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For the next digiKam releases, the digiKam team needs photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens. Proposing photo samples as splash-screens is a simple way for users to contribute to dig...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-03-20-splashscreen_contributions/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After four months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.3.0 of its open source digital photo manager. This versio...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-03-17-8.3.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After five months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.2.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After five months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.1.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-07-09-8.1.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After two years of development and bugs triage, and tests, the digiKam team is proud to present the new major version 8.0.0 of its open source digital photo manager. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-04-16-8.0.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active maintenance and other bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.10.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See belo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-03-13-7.10.0_release_announcement/

New year, new digiKam Recipes book release. The new version features the completely rewritten Tag faces with the Face Recognition feature chapter and an all-new example workflow section in the Ba...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-01-25_digikam_recipes_2023-01-27_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, A new year means new goals, and this one is a challenge: migrating the old digiKam documentation based on DocBook format to a new architecture, more simple and easy t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-01-01-new_documentation_web_site/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After four months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.9.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-12-05-7.9.0_release_announcement/

Time for another revision of the digiKam Recipes book. This update features a completely revised chapter covering the versioning functionality in digiKam. It now offers a clear explanation of how...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-10-21_digikam_recipes_22.10.21_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.8.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See belo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-09-03-7.8.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See belo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-06-26-7.7.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After one month of active maintenance and another huge bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.6.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See be...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-03-05-7.6.0_release_announcement/

New year, new revision of the digiKam Recipes book. It is a relatively modest update that features two new additions: how to upload photos to a remove machine via SSH directly from digiKam and ho...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-01-19_digikam_recipes_22.01.21_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After one month of active maintenance and a huge bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.5.0 of its open source digital photo manager. This new ver...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2022-01-16-7.5.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After five months of maintenance, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.4.0 of its open source digital photo manager. This new version arrives after 20 years...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-12-17-7.4.0_release_announcement/

20 years ago we built digiKam to give you an open-source choice. This first version published on Christmas 2001 was a simple Gphoto2 graphic interface for Linux. 2 decades later, the application ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-12-11_digikam_20_anniversary/

It has been a while since the last update of digiKam Recipes. But that doesn’t mean I neglected the book. In the past few months, I’ve been doing a complete language review and adding new mat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-10-13_digikam_recipes_21.10.15_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After four months of maintenance, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.3.0 of its open source digital photo manager. Here is the list of most important feat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-07-12-7.3.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After more than one year of development, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.2.0 of its open source digital photo manager. Here is the list of more than 36...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-03-22-7.2.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-rc is out and ready to test six month later the 7.2.0 beta1 release. After integrating the student codes working o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-02-08-7.2.0-rc_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-beta2 is out and ready to test four month late the 7.2.0 beta1 release. After integrating the student codes workin...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-12-29-7.2.0-beta2_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-beta1 is out and ready to test one month later the 7.1.0 stable release. After a long time to integrate the studen...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-10-29-7.2.0-beta1_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After this long summer, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.1.0. This maintenance version is a result of a long period of bug-triaging on bugzilla. It introduces pl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-09-06-7.1.0_release_announcement/

Hot on the heels of the digiKam 7.0.0 release comes a new revision of the digiKam Recipes book. The new version includes Grouping RAW and JPEG files manually can be a real chore. Fortunately, a s...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-26_digikam_recipes_20_07_27/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just in time to get you into the holiday spirit, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.0.0 final release today. This version is a result of a long development that st...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just few words to inform the community that 7.0.0 release candidate is out and ready to test two month later the third beta release published in April. After a Covid-...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-06-14-7.0.0-rc_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just few words to inform the community that 7.0.0-beta3 is out and ready to test two month later the second beta release published in February. After a long test stag...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-04-26-7.0.0-beta3_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just few words to inform the community that 7.0.0-beta2 is out and ready to test one month later the first beta release published at Christmas time. After a long tria...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-02-01-7.0.0-beta2_release_announcement/

The first revision of the digiKam Recipes book in 2020 is here, and it packs new content. The latest version of digiKam features the Healing Clone tool, and the Remove dust spots and imperfection...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-01-07_digikam_recipes_20_01_11/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Just in time to get you into the holiday spirit, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 today. This first version start the test stages for next 7.x series p...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-12-22-7.0.0-beta1_release_announcement/

The digiKam Team built the Google Photo, Google Drive or another Webservices uploader as a open source app. This SERVICE is provided by the digiKam Team at no cost and is intended for use as is. ...

https://www.digikam.org/support/privacy_policy/

Another month, another revision of the digiKam Recipes book. This version brings the following new content: The How digiKam works chapter provides an overview of digiKam’s achitecture The Expor...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-11-09_digikam_recipes_19_11_11/

 Dear digiKam fans and users, We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the 4th digiKam 6 release in September 2019. We...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-11-09-6.4.0_release_announcement/

 Dear digiKam fans and users, We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the third digiKam 6 release in August 2019. We ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-09-08-6.3.0_release_announcement/

After a somewhat prolonged quiet period, a new revision of the digiKam Recipes book is ready. This version brings a refreshed book cover as well as new content: Use Git to maintain multiple digiK...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-09-01_digikam_recipes_19_09_01/

 Dear digiKam fans and users, We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the second digiKam 6 release in April 2019. We ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-08-04-6.2.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, after the first digiKam 6 release published in February 2019, we received lots of user feedback to consolidate this important stage of this project started 2 years ag...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-04-14-6.1.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive development, we are proud to announce t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-02-10-6.0.0_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, following the first beta release published in October, we are proud to announce the third and last beta of digiKam 6.0.0, before the final release planed in February ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-12-30-6.0.0-beta3_release_announcement/

Dear digiKam fans and users, following the first beta release published in September, we are proud to announce the second beta of digiKam 6.0.0. Exiv2 0.27 support With this new release we are fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-10-31-6.0.0-beta2_release_announcement/

Got a NAS? Still store your photo library and digiKam databases on a local machine? It’s time to take your digiKam setup to the next level by moving your photo library to the NAS and switching ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-10-20_digikam_nas_mariadb/

It’s time for another digiKam Recipes update. The most visible change in the latest revision is the new book cover. All screenshots were also updated to reflect changes in the current version o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-10-15_digikam_recipes_18_10_15_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code we are proud to announce the first beta of digiKam 6.0.0. Improvements ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-08-19-6.0.0-beta1_release_announcement/

digiKam 8.x Release Plan Date Version Comments 2024.XX.XX 8.4.0 2024.03.17 8.3.0 New Auto-Tags tool based of deep-learning to identify and mark image contents automatically. Video SlideShow tool ...

https://www.digikam.org/documentation/releaseplan/

Releases / Files Closed into Bugzilla Changelog Date 8.4.0 NEWS.8.4.0 2024.XX.XX 8.3.0 NEWS.8.3.0 2024.03.17 8.2.0 NEWS.8.1.0 2023.12.03 8.1.0 NEWS.8.1.0 2023.07.09 8.0.0 NEWS.8.0.0 2023.04.16 �...

https://www.digikam.org/documentation/changelog/

Following the release of 5.8.0 published in January, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.9.0 of the digiKam Software Collection. In this last version of 5.x, we has focused al...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-03-25-5.9.0_release_announcement/

After a somewhat prolonged hiatus (my move from Denmark to Germany and full-time job at SUSE Linux GmbH had something to do with this), a new revision of the digiKam Recipes book is ready for you...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-01-30_digikam_recipes_18_01_25_released/

Following the release of 5.7.0 published in September 2017, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.8.0 of the digiKam Software Collection. In this version a lot of work has happe...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-01-14-5.8.0_release_announcement/

Following the release of 5.6.0 published in June, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.7.0 of the digiKam Software Collection. In this version a lot of work has happened behind...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-09-11-5.7.0_release_announcement/

Following the 5th release 5.5.0 published in March 2017, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.6.0 of digiKam Software Collection. With this version the HTML gallery and the vid...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-06-21-5.6.0-release-announcement/

Once again a lot has been going on behind the scenes since the last release. The HTML gallery tool is back, database shrinking (e.g. purging stale thumbnails) is also supported on MySQL, grouping...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-05-23-5.6.0-pre-release/

Notice something a bit different? So do we! The folks from the PIXLS.US community saw that digiKam needed an update to the old website (previously running on an older Drupal instance) for securit...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-04-30-new-digikam-static-site/

Overview This page contains information about contributing to the digiKam website. There are two URLs in use for the website: https://www.digikam.org The main digiKam website. https://staging.dig...

https://www.digikam.org/documentation/meta/

A digiKam Overview digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a “snap”. The photos are organized in albums which can be s...

https://www.digikam.org/about/overview/

Installing a tarball will get you the most up-to-date stable version of digiKam. But it can happen that you run into all kinds of problems related to compiling. So, if your distribution is runnin...

https://www.digikam.org/download/tarball/

Jump to: Linux FreeBSD macOS Windows Installing a package You can install digiKam using pre-compiled version. This is done by your distribution. A disadvantage is that in some cases the version p...

https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/

How to get digiKam from git master repository Stage 1: Install external dependencies digiKam requires a lot of libraries. So, before compiling yourself digiKam, you’ll have to download and inst...

https://www.digikam.org/download/git/

Want to show your photos to thousands of digiKam users? Consider submitting your best photos for use with digiKam splash screen. This is also the easiest way to contribute to the digiKam project....

