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rapidlyisitsconstantparticipationinGoogle
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underestimate.We’veextolledtheenormouspowerof
digiKaminthepast,andit’sonlygettingbetter.Itskey
featureistheabilitytomarkimageswithtagsand
createsortedcataloguesofphotos.
Taggingisincrediblyuseful;it letsyounavigatehuge
imagelibrariestoquicklyfindthedesiredfiles.digiKam
isalsoverycapableatimportingphotosfromvarious
sources.Theimportwindowhasdozensofoptions,
butperhapsthekeyoneisautomaticcreationof
albumsbasedondates.Thiswayyoucanturna single
folderwiththousandsoffilesintoa muchmore
appealing set of subdirectories sorted by date. Last
but not least are built-in ‘dark’ and ‘light’ rooms
designed for processing RAW shots.
It is impossible to list all the goodness delivered with
the latest digiKam 6.0. The update is really big, with the
gorgeous Time-Adjust tool (batch-fix timestamps of
your files), export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web-
services, new icon-view customisation tool and more.
The new digiKam 6.0 can play your videos right inside
the application without switching away, so in some
sense videos are now as easy to organise and watch
as still photos are.
Another well-timed update lies in the Lighttable
component, which sports a wider list of supported
devices that can shoot in RAW. digiKam now correctly
parses RAW shots from recent Samsung Galaxy and
Apple iPhone devices, as well as some new DSLRs. But
video support is perhaps the main hero of the digiKam
6.0 changelog. We added our ~/Videos directory to the
library and tested it with digiKam. The application
integrates a very smooth with its robust video player
module, which doesn’t slow things at all, even with large
amounts of ‘fast previews’ for our videos. A tagged
video catalogue in digiKam instead of a plain Videos
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Navigate around the digiKam interface
You can click a video to play it. Tag, sort and organise them just like photos without having to go
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Thealbumstreeviewisthemostpopular
defaultviewindigiKam.Youcantreatit likea
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Mainthumbnailview
Selectanitemintheleftareaandsee
itscontentsinthemainpartofthedigiKam
window.Clickanimageorvideofora larger
previewofit.(^3)
Expand other view modes
Lots of hidden power here: tags, dates,
timeline, people, similarity checker and even an
integratedMarbleglobe.
(^4)
Configure digiKam your way
The app sports a packed Configure
dialogue. Adjust the RAW handler, colour
profiles, templates, database location and much
morehere.
(^5)
Extra information about the current file
Not only file properties, but also colours,
versions, filters and manipulation tools are all
withing your reach.
DigiKam
Version: 6.0
Web: http://www.digikam.org
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