With digiKam, it is easy to manage your digital images: download your images from the camera, edit and improve them, organize them in albums (or flag them with tags for easy retrieval, independent of folders or albums), and archive them on CD, or export them to a Web image gallery.
digiKam also contains a set of useful batch functions and plug-ins, allowing you to convert multiple images to various different formats, rename multiple images, or automatically improve them with functions such as red eye reduction, speck removal, and hot pixel removal. Various filter and effects plug-ins help create works of art from your digital images.
To start digiKam, press Alt+F2 and enter digikam. On initial start-up, the first-run wizard appears. It asks the location where to store your images and metadata. Usually you can accept the default paths.
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digiKam's main window contains a tree view on the left and shows thumbnails of the images on the right. For quick access to your images, use the sidebar on the left, which allows you to switch between different views, sorting the images according to , , or . To enter digiKam's viewing and editing mode, double-click an image thumbnail.