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/splashscreens/

Summary The following is a concise overview of features and tools available in digiKam. The application covers the photographic workflow consisting of these major stages: Setup your collections I...

https://www.digikam.org/about/features/

My camera is not in the list of supported cameras in digiKam. Can you add drivers for my camera ? digiKam doesn’t included any camera drivers. It makes use of gphoto2 to do camera operations. I...

https://www.digikam.org/documentation/faq/

2008 Linux Graphic Meeting: Wroclaw, Poland - 8-11th May - See details here Akademy: Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium - 9-10th August - See details here KDE Graphics Coding Sprint: Planed at Genoa, ...

https://www.digikam.org/events/

digiKam is an immensely powerful photo management application, and mastering it requires time and effort. This book can help you to learn the ropes in the most efficient manner. Instead of going ...

https://www.digikam.org/recipes_book/

IRC CHANNEL You can find us on the irc.libera.chat network, server: #digikam You can use web chat to be connected on #digikam IRC channel using a web interface. TEAM See the list of current digiK...

https://www.digikam.org/support/contact/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Following the 5th release 5.4.0 published in January 2017, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.5.0 of digiKam Software Collection. As 5.4.0, this ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-03-14_digikam_5.5.0_is_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, Following the 4th release 5.3.0 for the 5.x series published in November 2016, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.4.0 of digiKam Software Collect...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2017-01-10_digikam_5.4.0_is_released/

Sometimes, the easiest way to geotag photos in digiKam is to copy and paste geographical coordinates from an existing photo. I usually use Google Photos for that, as it conveniently displays geog...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-12-09_geotagging_in_digikam_with_a_lazy_bash_script/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After a 3rd release 5.2.0 published more than one month ago, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.3.0 of digiKam Software Collection. This version ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-11-07_digikam_5.3.0_is_published/

Hot on the heels of the major digiKam 5.x.x release comes a thoroughly revised version of the digiKam Recipes book. Although it doesn’t include any new material, the entire content and all scre...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-10-26_digikam_recipes_5.0.1_released_and_digikam_appimage_package_coming/

Like many photographers, I have a handful of hand-made favorite presets (most of them are included in the Daily Curves Set) in my photographic toolbox. But there is one preset in particular I use...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-10-21_spektrum_preset_for_modern_architecture_photography/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After a second release 5.1.0 published one month ago, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.2.0 of digiKam Software Collection. This version introdu...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-09-24_digikam_5.2.0_is_published/

digiKam is the cornerstone of my photographic workflow. This powerful and versatile photo management application has all tools and features necessary for transferring, organizing, processing, and...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-08-20_towards_an_efficient_linux_photographic_workflow/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After a first release 5.0.0 published one month ago, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.1.0 of digiKam Software Collection. This version introduc...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-08-09_digikam_5.1.0_is_published/

Dear digiKam fans and users, After two year of work, the digiKam team is proud to announce the final release of digiKam Software Collection 5.0.0. This main version introduces a new cycle of rele...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-07-05_digikam_5.0.0_is_published/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. This version introduces the Basic Concepts Explained appendix that covers key terms and concepts used in digiKam. Currently, t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-03-13_digikam_recipes_4.11.1_released/

The Map view in digiKam is handy for displaying photos on a map directly in the application. But what if you want to create a shareable and embeddable map with pins that mark all places where yo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-02-27_create_embeddable_maps_with_digikam_and_umap/

Dear digiKam fans and users, digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 5.0.0 beta3. This version is new stage to the long way to stabilize code of Qt5 port of n...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-01-31_digikam_5.0.0-beta3_is_released/

When configuring saving settings for the JPEG format in the Saving Images section of the Configure digiKam window, you can choose between medium and high chroma subsampling, or disable it altoget...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-01-30_digikam_explained_chroma_subsampling/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. This version adds two new recipes: Chroma Subsampling Explained (tucked under Configure digiKam) and Create Embeddable Maps wi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-01-18_digikam_recipes_4.9.9_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 5.0.0 beta2. This version is the second public release of the new main digiKam version an...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-12-07_digikam_5.0.0-beta2_is_released/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your perusal. This version features the new Use Exposure Indicators recipe along with the updated Find the Shutter Count Value with digiKam reci...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-11-24_digikam_recipes_4.9.7_released/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. This version features the Using Album Categories recipe and reworked material on using the tagging functionality in digiKam....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-11-09_digikam_recipes_4.9.5_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.14.0. This version is the result of another bugs triage on KDE bugzilla where more ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-10-18_digikam_software_collection_4.14.0_released/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. This version features completely revised material on one of the most complicated subjects in digital photography: color ma...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-09-15_digikam_recipes_4.9.1_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.13.0. This release is the result of another huge bugs triage on KDE bugzilla where ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-09-07_digikam_software_collection_4.13.0_released/

The Randa Meeting is an annual KDE sprint that takes place in Randa, Switzerland. The KDE project is holding a fundraiser to support the Randa Meetings. Participants donate their time to help imp...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-08-11_digikam_at_randa_meeting_2015/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.12.0. This release is the result of another huge bugs triage on KDE bugzilla where ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-08-07_digikam_software_collection_4.12.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.11.0. This release is the result of huge bugs triage on KDE bugzilla where more tha...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-06-21_digikam_software_collection_4.11.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.10.0. This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintai...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-05-12_digikam_software_collection_4.10.0_released/

A new release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. This version features completely rewritten material on using digiKam to emulate various photographic effects (including the...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-05-01_digikam_recipes_4.7.1_released/

Geofix is a simple Python script that lets you use an Android device to record the geographical coordinates of your current position. The clever part is that the script stores the obtained lati...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-04-24_use_geofix_to_geotag_photos_in_digikam/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.9.0. This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-04-07_digikam_software_collection_4.9.0_released/

The Computec Media publishing company had kindly invited yours truly to this year's CeBIT trade show in Hannover to give a talk on a digiKam-related topic at the Open Source Forum. The talk entit...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-03-31_digikam_at_cebit_2015/

A freshly-baked release of digiKam Recipes is ready for your reading pleasure. The new version features the Export and Share Photos with digiKam recipe which offers a comprehensive overview o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-03-23_digikam_recipes_4.5.1_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.8.0. This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-02-24_digikam_software_collection_4.8.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, A new year, a new release... The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.7.0. This release includes many bugs fixes from Maik Q...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-02-03_digikam_software_collection_4.7.0_released/

Did you know that you can assign categories to albums in digiKam? To do this, right-click on an album, choose Properties from the context menu, and the desired category from the Category drop-dow...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-02-02_digikam_quick_tip_using_album_categories/

Provided that you use KDE, you can push photos from digiKam directly to a mobile device that supports the MTP protocol (e.g., most Android devices) using the KioImportExport Kipi plugin. Contin...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-01-23_digikam_quick_tip_transfer_photos_from_digikam_directly_to_a_mobile_device/

Using the View -> Group Images -> By Format command, you can group photos in albums by format. This feature can come in useful for managing albums containing photos in different formats: JPEG, ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-01-12_digikam_quick_tip_group_photos_by_format/

I ring in the new year with a digiKam Recipes update. This version features two new recipes: Remove Keywords from Photos and Add Web Interface to digiKam with digiKamWebUi. In addition to t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2015-01-02_digikam_recipes_4.3.1_released/

Sharing is caring, right? So if you use digiKam for processing photos, why not share your photo editing techniques and tips with other users and showcase your best photos? I invite you to partici...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-12-29_processed_in_digikam_call_for_submissions/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.6.0. This release includes many bugs fixes in Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-12-18_digikam_software_collection_4.6.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.5.0. This release includes bugs fixes and switch as optional some dependencies as l...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-11-18_digikam_software_collection_4.5.0_released/

Another month, another digiKam Recipes update. This version features the updated and expanded Edit Photos with the Levels and Curves Adjustment Tools recipe which now covers the powerful curves...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-11-05_digikam_recipes_4.1.1_released/

digiKam Recipes is now available on Google Play Store. So you can buy and read the ebook using your favorite Android device.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-10-15_digikam_recipes_on_google_play_store/

