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. After launching the export function, a dialog with some options will appear. Every exporter have it's own setting, but all of them will allow you to eventually resize pictures and export tags along with images.

E-mail

E-mail your photos directly from F-Spot with the File » Send Mail menu. An option window will ask you if you want to resize your pictures or send them unmodified.

The program used for creating the email is the one set in GNOME's System » Preferences » Preferred Applications

Print

You can print photos with the File » Print function. Once the print dialog opens, under the Image settings tab you can choose page size, images per page and other printing options. You can also add a custom comment to the printed page.

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 software. If you are unsure about this option, it is probably not the right one for you.

• "Use static HTML files" creates a static gallery made of plain html files, ready for you to upload.

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

Post to your online galleries

F-Spot supports exporting to all the most used photo sharing platforms on the internet. The current available exporters, found in File » Export to, are for the following systems:

• DVD slideshow
• Flickr
• 23hq
• Zooomr
• Picasa Web
• SmugMug
• Facebook
• Tabblo
• your own Gallery2 installations. For this to work you will need to have Remote plugin >=1.0.8 enabled on your G2 install

Related projects

PennAve is a Python web-application that directly uses F-Spot's database to present a dynamic gallery of your photos and tags.

Andy Wingo wrote a program to interface Original galleries to a F-Spot db. Andy's tools can be found at wingolog.org.

Sharing different F-Spot installations

This widely requested feature is not yet available in F-Spot.

This operation is not really trivial. You have two core elements to be shared: photos and database.

• Photos are by default kept in user home directory, but this can be easily changed either by preferences or by importing pictures which are on a samba/nfs share without copying them locally.
• Database is an Sqlite3 db placed by default in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/f-spot/photos.db (by default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config). This can be overridden with -b command line option, so placing photos.db directory in a shared folder could solve this problem also.

Beware that

• you can't run two different F-Spot instances at the same time, as Sqlite doesn't support concurrent access reliably
• when importing F-Spot stores image's full uri, so the photodir must be the same on all the machines you run it on
• database structure may change from version to version. Run the same F-Spot on all computers which will access the same database

Other user contributed workarounds:

• Conduit is an application that can sync different elements, including photos, between different systems. Conduit supports exporting and importing photos from your F-Spot installation and other services, including another running F-Spot instance. While it looks like the best solution no many people reported experience of using this solution for syncing two F-Spot installs. If you try this configuration please get in touch.
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