Edit and convert your photos in RAW format.
Scarab Darkroom Lite is a freeware RAW converter app and image converter developed by Scarab Labs for Windows. It's feature-rich, professional, user friendly, poor quality, modern and reliable.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
An image conversion program for high-end SLR camera RAW files
Scarab Darkroom is a digital camera raw file converter that supports most RAW format capable cameras from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung, and Sony. It is fast, easy to use, and produces excellent results.
Features of Scarab Darkroom Lite
- All editing is non-destructive.
- Brightness, contrast, black level.
- Clipped highlight warning
- Color temperature/tint controls and possibility to pick white balance from a gray area in the picture.
- Cropping tool
- Fill light
- GPU accelerated color-grading engine.
- Highlight recovery
- Hue, saturation, vibrance
- Lightning fast conversion with excellent detail rendition using a proprietary demosaic algorithm.
- OpenGL based user interface with real-time zooming and image rotation.
- Raw file support for over 100 different camera models.
- Real-time color adjustment preview.
- Simple tone curve adjustment.
- Special sharpening algorithm, which avoids amplifying interpolation artifacts.
Compatibility and License
Scarab Darkroom Lite is provided under a freeware license on Windows from image conversion software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2.17 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Scarab Darkroom Lite run on?
Scarab Darkroom Lite can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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