Shotwell Photo Manager

Running Shotwell — Find Shotwell in the Applications menu, or have it start automatically when you plug in a camera.Supported photo and video formats — Shotwell supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and RAW photo files as well as video files.

Importing Photos

Importing from F-Spot — Shotwell can import all your photos and tags from the F-Spot photo manager.Importing from a camera — Copy photos from a digital camera.

Importing from a memory card — Import photos from a digital camera's memory card.Importing from your hard disk — Import photos that are already saved on your computer.

Viewing Photos

Basic and extended information — View more detailed information about photos, like the exposure mode used by the camera.Photo views — Learn about different ways of viewing your photos: in a grid, filling the main window, or filling the whole screen.

The sidebar — The sidebar on the left of the window lists various views of your library.

Organizing Photos

Events — Group photos together that were taken at the same time. Learn how to rename, merge, and sort events.Flagging photos — Flag photos to mark them as special or to work with them as a set.Ratings — Give photos a rating between 1 and 5 stars. You can reject bad photos, hiding them from view.Removing and deleting photos — Remove photos from the library, or delete them from your computer entirely.

Searching — Find photos and videos in your collection by a variety of criteria.Tagging photos — Organize photos by labelling them.Titles — Give titles to your photos.

Editing Photos

Adjust the time and date of photos — Change the time and date of photos if those details are incorrect.Auto-enhance — Let Shotwell improve the brightness and contrast of a photo automatically.Color adjustments — Change the exposure, saturation, tint, and shadows of a photo.Cropping — Improve the composition of a photo by cutting out parts of it. Edit photos with an external program — Use a different program to edit a photo.

Removing red-eye — Correct photos where people have red eyes because of the camera's flash.Rotate or flip a photo — Click the Rotate button, or choose one of the commands in the Photo menu.Undoing changes — Return a photo to its original, unedited form.What happens to the original when I edit a photo? — Shotwell is a non-destructive photo editor - it does not modify your original photos.

Other Features

Missing photos — If Shotwell can't find a photo in your library, it marks it as missing.Multiple libraries — You can open Shotwell with a different photo library by using the command line.Photo files — Keep the Shotwell library in sync with photo files on disk.

Plugins — Extend Shotwell's functionality dynamically.RAW support in Shotwell — More about RAW support in Shotwell.