As you may recall, I recently switched to GitBook.io as my primary publishing platform. Alas, my GitBook.io experiment didn't last long. Everything worked smoothly until I encountered a rather s...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-10-11_digikam_recipes_4.0.11_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.4.0. This release includes some new features: Slideshow support multi-monitors comp...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-10-09_digikam_software_collection_4.4.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.3.0. This release includes some new features: New option to display all non geo-loc...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-09-16_digikam_software_collection_4.3.0_released/

Hot on the heels of the 3.17.01 release comes a new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook. As the version number indicates, this is a major release that features several significant improvements. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-09-11_digikam_recipes_4.0.9_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.2.0. This release includes important features to simplify photograph workflow : New...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-08-05_digikam_software_collection_4.2.0_released/

Dear digiKam fans and users, The digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.1.0. This release includes many fixes since the previous stable release 4.0.0: The ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-06-30_digikam_software_collection_4.1.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.0.0. This version, include many new features introduced by completed GSoC 2013 proj...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-05-14_digikam_software_collection_4.0.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the fourth beta release of digiKam Software Collection 4.0.0. This version currently under development, include many new feature...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-03-30_digikam_software_collection_4.0.0-beta4_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the third beta release of digiKam Software Collection 4.0.0. This version currently under development, include many new feature ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-02-25_digikam_software_collection_4.0.0-beta3_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the second beta release of digiKam Software Collection 4.0.0. This version currently under development, include many new feature...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2014-01-15_digikam_software_collection_4.0.0-beta2_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of digiKam Software Collection 4.0.0. This version currently under development, including a new tool dedi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-12-13_digikam_software_collection_4.0.0-beta1_is_out/

There are plenty of reasons to choose Debian, but having the most recent versions of your favorite applications is not one of them. Software updates trickle down to the stable version of Debian v...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-10-14_install_the_latest_version_of_digikam_on_debian/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 3.5.0. This version is a bug-fix release, as we are currently busy to complete all GS...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-10-10_digikam_software_collection_3.5.0_released/

I am pleased to announce the release of digiKam 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 for Windows built against KDE 4.10.2 that can be downloaded from the KDE repository. The build platform is the same as for 3.1.0 an...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-09-29_digikam_software_collection_3.3.0_and_3.4.0_for_windows_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 3.4.0. This version include a new core implementation to manage maintenance tools, es...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-09-06_digikam_software_collection_3.4.0_released/

If you happen to use digiKam for managing photos scanned from negatives, you'll appreciate the application's capabilities to add and edit EXIF metadata. Using digiKam's dedicated interface for ma...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-08-07_apply_exif_metadata_to_multiple_photos_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 3.3.0. This version include a new core implementation to manage faces, especially fac...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-08-06_digikam_software_collection_3.3.0_released/

I am pleased to announce the release of digiKam 3.2.0 for Windows built against KDE 4.10.2 that can be downloaded from the KDE repository. The build platform is the same as for 3.1.0 and 3.0.0. I...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-07-15_digikam_software_collection_3.2.0_for_windows_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the 3rd beta release of digiKam Software Collection 3.3.0. This version currently under development, including a new core implem...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-07-08_digikam_software_collection_3.3.0-beta3_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the second beta release of digiKam Software Collection 3.3.0. This version currently under development, including a new core imp...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-06-19_digikam_software_collection_3.3.0-beta2_is_out/

At long last I am pleased to announce the simultaneous release of digiKam 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 for Windows built against KDE 4.10.2. If you have a short attention span and want to download it immediat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-06-08_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0_and_3.1.0_for_windows_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of digiKam Software Collection 3.3.0. This version currently under development, including a new core impl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-06-05_digikam_software_collection_3.3.0-beta1_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the 3.2.0 release of digiKam Software Collection. This version include a new album interface display mode named list-view. Icon ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-05-15_digikam_software_collection_3.2.0_is_out/

The Sharpen tool in digiKam offers three sharpening methods: simple sharp, unsharp mask, and refocus. Each method has its advantages and drawbacks. The simple sharp technique uses a standard conv...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-05-08_sharpening_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the second beta release of digiKam Software Collection 3.2.0. This version currently under development, include a new album inte...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-05-02_digikam_software_collection_3.2.0-beta2_is_out/

Bugs are inevitable in complex software, and digiKam is no exception. So what should you do when you've discovered a bug in your favorite photo management application? As a non-programmer, the be...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-04-10_dealing_with_bugs_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of digiKam Software Collection 3.2.0. This version currently under development, include a new album inter...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-04-09_digikam_software_collection_3.2.0-beta1_is_out/

Using tools available in digiKam, you can simulate a number of effects, including bleach bypass. This effect produces a desaturated high-contrast image. Creating the bleach bypass effect in digiK...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-04-02_create_a_bleach_bypass_effect_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month since 3.0.0 release, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 3.1.0, as bug-fixes release. digiKam 3.x versions include G...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-03-13_digikam_software_collection_3.1.0_is_out/

For this project, we'll use a photo of the famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain. The photo was taken with a Canon PowerShot S90 camera, and the RAW file exhibits several obvious f...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-03-11_basic_raw_processing_in_digikam/

Need to quickly push photos in digiKam to a device on the same network? Provided the device supports DLNA, you can do this using the DLNAExport Kipi plugin. Choose Export ? Export via DLNA to ope...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-03-04_export_photos_from_digikam_via_dlna/

A new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook is available for download. The following material has been added since version 3.9.39: Create a Bleach Bypass Effect Export Photos via DLNA Process Film...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-02-22_digikam_recipes_3.11.01_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one summer of active development with Google Summer of Code 2012 students, and 4 pre-release, digiKam team is proud to announce the final release of digiKam...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-02-08_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0_is_out/

While digiKam is first and foremost an application for processing and organizing digital photos, it also features tools for working with film negatives. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-01-29_process_film_negatives_with_digikam/

To calibrate a monitor and generate a color profile for it on Linux, you need two things: a colorimeter and color profiling software. High-quality professional colorimeters tend to be rather expe...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-01-22_calibrate_and_profile_monitor_for_use_with_digikam/

Using commands under the Import menu, you can pull photos from a variety of sources, including remote servers. The latter functionality in digiKam is provided through the KioExportImport Kipi plu...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2013-01-07_import_photos_from_a_remote_server_into_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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 d...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-12-29_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0-rc_is_out/

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 digi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-12-17_use_adobe_photoshop_curve_presets_with_digikam/

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: Us...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-12-11_digikam_recipes_3.9.51_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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 di...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-11-12_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0-beta3_is_out/

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 geota...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-10-29_geotag_photos_with_android_camera_and_digikam/

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 advan...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-10-17_stitch_panoramas_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-10-13_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0-beta2_is_out/

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 m...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-10-03_digikam_recipes_3.9.39_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-09-19_digikam_software_collection_3.0.0-beta1_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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 rele...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-09-03_digikam_software_collection_2.9.0_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month since 2.70 release, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.8.0, as bug-fixes release. See the list of files closed wi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-08-09_digikam_software_collection_2.8.0_is_out/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of bugs triage in KDE bugzilla, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.7.0, as bug-fixes release. In this release, fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-07-09_digikam_software_collection_2.7.0_is_out/

Starting with version 2.6, digiKam features the Tools ? Maintenance menu which gives you access to tools designed to perform a variety of housekeeping tasks: from scanning for new photos to ru...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-07-09_digikam_housekeeping_with_the_maintenance_tool/

Sharing is caring, and there is probably no better way to share your photographic masterpieces with the world than adding them to the Wikimedia Commons pool. While the project's website features ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-06-25_export_photos_to_wikimedia_commons_with_digikam/

A new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook is available for your reading pleasure. Besides a handful of minor tweaks, the new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new ma...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-06-20_digikam_recipes_3.9.35_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0. With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes about XMP sidecar file supports. New ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-06-07_digikam_software_collection_2.6.0_is_out/

Soft proofing is a technique which allows you to see what the photo will look like when printed using a specific printer and photo media (paper, canvas, etc.) without actually printing the photo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-05-21_soft_proofing_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the candidate release of digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0. With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes about XMP si...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-05-10_digikam_software_collection_2.6.0_release_candidate_is_out/

Sometimes the best way to spice up a photo is to make it look faded, and digiKam makes it supremely easy to achieve this effect. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-04-18_simulate_a_faded_effect_in_digikam/

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-...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-04-04_simple_toning_in_digikam/

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 sideca...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-04-02_digikam_software_collection_2.6.0_beta3_is_out/

