I was suggested during last Libre Graphics Meeting edition, that Open Raster should use XMP for it metadata (XMP is the metadata specification that rules them all, exif, iptc... your own metatada specification as well). But until very recently, both the specification and the library were available under a very dubious license which was incompatible with GPL (and with a Open Formats). But Adobe did hear to our complaint, and decided to release under BSD. So, now nothing prevent a wider use in the Open Source world, and that's really cool.

So thanks to Adobe, and if you want to play w

Lets start this blog entry by the first artwork I did with the upcoming Krita 2:

And I must say, the developement version is really starting to be in a good shape, there are still a lot of annoying bug, but it only crashed once, which for a development version, which is still more than six month away of its release, is quiet amazing.

Then, back to the subject, I must say that this year edition of Libre Graphics Meeting was again a major success, and I am happy that I was able to attend it.

Today, after 1 week of developement, I have finished the first implementation of the new Light Table tool for digiKam.This is a first implementation, certainly uncomplete but suitable as well. I have follow the user tips from this bugzilla entry.Some screenshots of this tool in action can be seen following these links:- The Light Table with thumbbar pop-up menu.- How to Insert new item to Light Table using Album GUI pop-up menu.i Left and right side bar enable.

Today, after 1 week of developement, I have finished the first implementation of the new Light Table tool for digiKam.This is a first implementation, certainly uncomplete but suitable as well. I have follow the user tips from this bugzilla entry.Some screenshots of this tool in action can be seen following these links:- The Light Table with thumbbar pop-up menu.- How to Insert new item to Light Table using Album GUI pop-up menu.i Left and right side bar enable.

This is just a quick update of the ongoing LGM2 in Montreal. Some last minute complications prevented all the Scribus team members from being here, but LGM2 has been an excellent meet so far. In brief:We have announced the latest release of 1.3.3.9, 1.3.4 and the first public demo of 1.3.5, the port of Scribus [...]

Dear all digiKam fans!
With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This beta1 version is already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2 are rather used to improve usability than debugging.In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first. The english documentation can be downloaded as well.The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge.
The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well.

Dear all digiKam fans!
With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This beta1 version is already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2 are rather used to improve usability than debugging.In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first. The english documentation can be downloaded as well.The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge.
The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well.

Monday, 30 Apr 2007 01:01 GMT Sword
by Chrisdesign

I have been making some progress on image adjustment, I am now able to estimate the distortion parameter and to correctly position the images:

The main problem I got was that I was trying to estimate the distortion parameters with two different set, one for the first image, and one for the second. The goal was to be the most general as possible, in case some one wants to create an image with pictures taken with different lens (or with a different focal distance), but it's definitively not the most common use case, so it probably don't fit in Krita's use case for panorama creation.

Wednesday, 18 Apr 2007 22:29 GMT

Recently, the open clip art library's biggest contributor of artwork,JohnnyAutomatic reached his 500th clipart upload on the new site. At the time of writing, JohnnyAutomatic had uploaded 519 pieces of clipart. (view the stats page). An example of JohnnyAutomatic's work (the Toy Robot) can be seen to the left.