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Descriptions
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0.9.x
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0.10.x
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Preview
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Organization of Photos in Albums and sub-Albums
Comments can be added to Albums
Tags can be added to Albums
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Exif support
Makernotes support
Iptc support
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Tags, Rating, Date and Time, Comments, Photographers ID, and Copyrights are stored in
pictures metadata. Comments are also stored in JPEG files to JFIF section.
For a better interoperability with other photo management programs, digiKam informations
as tags and rating as saved to metadata.
It means pictures files include your comments and all others informations you set to it!
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DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif metadata and/or IPTC tags can be set on the fly
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Metadata from new pictures imported to digiKam album collection are scanned automatically.
digiKam informations are created automatically in database accordingly with pictures metadata
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A SQLite database is used to store all Albums and items meta-information
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Albums can be classified by user-specified categories and tags
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Automatic sorting of Photo Albums in chronological order:
- By folder
- By collection name
- By creation date
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Automatic sorting of Album items in chronological order:
- By name
- By path
- By date
- By files size
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Drag and drop support between digiKam and other KDE applications
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Better support for RAW pictures using LibRaw included in libKdcraw
Support of more 300 proprietary RAW camera file formats.
Complete camera list is given here
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Using Kipi plugin architecture so that new plugins can be written for added functionalities.
Currently implemented plugins are described on the Kipi page.
Please visit the Kipi-Plugins project website for more informations.
Here is some features added with lastest kipi plugins version:
- Lossless transformations in JPEG pictures
- HTML export to remote Gallery
- Send pictures by email
- Add GPS coordinates to images by synchronizing them with a GPX files (created by GPS receivers and/or GPS tools), or by manually editing the longitude/latitude/altitude or also by using Google Map capabilities.
- Export to remote Flickr
- Calendar creation wizard
- Acquire image (eg. with a flat scanner)
- RAW image converter
- DNG converter
- Remote gallery export
- Adjust time and date
- Print wizard
- Edit Pictures Metadata
- Create slideshow
- Images batch processing
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digiKam core, image editor and image filters support 16 bits color depth pictures (RAW, TIFF, PNG, JPEG2000).
Image Editor has a full Color Management support using ICC color profiles.
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Thumbnail sizes can be adapted to your screen size on the fly
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Sidebar used everywhere to display
- metadata
- Image informations
- Metadata
- Geolocation
- image file properties
- comments/tags/rating/date
- tag filter informations
- colors informations: histogram and ICC profile
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Fast preview pictures mode embedded into albums interface with zoom and paning features
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Fast image editor with keyboard shortcuts and basic photo editing/management features
without losing metadata. Features available in Image editor are:
- 16 bits image color depth support.
- RAW camera image support.
- Color Management support.
- Red eyes correction
- Brightness / Contrast / Gamma correction
- Hue / Saturation / Luminosity correction
- Color balance
- Invert colors
- Color auto-correction tools: Normalize / Equalize / Auto levels / Stretch Contrast
- Blur / Sharpen
- EXIF/MakerNote/IPTC/GPS viewer
- Histogram viewer
- ICC profile viewer
- Ratio-cropping with proportion aids and composing tools based on Fibonacci rules
- Free cropping
- Exporting to another image format
- Printing images
- Removing images from current Album
- Image comments editing
- Image file properties
- Black and White and tonality converter using curves adjustments
- Rotation
- Flipping
- Zooming
- ICC profiles tool to perform advanced color corrections into images
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digiKam image editor uses a plugins architecture to add new features.
See blow a list of extra tools available:
- Adjust levels : a tool to adjust the photograph histogram levels manually
- Adjust curves : a tool to adjust the photograph colors using curves
- Noise Reduction : noise filter based on dcamnoise2 algorithm
- Unsharp Mask : a photograph unsharp mask filter to unblur picture without increase noise
- Lens Distortion : a tool for correct lens spherical aberration on photograph
- Anti Vignetting : a tool for correct vignetting on photograph
- Channel Mixer : a tool to mix the photograph color channels
- White Balance : a tool to adjust white color temperature balance of photograph
- Photograph Inpainting : a tool to remove unwanted photograph area using CImg library
- Photograph Refocus : a sharpness editor to refocus a photograph
- Hot Pixels Correction : a tool to remove photograph hot pixels generated by a deficient camera
- Photograph Restoration : a tool to reduce photograph artefacts using CImg library
- Free Rotation : a plugin to rotate a photograph with a free angle in degrees
- Shear Tool : a plugin to shear a photograph horizontally and vertically
- Perspective Tool : a plugin to adjust the photograph perspective
- Blowup Photograph : a plugin to blowup a photograph without less image quality using CImg library
- Template Superimpose : a tool to superimpose a template on photograph
- Add Border : a tool to add decorative frame around a photograph
- Insert Text : a tool to insert text under a photograph
- Apply Texture : a tool to apply a decorative texture to a photograph
- Solarize : a tool to solarize a photograph
- Oil Paint : simulate oil painting on photograph
- Emboss : an effect filter to emboss photograph
- Rain Drops : adding the visual effect of raindrops on photograph
- Charcoal : simulate charcoal drawing on photograph
- Film Grain : simulate film grain on photograph
- Infrared : simulate infrared film effect on photograph
- Blur FX : apply blurring special effects on photograph
- Distortion FX : apply distortion special effects on photograph
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Driving all digital camera types supported by Gphoto2 project:
- Over 900 digital camera devices supported
- Serial connection
- USB connection
- USB/IEEE Mass storage connection
- Connecting autodetection of camera using HAL/KDE service
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Importing pictures from digital still cameras. Operations currently supported are:
- Deleting images
- Uploading images
- Lock images
- Auto-rename pictures during import
- Auto-rotate pictures during import
- Auto-creation of albums during import
- LossLess conversion during import
- Advanced camera information
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Capture images from camera (GPhoto2 devices only)
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Easy comparing similar pictures using Light Table:
- Files displayed side by side
- Advanced paning and zomming
- Navigation by pair
- Raw files support
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