If you fancy black and white photography, you'll be pleased to learn that digiKam features a rather powerful tool for converting color photos to black and white. Turning the currently edited photo to black and white in digiKam is a matter of choosing Color » Black & White. But in most cases, the converted photo needs additional tweaking, and the application offers a few nifty tools to do just that. Continue to read
Read more →Thanks to the marvelous job of our KDE sysadmins, digiKam is another project to join the git repository. All the code (digiKam, kipi-plugins) that lived in the SVN is no more accessible through SVN and all is part of git now. DigiKam and its dependencies live in several repos, but thanks to Marcel Wiesweg, you can use a nice small script, that will get you going:
1) Edit your ~/.gitconfig as given in
https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitFAQ#Let_Git_rewrite_URL_prefixes
2) git clone https://anongit.kde.org/digikam-software-compilation digikam-sc
Enter the directory
3) Execute ./download-repos
If you have a handful of storage cards in your photo bag, there is no need to worry about how many photos you can take before your digital camera runs out of memory. This means that you can easily take dozen of shots of the same subject trying different angles, composition, and lighting. But this also makes the task of picking the best photo from the batch a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, digiKam provides a simple yet efficient tool that can help you to compare and analyze multiple photos side by side and pick the one you like most. Continue to read
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce the second digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release!
With this release, digiKam include Tags Keyboard Shortcuts feature to simplify tagging operations in your photograph workflow.
digiKam software collection 2.0.0 include all Google Summer of Code 2010 projects, as XMP sidecar support, Face Recognition, Image Versioning, and Reverse Geocoding. All this works have been processed during Coding Sprint 2010. You can find a resume of this event at this page.
Read more →digiKam comes with a nifty batch utility that allows you to convert RAW files to the DNG format. The question is, of course, why you would want to do that. After all, digiKam can handle RAW files without any problem, so what’s the point of adding one more step to your photographic workflow? Continue to read
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.8.0 !
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release.
Enjoy digiKam.
001 ==> 261275 : General : [PATCH] kipi-plugins 1.6.0 fails to build (final).
002 ==> 253257 : SmugExport : Program uploads only part of file or smaller version of file and match error occurs.
003 ==> 257514 : PrintImages : Scaling of Pictures for print.
004 ==> 196855 : GPSSync : Remember last position, remember last view mode, cache the last view.
005 ==> 262125 : DngConverter : DNG Conversion can’t be inverted. Embedded file is corrupted.
006 ==> 245956 : PicasaWeb : Upload video from Digikam to Picasa.
007 ==> 262642 : AdvancedSlideshow : Better looking of “captions” during slideshow [patch].
008 ==> 263545 : PicasaWeb : Crashed, when trying to import photo from picasaweb.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.8.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of bugs-fixes coming with this release.
Enjoy digiKam...
001 ==> 256372 : Add a digiKam installer based on NSIS.
002 ==> 261086 : Crash at startup.
003 ==> 212947 : digiKan crashes upon import of large photo collection.
004 ==> 261015 : digiKam Fingerprinter crashes.
005 ==> 237639 : Wish: All thumbs created in a folder automatically.
006 ==> 189585 : Thumbnails do not display.
007 ==> 255852 : digiKam crashed when browsing/rating images.
008 ==> 184635 : Empty menu when right clicking on an image.
009 ==> 261868 : Provide a progress indicator for “rename”.
010 ==> 244560 : digiKam crash while viewing photos.
011 ==> 261582 : Default filename for renamed imports: remove the colon character.
012 ==> 262065 : Linking issue with Marble library.
013 ==> 261879 : Ubuntu unity compatibility bugs: export menu disappeared.
014 ==> 262296 : Camera GUI does not open [patch].
015 ==> 201788 : Picture navigation problems and disambiguation.
016 ==> 261415 : digiKam crashes when adding lens data to ~/.local.
017 ==> 253062 : Database of 80,000+ images wiped out.
018 ==> 263083 : digiKam editor crashes on “save” and “save as” (KFileDialog relevant).
019 ==> 252404 : digiKam crashes when modifying caption.
020 ==> 262720 : Rebuild thumbnails or ‘scan for new images’ should work on just current folder.
021 ==> 242036 : digiKam crashed when pressing ‘Album -> New’.
022 ==> 235597 : Disconnected usb passport external hard drive using “safely remove drive” option.
023 ==> 237957 : Crash while looking at folder with 380 images for first time.
024 ==> 253067 : Crash when viewing pictures.
025 ==> 255054 : Crash during picture import [KDirWatch::contains, Digikam::AlbumManager::addAlbumRoot, Digikam::AlbumManager::slotCollectionLocationStatusChanged].
026 ==> 258106 : digiKam crashed on search Pictures on individual Album.
027 ==> 261384 : Crash while scrolling the raw image preview.
028 ==> 258922 : digiKam crashed while scrolling through images in folder.
029 ==> 263726 : Metadata lost when decoding a raw file.
030 ==> 224047 : Thumbnails incorrectly rotated on certain images.
031 ==> 239902 : digiKam seems to find images that are not in the collection directory.
032 ==> 245958 : Some tags lost on batch color space conversion - import metadata does not work.
033 ==> 246735 : Frame rate drops to around 5 fps when dragging & dropping.
When it comes to tweaking photos, Levels is the most important weapon in digiKam’s arsenal. This tool lets you adjust brightness and contrast by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones in a histogram, which makes it a perfect tool for fixing under- and overexposed photos as well as improving the overall tonal range of a photo. Continue to read
Read more →Every new version of digiKam features its own unique splash screen. But you don’t have to wait for the next digiKam release to get a new splash screen. Here are a few ready-to-go designs created by your truly. Continue to read
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digiKam 2.0 have been published in beta stage since 2 weeks. Stable 2.0 release is planned for may, with few beta versions to consolidate code with users feedback...
For each beta stage, i plan to include new digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens, and time has come to find the ideal photos 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!
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