Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The ui of the picasaweb exporter gains some love and is refreshed in current trunk. Its look now fits to other kipi export plugins with imagelistview support showing you the current processing element and a non-modal progressbar to let you work on your next photos while uploading.

Besides the exporter, a basic importer has been added, to let you download all your favourite albums.

Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, Gilles Caulier announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main focus in version 1.0 was on squashing bugs, the new release of digiKam does sport a couple of new nifty features and improvements.

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.1.0 !

kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:

During the last two months Marcel and I ported all tree views in digiKam from Qt3 to Qt4 and its model view concept. These changes are now included in the svn trunk. The new code still needs some serious testing and we would appreciate your help on this.

Some parts of the current digiKam release still rely on old Qt3 support classes. Most prominent are the various tree views in the main view, e.g. for selecting an album to show in the central icon view or filtering by tag. My job since the coding sprint was to port these tree views to Qt4 using the model view concept introduced there. Marcel already wrote the models some time ago so that I could start my work on a solid foundation. This work was done in a separate feature branch for the last two months. Now, after the 1.1.0 release, this branch is merged back into trunk and ready to be included in the next release of digiKam.

But as usual with GUI changes this can introduce some regressions as user interfaces are hard to test automatically. Therefore we would really like you to test the current trunk code including these changes before releasing the next version of digiKam. Try to find as many bugs as you can that we have introduced here. ;)

If you are not yet familiar on how to test current development code, this page gives you a short introduction how to get and compile digiKam from source. For reporting bugs please use the normal KDE bug tracker.

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.1.0 bug fix release!

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

Accordingly with KDE bugzilla entries #177827 and #218906, i have slightly modified the vignetting tool, now you can add vignetting to your pictures:

Vignetting can be used as a creative tool to focus attention to the center of the picture.

This feature will be included in digiKam 1.1.0. I hope you will like it. Please provide feedback !

Are you on Flickr? Do you use digiKam? Then join the digiKam Users Flickr group! The group is intended to function as a hub for photographers who use digiKam as their tool of choice for managing and tweaking photos. Feel free to showcase your best photos and describe digiKam techniques and tools you used to achieve the final result. Head to www.flickr.com/groups/digikam-users and join the group!

...or how to make pseudo HDR images with digiKam using a stack of bracketed images...

ExpoBlending is the name of a new tool that i implement currently for next kipi-plugins 1.1 release planed to end of January. This plugin use 2 command line tools available under Linux, Windows, and Mac : align_image_stack from Huggin project and enfuse from Enblend project

Just in time for Christmas 2009, digiKam 1.0 have been released. But the future is already there. Next digiKam 1.1 is planed for end of January 2010, as a bugfixes release, to consolidate code with users feedback after production using...

So, time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.0.0 !

kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release: