Inicio rápido¶

La página de bienvenida del asistente de la primera ejecución de digiKam¶

When you start digiKam for the very first time it will ask you where you store your photographs. You can choose any local, remote or removable folder. Just type in the path name of a folder or click on the Browse… icon to select a folder from the dialog.

Later on you can add as many locations as you like - digiKam will add them to the album library. Look menu entry Settings ‣ Configure digiKam ‣ Collections

digiKam First Run Assistant Collection Path¶

Then you have to specify a local folder that resides on your computer, in which the database will be stored. This path will be the same for all image folders. For details about the database type selection have a look at the digiKam Database. If you have a local installation and a collection of less than 100.000 photographs you may well keep the default setting (SQLite).

digiKam First Run Assistant Database Setup¶

Next, you will have to choose the way you would like to open RAW files : either with automatic adjustments or with the digiKam RAW import tool to adjust corrections manually. If you don’t know what is a RAW file or if your camera doesn’t support RAW files, you should keep the default setting and skip this step.

digiKam First Run Assistant Raw File Behavior¶

Metadata information storage may be important if you plan to work with another photo management program and you should choose Add information to files. But if you don’t want to alter your pictures, keep the default setting: Do nothing.

digiKam First Run Assistant Metadata Behavior¶

Escoja luego cómo debe cargar las imágenes digiKam en los modos de vista previa y de mesa de luz. Una versión reducida se cargará más rápidamente a costa de su calidad.

digiKam First Run Assistant Preview Behavior¶

Now decide how digiKam will open images with a click of the right mouse button. Previews will load faster but you won’t be able to make any corrections.

digiKam First Run Assistant Open-File Behavior¶

Tooltips are a fast and easy way to display important information about a photograph, they popup as the mouse hovers over a thumbnail. Select Use tooltip if you want to display them.

digiKam First Run Assistant Tooltips Behavior¶

Pulse Finalizar; digiKam empezará a buscar fotografías…

Nothing really to select here. You can cancel or start the scan with Finish. None of the photographs will be altered. During folders parsing you can see a progress bar in the lower right corner like this:

digiKam First Start Scan Process to Populate The Database¶

Nota

digiKam recorrerá todos los niveles de la ruta de la biblioteca. No se puede excluir ninguna parte de la ruta a menos que la oculte. Debe hacer esta operación desde fuera de digiKam anteponiendo un punto al nombre de las carpetas de la ruta que desee ocultar. Posteriormente, en el panel de configuración de digiKam, puede listar las carpetas a excluir con las preferencias de Directorios ignorados.

As digiKam uses your folders on your hard disk directly, other applications like file managers can remove any albums outside a digiKam session. In this case digiKam will ask you at the next session whether all albums that have been removed from the digiKam photographs root path shall be deleted from albums database. If you want to move folders around and don’t want to do that in digiKam, we suggest you do that while digiKam is running, so the database will be kept in sync and you do not lose any metadata.

When you use an existing folder of photographs as the Album Library folder, you will notice that the Albums in the Album list do not have photographs as their icons. You can change that by dragging any photograph in the Album onto the folder icon in the left sidebar and use this as the Album icon. See the Album section for details of how to change the Album icon.

digiKam uses a dedicated database to store thumbnails with an optimized wavelets compression algorithm (PGF). There is no way of hiding non-standard thumbnail folders from the Albums list. If you want to keep them you could create an Album Category that just contains all the thumbnail Folders and then view your Albums in View ‣ Sort Albums ‣ By Category order. See the Album section for more about Album Categories.

Once you have configured the Album Library Folder you can set up digiKam to work with your digital camera and then learn how to use the Album section and the Tags section to arrange your photograph Albums.

Importante

At first run, digiKam will ask to download large files from Internet. These files are the deep-learning models used for the face management, red eyes removal, and the image quality sorting features. If you pass this stage without downloading files, these features will not work properly, but you can reload this file later using option from the Setup/Miscs/System dialog page.