While digiKam doesn’t allow you to publish photos directly to a WordPress blog, you can work around this limitation. Enable the Post by Email feature on your WordPress blog, and you can use the SendImages Kipi plugin in digiKam to email photos directly to your blog. Continue to read
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Just in time for this new year 2011, digiKam team is proud to announce the first digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release!
With 2.x, digiKam include now all shared libraries maintained by digiKam team plus kipi-plugins source code, as a software collection. The goal is to simplify packaging to reduce external dependencies.
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 →Although digiKam can’t rival dedicated image manipulation applications like the GIMP, it does have several essential editing tools which can help you to turn plain photos into striking images. For example, using the Curves Adjustment tool, you can apply the cross-processing effect to a photo. Continue to read
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digiKam team is proud to announce that a new windows installer for digiKam software collection is available. You can download it from here
This installer includes a copy of all the dependencies of digiKam and kipi-plugins including Qt 4.6.2, KDE 4.4.4, exiv2 0.21, libkdcraw 1.3.0, libraw 0.12.1, etc...
Unfortunately, this port of digiKam under windows is not yet as stable as the linux version. digiKam works mostly fine under windows, but some features are still broken due to some bugs in the underlying KDE libraries.
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Just at Christmas time, digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.7.0 !
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 and Happy new year.
General : New plugin to export images to Debian Screenshoots web service (https://screenshots.debian.net).
General : New plugin to export images to an instant messaging contact.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Just at Christmas time, digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.7.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of bugs-fixes coming with this release.
Enjoy digiKam and Happy new year.
001 ==> 180224 : Memory leakage in image editor?
002 ==> 257676 : Crash when I renane files.
003 ==> 239862 : digiKam crashes when trying to edit a picture.
004 ==> 224454 : Don’t show raw files with metadata when searching or filtering.
005 ==> 214837 : Crash while saving picture in pic editor.
006 ==> 256951 : Showfoto crashes on color correction.
007 ==> 217069 : Undo/Redo are greyed out in image editor under MacOSX.
008 ==> 257769 : Crash on Enhance->Lens->Auto-Correction.
009 ==> 257784 : Lens auto correction does not specify unit for “distance to the object”.
010 ==> 256050 : digiKam crashed after modifying tag name.
011 ==> 250134 : digiKam crashed during search for duplicates.
012 ==> 243988 : digiKam crashes trying to save plugin changes.
013 ==> 257744 : digiKam crash on importing large collection.
014 ==> 242439 : Crash when going to next picture in picture editor.
015 ==> 235678 : No startup dialog but error dialogs(s).
016 ==> 257898 : Allow displaying folders recursively.
017 ==> 257897 : Amount of duplicate images list is sorted the wrong way round.
018 ==> 234534 : digiKam not synchronizing legacy tags with new nepomuk database.
019 ==> 237642 : digiKam crashes while renaming several files.
020 ==> 258308 : Crash when starting Free Rotation in Image Editor.
021 ==> 248882 : digiKam crashes when renaming using date/time info.
022 ==> 217555 : “Cannot display preview” error when browsing.
023 ==> 258600 : “transupp.cpp” fails to compile on emerged KDE.
024 ==> 233572 : Showfoto crashed on change hue value.
025 ==> 258828 : Crash when I use auto-colors correction tool from image editor.
026 ==> 195561 : Implement a selective saturation filter [patch].
027 ==> 258931 : Linking broken when using -Wl, –no-copy-dt-needed-entries.
028 ==> 258300 : digiKam won’t build.
029 ==> 256023 : Cannot work with Sigma-RAW-files (X3F).
030 ==> 257904 : digiKam not reading metadata from foreign images.
031 ==> 256897 : Crash upon unmounting of USB drive.
032 ==> 259257 : Too small font size.
033 ==> 210353 : digiKam duplicates icons for TIFF files.
034 ==> 260299 : X Axis Color Graduation in Curves Window mirrored.
035 ==> 242021 : digiKam crashes during file save.
Running Ubuntu 10.10? Want the latest version of digiKam with it? Philip Johnsson’s got you covered. His PPA contains the very latest version of the photo management application ready to be installed on your system. Continue to read
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digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.6.0 !
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:
General : Fix compilation under Mac OS-X through MacPorts project.
001 ==> RedEyesRemoval : 236385 : digiKam and Gwenview crash on red eye removing.
002 ==> PrintWizzard : 254103 : “previous photo” and “next page” in the same context.
003 ==> DNGConverter : 254205 : Compiling fails on SPARC platform because “qDNGBigEndian” macro is not defined.
004 ==> PicasaExport : 232896 : Application crashed after restarting an upload to picassa with previous change of selected photos.
005 ==> DNGConverter : 212125 : DNG files do not have image contents.
006 ==> DNGConverter : 255137 : Some exifdata lost when converting CR2.
007 ==> PicasaWebExport : 256303 : Quotation marks in caption appear as " in picasaweb.
008 ==> PicasaWebExport : 244706 : PicasawebExport special symbol kde gui freeze.
009 ==> PicasaWebExport : 243877 : Picasaweb plugin crashes when active video upload removed.
010 ==> PicasaWebExport : 240382 : Picasaweb: pressing of “-” while photo uploading causes crash.
011 ==> MetadataEdit : 256471 : Add spell checking to text areas.
012 ==> FlickrExport : 248284 : After upload finishes Cancel button should turn into Close.
013 ==> FacebookExport : 251860 : [patch] Cancel button should change to close once photo upload is complete.
014 ==> DNGConverter : 256177 : Strange picture coloring and missing meta data when creating from CR2 file.
015 ==> SmungExport : 253864 : digiKam crash when removing file from export to smugmug list.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.6.0 release!
digiKam 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.
General : Fix compilation under Mac OS-X through MacPorts project.
General : External dependencies to libPGF and Clapack can use used now instead internal
implementation if available in host system dedicated to compile.
Album GUI : User can exclude tags in the tag-filter view.
Slideshow : User can change item rating during a slide.
Image Editor : New option to display over/under exposure indicators if pure colors is detected
or if only one color component match the condition.
Image Editor : New options to adjust the levels of over/under exposed pixels from histogram,
displayed by over/under exposure indicators.
Image Editor : Aspect ratio crop tool is now able to deal with the aspect ratio of the current
loaded image in editor. You can keep the original proportions of the image after
cropping.
If you want to install digiKam on Windows, you have two options: you can either compile the application from the source code or you can use the KDE Windows installer. The latter approach is by far the easiest one, but there is a drawback: the installer usually includes an older version of digiKam. If you can live with that, and you don’t feel like getting your hands dirty with compiling digiKam from the source, then the KDE installer is the way to go. Continue to read
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