DigiKam

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DigiKam
Developer:	The DigiKam Team
Latest release:	0.9.1 / March 5, 2007
OS:	Unix-like
Use:	Graphics Software
License:	GPL
Website:	www.digikam.org

DigiKam is a 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. Users can also add comments and a rating to their images, search through them and save searches as 'smart folders'. With the plugins they can also export albums to Flickr, burn them on CD, or create web galleries.

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 0.9.0 release were a GPS locator and synchronization, iPod Photo upload support, an advanced metadata editor, better support for the RAW image format (using dcraw included in DigiKam), full colormanagement and many new plugins.

DigiKam, currently maintained in KDE's Extragear, is under active development which can be followed on freenode, channel #digikam.

[edit] External links

• The Official DigiKam Homepage (with complete feature list)
• Screenshots can be found here