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1. 20 S L Whe Viewer co weoi ub Se E EORR WR ROS RR RR EAE eue ROADS 23 5 2 Theviewerscontextmen 29s os Roo oe oy ee tte doe EE Voy e x Poe e y Oy voy e 24 53 Zooming IN ThE VIeWer soo eae Re RSE Rae EUR RC CR DOR RR ao 25 5 4 Zooming inthe viewer eee eh mm 26 55 AnlmagewithTokens 2 m m dk oe Ro RR eR RR m m E URGE e 27 5 6 Tokens seeninthe Browser ceses le hh m ns 28 5 7 Tokens seen in the Thumbnail Viewer 29 5 8 Selecting Categories in Viewer s e seco t eosa ehm ns 29 5 9 Selecting Exact Words in Viewer s s 22s 30 6 1 The Date Bat sima ste eR Re RE EARS RR RU E Das a 32 6 2 The Date Bar Showing 10 Minutes Intervals 33 7 1 HTML Generator Content 36 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook vii 7 2 HTML Generator Layout Configuration 37 7 3 HTML Generator Destination 38 8 1 Matching People in the Import Dialog 40 10 1 Genera OptionS s cs ns Bae Re Sa ue Ae UR he Pee TR ee 43 10 2 File Searching amp Versions lt s sica pi2. You may notice that the item Pet s has a special icon For details about that see Section 10 5 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 14 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save Home Forward Redisplay gt ud Media Type txt Exif Info Untagged Images sd 00 2003 2004 1 Month all gt Jesper Im 13 matches Total 25 Figure 3 3 Browser limited to the scope of the person Jesper If we now continue selecting a new person then we will get to the images containing both people Continuing that way you can narrow the set of images that you have in mind down to a few images from a set of thousands When you are done limiting the scope of images you may select the View Thumbnails icon to see exactly those images matching your current scope The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 15 53 3 4 Adding Preview Images to the Browser Looking at Figure 3 2 you will see that each person has the same icon in front of his name KPhotoAlbum is actually capable of showing a preview image for each individual person as can be seen in Figure 3 4 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help save Home lt Back gt Forward Redisplay 2 a em Figure 3 4 Images for each Individual Person To show images along with the names choose the tool button to the very right of the toolbar that will bring up a
3. 11 Workflows with KPhotoAlbum 11 1 RAW workflow using KPhotoAlbum and Bibble5 12 Frequently asked questions 13 Credits and Licenses 39 39 40 41 52 53 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook vi List of Figures 2 1 Starting KPhotoAlbum with your own images 4 2 2 Context menu for editing properties 9 2 3 Annotating images and rs 6 24 Browser showing USA as 8 2 5 Categories shown in alphabetical view of the annotation dialog lll 9 2 6 Showing previously hidden windows 10 3 1 Browser when images and videos have been annotated 12 32 Browser window when People was selected 22e 13 3 3 Browser limited to the scope ofthe person Jesper ees 14 3 4 Images for each Individual Person 15 3 5 Category BditoE e e 4 a RU xL ha ee BO al Pose RA m aU ae ae 16 3 6 Search dialog naso ee e CR Ro GS RR ACR A RS we e 17 4 1 Thumbnail View 4 s socra m ob RE RO ae Be ea ae em ede RO a 18 42 Deleting lmages momo A ee ee Re Roe ce Row x e woe wee 19 4 3 KPhotoAlbum in Offline
4. 53 7 3 The Destination page On the destination page you specify several directories and URL s specifying where your pages go The philosophy is that you specify a base directory for all your generations and for each generation specify a new subdirectory Destination Content Base directory home mturkia public_html m Layout Base URL file Aome mturkia public html ol URL for final destination file home mturkia public html oun directory Hint Press the help button for descriptions of the fields Figure 7 3 HTML Generator Destination Configuration First you need to specify the base directory for all your images This directory will be remembered from session to session and allows you to once and for all tell where all subsequent images should go Here you may specify a directory or any protocol supported by KDE Examples includes ftp someserver my upload area images upload using FTP fish someserver home foo images upload using ssh smb someserver c images upload to a Windows share Once you are done generating your images you may want to check whether they are really available to your audience If you specify a URL in the Base URL line edit a web browser will be spawned once HTML pages has been generated The URL you specify here should match the directory you specified above Thus the web browser will be started on the subdirectories of this URL Once you have generated HTML pages yo
5. Tokens Folder Media Type Date 25 Nov 5 10 23 Image Size 800x532 0 4MP Keywords Places Label sunset Set as Wallpaper Invoke External Program Make Category Image Filters Annotate Ctri 1 Set as First Image in Stack Ctri 4 Show EXIF Viewer Close Esc Figure 5 2 The viewer s context menu Some of the words in the info box is underlines If you click the mouse on one of these words the browser see Chapter 3 will go into scope of that item Thus if you click on Anne Helene the browser will show you all images of Anne Helene just as it would have done if you selected People from the root of the browser and next selected Anne Helene In the info box you can see a small button with the KPhotoAlbum logo Pressing that button will get you to the thumbnail viewer The thumbnail view will display all images and the image you just had in the viewer will be selected The idea behind this is the following you browse to a given person and look at the images of that person One of the images is from say your high school time and now you want to see images from that period of time Using the Jump to Context button you are brought to the thumbnail view showing all images with the current one being in focus and likely all your high school pictures around it In case you have loaded several images into the viewer you can go forth and back using Page Up and Page Down You can go to the first and last images using Home an
6. oS P People txt Media Type Exif Info Untagged Images Show Thumbnails M NM 2000 ke 1 Month SJE 25 matches Total 25 Figure 2 1 Starting KPhotoAlbum with your own images The key feature of KPhotoAlbum is that you can annotate your images This includes who is on a given image where it is taken etc You can do this either one image at a time or you can annotate a number of images simultaneously For example all these images contain the person Jesper and is taken in Copenhagen To annotate an images select the images in question and go to Edit Annotate Individual Items Now you annotate your selected images one after the other If you instead choose Annotate Multiple Items at a Time you will annotate all the selected items as if it was one single item In other words with this option you mass annotate your image e g saying all these images were shot in Copenhagen These two options are also available from a context menu that you get by right clicking the mouse in the thumbnail overview or using keyboard shortcut An example of this can be seen in Figure 2 2 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 5 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save 4p Home Back gt Forward Redisplay Annotate Individual Items Annotate Multiple Items at a Time Merge Images into a Stack Remove Images from Stack Set as First Image i in Stack Run S
7. 1 As the name indicates it shows date statistics over the images in your database KPhotoAlbum Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help save d Home lt SBack gt Forward Redisplay 7 Run Slide Show Search Y 7 B Media Type Latin Name Common Name 4 Exif Info Untagged Images ee eee 10 04 10 12 06 10 02 07 11 04 04 11 06 06 11 ei Week 12 422 matches Total 12 422 Figure 6 1 The Date Bar The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 33 53 The individual bars indicates how many images are within the given period In the figure above you may see that I have 261 images from January 2005 The bars encode two information namely how many images that have an exact date within the given period and how many have an overlap with the given period A picture which has a date that says 2005 will thus count as an overlap for all the month of 2005 while an image from Jan 24th 2005 will count as an exact date for January 2005 Exact matches are displayed with green while inexact matches are displayed in yellow Thus in December 2004 I have 86 images with exact count and 61 with overlap count I know the counts by hovering the mouse over the given range since this displays the counts in the status bar The date bar offers you a number of different granularities where each bar displays a different time range The range are years month weeks days hours and 10 mi
