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DigiKam is an advanced but easy to use digital photo management application for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all major image formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, by date, or with tags. You can also add comments and a rating to your images, search through them and save your searches as 'smart folders'. You can can export your albums to Flickr , burn them on CD, create a web gallery and more.
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. It has a Camera import function which allows for previewing, downloading and/or deleting images. Basic auto-transformations can be deployed on the fly during pictures downloading.
New features in the current 0.9.0 release (released Dec 18, 2006) are a [http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/104 GPS locator] and [http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/136 synchronisation], [http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/137 iPod Photo upload support], an [http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/163 advanced metadata editor], better support for raw pictures (using dcraw included in digikam) and many new KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) plugins.
The core development team of DigiKam consists of Gilles Caulier, Marcel Wiesweg and Francisco J. Cruz. Other team members are Achim Bohnet, Gerhard Kulzer and Fabien. [http://www.digikam.org/?q=contact More information].
DigiKam can be found on freenode, channel #digikam
DigiKam is currently maintained in the KDE Extragear.
Features
Features includes with digiKam 0.8.x series
* Driving all digital camera types supported by the Gphoto2 project by:
* * Serial connection
* * USB connection
* * USB/IEEE Mass storage connection
* Organization of Photos in Albums and sub-Albums
* Comments can be added to Albums
* Tags can be added to Albums
* Albums can be classified by user-specified categories and tags
* Automatic sorting of Photo Albums in chronological order:
* *By folder
* *By collection name
* *By creation date
* Automatic sorting of Album items in chronological order:
* *By name
* *By path
* *By date
* *By files size
* Drag and drop support between digiKam and other KDE applications
* Using Kipi plugin architecture so that new plugins can be written for added functionality. Currently implemented plugins are described on the Kipi page
* Comments can be added to photos which are shown in the thumbnail display (along with filesize and file modification date)
* A SQLite database is used to store all Albums and items information
* Four different thumbnail sizes:
* *Small: 64x64
* *Medium: 100x100
* *Big: 160x160
* *Very big: 256x256
* EXIF Information viewer
* Fast image editor with keyboard shortcuts and basic photo editing/management features (all without losing EXIF information). The core options available are:
* *Red-eye correction
* *Brightness / Contrast / Gamma correction
* *Hue / Saturation / Luminosity correction
* *Color balance
* *Invert colors
* *Normalize / Equalize / Auto levels / Stretch Contrast
* *Blur / Sharpen
* *EXIF viewer
* *Histogram viewer
* *Convert to black&white (BW + color filter, sepia, chemical tonal)
* *Ratio-cropping (with proportion aids)
* *Free cropping
* *Exporting to another image format
* *Printing images
* *Removing images from current Album
* *Image comments editing
* *Image file properties
* *Rotation
* *Flipping
* *Zooming
* The digiKam image editor provides a plugins architecture to add new options. Please visit the DigikamImagePlugins project page for more information
* Importing pictures from digital cameras. Operations currently supported are:
* *Deleting images
* *Uploading images
* *Camera information
* *Auto-rename during import
* *Auto-rotate during import
* Themes support for the main GUI interface
(from the DigiKam website)
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