On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 06:35 -0500, techno-mole wrote: > I'm intending to use gimp (ive had it on my system and thought its > about time i used it) but im wondering if there is a way to get > elements to download the images straight of my camera, like in windows > where you can get applications to run when you plug in the usb lead. > I'm doing exactly that. I use the gThumb Image Viewer to download pictures from my Pentax K100D DSLR over USB and the GIMP to edit them. I'm running Fedora 10 on a Lenovo dual core Thinkpad. > I have messed around but I'm not sure I have it right, basically I > changed the default option in gnome to run the > adobephotodownloader.exe from inside the wine folder when I plug in > the usb lead, it does open, but I have had issues trying to download > the images, and using the organizer function in elements is not so > good. > I haven't fiddled with the standard configuration, so the following is out-of-the-box behaviour. When I connect the camera I get offered a choice of gThumb or the F-Spot photo manager in a pop-up menu, select the default (gThumb) and it uploads all the images, clears the camera and shows a thumbnail gallery of the downloaded pictures. gThumb lets me delete obvious dogs. It can also rotate and save images where necessary and its a good photo gallery program. I do everything else with the GIMP: it has a reasonably steep learning curve until you understand its menus and find the tools you use the most, but its fast and easy to use when you're used to it. The only Windows image editor I've liked as much was L-View Pro. > Is this the right way to do it ? > I'd say give gThumb and F-Spot a try. The Pentax is pretty quick on downloads with gThumb (around two images a second), but it is only 6 Mpixels, so USB downloads work well for me. If your camera has a removable flash card you can always whip it out and stick in into a card reader. That may be faster with some cameras and computers. I do that with other devices: the card opens in the Nautilus file manager so you can drag and drop from it to your HDD, but do remember that you *must* unmount/eject the card with Nautilus or by clicking its icon before you yank it out of the reader. HTH Martin
