16.8. Exporting Image Collections

openSUSE Documentation Chapter 16. Managing Your Digital Image Collection / 16.8. Exporting Image Collections
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Digikam provides several export options that help you archive and publish your personal image collections. It offers archiving to CD or DVD (via k3b), HTML export, and export to a remote gallery.

To save your image collection to CD or DVD, proceed as follows:

Select File+Export+Archive to CD/DVD.
Make your adjustments in the Create CD/DVD Archive dialog using its various submenus. After that, click OK to initiate the burning process.
1. Selection: Determine which part of your collection should be archived by selecting albums and tags.
2. HTML Interface: Decide whether your image collection should be accessible via an HTML interface and whether auto-run functionality should be added to your CD/DVD archive. Set a selection title and image, font, and background properties.
3. Media Volume Descriptor: Change the settings for volume description, if necessary.
4. Media Burning: Adjust the burning options to your needs, if necessary.

To create an HTML export of your image collection, proceed as follows:

Select File+Export+HTML Export.
Adjust the settings in Create Image Galleries to your needs, using the various submenus. When you are done, click OK to initiate the gallery creation.
1. Selection: Determine which part of your collection should be archived by selecting albums and tags.
2. Look: Set the title and appearance of your HTML gallery.
3. Album: Determine the location of the gallery on disk as well as image size, compression, format, and the amount of metadata displayed in the resulting gallery.
4. Thumbnails: As with the target images, specify size, compression and file type for the thumbnails used for gallery navigation.

To export your collection to an external image gallery on the Internet, proceed as follows:

Get an account for an external web site holding your gallery.
Select File+Export+Export to Remote Gallery and provide URL, username, and password for the external site when asked for them.
Digikam establishes a connection to the site specified and opens a new window called Gallery Export.
Determine the location of your new album inside the gallery.
Click New Album and provide the information requested by Digikam.
Upload the images to the new album with Add Photos.