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    <title>Background</title>

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        <title>About &digikam;</title>

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            &digikam; is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, MacOS and Windows desktop. It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photographs a &quot;snap&quot;. &digikam; enables you to manage large numbers of digital photographs in Albums and to organize these photographs for easy retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and sharing your images. Thus, &digikam; is a formidable <link linkend="using-dam">Digital Asset Management</link> (DAM) software including powerful image editing functions.
        </para>

        <para>
            An easy-to-use Camera interface is provided, that will connect to your digital camera and download photographs directly into &digikam; Albums. More than <ulink url="http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php">1000 digital cameras</ulink> are supported by the gphoto2 library. Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system will interface with &digikam;.
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        <para>
            &digikam; incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate them, correct, enhance and alter them. The images post processing can be easily extended by a set of plugins, the <ulink url="https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kipi-plugins.git">KIPI project</ulink> dedicated to work with remote web services.
        </para>

        <para>
            While &digikam; remains easy to use, it provides professional level features by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available plugins, supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color management <link linkend="rawprocessing.anchor">work flow</link>.
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