![]() ![]() You really need a streamlined solution to make that process efficient. JH: The answer to that is obvious once you try to sort thousands of raw images and select the best out of groups of similar images, with a workflow based on Gimp and UFRaw. SF: What is the need for this particular photography program? ![]() In that sense, we think it’s a community project and everybody who takes an active part in it benefits the most because they can shape it by their own ideas and needs. It’s been a fun ride and a great pleasure to get to know all the great contributors, who have helped to shape darktable and who are still working on it now. SF: Who can benefit the most from your project? It’s translated into languages we will never be able to understand and reached a level of complexity that is only manageable by a larger community, not a single developer. Nowadays darktable has features we never imagined would be possible. JH: We would say it has been surpassed quite a bit. SF: Has the original vision been achieved? ![]() JH: At the time (just over 5 years ago) there was no open source raw developer/workflow tool ( RawTherapee was still closed-source) and all the un-free programs wouldn’t link against my custom compiled glibc. We target raw or high-dynamic range images as input format but others (jpg) work too, within limits. On the technical side, we employ many recently developed algorithms from research in the field and implement them as efficiently as we can, using SIMD on the cpu and opencl on the gpu. JH: darktable is a workflow tool that helps photographers quickly work through (potentially thousands of) pictures after a shoot and enables them to get the most out of each individual shot. SourceForge (SF): Tell me about the darktable project. One of the project’s lead coders, Johannes Hanika, tells us about the project’s history, purpose, and direction. It also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. For our June, Staff Pick, Project of the Month we have selected darktable, a virtual light table and darkroom for photographers, which manages your photos in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable light table. ![]()
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