Features

Here's a (constantly updated) list of features included in Scarab Darkroom. More will be added as we work on the product.

 

- Raw file support for over 200 different camera models

- Lightning fast conversion with excellent detail rendition using a proprietary demosaic algorithm

- GPU accelerated color-grading engine

- Highlight recovery

- Fill light

- Brightness, contrast, black level

- Simple tone curve adjustment

- Color temperature/tint controls and possibility to pick white balance from a gray area in the picture

- Hue, saturation, vibrance

- Special sharpening algorithm, which avoids amplifying interpolation artifacts

- Cropping tool

- All editing is non-destructive

- OpenGL based user interface with real-time zooming and image rotation

- Clipped highlight warning

- Real-time color adjustment preview

- Real-time RGB histogram

- Support for EXIF metadata (currently only saved to JPEG)

- Re-sizing of output image

- Support for reading DNG raw files (from all models on the supported camera list)

- Fully color managed

 

Features in the premium version:

- 16 bit/channel TIFF saving

- Noise reduction

- CA correction

- Superior image quality

- More color controls

- Split toning

- Grayscale mixer

- Choice of different re-sizing methods

- and more in later versions...