Edit and manage a large collection of photos
Fotoxx has many features, including but not limited to:
- Navigate a large image collection with a thumbnail browser.
- Fotoxx has extensive tools for edit, repair, and special effects.
- File versioning, metadata edit and report, search
- Edit image features or areas separately from background.
- Composite functions and batch functions
- Albums, slideshow with animated transitions and pan/zoom.
- Scalable world map with click to see markers.
- Standards compliant, can be used with other photo programs.
Homepage | License: GPL | Video
| Ubuntu versions | Updated on | Version | StatsDownloads: current / overall (XtraDeb releases)
| Packages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.10, 20.04 | 2022/04/02 07:46 | 22.15-1~xtradeb1 | ||
| 22.04 | 2022/05/04 23:59 | 22.16-1~xtradeb1 |
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New version available -> fotoxx 22.16-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
* Tools > Popup Text: added [Edit] button for easier customization.
(user-defined cache of special characters for input into text widgets)
* Select > Copy/Complex: new tool for copy and paste of areas having complex and/or low-contrast boundaries. Similar to prior “Select Hairy”.
* Preferences: most changes no longer require an application restart.
* PT Panorama was removed because underlying tool [Hugin] has disappeared.
New version available -> fotoxx 22.15-1~xtradeb1
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* New upstream release.
* Windows WSL: speedup code was removed. Fotoxx under WSL is fast enough for image files in the Linux file system, e.g. /home/
* Windows WSL: use higher tolerance for file mod-time difference detection.
* New: Rename Folder: rename the current folder (image gallery).
* Album Create: better UI direction when creating an initially empty album.
* New: Batch Copy/Move: copy or move selected image files to a new folder.
* Show RGB: reduce CPU loading: repaint only if a monitored pixel changes.
* Developer menu: New: toggle display of popup text for mouse events.
* Preferences: image justification in window can be left/center/right.
* “Select Hairy” was incorporated into the main Select Area function.
This is now easier to use, but still a significant learning curve.
* New: Tools > Popup Text: popup special text/characters to use in edits.
* Bugfix: Remove Halo: ‘undo’ drag: crash if pixel RGB is 0/0/0.
* Bugfix: Crop: drag crop edge over window edge: drag fails to release.
* Bugfix: Select > Edge Blend: zero contrast area creates ‘nan’ RGB values.
* Bugfix: Markup > Oval: stop automatic draw of prior oval.
* Bugfix: Copy From Image: set current scale into dialog widget.
New version available -> fotoxx 22.14-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– Montage: function was renamed to “Image Table” (makes a table of images).
– Image Table:
user can choose the background color (was: white only).
table margin, image row and column spacing can now be set separately.
downscaled images now have higher quality (compared to bilinear).
– Copy in Image: more flexible source/destination location synchronization.
– Copy/Move: auto index to next file if dialog is kept open.
– Remove Halo: new: remove halo effect sometimes left by sharpen, etc.
– Rotate: [crop] button in rotate dialog: auto-crop rotate margins.
– Bugfix: Paint Image: correct default image for color selection.
– Bugfix: use memmove() not strcpy() in double to string conversion.
– Bugfix: Crop: [max] button result may be 1 pixel short of maximum size.
– Bugfix: plug minor memory leak in File Save function.
New version available -> fotoxx 22.12-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– GDK bug workaround: add window hide/show calls to force update.
– Bugfix: crop [max] button was not working right for rotated image.
New version available -> fotoxx 22.11-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– Album Mass Update: report shows before/after files only where changed.
– Batch Convert: new option: upsize files to specified width/height limits.
– New: Effects > Soft Focus: simulate a classic analog photography method.
– New gallery sort option: file names with numbers in same position now sort in numeric order, e.g. xxx1x.jpg < xxx3x.jpg < xxx23x.jpg < xxx101x.jpg - New: Gallery > Add Subfolder: add new subfolder to an existing folder.
– Bugfix: Index may fail to refresh the current gallery for changed files.
– Bugfix: Crop: fix small difference between input and actual image size.
