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<html>
<p>On KPhotoAlbum's home page <a href="http://www.kphotoalbum.org/">www.kphotoalbum.org</a> you may see a few videos featuring a number of
different KPhotoAlbum features.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>KPhotoAlbum's Handbook is available from Help menu. <a href="http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/kphotoalbum/index.html">Online</a> and <a href="http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/kphotoalbum/kphotoalbum.pdf">PDF</a> versions are available at <a href="http://docs.kde.org">KDE documentation site</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>It is possible to create new categories - that are alternatives
to <resource>People</resource>, <resource>Places</resource>, and <resource>Events</resource> - in the annotation
dialog.
To add new categories or remove existing ones, go to the <interface>Settings|Configure KPhotoAlbum...</interface> dialog, and choose
<interface>Categories</interface> in the side bar.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You may rename or delete a tag (i.e. a person, location, keyword or similar) by
right-clicking on the item in the image property dialog.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>When generating HTML you must specify a base directory for
the images. Here you can specify any protocol supported by KDE, like ftp or
fish.</p>
<p>Examples:
<ul>
  <li> ftp://someserver/my-upload-area/images (upload using FTP)
  <li> fish://someserver/home/foo/images (upload using ssh)
  <li> smb://someserver/c/images (upload to a Windows share)
</ul>
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>New images are automatically marked as <emphasis>untagged</emphasis>.</br>
You can easily search for these images from main window by clicking the appropriate icon.</p>
<p>
Once you are done tagging an image just click <interface>Done</interface> and the
<emphasis>untagged</emphasis> flag is automatically removed. On the other hand, the
<interface>Continue Later</interface> button finishes the tagging but leaves the
<emphasis>untagged</emphasis> flag intact.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You can reorder images on your hard disk after having loaded them into
KPhotoAlbum. KPhotoAlbum will still remember them, as it calculates checksums for
the images.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>It is possible to associate images with categories.</p>
<p>That way when browsing, say people, you may get a small icon for each person with
e.g. the person's face.</p>
<p>To specify an icon for a person, load the person in the viewer, zoom to
the part which you want to make into an icon, and choose
<interface>Show Category Editor</interface>. This will bring up a dialog where you can
find the person, and set the image.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You may close the image annotation dialog (the one where you specify
people, places, etc. for the images) by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>To hear more about latest changes in KPhotoAlbum and to get help in using and developing KPhotoAlbum, you are welcome to join the KPhotoAlbum mailing list at <a href="http://mail.kdab.com/mailman/listinfo/kphotoalbum">http://mail.kdab.com/mailman/listinfo/kphotoalbum</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>To discuss KPhotoAlbum with other users and developers and ask any questions that come into your mind, feel free to join our IRC channel <b>#kphotoalbum@freenode</b> or <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=kphotoalbum">http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=kphotoalbum</a></p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You may reorder images by dragging and dropping one image onto
another.</p>
<p>If you drop it on the left edge, it will end up in front of
the other, if you drop it on the right edge it will be inserted behind.</p>
<p align="right">-- Tip contributed by Eivind Kjorstad</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>
On the thumbnail view, you can resize the grid to your needs just by clicking
the middle mouse button and dragging around. On most systems you can emulate
the middle mouse button by left and right clicking at the same time.
</p>
<p align="right">-- Tip contributed by Rafael Beccar</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You can rate images using the numbers from 0 to 5 on the keyboard whilst in
thumbnail view or the image viewer. In the annotation dialog, you can rate
images by selecting the appropriate star rating.</p>
</html>
</tip>


<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>Sometimes it is useful to group several related images into an image stack.
You can merge several images into a stack by first selecting them on Thumbnail
View and then pressing <shortcut>Ctrl+3</shortcut> or selecting <interface>Merge Images into a
Stack</interface> from menu.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>When searching for new images, KPhotoAlbum can automatically put new versions
of images into stacks by looking at their filenames. To configure this feature,
choose <interface>Settings|Configure KPhotoalbum...</interface> and set appropriate
values in the <interface>File Searching &amp; Versions</interface> tab.</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Enable the checkbox <interface>Try to detect multiple versions of files</interface></li>
<li>Enter a regular expression for your modified files:<br/><bcode>^(.*)-adjusted\.(.*)</bcode></li>
<li>Enter a regular expression for your original file:<br/><bcode>\1.\2</bcode></li>
</ul>
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>KPhotoAlbum can display the age of people on an image.</p>
<p>
To enable this, enter the birthdate of a person under <interface>Maintenance|Edit Birth Dates</interface>.
The age of the person will then be shown in the info box of the viewer window.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>KPhotoAlbum can detect and recognize faces on images.</p>
<p>
To use this functionality, use the <interface>Search for faces on the current image</interface>
button below the image preview in the annotation dialog.
</p>
<note>To see if face recognition support is enabled, open the feature dialog
(<interface>Help|KPhotoAlbum feature status</interface>), and check the item
<resource>Face detection and recognition support</resource>.
</note>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>You can associate tags to an area of an image (e.g. to connect a name to a face).</p>
<p>
To do so, make sure that the checkbox <interface>Positionable Tags</interface> under
<interface>Settings|Configure KPhotoAlbum...|Categories</interface> is enabled for the
given category.
</p>
<p>
When this is done, you can drag the mouse on the image preview of the annotation dialog to
mark an area. Open the context menu (right mouse button) on the area to associate it with a tag.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>
In the annotation dialog, you can hit <shortcut>Ctrl+Space</shortcut> any time to enlarge the current image.
To go back to the standard view, press <shortcut>Ctrl+Space</shortcut> again.
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KPhotoAlbum">
<html>
<p>This is the last tip. If you know any additional tips or tricks, then please
send an email to <a href="mailto:kphotoalbum@kdab.com">kphotoalbum@kdab.com</a>.</p>
</html>
</tip>

