A sample session
This chapter is a quick tour through many of 's functions to get you quickly going to work with this program. You will find a complete description of all available commands in later chapters.
The image in this tutorial comes from the kdeartwork package of . The kdeartwork package is full of things to spice up your desktop, and well worth checking out, but if you haven't installed it, just choose another file to follow along with.

Let's go!
After you have started (using the panel menu, or typing kview at the command prompt) the main window shows up with an empty workspace:
Starting
A new application window.
A fresh new window
All those creative people like you and me are discouraged by an empty sheet, so let's quickly open a new image. However, first we change the way that resizes its main window and the image after loading a new one: Select Configure KView from the Settings menu. A dialog leaps up:
Changing options
The settings dialog.
To resize or not to resize
Select No Resize from the On Load group box. This means that neither the main window nor the image will be resized after loading.
Now open Dasding.jpg which you find in the ./share/wallpapers subdirectory of your main path (possibly /opt/kde or /opt/kde2). Ahh - that's looking better!
Image loaded
The wallpaper loaded into .
A beautiful image loaded...

The cutting edge
Let's make a new background wallpaper out of the loaded image. We only need the logo (the gear-wheel on the right), not the whole picture, so select the logo by drawing a box around it. Press the left mouse button, hold it down and move the mouse. A dashed box appears, marking your selection. Repeat this until you are happy with your choice. Then go on and cut the selected region from the image by choosing Edit Crop from the menu bar or it's equivalent shortcut, C. Your workspace should now look like this:
Image cropped
An important selection
Reduced to the essentials
If you are not satisfied with the cutting you can always restore the image's original state with Edit Reset, or the shortcut R.

Stirring the paste
We wanted to be creative, didn't we? provides some filter functions to manipulate images. They are (conveniently) placed in the Filter menu. Firstly, we will change the so-called gamma factor. This value affects mostly the mid-tones in the picture, leaving the brightest and darkest parts more or less untouched. Choose Filter Intensity Gamma correct from the menu bar. A dialog box appears. Change the value to 0.4 and hit the OK button. The picture is somehwat darker now:
Gamma corrected
Gamma correction
After the gamma correction
For a little psychedelic touch we use the brightness function. Selecting Brightness again brings up a dialog. This time you can enter the new brightness expressed in percent relative to the original value (so 100 percent means initial value). Enter a value of 300.0300> and watch what happens:
Brighter
Brighter than ever
brighter than ever before
Finally, we blur the image a little with Filter Smooth. Apply this filter two or three times (or more often if you can't stop!). The smoothing filter reduces the contrast between neighboring pixels:
Smoother
Smoother than ever
- smooth as silk

Cluttering up your desktop
Before we use our masterpiece as a desktop background we better save it. At the moment, our picture is a JPEG image, but for some reason we want to store it in the PNG format. Easy - just call File Save As and enter a filename with the extension .png:
Saving
Saving the picture
Saving and converting in one
The great moment has finally come: Choose Desktop Desktop Tile and admire your incredibly artistic background:
Background
A new background
KDE - wherever you look