This tutorial walks you through the entire digiKam image processing workflow. Once you got your images onto your hard disk, you probably still want to optimize certain parameters about your images before you finally put them online or print them. Learn about the most important criteria to a successful (digital) image and how you can use digiKam to tweak your images to meet them.
While digiKam offers a comprehensive set of image editing and management functions, there are other applications in the market that offer similar or better functionality. Some of these are Open Source, but there are also non-Open Source options available. The following table lists some of functions you would expect of an image management tool versus the Linux applications providing this functionality. Both Open Source and non-Open Source options are included.
Table 1.1.
Functionality | Open Source Options | Non-Open Source Options |
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Manage albums | digiKam, f-spot | ??? |
View & manage tags | digiKam, f-spot | |
Change date and time | digiKam, f-spot | ??? |
View image metadata | digiKam, f-spot (basic) | BibblePro |
Manage comments | digiKam, f-spot | ??? |
Import from scanner | digiKam, GIMP | ??? |
Export to HTML and remote galleries | digiKam, f-spot | ??? |
Workflow/queue management | - | BibblePro |
Batch processing | digiKam | BibblePro |
RAW conversion | digiKam, dcraw, ufraw | BibblePro |
Lens distortion correction | digiKam | BibblePro??? |
Anti-vignetting | digiKam | |
Chromatic aberration control | - | BibblePro |
Perspective correction | digiKam | BibblePro |
Hot pixel correction | digiKam | BibblePro |
Red eye reduction | digiKam, f-spot | ??? |
Horizon adjustment | digiKam, f-spot, GIMP | BibblePro |
Filters & effects | digiKam (several), f-spot (two), GIMP | BibblePro? |
Black & white conversion | digiKam, f-spot, GIMP | BibblePro? |
Channel mixer | digiKam, GIMP | BibblePro? |
Histogram | digiKam, f-spot | BibblePro |
White balance | digiKam (advanced), f-spot (basic) | |
Color curves | digiKam, GIMP | BibblePro |
ICC color profile management | digiKam, GIMP | BibblePro |
Photography in general and composition:
Digital photography:
digiKam related::
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html