April 2nd, 2012· Select Area by color tones works more smoothly and responsively.
· New: Retouch > Paint Pixels: optionally paint with selected background from elsewhere in the image.
· New: Retouch > Vignette Tool: change brightness or color in a radial pattern. Make an image with a dark or colored surround, or compensate for a radial brightness falloff in old photos.
· Art > Tiles: An optional 3D depth effect was added.
· Retouch > Paint Pixels: If a selected area is being used, do edge blending as in other edit functions.
· Gamma Curve: Buttons [++] etc. were added as in the brightness/color curves.
· Select Area: A "replace" drawing mode was added: nudge an existing edge line with the mouse.
· White Balance: A slider was added to attenuate 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/minute on a strong PC with 4 cpu cores).
· New: Help > Log File: view the current (live) log file for additional information.
· Memory allocation failure: exit with a reasonable message instead of crashing.
· Bugfix: possible crash when a concurrent edit function completes.
February 2nd, 2012· Fotoxx was converted to use GTK3 and Cairo. It will no longer build or install on older Linux releases lacking these libraries. For Ubuntu this means Fotoxx installs on 11.04 or later.
· Multiple (up to 10) top image directories are now supported.
· The gallery thumbnail size preference is saved and restored across sessions.
· Bugfix: crash if an image is present 2+ times in a collection and is then removed.
· Bugfix: crash in slide show "jaws" transition.
· RPM packages are now built using Fedora and rpmbuild instead of alien.
January 4th, 2012· A Hungarian translation was added.
· Image files can be dragged and dropped from Nautilus or other file managers.
January 2nd, 2012· 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).
· The "my mouse" checkbox 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 is configurable: choose 1-4 zooms for each 2x increase in size.
· DRGB (print color adjuster) 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.
December 4th, 2011· The Italian GUI translation was updated.
· The method for finding translation files was made more flexible: a locale of 'lc_RC' will look for this .po file first, and if not found look for a .po file for 'lc' alone.
November 6th, 2011· Bugfix: crash in vertical panorama.
· Bugfix: crash after moving images to trash followed by "Open Recent Files".
· Restore lost user feedback for functions running more than a few seconds.
October 3rd, 2011· 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 (the 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 a "tetragon" image area 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 and advise if synchronization is needed.
· New option: warn if overwriting an 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).
September 2nd, 2011· Print Image File now allows print margins to be set.
· The Portuguese translation was brought up to date.
· Show RGB: labels on monitored image points were made optional.
· Gallery: larger font for file names is used when large thumbnails are used.
· Edit Captions and Edit User Comments were combined into one function.
· File Open will discard a preceding search result or named collection.
· The user is notified and may proceed or cancel.
· File > Open (menu and toolbar) can now open a RAW file (as tiff-16).
· The batch conversion function remains available.
· CPU load monitor on status bar now includes subprocesses.
· Smart Erase: improved algorithm gives better results in some cases.
· Panorama: image overlap requirement was relaxed.
· Minor source code changes were made for better BSD compatibility.
· Bugfix: Flatten: fix uneven conversion of pixels with max. brightness.
· Bufgix: crash if Tools > Add Menu is started and then canceled.
· Bugfix: minor memory leak.
August 1st, 2011· An Italian user guide has been added. Thank you, Doriano.
· 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 transition types were added, "radar" and "jaws".
· Slide Show: preferred image transitions can now be selected and are remembered.
· A single RAW file can now be opened like any other image file (only needs more time). Batch conversion remains an option to process many files automatically.
· Delete Area was renamed to Unselect Area (reduce ambiguity).
· If multiple dialogs are open, the F1 help topic is determined by the last dialog actually used.
· Bugfix: invalidate a select-area if Undo/Redo changes the image size.
· Bugfix: Create Blank Image was getting leftover EXIF data from a prior image.
· Bugfix: buffer overflow crash in Russian locale, due to a long translation string. Several other vulnerable places were indentified and fixed.
