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.
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
A new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook is available for your reading pleasure. Besides a few minor tweaks, the new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material:
After one summer of active development with Google Summer of Code 2012 students, and one two beta releases, digiKam team is proud to announce the third beta of digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0.
This version is currently under development, following GoSC 2012 projects listed here.
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).
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.
After one summer of active development with Google Summer of Code 2012 students, and one first beta release, digiKam team is proud to announce the second beta of digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0.
This version is currently under development, following GoSC 2012 projects listed here.
A new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook is available for your perusal. Besides the usual round of tweaks and fixes, the new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material:
After one summer of active development with Google Summer of Code 2012 students, digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta of digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0.
This version is currently under development, following GoSC 2012 projects listed here.
After one month since 2.8.0 release, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.9.0, as bug-fixes release. This will be the last 2.x release. Next one will be 3.0.0, currently under development, following GoSC 2012 projects, listed here.