In the past renaming images in digiKam was not very powerful. Most users (me too) renamed their images with KRename, a quite powerful batch renamer. But calling KRename from the "Open With..." dialog in digiKam was not very intuitive, it just felt wrong.
digiKam can manage nearly every piece of information found in an image, therefore it would be nice to have all this information available for file renaming, too, since renaming is one of the basic managing tasks. Sure there is a KIPI plugin for batch renaming, but this plugin is not very powerful and has no access to the digiKam database.
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:
NEW FEATURES (since 0.10.x series):
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 : 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 (http://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.
Kipi-plugins 0.6.0 maintenance 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 donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
AdvancedSlideshow : Soundtracks can be loaded / saved now.
Kipi-plugins 0.5.0 maintenance 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 donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
PrintWizard : Added support for 2-1/3" x 3-1/3" pictures. DNGConverter : Update internal XMP sdk from Adobe to version 4.4. PrintImages : Added multiple pages printing. PrintWizard : Page layout into template.xml file, custom templates can be added now.
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:
NEW FEATURES (since 0.10.x series):
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 : 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 (http://www.libpgf.org). PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
Support for different authors of comments in various languages
Fully customizable "Short view" (aka "Human readable") in Metadata tab; unfortunately due to feature freeze for 4.3 duration this will not be available in digiKam 1.0 with this KDE release, but only with KDE 4.4.
Further optimizations in image plugins
Fixed bug about creation date for non-EXIF-able files
Fixes and improvements in templates system
Compatibility with libjpeg7
Multiple fixes and improvements in advanced slideshow kipi-plugin
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 (http://www.libpgf.org). PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
Kipi-plugins 0.4.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins 0.4.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
GalleryExport : Raw images can be uploaded directly to remote server. DNGConverter : Fix compilation under MacOS-X.
