digiKam is intended to help you manage your photo collections. In this respect, the tool lets you not only view and organize the images but also enhance and share them. The program has a neat interface and I am sure you will soon figure out how to use it.
The utility works by organizing your photos in albums and it supports importing files from local folders and connected devices. Unfortunately, the importing process may take a while, and in the meantime your system’s performance may be affected. The albums preserve the original folder structure and you can easily navigate through them. Moreover, to facilitate finding the desired photos, you can organize them by title or date. Likewise, it is possible to use the metadata or add and customize tags.
Luckily, the product comes with a built-in image editor, which supports not only basic editing operations as cropping and resizing, but also others such as color adjustment, restoration, noise reduction and decoration. What is more, these operations can be performed on batches of files thanks to the Batch Queue Manager.
An important part of collecting photos has to do with sharing them with friends, family members and colleagues. Good news is that digiKam supports posting your photographs in various social networks, such as Flickr, Picasa and Facebook. Likewise, it can create instant slideshows with the selected pictures. Finally, it is good to know that you can export the database to other photo managing programs.
To conclude, digiKam is a powerful tool with multiple features. Not only that, the program supports expanding its capabilities by installing plugins. Conveniently, the product is open source and it will not cost you a dime to use it.
v4.5 [Nov 20, 2014]
Fixes:
- digiKam has a hard dependency on Jasper library
- Make face detection (kface) and geo tagging (kmap) optional features [patch]
- ICONVIEW : thumb focus is lost after renaming
- CORE : bad performance when Tag-related Sidebars (Tag management / Filter) are open [patch]
- When build digikam from git and package libpgf is installed, no way to use internal digikam libpgf
- EXIF thumbnail date information not updated when writing metadata to image
- MYSQL : settings and installation windows freeze when valid mariadb/mysql db connection is available [patch]
- Import not showing image thumbnails for certain Canon cameras [patch]
- digiKam goes into infinite loop when working with tags/captions information tab templates
- cmake and/or compiler pick up libkgeomap header files from previous version
- Identity class miss d private container to improve binary compatibility [patch]
- Compiler error: ambiguous reference to ratio variable
- Select 'recent' albums containing MOV or .xcf(Gimp) files. Immediate crash occurs.
- KIPI-plugins can not be deactivated on non-English locales [patch]
- White Balance: Unable to specify exposure compensation > x.5
- GROUP : Wallet icon for grouped photos is conceptually confusing
- make fails on imagedescedittab.cpp has no member named 'textEdit'
- No auto-rotation/flip Images after download [patch]
- Advanced slideshow shows not all pictures under certain conditions [patch]
- Add Album Category as a search criteria [patch]
- Ratings with rating == 0 cannot be selected on the left sidebar [patch]
- Floating Cards brings digiKam with non-English locales to crash and missing parameter text [patch]
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