digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0/_release/_announcement/
Just trying it and wow, the speed improvement of face detection is amazing! Also I feel like it's more accurate but I need to play with it more
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social We had a look at Digikam last year, but then noticed that it had written to our original files when photos were rotated, etc
Which for me was totally unacceptable. Obviously it wasn't used again after that.
Did we do something wrong, or is that the way it works?
It's a configuration option.
@ada OK. Guess we should have an other look then, but on a copy of part of our photos.
Last year I noticed that Digikam had written to our photo library when manually updating the external backups.
Jacqueline thinks she had checked all config settings.
Thanks for the reply.
There's a couple of different options in there, both in the Metadata section of the preferences One, is the option to use sidecar files, and you can explicitly tell it use sidecar files for everything and don't write to the original file. Beside the sidecar tab, there is another tab that lets you control how it handles image rotation, and whether it adjusts the pixels, or just sets a metadata flag
@ada Just shared this with Jacqueline so we can have a look at it.
At the moment I need to finish something else.
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