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.
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.
Read more →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
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Dear all digiKam fans and users!
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.
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.
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.
Read more →Besides a few tweaks and fixes as well as a new front cover, this release includes the following new material:
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
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.
Read more →A handful of quick digiKam tips and trips for your perusal.
