 | Most digital cameras provide software to transfer photos from the camera to a computer. However, most such software is incompatible with Linux and your Ubuntu computer. Fortunately, you can still easily transfer photos to your Ubuntu computer using generic Linux utilities. |
So go out and take your shots. Later, you can download your photos to Ubuntu as follows.
1. Connect your camera to your Ubuntu computer using a USB (or FireWire) cable.
Ubuntu recognizes the device and launches the Photo Import dialog.
2. Click the Import Photos button.
Ubuntu mounts your camera (makes the photographs it contains available to your computer) as a USB disk and shows its contents.
Digital cameras use the same flash memory as USB pen drives. Your camera appears as a memory device to your computer.
3. Select the photos you want to import to your Ubuntu computer:
• To select a single image to import, click it.
• To select multiple images, press and hold the Shift key and click each image.
4. Click the Edit menu and select the Copy option.
A Choose the Destination Folder dialog opens.
5. Click the Browse button.
The Choose the Destination Folder dialog displays the camera's storage folder (typically, the camera's storage folder is in the /media/usbdisk directory).
6. Designate a folder (directory) to save your photos.
There are a couple of ways to select a directory:
• Click an existing directory (folder), such as your home directory.
• Create a new directory for your photos. (Click the Create Folder button and type the name of the new folder to create.)
7. Click the Open button.
The folder you select is displayed in the Choose the Destination Folder window.
8. Click OK.
Your photos are copied to the selected folder.
You can edit the names using the Nautilus file manager's Rename function. Follow these steps:
1. Right-click the icon.
2. Select the Rename option in the menu that opens.
3. Type the new name at the prompt.
You can edit your photos using The GIMP image editor.
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