In this article we are going to take a look at DigiKam. This is an application for the digital photo management specially designed for the KDE desktop environment, even though I have installed it in Gnome-Shell and it works perfectly. As I say, this is a digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search and export your digital images to and from the user's computer.
This program provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photos a simple task for all users. The images will appear organized in albums that can be arranged chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections.
DigiKam will allow us manage a large number of digital photos into albums and organize these photos to facilitate their retrieval by using tags (keywords), subtitles, collections, dates, geolocation, and searches.
DigiKam incorporates a fast image editor with many image editing tools. You can use the "Image Editor" to view our photos, comment and rate them, correct, improve and modify them. Editing power can be easily extended by plugins.
With the latest version of this program (5.6) the HTML gallery and video slideshow tools are back with an improvement. The grouping item feature has been improved. Support for custom mime-type sidecars has been added. Also changes have been made to be fully functional with the packages and of course a lot of bugs have been fixed. You can check the new features of this latest version in more detail at their website.
DigiKam Features
In addition to the above, this program offers us many features to view, organize, process and share our images. These are good reasons why DigiKam is a formidable digital asset management (DAM) software application. It will also provide us with powerful image editing functions.
The application will provide us with a easy-to-use camera interface. This will connect to our digital camera and download its photos directly into digiKam albums. More than 1000 digital cameras are supported with the library gphoto2. It goes without saying that any media or card reader, compatible with the operating system we use, will connect with DigiKam.
While DigiKam is still easy to use in its latest version, it continues to provide us with pro-level features by the dozen. It is fully 16-bit enabled which includes all available plugins. Supports RAW format conversion via libraw, DNG export, and ICC color management workflow.
DigiKam can also make use of KIPI image plug-ins to further expand its capabilities for manipulating photos, importing and exporting, and more. The kipi-plugins package contains many very useful extensions.
Now HTML gallery It can be accessed through the tools menu on the main bar of DigiKam and ShowFoto. This will allow us to create a web gallery with a selection of photos or a set of albums. The gallery created will be able to be opened from any web browser. There are many themes to select from and users will be able to create our own as well.
El Javascript support is also available. The video presentation can also be accessed through the tools menu on the main bar of DigiKam and ShowFoto.
DigiKam 5 Installation
To install DigiKam we will have to add the corresponding repository. For this we are going to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra
Now in the same terminal we update the software list and install the program using the following commands:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install digikam5
Uninstalling DigiKam 5
As I always say, uninstalling software in Ubuntu is as simple as installing it. First we remove the repository from our list and then we are going to remove the program from our system. In the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) we are going to write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:philip5/extra && sudo apt remove digikam5 && sudo apt autoremove
You can check more features or the operation of this software in the section of documentation from your website.
In Argentina they cannot be downloaded by order of MICROSOFT