Changelog:
2013.01.11 v.13.01.2
+ The Dutch translation was updated.
+ Bugfix: If file sync is cancelled it may be impossible to quit.
2013.01.03 v.13.01.1
+ Bugfix: The Grid Lines menu and keyboard toggle was not working.
Changelog:
2013.01.01 v.13.01
+ The French, Catalan and Netherlands translations were updated.
+ Vertical menu/toolbar option for better utilization of wide monitors.
+ Gallery view: image size and date were added to the view.
+ Gallery view: mouse hover on thumbnail shows a popup metadata report.
+ Manage Collections: the UI has been reworked to make it easier to use.
+ Icons for all edit functions were added for use in the Favorites menu.
+ Gallery file selection: multiple images can be selected, inserted and
deleted, making re-arrangement of the sequence faster and easier.
+ Favorites menu: ignore small inadvertent drags from flying mouse
clicks which can cause accidental displacement of the menu entries.
+ Brightness histogram: add "overall" graph to existing R/G/B graphs.
+ Missing popup mini-explanations (tips) for some menus were added.
+ Bugfix: some metadata functions crashed if index file sync disabled.
2012.12.20 v.12.12.2
+ Bugfix: geotag latitude/longitude fractions were being truncated for
locales using a comma decimal point.
Changelog:
2012.12.04 v.12.12.1
+ Spanish translation updated.
+ Russian translation updated.
2012.12.01 v.12.12
+ New false color tool: gradually shift selected colors to other colors.
+ Slide Show: save selected images as a collection. Modify and re-use.
+ Thumbnail gallery window now suppresses hidden subdirectories.
+ Minor UI improvements for geotag dialogs using the world map.
+ Select Area: additional selection method can speed-up some tasks.
+ Paint Pixels: minor UI change to better conform with common practice.
+ Batch convert/resize/move: optional resize, optional delete originals.
+ Batch Rename: sequence number can be embedded anywhere in the base name.
+ New right-click menu convenience tools: rename, copy, move, trash ...
+ Translation (.po) files are compressed, reducing package size 0.7 MB.
+ Bugfix: Slide Show omitted file versions selected out of sequence.
+ Bugfix: gallery file chooser: shift+click was sometimes ignored.
+ Bugfix: Sync Files memory leak (significant for huge image library).
+ Bugfix: EXIF edit history was not complete for re-edited images.
+ Bugfix: Select Area finish failed if window auto focus from mouse.
+ Bugfix: incorrect scaling of 16-bit PNG files.
2012.11.01 v.12.11
+ Simplify world map zoom/pan/scroll: now works more like image files.
+ Simplify the display of images from a clicked world map location.
+ Icons in the favorites menu can have individual sizes up to 64x64.
+ Slide Show option: select image files ad hoc from gallery/navigator.
+ Slide Show: open gallery, navigate elsewhere, resume slide show.
+ Slide Show: new animated image transition option, "Raindrops".
+ Gallery file selection: select a range of files with shift+click.
+ Brightness distribution graph with separate RGB color components.
+ Menu shortcuts: right-click popup menu offers many edit options.
+ Keyboard shortcuts: F/G/W keys open window tabs F/G/W respectively.
+ Grid Lines shortcut moved to Ctrl+G (can be changed if wanted).
+ Rigid free memory check was replaced with a more flexible warning.
+ Replace several deprecated GTK functions with sanctioned functions.
+ Synchronize Files: provide [cancel] button for temporary bypass.
+ Bugfix: Slide Show: skip over directories instead of stopping.
+ Bugfix: Leverage Edits: erratic results from strongly sloped curve.
+ Bugfix: Resize: prevent tiny image size that can cause a crash.
+ Bugfix: Prev/Next buttons: stop loop if last image file is deleted.
+ Bugfix: Stop image files from appearing twice in the index file.
2012.10.04 v.12.10.1
+ Bugfix: Catalan was missing from the GUI language options.
+ Bugfix: Monitor Gamma: check that xgamma is installed before using.
Changelog:
Fotoxx change log
=================
2012.10.01 v.12.10
+ This release focuses on user interface and efficiency improvements.
+ The user manual and F1 help are now available in Castilian Spanish.
+ The search index was revised for greater scalability. Metadata edits
and related image searching should remain fast beyond 500K images.
A fresh resync of the search index will be done at first startup.
+ A custom graphic menu in a popup window was implemented. Frequently
used functions can be added and the layout arranged to taste.
+ RAW files can be opened in Ufraw (menu or thumbnail click).
+ A more precise world map was implemented (new download will be made).
+ Large image files open 30% faster and memory consumption is reduced.
+ The batch RAW converter now has a dialog to configure the parameters.
+ New pan/scroll mode: image sticks to mouse and moves with mouse.
+ Stop unnecessary refreshes of the image gallery for metadata edits.
+ Added support for exotic PNG formats (e.g. palletized) via GTK library.
+ Vignette bugfix: stop radius increase if vignette is moved off-center.
2012.09.01 v.12.09.1
Bugfix: memory management error having uncertain impact.
2012.09.01 v.12.09
+ RAW files can be opened via menu, command line or drag and drop.
+ RAW files can be seen in thumbnail galleries like other image files.
+ RAW file editing tool Ufraw was integrated into the Fotoxx menu.
+ RAW file batch conversion parameters (dcraw) are user configurable.
+ RAW file batch conversion is faster (about 50/minute on a strong PC).
+ A wavelet denoise method was added (adapted from ufraw/dcraw).
+ Deep color PNG files are supported (16 bits/color).
