[Digikam-devel] 0.8.0-beta1 release announcement.
Gilles Caulier
caulier.gilles at free.fr
Tue Aug 23 07:45:56 BST 2005
Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 08:43 AM, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> Release announcement attached:
>
> 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 photo organization and searching. This release is the result of
> 4 months of development and we hope it will be as much fun for
> you to use it as we had developing it.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The noteworthy features in this release:
>
> * NEW USER INTERFACE: Albums and Tags have been separated out into
> different views and these views are collapsible.
> * PHOTO DATES AND COMMENTS: Photos are now scanned for their
> metadata which is then stored in the database. The EXIF
> timestamp (if available) is used for sorting and searching.
> * DATE BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: Each corresponding to the month in
> which the pictures were taken. Its also possible to filter this
> view to show photos from single or multiple day(s) and week(s)
> * SEARCHING: Two interfaces have been implemented for searching
> on photos:
> - QUICK SEARCH: a keyword based search which also allows
> date based lookups
> - ADVANCED SEARCH: build rules and groups of rules to do
> very precise searches.
> - LIVE FEEDBACK: Both searches show instant results based on
> the current search criteria
> * SEARCH BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: The searches can be saved as
> virtual folders and its possible to edit the search criterion
> later.
> * TAG FILTERING: A new view has been added to the right side
> which allows quick drag and drop tag assignments and also
> filtering of photos in the current view. This view is again
> collapsible
> * ALBUM LOCATION INDICATOR: When photos are shown from a virtual
> folder (tag, date or search), the photos are grouped together
> based on album locations.
> * MEMORY OPTIMIZATION: Thumbnails are now loaded on demand
> and only a fixed cache of thumbnails is kept in memory
> * NEW THEMES: Dark, Sandy and Orange Crush
> * BACKEND CHANGES:
> - Database upgraded to sqlite3
> - New kioslaves for handling date, search, tag, album listing
> * SHOWFOTO : new slide show tool
> * IMAGE PLUGIN CHANGES :
> - Plugin dialogs have been revamped for better usability
> and easier comparison of filter effects.
> - Plugin computations are now threaded
> - Plugin preview is now resizable.
> - BigEndian fixes.
> * NEW IMAGE PLUGIN FEATURES :
> - Aspect Ratio Crop : new photograph composition guide tool based
> on Fibonacci series (golden mean).
> - New Color AutoCorrection tool with preview
> (Normalize, Autolevels, Equalize, and Stretch Contrast).
> - Free Rotation : Auto crop and antialiasing options.
> - Shear Tool : Antialiasing option.
> * NEW IMAGE PLUGINS :
> - Refocus : An advanced sharpness editor
> - HotPixels : An hot pixels removal tool to fix bad pixels from
> camera CCD.
>
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>
> Further information about digiKam and digiKamImagePlugins is
> available from the following websites:
>
> http://www.digikam.org
> http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins
Nice (:=)))... Let's go...
Gilles
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