Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 - GNOME 19-06-2006, Manual

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11.3 Managing Tags
Use tags to categorize any of your images to create manageable subsets of your collection. If, for
example, you would like to get some sort of order in your collection of portrait shots of your loved
ones, proceed like this:
1 Select the Browse mode of f-spot.
2 In the left frame of the f-spot window, select the People category, right-click it, then choose
Create New Tag . The new tags then appear as subcategories below the People category:
2a
Create a new tag called
Friends
.
2b Create a new tag called
Family
.
3
Now attach tags to images or groups of selected images. Right-click an image, choose Attach
Tag , and select the appropriate tag for this image. To attach a tag to a group of images, click the
first one then press Shift and select the other ones without releasing the Shift key. Right-click
for the tag menu and select the matching category.
After the images have been categorized, you can browse your collection by tag. Just check People >
Family and the displayed collection is limited to the images tagged
Family
. Searching your
collection by tag is also possible through Find > Find by Tag . The result of your search is displayed
in the thumbnail overview window.
Removing tags from single images or groups of images works similarly to attaching them. The tag
editing functions are also accessible via the
Tags menu in the top menu bar.
11.4 Search and Find
As mentioned in Section 11.3, “Managing Tags,” on page 144 , tags can be used as a means to find
certain images. Another way, which is quite unique to f-spot, is to use the Timeline below the
toolbar. By dragging the little frame along this time line, limit the images displayed in the thumbnail
overview to those taken in the selected time frame. f-spot starts with a sensibly chosen default time
line, but you can always edit the time span by moving the sliders to the right and left ends of the time
line.
11.5 Exporting Image Collections
f-spot offers a range of different export functions for your collections under File > Export . Probably
the most often used of these are Export to Web Gallery and Export to CD .
To export a selection of images to a web gallery, proceed as follows:
1 Select the images to export.
2 Click File > Export > Export to Web Gallery and select a gallery to which to export your
images or add a new one. f-spot establishes a connection to the Web location entered for your
web gallery. Select the album to which to export the images and decide whether to scale the
images automatically and export titles and comments.