Translations by Malcolm Parsons

ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com (Ubuntu Documentation Project)

mdke@ubuntu.com (Matthew East)

2006-09-07

All about playing music and video files, CDs, DVDs as well as importing, managing and editing your photos and pictures.

Playing DVDs

There are many tools available to help you to work with your digital photo collection.

Ubuntu automatically detects most digital cameras when you plug them in, and will offer to import your photos automatically.

To import photos from your camera:

Plug-in and switch on the camera by placing it in review mode. Ubuntu should ask you if you would like to import the photos that the camera contains.

Click on <guibutton>Import</guibutton>. You should then see a preview of the photos.

Choose a location to save your photos to, then click on <guibutton>Import</guibutton>. The photos will be saved to your hard drive.

If Ubuntu does not ask you if it can import the photos:

Organize your photo collection

<application>F-Spot</application> provides a complete solution for managing your photo collection. To start it, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Graphics</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>F-Spot Photo Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

With <application>F-Spot</application>, you can import photos from your digital camera or USB stick, tag them with familiar terms, do touch ups, and edit them in different ways. In addition to this, you can upload photos easily to your Flickr, PicasaWeb album and other online photo galleries.

Edit and improve photos

Sometimes, you may need to adjust or touch-up a photo to make it look better or to remove some flaw. <application>F-Spot</application> includes a few basic tools for doing this. To access these tools, press the <guibutton>Edit Photo</guibutton> button and then click on one of the tools at the bottom of the screen.

The <application>GIMP Image Editor</application> is much more advanced. It is installed in Ubuntu by default, and can be started by choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Graphics</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>GIMP Image Editor</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

The GIMP has many professional-level features. It includes tools for selections, drawing, creating paths, masks, filters, effects, and more.

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