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KPhotoAlbum
Use KPhotoAlbum to catalogue, select, view and share images and videos.
KPhotoAlbum
is software to catalogue images and videos, supporting customizable and extensive annotation.
Within annotated collections
KPhotoAlbum
helps you to swiftly select individual images or subsets of images to view or share them.
Main features
Catalogue
: annotate images and videos with any combination of labels, categories, date ranges and tokens
Select and view
: select images by any combination of labels, categories, date ranges and tokens and view the resulting subset
Show and share
: show selected images in a slideshow, create HTML pages with them, or export them for others to import them
KPhotoAlbum supports all the normal image and video formats including raw formats produced by most digital cameras and scanners. It is also possible to use the thumbnails embedded in raw images.
Get and install
Source packages, binaries for various distributions, and snapshots are available at
the project Download page
Installation Instructions
If you need help to install
KPhotoAlbum
, look at this tutorial about
how to install KDE software
Use
KDE Neon
to try out the newest version of KPhotoAlbum. Neon contains the latest development version of KPhotoAlbum, built fresh from the source.
Explore
Explore KPhotoAlbum by reading the
documentation
or by starting KPhotoAlbum in
demo-mode
Documentation
Several types of documentation exist:
3 minute tour
on-line
handbook
PDF
handbook
Frequently Asked Questions
Demo-mode
Demo-mode
loads a number of already annotated stock images for you to browse and view, and to annotate yourself. All KPhotoAlbum functionalities are working. Shutting down KPhotoAlbum you may retain or discard any changes you've made during
demo-mode
Start
demo-mode
At first start accept KPhotoAlbum's offer to run in
demo-mode
In KPhotoAlbum click
Help
, then
Run KPhotoAlbum demo
Start KPhotoAlbum with the
--demo
switch on the commandline.
Note
If you choose to explore KPhotoAlbum using your own images, KPhotoAlbum will ask for the folder containing your images. Please note that KPhotoAlbum currently supports only
one root folder
: it will find the images in this folder and any sub-folders it may contain.
See
FAQ
for more information.
Requirements
KPhotoAlbum will run conveniently on most computers:
PC's from 2015 or newer, with
8 Gb of RAM
KPhotoAlbum will run on most 64-bit Linux distributions and desktop environments, like:
KDE Plasma (on QT6)
XFCE
Gnome
Required dependencies will normally be installed by the package manager during installation:
libkdcraw
marble-common
exiv2
purpose
perl
ktextwidgets
News about releases, fixes, improvements
The team publish news about development at the KPhotoAlbum
news blog
Contribute
KPhotoAlbum is a KDE-project run by volunteers. A lot of diverse skills are needed to run a software project like this. If you would like to help out, you are very welcome.
General info
Please have a look at KDE's
general information
about getting involved first.
Coding
If you'd like to help coding have a look at our
"Get involved"
site, and our
our phabricator site
to get started.
Maintain documentation
If you'd like to help maintain our webpages the
KDE Wiki site
is a good place to start.
Start
here
to learn about maintaining manuals and other documents.
If you feel uncertain about getting involved, please
ask
any questions you may have.
Suggest improvements and ideas
Please
report
your suggestions.
You're also welcome to discuss your ideas with the team on one of the
communication channels
Directions
Sources with more info on KPhotoAlbum, its license, KDE and much more:
KDE Community
KDE official documentation
KPhotoAlbum homepage
KPhotoAlbum news
KPhotoAlbum on apps.kde.org
Wikipedia article
KPhotoAlbum phabricator project
KPhotoAlbum git repository
How it started
In 2003 Jesper Pedersen entered the
first commit
of KimDaBa (
im
age
Da
ta
Ba
se) which he had started as a personal project.
By version 2 KimDaBa was renamed to KPhotoAlbum.
Throughout the years KPhotoAlbum has evolved into a modern photo-management application, through a steady series of releases introducing new features, improvements and bug fixes.
Find more details on KPhotoAlbum's backstory on the KPhotoAlbum
news page
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