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arktable is one of the best open source image editors that’s popularly used by shutterbugs as a digital darkroom to work on raw images.
Darktable has just had a new feature release, with several new user experience and performance improvements. For instance, the app now gives visual feedback while conducting certain common bulk image operations. The developers have also improved the speed of bulk image operations, and made some tooltips give out more information.
The app is available as a Flatpak, so you can install it with flatpak install flathub org.darktable.Darktable . Darktable loads straight into the interface, asking you to use the Import module to point it to images. The app offers innumerable editing modules to fix incorrect exposure, change the lighting conditions, and tweak the colour balance of the image.
To edit a photo, double-click it, which switches you to the Darkroom view. This interface has the image in the centre and menus on either side, which contain everything you need to work on the image. These will make sense to someone used to the digital image editing workflow. For everyone else, the app has an extensive multilingual user manual.
Darktable is right up there with the best proprietary image processors, in terms of both features and performance.