The new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material: Tethered Shooting with digiKam Soft Proofing in digiKam Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-04-02_digikam_recipes_3.9.33_released/

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 functi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-03-12_tethered_shooting_with_digikam/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-03-06_digikam_software_collection_2.6.0_beta2_is_out/

Besides a handful of minor tweaks, the new version of the digiKam Recipes ebook includes the following new material: Prevent Photos in digiKam from Disappearing Simple Color Toning Simulate a W...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-02-20_digikam_recipes_3.9.31_released/

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 featur...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-02-15_prevent_photos_in_digikam_from_disappearing/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-02-08_digikam_software_collection_2.6.0_beta1_is_out/

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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-01-21_efficient_photo_tagging_with_digikam/

Want to add a vintage effect to your photos? digiKam has all the tools you need to turn your digital snapshots into vintage masterpieces. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-01-16_add_a_vintage_effect_in_digikam/

This release features the new Add a Vintage Effect in digiKam recipe along with a raft of minor improvements, tweaks, and fixes. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-01-09_digikam_recipes_3.9.19_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of bugs triage in KDE bugzilla, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.5.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2012-01-03_digikam_software_collection_2.5.0_is_out/

By default, digiKam uses two SQLite databases for storing essential data: digikam4.db and thumbnails-digikam.db. And to make the application run fast and smoothly, it’s a good idea to check an...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-12-19_check_and_optimize_digikam_s_databases/

First off, the digiKam Tricks book has got a new title: digiKam Recipes. Why? Because I like the word "recipe" better. :-) To celebrate this momentous event, a new version of the digiKam Recip...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-12-15_digikam_recipes_3.9.15_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.4.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 25 fixed bugs....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-12-06_digikam_software_collection_2.4.0_is_out/

The latest issue #6 of c't Digital Photography features an in-depth article about digiKam by yours truly. c't Digital Photography is a relatively new quarterly magazine published by Heise, one...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-11-30_digikam_in_c_t_digital_photography/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.3.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 43 fixed bugs....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-11-07_digikam_software_collection_2.3.0_is_out/

Good news for those who want to run the latest version of digiKam on Windows. The  SourceForge repository now has a Windows installer of the latest digiKam version courtesy of Ananta Palani. Co...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-10-22_digikam_2.2.0_installer_for_windows/

It's easy to dismiss digiKam's slideshow functionality as a feature of no particular use. After all, most photographers prefer to publish their photos using the photo sharing service of their cho...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-10-17_create_slick_slideshows_with_digikam/

digiKam offers several ways to showcase your photos. You can view images as a slideshow, push them to a photo sharing service of your choice, and even export them as a static HTML gallery. But th...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-10-12_show_photos_on_google_earth_and_google_maps_with_digikam/

Besides a few tweaks and fixes as well as a new front cover, this release includes the following new material: Show Photos on Google Earth and Google Maps The Host Your Own Photo Gallery with Piw...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-10-10_digikam_tricks_3.9.5_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.2.0, as bug-fixes release, including a total of 36 fixed bugs....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-10-04_digikam_software_collection_2.2.0_is_out/

A handful of quick digiKam tips and trips for your perusal. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-09-26_five_quick_digikam_tricks/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! In order to fix this issue from KDE bugzilla, digiKam 2.1.1 have been just released. digiKam software collection tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge Reposi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-09-14_digikam_software_collection_2.1.1_is_out/

digikam 2.1 has been released a few days ago with many new features and improvements, one of the most exciting tools in this release is the panorama tool. Which is simple and quite effective. Sel...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-09-11_how_to_create_panorama_s_in_digikam_2.1/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After one month of development, digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.1.0 as bug-fixes release, including a total of 53 fixed bugs. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-09-09_digikam_software_collection_2.1.0_is_out/

The Focal Length Analyzer is a nifty little Bash script that pulls focal length data from digiKam’s database back end and generates nice graphs based on the extracted data. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-08-08_use_the_focal_length_analyzer_script_with_digikam/

digiKam supports an impressive range of file formats, so you can use the application to handle RAW files, movies and everything in between. But what if you want to explicitly exclude a specific t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-08-03_quick_tip_disable_certain_file_types_in_digikam/

As the number version suggests, this is a minor release which features a handful of tweaks and corrections as well as improved compatibility with the Cool Reader app for Android. Although attenti...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-07-31_digikam_tricks_3.9.3_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0! The road to version 2.0.0 took more than a year of heavy development. The team proudly an...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-07-31_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_is_out/

One of digiKam’s lesser known features is the ability to link scripts to notifications. At first sight, this may seem like a rather obscure functionality, but it can be put to some clever uses....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-07-11_process_photos_with_batch_queue_manager_and_a_bash_script/

Processing RAW files can be time consuming, in case you have certain amount of RAW files which need to be converted into a more accessible for format within a few minutes , then digiKam's batch R...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-07-07_batch_convert_your_raw_files_using_digikam/

This release includes the following new material: Import Photos in digiKam Process Photos with digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager and a Bash Script Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-07-05_digikam_tricks_3.9_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 release candidate! With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes to progress in ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-06-29_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_release_candidate_is_out/

Using the commands tucked under the Import menu, you can offload photos from your camera, storage card, or USB stick directly into the application. What's more, the Import dialog box offers a few...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-06-27_import_photos_in_digikam/

WorldLabel has kindly agreed to sponsor a competition for the best digiKam tip, where the winner will bag a cool Ubuntu-based Teo Pro netbook from ZaReason. Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-06-21_submit_a_digikam_tip_win_a_zareason_teo_pro_netbook/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the 6th digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release! With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes to progress in s...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-06-08_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta6_is_out/

This release includes the following new material: Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to Tags Configure the Main Toolbar in digiKam Host Your Own Photo Gallery with Piwigo Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-06-01_digikam_tricks_3.7_released/

The main toolbar in digiKam provides quick access to several tools and features, and you can tweak it to fit your particular photographic workflow. To do this, choose the Settings » Configure ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-31_configure_the_main_toolbar_in_digikam/

digiKam makes it relatively easy to tag photos. Select one or several photos, expand the Caption/Tags right sidebar, tick the tags you want, and press the Apply button. You can also assign keyboa...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-25_assign_keyboard_shortcuts_to_tags_in_digikam/

Here is what's new in this release: Updated screenshots Minor tweaks and fixes Revised Appendix C Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-15_digikam_tricks_3.5_released/

In addition to writing tags, ratings, labels, descriptions, etc. directly into the photos, version 2.0 of digiKam can save metadata in a separate .xmp file. This approach has several advantages. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-12_new_features_in_digikam_2.0_xmp_sidecar/

If you are using ubuntu 11.04 and if you are eager to test the upcoming digiKam 2.0 beta releases then you should use Philip Johnson's PPA to install the latest beta of digiKam 2.0.( Continue to ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-09_how_to_install_digikam_2.0_beta_5_in_ubuntu_kubuntu_11.04/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the 5th digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release! With this release, digiKam include a lots of bugs fixes and a new tool t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-09_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta5_is_out/

This release adds a concise introduction to the Rawstudio tool for processing RAW files. Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven't receive...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-09_digikam_tricks_3.3_released/

digiKam usually does a decent job of decoding RAW files using the default settings. But if you prefer to have complete control of how the application processes RAW files, choose Settings » Confi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-04_process_raw_files_in_digikam/

A new version of the digiKam Tricks book has been released. This release includes two new topics: Process RAW Files in digiKam Generate HTML Photo Galleries Continue to read

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-05-02_digikam_tricks_3.1_released/

There are so many clever ways to share photos on the Web that the idea of creating a static HTML photo gallery may sound positively obsolete. But in certain situations, the ability to turn a bunc...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-04-26_generate_html_photo_galleries_with_digikam/

Face recognition has been one of the most requested digiKam features, and the latest version of the photo management application provides this functionality. As the name suggests, the face recogn...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-04-11_new_features_in_digikam_2.0_face_recognition/

This is a major release of the digiKam Tricks book, featuring a completely revised and updated content that reflects changes in the upcoming version 2.0 of the digiKam photo management applicatio...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-04-04_digikam_tricks_3.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the 4th digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release! With this release, digiKam include Group of items feature and MediaWiki ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-30_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta4_is_out/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-28_new_features_in_digikam_2.0_versioning/

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) aggregat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-24_new_features_in_digikam_2.0_geolocation/

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 y...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-22_new_features_in_digikam_2.0_color_labels_and_picks/

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 fuzz...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-17_performing_fuzzy_searches_in_digikam/

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

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-13_manage_photos_from_multiple_digikam_installations/

