[Digikam-devel] digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.7.4

[Tom Albers]

 digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.7.4 final releases are out for your 
photograph management and correction pleasure.

 Last month we released 0.7.3, now we present the latest and last version in 
the 0.7 release cycle: 0.7.4. This new version is almost the same as the 
previous,  but it contains a lot of updates, provided by the translators.

 The tarballs of digiKam became pretty big due to the detailed documentation 
digiKam has. That is why we splitted the tarball into the main application 
and a seperate tarball for the documentation. 

 With this release one crash is fixed as well. More information about that can 
be found at: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109946

 Last, but not least, there are already Kubuntu packages available. See below 
for the location.

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<<< About digiKam >>>

 digiKam is a digital photograph management application for KDE, which makes 
importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized 
in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by 
custom collections. Additionally images can be tagged and these tagged images 
can be viewed in virtual albums. 

 An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your 
camera and preview, download and/or delete your images. 

 digiKam includes a fast Image Editor with a few advanced image editing tools. 
You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs and to make corrections 
and alterations. A stand alone version of image editor named ShowFoto is also 
available. 

 Note to packagers : ShowFoto program is independant of digiKam core. digiKam 
is only require during ShowFoto compilation, but ShowFoto program has no 
dependency on digiKam.

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<<< About DigikamImagePlugins >>>

 DigikamImagePlugins are a collection of plugins for digiKam's Image 
Editor and ShowFoto. These plugins add new image treatment options like color 
management, filters, or special effects:

- Adjust curves : a tool to adjust the image colors using curves. 
- Adjust levels : a plugin to adjust the image histogram levels manually.
- Despeckle : a noise reduction filter.
- Unsharp Mask : An unsharped mask image filter.
- Free Rotation : a plugin to rotate an image with a free angle in degrees. 
- SolarizeImage : a plugin to solarize an image.
- OilPaint : an oil painting effect filter.
- Emboss : an embossed image effect filter.
- Raindrops : adding the visual effect of raindrops to an image.
- Charcoal : a charcoal drawing image effect filter.
- FilmGrain : simulate film grain to an image.
- LensDistortion : lens distortion correction tool.
- Anti-Vignetting : lens vignetting correction tool.
- Perspective : a tool for adjust photograph perspective.
- ShearTool : a tool for adjust photograph shearing.
- AddBorder : a tool for add decorative border around photograph.
- Superimpose : a tool for superimpose funny template under photograph.

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<<< Download >>>

 You can download the four source tarballs from this page :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/

 If you run Kubuntu Hoary and prefer binairy packages :
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/hoary/Pkgs.php

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 If you want more informations about digiKam project, please consult the 
official web project page available at this url :

    http://www.digikam.org

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Tom Albers