+ Vignette: center of shading/brightening can be moved with the mouse.
+ Images can be copied to the clipboard with a right-click popup menu.
+ Trim: target circle added in the middle of the trim rectangle.
+ World map shows locations of geotagged photos, click to see gallery.
+ User interface simplified for location-based or map-based image search.
+ A tool was added to remove chromatic abberation (color fringes).
+ Select area by mouse and color: small user interface improvement.
+ More dialogs preserve user inputs within and across Fotoxx sessions.
+ New command line option: start up with a specified menu function.
+ Panorama: option for zero image curve (e.g. to combine scanned images).
+ Gallery is updated live if a file add/delete is done outside Fotoxx.
+ Bugfix: click geotag group >> gallery window sometimes did nothing.
+ Bugfix: memory leak when processing metadata (tags, captions ...).
2012.08.20 v.12.08.1
+ New GUI translation for Catalan is available.
+ Bugfix: bad fflush() call in exiftool_server caused fotoxx to crash
in some distros using newest c-libraries (observed in Mageia alpha).
* Drop gmake from USE_TOOLS, bmake is sufficient
* Support NetBSD-current's libexecinfo
* Switch to gtk3
Fotoxx change log
=================
2012.08.01 v.12.08
+ Menus now show a popup descriptions if the mouse dwells on the menu.
+ Auto-synchronization (indexing of new image files) was made optional.
If disabled, metadata edit and search functions are also disabled.
These can be restored at any time by synchronizing the image files.
+ The size of a printed image (in centimeters) can be set in advance.
+ A 1-click sepia coloring was added (aged photo effect).
+ If Linux standard trash and desktop trash folder both fail (possible
with some distros) give the option to simply delete the image file.
+ Painting and scrolling the gallery window was made faster.
+ Navigating the gallery window to other directories was simplified.
+ A gallery from an image search or collection can be discarded and
replaced with a directory gallery using a toolbar button.
+ Bugfix: Edit Collections: keep the gallery window scroll position
stable when adding or removing images from a collection.
+ Bugfix: If the initial gallery window is list view (no thumbnails),
then the gallery window displayed only a blank window.
+ Bugifx: Crash if a retouch function is "painted" with the mouse and
and the function is canceled before any change is made.
+ Bugfix: Show RGB [clear] button cleared image tags but not the dialog.
+ Web site was changed from squarespace.kornelix.com to kornelix.com.
2012.07.05 v.12.07.1
+ Bugfix: World map loses the mouse connection and becomes unresponsive
after a left mouse click/drag is used to zoom/pan the map image.
2012.07.03 v.12.07
+ Tabs are now used to switch between the image and gallery windows.
+ List Geotag Groups by country, country/city, or country/city/date.
Nearby dates can be grouped together. Click a listed group to get the
corresponding thumbnail image gallery, view or edit images from there.
+ Click a location on a world map, get the corresponding image gallery.
+ Several small UI improvements in geotag edit and report functions.
+ Bugfix: edit collection: removing images was sometimes not possible if
some images still in the collection had been deleted from disk.
+ Bugfix: memory leak if successive images are viewed in rapid sequence.
+ Bugfix: Art > Dots treatment was destroyed when saved to a file.
+ Bugfix: crash in Open Recent File if the first file had been deleted.
2012.06.17 v.12.06.2
+ The Spanish and Galician translations were updated.
+ bugfix: crash following use of Batch Add Geotags function.
+ Bugfix: stop unwanted gallery window from appearing when the control
key is used to link mouse actions to the main window.
2012.06.01 v.12.06.1
+ bugfix: version check for exiftool failed for locales having a comma
decimal point instead of a period (e.g. 8,60 instead of 8.60).
2012.06.01 v.12.06
+ The Spanish and Galician translations were updated (as of v.12.05).
+ Package exiftool version 8.60 or later is now a requirement.
(this translates into Ubuntu 11.10 or later)
+ New: List geotag groups (city, country, date, image count), click on a
group to show a thumbnail gallery, click thumbnails to view or edit.
+ Added and revised geotag locations were separated from the download set,
to make them easier to keep when changing computers or Linux releases.
+ Geotag search for "null" can be used to find images with no geotags
(also within other search criteria such as date).
+ New: Voodoo retouch function improves most images with one click.
+ Thumbnail files are now .jpeg instead of .png. Initialization after a
new install is about 40% faster, and thumbnails are 1/3 as large.
+ There are now three thumbnail options: no thumbnails, thumbnails in the
image directories (as before), or use a designated thumbnail directory.
+ Flatten Brightness: prevent "color bands" in monotone bright areas.
+ Rotate function user interface was improved and made more responsive.
+ Keyboard shortcuts can be revised and new ones added by the user.
+ Stop popup messages from getting hidden behind other windows.
+ Block "save to file" if an edit dialog is active (unpredictable result).
+ Edit history log was moved from EXIF:EditStatus to EXIF:ImageHistory
because this is the de facto standard.
+ Metadata reports were changed to use EXIF tag names instead of tag
descriptions. These are needed to directly edit metadata.
+ Slide Show: added continuous loop option (last goes back to first).
+ Trim: new option to start automatically for each new file opened
(work through a batch of new photos more quickly).
+ Trim: new convenience button to do rotate and return to trim.
+ The [prev] and [next] buttons pre-load the next file ahead of need.
This can speed-up sequential viewing of images on a slow computer.
+ F11 toggles main window to full-screen (no menu/toolbar) and back.
+ Bugfix: geotag retrieval failure with photos from some cameras.
