1 Managing Your Digital Image Collection With Digikam - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - APPLICATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Application Manual

Managing Your Digital Image
Collection with DigiKam
Managing digital photographs in Linux is very straightforward. KDE's digiKam
downloads your images directly from your camera. It helps you organize and manipulate
your images to get the best possible result to present to others. The application includes
several useful plug-ins that can convert your images to various different formats. Image
improvement plug-ins also include red eye reduction, speck removal and hot pixel re-
moval. Various filter and effect plug-ins help create little works of art from your digital
images.
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 to the
left and the images in the current album to the right. See
of digiKam" (page 224). The rightmost edge of the window has a number of tabs attached
which can be used to display important information about your images or to manipulate
certain image-related data:
Properties
Use this tab to access properties assigned to your images, such as file properties
(permissions, ownership, modification date, etc.), image properties (dimensions,
file format, etc.), and photograph properties (basic model, exposure and aperture
information).
Metadata
Use this tab to access various kinds of metadata associated with your images, such
as EXIF and GPS, for example.
Figure 21.1, "The Main Window
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