8. information like labels and categories with the thumbnails Settings KPhotoAlbum 7 Thumbnail View General Tooltip preview image size 256 Thumbnail image size 168 File Searching amp Versions Thumbnail table cells aspect ratio 4 3 HEL Space around cells 4 Thumbnail View Background Color Se Display grid around thumbnails Categories x Display labels in thumbnail view Display categories in thumbnail view Subcategories Auto display limit Never O SX Viewer Plugins L EXIF IPTC Information Figure 10 3 Options for Thumbnail View 10 4 Viewer Settings Another rather simple configuration Mainly you can select the preferred size of Viewer or SlideShow window or to display them in full screen mode Basic SlideShow interval can be set here but a more feature rich Advanced SlideShow is available from KIPI plugins The scaling algorithm can be Best or Fastest If your computer is fast enough for Best scaling use that otherwise go for the speed The KPhotoAlbum Handbook Settings KPhotoAlbum General File Searching amp Versions Thumbnail View A Categories Subcategories Plugins EXIF IPTC Information Ed Database backend 10 5 Categories 46 53 Viewer Running Slide Show From Thumbnail View Launch in full screen Size 800 x 600 Viewing Images and Videos From Thumbnail View x Launch in full screen Size 800 x 600 Slideshow interval Ima
9. later It must be easy to browse and View the images When viewing images your focus often changes one moment you are looking at images from your holiday in 1992 and when seeing an image of a friend whom you spent that holiday with you focus suddenly changes so you want to see all images of that friend 1 1 Overview of the manual In this manual I will take you through the steps of 1 annotating your images 2 browsing and viewing images and 3 advanced topics and customization KPhotoAlbum started out as an application for managing your images but since then it has been extended so it today also takes care of your videos In many places in this manual I will talk about images but just as often the discussion does include videos 1 2 Organization of images and KPhotoAlbum files KPhotoAlbum uses all the images of a directory and all subdirectories below it first time you start KPhotoAlbum you will be asked for the location of this directory KPhotoAlbum will not modify any images so you do not have to be afraid of KPhotoAlbum altering your images actually if you do not trust KPhotoAlbum feel free to make all your images write protected The two exceptions to this rule is 1 if you ask KPhotoAlbum to delete individual images from Edit Delete Selected and 2 plug in operations The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 2 53 KPhotoAlbum will save all its information in the file index 1 in your topmost image directory This
10. the browser as can be seen in Figure So when you ve marked images that needs to be edited printed or whatever simply browse to the images and annotate all images at a time as described in Section 2 3 use a plugin to copy the selected images to a CD or whatever you need to do The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 28 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help bal save lt Back Forward Redisplay Search 1 1 1 pan P p 1987 Tuus 1 Month Figure 5 6 Tokens seen in the Browser Categories and esp tokens may be displayed in the thumbnail viewer When Showing the categories in the thumbnail viewer you may also add tokens to images simply by pressing the letter for the token when the image is selected this can be seen in Figure 5 7 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 29 53 Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save 4p Home Back gt Forward Redisplay Search m 25 matches Total 25 Figure 5 7 Tokens seen in the Thumbnail Viewer 5 2 Setting Categories from the Viewer Category can be selected on viewer by starting to type the category name Selection is made immediately when there is only one matching category left To switch to category selection mode simply type slash Possible options are shown after Assigning text in curly brackets and it is immediately revised once more letters
11. this purpose A few settings are recommended for a RAW workflow First is to enable the using of the embedded thumbnail This will give a tremendous speed boost over decoding each raw file each time they are viewed check also the minimum dimension configuration to ensure decent quality Second one is for the New Image Finder to automatically stack the developed versions over the RAW file developed image must be on same directory as the original This requires regular expressions as described in Section 10 2 Two helper scripts are provided in KPhotoAlbum sources to help in RAW workflow These are open raw desktop and open raw pl The first one enables GUI applications to open the RAW files in the open raw pl script that tries to find the original RAW file and open that instead of the developed image The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 50 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help save d Home lt Back Forward Redisplay 7 Run Slide Show Search Annotate Individual Items Annotate Multiple Items at a Time Merge Images into a Stack Remove Images from Stack Set as First Image in Stack Run Slide Show Run Randomized Slide Show Show Exif Info Rotate counterclockwise Rotate clockwise Recreate Selected Thumbnails View View In New Window Invoke External Program p VF All Selected Items gt Open RAW editor Fog Shotwell Viewer GIMP Image Editor Firefox Web Browser Wine Internet Explorer Ope
12. time When you specify properties for one image at a time you may still of course select a number of images and say J want to annotate these images In this situation you will find a next and previous button under the image in the topmost rightmost corner 2 3 Annotating multiple items at a time If you have several images with say the same person then it might be more convenient to select those images and specify that this person is on all images using the Annotate Multiple Items at a Time 2 4 Sub categories Las Vegas San Francisco Los Angeles and California are all located in USA Furthermore San Francisco and Los Angeles are located in California Instead of specifying for each and every image from San Francisco that it is in San Francisco and in California and in USA you may instead tell KPhotoAlbum that San Francisco and Los Angeles are in California and that California among others are in USA Doing so the browser see Chapter 3 will offer you an item for USA and an item for California in addition to all your normal items Selecting California you will see all images from San Francisco Los Angeles etc In Figure 2 4 you can see a browser window containing USA as a super category To indicate to you that this is a group a special icon is used The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 8 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save Home lt Back gt Forward Redisplay 10i images 2 ima
13. your HTML pages should look like Most of the options on this page are straight forward and do not need further description here A short intro to each theme is shown when you select the theme to give some idea what it should look like HTML Export Layout Thumbnail size Number of columns 5 Theme Dark JavaScript v1 2 2 by Miika Turkia Destination This theme uses JavaScript heavily to provide smooth photo gallery Naturally images can be navigated without JavaScript support similarily as with the dark theme The main window provides a thumbnail view with smallest image by default on right The largest generated images can be viewed either with manual navigation or slide show This theme works best with rather small images that can fully fit to the screen Image Sizes x 320x200 x 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Full size Figure 7 2 HTML Generator Layout Configuration At the bottom of this page it is possible to specify several resolution for images This way people reading your pages are not forced to download images in large resolutions say 1600x1200 just to see it on a monitor not offering more than say 800x600 At any time your readers may change resolution among those you specified That way they may browse through your images in low resolution and thus fast download time and when they see an image of special interest they may change to high resolution The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 38
