Editing photos is another feature that digiKam has to offer. To edit a photo, right-click on the photo and select Edit. A separate Image Editor window will open with the photo in it. To Auto-correct a photo, go to Color and select AutoCorrection from the menu bar. A shortcut to this is [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[B].Here you have a choice between Auto Levels, Normalize, Equalize, Stretch Contrast and Auto Exposure.

To adjust the brightness, contrast and gamma of the photo go to Color on the menu bar and select Brightness/ Contrast/Gamma. A window similar to the Auto-correct window will open, but here you will get to adjust your settings.
The Color menu also

allows you to adjust the Hue, Saturation, Lightness, Colour Balance, Levels, White Balance and Curves settings in a very similar manner. To Invert the colors in the photo either use the shortcut [Ctrl]+[I] or go to Color and select Invert from the menu bar. To adjust the Blur, Sharpness and to reduce Red Eye as well as Noise you need to go to the Enhance option in the Menubar. The Transform option allows you to rotate, flip, resize, aspect ratio crop, shear, rotate and even change the perspective view.

Under the Decorate option in the menubar you can add Textures, Borders, Text and Superimpose Templates to a photo. Filters such as Raindrops, Infrared, Film, Grain, Blur and even Charcoal can be applied to the photo to give it added effects.

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