Pictures into albums

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First show how to put pictures on your computer, for example from a photo camera.

Import from Camera
To import photos from a digital camera:

1. Connect the camera to the computer and turn on the camera. Shotwell will detect and select the camera in the sidebar .Then all photos from the camera are disp layed. 2. If you wish, you can choose a set of specific photos to import. To do this, hold down the CTRL key and click to select individual photos. You can hold down the Shift key and click to select a range of photos too.

3. Click Import Selected or  Import All. Photos can be copied from the camera and saved on your computer. 4.Once the import is complete, you can open the view of past imports ( in the sidebar ) to see all the pictures that were imported. The event list (also on the sidebar ) also show the new photos, organized by date.

Publishing to the Web
With shotwell you can also save your photos on the Internet. Have you ever had to reformat the computer because of a virus and has lost some of what was inside ?This way you can organize your photos online and if you have any problems on your computer, your photos will never be affected.

Shotwell can post photos and videos on the following pages :Facebook, Flickr , Picasa , Youtube ...

1-To publish selected photos we click Edit>Preferences>Pluggins and choose the website where we publish.

2-Then select the files to upload and make click Publish. 3-Confirm where we upload our files, loggin in your account and finally the post.

Publishing to Facebook requires you to grant certain permissions to the Shotwell Connect Facebook application.You only need to grant these permissions once, when you first associate Shotwell Connect with your Facebook account.

Events
One event is a group of photos. When you import, the photos have taken in the same time are checked by shotwell and it make a Even folder with this photos.

Then you can see this photos organized in the sidebar. Double-click an event to see all the photos that were taken around that time.

If a photo has no embedded date/time information, the program put the photo in no Event view.

Renaming events
To give an event a name rather than referring to it by its date, OR:
 * 1) select the event, click Edit ▸
 * 2) Rename Event and enter a new name.
 * 1) or double-click its name in the sidebar;
 * 2) type a new name and then press Enter

Change the photo used to represent each event
If you want to change the Events item in the sidebar, you'll see a single photo which that represents this event.

Shotwell uses (by default) the first photo in each event as its key photo.To use a different key photo, select the photo and choose Photos -->Make Key Photo for Event.

Tagging photos
If you tagging your photos, you can sort out and ordinates photo of your holidays or events.
 * 1) Select the photo, and choose tags --> Add tags.
 * 2) Press CTRL +T
 * 3) You can add a new tags  and then you rename it.

Hierarchical Tags
Shotwell supports also hierarchial tags.

You can rearrange your tags by drag and drop a tag onto another. To create a new subtag right-click on a tag and select New.

If you delete a parent tag will also delete its child tags.