14. The KPhotoAlbum Handbook The KPhotoAlbum Handbook The KPhotoAlbum Handbook Copyright 2003 2007 Jesper K Pedersen Copyright 2012 Miika Turkia The KPhotoAlbum Handbook COLLABORATORS TITLE The KPhotoAlbum Handbook ACTION NAME DATE SIGNATURE WRITTEN BY Jesper K Pedersen 2012 02 23 and Miika Turkia The KPhotoAlbum Handbook Contents 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview of the manual 2 Res 1 2 Organization of images and KPhotoAlbum files 2 Annotating your images 2 1 Categones 3 9s OE SRR RR EYE Re RE EOS RRS eee SOR E he CR RUE Ce og 2 2 2 3 Annotating 225 Sub Categorlesi v 555 b ee Eee ee Eee Sus be S E Ee SUO SLT T 2 5 Changing layout of the 3 Browsing 3 1 Adding Preview Images to the Browser 3 2 General imaje searches c e a do dus qoe e ha e du e e quem heeds Pada Ged be s 4 Thumbnail viewer 41 Deleting Imabes 4 pe gaea bee o f OUR B e ee oe ES Se ee e 4 2 Offhne 5 6 A Ow EE ER ee ER Eee eos RR UR ee we 43 Pnyvaoy Bee Rate E Sob thee Su Sd ed
15. and e or and e or and ClearForm Options Search Cancel NONE NONE Figure 3 6 Search dialog If you type a string in the label or description field then that text will be searched for using substring searches Likewise you can also specify a date to search for either as part of a date say 1971 or as a complete date You may also specify date ranges like 1971 1980 The options item allows a very limited form of writing an expression as you can see in the example in Figure 3 6 Here we search for images with Jesper but without Anne Helene The allowed operations are amp meaning and meaning or and meaning not The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 18 53 Chapter 4 Thumbnail viewer Selecting View Thumbnails in the browser you get to a thumbnail overview of the images currently in scope or all images if no scope have been selected An example of this can be seen in Figure 4 1 below The size of the thumbnails can be configure simply by dragging the mouse with the middle mouse button down try it is really cool KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save Home Back gt Forward Redisplay 2002 E 1 7 117 Figure 4 1 Thumbnail View In the thumbnail overview you can reorder your pictures by dragging them around with the mouse For the date bar to work properly you should however aim at keeping your images sorted at all time Sor
16. are typed When a category is selected you can keep on typing to select the item value Following image shows this in action and below it is explanation how this all works Setting Category p laces ecople Date 2 Jan 2003 15 31 00 Image Size 800x600 0 5MP Keywords Places Label grand canyon Figure 5 8 Selecting Categories in Viewer The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 30 53 Follow the category setup below to better understand this explanation Starting by typing k the input selection will shift from Woo Tokens to Keywords since K is unique After that typing a will assign the good keyword immediately to the image Woo Typing b will show B ad oring in the info box and typing next will complete the match and assign the result to the image Typing p will work similarly and show the partial 25 match P eople laces so you can type 1 to complete People or Places respectively Tokens A Z Keywords Good Bad Boring People George Fred Places nternet 5 2 4 Exact words If you want to insert a new word or have words like boa and board you need to be able to type in the exact word you want to insert or select This can be achieved by starting the word with double quote and ending with comma If we would select boa immediately when it is typed you could not select board and otherwise we would be waiting for more key presses and you c
17. d Destination The following section describes each page in detail 7 1 The Content page In the content page you specify which information should be generated to the HTML pages The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 36 53 HTML Export Content Page title Demo of KPhotoAlbum HTML Copyright Turkia Description Layout Generating static HTML picture gallery from KPhotoAlbum i Destination Create kim export file Inline Movies in pages What to Include Figure 7 1 HTML Generator Content Configuration First you specify the title of the overview pages plus a description generated on these pages If the theme you selected supports copyright notice this can also be specified here Next you specify whether a KPhotoAlbum export file should be generated and put on the overview page See Chapter 8 for details on export files And if you want to have movies included in line or as downloadable objects Finally you may specify which information should be generated on the HTML pages This way you may skip generating information which might be obvious to the reader of the pages say these images was from the party we all attended Notice KPhotoAlbum does currently not allow you to exclude certain categories from the export file so don t rely on this as a way of excluding information you do not want readers of your pages to see The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 37 53 7 2 The Layout page On the layout page you specify what
18. d End These functions are of course also available from the context menu If several images was loaded into the viewer you can ask it to run them as a slide show which means that KPhotoAlbum loads a new image every few second How often it loads a new image is configure by pressing the control key and respective plus for go faster or minus go slower Starting and stopping the slide show is done simply by pressing Ctrl S A very useful feature of the KPhotoAlbum viewer is it ability to go into full screen mode In this mode the viewer is using the complete screen space simply press the return key to make it go into and out of full screen mode Using the viewer you may zoom in and out of your image simply by dragging out a rectangle with the mouse Pressing the minus key will zoom out again Pressing the plus key will zoom in at the center of the image Figure below shows how a zoom rectangle is marked and Figure shows the result of the zoom The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 25 53 Pressing the period key lets you reset zooming so the image is shown un zoomed Pressing the equal sign will set the zoom level so each pixel on the screen correspond to a pixel in the image Notice for technical the only zooming operation that works when watching videos are zoom in and out the plus and minus key LJ 1215 Date 25 Nov 2005 16 23 10 Image Size 800x532 0 4MP Keywords Places Label sunset Figure 5 3 Zooming in the v
19. d to have them available at some point in time for KPhotoAlbum to realize that there are new images for it to index Figure 4 3 shows KPhotoAlbum when it is not capable of finding all needed images on the disk KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Save Home Back Forward Redisplay Se 1989 k 1 Month 1 Figure 4 3 KPhotoAlbum in Offline Mode Images which have the corner cut of that is images 1 4 are not available on disk Thumbnails are available for images 5 9 even though the images are missing from disk Therefore KPhotoAlbum can show you the thumbnails for these images but you cannot view them in the viewer We used to cut of the corner of thumbnails to indicate the image is missing from disk but that feature seems to be currently broken As you can see this feature requires you to copy files in and out of your directories KPhotoAlbum does not have any support for asking you to insert the CD you labeled blah blah Thus please forget about this feature if you are the kind of person who do not like messing with files etc and instead simply ensure to buy hard disks that is large enough to always store all your images 4 3 Privacy Some time ago my girlfriend and I brought my laptop with us on a visit to my parents in law to show them the images from our most recent holiday KPhotoAlbum turned out to be a great success and it didn t last long before m
