Hi all, I'm trying to migrate my gigantic photo library to DigiKam on Linux and have encountered a small problem.

I have all the codecs installed for H.264/265 .MOV files and can open them no problem in various video viewers on my machine. 4k60 vids play plenty smooth as expected.

DigiKam however can't handle them, plays extremely laggy, and often crashes.

Haven't found much info online other than unchecking the "Disable Hardware OpenCL" box, but that didn't help.

Any suggestions?

Digikam 8.3.0 running on Fedora 39 KDE. RX580 GPU.

Thanks in advance.

Raw Therapee creates .pp3 sidecar files. Does Darktable also create .pp3 files or does Darktable create only .xmp files?

Is that why if I edit in Raw Therapee I don't see the edits in Darktable?

Just trying to get my head around it and trying to decide which to use. So far I think I'm liking Raw Therapee.

My favorite full screen viewer in Digicam is the OpenGL viewer but it has been crashing lately. I have one BIG problem with it (besides crashing). If I find an interesting pic I want to interact with (edit, copy, etc.) I have no idea how to find it in the thumbnails since the viewer gives me no info about the pic. There is another full screen viewer that lets me zoon and pan but I have to enter full screen mode first, then select the image but the mouse doesn't work to cycle through the pictures.

I think the slideshow should be able to do everything and be configurable (like Irfanview in Windows. It irritates me that the slideshow viewer won't let me zoom unless I zoom everything, including the mouse cursor using Plasma's zoon function.

Serif, the company that develops Affinity suite of apps, has been acquired by Canva. It is possible that Affinity Photo will be offered under subscription with the new company in the future. As such, I am feeling a need to gauge the field for Affinity Photo's FOSS alternatives.

There is DarkTable, and Rawtherapee for raw development. Gimp is FOSS Photoshop. These are the tools I have come across upon Googling. However, I wonder what would eb the collective recommendation of this community to replace full functionalities of Affinity photo with a FOSS product? It is worth it to note that I would be permanently moving to Linux soon, leaving Windows and proprietary apps.

Anyone have any current tips/best practices/recommendations for monitor color calibration hardware and software in FOSS?

I run Debian on a desktop and use Darktable to edit files.

So far in my research...

Software

• DisplayCal
• ArgyllCMS
• ArgyllPro on Android

Hardware

• It looks like Hughsie ColorHug has shut down.
• Datacolor SpyderX line -- Looks like SpyderX Pro is supported by ArgyllCMS and is still available for purchase.
• Calibrite line -- I don't see any of their readily available hardware listed in ArgyllCMS's documentation.

I'm thinking of purchasing a Datacolor SpyderX Pro.

Am I missing anything? Any tips or things to watch?

Thanks in advance.

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally found time to get a new release of Damselfly out, with a lot of fixes and improvements.

The headline feature is that support for the now-defunct Azure Face Service is gone, and replaced with a locally-run built-in facial detection and recognition engine.

If you have a lot of photos, and run a server or a NAS, please give it a try!

https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly/releases/tag/4.1.0

(self promo) OneFolder allows you browse your photos based on metadata.

You can tag, add descriptions and view a interactive map.

https://onefolder.app/

We are looking for people to give us feedback on it

I've made a commitment to FOSS with my switch to Linux Mint and am just getting back into photography. Is it pretty easy to move images between Digikam, DarkTable, GIMP, and RawTherapee?

edit: I think I'd prefer to use Flatpak versions.

Hi everyone, Why is Digikam mostly mentioned only as photo management tool?

I took a look and it's editor seems to fit all my needs for editing and converting raw files (I am a casual hobby photographer). Are there any major downsides compared to other options like darktable? I guess darktable is much more powerful overall. Am I missing something or why is digikam not recommended as a basic raw converter?

Hi! I have a problem. Im trying to de duplicate my HUGE collection of photo/video, because I have a lot of different copies, some of them renamed, some of them not, and Im trying to keep one copy of every file with the most metadata information.

When I use the duplicate finder in digikam, it takes a photo from 2017 as if it is from 2024 (I just made a copy to try to organice, before I use it in the real media collection)

The issue, is that in the Exiftool data, I see that the FileModifyDate is actually 2017, but digikam recognices 2024.

proof

So, can I make digikam use the modify date to set the image dates?

Thank you!

Does anyone else feel like Digikam is getting increasingly buggy? I've been using it for almost 5 years now and I can't imagine switching to another app, but I've been having more and more problems with it in the past six months or so. First, it started crashing occasionally. Then it started crashing whenever I moved an image. The latest version won't even open. I'm running it from the AppImages, which are supposed to just work straight out of the box, so I have no idea what the problem could be or how I'm supposed to solve it. Any advice?

Hi everyone.

Apologies if this is a bit of a noob question, but is there a way I can append some text to existing captions for photos in Digikam as part of a batch process?

Currently, I can only seem to "Assign Captions", which writes over anything which might already be there.

Long time Digikam user. I'm running the newest MX Linux and I was using an app image of Digikam 8.1.

I went to add tags (face tags and generic) and Digikam wouldn't let me on new photos. It would display the tag for a second but then the check mark would disappear. I then added a new folder to my collection (nested folders of year and then event). Upon starting Digikam the new folder would display in albums but they would be blank. The files are a mix of HEIC, JPEG, and NEF. The old pictures display but nothing new will with those formats.

I then saw that Digikam 8.2 was released so I downloaded that app image and the behavior is unchanged. Shotwell will show the pics in my folder structure but I hate Shotwell. I've also used Digikam's maintenance options to clean up the database. Rescanning my library only shows new folders as empty.

Any suggestions? I am going crazy not being able to go through my new pics.

I just installed Digikam for the first time on Windows11. I added two folders full of photos to the Collections. Both of them are showing totally empty within Digikam. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Raw conversion was simply extracting embedded jpegs with dcraw -e and then running showfoto (digikam) to do some automatic levels correction, followed by a script applying GMIC's sketch filter.

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Hi everyone,

I am a hobbyist photographer since one year now.

I want to go back full on Linux so I am searching for some input which software is recommended for basic editing and for beginners.

I did use CaptureOneExpress (the free one) in the last year and it served well for what I needed it.

As far as my researches go the three big players are darktable, rawtherapee and digikam...

I just want to do some basic editing, because I am using a sony alpha 6000 and shooting indoor noise reduction will surely be a criteria too.

What do you recommend for me?

See topic. Is this possible? If its possible I can't figure out how to do this. I can select 1 tag at a time to list them individually but this is not what I'm wanting to do.

I'm searching profesionnnal examples (known photographer, published albums, and even movies) using FOSS for image and video editing. Do you know some?

Previously, I used gpscorrelate to embed exif coordinates from a GPX log to JPG but with the transition to RAW this has become impossible because Panasonic RW2 files can't be modified. I think it's possible to create an XMP sidecar file with the coordinates and import it all into Darktable, but I can't find a simple way to do this. And I don't want to give up the capabilities of gpscorrelate. How can this be accomplished?

I'm still on Digikam 7.9, didn't realize 8.1 is already out. Saw some major revamp on the metadata section, not sure if anyone has experience to batch edit lens/camera metadata? (my use case: adding lens info/shutter speed manually on each image, would be a lot faster if I can batch edit them. This was not supported in 7.9, unless I'm missing something)

How difficult to completely migrate from iCloud Photo Library to Digikam? Having the metadata and albums be preserved. Is it doable? After migration, I plan to sync my library to Nextcloud.