![]() Are reviewers just looking at feature lists without trying it? ![]() I cannot believe that people “reviewing” this piece of software have actually used it. My experience with Digikam has been very negative. If you want to use the first one, type the following in the terminal: There are two PPAs for Ubuntu which ship with the latest version of DigiKam, this one by Michal Sylwester and this PPA, which contains some rebuilt packages for Kubuntu Backports. The following images have been used for the screenshots: Makulu Linux and Linux Mint 17 wallpapers. The configuration dialogue allows to change settings such as the database type (SQLite or experimental MySQL), photo collections locations, displayed album view information (for extra info like image dimensions, format, aspect ratio), tooltips, metadate, Baloo desktop search integration, templates, slideshow settings, and enabling of disabling KIPI plugins. There is a huge list of supported services to which you can export your photos, such as Google Drive, Flickr, Facebook, jAlbum, Imgur, Picasa Web and so on. ![]() The powerful image editor (available via the Tools->Image Editor menu) has support for color balancing ( brightness, contrast, gamma, black and white, hue, saturation), enhance and transform tools ( blur, sharpen, noise reduction, red eye etc), effects ( raindrops, emboss, oil paint and more), textures and decorations.ĭigiKam ships with a very powerful image editor:ĭigiKam will save your collection data inside SQLite3 databases. Photos are arranged side by side, with access to file information and metadata, as well as a fullscreen slideshow preview.Īnother feature is a graphical timeline, which will allow you select only images created in a certain day, weak, month, or year. The main area will display images as thumbnails, or using the preview image mode:ĭigiKam features a tool called the Light Table, intended to pick from a large number of photos which are almost identical. One of the features of DigiKam is integration with Marble, the KDE desktop globe application: You can also zoom, rotate, flip images, sort them by various criteria (including date or rating), or group images by album or format. It ships with a red-eye removal took, and effects which can be applied to images, like Emboss, Charcoal or Solarize. The interface is usually divided in two main widgets and two sidebars, except for the menu and toolbar: a left sidebar, with tabs expanding into the left widget for items like tags, labels, or map integration (all of them available via the Browse menu as well), and a right sidebar, with tabs expanding into the right widget, with shortcuts for properties, metadata or geolocation.ĭigiKam allows you to organize photos in albums, set labels, tags and ratings for each of them. It supports local files, removable drives and also network shares (this can later be changed from the configuration dialogue and more folders can be added). The first time it starts, DigiKam will pop-up a dialogue where you can choose the folders in which the photos are organized. What follows is an overview of the features which I found most interesting in the latest release of DigiKam, which is 4.4.0. It’s been a while since I had a look at DigiKam, and even though I’m not much into using a specialized application for organizing and keeping track of photos, I decided to have a look at the state of this popular and feature-complete photo manager for KDE.ĭigiKam is a free, open-source, full-fledged photo manager that blends well in KDE, and comes with very powerful tools for organizing and manipulating photographs.ĭigiKam 4.0 was a milestone release which shipped earlier in May this year with several new features, and since 4.0 every incremental version added some new features or brought improvements.
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