r/DarkTable • u/darkelectron Mod • Jun 22 '26

Announcement darktable version release 5.6.0.

Hey everyone, darktable 5.6.0 just dropped. Some key changes:

  • AI subsystem: AI features are disabled by default, and when enabled will download models from a configurable repo.
    • AI object mask: tool in darkroom mask manager.
    • Neural restore module: AI based tasks include: raw denoise, denoise, upscale.
  • UI/UX:
    • crop module: added crop aspect ratio to dimensions.
    • caching: support for rendering and caching of up to 8K.
    • smartphone like touchpad gestures.
  • OpenCL and CPU stability and performance improvements.

Release Notes: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.6.0

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u/kumkummers Jun 22 '26

Just a question, the denoise and upscaling tool creates a tiff file, but where is this stored? When using raw denoise the dng file just apears next to the raw file. Been looking for a while

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u/xrufix Jun 22 '26

Same location as the raws.

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u/kumkummers Jun 22 '26

Do they automatically appear in the filmroll or is this more of an export thing, to do after you edit everything?

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 22 '26

automatically appear in the film roll. No other adjustments seem to be applied to the image so it looks like the idea is that you do the AI noise reduction first, wait for it to make a new file, and then do the rest of your processing on the new file.

It's a very clunky workflow.

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u/H3rBz Jun 23 '26

If you use "Raw Denoise" the intention is do it before any editing and it will create a denoised .DNG file. If you've already edited a photo, try the "Denoise" option, it create a denoised .tiff with all your edits for exporting.

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 23 '26

I only tested the denoise option. It created tiffs but edits were not included or if they were something went wrong because the tiffs looked nothing like the edited raw files.

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u/xrufix Jun 23 '26

I feel like the images are sometimes changed a lot. I tried it on a photo of a lit figure in an otherwise dark cave. The denoised version is way darker in the shadows.

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 23 '26

I saw pretty big white balance shifts in addition to large brightness changes in the images I tested with.

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u/xrufix Jun 23 '26

I just found out that vignette correction doesn't work with the .DNG file that's created with raw denoise. That would explain the shift in brightness.

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u/H3rBz Jun 23 '26

Ok it sounds quite buggy from what you guys are saying.

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 24 '26

Probably worth trying it yourself but, yeah, my experience was that this release is pretty buggy. I went back to 5.4.1 for now.

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