Digikam: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:44, 1 October 2009

View, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs.

DigiKam supports import of photos from cameras, creation of albums, tagging with dates, subjects and other properties, and excellent search facilities. Please consult the manual for full details, including picture formats supported.

Managing your Photos

Album View
Timeline View
View Exif information
Geolocation
Search View
Detailed Search
Identify duplicates
Fuzzy Search

The Image Editor

Tagging
Assigning a Rating
Adjust Colour Levels
White Balance Adjustment
Convert to Black and White
Red-eye correction
Auto Colour Correction
Lens Auto Correction

The Camera Interface

Read from Removable Media
or from Camera
Save direct to Albums
Add Geolocation to Individual Photos

The Light Table

Compare from a range of photos
Examine Details
Rating makes choice easier
See the camera settings

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ShowFoto

For those who find the DigiKam interface a tad too technical, ShowFoto gives access to the same tools, with a popular interface.

Browsing
Image Properties
See image properties
Geolocation again
Preset zooms
Histogram
General Settings
Tooltip Options
Raw Image Settings
Colour Management Settings
File Saving Options
Configure a Slideshow

The project Home Page is here
A detailed User Manual is here. You will find these and many other screenshots there.

The support page of the project has links to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and to Mailing List subscription details.

There is a short video tour here.

The section on Digital Asset Management is no longer on the web pages, but in the manual, which may be present on your installation as digikam-doc, or you can download a set of .pdf files, digikam.pdf, showfoto.pdf and kipi-plugins.pdf

The blog Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age by rm42 highlights developments since the KDE 3 version, and provides a useful tour.

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 DigiKam supports import of photos from cameras, creation of albums, tagging with dates, subjects and other properties, and excellent search facilities.  Please consult the manual for full details, including picture formats supported.
+__TOC__
 ==Managing your Photos==
-<gallery>
+<gallery perrow="4">
 Image:Digikam_album.png|Album View
 Image:Digikam_timeline.jpg|Timeline View
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 </gallery>
-==The Image Editor
+==The Image Editor==
-<gallery>
+<gallery perrow="4">
 Image:Digikam_tagging.png|Tagging
 Image:Digikam_rating.png|Assigning a Rating
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 ==The Camera Interface==
-<gallery>
+<gallery perrow="4">
 Image:Digikam_card_media.png|Read from Removable Media
 Image:Digikam_camera.png|or from Camera
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 ==The Light Table==
-<gallery>
+<gallery perrow="4">
 Image:Digikam_compare-range.png|Compare from a range of photos
 Image:Digikam_examine-details.png|Examine Details
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 Image:Digikam_lt-settings.png|See the camera settings
 </gallery>.
+==ShowFoto==
+For those who find the DigiKam interface a tad too technical, ShowFoto gives access to the same tools, with a popular interface.
+<gallery perrow="4">
+Image:Showfoto_browse.png|Browsing
+Image:Showfoto_properties.png|Image Properties
+Image:ShowFoto_select.png|See image properties
+Image:ShowFoto_geolocation.png|Geolocation again
+Image:ShowFoto_zoom.png|Preset zooms
+Image:ShowFoto_histogram.png|Histogram
+Image:ShowFoto_general.png|General Settings
+Image:ShowFoto_tooltips.png|Tooltip Options
+Image:ShowFoto_raw-image.png|Raw Image Settings
+Image:ShowFoto_color-management.png|Colour Management Settings
+Image:ShowFoto_save.png|File Saving Options
+Image:ShowFoto_slideshow.png|Configure a Slideshow
+</gallery>
 ::* The project Home Page is [http://www.digikam.org/ here]
-::* A detailed User Manual is [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html here].  You will find these and many other screenshots.
+::* A detailed User Manual is [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html here].  You will find these and many other screenshots there.
 [http://www.digikam.org/drupal/support The support page] of the project has
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 There is a short video tour [http://www.digikam.org/drupal/tour here].
-The Manual also has a section on [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/dam.html DAM] (Digital Asset Management), helping you to safeguard your images for the future.  Some
+The section on '''Digital Asset Management''' is no longer on the web pages, but in the manual, which may be present on your installation as digikam-doc, or you can download a set of .pdf files, [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/digikam.pdf digikam.pdf], [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/showfoto/showfoto.pdf showfoto.pdf] and [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/kipi-plugins/kipi-plugins.pdf kipi-plugins.pdf]
-sections of this are still being implemented, but read on, as it covers issues
-you may not have considered before.
-The blog [[Digikam/Tour|Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age]] by rm42 highlights some recent developments and provides a useful tour.
+The blog [[Digikam/Tour|Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age]] by rm42 highlights developments since the KDE 3 version, and provides a useful tour.