digiKam

This week end, the team have voted to choose the splashscreens used with next release. You can seen the pictures below: digiKam 0.9.4: Michel Pottier Showfoto 0.8.0: Frédéric Martinot read more

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, iconized slash screen and web design has been itching me ... [More] and others for quite a while now. But those are sensitive and difficult subjects, in particular for us amateurs in that field. A contest is herewith opened to create such new cloths, closing end of march 2008. We shall then make a pre-selection and vote on the best candidates. I will act as coordinator and point of contact. Please supply your proposals to gerhard at kulzer dot net. Guide lines: Photography and FOSS should be the general context. read more [Less]

The German computer magazine c't will publish a special issue (subject: Mac) which includes a CD ROM with corresponding freeware and shareware programs (publishing date: april 2008). Your software "digiKam" has been pre-selected to be put on this CD ROM.

During my Christmas holliday, i have processed over 1000 RAW pictures taken with my Minolta Dynax 5D camera. In my workflow, i create PNG images from MRW raw files using editor as 16 bits color depth lossless compressed reference pictures, and later ... [More] PNG are batch converted to JPEG for publishing or printing. All my pictures are stored in a same album. I use icon-view filters to work on the right file accordinly with the context, especially the mime-type filter. I have discovered an usability problem with icon-view filters: it still active in all Albums from collection. If you set filters settings for an Album it will be used as well for another one. But when a setting is right for one album, it can be wrong for another one... read more [Less]

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 have been describe in this blog entry, including ... [More] this tool in calendar view. This way been limited and unadapted because calendar view is not a Search view as well. To solve this problem, i have created a new left sidebar tab named "timeline"... See below an advanced description of Time-Line tool in action: read more [Less]

From digiKam mailing and from blog entries over the web, a reccurent question is always ask : why my new Camera witch can provide RAW file is not supported by digiKam... To this question, the response is simple: digiKam use our libkdcraw C ... [More] interface including a fully tested version of dcraw program. This dcraw version can be an older release, depending of backport progress done by digiKam team. And of course this version support a dedicaced list of RAW camera files witch can not include the most recent RAW camera devices. To clarify the situation, i have implemented a small dialog available in help menu to list the RAW camera list supported by digiKam... read more [Less]

Currently, i'm working to a new tool that users waiting since a long time: a time-line... Work in progress come from this KDE bugzilla entry. Code still on my computer and is not yet available for testing. From this screenshot, the new ... [More] Time-Line widget have been added into the Calendar view for testing. This is not the right place of course, and my vision is to create a new tab in Date View from right sidebar called "Timeline". read more [Less]

A new year, a new digiKam release plan : 0.9.4... Today, i have added to svn a long work from KDE bugzilla about a new feature to show count of items into album folder views. The number of items contained in virtual or physical albums is now ... [More] displayed on the right of album name. If a tree branch is collapsed, parents album sum-up the number of items from all un-displayed children albums. read more [Less]

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 your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have ... [More] had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam! SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be choosen using a real photographer inspiration. read more [Less]

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 0.15 for digiKam to compile successfully. Many, many ... [More] thanks go to Gilles, Marcel, Arnd, Mik, Fabien and all the others who worked hard to create this great new release. This release sends a big parcel of useability improvements under your Xmas tree: If it was not already, organizing and navigation have become a snap now with the quick filters, drag&drop and GOTO features on top of an optimized lightable. digiKam 0.9.3 - Release date: 2007-12-23 read more [Less]