digiKam

Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source

digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0-RC is out..

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

After one summer of active development with Google Summer of Code 2012 students, and 3 beta releases, digiKam team is proud to announce the release candidate of digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0. This version is currently under development, following GoSC 2012 projects listed here.

See the list of files closed with this release into KDE bugzilla.

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Use Adobe Photoshop Curve Presets with digiKam

by Dmitri Popov.

While digiKam can't handle Adobe Photoshop curve presets directly, the application supports curves in the GIMP-compatible CRV format. So if you want to use Adobe Photoshop curve presets with digiKam, you have to convert them into .crv files — and the acv2gimp.py Python script can help you with that. Continue to read

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Geotag Photos with Android Camera and digiKam

by Dmitri Popov.

Thanks to digiKam's geocorrelation capabilities, you can geotag photos using a GPX file created with apps like Open GPS Tracker. But there is also another way to use your Android device for geotagging. The built-in camera app of most Android devices is capable of geotagging photos. This means that you can take a geotagged snap with the Android camera and then transfer geographical coordinates from it to other photos using digiKam. So next time, when you are done shooting with your main camera, remember to take a reference snapshot with your Android device (make sure that the geotagging option is enabled).

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Stitch Panoramas in digiKam

by Dmitri Popov.

Being a do-it-all kind of application, digiKam is suited not only for performing the mundane tasks of organizing and editing photos. The application also offers a specialized tools for more advanced operations: from blending bracketed photos to stitching panoramas. The latter functionality in digiKam is implemented as a Kipi plugin which relies on Hugin, a set of powerful tools for processing photos and stitching them into panorama images. The plugin wraps Hugin features into a user-friendly interface which dramatically simplifies the process of turning multiple photos into a panorama.

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