# Annoteren van uw afbeeldingen

In kunt u een voorbeeld van het venster zien dat u begroet wanneer u &kphotoalbum; hebt gestart met uw eigen afbeeldingen.

At the top of the screen you will find a menu and toolbar, as you know from any &kde; application. Below the toolbar you see the browser window. In browser window you can select different categories to limit the images you will be inspecting. In we will get back to the browser, but for now, simply press the Show Thumbnails item, which will show you a thumbnail view of all your images.

## &kphotoalbum; opstarten met uw eigen afbeeldingen

De hoofdfunctie van &kphotoalbum; is dat u uw afbeeldingen van annotaties kunt voorzien. Dit omvat wie er op een gegeven afbeelding is te zien, waar deze is genomen, &etc; U kunt dat doen ofwel voor één afbeelding tegelijk of een aantal afbeeldingen tegelijk (Bijvoorbeeld alle afbeeldingen die de persoon Jesper bevatten en in Kopenhagen zijn genomen.)

To annotate an images, select the images in question, and go to Edit Annotate Individual Items. Now you annotate your selected images one after the other. If you instead choose Annotate Multiple Items at a Time, you will annotate all the selected items as if it was one single item. In other words, with this option you mass-annotate your image - e.g. saying all these images were shot in Copenhagen. These two options are also available from a context menu, that you get by right clicking the mouse in the thumbnail overview or using keyboard shortcut. An example of this can be seen in .

## Contextmenu voor het bewerken van eigenschappen

In below you can see the window for annotating images and videos. In this window you can specify the date of the item, the label of the item The label is initialized to the name of the file. The label is used in the browser, and when the images are exported to &HTML; pages, a description for the item, and most important different categories for the item. In the screen shot, these categories are `People`, `Places`, and `Keywords`, but as you will see in , these three predefined categories may be changed to your preferences.

## Afbeeldingen en video's van annotatie voorzien

All these annotations may be used for searching and browsing, as we will see in . On request you may see these annotations when viewing the items in the build-in viewer.

## Categorieën

In there are three list boxes combined with line edits for specifying people, places and keywords. These widget are a very important part of &kphotoalbum;, as you will use them over and over again, when specifying information about your images.

You can specify a property from a list box, simply by selecting it (Select say `Donna` to specify that Donna is on the given image. Alternatively you may type its name in the line edit. When you start typing a name in the line edit, &kphotoalbum; will look into the listbox, and search for the first item matching what you've typed so far, and fill it out. Thus typing `Do` might be enough to find `Donna`. Once you have found the item you search for, simply press enter to select this item in the listbox. The item will now be moved to the top of the view, so next time you need the given item it is even easier to find. There is also a "seamless" way of annotating from Image Viewer that is described later on in .

The idea behind moving items to the top when they have been selected is, that when going to, say a family party, you will get perhaps 50 images all with the same 5-10 people. When typing in information about these 50 images you will have the 5-10 people at the top of the listbox as soon as you have typed in their name the first time.

Als u de voorkeur geeft aan, in plaats daarvan, de lijst alfabetisch te sorteren, druk gewoon op het pictogram voor sorteren onder het vak met de lijst.

## Één item tegelijk van een annotatie voorzien

When you specify properties for one image at a time, you may still of course select a number of images, and say, I want to annotate these images. In this situation, you will find a next and previous button under the image in the topmost rightmost corner.

## Meerdere items tegelijk van een annotatie voorzien

If you have several images with, say the same person, then it might be more convenient to select those images, and specify that this person is on all images using the Annotate Multiple Items at a Time.

If you want to annotate a stack of images you can do that when the stack is collapsed. You just need to select the top image of the stack and annotate multiple images. (If you annotate single image, only the selected image, the stack head in this case, is being annotated.) Of course expanding the stack and selecting all images works as well.

## Subcategorieën

Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles en California bevinden zich allen in de USA. Verder bevinden San Francisco en Los Angeles zich in California.

Instead of specifying for each and every image from San Francisco, that it is in San Francisco, and in California, and in USA, you may instead tell &kphotoalbum; that San Francisco, and Los Angeles are in California, and that California among others are in USA. Doing so the browser (see ) will offer you an item for USA, and an item for California in addition to all your normal items. Selecting California, you will see all images from San Francisco, Los Angeles, &etc;

In you can see a browser window, containing USA as a super category. To indicate to you that this is a group, a special icon is used.

### Browser showing USA as a super category

In the context menu for the annotation dialog it is possible to add an item to an existing or new super or sub category. In addition you may simply drag an item to a category to make it a sub category of that item. Notice this requires that you are currently sorting your categories alphabetically. See .

### Categories shown in alphabetical view of the annotation dialog

## Changing layout of the annotation dialog

It is possible to move the items of the annotation dialog around, simply from the bar at the top of the frames, and move them around - you can even make a frame into a top level window on its own.

Once you have found a layout that works well on your screen, your usage of &kphotoalbum;, &etc; simply press the Options... button, that will display a pop-up menu from which you can save the current window layout.

You may also choose to hide away a frame, or enable some that are not visible by default. You can always revert back to the original layout by going through Options... button, and selecting Reset layout from the popup menu. This can be seen in .

### Showing previously hidden windows.