digiKam Tricks 3.9 Released
This release includes the following new material:
- Import Photos in digiKam
- Process Photos with digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager and a Bash Script
digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 Release Candidate is out…
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 release candidate!
With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes to progress in stability for future production use. This is the last stage before final release planned at end of July 2011
digiKam include since 2.0.0-beta5 a new tool to export on RajCe web service.
digiKam include since 2.0.0-beta4 Group of items feature and MediaWiki export tool.
Read more →Import Photos in digiKam
Using the commands tucked under the Import menu, you can offload photos from your camera, storage card, or USB stick directly into the application. What's more, the Import dialog box offers a few clever features that allow you to configure the import operation. Continue to read
Read more →Submit a digiKam Tip, Win a ZaReason Teo Pro Netbook
WorldLabel has kindly agreed to sponsor a competition for the best digiKam tip, where the winner will bag a cool Ubuntu-based Teo Pro netbook from ZaReason.
Read more →digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta6 is out…
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce the 6th digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release!
With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes to progress in stability for future production use.
digiKam include since 2.0.0-beta5 a new tool to export on RajCe web service.
digiKam include since 2.0.0-beta4 Group of items feature and MediaWiki export tool.
digiKam include since 2.0.0-beta3 Color Labels and Pick Labels feature to simplify image cataloging operations in your photograph workflow.
Read more →digiKam Tricks 3.7 Released
This release includes the following new material:
- Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to Tags
- Configure the Main Toolbar in digiKam
- Host Your Own Photo Gallery with Piwigo
Configure the Main Toolbar in digiKam
The main toolbar in digiKam provides quick access to several tools and features, and you can tweak it to fit your particular photographic workflow. To do this, choose the Settings » Configure Toolbars command. This opens the Configure Toolbars dialog window where you can add, remove, and tweak toolbar buttons. Continue to read
Read more →Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to Tags in digiKam
digiKam makes it relatively easy to tag photos. Select one or several photos, expand the Caption/Tags right sidebar, tick the tags you want, and press the Apply button. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to the often-used tags to speed up the tagging process. Continue to read
Read more →digiKam Tricks 3.5 Released
Here is what's new in this release:
- Updated screenshots
- Minor tweaks and fixes
- Revised Appendix C
New Features in digiKam 2.0: XMP Sidecar
In addition to writing tags, ratings, labels, descriptions, etc. directly into the photos, version 2.0 of digiKam can save metadata in a separate .xmp file. This approach has several advantages. First off, it speeds things up, as writing data to a text file is faster than embedding metadata into photos. This also allows you to store metadata for RAW files, since writing metadata directly to RAW files can sometimes be problematic. Continue to read
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