digikam

Scribbles and Snaps: "If you fancy black and white photography, you'll be pleased to learn that digiKam features a rather powerful tool for converting color photos to black and white."

An Alien's Viewpoint: "While I do believe that most people would be better off running Linux, I fully understand that for some people this is just not feasible, for one reason or another."

Scribbles and Snaps: "Don't fancy digiKam's default splash screen? No problem, you can easily replace it with your own photo."

Digikam: "When I started covering digiKam on my Scribbles and Snaps blog, I did it mostly to document features I personally found useful for my photographic needs.

Surprisingly, the blog articles turned out to be rather popular with other digiKam users, so I kept covering digiKam's nifty features as I discovered them."

Sander's Photography blog: "In my last post, I commented on the general possibilities of how one can refine their photos using Aperture or digiKam.

In this post, I discuss what tools are available for retouching and how easy it was to use these."

Scribbles and Snaps: "But what if you have just a single image? In this case, you might want to give the Local Contrast feature a try.

It's based on the LDR Tonemapping utility which is designed to improve the dynamic range of the photo by reducing its global contrast and increasing the local contrast."

Linux Pro Magazine: "Using digiKam's Kipi plugins, you can upload your photos to a variety of popular photo services, including Flickr, Picasaweb, and SmugMug.

But what if you want to host your own photo album and still be able to populate it with photos directly from within digiKam?"

Scribbles and Snaps: "Besides the quick search and filtering tools at the bottom of the main window, digiKam offers more advanced search features accessible via the left sidebar."

Linux Pro magazine: "When it comes to organizing and tweaking photos, digiKam and F-Spot rule the roost.

But if you don't need all the bells and whistles of a full-blown photo management tool, then you might want to try Shotwell."

Linux Magazine: "Gilles Caulier has announced the first beta version of DigiKam with the magic number 1.0.0.

Downloads are provided."