Introduction

Background

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, macOS and Windows desktop. It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photographs a snap. digiKam enables you to manage large numbers of digital photographs in Albums and to organize these photographs for easy retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and sharing your images. Thus, digiKam is a formidable Digital Asset Management (DAM) software including powerful image editing functions.

An easy-to-use camera interface is provided as Import Tool, that will connect to your digital camera and download photographs directly into digiKam Albums. More than 1000 digital cameras are supported by the gPhoto library. Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system will interface with digiKam.

digiKam incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate them, correct, enhance and alter them. The images post processing can be easily done by a set of tools though the Batch Queue Manager, or by many import and export tools dedicated to work with remote web services.

To compare visually images side by side, one other tool named Light Table is provided to select the best shots taken from a series.

The digiKam Architecture

While digiKam remains easy to use, it provides professional level features by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available tools, supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color management work flow.

Reporting Bugs

digiKam is an Open Source project. This means that it relies on its users to play their part by, at least, reporting problems and suggesting possible improvements.

digiKam makes it as easy as possible for you to report bugs or suggest improvements. Wherever you are in the application the Help menu will include a Report Bugs option. This will display a message box with a highlighted link. Click on the link and your web browser will open the page for the reporting system. All the information required will already be filled in, just follow the instructions for completing your report.

Support

digiKam is a community supported project, which means that users and developers support one another. If you become a regular user of digiKam you are encouraged to join the digiKam Users Mailing List. You can start off by asking questions to other digiKam users and hopefully soon you will be answering the support questions of others.

See the digiKam Users Mailing List joining instructions for details.

You can also visit the digiKam Home Page for news of new releases and other digiKam related information.

Getting Involved

There are many ways that you can get involved with the continued development of digiKam. You do not need to be a software developer. You can help with documentation, translation and user interface design or just contribute really good ideas to the wish-list. You can also get involved by testing early development code as it is being developed and providing feedback to the developers. Of course, if you are a software developer then you can help to make digiKam the best digital photograph application there is.

The best way to start getting involved with digiKam is to join the Developers Mailing List.

See the digiKam Developer Mailing List joining instructions for details.