+ Bugfix: Keyboard shortcut T (for Trim) caused a crash.
2012.04.21 v.12.05
+ Geotagging and reporting was added. Geotags may be entered using city
names, with substring matching. Click the wanted city from multiple
candidates. Multiple images can be processed rapidly. Batch processing
is also available. Search images by city [country] or within radius of
a given location. Output is a gallery of clickable thumbnails. Select
locations to assign or search from a world map. Database has 3000+
cities and others can be added as needed from a web geocoding service.
+ Search Images function was simplified. Searching by date, rating, tags,
comments, caption, filename, geotags, and any other metadata is in one
GUI with buttons to select the unusual options.
+ Bugfix: captions and comments with imbedded quotes were causing some
metadata edits to fail (do nothing).
+ Bugfix: stop GUI lockup if window is resized by user while panorama or
other composite function is still computing.
+ Bugfix: stop paranoia if an image directory is read-only and thumbnail
subdirectory cannot be created - just leave out the thumbnails.
+ Bugfix: GUI was too difficult to view and edit the same collection.
2012.04.01 v.12.04
+ Select Area by color tones is almost 2x faster with less flicker.
+ New: Erase an object by overpainting with selected background.
+ New: Vignette Tool: change brightness or color in a radial pattern.
+ Art > Tiles: an optional 3D depth effect was added.
+ Edit Pixels: do area edge blending same as other edit functions.
+ Gamma Curve: buttons [++] etc. added as in brightness/color curves.
+ Select Area: "tweak" mode added: nudge an edge line using the mouse.
+ White Balance: slider added to adjust the impact from 0 to 100%.
+ Gallery window navigation was made a little more flexible.
+ First time startup: initial thumbnail creation and image file indexing
is 2x faster (2000+ images/min. on a strong PC with 4 cpu cores).
+ New: Help > Log File: view the current (live) log file.
+ Memory allocation failure: no crash, exit with a reasonable message.
+ Bugfix: rare crash when a concurrent edit function completes.
2012.03.14 v.12.03.2
+ Bugfix: Select Area / Finish: crash in cairo. This is apparently a new
bug in gtk3/cairo which affects some distros (but not current Ubuntu).
Fotoxx was changed to avoid the problem: remove calls to gdk_flush().
This can make Fotoxx appear to "freeze" during Select Area / Finish.
2012.03.04 v.12.03.1
+ Bugfix: Select Area: cancel button did not kill the Finish process.
+ Bugfix: Retouching a zoomed image caused temp. change in aspect ratio.
2012.03.01 v.12.03
+ Mouse-driven area select and edit functions respond much faster.
+ The internal image format was changed from int-16 to float-32 per
RGB color. This simplified the code and made some edit functions
slightly faster. There is no visual image impact. The main memory
needed to edit a 20 megapixel image has grown to about 800 MB.
+ The exiftool program is started as a server process and left running.
This eliminates a significant startup delay for every image opened.
+ Indexing of new files at startup was made much faster: typically
1-2 seconds on a strong PC if only a few new images are found.
+ A toolbar button is used to change the mouse-drawing color for select
and edit functions. Similar buttons on many dialogs were removed.
+ The pixel edit function was made easier and faster to use.
+ An edited file can be saved in the additional formats .bmp and .ico.
+ Setting the zoom ratio was simplified: each 2x zoom is 1-3 clicks.
+ Create Blank Image: the file type can be .jpg, .tif, .png, or .bmp.
+ The E-mail function was removed because Thunderbird and Evolution do
not work (or no longer work) with the "standard" xdg-email protocol
for attachments. Use Tools > Batch Convert to select images, export,
and reduce size (if wanted) for attaching to e-mail or uploading.
+ Bugfix: If the top image directory was set to /home/<user>, thousands
of unwanted files in /home/<user>/.thumbnails/* were being indexed.
+ Bugfix: Stack/Noise image alignment was poor if there was significant
camera movement between photos.
+ Bugfix: Progress monitoring for some functions was very inaccurate.
+ Bugfix: some .gif files produced empty thumbnail images.
+ Bugfix: file synchronization at startup was sometimes wasting time
with unnecessary updates.
2012.02.01 v.12.02
+ Fotoxx was converted to use GTK3 and Cairo. It will no longer build
or install on older Linux releases lacking these libraries.
+ Multiple (up to 10) top image directories are now supported.
+ The gallery thumbnail size is saved and restored across sessions.
+ Bugfix: crash if an image present 2+ times in a collection is removed.
+ Bugfix: crash in slide show "jaws" transition.
+ RPM packages are built using Fedora and rpmbuild instead of alien.
2012.01.04 v.12.01.2
+ Italian user guide was updated.
+ Swedish translation was updated.
Changelog:
2012.01.04 v.12.01.2
+ Italian user guide was updated.
+ Swedish translation was updated.
2012.01.04 v.12.01.1
+ Bugfix: zoom causes infinite loop after new installation.
2012.01.01 v.12.01
+ New function Search Metadata: search and report image metadata
(EXIF/IPTC/etc.), using a combined image and text display format.
+ Synchronize Files is 2x faster for an initial installation or after
importing a large number of new photos (>1000/min. on a fast PC).
+ "my mouse" was removed from all edit and selection dialogs. The mouse
belongs to the last widget clicked. The main window can be zoomed and
scrolled during such dialogs by using CTRL + mouse click or drag.
+ Mouse wheel can do zoom-in and zoom-out.
+ Zooming an image re-centers it on the mouse position, and the mouse
position follows the zoom center to the middle of the window.
