When tweaking photos in digiKam, you probably would want to keep the originals intact. And this is where the Versioning feature can come in rather handy. It allows you to save each edited version of an original photo as a separate image complete with a list of all applied actions. Continue to read
Read more →Geolocation is not a new feature, but in digiKam 2.0 it has been thoroughly reworked to streamline the process of geotagging photos. The new Geolocation interface (Image » Geo-location) aggregates all geotagging tools in one place. Continue to read
Read more →Besides numerous improvements, digiKam 2.0 brings a handful of new features, including Color Labels and Picks. As the name suggests, the Color Labels feature allows you to assign color codes to your photos. Continue to read
Read more →One of the useful tools that can be found in digiKam is the ability to perform fuzzy searches, where the user can guess and sketch the colors that the image may contain.
Inorder to perform a fuzzy search you need to rebuild the image finger prints in your database. Continue to read
Read more →Storing your photos on a server or network disk? Want to manage them from several Linux-based machines using digiKam? Here is how to do that. Continue to read
Read more →If you are running Ubuntu 10.10 or its derivatives and you are itching to try the latest version of digiKam, you don’t have to go through the rigmarole of compiling the application yourself. Philip Johnsson did the hard work for you and released the neatly packaged version of digiKam on his PPA, so you can easily install the latest beta version of the next major release of digiKam with a minimum of fuss. Continue to read
Read more →Many people add borders to there images, since they make the image look better and stands out unique and digiKam makes this very easy and simple!
There are two ways to apply image borders in digiKam... Continue to read
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce the 3rd digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release!
With this release, digiKam include Color Labels and Pick Labels feature to simplify image cataloging operations in your photograph workflow.
Also, digiKam include since 2.0.0 beta2 the Tags Keyboard Shorcuts feature to simplify tagging operations in your photograph workflow.
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam and Kipi-plugins 1.9.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of bugs-fixes coming with this release.
Enjoy digiKam...
001 ==> 264181 : png-1.5 compatibility fix.
002 ==> 263697 : digiKam 1.8.0 (svn) crashes on startup most times.
003 ==> 237492 : Grayscale TIFF display broken.
004 ==> 263786 : digikam 1.7.0 crashes on startup.
005 ==> 228531 : Inconsistant use of preview zoom-in function key-strokes.
006 ==> 233612 : The DocumentName tag is not added when importing.
007 ==> 246778 : Disable folder collapsing under certain circumstances.
008 ==> 264363 : Image editor always crashes when triggering Colour Auto-Correction.
009 ==> 234021 : digiKam crash on loading.
010 ==> 264999 : Exif-dates not recognices OK.
011 ==> 264745 : When adding new tag to multiple images, tags not in common are removed from metadata, though still present in database.
012 ==> 173901 : digiKam contains a convience copy of cimg code.
013 ==> 264208 : Underexposure indicator should always work in “pure color” mode.
014 ==> 264769 : digiKam crash on startup.
015 ==> 264830 : Raw importer broken. Not possible to revert changes.
016 ==> 103371 : Only one digikam instance should run on the same image library path.
017 ==> 265445 : digikam-1.8.0 fails to build against kde-4.6.x/gcc-4.6.
018 ==> 264631 : Deleteing last TAG on a picture does actually not remove the tag within the exif metadata.
019 ==> 195648 : Quickfilter by tags: Exclude tags.
020 ==> 265641 : digiKam crash at startup.
021 ==> 264184 : png-1.5 compatibility fix.
022 ==> 264655 : ksnapshot is crashing on “send to”.
023 ==> 243908 : Coordinates do not get retrieved.
024 ==> 181319 : Provide a batch tool to add geolocation coordinates to a complete album.
025 ==> 266771 : Unable to get GPS coordinates from map with Geolocation function of digiKam.
When you need to apply the same action to multiple photos, digiKam’s batch processing capabilities can come in rather handy. And the photo management application provides different ways to apply actions to a photo batch in one fell swoop. Continue to read
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