It always amazes me that there are so many options for us on our PC/Workstation. I doubt that there is a week that goes by when I do not discover a new application to add to my toolkit. And, for each one that I start to use, there will have been 4 or 5 that I have evaluated and decided that they are not appropriate for my toolbox.

This week after we returned from a relaxing weekend at The Lake House my wife asked to see the photos that I had taken For reasons that escape me, I could not read the memory stick card from my Sony camera so I scrabbled around until I found the USB cable to connect the camera directly to my laptop.

When I connected the camera I was given the option to download the photos into digiKam. “Why not” I thought!.

digiKam has all the features that you would expect from a photo album application, tagging, collections, multiple albums as well as editing in place.

Again, the editing capabilities are extensive (comparable with The Gimp, Photoshop etc) and include the essential red-eye fixer.

So, if you need a quick, intuitive and functional photo album manager for Linux, consider digiKam. If you use or can recommend another solution, just leave a comment.

By the way, as is so often the case, digiKam didn’t actually solve the original issue — how do I share the 100+ Mb of photos with Corrine? I’ll share that information with you later.