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Summary
This page provides a concise overview of the features and tools available in digiKam, covering the entire photographic workflow:
Setup Database and Collections
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| Supports multiple collections from different media (local, removable, or network) |
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| Scans collections to populate a database with essential information |
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| Option to ignore directories and files during scan |
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| Database can be stored locally or on a remote server (Sqlite, MySQL, and MariaDB) |
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| Database files are organized by feature for simplified backups |
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| Core database to store item properties |
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| Thumbnails database with PGF wavelets compression |
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| Faces database with facial recognition vectors (using OpenCV) |
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| Similarity database to store image fingerprints to find duplicates |
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Import Items from Devices
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| Supports all digital camera models compatible with GPhoto2 |
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| Supports USB Mass Storage devices |
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| Delete, upload, and lock images |
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| Auto-rename and auto-rotate pictures |
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| Auto-create albums |
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| Lossless conversion and RAW to DNG conversion |
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| Run customized scripts |
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| Identify already downloaded items |
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| Display camera information |
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| Import from remote storage |
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| Import from digital scanner |
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Organize your Collections
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| Albums are directories for images, raw files, and videos |
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| Supports hierarchical sub-albums |
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| Tags act as virtual albums |
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| Tags Manager for organizing tag hierarchies and properties |
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| Labels for marking items (rating, color, pick) |
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| Group items by file name, date, or time-lapse |
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| Add tags, comments, and advanced textual properties to items |
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| Sort albums by folder, category, and creation date |
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| Sort items by name, path, date, file size, or manually |
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| Filter items by rating, filename, file type, tags, and labels |
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Search in your Collections
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| By Tags |
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| By Labels (rating, color marks, flags) |
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| By Dates using calendar |
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| By Time Range using timeline histogram |
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| By Geolocation using world maps |
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| By Similarity to find duplicates or specific shapes |
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| By Faces (detection and recognition) |
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| Advanced Search Tool perform complex queries for quick searches using technical criteria |
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Browse Compatre and View Items
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| Icon view: Display items as thumbnails |
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| Map view: Show item positions on a world map |
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| Table view: Display items as a list |
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| Video support: Thumbnails, preview, and metadata |
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| RAW pictures support using LibRaw |
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| Light Table: Compare similar pictures side by side |
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| Color Management support using ICC profiles |
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| Customizable thumbnail sizes with Hdpi monitor support |
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| Sidebar for displaying item information |
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Edit your Items
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| Fast image editor with cropping, rotation, and flipping |
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| Image versioning support to not lost original |
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| 16 bits color depth support by pixels to preserve the best quality |
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| Color Management support to render an process the real colors on your workflow |
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| Raw Import as Native (based on Libraw) or using an external tool (DarkTable, RawTherapee, etc.) |
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Post-processing
Plugins Architecture
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| Append new functionalities for all digiKam components using Generic modules |
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| Append new editing functionalities using Image Editor modules |
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| Append new file encoding and decoding functionalities using ** Image Loader modules** |
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| Append new Raw pre-processing functionalities using Raw Import modules |
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| Append new Batch processing functionalities using BQM modules |
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Generic Plugins
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| Print creator |
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| Create calendars |
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| Adjust time and date |
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| Share items with DLNA/UPnP devices |
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| Geolocation editor |
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| Create presentations |
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| Create panoramas |
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| Create HTML Gallery |
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| Create video slideshows |
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| Send items by email |
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| Edit metadata |
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| Powerful G’Mic-Qt image filters collection (Layer Mode) |
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Image Editor Plugins
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| Hue/Saturation/Luminosity correction |
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| Brightness/Contrast/Gamma correction |
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| Color Balance adjustment |
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| Auto-correction tools (Normalize, Equalize, Auto levels, Stretch Contrast) |
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| Color-Space conversion |
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| Red-eye correction |
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| Apply Texture over image |
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| Aspect Ratio-Crop |
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| Camera sensor Noise Reduction |
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| Lens correction using Lensfun |
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| Sharpening details of image |
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| Powerful G’Mic-Qt image filters collection |
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| Background Blur to reproduce the lens depth-of-field |
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| Invert colors |
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| Simple Blur effect |
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| Rain Drops effect |
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| Colors histogram Adjust Levels |
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| Colors histogram Adjust curves |
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| Lens Vignetting |
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| Liquid Rescale to preserve or drop subjects |
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| Local Contrast to simulate pseudo-HDR |
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| Distortion effects |
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| Shear tool |
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| Colors Channel Mixer |
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| Colors White Balance |
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| Perspective tool |
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| Photograph Restoration |
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| Hot Pixels correction |
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| Free Rotation with auto-crop |
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| Add border around image |
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| Insert Text over image |
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| Advanced Blur effects |
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| Oil Paint effect |
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| Emboss filter |
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| Black and White conversion |
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| Charcoal effect |
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| Film Grain effect |
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| Color effects |
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Queues Batch Processing
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| Host items in Queues for batch processing |
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| Image versioning support to not lost original |
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| Dedicated settings per queue (target album, RAW decoding, renaming, etc.) |
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| BQM plugins provide the same tools as the Image Editor |
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| Plugins can be chained for faster processing |
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| Parallelized processing using multi-cores |
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| Save and restore queue settings as workflows |
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| Advanced rename queue items support |
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| Save queue processed items at customized target place |
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| RAW image import |
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| DNG image converter |
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| Powerful G’Mic processor batch tool |
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Share and Publish Items
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/about/features/
