16.1 Importing Photos

You can import photos from your hard drive or from your digital camera (see Section 16.2, Downloading Pictures from Your Camera for more information). F-Spot automatically makes copies of photos imported from your hard drive. If you don’t want to copy images, uncheck Copy files to the Photos folder on the Import dialog box, or press Shift when dragging photos into F-Spot.

Figure 16-2 Importing Images into F-Spot

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.

    The photos are added to your catalog.