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| - | Chapter 1. Digikam | ||
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| - | Strengths | ||
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| - | Photo Management | ||
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| - | Digital photography has left most people with thousands of photos that they | ||
| - | never look at because they cannot begin to organise them all. Digikam is a | ||
| - | sensible organisational environment. Yes, you could just organise photos in | ||
| - | your file manager, but Digikam makes more sense. | ||
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| - | Configurable | ||
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| - | The KDE family is know for configurability, and Digikam is no exception. | ||
| - | They're your photographs, so you deal with them anyway you want; Digikam | ||
| - | will help, but never get in your way. | ||
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| - | Weaknesses | ||
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| - | Complex | ||
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| - | This is an application filled with features and configuration options, so | ||
| - | it takes time to learn it entirely, and then more time to decide which | ||
| - | features you want to use and which ones you want to ignore. | ||
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| - | No Non-Destructive Editing | ||
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| - | Compared to Darktable, which configures non-linear filters through which | ||
| - | you may view and export those images, Digikam modifies the pixels of the | ||
| - | image linearly. | ||
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| - | See Also | ||
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| - | Darktable | ||
| - | GIMP | ||
| - | Shotwell | ||
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| - | Digikam is a direct competitor to powerful digital darkroom applications as | ||
| - | well as to photo managers. It is fully featured, powerful, and has a rich | ||
| - | plugin structure which enables the addition of even more features as the need | ||
| - | arises (such as quick uploaders to popular online photo shares, new filters, | ||
| - | and so on). Even if a graphic artist or photographer is happy using GIMP, | ||
| - | digikam is a useful tool for its workflow and image manipulation ability. | ||
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| - | An ebook with Digikam "recipes" is available from one of the developers: | ||
| - | dmpop.dhcp.io%#!digikamrecipes.md | ||
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| - | While GIMP concentrates on enabling an artist to open an image for re-touching, | ||
| - | compositing, and general manipulation, Digikam's goal is to organize | ||
| - | photographs, making them easy to see as an overview of a photoshoot or life | ||
| - | events and to choose the best "take" out of multiple images. It can also do | ||
| - | image correction and even has a robust set of plugins and filters such that it | ||
| - | approaches some of more interesting features of GIMP. However, it does not try | ||
| - | to emulate or replace GIMP and is not meant for serious compositing, such as | ||
| - | combining parts of two almost-perfect photographs to make one perfect shot, or | ||
| - | adding text or elaborate lighting effecs. | ||
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| - | Digikam is installable from slackbuilds.org. | ||
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