Working With Digital Cameras; Using Gtkam - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - STEP BY STEP GUIDE Manual

Chapter 9.

Working with Digital Cameras

Digital cameras have recently grown in popularity because of their increasing image quality and easy
interaction with desktop PCs. Digital cameras create high-quality images that allow you to send to
others over the Internet or print on a color printer. Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports several brands of
digital cameras and has applications that help you access, view, and modify your digital photographs.

9.1. Using gtKam

Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports over 100 digital camera models. So, whether your camera uses
a USB or serial port to communicate with your computer, it is likely that Red Hat Enterprise Linux
supports it.
gtKam is a graphical application that allows you to interface with your digital camera. gtKam works
directly with your digital camera, allowing you to open, view, save, and delete images directly. You
can also download the images to your computer and modify it with image manipulation programs
such as The GIMP (refer to Chapter 10 Working with Images for more information about image
manipulation tools).
To start gtKam, choose Main Menu => Graphics => Digital Camera Tool. You can also start
gtKam by typing
at a shell prompt.
gtkam
Before you begin using gtKam, you need to configure it to work with your digital camera. From
the menu, choose Camera => Add Camera.... From the pop-up dialog, you can choose your camera
from the drop-down list or let gtKam automatically find your camera by clicking Detect. Click Apply
to accept the changes and OK to close the dialog box.
Figure 9-1. Adding a Camera in gtKam
Once you have added your camera, it will be shown as an icon on the left panel of the main gtKam
window. You only have to configure gtKam for your camera once; the settings will be saved with
each additional use.
Directories shown below the icon may differ depending on your brand of camera. Select the directory
that commonly stores your images and the stored images will immediately load as thumbnail images
in the main panel. From this panel, click on the images you want, which you can then save to disk by
choosing File => Save Selected Photos. If you want to save all of the stored images, choose Select
=> All, then save the images to disk.