+ Zoom ratio configurable: choose 1-4 zooms for each 2x increase in size.
+ DRGB (print color adjust) can save corrections to a file for re-use.
+ Some user settings in various menus were collected together in the
new menu function Tools > User Settings.
+ Bugfix: Search Image was finding false matches for images with very
large caption or comments.
+ Bugfix: cannot escape file open dialog if open previous or open recent
is attempted when there are no previous files (initial installation).
+ Bugfix: interactive GUI translation function failed to initialize.
2011.12.03 v.11.12.2
+ Italian translation was updated.
+ Locale of lc_RC will prefer a .po file named "lc_RC", fallback to "lc".
2011.12.02 v.11.12.1
+ Bugfix: crash at startup - top image directory not correctly
initialized from previous fotoxx installation.
2011.12.01 v.11.12
+ New function Auto-Trim: automatically trim unused edge areas left over
from panorama, HDR, HDF, stack, warp and unbend functions.
+ New function: Find bright or dark "stuck" pixels (camera sensor defect)
(1x1/2x2/3x3 blocks) and fix them by interpolating neighboring pixels.
Pixel locations can be saved and applied later to other images.
+ Select Area was extended to both select and unselect by matching colors,
and the pixel search range was made adjustable 1-20x mouse radius.
+ Batch Resize/Export function now supports output of JPEG, PNG, TIFF.
This can be used to select and convert files to a different format.
+ Convert RAW Files now supports output of JPEG, PNG, TIFF-8, TIFF-16.
+ Warp Area algorithm was made a bit more intuitive and controllable.
+ GUI language translation procedure was simplified.
+ Bugfix: restored some lost translations of dialog buttons.
+ Bugfix: Trim dialog mouse ownership was sometimes misleading.
+ Bugfix: WarpArea did not reset itself if selected area was changed.
+ Bugfix: crash if parallel instances of fotoxx are simultaneously
editing images and using undo/redo.
Changelog:
2011.11.05 v.11.11.1
Fix some problems in v.11.11 released a few days ago:
+ Bugfix: crash in vertical panorama.
+ Bugfix: crash after moving images to trash and "Open Recent Files".
+ Restore user feedback for functions running more than a few seconds.
2011.11.01 v.11.11
+ Creating and editing collections was made easier and more intuitive.
+ Synchronize Files always works incrementally and runs automatically at
startup. Image navigation/viewing is immediately possible but editing
is blocked until the synchronize is finished (normally a few seconds).
+ Straighten Image: fix less than optimal results for images needing
a large correction. Menu was renamed to Keystone Correction.
+ New menu: Help > User Guide Changes: summary of changes in the user
guide for recent releases (minimize effort to keep up with changes).
+ New menu: Help > Edit Functions Summary: a one-page "quick reference"
summary of all the image editing functions.
+ New topic added to the user guide: How to organize a large image
collection to minimize effort and to optimize image searching.
+ The status bar now shows if a dialog is waiting for input
(and possibly hidden under another window).
+ New keyboard shortcut: N = Rename Image File.
+ Transform and Retouch menus were rearranged to follow typical workflow.
+ Rotate and warp dialogs have convenience buttons to grid line setup.
+ Grid setup: the x and y grids can be moved around over the image.
+ New utility: update collections if the top image directory is moved.
+ The package build method was updated to improve Debian packaging and
include dependencies on non-library programs. The RPM packages do
not include this because the package names are not compatible.
Changelog:
2011.10.01 v.11.10
+ New function: classic gamma curve edit for brightness and individual
RGB colors. Applicable to the whole image or a selected object/area.
+ Printing was revised to work better with recent changes in HPLIP that
made printing on small paper sizes more difficult. The paper size must
be specified in the Printer Properties dialog (printer admin function)
and not in the application program - otherwise the print fails with a
"paper mismatch" error. This changed between Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04.
+ New function: convert "tetragon" image into a rectangle. Useful for
gallery paintings photographed from the side to avoid reflections,
buildings photographed at an angle, etc.
+ At startup, check for new files, advise if synchronization is needed.
+ New option: warn if overwriting original (non-versioned) image file.
+ Slide Show: stop strange behavior when multiple monitors are used.
+ Slide Show: option to show only the most recent version of each image.
+ Slide Show: use spacebar to pause and resume slide show.
+ Pixel Edit: transparency adjustment steps were made finer.
+ Code cleanup for new compiler warnings from GCC 4.6 (Ubuntu 11.10).
2011.09.26 v.11.09.1
+ Bufgix: crash in Slide Show if the last transition type (jaws) is
not included in the user preferences.
2011.09.01 v.11.09
+ Print Image File now has margin inputs and tiny margins also work.
+ The Portuguese translation was brought up to date.
+ Minor source code changes were made for better BSD compatibility.
+ Show RGB: labels on monitored image points were made optional.
+ Gallery: larger font for file names is used when thumbnails are large.
+ Edit Captions and Edit User Comments were combined into one function.
+ File Open will discard a preceding search result or named collection,
and the user is notified and may proceed or cancel.
+ File > Open (menu and toolbar) can now be used to open a single RAW
file (as tiff-16). A batch conversion function is also available.
+ CPU load monitor on status bar now includes spawned subprocesses.
+ Smart Erase: improved algorithm gives better results in some cases.
+ Panorama: image overlap requirement was relaxed.
+ Bugfix: Flatten: fix uneven conversion of pixels with max. brightness.
+ Bugfix: crash if Tools > Add Menu is started and then canceled.
+ Bugfix: minor memory leak.
