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

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

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