and Ubuntu automatically recognizes the camera as a USB mass storage
device. You can even set Ubuntu to recognize when a camera is plugged in so
that it automatically imports your photographs for you.
Using Shotwell Photo Manager
Shotwell Photo Manager, mentioned earlier in this chapter, includes simple
adjustment tools. You can import your photos into Shotwell, assign tags to
them, sort and arrange them, and even upload them to your favorite Internet
photo-hosting sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram.
Burning CDs and DVDs in Ubuntu
Linux is generally distributed via the Internet as disc images called ISOs that
are ready to be written to CDs or DVDs. Therefore, learning how to burn
discs is essential if you have to download and install a Linux distribution. You
can use CDs and DVDs to do the following:
Record and store multimedia data, such as backup files, graphics images,
and music.
Rip audio tracks from music CDs and compile your own music CDs for
your personal use. (Ripping refers to extracting music tracks from a
music CD.)Although USB storage devices such as thumb drives are making CDs and
DVDs almost as rare as floppy disks, they aren’t quite gone, and many people
still find them useful. As long as that remains true, we want to make sure this
information is available.
Creating CDs and DVDs with Brasero
Although adequate for quick burns and use in shell scripting, the command-
line technique for burning CDs and DVDs is an awkward choice for many
people (but we still cover it later in this chapter because others find it useful
and desirable). Fortunately, Ubuntu provides several graphical clients; the
most useful is Brasero.
Brasero is an easy-to-use graphical CD and DVD burning application that is
installed by default. Brasero takes a project-based approach to disc burning,
opening up with a wizard that offers four different tasks that people
commonly want to do. Brasero also remembers previous “projects,” enabling