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. Ph...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-09_install_the_latest_beta_of_digikam_on_ubuntu_10.10/

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 digi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-06_adding_borders_to_use_photos_using_digikam/

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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-03_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta3_is_out/

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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-02_digikam_and_kipi-plugins_1.9.0_released/

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 appl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-02_batch_process_photos_in_digikam/

Almost all images contain meta-data and these data contains all the setting that you used to create the picture, these include, shutter speed, aperture, focal length etc. Most image management ap...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-01_writing_meta_data_to_raw_files_in_digikam/

The digiKam Tricks book version 2.0 is now available. Here is what's new in this release: New book cover Convert Photos to Black and White Geotag Photos with Open GPS Tracker and digiKam Instant ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-23_digikam_tricks_2.0_released/

Inside each digital photo hides metadata in the EXIF, IPTC, or XMP formats, and digiKam provides tools for viewing and editing this useful information. For starters, digiKam’s main window featu...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-22_work_with_photo_metadata_in_digikam/

You don’t need a fancy camera with a built-in GPS receiver to geotag your photos. An Android device with the Open GPS Tracker app and digiKam can do the job just fine. The app lets you track yo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-16_geotag_photos_with_open_gps_tracker_and_digikam/

If you fancy black and white photography, you'll be pleased to learn that digiKam features a rather powerful tool for converting color photos to black and white. Turning the currently edited phot...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-11_convert_photos_to_black_and_white_with_digikam/

Thanks to the marvelous job of our KDE sysadmins, digiKam is another project to join the git repository. All the code (digiKam, kipi-plugins) that lived in the SVN is no more accessible through S...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-07_digikam_has_migrated_to_git/

If you have a handful of storage cards in your photo bag, there is no need to worry about how many photos you can take before your digital camera runs out of memory. This means that you can easil...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-02-02_sieve_through_photos_with_digikam_s_light_table_tool/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce the second digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release! With this release, digiKam include Tags Keyboard Shorcuts feature to ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-31_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta2_is_out/

digiKam comes with a nifty batch utility that allows you to convert RAW files to the DNG format. The question is, of course, why you would want to do that. After all, digiKam can handle RAW files...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-27_convert_raw_files_to_dng_with_dngconverter/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.8.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list of new features and ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-25_kipi-plugins_1.8.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.8.0 release! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list of bugs-fixes coming wi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-24_digikam_1.8.0_released/

When it comes to tweaking photos, Levels is the most important weapon in digiKam’s arsenal. This tool lets you adjust brightness and contrast by specifying the location of complete black, compl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-20_use_the_levels_adjustment_tool_in_digikam/

Every new version of digiKam features its own unique splash screen. But you don’t have to wait for the next digiKam release to get a new splash screen. Here are a few ready-to-go designs create...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-17_5_splash_screens_to_spice_up_digikam/

digiKam 2.0 have been published in beta stage since 2 weeks. Stable 2.0 release is planed for may, with few beta versions to consolidate code with users feedback... For each beta stage, i plan to...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-13_digikam_2.x_splash-screens_call_to_photographers/

While digiKam doesn’t allow you to publish photos directly to a WordPress blog, you can work around this limitation. Enable the Post by Email feature on your WordPress blog, and you can use the...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-12_publish_photos_on_a_wordpress_blog_from_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Just in time for this new year 2011, digiKam team is proud to announce the first digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release! With 2.x, digiKam include now all...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-05_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta1_is_out/

Although digiKam can’t rival dedicated image manipulation applications like the GIMP, it does have several essential editing tools which can help you to turn plain photos into striking images. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-01-03_cross-processing_with_digikam/

digiKam team is proud to announce that a new windows installer for digiKam software collection is available. You can download it from here This installer includes a copy of all the dependencies o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-12-24_digikam_and_kipi-plugins_1.7_windows_installer_is_available/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Just at Christmas time, digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.7.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the l...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-12-21_kipi-plugins_1.7.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Just at Christmas time, digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.7.0 release! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-12-21_digikam_1.7.0_released/

Running Ubuntu 10.10? Want the latest version of digiKam with it? Philip Johnsson’s got you covered. His PPA contains the very latest version of the photo management application ready to be ins...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-12-10_install_digikam_1.6_on_ubuntu_10.10/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.6.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list of new features and ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-11-23_kipi-plugins_1.6.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.6.0 release! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list of new features and bug...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-11-23_digikam_1.6.0_released/

If you want to install digiKam on Windows, you have two options: you can either compile the application from the source code or you can use the KDE Windows installer. The latter approach is by fa...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-11-22_install_digikam_on_windows/

While you can start using digiKam without tweaking its settings, you might want to spend a few minutes modifying the application’s default configuration to make it work your way. digiKam featur...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-11-10_finetune_digikam_by_tweaking_its_settings/

Don't fancy digiKam’s default splash screen? No problem, you can easily replace it with your own photo. First off, you need to prepare your own photo for use in the splash screen. To do this, u...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-11-02_replace_digikam_s_default_splash_screen/

The life expectancy of a DSLR camera is usually measured in shutter actuations. For example, Nikon D5000 is good for about 100,000 shutter clicks. That doesn’t mean that your camera dies the da...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-10-26_find_the_shutter_count_value_with_digikam/

By default, digiKam uses SQLite as its back-end for storing important metadata and thumbnails. But the photo management application also provides support for the popular MySQL database engine, an...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-10-15_using_digikam_with_mysql/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.5.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url See below the list of new features and ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-10-11_kipi-plugins_1.5.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-10-11_digikam_1.5.0_released/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-09-06_kde_imaging_coding_sprint_2010/

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)....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-08-30_correct_lens_distortion_with_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-08-25_kipi-plugins_1.4.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-08-25_digikam_1.4.0_released/

Hi everybody, long time no blogging. Time to fix this bug. So...without any long prologues - (hold your breath now) - it's working! (Say WOW™). But how well does it work you ask? Pretty good! O...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-08-18_gsoc_how_is_digikam_s_non-destructive_editing_this_time_with_pictures/

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) feat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-07-12_classy_stickers_for_digikam_users/

Hello everyone, 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 o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-07-11_gsoc_update_reverse_geotagging_widget_is_ready/

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 ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-07-06_watermark_photos_with_digikam/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-24_digikam_gsoc_progress_libkface_is_almost_ready/

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 serv...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-23_install_the_latest_version_of_digikam_on_ubuntu_10.04/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-18_improve_photos_with_digikam_s_local_contrast_tool/

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 th...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-17_gsoc_explaining_digikam_s_non-destructive_editing_concept/

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 u...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-15_gsoc_update_on_digikam_s_non-destructive_image_editing/

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 whi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-14_five_simple_photo_fixes_with_digikam/

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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-08_kipi-plugins_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...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-08_digikam_1.3.0_released/

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 doze...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-06-03_renaming_photos_with_digikam/

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 st...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-05-31_perfect_cloud-based_photo_setup_with_digikam_and_piwigo/

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. T...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-05-31_kde-imaging_coding_sprint_2010/

No matter how good your camera is, taking a well-exposed photo of a high-contrast scene like a black bird on snow can be really tricky. Even if you switch to the manual mode and tweak the exposur...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-05-25_exposure_blending_with_digikam/

Hello to all digikam and KDE fans! My name is Gabriel Voicu, I am 20 years old and I come from Bucharest, Romania where I'm studying Computer Science and Engineering at University Politehnica of ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-05-11_gsoc_reverse_geocoding_and_improved_map_search_project_for_digikam/

Hello to all the great KDE people and especially digiKam fans! My full name is Martin Klapetek, but everyone calls me Marty and I can be found on most services like IM or IRC by the name mck182. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-04-30_gsoc_non-destructive_image_editing_for_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.2.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available for...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-03-30_kipi-plugins_1.2.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.2.0 release! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will also be available for Windows...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-03-29_digikam_1.2.0_released/

Since a very long time, my TODO list included a complete review of digiKam Film Grain tool. Based on an old Gimp Guru tutorial, this tool lacks a lots of features as the capability to manage colo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-03-26_digikam_film_grain_tool_re-written/

Last summer I saw bug #127321 an thought, this can be done by me (partly at least). After some (successful) prototypic implementation, most of the time where spent into smooth integration in the ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-03-22_digikam_with_another_database_backend_than_sqlite/

Dear digiKam users Few months earlier I started to work on HTMLExport plugin and first two updates I made are mentioned in the TODO file or request on bugzilla. The first one is showing template ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-27_htmlexport_plugin_updated/

Dear digiKam users, A new export plugin has been added to the Kipi-plugins development trunk: an export to Piwigo plugin! Some of you may not know Piwigo yet: it's a powerful web gallery based on...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-25_new_exporter_for_piwigo_galleries/

