2. Usage

Once Nautilus Image Manipulator is installed on your system, you’ll most probably want to use it... Right?

2.1. Launching Nautilus Image Manipulator

Open Nautilus (the file manager in Gnome) and browse to a folder containing images. Select one or more, and right-click one. In the menu that appears, you will see a line that says “Resize images...”:

The Nautilus plugin in action

Right-clicking on images gives you the option to “Resize images...”

When clicking on that menu option, Nautilus Image Manipulator will open and allow you to resize the selected images, and send them to friends and family if you so wish. This is how it looks like the first time that it’s run:

Nautilus Image Manipulator as seen on first launch

How Nautilus Image Manipulator looks like the first time it’s launched

2.2. Working with profiles

Resizing and sending images with Nautilus Image Manipulator is done using profiles. Those represent a set of parameters that will be applied to all the images being worked on.

Nautilus Image Manipulator comes with 4 default profiles to get you started:

  • Send small images to 1fichier.com

    This profile will create images that are maximum 640 pixels wide and 640 pixels high, and the quality of the images is set to 90%. Those images are then zipped together in a file that will be sent to the file locker website http://www.1fichier.com.

  • Create small images in the “resized” folder

    The images produced by this profile will be of the same size (640x640) and quality (90%) as the previous profile, but will be put inside the ./resized folder instead of being sent on the Internet.

  • Send large images to 1fichier.com

    This profile will create images that are maximum 1280 pixels wide and 1280 pixels high, and the quality of the images is set to 95%. Those images are then zipped together in a file that will be sent to the file locker website http://www.1fichier.com.

  • Create large images in the “resized” folder

    The images produced by this profile will be of the same size (1280x1280) and quality (95%) as the previous profile, but will be put inside the ./resized folder instead of being sent on the Internet.

2.3. Custom settings

TODO

2.4. Managing profiles

2.4.1. Adding a profile

TODO

2.4.2. Removing a profile

TODO