We are pleased to announce digiKam 0.8.1. This version brings raw support,
new icons, image rating, printing enhancements and in the meanwhile we also fixed some bugs.
The noteworthy features in this release:
You are now able to rate your images from 1 start to 5 stars. In the search
part of digiKam, you can search for images with a certain rating.
A new theme has been added, the 'Dessert' theme.
8 bit raw support has been added, you can now view those images in the
imageviewer. In digiKam version 0.9.0 there will be 16 bit raw support.
copy & paste support has been added, you can copy between albums and from
konqueror to digiKam.
dcop functions have been added to open the camera dialog at a certain path
or start the autodetect function similar to the command line option
a command line option has been added to open the camera dialog at a certain
path. This feature and the previous are preparations for full media kio
support.
showfoto can now open a directory with images in there
automatically adjust orientation of printing depending on the image
For the next digiKam releases (0.8.1 and 0.9.0), we need photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splashscreens...
SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed/composed, and the subject must be chosen from a real photographer inspiration. Note that we will add a horizontal frame to the bottom of the image as in the current splashs.
If somebody wants to contribute with nice photographs, please contact me by email : caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com
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:
Albums and Tags have been separated out into different views and these views are collapsible.
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 →
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.
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.
