§ 2 - Features

§ 2.1 - General

• Non-destructive - never alters your original image files
• Designed with DSLR users in mind
• True 48- and 64-bit processing throughout, including 48-bit image export capability
• Broad array of digital darkroom and post-process capabilities
• Supports brushed application of some effects and plugins
• Creates ultra-high quality JPEGs
• Library management for your images - without clogging up your filesystem
• Conserves filesystem space - does not use intermediate files
• Thread-aware - will use only as many cores as you tell it to
• Thread-friendly - will leave as many cores free for other uses as you tell it to
• Third-party plug-ins add new, live, in-program effects (developers see below!)
• Uses OS X / macOS's built-in RAW image support

§ 2.2 - Included Tools

• Black balance
• Black level control
• Gaussian blur
• Brightness
• Color balance
• Colorization
• Contrast
• Cropping with broad selection of crop guides
• Local contrast enhancement
• Develop
• Exposure
• Eyedropper
• Faint color saturation
• Flipping
• Floating histograms
• Geometric lens corrections
• Grid
• Highlight recovery
• Highlight stretching
• Hot / Cold indication
• Leveling
• Levels
• Library for image organization and management
  • Projects
  • Folders
  • Versions
  • Stacks
• Logo overlay
• Luma re-mixer
• Marker
• Midtone contrast
• Monochrome Mixer
• Fine-grain noise reduction
• Paint effects in and out
• Picture frame overlay
• Reduction
• Arbitrary rotation
• Rulers
• Saturation
• Sepia toning
• Shadow stretching
• Sharpening
• Stacking for astronomical, landscape and product photography
  • Sub-pixel precision translation
  • Sub-pixel precision rotation
  • Very large stack capable
  • Excellent combination of manual and auto features
  • No intermediate or temporary files
  • High-speed: multi-core and multi-pipeline optimized
  • Astro chromatic abberation correction
• Straightening
• Switch effects in and out
• Tinting
• Translation
• Turning
• Vignette creation
• Vignette reduction
• Watermarking
• White balance
• Windowing

§ 2.3 - For 3rd-party Developers

• Plugs-ins are 1st-class citizens - new operations that run right inside dTank (β)
• Open, free developer program
• Extremely easy, simple plugin system - one simple gcc build or full OS X / MacOS XCode
• Automatic control panel generation for a broad range of plug-in types
• Complete demo plug-in sources and build mechanisms supplied
• Anonymous development / Unique distributions
• Setup, plus operating init, precalc, display and cleanup phases
• Plug-ins are automatically threaded by the application to user's specs
• Plug-in settings are saved with image versions
• Plug-in effects are live
• Plug-in effects are non-destructive
• No intermediate files required, no delays; fully integrated plug-in system

 

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