| PackageDescription | digital photo management application for KDE
Digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search
and export your digital images to and from your computer.
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It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital
photographs a "snap". digiKam enables you to manage large numbers of
digital photographs in albums and to organize these photographs for easy
retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation
and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and
sharing your images. Thus, digiKam is a formidable digital asset management
(DAM) software including powerful image editing functions.
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An easy-to-use camera interface is provided, that will connect to your
digital camera and download photographs directly into digiKam albums.
More than 1000 digital cameras are supported by the gphoto2 library.
Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system
will interface with digiKam.
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digiKam incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools.
You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate
them, correct, enhance and alter them. The editing power can be easily
extended by a set of plugins, the KDE Image Plugins Interface (manual)
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While digiKam remains easy to use, it provides professional level features
by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available plugins,
supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color
management work flow.
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New Features of the KDE4 version:
Runs on any platform that supports Qt4 and KDE4
Supports XMP metadata
Reads, writes and converts into DNG format
New RAW processing tool, gamma-correction in 16 bits
Preview of video and audio files
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
Marble integration, geographical filtering with the mouse on the map
New search finds duplicates and similar images
Help menu lists all RAW formats and digiKam component versions
DNG, RWL, NEF and PEF RAW file can be metadata edited
Usability improvements for netbooks
Non-modal image editor
Thumbnail bar in preview mode
Live search boxes in both sidebars and main window
New camera interface, capture tool, scanner interface
New plugin based on lensfun for automatic lens error corrections
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digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to
extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations,
import and export, etc. The kipi-plugins package contains many
very useful extensions. |