While you can start using digiKam without tweaking its settings, you might want to spend a few minutes modifying the application’s default configuration to make it work your way. digiKam features dozens of settings, and which ones you want to adjust is up to you. Here are a few examples to get you started. Continue to read
Read more →Don't fancy digiKam’s default splash screen? No problem, you can easily replace it with your own photo. First off, you need to prepare your own photo for use in the splash screen. To do this, use an image editing application like the GIMP to resize the photo you want to 500×307 pixels. Save the resized image in the PNG format. Next, grab the splash-digikam.svgz file from digiKam's source code repository and open the downloaded file in the Inkscape vector graphics editor. Continue to read
Read more →The life expectancy of a DSLR camera is usually measured in shutter actuations. For example, Nikon D5000 is good for about 100,000 shutter clicks. That doesn’t mean that your camera dies the day it exceeds its shutter actuation limit, but the shutter count provides a good indication of the camera’s condition.
Read more →By default, digiKam uses SQLite as its back-end for storing important metadata and thumbnails. But the photo management application also provides support for the popular MySQL database engine, and it comes with a database migration tool that can help you to move your data from SQLite to MySQL. Continue to read
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.5.0 !
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 windows with TDM-GCC and MSVC compilers.
001 ==> FlickrExport : 218169 : Less/More options buttons don’t change label.
002 ==> DngConverter : 249785 : DNG Converter adds 1 hour to timestamp of Sony .arw files.
003 ==> RedEyesRemoval : 251391 : OpenCV not detected during configuration.
004 ==> JPEGLossLess : 252362 : digiKam crash when launching.
005 ==> JPEGLossLess : 224043 : Rotating certain images results in zero length file.
006 ==> PicasaWebExport : 252799 : After successful export of photo it should not be exported again.
007 ==> RAWConverter : 238823 : Batch RAW Conversion should copy tags / captions / ratings to the converted file.
008 ==> RAWConverter : 211558 : Raw converter: copy tags and rating.
009 ==> RAWConverter : 199318 : RAW to JPG Export doesn’t use Digikam description.
010 ==> BatchProcess : 152208 : Comments lost when converting from png to jpeg.
011 ==> ImageViewer : 231763 : Crash when closing opengl viewer.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.5.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.4.0
Enjoy digiKam.
General : Fix compilation under windows with TDM-GCC and MSVC compilers.
General : Including LensFun library source code as 3rd-party component, especially for windows target where this library is not available.
Image Editor : Improvement of algorithm to convert 8 bits image to 16 and limit histogram holes during conversion.
Last week, from 27th to 29th August, developers of KDE Imaging group met for their third coding sprint organized by digiKam lead developer, in his hometown, the beautiful southern French city Aix-en-Provence. The time was shortly after the end of Google Summer of Code, in which digiKam participated this year with three students. It was therefore a perfect timing for us GSoC students to get to know our mentors in person and get to work with them side-by-side.
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Lens distortion is a fact of life. You can mitigate this problem, but you can’t avoid it completely (unless you are willing to invest in seriously expensive professional-grade lenses, that is). Fortunately, digiKam provides a set of tools that can help you to fix lens distortion with relative ease. In fact, the application sports the Auto-Correction feature that attempts to fix lens distortion with a minimum of tweaking. Continue to read
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.4.0 !
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:
BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA:
001 ==> IpodExport : 240469 : IpodExport fails to build with glib >= 2.25.
002 ==> MetadataEdit : 242624 : Wrong IPTC hyperlink.
003 ==> General : 239841 : I18n bug - missing extraction of messages in expoblending, flickrexport, metadataedit, …
004 ==> GPSSync : 246266 : Search for location when adding geo coordinates.
005 ==> PicasaWebExport : 247106 : Google picassa plugin does not work anymore since google changed parts of the interface.
006 ==> GPSSync : 246897 : GPSSync bad coordinate rounding.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.4.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.3.0
Enjoy digiKam.
AdvancedRename : New modifier “Remove Doubles”.
001 ==> 238285 : Nikkor 18-200mm not detected by lens autocorrection.
002 ==> 232233 : Databaseext-branch does not compile on Windows with mingw4.
003 ==> 241782 : Tags, comments, author, etc. not written to metadata.
004 ==> 232792 : digiKam crash when opening configuration.
005 ==> 242863 : Caption field layout can be confused by pasted text.
006 ==> 242937 : When using raw import tool, showfoto cannot export the processed image.
007 ==> 243696 : digiKam didn’t detect my local collection anymore after replacing internal harddisk.
008 ==> 243747 : Comment which is stored in database can’t be accessed via digiKam.
009 ==> 216273 : digiKam exif gps not in xmp.
010 ==> 244114 : “Find similar” works for a single image, but “Find duplicates” doesn’t work for a directory.
011 ==> 244151 : Renaming image files causes them to vanish from an album.
012 ==> 241418 : LZW compressed TIFFs from RawTherapee are won’t display.
013 ==> 212848 : Crashed in slideshow while viewing.
014 ==> 245061 : [patch] “Restore Tag Filters” is broken, works only for top level nodes.
015 ==> 245336 : Image editor does not remember camera profile under Custom.
016 ==> 243692 : digiKam uses all memory with thumbnails.
017 ==> 226544 : Suspicious QModelIndex messages at startup.
018 ==> 240945 : Picture size does not report correctly after gimp.
019 ==> 245380 : Improve the ergonomics of the bwsepia filter ui.
020 ==> 204568 : Metadata not being written to files.
021 ==> 246938 : Extension aware rename (maintain raw file and jpg association by basename).
022 ==> 247850 : digiKam 1.3.0 crashes.
023 ==> 247590 : digiKam not checking if libexiv2 was compiled with xmp support.
024 ==> 246774 : Create New Tag vs Create New Tag in.
025 ==> 246675 : Crash on startup/scanning folders.
026 ==> 225471 : Change digiKam to follow usability guidelines.
027 ==> 248549 : digiKam crash at startup (suse’s backport repo).
