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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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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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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

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

Good news for those who want to run the latest version of digiKam on Windows. The  SourceForge repository now has a Windows installer of the latest digiKam version courtesy of Ananta Palani.

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It's easy to dismiss digiKam's slideshow functionality as a feature of no particular use. After all, most photographers prefer to publish their photos using the photo sharing service of their choice. But the slideshow feature can come in handy when showcasing photos on your machine is the only option.

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digiKam offers several ways to showcase your photos. You can view images as a slideshow, push them to a photo sharing service of your choice, and even export them as a static HTML gallery.

But that's not all; digiKam can output selected photos as a KML bundle, so you can view your snaps on the Google Maps service and the Google Earth application.

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