Features
Summary
This page provides a concise overview of the features and tools available in digiKam, covering the entire photographic workflow:
Setup Database and Collections
| Feature | Preview |
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| Supports multiple collections from different media (local, removable, or network) |  |
| Scans collections to populate a database with essential information |  |
| Option to ignore directories and files during scan |  |
| Database can be stored locally or on a remote server (Sqlite, MySQL, and MariaDB) |  |
| Database files are organized by feature for simplified backups |  |
| Core database to store item properties |  |
| Thumbnails database with PGF wavelets compression |  |
| Faces database with facial recognition vectors (using OpenCV) |  |
| Similarity database to store image fingerprints to find duplicates |  |
Import Items from Devices
| Feature | Preview |
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| Supports all digital camera models compatible with GPhoto2 |  |
| Supports USB Mass Storage devices |  |
| Delete, upload, and lock images | |
| Auto-rename and auto-rotate pictures | |
| Auto-create albums | |
| Lossless conversion and RAW to DNG conversion | |
| Run customized scripts | |
| Identify already downloaded items | |
| Display camera information | |
Organize your Collections
| Feature | Preview |
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| Albums are directories for images, raw files, and videos |  |
| Supports hierarchical sub-albums |  |
| Tags act as virtual albums |  |
| Tags Manager for organizing tag hierarchies and properties |  |
| Labels for marking items (rating, color, pick) |  |
| Group items by file name, date, or time-lapse |  |
| Add tags, comments, and advanced textual properties to items |  |
| Sort albums by folder, category, and creation date |  |
| Sort items by name, path, date, file size, or manually |  |
| Filter items by rating, filename, file type, tags, and labels |  |
Search in your Collections
| Feature | Preview |
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| By Tags |  |
| By Labels (rating, color marks, flags) |  |
| By Dates using calendar |  |
| By Time Range using timeline histogram |  |
| By Geolocation using world maps |  |
| By Similarity to find duplicates or specific shapes |  |
| By Faces (detection and recognition) |  |
| Advanced Search Tool perform complex queries for quick searches using technical criteria |  |
Browse Compatre and View Items
| Feature | Preview |
|---|
| Icon view: Display items as thumbnails |  |
| Map view: Show item positions on a world map |  |
| Table view: Display items as a list |  |
| Video support: Thumbnails, preview, and metadata |  |
| RAW pictures support using LibRaw |  |
| Light Table: Compare similar pictures side by side |  |
| Color Management support using ICC profiles |  |
| Customizable thumbnail sizes with Hdpi monitor support |  |
| Sidebar for displaying item information |  |
Edit your Items
| Feature | Preview |
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| Fast image editor with cropping, rotation, and flipping |  |
| Image versioning support to not lost original |  |
| 16 bits color depth support by pixels to preserve the best quality |  |
| Color Management support to render an process the real colors on your workflow |  |
| Raw Import as Native (based on Libraw) or using an external tool (DarkTable, RawTherapee, etc.) |  |
Post-processing
Plugins Architecture
| Feature | Preview |
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| Append new functionalities for all digiKam components using Generic modules |  |
| Append new editing functionalities using Image Editor modules |  |
| Append new file encoding and decoding functionalities using ** Image Loader modules** |  |
| Append new Raw pre-processing functionalities using Raw Import modules |  |
| Append new Batch processing functionalities using BQM modules |  |
Generic Plugins
| Feature | Preview |
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| Print creator |  |
| Create calendars |  |
| Adjust time and date |  |
| Share items with DLNA/UPnP devices |  |
| Geolocation editor |  |
| Create presentations |  |
| Create panoramas |  |
| Send items by email |  |
| Edit metadata |  |
| Create video slideshows |  |
| Powerful G’Mic-Qt image filters collection (Layer Mode) |  |
Image Editor Plugins
| Feature | Preview |
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| Hue/Saturation/Luminosity correction |  |
| Brightness/Contrast/Gamma correction |  |
| Color Balance adjustment |  |
| Auto-correction tools (Normalize, Equalize, Auto levels, Stretch Contrast) |  |
| Color-Space conversion |  |
| Red-eye correction |  |
| Apply Texture over image |  |
| Aspect Ratio-Crop |  |
| Camera sensor Noise Reduction |  |
| Lens correction using Lensfun |  |
| Sharpening details of image |  |
| Powerful G’Mic-Qt image filters collection |  |
| Background Blur to reproduce the lens depth-of-field |  |
| Invert colors |  |
| Simple Blur effect |  |
| Rain Drops effect |  |
| Colors histogram Adjust Levels |  |
| Colors histogram Adjust curves |  |
| Lens Vignetting | |
| Liquid Rescale to preserve or drop subjects | |
| Local Contrast to simulate pseudo-HDR | |
| Distortion effects | |
| Shear tool | |
| Colors Channel Mixer | |
| Colors White Balance | |
| Perspective tool | |
| Photograph Restoration | |
| Hot Pixels correction | |
| Free Rotation with auto-crop | |
| Add border around image | |
| Insert Text over image | |
| Advanced Blur effects | |
| Oil Paint effect | |
| Emboss filter | |
| Black and White conversion | |
| Charcoal effect | |
| Film Grain effect | |
| Color effects | |
Queues Batch Processing
| Feature | preview |
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| Host items in Queues for batch processing |  |
| Image versioning support to not lost original |  |
| Dedicated settings per queue (target album, RAW decoding, renaming, etc.) |  |
| BQM plugins provide the same tools as the Image Editor |  |
| Plugins can be chained for faster processing |  |
| Parallelized processing using multi-cores |  |
| Save and restore queue settings as workflows |  |
| Advanced rename queue items support |  |
| Save queue processed items at customized target place |  |
| RAW image import |  |
| DNG image converter |  |
| Powerful G’Mic processor batch tool |  |
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