20. e is shown in black to indicate a perfect match in the database The other three names was not found in the database though both Jesper and Anne Helene was found matching as substring so these are suggested Finally in my database I didn t have Spiff or I might have named it quite differently so KPhotoAlbum simply suggest Spiff for the import name The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 41 53 Chapter 9 Plugins KPhotoAlbum shares a plugin system with a number of other image applications among these digiKam and Gwenview The plugin system is named Kipi which is short for KDE Image Plugin Interface See Kipi Homepage The plugins are available from the menu bar under the item Plugins The plugins will and can not be described in this manual as the plugins are not part of KPhotoAlbum but shipped separately Most plugins do however have a help page available from the plugin itself Warning As the plugins are shared between a number of applications certain plugins might be very little tested with KPhotoAl bum you should therefore always try out new plugins with the demo database before you try them on your own images Don t say didn t warn youl You start KPhotoAlbum with the demo setup either from the shell by executing kphotoalbum demo or from the Help menu The applications using KIPI are very different from each other this means that some plugins are not always working the KPho toAlbum way but after all this is the p
21. eae hee VR d Seer ba Se eee Ree mU 8 44 10 3 Options for Thumbnail View aoaaa sns 45 10 4 Options for the Viewer s ss Rk Sk ASE Ra ae Pe Pa AG Bago E s 46 10 5 Configuring Categories 2 x bo ee be eae eee be ea ee eee ew Se 8 47 10 6 Configuring Member hrs 48 11 1 Sending Images to RAW Editor oaoa 50 Abstract KPhotoAlbum This is the user manual for KPhotoAlbum a digital image cataloguing software that supports annotation browsing searching and viewing of digital images and videos If you are not the type who likes reading documentation but rather just want to try out things here are a few alternatives Go to the KPhotoAlbum Homepage and look at the quick overview screen shoots and introduction videos Start KPhotoAlbum and accept its offer for a demo If this is your first time you start it or go to Help menu and select Run KPhotoAlbum demo That will load KPhotoAlbum with a number of images and let you browse around If you prefer to print out this document then you may find it as on long PDF document at KDE docs A direct link is available at KPhotoAlbum s Homepage However it might take some time for these versions to be updated The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 1 53 Chapter 1 Introduction If you are like me you have thousands of images ever since you got your first camera some taken with a normal camera other with a digita
22. ews PE Ae BS Ree 5 The Viewer 5 1 Setting Tokens from the Viewer le rs 5 2 Setting Categories from the Viewer ooo oea ns IAk Exact Words ees tub OME Ee v UPS ie E SE ee xui iue s d 5 2 2 Always start with category selection lll ee 5 2 3 shortcuts ls RR a a EROR RR AUR ROW ec S LR ee 6 TheDatebar 7 Generating HTML 7l GXh Gontentpage s ee wes eS ee Y WR eee ee 7 2 The Layout page 4 y so ORE ER ee POP RU Ra Pre qe oe 7 3 The Destination oO OS yox onc esce e OO doce ee de Re qe 11 15 16 18 19 19 20 22 26 29 30 30 31 32 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 8 Import Exporting 8 1 ExportDialog si be s Ro SURE A A RO ROROR eu A Ae e CR EURO ER ak 5 2 Import Dialogs sA 3x 3024908 S EEG PERE edd ER s nS SX EG SO EEE e ed 9 Plugins 10 Configuring KPhotoAlbum 10 1 General Set ngs c n ene Rs poa o dou y Re VO ae den 10 2 New Image Finder Settings rs 10 3 Thumbnail Viewer Settings 2 2 2 rs 10 4 Viewer Settings x duod ode se ee eee E deg Roe ee e X e v y oe So 10 5 Categories s udo ER moo we ee a eae E eR S dod ROO Ue EE ee be de us a 10 6 Sub Catesones 1 0 S e Rove EO Um EHS Bw AS ers xh ERE Son RUM Sew sd
23. file is a simple XML file so you can easily back it up using whatever tools you prefer including normal backup utilities copying the file to a floppy disk or keeping revisions using CVS There is also a backup script kpa backup sh provided in KPhotoAlbum s sources that backs up not only the index xml but also the configuration files inside user s home directory KPhotoAlbum will remember where you told it your images were located and reuse that in future use of KPhotoAlbum Should you ever want to load another database into KPhotoAlbum i e another directory tree of images then you may start it with the c option For example kphotoalbum c CompanyImages index xml The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 3 53 Chapter 2 Annotating your images In Figure 2 1 you can see an example of the window that will greet you once you have started KPhotoAlbum with your own images At the top of the screen you will find a menu and toolbar as you know from any KDE application Below the toolbar you see the browser window In browser window you can select different categories to limit the images you will be inspecting In Chapter 3 we will get back to the browser but for now simply press the Show Thumbnails item which will show you a thumbnail view of all your images The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 4 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help save fey Home a Back Forward nedisplay Run Slide Show Search
24. ge cache Standard size in viewer Scaling Algorithm 5 sec Full Viewer Size Best Apply Cancel Figure 10 4 Options for the Viewer In Chapter 2 it was described how you could specify different properties for each image these included People Places and Keywords It is possible to specify your own categories so if you prefer you could get an Items a Animals Albums category your self In Figure 10 5 below you can see the dialog used to configure which categories exists For each category you specify a label and an icon The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 47 53 Settings KPhotoAlbum 7 Categories General Events Places File Searching amp People Versions Thumbnail View Subcategories Thumbnail Size Preferred view List View Plugins EXIF IPTC Information Ed Untagged Images Database backend v Apply Cancel Figure 10 5 Configuring Categories 10 6 Sub categories In Section 2 4 we discussed sub categories From the settings dialog it is possible to configure entire member groups i e configure all members of a group in one go rather than configure all groups for a member as was the situation in Section 2 4 In Figure 10 6 you can see the configuration page for specifying member groups At the top there is a combo box where you can specify which category you are currently configuring On the left side you see a list box with the current category and on the right s
25. ges 3 images 4 images 9 images e Bridgeport 1 image Grand Canyon 3 images Las Vegas 2 images New York 2 images Newark 1 image aee eene s z T EYED R7 117 Figure 2 4 Browser showing USA as a super category In the context menu for the annotation dialog it is possible to add an item to an existing or new super or sub category In addition you may simply drag an item to a category to make it a sub category of that item Notice this requires that you are currently sorting your categories alphabetically See Figure 2 5 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 9 53 KPhotoAlbum Annotations 1 1 Label and Dates Image Preview Label donna Date 20038 Time 5 01PM Rating 717 7 7 Keywords People fo 1 desktop O Anne Helene O fun rr j Jesper new wave ir Jim scanned in O scenic Revert This Item Options Done Continue Later Cancel Figure 2 5 Categories shown in alphabetical view of the annotation dialog 2 5 Changing layout of the annotation dialog It is possible to move the items of the annotation dialog around simply from the bar at the top of the frames and move them around you can even make a frame into a top level window on its own Once you have found a layout that works well on your your screen your usage of KPhotoAlbum etc simply press the Options button that will display a pop up menu from which you can save the cu
