[dot] Digikam 0.6 Released

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1076538780/

From: Diginymous <>
Dept: nobody-missing-mosfet
Date: Wednesday 11/Feb/2004, @23:33

Digikam 0.6 Released
====================

   After nearly one and half years of development Digikam
[http://digikam.sourceforge.net/] 0.6 and its plugin package
[http://digikam.sourceforge.net/plugins.html] have been released.
Digikam is a simple digital photo management application
[http://digikam.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html] which makes importing
and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in
albums which are automatically sorted chronologically. An easy to use
interface is provided to connect to your camera and preview images and
download and/or delete them. Behind the scenes Digikam utilizes gPhoto2
[http://gphoto.org/] to access your camera if it has no normal file
system.

     Other new features of this version are:
    * Simple Plugin architecture so that new plugins can be written for
      added functionality
    * Comments can be added for photos which are shown in the thumbnail
      display (along with file size and file modification date)
    * XML is used for saving the comments
    * Four different thumbnail sizes
    * EXIF information viewer
    * Lossless JPEG rotation support
    * Fast photo viewer/editor with keyboard shortcuts and basic image
      editing features like rotation, cropping,
      gamma/brightness/contrast correction (all without losing EXIF
      information)