Managing Tags - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - KDE 14-05-2007 Manual

• Upload new images from the camera and create the target album on-the-fly during
the download.
• Create a new album by clicking New Album in the toolbar.
• Import an existing folder of images from your hard disk (select Album > Import >
Import Folders).
• Right-click My Albums and select New Album.
Once you have chosen to create a new album, provide some basic administrative infor-
mation about the new album, such as an album title. Optionally, choose a collection,
insert some comments, and select an album date. Collections are a way of organizing
your albums by a common label. This label is used when you select View > Sort Albums
> By Collection. The comment is shown in the banner at the top of the main window.
The album date is used when you select View > Albums > By Date.
digiKam uses the first photograph in the album as the preview icon in the My Albums
list. To select a different one, right-click the respective photograph and select Set as
Album Thumbnail from the context menu.

19.5 Managing Tags

Managing lots of different images across various albums can be a nightmare. To manage
your images by custom categories and across albums, digiKam provides the My Tag
system. Tags categorize images and more than one tag can be assigned to an image.
For example, assume that you took several pictures of your friend, Joe, and distributed
them across various albums. Now you are looking for an easy way to generate an
overview of all pictures ever taken of Joe. Using digiKam's tags, proceed as follows
for this scenario:
1 Select Tags > New Tag in the upper menu bar and enter a name for the new tag,
in this case Joe. Provide an optional icon and leave this dialog with OK.
2 Go to each album and tag all images showing Joe by right-clicking the image
and selecting Assign Tag > Joe.
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