DigikamImagePlugins

What is it?

DigikamImagePlugins are a collection of plugins for digiKam Image Editor and ShowFoto. These plugins add new image treatment options like color management, filters, or special effects.

Table of contents

• Descriptions
• Documentation
• Download
• Compilation
• Depencies
• Screenshots
• Contact
• Bug Reports and Wishes
• Team
• TODO
• Status

Descriptions

Currently implemented plugins are listed below:

• Image improvements:
  • Adjust levels : a tool to adjust the photograph histogram levels manually.
  • Adjust curves : a tool to adjust the photograph colors using curves.
  • Noise Reduction : a photograph noise reduction filter.
  • Unsharp : a photograph unsharp mask filter to unblur picture without increase noise.
  • Lens Distortion : a tool for correct lens spherical aberration on photograph.
  • Anti Vignetting : a tool for correct vignetting on photograph.
  • Channel Mixer : a tool to mix the photograph color channels.
  • White Balance : a tool to adjust white color temperature balance of photograph.
  • Photograph Restoration : a tool to reduce photograph artefacts using CImg library.
  • Photograph Inpainting : a tool to remove unwanted photograph area using CImg library.
  • Photograph Refocus : a sharpness editor to refocus a photograph (SVN only).
  • Hot Pixels Correction : a tool to remove photograph hot pixels generated by a deficient camera CCD (SVN only).
  
  
• Transformation tools:
  • Free Rotation : a plugin to rotate a photograph with a free angle in degrees.
  • Shear Tool : a plugin to shear a photograph horizontally and vertically.
  • Perpective Tool : a plugin to adjust the photograph perpective.
  • Blowup Photograph : a plugin to blowup a photograph without less image quality using CImg library.
  
  
• Image tools:
  • Template Superimpose : a tool for superimpose a template on photograph.
  • Add Border : a tool for add border around a photograph.
  • Insert Text : a tool for insert text under a photograph.
  • Apply Texture : a tool to apply a decorative texture to a photograph.
  
  
• Special effects:
  • Solarize : a plugin to solarize a photograph.
  • Oil Paint : simulate oil painting on photograph (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Emboss : an effect filter to emboss photograph (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Rain Drops : adding the visual effect of raindrops on photograph (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Charcoal : simulate charcoal drawing on photograph.
  • FilmGrain : simulate film grain on photograph.
  • Infrared : simulate infrared film effect on photograph.
  • Blur FX : apply bluring special effects on photograph (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithms).
  • Distortion FX : apply distortion special effects on photograph (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithms).

Documentation

The current digiKam image editor plugins handbooks from SVN can be consulted here.

Download

DigikamImagePlugins is available from KDE SVN repository, in the extragear-graphics module.
You can download the last daily SVN snapshot available of this module here.

Also, you can download the source code directly by SVN like this:

% svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics
% cd graphics
% svn up digikamimageplugins
% svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common/admin

The current official release tarball is available at the digiKam download page.

Some unofficial and non-free templates for testing 'Template Superimpose' plugin can be found at this url.
We need contributions for create more free templates package.

Compilation and installation

digiKam from KDE SVN must be compiled and installed before to compile DigikamImagePlugins. The procedure is listed below:

export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --enable-debug=full
make
su
make install

Depencies

AutoConf >= 2.5
AutoMake >= 1.7.0
KDE 3.x
digiKam >= 0.7.3

Screenshots

digiKam Image Editor Setup	Solarize	Noise Reduction
Emboss	Charcoal	Oil Paint
Unsharp Mask	Rain Drops	Adjust Levels
Free Rotation Tool Correcting a Photograph	Adjust Curves Tool Correcting Photograph Red Channel	Film Grain Tool Apply on Black and White Photograph
Shear Tool Correcting a Photograph	Lens Distortion Tool in Action	Anti Vignetting Tool in Action
Perspective Adjustment Correcting a Photograph	Add Border Tool in Action	Template Superimpose Tool in Action
Insert Text Tool in Action	Infrared Tool Converting Color Landscape Photograph	Blur Effects Tool simulate Zoom focus lens Effect
Distortion FX with 'Fish Eyes' Effect	Channel Mixer Tool Converting Color Photograph to BW	Apply Texture Tool in Action
White Color Balance Tool Correcting Over-Exposed Photograph	Photograph Restoration Tool correcting an old BW photo	Photograph Inpainting Tool Removing unwanted image area
Blowup Tool using to resize-up a very small image (under ShowFoto)	The sharpness editor to Refocus a photograph	The Hot Pixels Tool in action

Contacts

If you want to implement a new plugin or just speak about it, you're welcome to join the digikam-devel@kde.org mailing list.

The mailing-list archives can be consulted at this url.

Bug reports and Wishes

For Bug reports and wishes, please use KDE Bug Tracking System.
The current bugs/wishes list is available at this url.

Team

Main developer and coordinator :

Gilles Caulier from digiKam project.

Contributors :

Pieter Voloshyn : image filter algorithms.
Gerhard Kulzer : handbooks writer.
Renchi Raju : developer from digiKam project.
Unai Garro : developer.

Roadmap to 0.8.0 release

TODO	Common plugins tasks Fix PPC compatibilities. Specific plugin tasks
Completed	Common plugins tasks New plugin dialogs layout resizeable. New plugin preview effects resizeable. Using theaded interface to compute image filter. Specific plugin tasks New plugin to 'Refocus' a photograph. New plugin to fix 'Hot Pixels' on a photograph (by Unai Garro). New FreeRotation and Shear algorithms from Pieters using antialising filter.
Wishlists (mostly for Post 0.8.0 release)	Common plugins tasks Specific plugin tasks More templates for SuperImpose plugin (need contributors). New plugin to correct optical aberrations based on CLens.

Status

The current stable version is 0.7.4. The current unstable version is 0.8.0-beta1.

Release Date Version 0.7.3:

30.04.2005

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