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
digiKam team is proud to announce the 1st digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!
With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes and new features introduced to last Coding Sprint from Genoa.
digiKam include now a progress manager to control all parallelized process done in background. Also, a new Maintenance Tool have been implemented to simplify all maintenance tasks to process on your whole collections.
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:
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.
Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with digiKam 2.5.0. This release features 41 fixed bugs and translations update.
As usual, digiKam software collection tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge Repository.
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
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.
Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with digiKam 2.4.0. This release features some bugs fixes and translations update.
As usual, digiKam software collection tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge Repository.
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
