Fotoxx 16.06 is Released, Available PPA on Linux Mint / Ubuntu Derivatives

Fotoxx 16.06 is Released, Available PPA on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04

Fotoxx is a program for improving digital photos. It allows you to navigate through large imagedirectories using a window of thumbnail images, create HDR (high dynamic range) images by combining bright and dark images to improve details visible in both bright and dark areas, create panoramas by joining overlapped images, adjust brightness and color intensity independently for different underlying brightness levels, reduce fog or haze by removing "whiteness" and intensifying colors, rotate an image (level a tilted image or turn 90 degrees), remove red-eyes from electronic flash photos, sharpen, resize, or crop images, reduce noise in low-light photos, change color depth, and stretch an image by dragging the mouse.

Features at a glance

The application features brightness and contrast functionality, allowing users to change bright and dark image areas independently, the ability to reduce haze and intensify colors, as well as HDR support, so you can merge underexposed and overexposed images, while improving detail in both bright and dark areas.

It can also create panorama images, allowing users to stitch multiple images together, as well as the usual crop, rotate, flip, resize, red-eye removal, sharpen fuzzy edges, reduce noise in low-lightphotos, stretch, and distort functionality.

Another interesting feature is the ability to use 24 bits per color in internal edit calculations. It removes color castes, reduces sharpen and blur, expands or flattens brightness distribution, fixes brightness uniformity issues, and removes dark spots on scanned slides

What's new in Fotoxx 16.06 :

• Many popup tips were added to dialogs to improve ease of use.
• Edit Metadata and Edit Geotags were integrated for better ease of use.
• Edit Any Metadata: made easier to edit items not included in the pick-list.
• Adjust HSL: improved output quality, more precise user control of output.
• Image Search: finding images with no data (e.g. no tags) was simplified.
• Image Search: search for images from specific locations was simplified.
• Several functions were made easier to select and process image files in gallery
• view: View and Edit Metadata, Rename, Copy/Move, Delete/Trash, Upright.
• New in image and thumbnail popup menus: jump to image map location.
• Paint/Clone: undo memory for oldest edits is recovered as needed for new edits.
• Unbend: made easier to use by including guidance icons in the dialog box.
• Cartoon: small improvement in algorithm, small speedup.
• Bugfix: Favorites > Previous Image: crash if initiated from Gallery View.
• Bugfix: Map search range was increasingly inaccurate for higher latitudes.
• Bugfix: Custom favorites menu could lose icons if an entry is deleted.
• Bugfix: Slide Show: custom image settings (zoom target, transition type) were sometimes lost if the underlying album was edited or rearranged.

How to : Install Fotoxx 16.06 on Ubuntu / Elementary OS / Linux Mint via PPA  :

To Install Fotoxx 16.06 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :

1$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

1$ sudo apt-get update

1$ sudo apt-get install fotoxx

To remove fotoxx, do:

1$ sudo apt-get remove fotoxx

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.