F-Spot

There are many ways to share your photos using F-Spot. All of the following methods will only share the photos you have selected (e.g. highlighted) when you run them.

E-mail

E-mail your photos directly from F-Spot with the File » Send Mail menu. You can then send you pictures as-is (original size) or resize them.

Note 1 : The email program used for this is defined at the GNOME level. You can change the default
e-mailer for your user using the 'Preferred Applications' tool in System > Preferences.

Note 2 : If some of the photos you'd like to send by email are in a format that F-Spot can't write 
(e.g. RAW images), the size selection dialog will become insensitive and the originals will be sent.

Expert Tip: If you're sending resized pictures, F-Spot will keep the modified versions somewhere in the
/tmp directory for 30 seconds. It's not an issue with evolution, which makes it's own local copy of the
attachments, but could be a bit too shorte if you're using thunderbird. You can change the delay by
editing the gconf key /apps/f-spot/export/email/delete_timeout_seconds.

Print

Print your photos with the File » Print menu.

Burn to CD

Burn your photos to CD or DVD with the File » Export » Export to CD menu.

Generate a Website Gallery or Folder

The File » Export » Export to Folder feature gives you three ways to export your images.

• "Use Original" exports your photos ready for use with Jakub Steiner's free Original Photo Gallery (http://jimmac.musichall.cz/original.php) software. If you are unsure about this option, it is probably not the right one for you.

• "Use static HTML files" exports your photos to an interactive website, ready for you to upload.

• "Plain Files" exports your images as files within directories, without putting them into a gallery.

Post to your online galleries

If you use Flickr, SmugMug, 23hq or Picasa Web Album, you can post your files directly from F-Spot with the File » Export menu, choosing corresponding submenu item.

If you use the PHP software known as Gallery (http://gallery.sourceforge.net/), you can post your photos to your existing album with the File » Export » Export to Web Gallery menu. You must have the Remote module within your Gallery installation enabled for this to work (Site Admin >>Plugins(>>Get More Plugins)>>Remote).

Note for gallery2.2 users: the Remote plugin for Gallery should be 1.0.8 or newer.

PennAve (http://pennave.sourceforge.net/) is a Python web-application that directly uses F-Spot's database to present a dynamic gallery of your photos and tags.

Conduit (http://www.conduit-project.org/) is an application that can sync photos that have a particular tag with your Flickr, Picasa Web Album and many others (http://conduit-project.org/wiki/SyncStatus). As of 0.4.1 you can one-way sync from F-Spot to Conduit (http://conduit-project.org/wiki/SyncStatus)'s online services. Soon you will be able to sync two F-Spot installations!

Andy Wingo (http://wingolog.org) wrote a program to interface Original (http://jimmac.musichall.cz/original.php) galleries to a F-Spot db. Andy's tools can be found at wingolog.org (http://wingolog.org/software/original/).