After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.3.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 43 fixed bugs. In this release, layout of Captions/Tags tab from right sidebar have been improved for usability issue.
Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with digiKam 2.3.0. This release features a lots of improvement into FlashExport plugin through Season of KDE 2011 (SoK) project to support new SimpleViewer tools. This release include also 16 bug-fixes.
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.
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.
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.
After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.2.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 36 fixed bugs. In this release, Photo Title metadata support have been added to customized item names, outside file names.
Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with digiKam 2.2.0. This release features a new tool coming from Season of KDE 2011 (SoK) project dedicated to create photos layout, and 13 bug-fixes.
Updated according the latest, input, feedback and knowledge about the current process per Sept 17, 2011.
The following guide is intended for Ubuntu users with no experience in compiling software from source. However, I provide links to instructions for other platforms than Ubuntu.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This guide has been tested for Ubuntu 11.04.
It has been verified that this is not going to work, if you are using Ubuntu prior to 11.04, due to inavailability of some required dependencies.
digikam 2.1 has been released a few days ago with many new features and improvements, one of the most exciting tools in this release is the panorama tool. Which is simple and quite effective.
Select the images that you want to stitch and go to tools> stitch images into a panorama( Continue to read...)
