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User manual

You can either have a look on our online version of the user manual or download the latest version in your language:

• English - most recent version
• Other languages are currently badly outdated but will hopefully be reworked soon.

darktable Styles

We have a wiki page to share different styles for darktable. Feel free to put your own there and share them with others!

To create a new darktable style just alter your image the way you want. Then click the button located in the history module in darkroom mode to create a style from the current history stack. In advanced options you can include or exclude single modules. To export or import a new style use the styles module in lighttable mode.

The book

Stefano Fornari, Mario Latronico and Nicholas Manea wrote a book about photo development with darktable:

Digital photo development with darktable
Manage and develop your digital images with Darktable.

It introduces you to the process of developing your images with darktable explaining the basic features. It starts over with a simple tutorial on importing and developing your first photo(s). After describing the darktable user interface it provides some workflow suggestions and background informations on (perception of light, sensors, patterns, colors).

You can download the pdf or packaged version of the current release (v1.1.1). Your comments and feedback are always welcome on the darktable user mailing list.

Screencast tutorials

Pascal de Bruijn provides several useful screencasts on his website explaining the different functions of dartkable. Find the 0.7 screencast library, the 0.9 screencast library addition and the 1.0 screencast library addition or just pick the one you want:

Screencasts recorded using darktable 1.0

• darktable 1.0 Update
• darktable Archiving & Backup

Screencasts recorded using darktable 0.9

• darktable 0.9 Update
• darktable B&W Film Emulation
• darktable Denoising
• darktable Spot Removal

Screencasts recorded using darktable 0.7 (but still valid)

• darktable Installation On Ubuntu
• darktable Lighttable Basics
• darktable Tagging & Collect Modules
• darktable Darkroom Basics
• darktable Darkroom Black & White Modules
• darktable Darkroom GND Module
• darktable Darkroom Colorzones Module
• darktable Darkroom Watermark Module
• darktable Working With Styles
• darktable Capture Basics

Tutorial videos in Spanish (with subtitles in French and English)

(courtesy of  Juan Luis Fernández Gallo and translated by Paulo C. Santos Garcia and Marie-Noëlle Augendre)

• whole playlist

Related but not only suitable for darktable is his screencast on how to create helpful backtraces with gdb:

• Contributing Backtraces

And down here we have some more screencasts and tutorials - in German. These tutorials are brought to you by Mirco.

• Tutorials für darktable

Cameras with enhanced support

In general, darktable supports whatever rawspeed or libraw supports. Additionally, for better color rendition, darktable comes with custom profiled color matrices. Plus, to reproduce the behavior of the camera's chip, we have reverse-engineered some base curves for you.

The following list only shows the status of enhanced support and does not mean your camera (or its raw files) is not supported by darktable.

camera	color matrix	base curve
Pentax K-x, K-5, K-7	x	x
Pentax 645D	x	x
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, 5D Mark II, 5D, 7D	x	x
Canon EOS 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 60D	x	x
Canon EOS 350D, 400D, 450D, 500D, 550D	x	x
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, XTi, XSi, T1i, T2i	x	x
Canon EOS Kiss Digital N, X, X2, X3, X4	x	x
Canon Powershot S60, S90, G12	x	x
Nikon D40X, D60, D90	x	x
Nikon D200, D300s, D700	x	x
Nikon D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000	x	x
Nikon Coolpix P7000	x	x
Sony DSLR A100, A200, A550, A700	x	x
Olympus E-PL1, E-500, SP570UZ	x	x
Panasonic DMC-FZ40, DMC-FZ100	x	x
Panasonic DMC-G1, DMC-GF1, DMC-G2	x	x
Panasonic DMC-LX3, DMC-LX5	x	x
Samsung NX100	x	x
Kodak Easyshare Z1015 IS	x	x
Elphel 353E	x
Leika		x
Konica Minolta		x

Cameras tested for tethering

While a lot of cameras might work with darktable's tethering mode only a few have been tested in real life. Feel free to test it with your model and send us a short review.