Managing digital photographs in Linux is very straightforward. KDE's Digikam lets you download your images directly from your camera. It helps you organize and manipulate your images to get the best possible result to present to others. Digikam ships with several useful plug-ins that allow you to convert your images to various different formats. Image improvement plug-ins also include red eye reduction, speck removal and hot pixel removal. Various filter and effect plug-ins allow you to create little works of art from your digital images.

16.1. Using Digikam

Start Digikam from the main menu or by pressing Alt-F2 and entering digikam. On start-up, Digikam shows a window with two main areas: a list of your albums is displayed to the left and the images contained in the current album are displayed to the right. See Figure 16.1, “The Main Window of Digikam”. The rightmost edge of the window is occupied by the Tag Filter which can be used to filter the amount of images displayed in the main view using the tagging information. For details on tagging in Digikam, refer to Section 16.6, “Managing Tags”.

Figure 16.1. The Main Window of Digikam