2011.08.01 v.11.08
+ An Italian user guide has been added.
+ New function DRGB: change brightness and color balance using OD units.
+ Revise_RGB: added delta mode (show +/- changes from original image).
+ Show RGB: added EV and OD units, delta mode, and pixel labels on image.
+ Slide Show: two image transitions were added, "radar" and "jaws".
+ Slide Show: preferred transition modes can be selected and remembered.
+ Delete Area was renamed to Unselect Area (to reduce ambiguity).
+ F1 help topic is now determined by the last dialog opened OR USED.
+ Bugfix: disable a select-area if Undo/Redo changes the image size.
+ Bugfix: Create Blank Image got leftover EXIF data from a prior image.
+ Bugfix: buffer overflow crash in Russian locale. Several other risky
places from long translation strings were identified and fixed.
+ Bug workaround: crash from GCC 4.5 optimization removing necessary
code. Do-nothing variable references were added to prevent this.
+ Annoyance fix: rapid repetition of prev/next buttons or arrow keys
was sometimes causing a "function still active" popup message.
+ Current bug: On Ubuntu 11.04 Fotoxx refuses to print with small paper
formats (A5, A6). Ubuntu 10.10 works OK. I cannot fix this.
Changelog:
2011.07.01 v.11.07
+ The main retouch functions can now be used in parallel
(i.e. multiple edit dialogs can be active at the same time).
+ The last position of the main window and most dialog windows is saved
and restored within a session and across sessions.
+ New function Match Colors: take a spot color sample from two images.
The colors of the 2nd image are changed to match the first.
+ New function Revise RGB: select up to 9 control pixels on an image and
adjust their RGB values. All image pixels are adjusted to match, using
weights based on distances from the control pixels. Use this function
to make complex color adjustments that vary across the image.
+ Brightness Ramp was revised to handle RGB colors. This is an alternative
method to remove a color caste that varies across an image or image area.
+ Tools > Show RGB: EV and OD units are output in addition to RGB values.
Up to five points are shown, updated live as the image is edited.
+ The Brightness/Color curves now have a range of +/-2 EV (F-stops) and
the step-adjust buttons ([+++] etc.) are calibrated in 0.1 EV steps.
Steps 1/3 this size can also be used. Use this function in conjunction
with Show RGB to make calibrated color adjustments.
+ Numeric feedback was added to the sliders in retouch edit functions.
+ Missing gallery thumbnails are generated 2-3x faster (on multi-core
processors) using multiple threads working ahead of need (usually).
+ Clone (new window) now has two variants: share desktop 50/50 or open
a new window of the same size, slightly offset for visibility.
+ Open File now has two variants: use the same window or open a new
window in a parallel instance of Fotoxx.
+ New toolbar button: save file as a new version (immediate, no dialog).
The current image and its edit history remain unchanged.
+ Save-As menu and toolbar: new checkbox option to switch the current
file to the saved file. The edit trail (undo/redo) is also retained.
+ New command line parameters:
-prev open the last file viewed in the previous session.
-recent start with a gallery of recent files (most recent at top).
(-prev used to be default but this is no longer the case).
+ If the [undo] or [redo] button is pressed with the shift-key, they
become "undo all" and "redo all". This makes it easier to compare
an image having multiple edits with the original image.
+ Select Area [Unfinish] button: put a finished area back in edit mode.
+ Pixel Edit was moved from the Art menu to the Retouch menu.
+ Hourglass cursor was replaced with a BUSY sign at bottom of the window.
+ Toolbar help is a topic help like F1. Menu help opens the user guide.
+ Bugfix: warp functions were infrequently putting artifacts in the image.
+ Bugfix: Edit Collections could crash if adds and deletes were mixed.
+ Bugfix: Select Area Edge Calculation: if killed by user, the area was
left in a half finished condition.
2011.06.13 v.11.06.2
Bugfix: Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit: libtiff.so was moved to a really different
location: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtiff.so. This caused a misleading
diagnostic when building from source, so the check and diagnostic was
simply eliminated. The packages are not affected.
Changelog:
2011.06.09 v.11.06.1
Bugfix: A hole was closed that could cause a crash if an area is
deleted while an edit function is open and active.
2011.06.01 v.11.06
+ Smart Erase and Remove Dust were made slightly more effective.
+ Brightness/Color retouching and Tone Mapping were made 25-40% faster.
+ Retouching brightness/color by "painting" with the mouse (dodge and
burn) was made much faster (instant response on a fast computer).
+ If at startup the previous image file is no longer present then a
gallery of the 100 most recent files viewed is shown.
+ New function: Tools > Toolbar Style: set to text, icons, or both.
+ New function: Tools > Edit Translation: edit translations interactively
as Fotoxx is being used, and the changes are immediately effective.
+ Several other small usability improvements were made.
+ Minor bugfix: paste area edge blending lost 1 pixel around the edge.
* On DragonFly, not works yet (like before).
fotoxx change log
=================
2011.05.02 v.11.05.1
+ The new version of alien replaces text files in /usr/share/doc/appname
with compressed (.gz) versions, making the menu Help > Change Log etc.
fail. Program was revised to accept either normal or compressed files.
+ Context help (F1) for Remove Dust did not work.
2011.05.01 v.11.05
+ New function Erase Dust: erase dust spots on images from scanned slides.
+ Named image collections were made easier to create and revise. Images
can be added, removed and rearranged using a thumbnail gallery.
+ The trim (crop) function better handles zoom and scroll. The desired
image size can be input directly, in addition to the mouse drag method.
