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Besides a few tweaks and fixes as well as a new front cover, this release includes the following new material:

• Show Photos on Google Earth and Google Maps
• The Host Your Own Photo Gallery with Piwigo appendix now covers the Piwigo app for Android

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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Although digiKam can handle RAW files, a dedicated application for processing RAW files can come in useful in many situations. There are several excellent open source RAW editors available on Linux (and Windows, for that matter), but Darktable is probably the most powerful and user-friendly application among them. Darktable offers a comprehensive set of tools for processing, organizing, and exporting RAW files. More importantly, Darktable’s advanced functionality is wrapped into an elegant and easy-to-use interface, making it easier to get to grips with the application. In short, if you shoot in RAW, Darktable makes a perfect companion to digiKam.

If you are ready to integrate Darktable into your photographic workflow, the Concise Guide to Darktable provides an introduction to the application’s features and essential tools. The best part? When you buy the digiKam Tricks book, you receive a copy of the Concise Guide to Darktable free of charge. This offer ends on Monday October 31, so act now before it’s too late.

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As the number version suggests, this is a minor release which features a handful of tweaks and corrections as well as improved compatibility with the Cool Reader app for Android.

Although attention in this release was focused on tweaks and fixes, the book includes the following new material:

• Disable Certain File Types
• Use the Focal Length Analyzer Script with digiKam

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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This release includes the following new material:

• Import Photos in digiKam
• Process Photos with digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager and a Bash Script

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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This release includes the following new material:

• Assign Keyboard Shortcuts to Tags
• Configure the Main Toolbar in digiKam
• Host Your Own Photo Gallery with Piwigo

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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Here is what’s new in this release:

• Updated screenshots
• Minor tweaks and fixes
• Revised Appendix C

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This release features a concise introduction to the Rawstudio tool for processing RAW files.

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This release includes two new topics:

• Process RAW Files in digiKam
• Generate HTML Photo Galleries

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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This is a major release of the digiKam Tricks book, featuring a completely revised and updated content that reflects changes in the upcoming version 2.0 of the digiKam photo management application. In addition to that, the book includes the following new material:

• Batch Process Photos in digiKam
• Manage Photos from Multiple digiKam Installations
• Use Color Labels and Picks (digiKam 2.0)
• Tag Faces with the Face Recognition Feature (digiKam 2.0)
• Use Versioning for Non-destructive Editing (digiKam 2.0)
• APPENDIX A: Set up Photographic Workflow with digiKam

Readers who already purchased the book will receive the new version free of charge. If you haven’t received your copy, please send your order confirmation as proof of purchase to dmpop@linux.com, and I’ll email you the latest version of the book.

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Storing your photos on a server or network disk? Want to manage them from several Linux-based machines using digiKam? Here is how to do that.

First of all, you need to mount the directory on the server containing the photos on your machine. Assuming your server is running Linux and you can connect to it via SSH, you can mount the remote directory using sshfs. To do this, you need to install the sshfs package first. On Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distributions, you can do this by executing the apt-get install sshfs command as root. Next, run the id command and note the uid and gid values for your account (e.g., uid=1000 gid=1000). Use then the following command to mount a server directory on your machine:

sshfs user@host:/path/to/dir /mountpoint -o idmap=user -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000

Replace user with the name of the existing user on the server and host with the IP address of the server. Replace /path/to/dir with the path to the directory on the server and /mountpoint with the directory on your machine that will be used as a mount point. Once the directory has been mounted, you can use the files in it as they were on your own machine. To unmount the directory, use the fusermount command as follows:

fusermount -u /mountpoint

Next, you have to configure digiKam to use a MySQL database as its back-end. This would require, of course, a MySQL installation running either on your own server or on another remote machine. The Use digiKam with MySQL article provides detailed instructions on how to make digiKam work with MySQL.

The rest is easy. In digiKam, choose Settings » Configure digiKam and switch to the Collections section. Press the Add Collection button next to the Local Collections entry, then add the folder that contains the photos from the mounted remote directory as a new album.

In a similar manner, you can configure digiKam on any other machine you want to use to manage photos stored on the server.