digiKam

Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source

Simple Toning in digiKam

by Dmitri Popov.

Adding a dash of color tint to a black and white photo can often produce a dramatic effect, and digiKam does have a handful of toning filters for you to try.

But you are not limited to the built-in filters: using digiKam's editing tools, you can easily tint photos using whatever color you like.

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digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta3 is out…

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the 3rd digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!

With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes about XMP sidecar file supports. New features have been also introduced to last Coding Sprint from Genoa. You can read a resume of this event to dot KDE web page. Thanks again to KDE-ev to sponsorship digiKam team...

digiKam include now a progress manager to control all parallelized process running in background. This progress manager is also able to follow processing from Kipi-plugins.

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Tethered Shooting with digiKam

by Dmitri Popov.

While digiKam won't rival dedicated software for tethered shooting, you can use the application's Import interface to trigger the connected camera and instantly fetch photos from it. This functionality can come in handy when you want to have an instant preview of photos you take on a large screen.

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digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta2 is out…

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the 2nd digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!

With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes and new features introduced to last Coding Sprint from Genoa. You can read a resume of this event to dot KDE web page. Thanks again to KDE-ev to sponsorship digiKam team...

digiKam include now a progress manager to control all paralelized process done in background. This progress manager is also able to follow processing from Kipi-plugins.

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Prevent Photos in digiKam from Disappearing

by Dmitri Popov.

Versioning in digiKam provides an excellent mechanism for non-destructive editing, but it does have a tiny quirk that can be a bit confusing if you are not aware of it.

With the Versioning feature enabled, digiKam automatically displays only the most recent version of a photo and hides all the previous revisions, including the original file. This functionality helps to avoid clutter in the main thumbnail view, but this creature comfort can also cause panic when you all of a sudden can’t find the original photos. Continue to read

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digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta1 is out…

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce the 1st digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 beta release!

With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes and new features introduced to last Coding Sprint from Genoa.

digiKam include now a progress manager to control all paralelized process done in background. Also, a new Maintenance Tool have been implemented to simplify all maintenance tasks to process on your whole collections.

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Efficient photo tagging with digikam

by gerhard.

By Peter Albrecht.

In the two years that I'm using digikam by now, I always searched for a way to tag the persons on my
photos in a fast and easy way. Now I discovered a fast way of tagging with the keyboard only.

== A) The batch-click way:

Having read the digikam handbook back in 2009 and using the tools, I saw evolve in the GUI, I ended
up with the following way:

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