Is an open-source photo management application that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS platforms and comes with tools for importing, managing, editing and sharing photos and Raw files.Now version 6.0.0 of digiKam has been released after a 2-year development phase and comes with a heap of new features and improvements.The biggest news is that the software can now also handle video files, offering many of the importing, sharing and editing functions that are also available for still image. Videos can also be played back without the need for an external player.In addition import/export web-service tools are now available across all modules in digiKam - LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto. 'Picasa for Windows. It had some nice printing and sharing options, but what I and other really liked was th'e way it handled facial recognition.' 'would improve in that area, but does not look like that has happened.
Do others have preferred product for facial recognition? So you can say show me all pictures with 'Jim' or all pictures with 'Sally'DigiKam did that before Picasa did.Once the faces are recognized you can filter images based just 'Photo has face on it' or if you have recognized face identified (has a name tag) then you can filter/search pictures with any combination like 'Jim' or 'Jim'+'Sally'. You can use any metadata with those searches too.As digiKam allows to combine multiple filters for search, you can make complex searches.
Lightroom is almost essential for serious amateur and professional photographers. It’s a filing system for all your photos, a RAW developer, and much more. Lightroom is best when used to manage every step of your post-processing workflow, including the very first step: importing photos to your computer from your camera. This could be the My Pictures file or the Windows Live Photo Gallery. Open the destination folder of your choice source: Dummies.com. A message will pop up saying that the device is connected, and asking what you want Windows to do source: Northrup. Select Import pictures to my computer from the choices offered.
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In 2009 it got implemented in the beta and 2010 google funded it to digiKam, but got not until 2011 released in stable. I've only been using digiKam for about a month now, so am certainly no expert. But it seems really flexible, nimble, & fast. Easy to use for a newbie. I'm trying to catalog 15,000 photos. DigiKam is helping a lot to get the mass of pictures organized, and I'm having fun rediscovering photos I've forgotten all about.
Now that my eye is keener & my post processing skills are better, I see the potential in many of them. Using the image editing tools I can quickly make something of them or open them in my better post processing apps. Lots of handy things about digiKam. Worth making a donation to the digiKam crew.
I think we are having a similar experience. I installed the 6.0 beta on my mac and it is amazing. It was so usable I decided to move everything into DigiKam and I have seen photos that I have not seen in years. Finding images is amazing and the different ways I can tag and use metadata is so powerful. I don't use it for editing (there are better tools for that) but this is the best DAM I have ever used. This is the missing piece for anyone looking to move away from Lightroom's DAM (also a good system).
Yes, the editing is okay in a pinch, if you just need some minor straightening or exposure adjustment or cropping out one's thumb. However, some of my raw pictures look really good just from digiKam's reading the embedded jpeg. I don't understand color/camera profiles & software's interpretation of them & monitor calibration - all that stuff - to know why some embedded jpegs look great in digiKam when they're nothing special in my other apps. Can I save a version of the RAW as a digiKam jpeg that preserves that good look or not? Much to learn still.
DigiKam is showing you the embedded jpeg that your camera bakes into your RAW files (your camera settings do determine what the jpeg preview looks like). Other programs like LightRoom ignore the baked in jpeg and renders it's own preview or show you their interpretation of the RAW data. Your camera's manufacture know how to make great JPEG files out of the RAW data do the baked in previews look great in digikam. My solution to getting the best JPEGs out of my RAW files is to use the RAW processor mode by the camera manufacture (not as easy to use as LR but results are much better). I don't think DK is pretending to be a RAW processor it just doing a great job of being a DAM (with some added on features). Actually, I had the 'Show embedded preview' setting turned off.
I'm liking this very much because some of my RAW pictures are improved, usually cloud pictures that just look blown out in both embedded jpegs & and the accompanying jpegs (sometimes I shoot raw + jpeg). But in the truly raw RAW photos, they look beautiful. Same for some skin tones that I just couldn't get right in my other apps.
I get better results by fixing the raw file in digiKam. Not all photos, but enough problem pictures seem to come out well in digiKam that I'm impressed.I'm liking the digiKam image editor more and more.
It won't replace my C1Pro for Sony or ACDSee as a main editor, or even Paintshop Pro for touch ups & effects. But it's certainly a useful addition to the tool box. I found this on digiKam's web site:Seriously, digiKam doesn’t included any camera drivers with it. It makes use of gphoto2 to do camera operations.
If your camera is not in the supported list, i would recommend doing some searching around. Many of the new cameras actually provide a USB MassStorage Device Interface, so that you can access the camera like a hard disk. (See, the FAQ about using a USB MassStorage Camera with digiKam).
you have still have no luck, i would recommend contacting the gphoto2 people. @Rob,I'm using both Digikam and Darktable on Linux (Debian). I've also used Darktable on macOS.
For my scenarios they work very stable so far.I'm not as advanced as you are, and do not work with color-managed workflows, however Linux Color Management is improved over the years a lot. You can find Ubuntu's current state here:Also, both Digikam and Darktable are improved much, so stability on Windows maybe improved, however I didn't use Windows for anything except gaming for 15 years or so, hence I cannot comment about their performance on Windows.Hope that helps. 'Another good import tool on Linux is Rapid Photo Downloader. 'Another vote for Rapid Photo Downloader from here.
The best one there is when it comes to speed and simplicity as standalone. The one in the digiKam is great, but you can't do the feature import from other than external devices, like a local directory etc like you can with RPD.The RPD is what I would like to get on Windows too.The digiKam is best DAM there is because it doesn't rely only for its own database, but you actually hold a clean and native filesystem directory hierarchy so you can handle your files with any other means. This is important for backup and portable devices etc that files are not locked to databases or specific software.And the Rapid Photo Downloader allows just that as well, get quickly the files from A to B imported in wanted correct manner as user chooses.