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Yay! It's time for yet another giveaway. A lucky winner will receive a swanky Photorito Lens Wrap (pictured below) and a "fuzzy wuzzy" Felt Camera Case.

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By Peter Albrecht.

In the two years that I'm using digikam by now, I always searched for a way to tag the persons on my
photos in a fast and easy way. Now I discovered a fast way of tagging with the keyboard only.

== A) The batch-click way:

Having read the digikam handbook back in 2009 and using the tools, I saw evolve in the GUI, I ended
up with the following way:

1 switch to "thumbnails" view (you have to be able to select more than one image)
2 shift the preview size to the maximum of 256 pixel (you want to be able to recognize the people
on the photos)
3 switch the right side-view to "Caption/Tags" and select the tab "Tags"
4 select picture number one and look at the leftmost person on this picture

Want to add a vintage effect to your photos? digiKam has all the tools you need to turn your digital snapshots into vintage masterpieces.

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This release features the new Add a Vintage Effect in digiKam recipe along with a raft of minor improvements, tweaks, and fixes.

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

After one month of bugs triage in KDE bugzilla, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.5.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 101 fixed bugs.

By default, digiKam uses two SQLite databases for storing essential data: digikam4.db and thumbnails-digikam.db. And to make the application run fast and smoothly, it’s a good idea to check and optimize the databases every now and then. Continue to read

First off, the digiKam Tricks book has got a new title: digiKam Recipes. Why? Because I like the word "recipe" better. :-) To celebrate this momentous event, a new version of the digiKam Recipes book is available for your reading pleasure. The new version features the Check and Optimize digiKam's Databases recipe as well as a few minor tweaks and corrections. Continue to read

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.4.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 25 fixed bugs. In this release, histogram view from right sidebar have been improved for better image analyse.

The latest issue #6 of c't Digital Photography features an in-depth article about digiKam by yours truly.

c't Digital Photography is a relatively new quarterly magazine published by Heise, one of the most respected magazine publishing houses in Germany. Continue to read

Piwigo and Gallery are probably the most popular open source web-based applications for hosting image galleries on your own server, but they are not the only fish in the sea. Take phTagr, for example. This application has all the essential features you would expect from a decent image and video sharing application wrapped into a lightweight and user-friendly interface. The application’s real strength, though, lies in its tagging and searching capabilities which make it a solid solution for maintaining a web-based image and video archive.

The Concise Guide to phTagr can help you to deploy phTagr at get to grip with this photo publishing application. The best part? When you buy the digiKam Recipes book, you receive a copy of the Concise Guide to phTagr free of charge. This is a time-limited offer, so act now before it's too late. Read More