton, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo, Josef Wells, Julian J. M, Mattias Eriksson,
Michal Babej, Michał Prędotka, Moritz Lipp, Olivier Tribout, Pascal
de Bruijn, Pascal Obry, parafin, Petr Styblo, Pierre Le Magourou, Richard
Levitte, Richard Tollerton, Robert Bieber, Roland Riegel, Roman Lebedev,
Rostyslav Pidgornyi, Sergey Pavlov, Simon Harhues, Simon Spannagel, Stuart
Henderson, Terry Jeffress, Tim Harder, Togan Muftuoglu, Tom Vanderpoel, Ulrich
Pegelow, Wolfgang Goetz, Wolfgang Kuehnel, Yari Adan, hal, jan, maigl,
tuxuser. And all those of you that made previous releases possible.
This man page was written by Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> and Richard Levitte
<richard@levittr.org>.
HISTORY¶
The project was started by Johannes Hanika in early 2009 to fill the gap (or,
rather, a black hole) of a digital photography workflow tool on Linux.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright (C) 2009-2013 by Authors.
darktable is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GPL v3 or (at your option) any later version.