Menu Descriptions

Chapter 3. Menu Descriptions

The main Digikam window

The Album Menu

Album->New Album (Ctrl-N)

Create a new album folder

Albums->Sort Albums

Sort all Digikam Albums by Collection, by Date, or by a flat method

Album->Add Images (Ctrl-I)

Select images to be added to the currently selected Album

Album->Edit Album Properties (Ctrl-F3)

Edit the currently selected album title and comments

Album->Archive to CD

Archive Digikam Albums in a CD/DVD media using K3b program. You can select easily the Albums to archive in the media. An HTML interface can be built for a confortable data navigation. For the Win32 platform, an 'AutoRun' option is available.

K3b program is available at this url.

Album->HTML Export

Export Digikam Albums in HTML page for a WEB publication. You can select easily the Albums to export in an HTML page. You can set a big parameters list the HTML rendering. The UTF-8 encoding is used for a best internationalization.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Album->Open Album in->Konqueror

Open the current Album in a the konqueror file manager.

Album->Open Album in->Nautilus

Open the current Album in the Nautilus file manager.

Album->Delete Album from HardDisk

Delete selected Album and all items in it from the hard drive

Album->Quit (Ctrl-Q)

Quit Digikam

The Image Menu

Image->View/Edit (F4)

Open the currently selected image in the imageviewer

Image->Edit Image Comments (F3)

Edit the image comments

Image->View Exif Information (F6)

See the exif information stored in the image

Image->Properties (Alt-Enter)

View Image Properties

Image->Transform->Rotate (Shift-1 Shift-2 Shift-3)

Do Lossless JPEG 90/180/270 Degree Rotation (this will rotate an image without losing any quality and any exif information)

Image->Transform->Flip

Do Lossless JPEG Horizontal or Vertical flip (this will flip an image without losing any quality and any exif information)

Image->Transform->Convert to Black and White

Do Lossless JPEG black and white convertion (this will convert an image to black and white without losing any exif information)

Image->Rename (F2)

Rename the current item

Image->Delete (Shift-Delete)

Delete selected items

Image->E-mail Images

E-mail the selected items with your favorite mail agent. A resizing items operation is possible. You can use the drag and drop for to add more images in the list to send.

Image->Print Wizard

The print wizard allows multiple images to be combined into single sheets of paper in standard photo sizes for printing. The combined images can also be automatically opened with the image editor Gimp for enhancement or for direct printing using the Gimp-Print plugin. The combined images can also be output directly to jpeg files.

Image->Set as background

Place the current selected image in the KDE desktop in according with the menu sub-option selected:

  • Centered.

  • Tiled.

  • Centered tiled.

  • Centered max-aspect.

  • Tiled max-aspect.

  • Scaled.

  • Centered auto fit.

The Select Menu

Select->Select All (Ctrl-A)

Select all images currently shown

Select->Select None (Ctrl-U)

Unselect all items in the current view

Select->Invert Selection (Ctrl-*)

Invert the current selection

The View Menu

View->Increase Thumbnail Size (Alt-+)

Increase the thumbnail size

View->Decrease Thumbnail Size (Alt--)

Decrease the thumbnail size

View->Toggle Full Screen (Ctrl-Shift-F)

Toggles the graphic interface in full screen mode

The Camera Menu

Any configured digital camera will be listed here. You can use the Digikam setup dialog for add a new camera in the list.

The Tools Menu

Some installed tools Digikam plugins will be listed here. More news about the Digikam plugins can be found at this URL: http://digikam.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

Tools->Create calendar

Used this wizard for create a calendar with some Digikam Albums images.

Tools->Batch->Comments Editor

Launch the Comments Editor plugin dialog box for editing Album images comments in bulk.

Tools->Batch->Border images

This plugin can be used for batch border images in an Album. It use "mogrify" program from "ImageMagick" package. An image effect preview is available. Actually, 4 border styles have been implemented:

  • Solid : simple line.

  • Niepce : old border style for black and white pictures.

  • Raise : a 3D effect arroud the pictures.

  • Frame : surrond the images with an ornamental border.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Tools->Batch->Convert images

This plugin can be used for batch convert images in an Album. It use "convert" program from "ImageMagick" package. The image files formats supported are:

  • JPEG.

  • PNG.

  • PPM.

  • BMP.

  • TIFF.

  • TGA.

Tools->Batch->Color images

This plugin can be used for batch colors enhancement images in an Album. It use "mogrify" program from "ImageMagick" package. An image effect preview (partial or full) is available. 10 colors filters types have been implemented:

  • Decrease contrast : reduce the image contrast.

  • Depth : change the color depth of the image.

  • Equalize : perform histogram equalization to the image.

