Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

Post by blendergeek » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 10:55 AM UTC

blendergeek wrote: post #2

I haven't tried this out yet, but from the release notes it sounds like the new facial recognition system will be better than I am. I am not good at recognizing faces and have been waiting for quite some time for a good open source tool to recognize faces with.

Post by black_puppydog » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

virtualmic wrote: post #5

Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).

Post by virtualmic » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 11:43 AM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #6

virtualmic wrote: post #5

Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).

I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too apparently (the old one was based on classic Haar cascades). Darktable is for selecting a series of shots, going through them, developing the ones you want to keep.

Post by brnt » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:01 PM UTC

jhoechtl wrote: post #7

KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!