DigiKam

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DigiKam

DigiKam is an image organizer

Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications....
and editor for the KDE

KDE

KDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system....
desktop environment. It supports all major image formats

Image file formats

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing images. This entry is about digital image formats used to store photographic and other images; ....
, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags

Tag (metadata)

A tag is a non-hierarchical index term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching....
. Users can also add captions and ratings to their images, search through them and save searches as 'smart folders'. With the plugin

Plugin

In computing, a plug-in consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application software to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand"....
s they can also export albums to Flickr

Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
, Gallery2, Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004....
's KML files, Simpleviewer, burn them on CD, or create web galleries.

Kam provides functions for previewing, downloading and/or deleting images from digital cameras.

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DigiKam is an image organizer

Image organizer

KDE

Image file formats

Tag (metadata)

Plugin

Flickr

Google Earth

Features

DigiKam provides functions for previewing, downloading and/or deleting images from digital cameras. Basic auto-transformations can also be deployed on the fly during pictures downloading. In addition, digiKam offers image enhancement tools through its KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) framework and its own plugins, like red-eye

Red-eye effect

The red-eye effect in photography is the common appearance of red pupils in color photographs of eyes. It occurs when using a photographic Flash very close to the camera lens , in ambient low light....
removal, color management

Linux color management

Linux color management has the same goal as the Color Management for other operating systems: to achieve the best possible color reproduction throughout an imaging workflow from its source , onto imaging software and finally its output ....
, image filters, or special effects. Digikam is the only free photo management application on Linux that can handle 16 bit/channel images.

New features in the 0.9.0 release were a GPS locator and synchronization, iPod Photo upload support, an advanced metadata editor, better support for the RAW image format

RAW image format

A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or Printing....
(using dcraw

Dcraw

dcraw is an open source computer program which is able to read numerous raw image formats, typically produced by high-end digital cameras. dcraw converts these images into the standard portable pixmap and Tagged Image File Format image formats....
included in digiKam), full color management and many new plugins.

New features in the 0.9.2 release were a light-table, pan-tool in Image Editor and Preview mode and improvements in usability.

DigiKam is currently maintained in KDE's Extragear

Extragear

The Extragear is a collection of KDE applications that are associated with the KDE project. Those apps are not part of the main KDE distribution for various reasons, but they are still part of the project....
and is under active development. At the moment digiKam is being ported to Qt4.4. After this transition, digiKam will also be available on Windows (XP and Vista) and on Mac OS X.

Other Operating Systems

Windows: digiKam is included as part of the . It can be installed by selecting the digikam-msvc library from within the .

Technical Information

DigiKam is written in C++

C++

C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level programming language and low-level programming language language features....
using Qt

Qt (toolkit)

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, widely used for the development of graphical user interface programs , and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as console tools and servers....
/KDE

KDE

Awards received

DigiKam has been awarded the TUX

Tux Magazine

Tux magazine was a Linux magazine aimed at Linux Kde Desktop end users. Tux's mission was to help Linux take over the desktop market.Tux was not a print magazine: each issue was delivered digitally as a PDF file....
2005 and 2008 Readers' Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool.

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DigiKam

Features

Other Operating Systems

Technical Information

Awards received

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