You will be forgiven for thinking that copyrighting photos belongs to the realm of the professional photographer. Even if you consider yourself an amateur, providing copyright and contact informa...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-17_using_templates_in_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The ui of the picasaweb exporter gains some love and is refreshed in current trunk. Its look now fits to other kipi export plugins with imagelistview support show...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-08_picasaweb_plugin_refreshed/

Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, the team announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main focus in version 1.0 was on squashing bugs, the new r...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-03_two_nifty_features_in_digikam_1.1.0/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.1.0 ! kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available for...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-02_kipi-plugins_1.1.0_released/

During the last two months Marcel and I ported all tree views in digiKam from Qt3 to Qt4 and its model view concept. These changes are now included in the svn trunk. The new code still needs some...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-01_porting_to_qt4_and_its_model_view_concept_-_testers_needed/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.1.0 bug fix release! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will also be available for...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-02-01_digikam_1.1.0_released/

Accordingly with KDE bugzilla entries #177827 and #218906, i have slightly modified the vignetting tool, now you can add vignetting to your pictures: Vignetting can be used as a creative tool to ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-01-25_new_tool_to_add_vignetting/

Are you on Flickr? Do you use digiKam? Then join the digiKam Users Flickr group! The group is intended to function as a hub for photographers who use digiKam as their tool of choice for managing ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2010-01-11_digikam_users_flickr_group/

...or how to make pseudo HDR images with digiKam using a stack of bracketed images... ExpoBlending is the name of a new tool that i implement currently for next kipi-plugins 1.1 release planed to...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-12-29_new_exposure_blending_tool_for_digikam/

Just in time for Christmas 2009, digiKam 1.0 have been released. But the future is already there. Next digiKam 1.1 is planed for end of January 2010, as a bugfixes release, to consolidate code wi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-12-27_digikam_1.x_splash-screens_call_to_photographers/

Merry Christmas digiKam fans and users! In the spirit of the season, we bring you a nice gift to put under your white Christmas tree: digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.0.0 ! kipi-p...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-12-22_merry_christmas_again_kipi-plugins_1.0.0_is_there/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.0.0 ! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-c...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-12-21_merry_christmas_digikam_1.0.0_is_there/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.9.0 release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. P...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-12-01_kipi-plugins_0.9.0_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Release Candidate of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... With this release, 22 files have been closed to Bugzilla since 1.0.0-beta6. Final release is planed to 20 december......

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-30_digikam_1.0.0_release_candidate_released/

Some users have asked me what modifiers are. They don't seem to know this concept in a renaming tool and are a little bit confused by it. I will try to explain what the modifiers do and why I imp...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-28_notes_about_modifiers_in_the_digikam_rename_tool/

I'm currently working on a new tool for Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager to perform camera sensor noise using Wavelets. The tool works into YCrCB color space and support 16 bits color depth. ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-23_new_wavelets_noise_reduction_tool_under_construction_for_1.0.0_release/

Just a quick comment that renaming in digiKam is capable of using syntax highlighting now. It should be easier to decipher a renaming string this way :-) A quick demo video can be found here: ......

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-21_renaming_in_digikam_has_syntax_highlighting_now/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 6th beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... With this release, 89 files have been closed to Bugzilla since 1.0.0-beta5. digiKam tarball can be downloaded from Sou...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-09_digikam_1.0.0-beta6_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.8.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-11-02_kipi-plugins_0.8.0_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 5th beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compile...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-10-06_digikam_1.0.0-beta5_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.7.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-09-28_kipi-plugins_0.7.0_for_kde4_released/

In the past renaming images in digiKam was not very powerful. Most users (me too) renamed their images with KRename, a quite powerful batch renamer. But calling KRename from the "Open With..." di...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-09-19_new_renaming_tool_for_digikam/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 4th beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compile...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-08-31_digikam_1.0.0-beta4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.6.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-08-29_kipi-plugins_0.6.0_for_kde4_released/

If you use Facebook, digiKam has a Fan page. Just rate it... digiKam on Facebook

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-08-19_digikam_facebook_fan_page/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.5.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also available fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-24_kipi-plugins_0.5.0_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 3rd beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compile...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-24_digikam_1.0.0-beta3_released/

Great week for metadata maniacs! Support for different authors of comments in various languages Fully customizable "Short view" (aka "Human readable") in Metadata tab; unfortunately due to featur...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-20_digikam_digest_-_2009-07-19/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! 2nd beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out... digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will be also available for Windows. Precompiled...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-06_digikam_1.0.0-beta2_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.4.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins 0.4.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also availa...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-03_kipi-plugins_0.4.0_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Utimate digiKam 0.9.6 release for KDE3 is out. It's a bug fix and translations updates. digiKam 0.9.6 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url No mo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-03_digikam_0.9.6_release_for_kde3/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! A new test cycle has been started to complete 1.0.0 release... digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam will be also available for W...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-06-09_digikam_1.0.0-beta1_released/

Outstanding work this week was done on: First visible effect of porting to Qt4 model list view: overlays over image thumbnails. When hovering with mouse over "plate" user will see small icons for...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-06-07_digikam_digest_-_2009-06-07/

roadmap to next release, finally 1.0! usability fixes attempt to speed up loading of thumbnails by compromise on quality, after tests idea was mostly rejected; implemented "cheat scaling" for gen...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-06-01_digikam_digest_-_2009-05-31/

In this week there was mostly continuation of last week work: - New expander widget in all plugins and whole interface - fixing of memory leaks - making MSVC happy (many thanks to developers work...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-25_digikam_digest_-_2009-05-24/

This week in digiKam: taking care about MS-Windows; to quote Andi: "Hope MSVC is happy now." new expander box widget for easier display of data in main GUI and all plugins: continuing work on Con...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-18_digikam_digest_-_2009-05-17/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Kipi-plugins 0.3.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins 0.3.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins will be also availa...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-12_kipi-plugins_0.3.0_for_kde4_released/

Usual portion of bug fixes and polishing. In addition: - main part of port to Qt4 ListModel view done - improving of Content Aware Resize plugin - polishing of Free Rotation interface - optimizat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-11_digikam_digest_-_2009-05-10/

libkdcraw 0.1.9 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url. This release include last version of LibRaw 0.7.2 Raw decoder. For more informations a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-10_libkdcraw_0.1.9_release_for_kde3/

A few weeks ago I added a new feature to the Free-Rotation imageplugin: 'Automatic (Horizon) Correction'. This is nothing new, Gimp and Photoshop (and for sure other applications) have such a fea...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-06_new_auto-correction-mode_for_the_free_rotation_image_plugin/

This week we see work on Qt4 List Model View which will make many things possible, among them: - small overlay icons to performa basic actions (like in Gwenview, Lightroom) - color labels - more ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-04_digikam_digest_-_2009-05-03/

This week, i have work for a while on another digiKam subject: a new first run assistant. The goal of this assistant is to group lead questions to configure some importants rules in digiKam setup...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-05-01_digikam_first_run_assistant/

This week digiKam saw introduction of new plugin - Liguid resize; beginning of work on Qt4 list view implementation and usual share of polishing, bug fixing, etc. Read details in full version. Bu...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-04-28_digikam_digest_-_2009-04-26/

Welcome, Because KDE-wide commit digest is a bit erratic lately I thought about replacing it in part of KDE I am especially interested in: digiKam. It covers development of digiKam, kipi-plugins,...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-04-28_digikam_digest_-_introduction/

Since few weeks, an active work have been done with Julien Pontabry and Julien Nardoux to solve this bug report. On preview screenshots, you can seen a picture resized horizontally to 150%. A pre...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-04-25_new_liquid_rescale_tool_under_construction/

I have receive a lots of candidates for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens contest opened 2 week ago. Around 70 mails are in my gmail account. So, thanks to all contributors. After a first selec...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-04-11_digikam_and_showfoto_0.11_splash-screen_contest_best_shots_selection/

Yesterday, Marcel has moved digiKam 0.11 source code from a development branch to trunk in KDE subversion repository. 0.11 include now the famous Batch Queue Manager, and it will be ready to test...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-03-29_new_0.11_splash-screen_call_to_photographers/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Official digiKam 0.10.0 release for KDE4 is out. digiKam 0.10.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url digiKam is also available for Windows. Prec...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-03-18_digikam_0.10.0_release_for_kde4/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Official kipi-plugins 0.2.0 release for KDE4 is out. kipi-plugins 0.2.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Kipi-plugins is also available for ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-03-17_kipi-plugins_0.2.0_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Official digiKam 0.9.5 release for KDE3 is out. It's a bug fix and translations updates. digiKam 0.9.5 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url Comp...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-03-17_digikam_0.9.5_release_for_kde3/

libkdcraw 0.1.8 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url. This release include last version of LibRaw 0.6.13 Raw decoder. For more informations ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-02-25_libkdcraw_0.1.8_release_for_kde3/

