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By default, F-Spot copies your photos to the /Photos directory in your home directory.
You can change the directory F-Spot uses by clicking Edit > Preferences.
If all the photos you are importing are from a particular event, or if they have some
other characteristic in common, you can create a tag for them so you can easily find
them at a later time. During the import, select Attach Tag, then choose the appropriate
tag from the drop-down menu.
To import photos:
1 Click File > Import.
2 Select an import source, then click Open.
3 After the photos are finished loading, click Import.
15.2 Downloading Pictures from Your
You can import new images from your digital camera by connecting it to the USB port
of your computer. The type of camera is detected automatically. When you import
photos from your camera, F-Spot makes copies of them so that you can clear your
camera's memory.
1 Click File > Import.
2 Select your camera as the import source.
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The photos are added to your catalog.
Camera
F-Spot launches a preview window displaying all the images that are available
for download from your camera. The files are copied to the target directory
specified via Copy Files to. If Import files after copy is selected, all images copied
from the camera are automatically imported to F-Spot's database. Tagging can
be done on import, if you select the appropriate tag with Select Tags. If you do
not want to import all images on your camera to your database, just deselect the
unwanted ones in the preview window.
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