digiKam 5.2.0 Linux RAW Image Editor Introduces a New Red Eyes Tool, Bug Fixes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The digiKam developers were proud to announce the release of the second maintenance update to the digiKam 5 latest stable series of the free and open source RAW image editor for GNU/Linux operating systems.

digiKam 5.2.0 is here more than a month since the previous point release, digiKam 5.1.0, and introduces a new and smarter red eyes tool that promises to automatize the entire red-eyes effect reduction operation by processing the face detection on the whole image using a new algorithm written Omar Amin during Google Summer of Code 2016.

Omar Amin’s algorithm is designed in such a way that it can recognize shapes automatically, and then tries to find eyes on people’s faces that have a direct flash reflection on the retina, which causes the red eyes effect. The new Red Eyes tool is available in both the Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager.

“The algorithm have been very optimized for speed efficiency and for small memory fingerprint,” reads the <a href="https://ww… (read…

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