

Unless you add them as Collections, you will never see the Program Files folder, nor the AppData Roaming folder, nor 11,029 other unnecessary folders - only ever the ones you enter as Collections (which immediately display as Albums) it's really quite ingenious actually. DigiKam uses the Exiv2 library to fill the photo library with metadata. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).
#DIGIKAM VS XNVIEW WINDOWS#
XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. DigiKam seems to check all the boxes as a program that can do anything, but its a Linux program that says it only has 'partial' Windows support. In the question What are the best image viewers for Windows Irfanview is ranked 2nd while XnView is ranked 3rd. Since youre a Windows user, you can choose between XnView Classic and MP (Multi Platform). You can see it and all of it's subfolders want to see some more = add some more "Collections" XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. When comparing XnView vs Irfanview, the Slant community recommends Irfanview for most people. However, once you get the hang of it, digiKam only sees - and you only see in digiKam - the folders you point it toward by first "Adding a Collection" which immediately shows up as an Album in the Albums pane - it's just a simple folder nothing more and nothing less. Design presentations, social media graphics with thousands of beautiful forms, over 100 million stock photos, video and audio, and all the tools you need for unique designs.

#DIGIKAM VS XNVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
Nowhere in digiKam is a folder called a folder they are called "Albums", "Directories", and "Collections" just to name a few.Īnother unfamiliar stumbling block is that digiKam does not offer a typical folder tree structure as soon as the program is opened, listing every last folder in the entire system that in itself sorts of throws up a big roadblock right from the get-go. Use Canva’s drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics. While the Classic edition is only available as a 32-bit application, MP 64-bit is able to benefit from the advantages of modern hardware and operating systems, resulting in increased perfomance ( 64-bit computing ). I agree that for a first-time user digiKam is quite confusing and, I believe that most of that confusion comes from them using fifteen different terms that all simply mean a plain old folder. Since you're a Windows user, you can choose between XnView Classic and MP (Multi Platform).
#DIGIKAM VS XNVIEW HOW TO#
It is a pity that the devs don't seem to have any idea about how to design an easy to understand and use UI

I gave up on it, although it seems to have a lot of functionality I just found digiKam too difficult and clunky and confuising and time-consuming to understand and use.