26. here are three list boxes combined with line edits for specifying people places and keywords These widget are a very important part of KPhotoAlbum as you will use them over and over again when specifying information about your images You can specify a property from a list box simply by selecting it Select say Donna to specify that Donna is on the given image Alternatively you may type its name in the line edit When you start typing a name in the line edit KPhotoAlbum will look into the listbox and search for the first item matching what you ve typed so far and fill it out Thus typing Do might be enough to find Donna Once you have found the item you search for simply press enter to select this item in the listbox The item will now be moved to the top of the view so next time you need the given item it is even easier to find There is also a seamless way of annotating from Image Viewer that is described later on in Section 5 2 The idea behind moving items to the top when they have been selected is that when going to say a family party you will get The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 7 53 perhaps 50 images all with the same 5 10 people When typing in information about these 50 images you will have the 5 10 people at the top of the listbox as soon as you have typed in their name the first time If you prefer to have the list alphabetically sorted instead simply press the icon for sorting under the list box 2 2 Annotating one item at a
27. here are two places from which you may generate a kim file namely directly from File Export or along with HTML pages see Chapter 7 Creating a kim file during HTML export will create an external kim file External kim files will search for images in one of two ways First it will try to look for the images next to the kim file and if not found it will search for them at the URL specified when the kim file was created Notice the later is only possible for kim files created during HTML export 8 1 Export Dialog This section will tell you about the export dialog which you get to from File Export The most important part of this dialog is specifying whether the kim file should be internal or external see description above You have the following three options Include in kim file this will be an internal file Manual copy next to kim file Here you must copy the images yourself next to the kim file Automatically copy next to kim file here KPhotoAlbum will copy the images for you Between you and me kim files are really just zip files Normally it is not worth bothering compressing the files because images normally are compressed JPEG already and the XML file itself are really tiny If you really want to squish out the last few bytes you may still do so by checking Compress Export File The final option on the page are Limit maximum image dimension When sending some images to some friends
28. ide you see a list box with the sub categories The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 48 53 Settings KPhotoAibum 7 Subcategories General Category Places Super Categories Items of Category Denmark Bridgeport Denmark File Searching amp Versions Grand Canyon Thumbnail View Las Vegas e New York Newark Categories Odense p Skagen Subcategories USA Viewer Plugins EXIF IPTC Information Database backend Add Super Category Rename Super Category Delete Super Category Notice It is also possible to set up subcategories in the annotation dialog simply by dragging items Vay Figure 10 6 Configuring Member Groups The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 49 53 Chapter 11 Workflows with KPhotoAlbum Workflow is rather important aspect in digital imaging In this chapter we describe different workflows that fit on different needs There are many different factors that must be considered when developing a workflow Hopefully these examples will provide you with sufficient ideas of how to tune up your own method of working with digital imaging 11 1 RAW workflow using KPhotoAlbum and Bibble5 When shooting RAW images the files from camera must be developed to commonly recognized format like JPEG or TIFF There are a few options to choose from when working on Linux For example RawTherapee and Ufraw are open source alternatives when Bibble5 AfterShotPro are commercial application for
29. iewer The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 26 53 Date 25 Nov 2005 16 23 10 8 Image Size 800x532 0 4MP Keywords Places Label sunset Figure 5 4 Zooming in the viewer Choosing the rotate operations from the context menu you may rotate the image Does not work for videos You can annotate the current image simply by choosing Annotate in the context menu 5 1 Setting Tokens from the Viewer When viewing the images you may find that a given image contains a person whose name you forgot to set on the images At this time you may cancel your viewing and rush to the image configuration dialog to specify the person However you may prefer to just tag the image and continue on viewing images An alternative situation is if you want to sent a number of images to a printer to get them developed on paper To see which you want you start the viewer on the images and tag them as good or bad while by inspecting see each one For the above two examples the viewer offers you to set tokens on the images when viewing them Tokens are named from A to Z and you set a token simply by pressing its letter In Figure you may see an image where the tokens A B and C are set The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 27 53 Date 25 Nov 2005 16 23 10 Image Size 800x532 0 4MP Keywords Places Tokens Label sunset Figure 5 5 An Image with Tokens Once you ve set tokens on your images they will be available for regular browsing in
30. is decoded if the thumbnail is of useless size 10 2 New Image Finder Settings The left pane gives you access to other settings like File Searching amp Versions These settings define KPhotoAlbum s behavior when new images are found These can be searched for automatically on start up or manually from the Maintenance menu Again the options are well described in the online help menu but a few should probably be given a brief introduction here The KPhotoAlbum Handbook Settings KPhotoAlbum General m File Searching amp Versions Thumbnail View 44 53 File Searching amp Versions New File Searches x Search for new images and videos on startup Ignore file extensions when searching for new images and videos Skip symbolic links when searching for new images Do not read RAW files if a matching JPEG TIFF file exists Directories to exclude from new file search A xml ThumbNails thumbs thumbnails Categories File Version Detection Settings Subcateg eries Try to detect multiple versions of files File versions search regexp _ v 0 1 0 9 1 2 0 1 jpg JPG tif TIF png PNG Original file replacement text NEF CR2 JPG jpg Plugins Move meta data i e delete tags from the original y x Automatically stack new versions of images EXIF IPTC Information E Database backend Copy File and Open with an External Application Copy file search regexp pg png Copy file replacement tex
31. ke External Program All Selected Images Send Bibble5 The application selected is actually my script that detects if there is a RAW file for the possibly already developed images available and uses that if possible Within the external application I do some tuning up and cropping if required and then output the developed JPEGs next to the original RAW file File naming is rather simple change the extension or add underscore and running number if needed Now that there is plenty of new JPEGs in the image directories I let KPhotoAlbum search for new images and automatically stack the new ones on top of the original RAW Figure 10 2 Then a final round of selection with the developed images and adding some descriptions if needed Final step is to generate static HTML pages and upload to my web server for the enjoyment of friends and colleagues HTML generation is described in Chapter 7 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 52 53 Chapter 12 Frequently asked questions For a list of frequently asked questions please see http userbase kde org KPhotoAlbum FAQ The KPhotoAlbum Handbook Chapter 13 Credits and Licenses This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 53 53
