The new digiKam Light Table is currently under finalization on KDE repository. digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 will be released in a near future and will include this new tool as well.Today, i have released a new Flash capture of Light Table in action, used to compare similar pictures. Just click on preview below to show the file.



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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.

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.

In svn, Luka has added a new feature to change the icons size every where in sidebars (album view, date view, tags view, filter view, etc...). There is a new option in Setup General dialog page.Personally, i have added a new slider on the status bar to control finely the size of album thumbnails "à la iphoto". There is a fresh screenshot at this url

For next digiKam 0.9.2 release, planed around June 07, DigikamImagePlugins package will disappear as a separate package.They have been merged into svn during this week. I have been waiting to do it since a long time. After a discussion with digiKam team members (including some translators) on the mailing list, we have decided to perform the merging now. The reasons are listed below :- To solve usability issues in digiKam image editor. Some tools provided by DigikamImagePlugins are duplicate with core editor tool and bloat menu entries. Especially, these tools have been fused :

In digiKam 0.9.2, i have work on the editor black and white converter to simulate the analog films sensitivity.The way to do it is to use a conversion table of Gimp Channel Mixer for each film. Like digiKam Channel Mixer is a port to 16 bits of Gimp implementation, it have been easy to do...The tool dialog provide also a new slider to set the amount of Black and White Lens Filter.If you love Black and White photograph, you will love the new version of this tool...

On svn, i have updated (re-writted in fact) the CImg::Greycstoration algorithm interface to the last stable release available.Advantage : the algorithm is more flexible and can be updated easily (it have been integrated into CImg core). The old implementation of my interface hardcoded the algorithm directly in digiKam core...I have work hard with the CImg author to polish the alorithm implementation, especially about to fork the computation on more than one CPU and to clean up the multithreading management.The new algorithm is faster than old (around 2-3x). Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup plugin speed-up now !