+ Smart Erase was made faster (noticeable on slow processors).
+ Create Blank Image: simplify UI and create new file automatically.
+ Minor UI improvement: inform user if the current search results or
named collection must be abandoned to open a non-member image file.
+ Select Area: edge distance calculation for hairy edges is >2x faster.
+ Image tags with imbedded blanks are allowed.
+ Bugfix: Smart Erase was sometimes missing a few pixels.
+ The supplied .deb and .rpm packages are now built using Ubuntu 10.04
instead of Ubuntu 8.10. These packages (using newer libraries) may
not be installable on less current Linux releases.
2011.04.01 v.11.04
+ Vertical panorama was implemented (previously possible but clumsy).
+ Slide Show can optionally play a music file or play list.
+ A pre-planned slide show can be started from the command line.
+ Initialization for new installs was simplified and the user warning was
strengthened (need fewer frustrated users who don't read user guides).
+ Smart Erase was made easier by combining the select and erase functions.
+ Select ellipse: keep the ellipse centered at the drag origin.
+ Select by color: the search range for matching pixels was limited to
3x the mouse radius. This works better, allowing edges with varying
color to be more easily followed and selected. The remaining interior
areas can be selected with an extra click in the finish dialog.
+ Paste Area was made easier to use by automating the finish step.
+ Unbend was extended to fix more types of perspective problems.
+ Toolbar buttons were rearranged to reduce the risk of accidentally
overwriting the original image.
+ The total image file limit of 100,000 was removed. The practical limit
depends on how much main memory is available for the image search index.
1 GB is enough for >1 million files, and only needed when searching.
+ Bugfix: possible crash in slide show with "ellipse" transitions.
+ Bugfix: HDF: first manual tweak caused an annoying random jump.
+ Bugfix: crash if initial warning message ignored and then open a file.
2011.03.13 v.11.03.1
+ Bugfix: possible crash if area select along bottom edge of image.
+ Bugfix: possible crash following a revision of lens parameters.
+ Bugfix: select area: edge of image can also be edge of area.
2011.03.01 v.11.03
+ Composite functions Pano, HDR, HDF and Stack run 2-3 times faster.
+ Printing: intermediate file was changed from .jpeg to .tiff to correct
slight blurring of some color edges in high-resolution images.
+ New art function: create color outline drawings.
+ New function: adjust monitor gamma with live feedback.
+ Plugins: add external image editors to Fotoxx menu: Fotoxx edits may
precede and follow, [undo] / [redo] buttons work, etc.
+ Smart Erase: can use a tighter area around the object to be erased.
+ Panorama: the math was simplified to a pure cylindrical projection.
+ Select Area: added select for rectangular and elliptical areas.
+ Notify user of delay for thumbnail creation when new images are found.
+ New slide show transition: ellipse expanding from the center.
+ Select Area: brighter outlines for freehand draw and follow edge.
+ Unbend: panorama curve is more accurately flattened.
+ bugfix: crash reading 4-channel tiff file in strip format.
+ bugfix: panorama crash if image overlap reaches zero during alignment.
+ bugfix: crash if trying to save to a .gif file (converts to .jpg).
+ bugfix: fixed small memory leak in metadata viewer.
2011.02.01 v.11.02
+ Retouch functions can be incrementally "painted" with the mouse, with
variable radius and strength.
+ Area cut and paste: edge effects are more effectively suppressed and
the pasted area/object can be rotated as well as resized.
+ Curve edit (used in image retouch functions): curve data can be saved
to a file or loaded from a file as part of the curve edit dialog.
+ New function: Smart Erase: erase power lines and other small defects
by replacing them with pixels from the neighborhood.
+ New functions: Make Image Collection and Open Image Collection. Images
may be assigned to named collections. A collection can be recalled and
used for a slide-show, export, etc.
+ New function: Combine photos of the same subject taken at different
moments, remove tourists, cars, etc. that come and go.
+ Panorama pre-align was made a little easier (check the user guide).
+ Tag Edit and Tag Management were separated to simplify operation.
+ New 1-time function: Tools > Fix Tag Delimiters: make tags (keywords)
compatible with Photoshop. Other photo managers may not be compatible.
This is optional and can be done at any time without affecting Fotoxx.
+ Art > Dots: dot rows are offset by 1/2 dot pitch, which looks better.
+ Expand Brightness Range: use sliders and show brightness histogram.
+ 1-time function to rebuild thumbnails now has a fast incremental mode.
+ Obsolete functions removed: convert old tag and parameter formats.
(if you have startup problems, delete /home/<user>/.fotoxx).
+ Bugfix: Edit Info function could not be canceled before using it.
+ Bugfix: Edit Info (metadata) limit raised from 100 to 1000 characters.
+ Bugfix: Stop meaningless EXIF diagnostic when a blank image is created.
+ Bugfix: Annotate crash if font set to tiny and then increased.
+ tags_index file was renamed to search_index
2011.01.07 v.11.01.2
+ Bugfix: select whole image was not working. What went wrong between
testing and release is a mystery, but now it is fixed.
2011.01.06 v.11.01.1
+ Revise startup warnings about thumbnails and tag index file to make
them less intrusive and perhaps easier to understand.
+ French translation was updated.
2011.01.01 v.11.01
+ Select Area: Select the whole image and use overall brightness or a
single RGB color brightness to control the application of a retouch
function. This allows tone mapping, noise reduction, etc. to apply
in darker image areas but not brighter areas (or the inverse).
+ New art function: make a dot matrix image (à la Roy Lichtenstein).