· Bug workaround: crash from GCC 4.5 optimization removing necessary code. Do-nothing code referencing the relevant variable was added to prevent this.
· Annoyance fix: rapid repetition of prev/next buttons or arrow keys was sometimes causing a "function still active" popup message which had to be dismissed.
· 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.
July 3rd, 2011· Translation updates will be notified here when they are ready.
· The main image retouch functions can now be used in parallel.
· The last position of most windows is saved and restored within 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 distance 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 stepwise adjust buttons are calibrated in 0.1 EV steps. Steps 1/3 this size can also be used. Use this function 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 (no longer default).
· -recent start with a gallery of recent files (most recent at top).
· 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 the 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.
June 10th, 2011· Bugfix: A hole was closed that could cause a crash if a selected area is deleted while an edit function is open and active.
June 3rd, 2011· 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 (nearly 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. Changes are immediately effective in the running program.
· Several other small usability improvements were made.
· Minor bugfix: paste area edge blending was losing 1 pixel around the edge
May 3rd, 2011· A new function was added to remove the dark spots on images made from dusty slides.
· Named image collections are easier to manage: images can be added, removed, and rearranged by clicking images on a thumbnail gallery.
· The trim (crop) function better handles zoom and scroll, and a desired image size can be input directly in addition to the mouse drag method.
· Smart Erase was made faster (significant for slow computers).
· Select Area edge distance calculations for hairy edges was made over 2x faster.
· Two minor bugs were fixed.
April 1st, 2011· Vertical Panorama was added.
· Previously, this was possible but clumsy.
· Slide Show can play a music file or playlist, and can be launched from the command line.
· Initialization for first-time installs was simplified.
· Smart Erase was made easier and faster by combining the select and erase functions in one dialog.
· The 100K limit on the number of image files was removed.
· Select by Color can more easily select an object with varying edge tones and contrasts.
· Several other minor improvements and three bug fixes were made.
March 14th, 2011· Three bugs were fixed, two of which can cause Fotoxx to crash.
February 1st, 2011· New function: Apply retouch functions to any area of the image using the mouse. Vary radius and strength of edit. Apply incrementally.
· Area cut and paste: edge effects are more effectively suppressed and the pasted area/object can be rotated as well as resized.
· Curve edit (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 multiple photos of the same subject taken at different times. Remove tourists and cars that come and go.
· Panorama pre-align was simplified (please 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//.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.
January 10th, 2011· Bugfix: select whole image was not working. What went wrong between testing and release is a mystery, but now it is fixed.
January 3rd, 2011· Brightness or color can be used to regulate retouch functions.
· For example, you can apply noise reduction to darker image areas (or the inverse).
· An image can be converted into a dot array à la Roy Lichtenstein.
· Slide Show now has some cute transitions: fade-out/fade-in and various kinetic replacements.
· The 100 most recent images can be displayed in a gallery window, making it easier to return to a desired image.
· Batch tag functions have popup windows to monitor progress.
· A mashup can be made using cutouts from other images and text annotations.
· A few more user interface improvements and minor bug fixes are included.
December 2nd, 2010· This version has several user interface improvements and speedups.
· It is easier to pan and zoom when an edit function is using the mouse.
· Select Area works better and left drag can be used for "unselect".
· Image captions and comments have an editor interface.
· Search can find all images with given words in captions or comments.
· "Match any" or "all" can be specified separately for all search criteria.
· Dialogs needing more time show an hourglass.
· The Clone function splits the screen 50/50 between two images.
· Two minor bugs were fixed.
· Responsiveness for slow CPUs was improved.
November 3rd, 2010· Annotate Image: Color and transparency can be specified for both text and background. Watermarks can also be made. Annotation data can be saved in a file, so annotations can be kept and re-used.
· New function: Warp Image (linear): an alternative way to compensate for perspective distortions.
· Edit functions operating within a small area were made more responsive for slow computers: Warp Area, Paste Area, Annotate Image, Edit Pixels.
· Grid lines: horizontal and vertical line spacing or line counts can be specified. Line counts are constant regardless of image size. Ctrl+G key toggles grid lines on/off.
· Pixel edit now works within a selected area. This makes it easy to paint inside an area without taking care around the edges.
· Select Area by Color has an optional "firewall" mode: already-selected pixels block the propagation of newly-selected pixels.
· A few more small convenience improvements were made: Buttons in the Select Area dialog were made available as menu functions with their own F1 help topics. Dialog boxes open near the upper right corner of the main window instead of in the middle. New function: File > Open Previous: go back to the previous file (where you were before a File > Open or Save As).
· Bugfix: a corrupted parameters file could cause a crash.
October 15th, 2010· "Edit EXIF User Comments" and "Annotate Image" (write text directly on image) were split into separate functions to simplify a confusing interface.
· The EXIF descriptive text can also be displayed in a small live window as images are viewed (also in Slide Show mode).
· Annotate Image works faster, especially for netbooks.
· The Trim (crop) aspect ratio buttons can be customized.
· The Italian and Dutch translations were updated.
October 1st, 2010· New function Annotate Image: Descriptive text can be edited and viewed in a live window updated with each new 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.
· And a few other minor improvements.
September 13th, 2010· When using "save as", filenames like xxx.yyy.jpg are no longer truncated to xxx.jpg.
· A set of files generated by searching tags is no longer discarded if a member file is opened, saved, renamed, or trashed.
September 2nd, 2010· This release added functions for combining multiple noisy photos to make a low-noise image, making a B/W or color negative, or a positive from a negative, and batch deleting or replacing user tags.
· The Brightness/Contrast curve edit can better preserve detail in areas brightened to saturation.
· The other Retouch curve edits are generally 30% faster.
· Search Tags can now be used to create a set of images to choose from for a following batch operation.
· HDR and HDF automatically trim edges where all input images do not overlap.
· Six other small improvements and four bugfixes were made.
August 19th, 2010· The German and Italian translations were updated.
· A greater variety of TIFF formats are supported.
· ICC Profile data is included in the metadata (such as EXIF) that is retained across an image edit.
· Two bugs were fixed: some metadata was being lost across an image edit, and rapid pressing of the toolbar [next] button could lead to application lockup.
August 2nd, 2010· A Portuguese translation was added.
· New: mass resize images (for website photo upload, e-mail, etc.).
· The new Linux standard trash is used for trashed images.
· Select Area: follow-edge method: works better for jagged edges.
· Select Area: select by color: faster and easier control of selection.
· Thumbnail gallery: added a "list view" option (no thumbnails).
· Live help via F1 key is now available for all functions.
· HDR/HDF/pano align/warp: handle larger image misalignments more accurately.
· HDF interface for fine alignment was made more intuitive.
· View/edit EXIF: easier to process a series of images, e.g. add text comments.
· Mass add tags: use image gallery window instead of file chooser dialog.
· Save-as with "new version" checked: use the highest existing version 1.
· Minor improvement in warp area algorithm.
· Bugfix: convert RAW: popup report sometimes omitted a converted file.
· Bugfix: an image saved as tiff-8 was actually being saved as tiff-16.
· Bugfix: sporadic crash if a selected area touches an image edge.
· Bugfix: the color of all edit curves could change sporadically.
· Bugfix: HDR/HDF sporadically showed a partially black image.
· Bugfix: image_gallery: if first directory opened is empty and "parent" is selected, crash.
July 9th, 2010· The composite image functions were reworked to extend functionality and improve the user interface. There is more use of multiple threads to utilize multiple processor cores.
· Panorama: Join up to four images (previously two). Drag small images to rearrange. Brightness and color balance can be changed for any image after the panorama is completed, and the others can be matched automatically and/or manually adjusted.
· HDF (high depth of field): Up to 9 images can be joined (previously 2). After automatic alignment is complete, the images can be dragged and warped to tweak their alignments if needed. This can compensate for camera movement between photos and for image size differences caused by their different focal lengths.
· HDR (high dynamic range) now warps the images if needed for more precise alignment. This compensates for camera movement or rotation betweem photos, causing non-linear distortions. A greater amount of shift or rotation between images can be handled more accurately.
· Bugfix: After reporting an error, mass-rename proceeded anyway.
· Mass-rename: The "-" separator between the base name and sequence number was removed. The user can supply whatever is wanted, or nothing.
· The startup dependency check for ufraw was changed to ufraw-batch.
June 8th, 2010· A subtle bug in panorama image alignment was fixed. This caused a small shift at the joint near the center of the image, especially if there was a significant rotation, horizon shift, or lens distortion.
June 8th, 2010· Fotoxx 10.6 has a few minor improvements and bug fixes.
· Search Tags was made more consistent with other tag functions: tags are added and removed from the search list with mouse clicks and the [clear] button was removed.
· HDR: The selected images to combine no longer need to include the current image.
· File Save-as: A "make new version" check box was added. The image is saved with a new version number, which makes it easier to save an edited image and keep the original. Subsequent saves create increasing version numbers.
· Bugfix: Edit Tags "admin mode" could be quietly ON even though the checkbox was OFF.
· Bugfix: The image gallery window was sometimes not fully rendered (easy to compensate but annoying).
June 3rd, 2010· A Dutch translation was added to the GUI.
· The thumbnail browser is faster and smoother (cpu load is 60% less).
· Tags now have categories (people, places, events...) to help organize them and to find and select tags more quickly during image editing. This improves the practicality of having hundreds of tags. The user interface was revised - use F1 to view the user guide.
· Rotated images are uprighted automatically when an edit is started or an image is added to an HDR/HDF/panorama. Formerly this was done only with image viewing.
May 25th, 2010· The panorama function obtains lens focal length from the EXIF data if available (lens distortion, if significant, is still a manual adjustment). The thumbnail image browser is faster, and a scroll bar was added as an alternative to paging. The maximum thumbnail size was doubled to 512x512. An "essentials" section was added to the user guide, a very short explanation of non-intuitive features, accessed from a toolbar button (for those who hate large user guides).
May 18th, 2010· A German user guide has been added but not yet complete.
· A Russian translation was added and the Chinese translation updated.
· Replace fat GTK dialog completion buttons with thin ones to save space.
· Undo/Redo faster: use saved image instead of repeating edit function.
· Add focal length (35mm equivalent) to View EXIF basic data.
· Add missing F1 context help to White Balance function.
· Mass file rename now has a status/progress window.
· Two shortcut keys added: T = Trim (Crop), B = Brightness/Color tune.
· Trim: width/height ratio can be inverted with a button.
· Gridlines function extended: separate x and y line counts, independent of image size, held constant during interactive trim (crop) function.
· Bugfix: zoom + some edit functions caused a width/height distortion.
· Bugfix: print function: resolution increased from 72 to 300 dpi.
· Bugfix: rename functions: keep original file date and owner.
· Bugfix: two minor memory leaks were plugged.
· Bugfix: delete EXIF tag failed for filenames containing blanks.
· Bugfix: trim was not always holding the set width/height ratio.
· Bugfix: if panorama was started with a zoomed image, the image displayed too small during the initial alignment stages.
May 3rd, 2010· Swedish GUI translation added.
April 25th, 2010· Fotoxx 10.2 adds a few minor features and user-interface improvements. A history of edits made on an image is recorded using the EXIF key Edit Status. The View EXIF function updates itself when a new file is opened in the browser. Two new functions were added: add or modify an EXIF key, and delete a specific key or all EXIF data. Undo/redo was added to White Balance. Blend-width was added to the Tile function. Tone Mapping was made about 30% faster for multi-core processors, and progress tracking was added to improve feedback for slow processors. Two minor bugs were fixed.
April 14th, 2010· Bugfix: crash on launch if saved state file was from a fotoxx v.9 release.
· Bugfix: pano align image was small if starting from a zoomed image.
· Bugfix: for installation in /home/user/ the menu and launcher did not work.
· Convert RAW files made 30% faster on multi-core processors.
April 13th, 2010· Tone-mapping within an area reacts live to the blend-width slider.
· The tone-map edit scale is matched to the contrast range of the image.
· Tone mapping is up to 50% faster, especially for single core processors.
· The brightness ramp function now works within a select area.
· New retouch function: clip low/high brightness levels, expand the middle.
· Trim: buttons were added to set popular aspect ratios.
· Trim: if the selection is moved off the edge, it is rescaled to the user-set aspect ratio.
· If an edit is started and a select area is not finished or enabled, the user is warned.
· The function busy indicator (clock cursor) was made more obvious.
· Changing the GUI language from within the GUI was simplified.
April 7th, 2010· The EXIF key for user-defined tags was changed to be compatible with most other (Windows) programs that also use tags. A conversion function is provided which should be run before any new image editing is done. A warning at startup is given. See menu: Help > README for details. Bugfix: block the editing of thumbnails and prevent thumbnails of thumbnails from being created. Bugfix: stop small memory leak when new thumbnails are created for new or edited images.
March 26th, 2010· Tonemap gradient method was made easier to use and a little faster. Other tonemap functions have been removed because the gradient method is stronger and more flexible.
· Select Area copy and paste was extended to allow areas to be saved as files and read back later to paste into other images.
· Other minor fixes and interface improvements.
March 23rd, 2010· Bugfix: using the [x] button to cancel tonemap-local2 caused a menu lockout.
March 21st, 2010· Tone mapping: a gradient-based method was added, replacing a weaker method. The FreeImage dependency was removed, which simplifies installing from source as well as package creation. A 3rd sharpen method was added: amplify brightness gradients. Bugfix: F1 context help was not working for the select area dialog. The select area outline color can be toggled red/green/black.
March 7th, 2010· New function: add multiple tags to many images at once.
· New function: rename many files at once using a base name and sequence.
· Select area upgrades: select multiple areas, combine line-drawing and object/color clicking, easy undo and unselect.
· Paste area: always paste within the visible window, don't lose the cursor grip when dragging a pasted area at high speed.
· Curve edit: don't lose the cursor grip when dragging a node at high speed.
· Revised the window update logic to stop CPU hog with fvwm window manager.
· Bugfix: burn CD/DVD: when editing the list of files, the wrong file was sometimes selected.
· The limits for number and and size of tags were doubled.
February 23rd, 2010· Tonemap: calculations are >10x faster.
· Sharpen (unsharp mask): calculations are >2x faster.
· Added another tone-mapping method.
· Convert RAW files: don't let progress window hide behind main window.
· Workaround for gtk_file_chooser bug: stop auto-select 1st file in a folder.
· Gallery window: simplify navigation to another folder.
· Use .jpeg instead of .png for intermediate print file - much faster.
· Select area logic simplified in preparation for future add/subtract areas.
February 2nd, 2010· Curve edits: stop unintended node creation with rapid mouse drag.
· Tonemap 2: use full size image for calculations (slower but better).
· Tomemap 3: new function: enhance local contrast with halo suppression.
· Grid Lines: new function: grid lines for unbend/rotate/etc. image alignment.
· HDR (2 images) was removed - new HDR (2-10 images) made it redundant.
· bugfix, file save-as: did not always reflect user file type selection in dialog widget (but worked correctly).
January 18th, 2010· New: print an image file using conventional GTK print functions.
· Bugfix: killing a running function could cause malfunctions later.
· The brightness/color (curve edit) dialog was made more compact.
· The file save-as dialog updates the displayed file type if the user changes the default choice.
January 13th, 2010· New function: image warp using affine transformation, interactive.
· New function: vary brightness across the image (fix vignetting and other issues).
· Improved: initial blending for 3 or more HDR input images.
· Improved: Brightness histogram has greater resolution and an x-axis scale.
· Rotate was made 3x faster (affine transform instead of trig functions).
· File save-as dialog was made more clear about file type.
· Makefile: desktop-menu and manpage were made into separate targets.
January 4th, 2010· Select area by color was made easier: an optional radius of action was added to quickly incorporate excluded "islands" or push-out area edges. Area edge calculation and blending was made into a separate dialog. The defog function was removed - it duplicated the functions of the brightness and color saturation curves, and also the new tone mapping functions produce better results. For the Blur function, the minimum blur radius was reduced to 0.5 pixels, which is barely perceptible. Two bugs were fixed: (1) Tone mapping with edge blending was causing some pure black pixels to turn white. (2) The edge of a mouse-selected area which also hugs an image edge was not being omitted for the purporse of edge blending.
December 24th, 2009· Two varieties of tone mapping functions were added. These can be used to enhance detail at all brightness levels and are especially useful for retouching HDR composite images. Bugfix: sharpen via unsharp mask was ignoring the threshold input.
December 14th, 2009· The HDR function can now merge up to 10 images. Input image contributions can be adjusted while viewing a live output image. An example can be seen in the screenshots link above.
· Convert RAW Files was revised to use a standard dialog to select one or more files.
· Context help via F1 key was added to most dialogs - shows the relevant section of the user guide in a popup window which runs parallel.
December 1st, 2009· The methods to select an area within an image for subsequent editing have been extended: connect lines point to point using mouse clicks (as before), freehand line drawing using the mouse (new), and click/drag near an edge to follow the edge (new). All three methods can be freely mixed. Use right click to undo the last few seconds of work, or right drag to erase a segment before re-drawing it. Selecting an area by color and range, and accumulating such selections, is another option but cannot be mixed with the line-drawing methods.
· A selected area (object) can be copied and pasted into the same or another image. The pasted object can be rescaled and edge-blended with the target image. The calculation of edge distances within a selected area has been made much faster (over 10x for large areas). This is used for blending edits at the edges and blending pasted areas with the background.
· New edit function: flip (mirror) an image horizontally or vertically.
· Edited files can now be saved in PNG format as well as JPEG, TIFF-8, and TIFF-16.
· Bug fix: The latest Ubuntu (9.10) revealed two new problems so far: A GDK graphic context shared by multiple windows can get their sizes mixed-up. The program exiftool no longer accepts a date without a time appended. Fotoxx was adjusted to get around both problems.
· Bug fix: image search by date could omit the first date in a range.
November 13th, 2009· Bugfix: crash if gallery folder opened after fresh install.
· Translation updates for Spanish, Galician.
October 27th, 2009· Area blend width: notify user if edge calculation is missing.
· Pano align: fix small image shift on the right side of the joint (from v.8.5).
October 14th, 2009· An automatic white balance function was added.
· The success rate for 1-click red-eye removal was raised from 47/54 test cases to 52/54 (drag method is 100% successful but needs more time and care).
· Convience buttons were added to the HDR final adjustment dialog.
· A Spanish translation was added for the User Guide "quick guide" section.
· Bugfix: Image navigation could crash when opening an empty folder.
· Bugfix: Zoom-in followed by some edit functions caused the image to be displayed with a false width/height ratio (cosmetic only - edit worked normally).
October 8th, 2009· Bugfix: looping in retouch function if colors are oversaturated.
October 7th, 2009· Bugfix: crash in invert area function (32-bit build only).
· Improved documentation for select area edge calculation and blend width control.
· Updated French translation.
October 5th, 2009· A new function was added to select an area by color. This lets you click to select a contiguous area matching the clicked color within a controlled range.
· You can click or drag to accumulate new areas.
· A right-click will undo.
· Edit functions can then be used within the selected area.
· Panorama was improved to better compensate image scale changes due to a horizon difference or relative rotation in the images being joined.
· Auto-search for camera parameters was made more robust.
· A new method for noise reduction was added, based on variance.
· Blend-width control was made non-linear for better control of small values.
September 14th, 2009· An Italian translation was added.
· The Trim function user interface was improved.
September 13th, 2009· Slide Show: added auto interval in addition to KB control.
· Change cursor to clock icon during long computations.
· Trim: darken margins to remove for better visibility.
· Trim: allow fixed aspect ratio and change margins accordingly.
· Index tags and thumbnails: now works incrementally (much faster).
· Bugfix: axis-lines were not erased after unbend function.
· Bugfix: Save-as file was not added to recent files list.
September 2nd, 2009Extensions:
· Select area: insert or move nodes anywhere around the polygon
· Overlay lines and ellipses are easier to see
· Pixel edit and HDF: brush outline to boost speed and precision
· Retain list of recent files across sessions
· New function to assist photo de-fogging
· Save button: update original file with no dialog
· KB shortcuts: Ctrl+s: Save, Ctrl+S: Save-as, Ctrl+q: Quit
· Improved logic for detecting unsaved changes (less nagging)
· Rotate: [undo trim] button added
Bug Fixes:
· Temporary file left stranded in ~/.fotoxx/
· Rotate 20degrees with auto-trim caused a crash
· Rotate with L/R keys edit could result in distortion
· Edit tags file save lost the update (but open new file kept it)
· Rotate trim was being lost when dialog exited
· Better recovery if pixel edit undo memory limit is reached
August 20th, 2009· Bugfix: saving an edited image back to the same file caused loss of EXIF data.
· Bugfix: the [zoom+] button would sometimes display a smaller image.
· Corrected the man page location when installing to a user-owned directory.
· Improved panorama auto-search for lens parameters.
· Tag edit: dating a series of images was made easier with a [use last] button.
· Tag edit: allow date approximations, e.g. 2009 or 2009.08.
· New convenience function: open file by choosing from 50 most recent files.
· The Chinese and French translations were updated.
August 4th, 2009· New function: high depth of field (HDF): combine two photos with near and far focus into a composite image with both near and far objects in focus. See examples in the screenshots link above. Read the user guide before trying.
· Other changes: A man page was added. The license was changed from GPL v2 to v3. The warp image algorithm was improved.
July 27th, 2009· Bugfix: looping (frozen screen) in HDR or Panorama.
July 23rd, 2009· Fixed slow dotted-line drag in trim function.
· Fixed broken EXIF view for non-English locales.
· French translation was updated.
· Panorama and HDR have small speed improvements (28% and 14% resp.).
· The following functions were converted to use parallel threads on multi-core CPUs: sharpen, reduce noise, unbend.
July 20th, 2009· The Chinese translation was updated and a Czech translation was added. The select area function was made easier to use. This function can now be suspended and resumed using a button. This frees the mouse for zooming or scrolling the image during the area selection process. Another button was added to show or hide the area outline while image edit functions are being applied to the area.
July 13th, 2009· Simulate painting now works within an outlined area like other edit functions.
· Another user control was added: minimum color match required to consolidate smaller patches of color into larger ones.
· File drag-drop was implemented: drag a file (e.g. from Nautilus) to a fotoxx window or desktop launcher, and file will open in fotoxx.
· Dragging a text filespec will also work.
· Scrolling around in a large image that is zoomed to full size is now about 4x faster.
· There are no scroll bars - scroll by dragging the mouse across the window ("virtual" scroll bars).
· EXIF data: view basic data (short output) or all data (long output).
· Translations were updated for German, French, Spanish, and Galician.
· Several other UI improvements and bug fixes were implemented
June 22nd, 2009· A new function was added: select random images from thumbnail indexes, edit sequence, burn to CD or DVD. Brasero is used for the actual burn.
May 15th, 2009· The Tune Image function was made more functional: adjustment of color intensity, saturation, and RGB balance can optionally depend on pixel brightness (e.g. one can increase saturation for darker image areas more than for brighter areas). A new function "tiles" has been added: transform image or selected area into tiles (pixelate). The paint function (pixel edit) user interface has been improved.
Bug fixes:
· Edit of auto-uprighted image: un-rotate before edit (edit using actual image orientation).
· Crash if undo/redo buttons pressed in rapid succession without waiting for image update.
· Memory leak from multiple edits of one image.
May 12th, 2009· Fotoxx now uses the pixbuf library for saving jpeg files instead of FreeImage.
· Output quality can now be set 1-100 instead of good/better/best.
· FreeImage is still used for tiff output.
· 6.7.3 is an update of the Spanish and Galician translations.
May 5th, 2009· adapt to new ufraw command syntax
· new function: transform photo into simulated line drawing, black on white or reverse
· new function: transform photo into simulated embossing on shiny metal
· new function: edit pixels with color picker, variable brush and variable edge blending
· search for images using /path/file in addition to tags, with wildcards used anywhere
· 1 significant and 3 minor bug fixes
April 8th, 2009· 3 significant and 5 minor bug fixes
· scroll bars removed (drag mouse anywhere on image)
· menu function to change GUI language
· 3 more edit functions use fast preview
· progress feedback added to long-running functions
· minor speed improvements
· packages available for recent Ubuntu releases
March 14th, 2009· updates translations for French and Chinese (PRC)
March 14th, 2009· fixes several minor bugs (see change log)
March 3rd, 2009· Edit most camera RAW files.
· Edit 48 bits/pixel (16 bits/color).
· Better GUI (movable spline curve) for brightness and HDR weight adjustments.
· Rotated images are automatically turned upright.
· Level a tilted image with the mouse.
· Undo/redo memory moved to disk, limit raised to 50 edits.
· Only two parameters to set for panoramas.
· Rename a series of files with base name + sequence number.
· Easier method to fix perspective problems.
· CHECK README before building.
February 11th, 2009· Several bug fixes and minor improvements have been made.
· A Chinese translation has been added, and the Spanish and Galician translations updated.
January 6th, 2009· Visual feedback for brightness/contrast/color edits was made faster.
· 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 blend the boundaries.
· Added a modified "top hat" noise reduction method, which is more effective for some types of noise.
December 2nd, 2008· invert selected area: subsequent edits modify all but the selected area
· tags edit: assign "star" ratings to images, search by star rating
· translation system converted to use Gnu gettext (the Linux norm)
· user guide reorganized to be more friendly to the RTFM inhibited
· added auto-crop button to rotate
· corrected minor bug in color-intensify function
· fixed slow mouse tracking problem for PCs with slow graphics
November 17th, 2008· Greek GUI translation
· New function: intensify color without changing brightness
· Search images by date (in addition to tags/keywords)
· Color edit functions can be used with select area and blend width
· Fixed tag edit bug when using older version of exiv2
· Save and restore window and thumbnail size across sessions
· Ask for confirmation if a read-only image is moved to trash
· A few minor bug fixes and interface improvements
November 2nd, 2008· Red-eye methods consolidated and improved (not perfect, to be continued). Remember last image opened in prior session and return there. Internal improvements for robustness and maintainability. Mouse functions made more responsive for slower CPUs. Minor improvements in user messages.
September 18th, 2008· Minor improvements were made in the user interface for panoramas, pan, and zoom.
August 31st, 2008· A printing capability has been added.
· Print one or more images on a page with flexible layout and text annotations.
· Uses sister application printoxx.
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