digiKam is a digital asset management and image editing application designed for photographers with anything from modest collections to very large libraries of photographs and videos. Collections can be stored on local disks, removable media or network storage and organised with albums, tags, labels, ratings and metadata.
The application also provides a complete import workflow for cameras, phones, card readers, scanners and folders. It can manage the files after import, search and filter collections, edit photographs and publish or export selected items without requiring a separate catalogue manager.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Organise photographs and videos using albums, hierarchical tags, ratings, colour labels and pick labels.
- Import from digital cameras supported by gPhoto2, USB storage devices, card readers, scanners, local folders and remote locations.
- Advanced searching by tags, labels, dates, geolocation, image properties and other metadata.
- Face detection and recognition for identifying and organising people in large collections.
- View and edit Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata, including batch metadata operations.
- Image editor with cropping, rotation, colour correction, enhancement tools, filters and effects.
- RAW processing using LibRaw, with the option to hand raw files to external processors.
- 16-bit image processing and ICC-based colour management for supported workflows.
- Light Table for comparing similar photographs side by side with synchronised viewing.
- Batch Queue Manager for applying processing operations to groups of files.
- Geolocation tools for viewing, editing and searching image positions on maps.
- Image versioning keeps edited variants associated with the original photograph.
- Tools for creating panoramas, slideshows, galleries and other presentation output.
Website: www.digikam.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: digiKam team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
digiKam is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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