Translations by Silviu Bojica

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

mdke@ubuntu.com (Matthew East)

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

Movies, DVDs and videos

Playing DVDs

Photos and cameras

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.

For help with <application>F-Spot Photo Manager</application>, see the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:f-spot">F-Spot User Guide</ulink>.

Watch a slideshow of photos

If you want to show off your photos in all of their glory, why not run a slideshow of them?

Setting a Slideshow as Your Screensaver

You can use a slideshow of your photos as you screensaver:

Press <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Screensaver</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Select the <guilabel>F-Spot photos</guilabel> screensaver theme

Open F-Spot

Press <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Edit</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

Press <guibutton>Close</guibutton>

Printing photos

Printing your photos is great way to share them with others.

Double-click the photo you want to print to open it in the <application>Image Viewer</application>

Under <guilabel>Format for</guilabel>, select the printer which you are going to use

Under <guilabel>Paper size</guilabel>, select the size of the paper which you are going to print the photo onto

Under <guilabel>Orientation</guilabel>, choose the orientation of the photo on the paper

Press <guibutton>Apply</guibutton>

Change any settings as appropriate (see below)

Press <guibutton>Print</guibutton> to print the photo

Printer Settings

Make sure that you select your printer from the list on the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab to get the full range of settings supported by your printer.

Different makes of printer will have different printer settings. The settings below are only provided as a guide for what you may be able to change with your particular printer.

Paper Type

The paper type that you use has a large impact on the quality of your printed photo. You should set the paper type to match the paper which you are using in your printer to prevent poor results. Using a <emphasis>glossy</emphasis> paper type with only <emphasis>plain</emphasis> paper loaded into your printer will generally produce poor results, for example.

This setting may automatically change the amount of ink which is used, in order to get the best results and to prevent smudging. How this is handled will depend on your printer.

Print Quality

Print quality is generally measured in <emphasis>DPI</emphasis> (dots per inch). A greater DPI value should result in better print quality.

Choose <guilabel>Draft</guilabel> for making quick draft prints which don't use much ink

Choose <guilabel>Best Quality</guilabel> or <guilabel>Photo</guilabel> for making high quality prints. Printing will be slower and will use more ink

Advanced Photo Printing

PhotoPrint allows you to fine-tune your printing settings.

Under <guilabel>Page Size</guilabel>, change the page size to the size of paper that you want to print onto.

Under <guilabel>Layout</guilabel>, change the number of columns and rows to reflect the number of photos that you want to put onto a page

Sharing your photos