Since first beta releases of digiKam and kipi-plugins for KDE4, i receive a lots of mails about to know where are all Batch kipi-plugins... as batch converter, batch resize, etc... In fact these ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-02-16_batch_queue_manager_for_future_digikam_0.11.0/

The last KDE4 release candidate of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, Face tool is now able to import pictures from FaceBook web service to your computer. Since rc1, a new plugin ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-02-16_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-rc2_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After another bug triage where around 64 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-rc1 release, digiKam development team is happy to release the last release cand...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-02-16_digikam_0.10.0-rc2_release_for_kde4/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! A new digiKam beta release is out. for KDE3, It's a bug fix and translations updates. digiKam 0.9.5-beta3 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url C...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-01-29_digikam_0.9.5-beta3_release_for_kde3/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After another bug triage where around 49 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-beta8 release, digiKam development team is happy to release the release candida...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-01-23_digikam_0.10.0-rc1_release_for_kde4/

The first KDE4 release candidate of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, Smug tool is now able to import pictures from SmugMug web service to your computer. Since beta6, a new plugi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-01-23_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-rc1_for_kde4_released/

Happy New Year !!! Dear all digiKam fans and users! After another bug triage where more than 57 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-beta7 release, digiKam development team is happy to relea...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-01-08_digikam_0.10.0-beta8_release_for_kde4/

Happy New Year !!! The 6th KDE4 beta release of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, a new plugin named FbExport is born. It's dedicated to export images to FaceBook web service. An...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-01-07_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-beta6_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! After a huge bug triage where more than 120 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-beta6 release, digiKam development team is happy to release the 7th beta ded...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-12-19_digikam_0.10.0-beta7_release_for_kde4/

The 5th KDE4 beta release of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, a new plugin named SmugExport is born. It's dedicated to export images to SmugMug web service. A plugin is availabl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-12-16_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-beta5_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! Before to close this year, a new digiKam beta release and a new stable kipi-plugins release have be done for KDE3, especially as bug fix and translations updates....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-12-15_digikam_and_kipi-plugins_release_for_kde3/

Since few days, team works on KDE bugzilla to clean bugs database before to release digiKam 0.10.0-beta7 for KDE4 and digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 for KDE3. More than 30 files have been closed in 3 days, ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-12-05_digikam_bugs_triage/

The 4th beta release of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, Calendar and PrintWizard plugins have been ported to KDE4. Another tool have been added to batch remove red eyes automat...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-28_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-beta4_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the 6th beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Take care, it's a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-28_digikam_0.10.0-beta6_release_for_kde4/

Some years ago, we had an addition to our family and I took a lot of photos in that time. During the months I had taken nearly 2000 images of the newborn, but most of them had red-eyes on it. Thi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-10_new_kipi-plugin_automatically_remove_red-eyes_in_batch_mode/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to start a new serie of KDE3 releases. The digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Noteworthy featur...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-10_digikam_0.9.5-beta1_release/

The 3rd beta release of digiKam plugins box is out. With this new release, Kipi-plugins are now compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available w...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-03_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-beta3_for_kde4_released/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the 5th beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. With this new rel...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-30_digikam_0.10.0-beta5_release_for_kde4/

Kipi-plugins 0.1.6 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url. This release will be the last one for KDE3 desktop. The team will concentrate work ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-13_kipi-plugins_0.1.6_release_for_kde3/

libkdcraw 0.1.6 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url. This release is a backport of current implementation from KDE4 based on LibRaw 0.6.1 R...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-10_libkdcraw_0.1.6_release_for_kde3/

"Et voilà..." This is an important stage for digiKam project. A native port under Microsoft Windows... Since digiKam code has been ported to Qt4/KDE4, multi-platform support become a reality. We...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-09_digikam_for_microsoft_windows/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the 4th beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Take care, it's a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-07_digikam_0.10.0-beta4_release_for_kde4/

To prepare the future Coding Sprint with kipi-plugins developpers, a second beta release of digiKam plugins box is out. See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release: G...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-06_kipi-plugins_0.2.0-beta2_for_kde4_released/

A coding sprint is planed to Genoa - Italy by me and Angelo Naselli. The goal of this event is to improve KDE4 digikam and kipi-plugins code. The event dates are set from 31 october to 2 november...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-10-02_digikam_event_kde_imaging_coding_sprint_planed/

Yes! a DNG converter for Linux... For a long time, many people asked me to implement a RAW camera image converter to Digital NeGative (DNG). Why should one support DNG under Linux? To improve int...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-09-28_digikam_has_a_new_tool_to_convert_raw_camera_files_to_dng/

3 weeks ago, i have received a mail from a contributor named Holger Berger. He send me a patch against dcraw implementation included in libkdcraw, to parallelize demosaicing operations using Open...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-09-24_digikam_has_a_new_friend_libraw/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the 3rd beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Take care, it's a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-09-03_digikam_0.10.0-beta3_release_for_kde4/

I am currently working with Andi Clemens to improve some important usability issues in Image Editor and Showfoto. In April, Risto Saukonpää, the designer (and photographer) who re-designed digi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-08-24_digikam_image_editor_usability_improvements_screencast/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the 2nd beta release dedicated to KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Take care, it's a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-08-01_digikam_0.10.0-beta2_release_for_kde4/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release version 0.9.4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Noteworthy features added since the last s...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-07-16_digikam_0.9.4_release/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the first beta release for KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. After one year of develo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-07-08_digikam_0.10.0-beta1_release_for_kde4/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-rc2. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3): General : external...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-07-06_digikam_0.9.4-rc2_release/

There is one year, Marcel and me we have started to port digiKam code to Qt4/KDE4. Yes, already one year of work...Tempus fugit... Helped by Laurent Montel, code have been ported progresivly. Thi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-28_preparing_first_0.10.0-beta1_for_kde4/

Since few weeks ago, the whole web site have been re-designed. The following task have been done: Gerhard Kulzer has migrated site CMS from Drupal 4.x to 6.x. All logo, page layouts, and graphism...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-28_digikam.org_re-designed/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-rc1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3): General : external...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-18_digikam_0.9.4-rc1_release/

After my first post about the new Fuzzy Searches tools included in digiKam for KDE4 to find images using sketch or to find similars images, a new search tool is now done to find all duplicates it...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-17_digikam_has_a_new_find_duplicates_images_tool/

One month ago, with Marcel, we have worked on a new sets of Search Tools in digiKam for KDE4, called Fuzzy Search During my digiKam presentation at LGM2008 i have introduced the concept to be abl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-10_digikam_fuzzy_search_tools_under_construction/

digiKam for KDE4 will become with another important tool for photograph: lens distorsions auto-correction. The plugin have been created by Adrian Schroeter from OpenSuse team. This tool have been...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-06_new_digikam_lens_auto-correction_tool/

After to have improved the geo-location view from right sidebar in digiKam for KDE4, following this blog entry, the story continue with a new powerfull search tool based on Marble Widget to be ab...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-06-06_digikam_map_search_tool_under_construction/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta5. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3): General : Englis...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-05-26_digikam_0.9.4-beta5_release/

Libre Graphics Meeting at Wroclaw (Poland) have been a great event. I has met several actors from open-source world working in graphics relevant projects as: Dave Cofin (Dcraw) Udi Fuchs (UFRaw) ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-05-13_digikam_at_lgm_2008_a_great_event/

digiKam has been awarded again as the TUX 2008 Readers’ Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool. We are very proud we received this prize, especially because it is a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-05-02_digikam_wins_tux_2008_readers_choice_award/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3): General ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-04-29_digikam_0.9.4-beta4_release/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta3. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3): General ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-04-08_digikam_0.9.4-beta3_release/

As KDE is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 (see this page for details) it would be great if we get some nice projects related to digiKam. If you are a student intereste...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-03-31_digikam_google_summer_of_code_-_call_for_students/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta2. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. Note! This release works only with t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-03-24_digikam_0.9.4-beta2_release/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. Note! This release works only with t...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-03-09_digikam_0.9.4-beta1_release/

DigiKam has come a long way since the early beginnings in 2002. It has come of age and deserves new cloths or a new 'corporate design' in today's parlance. To find a new slogan, a new logo, iconi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-02-18_wanted_new_slogan_logo_and_website_design/

Since digiKam 0.9.3 is released, i working hard to a new major feature for digiKam 0.9.4 : a Time-Line to perform complex date search around whole image collection. My first approach of Time-Line...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-01-20_digikam_has_a_new_time-line_view/

Like digiKam 0.9.3 have been released for Christmas time, it’s time to start next 0.9.4 release plan… and of course the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is yo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-12-30_digikam_0.9.4_splashscreens_call_to_photographers/

Dear all digiKam users, the team is really proud to deliver just in time for Xmas the final. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Don't forget to update Exiv2 to last stable release 0....

