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Et voila... ...by the same way than TIFF and PNG, digiKam is now able to write JPEG2000 metadata on the fly. I have just patched Exiv2 library for that. See below a video demo of digiKam from KDE4 in action working with Metadata Editor over a JPEG2000 file and writting digiKam info to another PNG file.read more

It's holliday time for me currently. Since two week, i still in south of France near Mediterranean sea. Summer is nice to play on the beach with my familly. But for my hot brain, it's difficult to still without a little programming task to do for ... [More] open-source world... Here i don't have a speed internet connection. My laptop (a Toshiba Satellite) has a winmodem which run only under Windows Vista. It's not easy to sync my local copy of current subversion implementation of digiKam and co. So i need to work on other important stuff where source code no need to be synchronized every day to play with it: Exiv2read more [Less]

Here is a joke of a review titled 'Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment'. It even fails at wanting to compare FOSS software against Aperture as it compares mainly non-FOSS programs. It ignores digiKam and ufraw, krita. But read the reader comments below the article and on Slashdot: digiKam is by far the recommended solution!

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 stable release include auto-gamma and auto-whitebalance ... [More] support for RAW files in 16bit mode, displaying the number of contained items in the overview for all albums, usability improvements, as usual a lot of bug fixes - see below for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs. read more [Less]

For the upcoming 0.10 version we have taken the step to completely rewrite the searching functionality, both the backend and the user interface. Our new database layout allows us to offer much more search options, as we now store in the database what ... [More] we consider useful to the photographer, and storing in the database is prerequisite for searching. The old search interface from the current stable KDE3 line 0.9 allowed to create quite complex logically combined queries, but had only a limited amount of information about a picture that it could actually search. When adding a lot more options, the UI would not scale well. read more [Less]

Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release the first 0.10.0-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. After one year of developement, porting code to KDE4/Qt4 api, and backporting new ... [More] features from KDE3 branch, we have decided to make a first try with this beta release. But take care, it's a BETA code with many of new bugs not yet fixed... To resume:read more [Less]

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 libsqlite3 dependency removed. sqlite3 source ... [More] code is now included in digiKam core (see B.K.O #160966). General : English words review in whole GUI by Oliver Dörr.read more [Less]

There is one year, Marcel and me we ave started to port digiKam code to Qt4/KDE4. Yes, already one year of work...Tempus fugit...read more

Since few weeks ago, the whole web site have been re-designed. The following task have been done:read more

Like i have previously said in this post, for the next major release of Exiv2, the Tiff metadata writting mode will be available. Duing a lack of Exif metadata support in libtiff, we cannot use this library to backup all metadata from a converted ... [More] RAW file. We cannot use this library to play only with metadata without to touch whole image data. Of course we use it in editor to convert image to Tiff, but that allread more [Less]