KPhotoAlbum

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Use KPhotoAlbum to catalogue, select, view and share images and videos.

KPhotoAlbum is software to catalogue images and videos, supporting customizable and extensive annotation.
Within annotated collections KPhotoAlbum helps you to swiftly select individual images or subsets of images to view or share them.

Main features

• Catalogue: annotate images and videos with any combination of labels, categories, date ranges and tokens

• Select and view: select images by any combination of labels, categories, date ranges and tokens and view the resulting subset

• Show and share: show selected images in a slideshow, create HTML pages with them, or export them for others to import them

KPhotoAlbum supports all the normal image and video formats including raw formats produced by most digital cameras and scanners. It is also possible to use the thumbnails embedded in raw images.

Get and install

Source packages, binaries for various distributions, and snapshots are available at the project Download page.

Installation Instructions

If you need help to install KPhotoAlbum, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.

Use one of the live versions of Neon to try out KPhotoAlbum without installing it:

• Neon User Edition: contains KPhotoAlbum's latest end user release.
  This version should not contain any bugs. If, however, you do find bugs, please report them.
  

• Neon Developer Edition (stable branch): contains a development version of KPhotoAlbum.
  New features arrive in stable only after possible bugs have been removed.
  Using this version you may find bugs. If so, please report them.
  

• Neon Developer Edition (unstable branch): contains the KPhotoAlbum version the developers are currently working on.
  Using this version you will find bugs. Please report them.
  

Explore

Explore KPhotoAlbum by reading the documentation or by starting KPhotoAlbum in demo-mode.

Documentation

Several types of documentation exist:

• 3 minute tour

• on-line handbook

• PDF handbook

• Frequently Asked Questions

Demo-mode

Demo-mode loads a number of already annotated stock images for you to browse and view, and to annotate yourself. All KPhotoAlbum functionalities are working. Shutting down KPhotoAlbum you may retain or discard any changes you've made during demo-mode.

Start demo-mode:

• At first start accept KPhotoAlbum's offer to run in demo-mode.

• In KPhotoAlbum click Help, then Run KPhotoAlbum demo

• Start KPhotoAlbum with the --demo switch on the commandline.

Note

If you choose to explore KPhotoAlbum using your own images, KPhotoAlbum will ask for the folder containing your images. Please note that KPhotoAlbum currently supports only one root folder: it will find the images in this folder and any sub-folders it may contain.
See FAQ for more information.

Requirements

KPhotoAlbum will run conveniently on most computers:

• PC's from 2015 or newer, with

• 8 Gb of RAM

KPhotoAlbum will run on most 64-bit Linux distributions and desktop environments, like:

• KDE Plasma (on QT6)

• XFCE

• Gnome

Required dependencies will normally be installed by the package manager during installation:

• libkdcraw
• marble-common
• exiv2
• purpose
• perl
• ktextwidgets

News about releases, fixes, improvements

The team publish news about development at the KPhotoAlbum news blog.

Contribute

KPhotoAlbum is a KDE-project run by volunteers. A lot of diverse skills are needed to run a software project like this. If you would like to help out, you are very welcome.

General info
Please have a look at KDE's general information about getting involved first.

Coding
If you'd like to help coding have a look at our "Get involved" site, and our our phabricator site to get started. Maintain documentation
If you'd like to help maintain our webpages the KDE Wiki site is a good place to start.

Start here to learn about maintaining manuals and other documents.

If you feel uncertain about getting involved, please ask any questions you may have.

Suggest improvements and ideas
Please report your suggestions.
You're also welcome to discuss your ideas with the team on one of the communication channels.

Directions

Sources with more info on KPhotoAlbum, its license, KDE and much more:

• KDE Community
• KDE official documentation
• KPhotoAlbum homepage
• KPhotoAlbum news
• KPhotoAlbum on apps.kde.org
• Wikipedia article
• KPhotoAlbum phabricator project
• KPhotoAlbum git repository

Backstory

In 2003 Jesper Pedersen started working on KimDaBa (K image Data Base) as a personal project. By version 2 KimDaBa was renamed to KPhotoAlbum.

In 2004 a KPhotoAlbum wiki was introduced, and Marc Cramdal helped improve the KPhotoAlbum website.

Also in 2004 Jesper incorporated the very handy date-bar into KPhotoAlbum.

Another handy functionality was introduced in 2005: search for EXIF attributes.

In 2006 the domain https://www.kphotoalbum.org/ was launched, containing the KPhotoAlbum home-page. That same year the all-important annotation dialogue got many valuable improvements.

By 2007 KPhotoAlbum (Version 3.0) had been translated into 13 languages.

In 2008 Jesper had gained the help of three other developers.

As of 2008 KPhotoAlbum had evolved into a modern photo-management application, and a steady series of releases introduced new features, improvements and bug fixes.

By 2015 git activity showed that 11 developers had been involved with the project. And throughout the following years many others helped out as well.

In 2020 KPhotoAlbum got integrated better in the greater KDE community. The developers also worked on better Geolocation mapping.

In 2024 KPhotoAlbum's 6.0.0 was released.

Find more details on KPhotoAlbum's backstory on the KPhotoAlbum news page.