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-12-22_digikam_0.9.3_release_final/

The digiKam team releases 0.9.3-rc1. The tarball can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge. There is again a new very practical feature integrated: In the Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter side...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-12-08_digikam_0.9.3-rc1_release/

A wiki allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are used for collaborative websites, power community websites, and are gaining high interest from commercial companies to prov...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-11-23_digikam_wiki_page_started._we_need_contributors/

The digiKam releases 0.9.3-beta3 and its English documentation. The tarballs can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge. New Features The main window has yet another live filter: The new strin...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-11-21_digikam_0.9.3-beta3_release_doc_en/

The digiKam team is proud to release 0.9.3-beta2. The tarball can also be downloaded from SourceForge. This is not only a bug fix but, due to the development in the KDE4 branch, a few nice new fe...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-11-01_digikam_0.9.3-beta2_release/

For a long time now we have been planning to extend the amount of information we store in the database for the next version, 0.10, which will run on KDE4. As the database is the central storage a...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-10-17_renovating_our_foundations_new_database_schema/

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.3-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. (0.9.3 will probably be the last rel...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-10-08_digikam_0.9.3-beta1_release/

This week end, the team have voted to choose the splashscreens used with next release. You can seen the pictures below: digiKam 0.9.3 (KDE3) : Laurenz Gamper Showfoto 0.7.0 (KDE3) : Joel Koop dig...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-09-24_digikam_splashscreens_contest_and_the_winners_are/

With the next releases of the digiKam, the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-07-26_digikam_splashscreens_call_to_photographers/

Dear digiKam users, the digiKam team is happy to announce a new release of the advanced digital photo management application for linux. In addition to various bug-fixes and improvements, several ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-06-20_final_digikam_0.9.2_release_available/

Dear all digiKam fans! Some minor regression bugs led us to another release, the 0.9.2-beta3 release including an improved light table (full size images). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-06-03_digikam_0.9.2-beta3_release/

Dear all digiKam fans! The success story continues with the 0.9.2-beta2 release including a new light table (compare feature). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing. This be...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-05-28_digikam_0.9.2-beta2_release/

The new digiKam Light Table is currently under finalization on KDE repository. digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 will be released in a near future and will include this new tool as well. Today, i have released...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-05-23_video_of_new_digikam_light_table_in_action/

Today, after 1 week of developement, I have finished the first implementation of the new Light Table tool for digiKam. This is a first implementation, certainly uncomplete but suitable as well. I...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-05-07_digikam_has_a_new_light_table/

Dear all digiKam fans! With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This beta1 version is already very stabl...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-05-05_digikam_0.9.2_release_cycle_starts/

After two release candidates the digiKam team is proud again to present a major improvement to digiKam and its plugins. The many new features are highlighted below. For more information and resol...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-03-05_final_0.9.1_release_available/

Another step in 0.9.1 release cycle is accomplished: RC1 is available for download and testing from here. The sources are on sourceforge.net as well. A compiled Kubuntu package is here (thanks to...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-02-19_digikam_0.9.1-rc1_release/

After 8 days of intensive work, I'm very proud to announce the first LibKdcraw shared library 0.1.0 beta release. LibKdcraw is a C++ interface around a dcraw binary program used to decode RAW pic...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-02-19_first_beta_of_kdcraw_shared_library/

The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release digiKam 0.9.1 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.1. The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including digikamimage...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-02-19_digikam_and_digikamimageplugins_0.9.1-beta1_released/

The digiKam team is very proud to release the final 0.9.0 sources as a Xmas present to you. digiKam is complemented by a corresponding digikamImagePlugin release and a kipi-plugins introducing en...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-12-18_it_s_a_masterpiece_digikam_digikamimageplugins_0.9.0_major_release/

The digiKam team is proud to announce the second release candidate of digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0. The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005. After havin...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-12-11_digikam_and_digikamplugins_rc2_released/

The kipi-plugins team is proud to announce the first beta release of kipi-plugins 0.1.3 and libkipi 0.1.5. The kipi-plugins 0.1.3 series has been under heavy development since November 2005 and o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-12-04_kipi-plugins_0.1.3-beta1_released/

The digiKam team is proud to announce the first release candidate of digiKam 0.9.0 and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0. The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005 (more than 20...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-11-21_digikam_and_digikamimageplugins_0.9.0_release_candidate_1_published/

In the past days (also weeks...), we added more informations to the Digikam website. Browse it ! What's new New support page New contrib page Updated contact page Updated Download/SVN page (see b...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-11-17_digikam_website_updated_more_useful_informations_for_users/

Following the policy of the digiKam community to offer a high quality product to everybody, we are proud to present the new digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0-beta3 release. As usual, these ne...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-10-20_i_can_see_the_light_digikam-0.9.0-beta3_and_digikamimageplugins-0.9.0-beta3_have_been_released/

Here we go again: another step beyond on the path to the first stable release of the 0.9 series for digiKam and digikamImagePlugins. After a period of hard and intensive work, the digiKam communi...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-09-15_digikam_0.9.0-beta2_and_digikamimageplugins_0.9.0-beta2_are_out_there_catch_them/

The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0. The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November and this beta release o...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-07-21_digikam_0.9.0-beta1_and_digikamimageplugins_0.9.0-beta1_released/

The digiKam Team is pleased to announce the release of digiKam 0.8.2 and digiKamimageplugins 0.8.2. digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE, focused on importing, organizing and...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-07-18_digikam_and_digikamimageplugins_0.8.2_released/

The digiKam Team is pleased to announce digiKam 0.8.2-rc1. digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE, focussed on importing, organizing and editing digital photos. Aimed at all ty...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-05-10_digikam_0.8.2_rc1_released/

We are pleased to announce digiKam 0.8.2 beta1. New features: o display JPEG that use CMYK color space o Rating image using keyboard shortcuts CTRL+0/1/2/3/4/5 from main interface (#123646) o But...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-04-27_digikam_0.8.2-beta1_released/

We are pleased to announce digiKam 0.8.1. This version brings raw support, new icons, image rating, printing enhancements and in the meanwhile we also fixed some bugs. The noteworthy features in ...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-01-21_digikam_0.8.1/

For the next digiKam releases (0.8.1 and 0.9.0), we need photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splashscreens... SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The picture...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-01-06_splashscreen_contributions/

The digiKam team is pleased to bring to you the next generation of the user-friendly digital photo management software and its image plugins. The primary focus for this release is new ways of pho...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2005-11-25_digikam_0.8.0_released/

The new digikam image library DImg now supports ICC profiles using littlecms. littlecms is an open source color management engine which is used by krita as well and installed by default on most l...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2005-11-21_dimg_framework_supports_icc_profiles/

After a lot of hard work, I'm happy to announce the relaunch of our website. If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for the site, please give us your feedback. I would like to than...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2005-11-12_www.digikam.org_relaunch/

digiKam has been awarded the TUX 2005 Readers’ Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool. We are very proud we received this prize, especially because it is a prize fo...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2005-09-01_digikam_wins_tux_2005_readers_choice_award/

ThePodcastNetwork has made a great podcast, which is a review / tutorial of digiKam. It is an one hour audio file which guides you through the basics of digiKam and lets you hear how a new user e...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2005-08-19_digikam_podcast/

digiKam is an immensely powerful photo management application, and mastering it requires time and effort. This book can help you to learn the ropes in the most efficient manner. Instead of explai...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2000-01-01_digikam_recipes_book/

Building digiKam for dummies on Ubuntu. Updated according the latest, input, feedback and knowledge about the current process per Sept 17, 2011. The following guide is intended for Ubuntu users w...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2000-01-01_building_digikam_for_dummies_on_ubuntu_and_other_linux_based_distros/

Keep Your Photos Safe and Share Them with Others With digiKam, you can edit and manage photos, but how do you keep your processed and neatly organized shots safe and share them with others? Enter...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2000-01-01_b3_server/

As of yesterday, and from svn checkout only, when locating images with the kipi-plugin Geolocator, the altitude information is provided in addition to the lon, lat coordinated. In the KDE4 0.10 v...

https://www.digikam.org/news/2000-01-01_altitude_information_available_in_kipi_geolocator_plugin_3d_info/