# The Kamoso Handbook

This documentation was converted from the KDE UserBase Kamoso page and updated by the &kde; documentation team.
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2016-08-24
&kamoso; 3.2

Take a shot

  &kamoso; gives you an opportunity to make photos from your webcam and upload them to Internet

Record video

  &kamoso; allows to record videos from your webcam and upload them to the Internet

KDE

## User Guide

Welcome to &kamoso;!

&kamoso; is a great program to use your webcam to take pictures or make videos. This guide will help you to use &kamoso; once you have installed it.

### Quick Start

On launching &kamoso;, it displays this window with buttons at the bottom:

- Switch to Shoot mode to take one picture
- Switch to Burst mode and take continuously pictures until you stop by clicking the middle button again
- Switch to Record mode to record a video
- Start or stop taking pictures or recording a video
- Show gallery
- Show settings

Pictures and videos are numbered consecutively and saved automatically in the Captures directory defined in the settings.

### Managing Captures

To view and manage your captured pictures or videos click the Show gallery button. In the context menu for each entry in the gallery you find actions to manage them:

Use Open to view your captures in the associated application.

If you want to delete pictures and videos open the captures folder in the filemanager.

The next actions allow you to upload captures to the Internet or send them to a contact or device.

Use Save as to copy the complete content of the gallery to a new folder.

### Customizing

Click the Show settings button to open the settings panel. Click the button again to hide the settings panel.

If you want to change the folder where &kamoso; saves pictures and videos, change the Captures directory at the top.

Enable Use flash to highlight the window before taking photos.

Using the sliders you can modify camera settings like brightness, hue, contrast, saturation and gamma.

## Credits and License

Documentation Copyright see the UserBase Kamoso page history

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