
Also, new hardware support can be delayed depending on who is available to code and review it, but when that support does get committed, it is typically better than the manufacturers' own support.It comes with tethered shooting, zero-latency, multi-level software caches, tags, image rating (stars), color labels support. Yet the precision and versatility of this collection of software is well worth the effort, and helps to encourage better exposures to start with.īe aware that the core development occurs under Linux, the OS X version is a port maintained by a separate group of volunteers, and there often is a lag between versions. This requires a very clear concept of what one wants out of an image - not some vague sense of "vibrant" or "sharper" - which can be challenging at first, especially for one accustomed to dumbed-down editors that offer automated quick fixes. It is not intended to be an "editor" but rather a "finisher" of images. One of the best suites of tools for working with RAW image files regardless of price, and with its very active and cooperative developers community it just gets better and better. Use of the new pipe routine now means that these previews will be identical to those produced during darkroom editing. when long-pressing on a duplicate image thumbnail) which often meant that the displayed duplicates differed from the main darkroom view in subtle ways. The duplicate manager previously used a different pipe routine to calculate its previews (i.e.This means that it can now be zoomed and panned with keyboard/mouse. The snapshot module has been entirely reworked so that, instead of using a fixed screen capture it now uses a dynamically generated view using the new pixelpipe functionality.The second darkroom image window has now been enhanced to support both the focus peaking and ISO-12646 color assessment modes.This has allowed for code de-duplication as well as enhancement of many of these features The pixelpipe used for image display in the darkroom view has been reworked so that it can be used elsewhere (darkroom view, second display window, duplicate manager, style preview, snapshot routine).The "inpaint opposed" algorithm has proved to be very stable and provides good results in many images, so it replaces "clip highlights" as the new default algorithm. Two new algorithms are provided in the highlight reconstruction module: "inpaint opposed" and "segmentation based".New Sigmoid display transform module, which can be used in place of the filmic and base curve modules.