  • Fuzz : merging colors within a distance are considered equal.

  • Gray scales : convert colors image to gray scales image.

  • Increase contrast : enhance the image contrast.

  • Monochrome : transform the image to black and white.

  • Negate : replace every pixel with its complementary color.

  • Normalize : transform image to span the full range of color values.

  • Segment : segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components.

  • Trim : trim an image (fuzz reverse technic).

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Tools->Batch->Effect images

This plugin can be used for batch FX transmorming images in an Album. It use "mogrify" program from "ImageMagick" package. An image effect preview (partial or full) is also available. 11 FX filters types have been implemented:

  • Adaptative threshold : perform local adaptive thresholding.

  • Charcoal : simulate a charcoal drawing.

  • Detect edges : detect edges within an image.

  • Emboss : returns a grayscale image with a three-dimensional effect.

  • Implode : implode image pixels about the center.

  • Paint : applies a special effect filter that simulates an oil painting.

  • Shade light : shines a distant light on an image to create a three-dimensional effect.

  • Solarize : negate all pixels above the threshold level.

  • Spread : this is a special effects method that randomly displaces each pixel in a block defined by the radius parameter.

  • Swirl : swirls the pixels about the center of the image.

  • Wave : creates a ripple effect in the image by shifting the pixels vertically along a sine wave.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Tools->Batch->Filter images

This plugin can be used for batch filter images in an Album. It use "mogrify" program from "ImageMagick" package. An image effect preview (partial or full) is available. 9 filters types have been implemented:

  • Add noise : add noise in an image.

  • Antialias : remove pixel aliasing.

  • Blur : blur the image with a Gaussian operator.

  • Despeckle : reduce the speckles within an image.

  • Enhance : apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image.

  • Median : apply a median filter to an image.

  • Noise reduction : reduce noise in an image.

  • Sharpen : sharpen the image with a Gaussian operator.

  • Unsharp : sharpen the image with an unsharp mask operator.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Tools->Batch->Rename images

This plugin can be used for batch rename image files in an Album.

Tools->Batch->Recompress images

This plugin can be used for batch recompress images in an Album. It use "convert" program from "ImageMagick" package. The image files formats supported are:

  • JPEG.

  • PNG.

  • TIFF.

  • TGA.

Tools->Batch->Resize images

This plugin can be used for batch resize images in an Album. It use "convert" program from "ImageMagick" package. You can resize up or down the images size.

Tools->Batch->Raw Images Converter

Launch the batch Raw Converter plugin dialog box. This plugin can convert quite a few RAW file images from differents digital cameras (Canon, Nikon, Sigma, Olympus, Minolta, etc.). It uses the Dave Coffin RAW photo decoder program "dcraw".

"dcraw" program is available at this url.

Tools->Raw Image Converter

Launch the Raw Converter plugin dialog box. This plugin is for process an unique image.

Tools->Acquire Images->Scan Images

Launch the Kooka interface dialog box for scan images with a scanner supported by Sane project.

Tools->Acquire Images->Screenshot

Launch the Digikam dialog for screenshots capture.

Tools->Find Images->Find duplicate images

This plugin can be used for find dupplicates images in Albums database.

Tools->MPEG Encoder

Launch the MPEG Encoder plugin dialog box for convert the selected images on a MPEG sequence with a specific duration and merge all images on an single MPEG file. This plugin use the "MjpegTools" and "ImageMagick" packages. Between the images, you can insert a basic transition. You can also add an audio track on the images sequence with a MP2 or WAV file. All images will be automatically scaling to the good size for the video format. Also a specific background color could be used. You can use this plugin for to build some DVD/XVCD/SVCD/VCD image portfolios for your home DVD player. Use K3b program for create this media.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

Tools->SlideShow

Launch the SlideShow plugin dialog box. This plugin is an album images slideshow with a large number of visual effects

The Settings Menu

Settings->Configure Shortcuts

Configure the Digikam shortcuts

Settings->Configure Toolbars

Configure the Digikam toolbars

Settings->Configure Digikam

Configure the Camera and Album Settings

The Help Menu

Help->Digikam Handbook (F1)

Invokes the KDE Help system starting at the Digikam help pages. (this document).

Help->What's This? (Shift+F1)

Changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and question mark. Clicking on items within Digikam will open a help window (if one exists for the particular item) explaining the item's function.

Help->Report Bug...

Opens the Bug report dialog where you can report a bug or request a “wishlist” feature.

Help->About Digikam

This will display version and author information.

Help->About KDE

This displays the KDE version and other basic information.

Additionally Digikam offers this item:

Help->Tip of the Day

This displays a dialog with useful hints for using Digikam.

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