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Install the Latest Version of digiKam on Ubuntu 10.04

Can’t wait till the latest version of digiKam appears in the official Ubuntu software repositories? You don’t have to: using the personal package archives (PPA) provided by the Launchpad service, you can install the latest release of digiKam with a few simple commands. Continue to read

Improve Photos with digiKam’s Local Contrast Tool

digiKam offers several features that can improve photos containing under- or overexposed areas. For example, the Exposure Blending tool lets you merge multiple shots with different exposures into one perfectly exposed photo. But what if you have just a single image? In this case, you might want to give the Local Contrast feature a try. Continue to read

GSoC: explaining digiKam’s non-destructive editing concept

Hi digiKamers, hi KDErs, hi planet,

few days ago I blogged about the progress of non-destructive editing in digiKam. According to your comments, I take it that there is some misunderstaning in the whole concept. So let me explain it to you :)

The non-destructive editing will be done in such way, that if (and only if) you do some edit to some image, there is automatically created new file, which is a copy of the original with applied changes and with list of edits you've made saved in metadata. Next edit you do, is again applied to the same already-created version and the list of edits in metadata is updated. This is done for example for you to be able to edit the edited file with some external app, let's say GIMP. If there would be only the list of edits stored somewhere, you wouldn't be able to edit it with nothing else until you'd export it from digiKam.

GSoC: update on digiKam’s non-destructive image editing

Hi all,

little update about the progress that has been made. So far, there are no visible changes to the user yet (if you don't count tons of new debug stuff on console), all work has been done under the hood. The good news is, that the basics for non-destructive editing has already landed in the codebase. You can now use Brightness/Contrast/Gamma tool and the Autolevels tool in such way, that it will automatically create new version of the edited image, apply the changes on the new version, move the original version to "Originals" folder located in original image's path (will be fully configurable) and save the new version as {originalImageName}_v1.{originalImageFormatExtension}.

Five Simple Photo Fixes with digiKam

digiKam is an immensely powerful photo application, so learning all its features requires time and effort. But this capable photo management application also offers a few easy to use features which you can use to instantly improve your shots. Continue to read

kipi-plugins 1.3.0 released…

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.3.0 !

kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:

NEW FEATURES:

General : libkexiv2 dependency set to 1.1.0 release.
General : libkdcraw dependency set to 1.1.0 release.

digiKam 1.3.0 released…

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.3.0 release!

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.2.0 (released in march 2010 : 78 files have been closed):

Renaming Photos with digiKam

Giving your photos meaningful names makes it significantly easier to keep tabs on them. Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam's Rename feature can come in rather handy. You can use it to define rather advanced renaming rules and apply them to multiple photos in one fell swoop. Continue to read

Perfect Cloud-based Photo Setup with digiKam and Piwigo

Using digiKam's Kipi plugins, you can upload your photos to a variety of popular photo services, including Flickr, Picasaweb, and SmugMug. But what if you want to host your own photo album and still be able to populate it with photos directly from within digiKam? In this case, you might want to try Piwigo, a nifty photo application that has everything you need to host and share your photos on the Web. Continue to read

Coding Sprint 2010…

As in 2008 and 2009, a new digiKamdevelopers reunion is planned in Europe. This year, i proud to announce that i will organize the event in south of France, in the nice city of Aix en Provence.

This year, we will meet the first group of Google Summer of Code developers working on digiKam project. Planned works will be heterogeneous as image versioning, face recognition, reverse geo-coding, and scripting interface. For more details, look the complete wiki page dedicated to this event.