The digiKam team is pleased to bring to you the next generation of the user-friendly digital photo management software and its image plugins. The primary focus for this release is new ways of photo organization and searching. We hope it will be as much fun for you to use it as we had developing it.
The noteworthy features in this release:The new digikam image library DImg now supports ICC profiles using littlecms. littlecms is an open source color management engine which is used by krita as well and installed by default on most linux distributions. It was added by the new digiKam contributor Paco.
We will add a dedicated ICC profile setup page to the configuration dialog and a new image plugin to apply ICC profiles manually later.It is necessary to use the ICC profiles with 16 bit RAW files. Dcraw doesn't provide automatic color correction, so the RAW image will appear black in the image editor if no ICC profile is used.Read more →After a lot of hard work, I'm happy to announce the relaunch of our website.
If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for the site, please
give us your feedback.
I would like to thank our sponsor KovoKs for their assistance!
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digiKam has been awarded the TUX 2005 Readers’ Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool.
We are very proud we received this prize, especially because it is a prize for which the users have voted. TUX is the first and only magazine for the new Linux user and is dedicated to promoting and simplifying the use of Linux on the PC.
We are in the middle of an impressive list of Winners: KDE (as favorite desktop environment), Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, gpilot, OpenOffice, XMMS, MPlayer, Frozen Bubble, vi and The Gimp.
Read more →ThePodcastNetwork has made a great podcast, which is a review / tutorial of digiKam. It is an one hour audio file which guides you through the basics of digiKam and lets you hear how a new user experiences digiKam for the first time.
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