Accordingly with KDE bugzilla entries #177827 and #218906, i have slightly modified the vignetting tool, now you can add vignetting to your pictures:
Vignetting can be used as a creative tool to focus attention to the center of the picture.
This feature will be included in digiKam 1.1.0. I hope you will like it. Please provide feedback !
Read more →Are you on Flickr? Do you use digiKam? Then join the digiKam Users Flickr group! The group is intended to function as a hub for photographers who use digiKam as their tool of choice for managing and tweaking photos. Feel free to showcase your best photos and describe digiKam techniques and tools you used to achieve the final result. Head to www.flickr.com/groups/digikam-users and join the group!
Read more →...or how to make pseudo HDR images with digiKam using a stack of bracketed images...
ExpoBlending is the name of a new tool that i implement currently for next kipi-plugins 1.1 release planned to end of January. This plugin use 2 command line tools available under Linux, Windows, and Mac : align_image_stack from Huggin project and enfuse from Enblend project
Plugin is composed by two parts : an Import Wizard to pre-process bracketed images, and an second one which is a Front-End to enfuse. See below some plugin screen-shots with details
Read more →Just in time for Christmas 2009, digiKam 1.0 have been released. But the future is already there. Next digiKam 1.1 is planned for end of January 2010, as a bugfixes release, to consolidate code with users feedback after production using...
So, time has come to find the ideal splash-screens 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!
Read more →Merry Christmas digiKam fans and users!
In the spirit of the season, we bring you a nice gift to put under your white Christmas tree:
digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.0.0 !
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.0.0 !
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See the list of new features below and bugfixes coming with this release (since 0.10.0):
Enjoy digiKam. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
General : Exif, Makernotes, Iptc, and Xmp metadata tags filtering can be customized in setup config dialog.
General : Metadata Template: add support of Contact, Location, and Subjects IPTC information.
General : Add support of Author properties to multi-language Captions. User can set an author name for each caption value.
General : Add new Batch Queue Manager.
General : New tool bar animation banner.
General : Fix compilation under MSVC 9.
General : New first run assistant.
General : New dialog to show Database statistics.
General : Add support of wavelets image file format PGF.
General : Added support of Metadata Template to set easily image copyright.
General : Added support of LightRoom keywords path for interoperability purpose.
General : Added Multi-languages support to Caption and Tags right side-bar.
General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails.
File format used to store image is PGF (https://www.libpgf.org).
PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
General : Add OpenStreetMap support in Geolocation panels.
General : Showfoto, Editor, Preview, LightTable: Thumbbar is now dockable everywhere.
General : Complete re-write of Color Management code. Add support of thumbs and preview CM.
General : AdvancedRename utility is used throughout digiKam now (AlbumUI, CameraUI and BQM).
General : Updated internal LibPGF to 6.09.44.
General : Syntax highlighting and history management for AdvancedRename utility.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Kipi-plugins 0.9.0 release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
GPSSync : Bookmark locations.
001 ==> BatchProcessImages : 213164 : kipi convert images: 16 bit png from 8 bit bmp.
002 ==> BatchProcessImages : 212118 : Rename images: sorting based on the exif date of an image.
003 ==> RawConverter : 213681 : Batch RAW converter: Activating 16bit allows jpeg.
004 ==> JPEGLossLess : 213889 : Segmentation fault at splash screen.
005 ==> PrintAssistant : 124357 : Output resolution of print wizard is very low.
006 ==> PrintAssistant : 204707 : Printwizard should be able to print uncroped thumbnails.
007 ==> PrintAssistant : 124357 : Output resolution of print wizard is very low.
008 ==> AdvancedSlideShow : 214744 : Advanced slideshow crash after pressing ok.
009 ==> GPSSync : 135387 : Stickers of photos on the world map.
010 ==> JPEGLossLess : 215644 : Rotate image fails under windows.
011 ==> FlickrExport : 215646 : Export to Flickr fails under windows.
012 ==> GPSSync : 167279 : Add a list of favorite place to gps locater window (e.g. new drop down menu).
013 ==> GPSSync : 135406 : History for last used GPS coordinates.
014 ==> GPSSync : 206080 : Kipi-plugins gpssync no map when entering.
015 ==> General : 216622 : digiKam bug report data errors.
016 ==> GPSSync : 214210 : Don’t take the correct position from geolocation file.
017 ==> libkipi : 216790 : Configuration dialogue crashes getting icon for plugins not loaded.
018 ==> GPSSync : 216803 : GPSSync ability to zoom with mouse wheel.
019 ==> SlideShow : 215798 : slideshow crashes when starting.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Release Candidate of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... With this release, 22 files have been closed to Bugzilla since 1.0.0-beta6. Final release is planned to 20 december...
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
Read more →Some users have asked me what modifiers are. They don't seem to know this concept in a renaming tool and are a little bit confused by it.
I will try to explain what the modifiers do and why I implemented the renaming tool in such a way.
Wrongly placed modifiers are highlighted now, so you can easily see if you made a mistake. A modifier is invalid when it is not added directly behind an option or an option-modifier pair.
Read more →I'm currently working on a new tool for Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager to perform camera sensor noise using Wavelets. The tool works into YCrCB color space and support 16 bits color depth.
The tool core code is based on Gimp Wavelets De-noise tool. I ported code to C++/Qt4 and fixed some memory management bugs and improved a little bit the processing loop to be be faster.
Code is not yet finalized, especially in settings view. Users must be able to adjust noise removal per channel (Luminosity or Chrominance). For the moment same settings is applied to all channels at the same time. But it's just a question of time... as usual...)
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