DARKTABLE(1) darktable DARKTABLE(1) NAME darktable - a digital photography workflow application SYNOPSIS darktable [options] [IMG_1234.{RAW,...}|image_folder/] Options: --cachedir --conf = --configdir -d {all,cache,camctl,camsupport,control,dev,fswatch,imageio,input, ioporder,lighttable,lua,masks,memory,nan,opencl,params,perf, pwstorage,print,signal,sql,undo} --datadir --disable-opencl -h, --help --library --localedir --luacmd --moduledir --noiseprofiles -t --tmpdir --version DESCRIPTION darktable is a digital photography workflow application for Linux, Mac OS X and several other Unices. The application is designed to ease editing and consistent processing of large photo sessions and provides an easy to use digital lighttable 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 plugin architecture thus making it easy for 3rd party developers to extend the existing capabilities of the application. All lighttable and darkroom features are implemented as plugins, so you can create your plugins reusing existing code. Most workflow specific things can also be scripted in Lua. OPTIONS 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. If there is already an instance of darktable running (using the same library) the image or folder will be opened there, using D-Bus to communicate between the two processes. --cachedir 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 "$HOME/.cache/darktable/". There may exist multiple thumbnail caches in parallel - one for each library file. --conf = darktable supports a rich set of configuration parameters which the user defines in "darktablerc" - darktable's configuration file in the user config directory. You may temporarily overwrite individual settings on the command line with this option - however, these settings will not be stored in "darktablerc". --configdir This option defines the directory where darktable stores the user specific configuration. The default place is "$HOME/.config/darktable/". -d 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 debug options 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 thumbnail cache for lighttable 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. In general this is not very useful. --datadir 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/". --disable-opencl Prevent darktable from initializing the OpenCL subsystem. Use this option in case darktable crashes at startup due to a defective OpenCL implementation. -h, --help Show the available command line options and exit. --library 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. --localedir 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/". --luacmd A string containing lua commands to execute after lua initialization. These commands will be run after your "luarc" file. If lua is not compiled in, this option will be accepted but won't do anything. --moduledir 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/lib/darktable/" and "/usr/lib/darktable/". --noiseprofiles darktable's profiled denoise module uses camera specific profile data that gets loaded from an external JSON file. With this option the file to be loaded can be changed to allow testing alternative profiles. The default profile file is "noiseprofiles.json" and is typically found in "/opt/darktable/share/darktable/" or "/usr/share/darktable/". -t darktable uses OpenMP to parallelize many computation steps and make use of all the available CPU cores. With this option you can specify the number of threads to use. Valid values are between 1 and 100. --tmpdir The place where darktable stores its temporary files. If this option is not supplied darktable uses the system default. --version Show the darktable version along with some important build options and exit. DEFAULT KEYBINDINGS All modes l Switch to lighttable view d Switch to darkroom view t Switch to tethered capture view m Switch to map view s Switch to slideshow view p Switch to print view . Switch between lighttable and darkroom views Ctrl-q Quit F11 Switch between fullscreen and normal modes of the application's window Esc Leave fullscreen mode Ctrl-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 Ctrl-z Preview image with focus detection 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 Ctrl-a Select all images Ctrl-Shift-a Select no images Ctrl-i Invert selection Ctrl-d Duplicate image Ctrl-g, Ctrl-Shift-g Group/ungroup selected images Delete Remove image from collection Ctrl-c, Ctrl-Shift-c Copy all, selected history Ctrl-v, Ctrl-Shift-v Paste all, selected history Space Toggle selection of an image Return Select an image Ctrl-e Export currently selected images Ctrl-k Jump back to the previous collection Ctrl-t Open a popup to quickly tag an image Ctrl-Shift-i Import a folder Ctrl-j Jump to the filmroll of an image Darkroom mode Alt-1, 2, 3 Zoom to 1:1, fill, and fit, respectively Ctrl-f Show/hide filmstrip Space, Backspace Step to next, previous image Ctrl-e Export current image Ctrl-c, Ctrl-Shift-c Copy all, selected history Ctrl-v, Ctrl-Shift-v Paste all, selected history o Toggle show of over- and under-exposure Ctrl-g Toggle gamut check Ctrl-s Toggle softproofing Enter In Crop & Rotate module, commit the crop [, ] In Flip module, rotate 90 degrees ccw, cw <, > When drawing masks, decrease, increase brush opacity, respectively {, } When drawing masks, decrease, increase brush hardness, respectively [, ] When drawing masks, decrease, increase brush size, respectively Tethered mode Ctrl-f Show/hide filmstrip v Toggle live view Map mode Ctrl-f Show/hide filmstrip Ctrl-z Undo Ctrl-r Redo Filmstrip (when the cursor is on top of the filmstrip) 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 Ctrl-d Duplicate image Ctrl-a Select all images Ctrl-Shift-a Select no images Ctrl-i Invert selection Ctrl-c, Ctrl-Shift-c Copy all, selected history Ctrl-v, Ctrl-Shift-v Paste all, selected history Slideshow mode Space Start/stop playback SEE ALSO darktable-cli(1) OTHER INFO Please visit darktable's website for news, blog and bug tracker: The complete darktable usermanual. darktablerc.html An overview over all default config settings. The default place depends on your installation. Typical places are "/opt/darktable/share/doc/darktable/" and "/usr/share/doc/darktable/". REPORTING BUGS Please use the bug tracker on 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: Pascal Obry Aldric Renaudin Roman Lebedev * translators: Victor Forsiuk Pascal Obry Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin Straeten EdgarLux Marko Vertainen Kang-Wei Hsu Mario Zimmermann Matteo Mardegan RIM Fabio Sirna Nicolas Auffray Petr Stasiak Serkan ONDER Besmir Godolja Bathory Peter Kofa Matjaz Jeran Nicolas Ryo Shinozaki Tianhao Chai bajdero * contributors (at least 4 commits): Victor Forsiuk Hanno Schwalm Diederik ter Rahe Mario Zimmermann Jeronimo Pellegrini Milos Komarcevic Sakari Kapanen Martin Straeten Ralf Brown solarer EdgarLux Chris Elston Paolo DePetrillo Bill Ferguson gi-man Marko Vertainen rawfiner Kang-Wei Hsu Nicolas Auffray * Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): Roman Lebedev Milos Komarcevic Georg Lukas Yattaro Jan Smucr Jorge Nerin Marco Ristuccia Massimo Paladin Michael Allman Omari Stephens Victor Forsiuk * Sub-module integration contributors (at least 1 commit): Pascal Obry Sakari Kapanen And all those of you that made previous releases possible This man page was written by Alexandre Prokoudine and Richard Levitte . Additions were made by Tobias Ellinghaus . 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) 2009-2017 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. darktable 2.3 2017-01-20 DARKTABLE(1)