digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.5.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.4.0
Enjoy digiKam.
NEW FEATURES:
General : Fix compilation under windows with TDM-GCC and MSVC compilers. General : Including LensFun library source code as 3rd-party component, especially for windows target where this library is not available. Image Editor : Improvement of algorithm to convert 8 bits image to 16 and limit histogram holes during conversion.
Last week, from 27th to 29th August, developers of KDE Imaging group met for their third coding sprint organized by digiKam lead developer, in his hometown, the beautiful southern French city Aix-en-Provence. The time was shortly after the end of Google Summer of Code, in which digiKam participated this year with three students. It was therefore a perfect timing for us GSoC students to get to know our mentors in person and get to work with them side-by-side.
Lens distortion is a fact of life. You can mitigate this problem, but you can’t avoid it completely (unless you are willing to invest in seriously expensive professional-grade lenses, that is). Fortunately, digiKam provides a set of tools that can help you to fix lens distortion with relative ease. In fact, the application sports the Auto-Correction feature that attempts to fix lens distortion with a minimum of tweaking. Continue to read
digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.4.0 !
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA:
001 ==> IpodExport : 240469 : IpodExport fails to build with glib >= 2.25. 002 ==> MetadataEdit : 242624 : Wrong IPTC hyperlink. 003 ==> General : 239841 : I18n bug - missing extraction of messages in expoblending, flickrexport, metadataedit, … 004 ==> GPSSync : 246266 : Search for location when adding geo coordinates. 005 ==> PicasaWebExport : 247106 : Google picassa plugin does not work anymore since google changed parts of the interface. 006 ==> GPSSync : 246897 : GPSSync bad coordinate rounding.
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.4.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.3.0
Enjoy digiKam.
NEW FEATURES:
AdvancedRename : New modifier “Remove Doubles”.
BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA:
001 ==> 238285 : Nikkor 18-200mm not detected by lens autocorrection. 002 ==> 232233 : Databaseext-branch does not compile on Windows with mingw4. 003 ==> 241782 : Tags, comments, author, etc. not written to metadata. 004 ==> 232792 : digiKam crash when opening configuration. 005 ==> 242863 : Caption field layout can be confused by pasted text. 006 ==> 242937 : When using raw import tool, showfoto cannot export the processed image. 007 ==> 243696 : digiKam didn’t detect my local collection anymore after replacing internal harddisk. 008 ==> 243747 : Comment which is stored in database can’t be accessed via digiKam. 009 ==> 216273 : digiKam exif gps not in xmp. 010 ==> 244114 : “Find similar” works for a single image, but “Find duplicates” doesn’t work for a directory. 011 ==> 244151 : Renaming image files causes them to vanish from an album. 012 ==> 241418 : LZW compressed TIFFs from RawTherapee are won’t display. 013 ==> 212848 : Crashed in slideshow while viewing. 014 ==> 245061 : [patch] “Restore Tag Filters” is broken, works only for top level nodes. 015 ==> 245336 : Image editor does not remember camera profile under Custom. 016 ==> 243692 : digiKam uses all memory with thumbnails. 017 ==> 226544 : Suspicious QModelIndex messages at startup. 018 ==> 240945 : Picture size does not report correctly after gimp. 019 ==> 245380 : Improve the ergonomics of the bwsepia filter ui. 020 ==> 204568 : Metadata not being written to files. 021 ==> 246938 : Extension aware rename (maintain raw file and jpg association by basename). 022 ==> 247850 : digiKam 1.3.0 crashes. 023 ==> 247590 : digiKam not checking if libexiv2 was compiled with xmp support. 024 ==> 246774 : Create New Tag vs Create New Tag in. 025 ==> 246675 : Crash on startup/scanning folders. 026 ==> 225471 : Change digiKam to follow usability guidelines. 027 ==> 248549 : digiKam crash at startup (suse’s backport repo).
So...without any long prologues - (hold your breath now) - it's working! (Say WOW™). But how well does it work you ask? Pretty good! Ok ok, let's get some overview.
You open some image in digiKam's image editor, you add some filters, do some transformations, use some color-altering-stuff untill you're satisfied with your creativity. Then you simply close the editor, autosaving kicks in, and bam, you have new version of your original image, which stayed completely untouched. Available versions can be then viewed/switched in the new sidebar widget (see pic below). The sidebar allows you to display all the available versions either as a simple list or as a tree, which is basically the same list with padded entries to reflect the relations between the images. Later it will also be possible to do some file operations in the sidebar, like Copy/Move/Remove etc. In the main view with thumbnails, (sub)versions are now marked by an (ugly) icon as you can see in the screenshot below, but I'm looking forward to hear your ideas about how to mark them in some better way (of course it will be on/off switchable). Let us hear your ideas or see your mockups!
Using digiKam? Show this to the world with some classy stickers from World Label. If you use digiKam to process and organize your photos, you have a chance to win 5 sheets (18 stickers each) featuring an original design. And you can download the template and print stickers yourself, too. Continue to read
I'm very happy to announce you that the reverse geotagging widget is finished! This was the first part and maybe the most important part of my project in this year Google Summer of Code, so I'm glad to see it working. The reverse geotagging widget will be included in kipi-plugins 2.0 release which should be around december 2010. Also, I would like to mention that the world map, the image list and the other widgets(except Reverse Geotagging widget of course) from Geolocation widget are the work of Michael G. Hansen(my GSoC mentor).
While there are many ways to protect your photos from unauthorized use, watermarking still remains the simplest and probably the most effective technique that can help you to identify you as the creator and make it difficult to use your works without permission.
Although digiKam supports watermarking, this feature is hidden so well that you might not even realize that it’s there. This is because the watermarking function in digiKam is tucked under the Batch Queue Manager tool which you can use to watermark multiple photos in one go. Here is how this works in practice.Continue to read
Aditya Bhatt working on implementing automatic tagging of faces for digiKam, with face detection and recognition. For that, he have been working on a library named libface that does the detection and training/recognition. Continue to read
