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digiKam 7.6.0 for PC

digiKam 7.6.0 Details

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About digiKam 7.6.0 For PC

DigiKam, an advanced photo organizer, organizer, and editor written on Linux, is also available for Windows or Mac.

This is a complete package. It allows you to import photos in many ways. You can organize them into albums and browse your collection by time and tags. Then, search for your images using various filters.

You can also get a lot of detail from these features. DigiKam lets you search for images not only by tag or name. A fuzzy search option allows you to find similar pictures. The editor is more useful than other specialist tools, and it's more focused on managing the pictures than editing them. For example, clicking the "Color” menu will give us all these options: Auto-Correction, Brightness/ Contrast/ Gamma, Hue/ Saturation/ Lightness, "Levels Adjust", Curves Adjust", Invert", Color Negative, "Black and White", Channel Mixer", White Balance", Depth, and Color Space Conversion (most of which offer countless creative possibilities).

It's not as easy as it seems. DigiKam was not designed to work on Windows. The interface isn't compatible with all common conventions for a computer image editor/ browser. This is combined with the many functions and features makes it difficult to locate the ones you want. You may have to spend some time learning how everything works.

The authors also point out that digiKam can be used on Windows but is not as stable and usable as Linux. Our experience confirmed this. Everything worked well when we did the normal operation: browsed through an album, added images to Imgur, and edited one image. DigiKam would crash if you pushed the limits, or if you imported too many images to one tool.

What's new? The HTML gallery, video slideshow and database shrinking tools (e.g. MySQL now supports purging old thumbnails. The grouping item feature is back, as well as the type-mime support. Geolocation bookmarks introduced fixes that allow bundles to function fully with geolocation bookmarks. Custom sidecars support has also been added. There are many bugs fixed.

DigiKam's feature list is amazing, however, it can be difficult to locate or use certain functions. We also experienced several crashes of the Windows build during our testing.