Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Before to close this year, a new digiKam beta release and a new stable kipi-plugins release have be done for KDE3, especially as bug fix and translations updates. Also, shared libraries libkexiv2 and libkdcraw have been updated.
digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins 0.1.7, libkdcraw 0.1.7, and libkexiv2 0.1.8 can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Read more →Since few days, team works on KDE bugzilla to clean bugs database before to release digiKam 0.10.0-beta7 for KDE4 and digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 for KDE3.
More than 30 files have been closed in 3 days, and less than one quarter of all files have been parsed. Note than digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins component in bugzilla counts around 500 entries.
We need help to review all reports. If you have already file a bug about digiKam, please check if this one still valid to use last KDE3 stable release (0.9.4), or better to try current 0.10.0-beta6 release for KDE4.
Read more →The 4th beta release of digiKam plugins box is out.
With this new release, Calendar and PrintWizard plugins have been ported to KDE4. Another tool have been added to batch remove red eyes automatically. it's based on OpenCV library.
A plugin is available to batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe DNG container (see this Wikipedia entry for details). To be able to compile this plugin, you need last libkdcraw from svn trunk (will be released with KDE 4.2). To extract libraries source code from svn, look at bottom of this page for details.
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release the 6th beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge.
Take care, it's always a BETA code with many of new bugs not yet fixed... Do not use yet in production...
KDE3 version still the stable release and have been published this summer.
digiKam is now compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
Read more →Some years ago, we had an addition to our family and I took a lot of photos in that time. During the months I had taken nearly 2000 images of the newborn, but most of them had red-eyes on it.
This happens quite a lot with little children since their pupils don't close that fast and the light of the camera flash is reflected by the eye.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to start a new serie of KDE3 releases. The digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Noteworthy features added since the last stable release include a new RAWImport tool, embedding all image plugin dialogs in editor window, as usual a lot of bug fixes - see below for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs.
General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6.
Image Editor : All image plug-in tool settings provide default buttons to reset values.
Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings.
Image Editor : All image plug-in dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.
The 3rd beta release of digiKam plugins box is out.
With this new release, Kipi-plugins are now compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.
General : all plugins can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows.
JPEGLossLess : XMP metadata support.
RAWConverter : XMP metadata support.
TimeAdjust : XMP metadata support.
MetadataEdit : XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and Comments editor to sync XMP tags.
MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with IPTC.org recommendations.
MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple values for a tag.
SendImages : Complete re-write of emailing tool.
GPSSync : New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.
RAWConverter : Raw files are decoded in 16 bits color depth using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8 bits color depth RAW image decoding.
SlideShow : Now filenames, captions and progress indicators can have transparent backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as well.
SlideShow : Added thumbnails into image list.
SlideShow : Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow.
DNGConverter : New plugin to convert RAW camera image to Digital NeGative (DNG).
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release the 5th beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge.
With this new release, digiKam is now compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
Take care, it's always a BETA code with many of new bugs not yet fixed... Do not use yet in production...
Read more →Kipi-plugins 0.1.6 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url.
This release will be the last one for KDE3 desktop. The team will concentrate work to KDE4 code where few plugins are not yet ported
This release include severals fix for Flickr and PicasaWeb export plugins. See below the list of new features and bugs report closed:
FlickrExport : dialog layout re-written to be more suitable.
FlickrExport : list of item to upload is now display in dialog.
FlickrExport : Support RAW files format to upload as JPEG preview.
PicasaWebExport: Support RAW files format to upload as JPEG preview.
libkdcraw 0.1.6 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url.
This release is a backport of current implementation from KDE4 based on LibRaw 0.6.1 Raw decoder. For more informations, take a look on this previous blog entry
New cameras are supported with this release: Canon 50D, Sony A900, Nikon D90, Nikon P6000, and Panasonic LX3 FZ28.
Have an happy Raw workflow...
LX3 Raw
Which version of Digikam can handle LX3 raw. Also, Will it be able to get a DNG out of the Raw?
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