+ Slide Show was given a few dubiously useful but cute image transition
modes (fade-out/fade-in and various kinetic image replacement methods).
+ Open Recent File: the 100 most recent image files are presented in a
gallery window to make it easier to go back to a desired image.
+ If grid lines are active when an image is printed, the grid lines will
also appear on the printed image.
+ The status bar shows if a select-area is active or a function is busy.
+ A new blank image can be created and used as a basis for mashups
using cutouts from other images plus annotation text.
+ After a first-time install, the user is now advised to run the 1-time
indexing program so that image searches will function correctly.
+ Batch add and delete tags have a popup window to monitor progress.
+ Search Images output (gallery window) is sorted to follow the physical
organization of the underlying files. Groupings and sequences implied
by the file organization (directories and file names) are preserved
in the generated window of thumbnail images. This was always a claimed
fotoxx capability, but was not always working as advertised.
+ Bugfix: image was sometimes not being resized to fit window after a
size change (trim, resize), possibly giving a false impression.
+ Bugfix: inverting a select area did not work with some edit functions.
2010.12.07 v.10.12.1
Three minor GUI improvements:
+ pixel edit: notify if select area is active to avoid user confusion.
+ fix inconsistent behavior of select area draw and follow edge.
+ bugfix: "Save As" with a name like "2010.12" resulted in "2010.jpg".
2010.12.01 v.10.12
This release has many small user interface improvements and bug fixes.
+ Switching the mouse between dialogs and main window was simplified,
making it easier to zoom and pan when a dialog owns the mouse or to
control two active dialogs alternating ownership of the mouse.
+ Select Area by color: in firewall mode, pixels within the mouse radius
are unconditionally selected. Left drag now works as an un-select.
+ Select Area by freeform drawing: drawing lines along the edge of the
image is no longer so tedious.
+ The HDF "paint" mode was made more responsive for slow CPUs.
+ Image captions (IPTC: Caption-Abstract) are now searchable (along
with tags, dates, stars, comments, file names). Image captions are
searched for given words. Run Tools > Rebuild Tags Index to update
the search index (one-time conversion job).
+ Data functions (EXIF/IPTC/etc. tags, comments, captions) were moved
into one menu. The "big text" functions (comments, captions) were
made easier to view and edit with a conventional text edit interface.
+ Info > Search Images: searching file names works without wildcards,
(e.g. search "rosi" matches /xxx/rosi/xxx.jpg and /xxx/Rosixxx.jpg).
+ Info > Search Images: date range default month/day is 01/01 for low
limit and 12/31 for high limit, so "2009 to 2010" is two full years.
+ Info > Search Images: "match any" and "match all" can be specified
separately for tags, comments/captions, and file names.
+ Rotated images are no longer automatically uprighted. Instead, use
the R or L key to permanently fix as needed. This saves time for
every image opened since the EXIF data need not be read.
+ File > Open Recent File: opens the combo box file list automatically.
+ File > Open Previous File: opens most recent file that still exists.
+ File > Save As with "new version" selected: the version naming was
changed to reduce the risk of conflict with a user file naming system.
Format: originalname.jpg >> *.v01.jpg >> *.v02.jpg >> etc.
+ Buttons [Prev] and [Next] more reliably find previous or next files
even if files have been deleted or renamed outside Fotoxx.
+ Dialogs that need significant time now show an hourglass, even when
the mouse cursor stays inside the dialog window.
+ Tools > Clone: screen is split 50/50 between the two instances.
+ Transform > Trim: dragging the margins is smoother for slow CPUs.
+ Zoom: limit was raised from 200% to 400%. This makes it easier
to do a very precise area selection.
+ Annotate Image: text can be optionally outlined with a different color.
+ The user guide was audited and many small corrections were made.
+ Bugfix: quotes in EXIF/IPTC/etc. data were replaced with escaped
quotes to prevent the exiftool command from failing.
+ Bugfix: Area copy and paste: fixed small edge defects that sometimes
happened when the pasted area was reduced in size.
2010.11.08 v.10.11.2
+ Bugfix: Trashing an image deleted User Comments for other images in the
tag index file, causing the Search function to fail for comments search.
Run Tools > Rebuild Tags Index if you are using the comments feature.
2010.11.01 v.10.11.1
+ Bugfix: crash if fotoxx start and quit without opening an image file.
2010.11.01 v.10.11
+ Search Tags: a simpler alternative is provided for those not wanting to
maintain an elaborate image tag system: search based on user comments
and/or image folder and file names. Match on any or all search words
entered, with optional wildcard matching for folder and file names.
NOTE: Run Tools > Rebuild Tags Index for this feature to work.
+ Edit functions operating within a small area were made more responsive
for slow CPUs: Warp Area, Paste Area, Annotate Image, Edit Pixels.
+ Annotate Image: both text and background color and transparency can be
specified. Traditional-looking watermarks can be made. Annotation data
can be saved as a file, so annotations can be kept and re-used.
+ Grid lines: either line count or line spacing can be specified. Line
counts are independent of image size. G-key toggles grid on/off.
+ New function: Warp Image (linear): an alternative way to compensate
for perspective distortions. Change line slopes without curving them.
+ Pixel edit now works within a selected area. This makes it easy to paint
inside an area using an opaque or transparent color and a large brush.
+ Select Area by Color: optional "firewall" mode: already-selected pixels
become a barrier to the propagation of newly-selected pixels.
+ Buttons in Select Area dialog were made available as menu functions
with their own F1 help topics (a small convenience improvement).
