User manual

The user manual contains the reference documentation for all features included in darktable for the current stable version. It is also available as PDF or as EPUB.

The manual is also available for the current development snapshot.

The Lua API has its own manual. A guide for getting started with scripting is also available in the main manual.

If you would like to help maintain the user manual, please see our GitHub repository or the overview of our workflow.

Translations of the manual are available in various languages. Many languages are fairly incomplete and you are welcome to contribute. The translations are managed through Weblate. More on translating the manual can be found in the translators’ guide.

Frequently asked questions

Some commonly asked questions can be found in our FAQ. Please read it before reporting bugs or feature requests.

Forum

If you can’t find a solution for your issue in the FAQ or manual (see above), you are welcome to ask on the forum at discuss.pixls.us.

More resources

• Our own blog; including a guide on getting started.
• Planet darktable offers an aggregation of recent content on darktable.
• darktable.info is an opinionated collection of tutorials and themes for darktable, intended for beginners and available in German, English, Dutch and French.

Videos

• Bruce Williams
• Boris Hajdukovic
• Robert Hutton
• A dabble in photography
• Raw Photography Tutorials

Previous versions of the manual

Currently the only deployed versions of darktable’s manual are for release 5.6 and the development version.

Older versions of the manual for older releases of darktable are archived in PDF and EPUB format and available on Github:

• Version 4.8
• Version 4.6
• Version 4.2
• Version 4.0
• Version 3.8
• Version 3.6

Between 4.8 and 5.6 no snapshots of the manual are available because versioning of the manual had been suspended in that period.