Exporting Image Collections

digiKam provides several export options that help archive and publish your personal image collections. It offers archiving to iPod, HTML export, and export to a remote gallery.

digiKam comes with some customized export functions for the most known online archives and the general export function Export+HTML Gallery. To create an HTML export of your image collection, proceed as follows:

  1. Select Export+HTML Gallery.

  2. Determine which part of your collection should be archived by selecting albums or tags in Collection and click Next.

  3. Use Theme dialog to set the appearance of your HTML gallery and click Next.

  4. Specify size, compression and file type for the thumbnails used for gallery navigation in Image Settings and click Next.

  5. Determine the location of the gallery on disk with Output and click Finish.

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

  1. Get an account for an external Web site to host your gallery.

  2. Select Export+Export to Gallery and provide the URL, username, and password for the external site when asked. digiKam establishes a connection to the site specified and opens a new window called Gallery Export.

  3. Determine the location of your new album in the gallery.

  4. Click New Album and provide the information requested by digiKam.

  5. Upload the images to the new album with Add Photos.