digiKam – advanced digital photo management application
digiKam is an open source program for management, organization, viewing and simple edition of digital photos. The application supports most of cameras available on the market. It allows to catalog photographs copied from the device into albums and sub-albums. digiKam gives the possibility to comment and sort photos as well as whole albums. “Drag and Drop” method supports cooperation with other applications in the system. digiKam gives you the ability to manage metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, Makernote and geolocation using GPS), supports database and archiving (eg recording on a CD / DVD) also creating HTML album. It has basic photo edition options such as Red-eye correction and basic image properties configuration (brightness, contrast, color balance, etc.), simple special effects (sharpen, blur, noise removal), add text and borders, and also functions of rotation and re-sizing photos. digiKam can also create slideshows, MPEG, export data to your iPod, Flickr and Picasaweb. It has a search of duplicated images and ability to convert the RAW data. This program contains calendar creation wizard, print wizard, and it can create slideshows. digiKam Image Editor supports all camera RAW file formats, 16 bits color depth, Exif/Makernote/IPTC/GPS/XMP metadata, Color management, tagging/rating/comments pictures, etc. A stand-alone image editor version named ShowFoto is also available. It runs without digiKam images database support, but provides all Image Editor functions.