32. l camera Through all the years you believed that until eternity you would be able to remember the story behind every single picture you would be able to remember the names of all the people on your images and you would be able to remember the exact date of every single image I personally realized that this was not possible anymore and especially for my digital images but also for my paper images I needed a tool to help me describe my images and to search in the pile of images This is exactly what KPhotoAlbum is all about KPhotoAlbum focuses on three key points It must be easy to annotate a number of images at a time It must for example not take more than a few mouse clicks to mark all your images from your holiday as being from Italy 1992 KPhotoAlbum offers two ways of describing images one at a time which is useful for writing text about images and All Simultaneously which is useful for selecting a number of images and setting properties like location people on images and date of image It must be easy to search for images KPhotoAlbum offers to describe images with a number of properties These includes date people places plus a keyword field the user can use for custom keywords like Album 7 or Holiday trip to Italy With KPhotoAlbum you can search for images in each of the categories e g find all the images with Jesper on them from the holiday in Italy It is of course possible to create your own categories much more on that
33. lide Show Run Randomized Slide Show Show Exif Info Rotate counterclockwise Rotate clockwise Recreate Selected Thumbnails View View In New Window Invoke External Program Figure 2 2 Context menu for editing properties In Figure 2 3 below you can see the window for annotating images and videos In this window you can specify the date of the item the label of the item a description for the item and most important different categories for the item In the screen shot these categories are People Places and Keywords but as you will see in Section 10 5 these three predefined categories may be changed to your preferences The label is initialized to the name of the file The label is used in the browser and when the images are exported to HTML pages The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 6 53 KPhotoAlbum Annotations 1 1 Label and Dates Image Preview Label donna Date May 2003 4d Time 5 01 PM Rating Www Keywords People o o ooo desktop L1 fun new wave scanned in L Anne Helene O Jesper Jim Pets O scenic 1 ru Blackie 2075 MeL Hoon Revert This Item Options Done Continue Later Cancel Figure 2 3 Annotating images and videos All these annotations may be used for searching and browsing as we will see in Chapter 3 On request you may see these annotations when viewing the items in the build in viewer 2 1 Categories In Figure 2 3 t
34. n With Do te Wn e Ma SE Your Command Line 2010 Figure 11 1 Sending Images to RAW Editor First step in actual workflow is to copy the images from camera to the computer A simple copy on a terminal window is all that is needed cp a media 101CANON Pictures 2012 sample Then either start KPhotoAlbum or run Maintenance Rescan for Images and Videos New images should be found and now is time for initially tagging the images As I usually photograph while traveling I first insert the place Select Folder and browse to the new directory Then go to the Show Thumbnails select all and Annotate Multiple Items at a Time or Ctrl 2 Insert the proper place like Finland Helsinki see Section 2 4 Now that the new images are easy to find I do the initial ranking and deletion For this I go to the thumbnail view and start the Viewer by hitting Enter I use rating for good images just press the appropriate number from 1 to 5 I only give 3 to 5 ratings and hit Ctrl Del for the bad photos to delete them At this point I might add also People names if there happens to be a diver in the photo Once the first round is done I exit the Viewer by hitting Esc and select Delete file from disk to get rid off the bad images for good Next I select only the images that have high enough rating using the search function Naturally the Place has to be set if search is started with Ctrl F However if search is invoked from the Main Windo
35. n images and videos have been annotated In the browser window you can see the categories you typed information into when annotating your images and videos In addition there are items for searching based on EXIF information on images browsing the folder structure of your hard disk and of course showing the actual thumbnails Lets describe each item in turn Pressing the mouse on People the browser window will change as you can see in Figure 3 2 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 13 53 KPhotoAlbum File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help al Save Home lt A Back Forward x Search 12 images 2 images 5 images Blackie 1 Donna 2 images 4 Spiff 2 images sr e THES gt Figure 3 2 Browser window when People was selected The browser is now populated with the people you specified for your images and videos selecting a person will bring you back to the original state for the browser as we saw in Figure 3 1 this time however we are in the scope of the person we selected That means that we only shows information about images and videos containing that person See Figure 3 3 below which is the result of us selecting the Person Jesper you can see an indication of that in the bottom of the window Please compare Figure 3 1 with Figure 3 3 where you will see that the number of available images and videos has gone down from 25 to 12 and the amount of items for the different categories have also changed
36. nutes Figure shows you part of my database where each bar shows only 10 minutes File Edit View Go Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Id Save A Back amp gt Forward Redisplay Search 10 00 11 00 a_i worin Figure 6 2 The Date Bar Showing 10 Minutes Intervals The date bar is interactive in two ways first you may navigate the thumbnail view from the database selecting a date will scroll the thumbnail view so the first image from that date is displayed Second when you navigate around in the thumbnail view the date bar will update to display the date of the images currently displayed You may also drag out a range in the data bar You do so by pressing and dragging the mouse in the ruler part of the date bar The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 34 53 i e on the time stamps When you select a range the thumbnail viewer will display only images from that range You cancel a selection by pressing the cancel button at the left side of the datebar The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 35 53 Chapter 7 Generating HTML KPhotoAlbum offers two possibilities for generating HTML from your photo album One is the implementation build into KPhotoAlbum the other is available as an plugin see Chapter 9 This section will describe the build in version which you may find in the menubar File Generate HTML Before HTML pages are generated you need to specify a bit of information split over the three pages Content Layout an
37. otoAlbum from the menu bar will bring up the options dialog This chapter will tell you about the configuration option available there 10 1 General Settings Below you can see the configuration page for general options Some of these options are briefly described here and you can also access an informational menu while doing configurations by right clicking any option and selecting the What s This menu item The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 43 53 Settings KPhotoAibum General Loading New Images Trust image dates x Use EXIF orientation information x Use EXIF description Thumbnail View Use the embedded thumbnail in RAW file or halfsized RAW e Required size for the thumbnail Categories Histogram x Show histogram Subcategories Size of histogram columns in date bar 15 Miscellaneous x Show splash screen m Category for virtual albums Plugins EXIF IPTC Information Database backend v Apply Cancel Figure 10 1 General Options Use EXIF orientation information will automatically rotate images as shot Most digital cameras embed a thumbnail on RAW format files and quite often this thumbnail is actually of sufficient size might be even full sized Selecting to use this embedded thumbnail will fasten up all image operations as decoding raw files is very time consuming but the thumbnail is many times faster You can also specify the minimum size for the thumbnail so that the RAW image
