The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections.
digiKam makes use of KIPI plugins for lots of added functionalities.
Its aim is to allow development of image plugins which can be shared among KDE graphical applications.
Basic auto-transformations can be deployed on the fly during image downloading.
Another tool, which most artists and photographers will be familiar with, is a Light Table.
This tool assists artists and photographers with reviewing their work ensuring the highest quality only.
A classical light table will show the artist the place on the images to touch up.
Well in digiKam, the light table function provides the user a similar experience.
Features
What’s New
Complete release notes here.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
After 20 years, we left the DocBook manual for the modern Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework.
This one is really a pleasure to use by documentation writers.
utility includes buttons and links everywhere as possible to guide end-users with the digiKam usages.
This will kick off the online contents at the right section depending on the context.
The content is published in a dedicated web site, internationalized by the KDE translation teams.
An EPUB version is also available for the off-line use cases.
The new documentation is open for contributions, to fix contents, translate, and add new sections/chapters.
File Format Support
Image support was greatly improved in this release with the important changes listed below.
The RAW file decoder Libraw have been updated to the last snapshot 20230403 with new camera and features:
