Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the candidate release of digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0.

Sometimes the best way to spice up a photo is to make it look faded, and digiKam makes it supremely easy to achieve this effect.

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Adding a dash of color tint to a black and white photo can often produce a dramatic effect, and digiKam does have a handful of toning filters for you to try.

But you are not limited to the built-in filters: using digiKam's editing tools, you can easily tint photos using whatever color you like.

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the 3rd digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!

The new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material:

• Tethered Shooting with digiKam
• Soft Proofing in digiKam

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While digiKam won't rival dedicated software for tethered shooting, you can use the application's Import interface to trigger the connected camera and instantly fetch photos from it. This functionality can come in handy when you want to have an instant preview of photos you take on a large screen.

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the 2nd digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!

By popular demand the digiKam Recipes/Instant Guide to Darktable bundle is back, featuring updated versions of both ebooks.

Although digiKam can handle RAW files, a dedicated application for processing RAW files can come in useful in many situations. There are several excellent open source RAW editors available on Linux (and Windows, for that matter), but Darktable is probably the most powerful and user-friendly application among them.

If you are ready to integrate Darktable into your photographic workflow, the Instant Guide to Darktable provides an introduction to the application's features and essential tools. The best part?

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Besides a handful of minor tweaks, the new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material:

• Prevent Photos in digiKam from Disappearing
• Simple Color Toning
• Simulate a Washed Out Effect

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Versioning in digiKam provides an excellent mechanism for non-destructive editing, but it does have a tiny quirk that can be a bit confusing if you are not aware of it.

With the Versioning feature enabled, digiKam automatically displays only the most recent version of a photo and hides all the previous revisions, including the original file. This functionality helps to avoid clutter in the main thumbnail view, but this creature comfort can also cause panic when you all of a sudden can’t find the original photos. Continue to read