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DARKTABLE(1)			    darktable			    DARKTABLE(1)

NAME
     darktable - a digital photography workflow application

SYNOPSIS
	 darktable [options] [IMG_1234.{RAW,...}|image_folder/]

     Options:

	 --cachedir <user cache directory>
	 --conf <key>=<value>
	 --configdir <user config directory>
	 -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 <data directory>
	 --disable-opencl
	 -h, --help
	 --library <library file>
	 --localedir <locale directory>
	 --luacmd <lua command>
	 --moduledir <module directory>
	 --noiseprofiles <noiseprofiles json file>
	 -t <num openmp threads>
	 --tmpdir <tmp directory>
	 --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 appli-
     cation.  All lighttable and darkroom features are implemented as plugins,
     so you can create your plugins reusing existing code.  Most workflow spe-
     cific 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 cur-
	 rent collection.  If there is already an instance of darktable running
	 (using the same library) the image or folder will be opened there, us-
	 ing D-Bus to communicate between the two processes.

     --cachedir <cache directory>
	 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 <key>=<value>
	 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 set-
	 tings on the command line with this option - however, these settings
	 will not be stored in "darktablerc".

     --configdir <config directory>
	 This option defines the directory where darktable stores the user spe-
	 cific configuration.  The default place is "$HOME/.config/darktable/".

     -d <debug option>
	 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 debug-
	 ging 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.

	 perfUse 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 <data directory>
	 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 op-
	 tion in case darktable crashes at startup due to a defective OpenCL im-
	 plementation.

     -h, --help
	 Show the available command line options and exit.

     --library <library file>
	 darktable keeps image information in an sqlite database for fast ac-
	 cess.	The default location of that database file is "$HOME/.con-
	 fig/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 <locale directory>
	 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 <lua command>
	 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 <module directory>
	 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 <noiseprofiles json file>
	 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 <num openmp threads>
	 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 <tmp directory>
	 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:
     <https://www.darktable.org/>

     <https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/> The complete darktable usermanual.

     darktablerc.html An overview over all default config settings.  The default
     place depends on your installation.  Typical places are "/opt/dark-
     table/share/doc/darktable/" and "/usr/share/doc/darktable/".

REPORTING BUGS
     Please use the bug tracker on <https://github.com/darktable-org/dark-
     table/issues> 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 Victor Forsiuk Hanno Schwalm Mario Zimmermann
     Ralf Brown Roman Lebedev Kofa Diederik ter Rahe Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin
     Straeten Bill Ferguson MiloA! KomarAeviA Vladimir Tyrtov EdgarLux Marko
     Vertainen MatjaA3/4 Jeran Jonas SchAxfer Hwanyong Lee bajdero

     * Translators: Victor Forsiuk Pascal Obry Jeronimo Pellegrini Martin
     Straeten EdgarLux Marko Vertainen MatjaA_/4 Jeran Hwanyong Lee bajdero Be-
     smir Godolja Elia Devito Kang-Wei Hsu Dh Dh1/2Dh<degree>
     DhcNDh1/2Dh^3NNDh?Dh<degree>Dh<micro>Dh^2Dh<degree> BA!thory PA(C)ter Jan
     A mucr Johan Schiff Reinder Mulder Ryo Shinozaki Tianhao Chai

     * Sub-module rawspeed contributors (at least 1 commit): MiloA! KomarAeviA
     Roman Lebedev Jonas SchAxfer

     * Sub-module integration contributors (at least 1 commit): Pascal Obry
     ralfbrown

     * Sub-module lua-scripts contributors (at least 1 commit): wpferguson Bill
     Ferguson Michael Reiger Tasos Bakogiannis deekayhd BalA!zs Dura-KovA!cs
     sjjh

     And all those of you that made previous releases possible

     This man page was written by Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokou-
     dine@gmail.com> and Richard Levitte <richard@levittr.org>.  Additions were
     made by Tobias Ellinghaus <me@houz.org>.

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)

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