digiKam

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections.

Tired of the directory constraints? Don’t worry, digiKam also provides tagging functionality. You tag your images which can be spread out across multiple folders and digiKam provides fast and intuitive ways to browse these tagged images. You can also add comments and rating to your images. digiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store these meta-informations which makes adding and editing of comments and tags very reliable.

digiKam makes use of KIPI plugins for lots of added functionality. KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an initiative to create a common plugin infrastructure for digiKam, KPhotoAlbum, Showimg, and GwenView. Its aim is to allow development of image plugins which can be shared among KDE graphical applications.

An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images. digiKam includes too an image editor for image corrections and manipulations whitch can be extended by plugins.

Another tool, which most artists and photographers will be familiar with, is a Light Table. This tool assists artists and photographers with reviewing their work ensuring only the highest quality. A light table will show the artist their imperfections in which they can go and touch up. Well in digiKam, the light table function provides the user a similar experience. You can import a photo, drag it onto the light table, and touch up only the areas that need it.

The digiKam Image Editor has its own plugin subsystem with some common tools e.g. red eye correction or Gamma correction. Additional plugins are provided with the main application to process advanced corrections on image like color management, noise reduction, or special effects. digiKam Image Editor support all camera RAW file formats, 16 bits color depth, Exif/Makernote/IPTC/GPS metadata, Color management, tagging/rating/comments pictures, etc.

A lots of search tools are also available to be able to find specific photo on whole collection : Time line, Calendar, Advanced Search using multiple and complex database queries (tags, rating, keywords, date,
etc...)

A stand-alone image editor version named Showfoto is also available. It runs without digiKam images database support, but provides all Image Editor plugins.

See the related project pages for more informations:

http://www.digikam.org
http://www.kipi-plugins.org

Online documentations:

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/showfoto/index.html
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-libs/kipi-plugins/index.html

NOTE:

- Please, use the digiKam mailing-list for all comments:

digikam-users at kde dot org
digikam-devel at kde dot org

- Please, use KDE Bug Tracking System for Wishes, and Bugs report:
http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam
http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins
http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=showfoto
http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kipiplugins

You can contact developers on Freenode IRC channels:

#digikam
#kde-imaging

To help digiKam project, you can donate money to developpers. Take a look at this page for details:

http://www.digikam.org/donation

See announce from digiKam web site:
http://www.digikam.org/node/581

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Full Changelog with previous releases can be see at this url:
http://www.digikam.org/changelog