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18.3.5 Managing Tags
Managing lots of different photographs with different albums can sometimes be complex.
To organize individual photographs, Digikam provides the My Tag system.
For example, you have photographed your friend John at different times and you want
to collect all images, independent of your album. This let you find all photographs very
easily. First, create a new tag by clicking My Tags → People. From the context menu,
choose New Tag. In the dialog box that appears, enter John as title and optionally set
an icon. Confirm with Ok.
After creating your tag, assign it to the desired pictures. Go to each album and select
the respective photographs. Right-click and choose Assign Tag → People → John from
the menu that appears. Alternativly, drag the photographs to the tag name under My
Tags and drop them there. Repeat as necessary with other albums. View all the images
by clicking My Tags → People → John. You can assign more than one tag to each
photograph.
Editing tags and comments can be tedious. To simplify this task, right-click a photograph
and select Edit Comments & Tags. This opens a dialog box with a preview, a comment
field, and a tag list. Now you can insert all the needed tags and add a comment. With
Forward and Back, navigate in your album. Store your changes with Apply and leave
with Ok.
18.3.6 Exporting Image Collections
Digikam provides several export options that help you archive and publish your personal
image collections. It offers archiving to CD or DVD (via k3b), HTML export, and export
to a remote gallery.
To save your image collection to CD or DVD, proceed as follows:
1 Select File → Export → Archive to CD/DVD.
2 Make your adjustments in the Create CD/DVD Archive dialog using its various
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submenus. After that, click OK to initiate the burning process.
a Selection: Determine which part of your collection should be archived by
selecting albums and tags.
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