38. ould not select boa Assigning Key Date 25 Nov bes Image Size 800x53 Keywords Places Tokens B Figure 5 9 Selecting Exact Words in Viewer 5 2 2 Always start with category selection If you type two s in a row it will toggle between two different modes The default mode described above and a category selection mode In the latter mode we go straight back to category selection after a match That way you can continually select items within different categories It ll still do the fastest match possible so that typing kbo will still match Keywords Boring in the example set above The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 31 53 5 2 3 Assigning shortcuts If the current input is blank e g you re not in the middle of selecting anything and you hit a function key F1 F35 it will assign the last matched assignment to that key This is useful for quickly assigning frequently repeating items in your current set of images It remembers both the category and the category item These shortcuts are only remembered until the viewer window is closed To reset the keys you just exit the viewer and re enter There is no support for doing a replacement e g once it s assigned there is no way to reassign it to something else until you leave the viewer The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 32 53 Chapter 6 The Datebar At the bottom of the KPhotoAlbum main window you will find the data bar see Figure 6
39. popup menu where you can chose which view you want to use for the given category Notice views must be configured for each category that way you may for example use an icon view for people but a plain list view for keywords in case you can t come up with good images for your keywords It is however your job to tell it which images to use for each individual person To do so you must open the viewer see Chapter 5 and from the context menu choose Show Category Editor this will bring up the category editor which can be seen in Figure 3 5 In the category editor you choose the image for the given person In the viewer it is possible to zoom to part of the image and that way crop what part should be shown This of course also applies to places keywords and other categories you have defined yourself The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 16 53 Configure Category Image Group Member Current image Figure 3 5 Category Editor 3 2 General image searches If you chose the Search item in the browser you will get to a dialog with great resemblance to the dialog you used for setting properties of your images You can see this dialog in Figure 3 6 below The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 17 53 Search x Label and Dates Image Preview Minimum megapixels 0 2 Rating 1 1 1 1 1 Rating search mode Search only for RAW files People 8 Jesper amp Anne Helene Denmark E O Pets E i LI scanned in E or e
40. rice for sharing the functionality between the applications The most important difference between KPhotoAlbum and the other applications using KIPI is that the other applications order the images in albums where an album simply is a directory KPhotoAlbum do not have this concept nevertheless for certain plugins to function KPhotoAlbum behaves towards the plugin system as if it did KPhotoAlbum does this by defining the current album to be the current view that is all the images the browser currently offers to display In addition to the current album KPhotoAlbum must also be able to give a list of all albums KPhotoAlbum defines this list in the following way When KPhotoAlbum s browser displays the content of a category say people then each item in this category will look like an album to the plugin Otherwise the category you specify for Category for virtual albums in the options dialog will be used e g if you specify People with this option then KPhotoAlbum will act as if you had just chosen to display people and then invoke the plugin which needs to know about all albums Some plugins might be redundant to features implemented in KPhotoAlbum and in that case you may not want to see them at all in the Plugin menu For that you may go to the options dialog and specify which plugins should be shown at all The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 42 53 Chapter 10 Configuring KPhotoAlbum Selecting Settings Configure KPh
41. rrent window layout You may also choose to hide away a frame It appears that currently the only way to include the deleted frame is to fully reset the layout Options button and from there the Reset layout item This can be see in Figure 2 6 The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 10 53 KPhotoAlbum Annotations 1 1 Label and Dates Label donna Date ay 20034 z Time 5 01PM Descripti Keywords Places O fun M Esbjerg O scanned in 1 Skagen us L Bridgepor Le 1 Grane mar Revert Ths item Options Save Current Window Setup Reset layout Figure 2 6 Showing previously hidden windows The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 11 53 Chapter 3 Browsing Once you have annotated your images and videos KPhotoAlbum is ready to let you browse through your images see Figure 3 1 If you compare that to Figure 2 1 you will see that there now is items available in each of the categories for People Places and Keywords The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 12 53 n 5 x File Edit Go View Maintenance Plugins Settings Help Category Images Videos A Keywords 6 Categories 1 Category a Places 11 Categories 1 Category B People 9 Categories 1 Category s Tokens lCategory 1 Category Folder lCategory 1 Category Media Type lCategory 1 Category CAS Search XA Exif Info 3 Show Thumbnails 24 images IE JR 2005 61 Month Total 25 Figure 3 1 Browser whe
42. t 1 v Apply Cancel Figure 10 2 File Searching amp Versions You probably want to skip searching for some directories that are generated by different image viewers or file browsers This is a comma separated list and new directories can easily be added when needed New versions of same files can be automatically detected to some extent If you want to e g automatically stack new versions of same image to a stack you can configure regular expression to be used to look whether the new file is a new version of an original file Following settings where first is the search regexp and second original file test should get you started but might need some tuning to suit your naming convention 1 _ v 0 1 0 9 1 2 0 1 JV GpglPGIGfITIFIpnglIPNG 2 CR2 NEF JPG jpg Note that the Original file replacement text can have multiple suffixes separated by semicolon and reference to regexp match can be used in the format of M Original file is being searched from the same directory as the new file Oh and the example regexp will match e g the following files example vl jpg example 12 tif example PNG The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 45 53 10 3 Thumbnail Viewer Settings There isn t much you should configure for Thumbnail Viewer Mainly Thumbnail Size and Tooltip Size if you plan on using the tooltip feature that can be enabled from Settings Show Tooltips in Thumbnail Window or Ctrl T You can also select to view additional
43. ting you images can be done by selecting all The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 19 53 images and choosing Images Sort Selected by Date amp Time The sorting will not reorder images which has the same date and time so if you have say 100 images with the date 1992 i e no month no day only year then you may move them around and their individual order will stay unchanged after a sort Dragging an image from the viewer to the background will set the image as the background image of your desktop By clicking on an image you load it into the viewer if no viewer window is present a viewer window will be created If you select a number of images and presses Ctrl I or chooses Images View Selected the images will be loaded into the existing viewer if no viewer exists one will be created Alternatively you may choose Images View in new window to get the images loaded into a new viewer If you press Ctrl R or choose Images Run Slide Show the selected images will be loaded into the viewer and a slide show will start Finally choosing Images Run Randomized Slide Show will show a slide show of the images selected in random order 4 1 Deleting Images From the thumbnail view it is also possible to delete images To do so select the images you want to delete and press the delete key or select Edit Delete Selected from the menu bar Doing so KPhotoAlbum will show you the dialog in Figure 4 2 E Removing items Remo
