Currently implemented features include:

Viewer

• display JPEG, PNG (alpha layer supported), GIF, XCF, PSD, etc. files;
• open several directories, and archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, rar, ...);
• apply filters to displayed image;
• preview, fullscreen, slideshow, ``fit-to-screen'', efficient zoom;
• open files with external programs;
• support EXIF header (JPEG file metadata);
• display a hexadecimal view;
• play yout video files.

Management

• manage all you photos (in a database using KexiDB () ;
• batch rename;
• search for exact and similar images;
• several formats conversion;
• manage photo albums.

Configuration

• kipi plugins supported (see kipi plugin homepage);
• configurable interface.

Click the 'Read more' link below to see if there has been an update to this list of features.

Photographing is very popular (or is it over already?). When you want to make them publically available there is always the trouble how to do that. Untill now Digikam, KPhotoAlbum, Showimg and Gwenview where a bit low on features in this regard.

With the release of the second release candidate of the kipi-plugins there are two new plugins which you can use with all above applications.

Click the 'Read more' link to learn more and see the screenshots. 

The most stable KipiPlugins tarball is version 0.1.0-rc2.
Currently implemented plugins are:

• NEW SimpleviewerExport: export your images in a nice flash movie.
• NEW HTMLGallery: export your images to HTML
• RawConverter: A raw image converter for digital cameras.
• SlideShow: Slideshow with effects ripped out from kslideshow and 3D effects using OpenGL.
• MpegEncoder: Create an MPEG slideshow from your images.
• PrintWizard: A wizard to print images in various format.
• JpegLossLess: Batch process your JPEG images without losing meta information and compression.
• CdArchiving: Archive your albums on CD or DVD using K3b.
• ScanImages: Scanner management using Kooka.
• ScreenshotImages: Snap screen based on KSnapshot and adapted to Kipi.
• Calendar: A plugin to create calendars.
• SendImages: A plugin to send images by email, allowing resizing and recompressing before sending.
• RenameImages: Batch image renamer.
• ConvertImages: Batch image converter.
• BorderImages: Add border to your images in batch.
• FilterImages: Batch image enhancer using digital filters.
• ColorImages: Batch image color enhancer.
• EffectImages: Batch image transformation effects.
• ResizeImages: Batch image resizer.
• RecompressImages: Batch image recompressor.
• FindDuplicateImages: Find duplicate images in albums.
• WallPaper: Set your image as wallpaper.
• TimeAdjust: Adjust image file time and date.
• GalleryExport: Interface for export images collections to remote Gallery web server.
• KameraKlient: Digikam 0.6.2 Gphoto2 interface ported as a Kipi plugin. Note: this plugin is disabled in digiKam release >= 0.7.x because this part have been re-written from scratch using KIO Slaves.

libKipi core is stable and has been released as libkipi 0.1.3.

Click the 'Read more' link below to see if there has been an update to this list of features.

digiKam is an advanced digital photo 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.

Tired of the directory constraints? Don’t worry, digiKam also provides tagging functionality. You tag your images which can be spread out across multiple folders and digiKam provides fast and intuitive ways to browse these tagged images. You can also add comments to your images. digiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store these meta-information which makes adding and editing of comments and tags very reliable.

digiKam makes use of KIPI plugins for lots of added functionality. KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an initiative to create a common plugin infrastructure for digiKam, KimDaBa, Showimg, and GwenView. Its aim is to allow development of image plugins which can shared among KDE graphical applications.

An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images. Basic auto-transformations can be operate on the fly during pictures downloading.

The digiKam Image Editor has its own plugin subsytem which some core plugins (for eg, redeye correction) provided with the main application. Additional plugins are available from DigiKamImagePlugins. These plugins provide new image enhancement options like color managment, image filters, or special effects.

A stand alone image editor version named ShowFoto is also available. This one run without digiKam images database support, but support all Image Editor plugins.

During last weekend I managed to find some time to continue developing the web interface for digikam that I mentioned in a previous blog entry, so I added some new features:

Currently I have 21458 photos according to digikam's database (which are using 13 Gb according to du ). When someone asks me to put some album in my web server I hate to lose my time exporting to html, generating thumbnails and resized 1024x768 versions of my pictures which occupy space in my HD that I'm usually hesitant to remove.

Also, when kimdaba exports the images to html, it includes the associated tags, but digikam doesn't. which makes digikam's web exports be a bit unusable for me.

So last saturday evening I started a new project: Creating a web interface to digikam.