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| Developer(s) | The digiKam Team |
| Stable release | 0.10.0 (KDE4) / 2009-03-18 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Digital photo organizer |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.digikam.org |
DigiKam is an image organizer and editor using the KDE desktop environment technologies. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if needed libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags. Users can also add captions and ratings to their images, search through them and save searches for later use. With the plugins they can also export albums to 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Google Earth's KML files, SmugMug, Simpleviewer, burn them on CD, or create web galleries.
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Features
DigiKam provides functions for organizing, previewing, downloading and/or deleting images from digital cameras. Basic auto-transformations can also be deployed on the fly during picture downloading. In addition, digiKam offers image enhancement tools through its KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) framework and its own plugins, like red-eye removal, color management, image filters, or special effects. Digikam is the only free photo management application on Linux that can handle 16 bit/channel images. Digital Asset Management is the mainstay of digiKam.
The 0.10 version is a hallmark in development as it integrates digiKam in the KDE4/Qt4 desktop environment, which is now available on all major platforms as Unix-like, OS X and Windows (XP and Vista). New features are: XMP metadata, DNG format read and write, database file is independent of photo libraries, enabling remote paths, multiple roots and offline archives, improved database with many more metadata that can be searched, e.g. camera or lens, Marble integration for geolocation, non-modal image editor, live search boxes in both sidebars and main window, and many more.
New features in the 0.9 series were a GPS locator[1] and synchronization[2], iPod Photo upload support[3], an advanced metadata editor[4], better support for the RAW image format (using dcraw included in digiKam), full color management, a light-table[5], pan-tool in Image Editor and Preview mode, improvements in usability, and many new plugins.
Other Operating Systems
- Windows: digiKam is included as part of the KDE on Windows project. It can be installed by selecting the digikam-msvc library from within the KDE Installer.
- Beta port is also available for Mac OS X users when compiled itself.
- Other OS's than just Linux are covered as well.
Technical Information
DigiKam is written in C++ using Qt/KDE libraries.
Awards received
DigiKam has been awarded the TUX 2005 and 2008 Readers' Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool.[6][7]
See also
References
External links
- Official digiKam site (with complete feature list)
- Official Kipi-Plugins site (with complete feature list)
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