+ Dialog boxes now open near the upper right corner of the main window
instead of the middle (a small convenience improvement).
+ File > Save As: retain the same current file and image set if saving
to a different directory. Otherwise make the new file the current file
and add it to the current image set (directory or tag search results)
(a small convenience improvement).
+ New function: File > Open Previous: go back to the previous file,
also if in another directory (a small convenience improvement).
(File > Open Recent is unchanged: choose from last 30 files).
+ Bugfix: missing or corrupted parameters file could cause a crash.
2010.10.16 v.10.10.2 and 10.10.3
+ Bugfix: restored lost F1 links to user guide.
+ Bugfix: trim button [invert] did not work. [gold] ratio was inverted.
+ The Dutch translation was updated.
+ Edit EXIF User Comments and Annotate Image (write text on image) were
made into separate functions. The old interface was confusing.
+ Annotate on slow (Atom) processors now works acceptably fast.
+ Grid lines dialog revised to use line spacing instead of line counts.
+ Trim ratio buttons are customized with a GUI instead of a text file.
+ Window repaint speed (expose event) was doubled (no impact on edits).
2010.10.02 v.10.10.1
+ Bugfix: Annotate function was missing the translation capability.
+ Annotate on slow (Atom) processors was made faster, but still slow.
+ The Italian translation was updated.
2010.10.01 v.10.10
+ New function Annotate Image: Text can be edited and viewed in a live
window updated with each image opened, or written directly on the
image using any font, size and rotation.
+ New function E-mail: select multiple images, downsize within specified
limits, and e-mail using the preferred e-mail program.
+ A small improvement was made in the visibility of grid lines.
+ Max. working threads was raised to 6 (newest CPUs have up to 6 cores).
+ Image trim (crop): the preset aspect ratio buttons can be customized
by editing a parameters file.
+ More parameters are saved and restored across sessions: trim size,
grid lines, e-mail size, edit resize, batch resize.
+ The word "mass" in menus and help text was replaced with "batch".
2010.09.10 v.10.9.1
+ Chinese translation was updated.
+ Bugfix: save-as: file names like xxx.yyy.jpg got truncated to xxx.jpg.
+ Usability improvement: A set of files generated by searching tags is no
longer discarded if a member file is opened, saved, renamed, or trashed.
2010.09.01 v.10.9
+ The Portuguese translation was updated.
+ New: Stack function: combine multiple images of the same subject for
noise reduction. Use mean or median pixel RGB values and optionally
discard the most extreme RGB values (noisiest) from the mix.
+ New: make a B/W or color negative, or make a positive from a negative.
+ New: delete or replace a tag for selected or all images.
+ The brightness/contrast curve edit function was revised to better
preserve detail in the brightest image areas.
+ The Retouch curve edit functions are generally 30% faster.
+ The interplay between the main window and gallery window was revised.
The gallery window overlays the main window, with the current image in
the top row. When an image is clicked in the gallery, the main window
overlays the gallery window, showing the selected image. Both windows
are still present and can be dragged apart if wanted. The perception
is that they both alternately occupy the same window.
+ The functions Burn CD/DVD, Mass Add/Delete Tags, and Mass Resize can
now be used together with Search Tags: use Search Tags to establish a
set of images from which the files to mass-process can be selected.
+ Select Area dialog: buttons added: [enable] [disable] [invert].
This makes editing areas a bit faster than using separate menus.
+ A small improvement was made in the Select Area follow-edge algorithm.
+ Default extensions for "Save As" were changed from .jpeg and .tiff to
.jpg and .tif because some programs don't recognize the longer forms.
+ "Save As" sets the current file to the newly saved file instead of
remaining at the prior file. This makes fotoxx work more like other
apps. Use the "recent file" menu to go back if wanted. Any edits are
still active and can be undone or further edited and saved again.
+ HDR/HDF: auto-trim the edges where all input images do not overlap.
+ Curve editing was generally revised not to truncate curves beyond the
first and last anchor points. Curves are projected to the graph limits.
+ Internal cleanup: generalize the saving and restoring parameters across
sessions. Add mass-resize width/height to the saved parameters.
+ Bugfix: Sharpen: gradient method: threshold did not work correctly.
+ Bugfix: rounding error in HDF was causing 1-pixel alignment errors.
+ Bugfix: gtk function call within a thread was causing a (rare) crash.
+ Bugfix: huge tag in iptc:keywords caused a loop in tag editing.
2009.01.01 v.5.8
+ Visual feedback for brightness/contrast/color edits was made faster by
using the window image instead of the (usually much larger) main image.
The main image is updated when the changes are committed.
+ Erratic mouse drag in warp function was fixed.
+ Color balance was separated from brightness/whiteness adjustments.
+ Bug fix: last translation in a .po file sometimes got comment appended.
+ Sharpen, blur and noise reduction, when applied within an image area,
can now use "blend width" to soften the boundaries.
+ Added a modified "top hat" noise reduction method, which is more
effective for some types of noise.
+ Zoom- returns to normal display at once instead of many steps
Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for editing image files
from a digital camera. The goal of fotoxx is to meet most image
editing needs while remaining easy to use.
Navigate images with a pageable thumbnail window, edit an entire
image or selected areas, change brightness and contrast, flatten
brightness distribution, change color intensity, reduce the number
of colors (posterize), make panoramas, make HDR images, crop, rotate
(any angle), rescale, fix red-eye, fix perspective (slanted
buildings), warp, sharpen, blur, remove noise (speckles), add tags
to images and search by tags, make a collage of images and text,
print.
