Tools

Panoramica

Showfoto mostly provides the same tools as the digiKam Image Editor, in native form or as plugins. All Colors, Effects, Transform, Decorate, and Enhancement tools are there. Showfoto also inherits the Raw Import tool to handle RAW demosaicing operations.

The Showfoto loading a DNG-Based Apple ProRAW File Taken with an iPhone

Post-elaborazione

Even if Showfoto does not provide something like the digiKam Batch Queue Manager, it can batch process files. Plugins such as Time Adjust, Print Wizard, Metadata Editor, HTML Gallery, etc. are compatible with Showfoto. The main difference with these tools compared to digiKam is the way items are passed into the tools for processing. Showfoto does not have an Icon-View like digiKam, but it has the Stack View and Thumbbar containers. When a Post Processing tool is called from Showfoto, the contents of the Stack or the Thumbbar are loaded into the tool, and of course, you can make adjustments to this list later in the plugin.

Showfoto che esegue l’estensione Regolazione dell’ora sul contenuto caricato dalla pila attiva

With Showfoto, you can also export items with web-service tools, such as Flickr or Google, exactly like you can do in digiKam.

Showfoto che esporta la pila attuale nel servizio web Dropbox

Convertitore DNG

One very important tool available in digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager is also usable in Showfoto. It’s the famous DNG Converter used to migrate proprietary RAW data containers to the open-standardized Digital Negative format.

In Showfoto, this tool runs as a stand-alone version like the Time Adjust plugin. It works mostly like the original from the digiKam Batch Queue Manager. You can start it from the Tools ‣ DNG Converter… menu entry.

Showfoto che esegue il Convertitore DNG