New version available -> fotoxx 22.1-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– Update appimage libraries to those available in early 2020, and remove exiftool and dcraw in favor of the current release in user systems.
– Gallery File Selection: thumbnails are highlighted when selected.
– Escape key from gallery or map view mode: set file view mode.
– Icons were redesigned and some menu names shortened.
– Make thumbnail image brightness correspond to source image alpha channel.
– Added hidden menu option for integrated developer tools.
– Markup functions: now easier to make multiple markups in sequence.
– Local Contrast: sporadic halos at edges of select area were eliminated.
– Autosearch: location for search parameters file is saved_searches folder.
– New: check and report required/optional outboard programs and functions.
– Preferences: remove pick list, user can set any video play command.
– Album Mass Update: popup report details album file changes made.
– Bugfix: some RAW file thumbnails were rotated 90 degrees.
– Bugfix: better detect inconsistent settings in Batch Convert dialog.
– Bugfix: stop popup text windows from taking focus (stop minor nuisance).
– Bugfix: copy/move: if current file is moved, set no current file.
– Bugfix: if out of disk space during edit, warn user: save file and quit.
New version available -> fotoxx 21.60-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– New: Composite > Show CIM Files: list input files for current function.
– New option: blacklist file for folders/files which Fotoxx will ignore.
– Bugfix: gallery select: range select via shift+Lmouse was not working.
– Bugfix: correct bad TIFF tag, correct error checking of tiff files.
– Appimage package: update dcraw to newest version.
– Include Fotoxx release number in window title bar and EXIF edit history.
– 1.8x speedup for large panoramas (>100 megapixels).
– New: File > Remove Alpha: apply alpha to RGB and remove alpha channel.
New version available -> fotoxx 21.55-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– Tools > Preferences: 3 log levels: errors only, + info messages, + dialogs.
– Gallery thumbnail click: update metadata view and edit dialogs, if active.
– Edit > Copy in Image: retain relative source/target image positions until changed, and keep both mouse targets visible between mouse strokes.
– Edit > Copy From Image: sync source/target positions via shift + left click.
– Tools > Preferences: PNG file compression level was removed. This is now fixed at value 1 (for libpng). Higher values are ineffective and slower.
– Repair > Sharpen > Richardson-Lucy: no longer necessary to manually fix the margins around a selected area for sharpening.
– Select Area finish dialog: avoid redundant area fill, save some time.
– First Startup, Index: add tip: how to compensate invalid/corrupted files.
– Image Index: add more checks and messages for invalid/corrupted files.
– Image Index: RAW file indexing + thumbnail creation: approx. 5x faster.
– fotoxx.h: avoid incorrect GCC warning by adding superfluous brackets.
– Bugfix: more checks for malformed RAW/TIFF files (avoid libtiff crash).
– Bugfix: avoid call GTK function in thread (top panel update, crash risk).
New version available -> fotoxx 21.52-1~xtradeb1
Changes:
* New upstream release.
– Bugfix: missing menu icons caused by incorrect file permissions.
* From the previous release 21.51
– Usability: File/Gallery/Map menus now auto-set the corresponding view mode.
– KB shortcuts: F2/F3/F4 are now mapped to file/gallery/map views.
F/G/M keys are now free for user assignment to these or other functions.
Other changes were made to the default KB shortcuts table. To enable the new defaults, delete the KB_shortcuts file in your Fotoxx home folder, restart Fotoxx, and restore whatever customizations you wish to keep.
– Paint Edits: edits are now confined in select area as well as mouse radius.
– Search Images: text search: match whole words with optional wildcards (*).
– Markup > draw oval: improve mouse responsiveness.
– Wayland bug work-around: move cursor failure causes popup menu failure.
– Appimage package now includes support for file types .webp .heic .jp2.
– Bugfix: Copy From Image failure (bug was planted in 21.44).
– Bugfix: edit of .heic file may cause crash.
– Bugfix: Slide Show: option to show image title/description was not working.
– Bugfix: ARM cpu: va_arg() returns 0x100000000 as EOL instead of null.
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