Shotwell Photo Manager
Running Shotwell
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Find Shotwell in the Applications menu, or have it start automatically when you plug in a camera.
Supported photo and video formats
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Shotwell supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and RAW photo files as well as video files.
Importing Photos
Importing from F-Spot
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Shotwell can import all your photos and tags from the F-Spot photo manager.
Importing from a camera
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Copy photos from a digital camera.
Importing from a memory card
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Import photos from a digital camera's memory card.
Importing from your hard disk
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Import photos that are already saved on your computer.
Viewing Photos
Basic and extended information
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View more detailed information about photos, like the exposure mode used by the camera.
Photo views
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Learn about different ways of viewing your photos: in a grid, filling the main window, or filling the whole screen.
The sidebar
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The sidebar on the left of the window lists various views of your library.
Organizing Photos
Events
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Group photos together that were taken at the same time. Learn how to rename, merge, and sort events.
Flagging photos
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Flag photos to mark them as special or to work with them as a set.
Ratings
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Give photos a rating between 1 and 5 stars. You can reject bad photos, hiding them from view.
Removing and deleting photos
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Remove photos from the library, or delete them from your computer entirely.
Searching
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Find photos and videos in your collection by a variety of criteria.
Tagging photos
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Organize photos by labelling them.
Titles
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Give titles to your photos.
Editing Photos
Adjust the time and date of photos
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Change the time and date of photos if those details are incorrect.
Auto-enhance
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Let Shotwell improve the brightness and contrast of a photo automatically.
Color adjustments
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Change the exposure, saturation, tint, and shadows of a photo.
Cropping
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Improve the composition of a photo by cutting out parts of it.
Edit photos with an external program
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Use a different program to edit a photo.
Removing red-eye
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Correct photos where people have red eyes because of the camera's flash.
Rotate or flip a photo
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Click the
Rotate
button, or choose one of the commands in the
Photo
menu.
Straighten photos
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Straighten a photo so that its horizon appears level.
Undoing changes
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Return a photo to its original, unedited form.
What happens to the original when I edit a photo?
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Shotwell is a non-destructive photo editor - it does not modify your original photos.
Sharing Photos
Exporting photos
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Copy photos out of Shotwell so you can put them somewhere else.
Printing
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Click
File
▸
Print
. For more printing options, select the
Page Setup
tab in the
Print
dialog.
Publishing to the Web
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Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, or other sites.
Sending photos
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Send photos via email, instant messaging or in other ways.
Set a desktop background or slideshow
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Set your desktop background to a single photo or to a slideshow of photos.
Slideshows
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Watch a slideshow of your photos.
Other Features
Missing photos
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If Shotwell can't find a photo in your library, it marks it as missing.
Multiple libraries
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You can open Shotwell with a different photo library by using the command line.
Photo files
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Keep the Shotwell library in sync with photo files on disk.
Plugins
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Extend Shotwell's functionality dynamically.
RAW support in Shotwell
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More about RAW support in Shotwell.