

The digiKam Handbook
Revision 0.10 (2009-03-05)
Copyright © 2001, 2009 The digiKam developers team
digiKam is a KDE Photo Management Application with support for Digital Cameras.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Using digiKam
- The Main digiKam Window
- The digiKam Light Table
- digiKam sidebar
- Digital Asset Management (DAM) with digiKam
- Using a Digital Camera With digiKam
- Introduction to Camera Interface
- Getting information about photographs from the Camera
- Downloading photographs to your computer
- Selecting a Target Album
- Deleting photographs from the camera
- Automatic Renaming
- Camera Information Based Operations
- Uploading Photographs to your camera
- How to use a GPS device with digiKam
- digiKam Configuration
- 3. The Image Editor
- Introduction to Image Editor
- Photographic Editing - Workflow
- RAW File Treatment and Color Management
- Introduction
- The sRGB color space
- Calibrating and profiling your monitorRGB?
- The camera profile and issues with raw file development
- The PCS: color profiles point to real colors in the real world
- The Working Space
- Printer profiles, rendering intents, and soft-proofing
- A few definitions and comments
- The Universal Translator: your camera profile, the Profile Connection Space, and LMCS
- 4. Menu Descriptions
- 5. Credits and License
- A. Installation
List of Examples
- 2.1. The Album Properties Dialog
- 2.2. Selecting a tag and applying a new one
- 2.3. Tagging Image with context menu, or with drag&drop from either sidebar
- 2.4. The Timeline View in Action
- 2.5. Quick Search Tool Dialog in Action
- 2.6. Quick Search Tool Dialog in Action
- 2.7. Search View from Main Window
- 2.8. Fuzzy search for similar image
- 2.9. The Map Searches tab
- 2.10. The Light Table in Action
- 2.11. Sidebar File Properties
- 2.12. The Histogram Viewer in Action
- 2.13. An Image Histogram in All Colors Mode
- 2.14. An Over Exposed Photograph
- 2.15. A Correctly Exposed Photograph
- 2.16. An Under Exposed Photograph
- 2.17. The Geolocation tab
- 2.18. sidebar Comments & Tags example
- 2.19. The Camera Client Window
- 2.20. The Camera Item Properties Sidebar Tab
- 2.21. The Target Album Selection Dialog
- 2.22. Files Renaming Options
- 2.23. On the fly Operations Options
- 2.24. Albums Auto-creation Options
- 2.25. The Camera Folder Selection Dialog
- 3.1. The Image Editor Window
- 3.2. The Apply Texture Tool in Action
- 3.3. Normalize Colors Correction Preview
- 3.4. Equalize Colors Correction Preview
- 3.5. Auto Levels Correction Preview
- 3.6. Stretch Contrast Correction
- 3.7. The Brightness Contrast Gamma Tool in Action
- 3.8. Original versus Vivid filter
- 3.9. The neon filter
- 3.10. The Color Balance Tool in Action
- 3.11. The Hue Saturation Lightness Tool in Action
- 3.12. The Black & White Filter tool in Action
- 3.13. The Sharpen Tool in Action
- 3.14. The Red Eyes Correction Tool in Action
- 3.15. The Blur Tool in Action
- 3.16. The Resize Tool Dialog
- 3.17. The Current Image Selection in Image Editor
- 3.18. The Aspect Ratio Crop Tool Dialog
- 3.19. Image Composition Example Using Rules of Third
- 3.20. Photograph Composition Example Using Harmonious Triangles
- 3.21. Image Composition example using Golden Spiral
- 3.22. Image Composition example using Golden Spiral Sections
- 3.23. Photograph Composition Example Using Golden Triangle
- 3.24. Image Composition example using Golden Sections