44. to your private images The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 22 53 Chapter 5 The Viewer The reason for you to put all your images into KPhotoAlbum and spending hours after hours describing them is of course that you at some point want to look at them For that purpose KPhotoAlbum has an viewer capable of showing your images and videos You open the viewer from the thumbnail view as described in Chapter 4 The viewer can be seen in Figure 5 1 The viewer does of course show you the image but in addition to that it also shows you the information you specified for each image including who is on the images where and when it was takes etc The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 23 53 LJ jiel Date 25 Nov 2005 16 23 10 amp Image Size 800x532 0 4MP Keywords Places Label sunset Figure 5 1 The Viewer In case the info box is located on top of part of the images you actually want to see you can simply grab it with the mouse and move it elsewhere on the image It is possible to configure what should be shown in the info box and of course whether it should be shown at all All these options are available by right clicking your mouse on the viewer The context menu can be seen in Figure 5 2 below The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 24 53 Li m Por Slideshow Zoom Rotate Skip Show Info Box Ctri Show Label Show Description Show Date Show Time Show Filename Show EXIF Show Image Size Keywords Places People
45. ur pages may still not be in their final destination you may still need special upload procedures out of the control of KPhotoAlbum For the Import feature see Chapter 8 to work you need to specify the final destination of the pages Again this does not include the subdirectory of the current generation The three line edits described above are all base directories and base URL s At these locations a new subdirectory will be created named with the name you specify in Output Directory The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 39 53 Chapter 8 Import Exporting If you attend a family party a company meeting a conference or any other event where other KPhotoAlbum users may be present you may wish to share your images with those people You may of course choose to generate HTML pages for them to browse but given you already have spent time classifying all images Who is on the images where were they taken etc there are no reason for them to redo all that work KPhotoAlbum allows you to export a set of your images into a kim file which other people may import into their database to get your classification for these images Two different kind of kim files exists inlines or externals referring to whether the images them self are located in the file or at some other location Placing the images in the file has the obvious advantage that the file is self contained while it has the equally obvious disadvantage of the file being rather big T
46. ving 3 items Selected 3 items will be removed from the database What do you want to do with the files on disk e Move 3 files to Trash Delete 3 files from disk Only remove 3 items from database Figure 4 2 Deleting Images There are three ways of deleting an image in KPhotoAlbum namely move to thrash delete it from the disk which means that it will be permanently gone or tell KPhotoAlbum not to include it In the latter case KPhotoAlbum will never show the image again but it will keep it on disk This is useful if there for example is thumbnail images stored among your images This thumbnail image would contain an overview of all the other images and would thus be useless in KPhotoAlbum but for other application say a web browser it might be needed 4 2 Otffline Mode There is a constant battle going on between data growing and hard disks getting bigger If you have a large number of images you might find yourself in the middle of that battle not having enough hard disk space to store all your images In that situation you might choose to put some of the images on CD s An alternative scenario might be that you are going on a business trip and want to bring your images with you but do not have the 20GB disk space requires for that purpose The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 20 53 KPhotoAlbum offers a solution to that problem namely that it allows you to use it without having the images available on disk You do of course nee
47. w the current selection is drilled down to the more The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 51 53 precise match Anyway at this point I go through the better rated images again doing refining on the rating E g if I have 5 similar photos of one Nudibranch species I generally decrease the rating of the poorer images and might increase the best one Comparing images can be done by selecting the ones you want to compare and starting the Viewer Removing images from the Viewer selection can be done with Delete This only disables the viewing of the current image while within the Viewer nothing is removed or deleted This allows comparing 2 or 3 better images next to each other moving between them with PgUp and PgDn I quite commonly use a tmp category to mark e g crabs and shrimps to be easily able to display only selected type of images during the later phases of selection and identification After a reduced amount of images is left I start tagging them I add the Latin Name of the species and Common Name Whenever I have these two categories completed I consider the image Done and get rid of the Untagged marking As the tags are copied over to new version of images only when the new image is found and not when the top of the stack is re tagged it is good to have as final tagging done as possible before developing JPEGs The best images are sent to external application for developing With wanted images selected right click on selected thumbnail and select Invo
48. y girlfriends little sister The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 21 53 seized the laptop and started browsing around on her own Unfortunately it didn t take her long either to get to some let say unfortunate images of me from my youth and they all had quite a bit of laugh on me That episode inspired me to add a new feature to KPhotoAlbum namely privacy locking In the Images menu you will find a sub menu called privacy To get some privacy browse while you are on your own to the images that you want to keep private and select Lock Away Current Set of Images from the privacy sub menu Alternatively you may browse to the images you want to limit your little sister to see and select Lock Away All Other Images Now you have specified what to hide away and once you hand over your laptop to your little sister simply choose Lock Images and your sister will not be able to see the locked images When done you may unlock them again using Unlock It is possible to specify a password that must be entered to unlock the database In the privacy menu simply select Change Password to set a password Don t get fooled to believe that this will help you hide away images for good First the images are still on the disk second anyone with access to the index xml file that KPhotoAlbum uses can read the password in clear text and optionally delete it This feature is only meant as a protection against someone sitting with KPhotoAlbum unintentionally getting
49. you may not want to send images in full size as the kim file might be huge For this you may specify that the maximum dimension of images should be say maximum 800 pixels in each direction The KPhotoAlbum Handbook 40 53 8 2 Import Dialog When you select a kim file from a web browser or choose File Import KPhotoAlbum will import the database exported with the functionality described in Chapter 8 The import wizard consist of four steps First you must specify which images you want to import Next you must specify in which directory to put the imported images Chances are that you call the people category personen if you are German while I in Danish might call this category personer In the third step of the import dialog you must specify which category from the import file to import plus which categories in your database they match I might call myself in my databases for me while in your database I m called Jesper K Pedersen Step four let you set up matching for each of the imported categories This can be see in Figure 8 1 F kphotoalbum 0x Persons Key in file Key in your data base X Jesper Jesper K Pedersen x Spiff Spiff x Anne Helene Anne Helene Kahr Thomsen x Donna Donna Help 3 Back w Finish 3 Cancel Figure 8 1 Matching People in the Import Dialog In the screen shot you may see that Donna is the same in both the kim file and in my database the nam
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