Fotocx(1)

💖 Fotocx(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Fotocx(1) man page. it's literally the photo/image editor and collection manager, and it's iconic. 🫶✨

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📛 NAME 📛

Fotocx — photo/image editor and collection manager

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🎀 SHORT DESCRIPTION 🎀

So Fotocx is here to help you organize and manage a large image collection. You can edit and optimize photos and other images, add special effects, edit metadata, search images, create a photomontage, and perform batch operations. Fotocx is a GTK GUI application. The included user manual explains Fotocx operation in great detail. 💅

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🦋 LONG DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: your image folders can be viewed as a scrolling gallery of thumbnail images. Moving through folders and subfolders is simple and fast. Click a thumbnail, and you get a full window view of the image. The mouse can zoom, pan, and scroll it. Gallery thumbnails can be zoomed small to huge. Popup windows can be used to view or compare multiple images at any scale. Thumbnail galleries are also used to display image search results and albums. Albums are selected images arranged in a desired order. Fotocx has many editing tools that go beyond the basics. Images with severe problems (underexposed, false colors, blurred, uneven lighting, fog/haze) can be brought back to life. Details lost in shadows or haze can be brought out. Images with distorted perspective (esp. wide-angle photos) can be corrected. 🔥

Fotocx is standards compliant. Nothing done by Fotocx makes your images less usable with other applications. Fotocx uses your image files wherever they are: they are not moved or duplicated. Fotocx does create an index for fast image searching, and thumbnail images for fast gallery displays. These typically add 2% to overall storage requirements. Fotocx does not use SQL or other database tools. 💖

Fotocx can import RAW images and perform all processing in deep color (24 bits per color is used internally). Edited images can be saved as JPEG (8 bits/color), TIFF (8/16), PNG (8/16), or JXL (16). Convert single RAW files or selected batches (select thumbnails from gallery pages). ✨

Image edit functions are interactive with rapid visual feedback, using the full image or a chosen zoom-in area. Undo and Redo can be applied serially to all the edits of an image. Intermediate and final results can be saved as new files or as versions of the input file (e.g. filename.v02.jpg). 🎀

Objects or areas within an image can be selected and edited separately from the background. Areas can be selected using several methods: drag the mouse to select and flood into matching tones, follow feature edges, or outline an area freehand. Complex feature edges, such as hair or foliage, can be accurately selected. Selected areas can be copied and pasted into the same or other images, resized, rotated, or otherwise edited. 🦋

Layers are not used. Each edit stage can be saved separately as a file version. These can be re-used to make new versions. You can create a new version using selected parts from different prior versions. 🌸

An image location can be "mouse painted" onto the same or other image being edited - paint from any source location to any destination location, with simultaneous rescale if wanted. 💅

Batch functions are available to copy, move, rename, resize, upright, convert format, convert RAW files, and add or revise metadata. 🫶

Several tools are available to change size and shape: crop, resize (rescale), rotate, fix perspective, curve/warp the whole image or selected areas within the image. There is a special tool to 'flatten' photos of curved surfaces, e.g. a page from a thick book or a poster on a round column. 😭

Text can be added to an image. Any font and size can be used, any color, any angle. The text can have variable transparency, an outline, a shadow, or an embossed effect - good for a signature or copyright. Other basic markups are available: lines, arrows, box, oval/circle. 🔥

Advanced editing functions: Dust spots from old slides or photos can be removed, roadside trash or power lines can be erased. Panoramas can be made by stitching photos together seamlessly, automatically matching brightness and color. Photos with a range of exposure values can be combined into an HDR image with adjustable contributions. Photos with varying focus depths can be combined into an image that is sharp over the combined range. Photos of one scene taken at different moments can be combined to remove passing autos or tourists. Multiple photos made under low light conditions can be combined to reduce noise. Photos made with a hand-held camera can be combined and aligned together with high accuracy, as long as the camera is not moved too much. 👑

Images and text can be combined in a mashup (montage), using the mouse to position and resize the components and adjust overlaps and transparencies. 🌈

Fotocx has a batch scripting tool to speed the processing of multiple images requiring the same edits: record the edits made to a base image and then apply these edits automatically to any number of selected images. ⭐

Many special effects ('filters') are available to convert a photo into a line drawing, sketch, painting, embossing, cartoon, dithered image, mosaic, or abstract distortions (shphere, tiny planet, others). Background patterns and textures can be added. 💀

Images can be rapidly searched using folder/file names or partial names, dates, assigned keywords, ratings, locations, and any other metadata stored in the image. Some data is automatic from the camera (date, location, exposure data), and other data can be manually entered (keywords, descriptions ...). Search criteria can be used in combination; e.g. find Chicago photos for years 2008-2020 containing keywords 'barbara' or 'barbie' or 'barb*'. 🙈

Locations (from a camera GPS sensor or entered manually) can also be searched. List image counts by country and/or location and/or date range. Click on a report line for a gallery of images. 🍓

List metadata tag values and corresponding image counts for any tag name. Click on a report line for a gallery of images. 🧚

An internet map is available, scalable from street to continent level. Images having location data show as markers on these maps. Click on a marker to get a gallery of corresponding images. You can jump from a given photo to its map location, where you can find other photos from the same or nearby locations. You can add location and geocoordinates to an image by clicking on the map. 💜

Albums can be made using selected images from your collection. The files are not duplicated. Select images by clicking gallery thumbnails. Arrange the images with drag and drop. Albums can be made into slide shows. Choose animated transitions between images, pan and zoom effects, and places to pause for narration. 🌟

Fotocx includes a comprehensive user guide that also serves as interactive help: press F1 while using any function in Fotocx. You should take the time to read the overview pages. Function details can be viewed as needed. Fotocx is easy to use but unconventional, so RTFM to avoid frustration. 👑

✨ CAPABILITIES LIST ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, this is the full vibe-check of what Fotocx can do and honestly? it's giving main character energy from top to bottom 💅

• Organize and manage a whole large photo/image collection — we're talking up to 1 million images on a strong PC. yes, one million. 👑
• Comprehensive user guide (available in many languages) plus context help whenever you hit the F1 key. 🫶
• Thumbnail browser/navigator with variable thumb size and a metadata view. iconic. ✨
• Click a thumbnail for full-size view, with image zoom in/out and pan/scroll. 🦋
• RAW file conversion, single or batch, outputting 8 or 16 bits per color.
• A large set of functions to edit, repair, refine, and transform images. the whole toolbox fr fr 🧰
• Internal processing happens in 24 bits per color (float), and the output is 8 or 16 bits.
• Edit common image types: JPG, PNG, TIF, JXL, WEBP, HEIC, JP2, and others too. 🌈
• Edited files have a version number, and originals are retained by default. no cap, your originals are safe. 💖
• Fast edit visual feedback using the full image or a selected zoom-in area. ⚡
• Undo/Redo button — compare original/edited versions with instant replace.
• Compare original/edited images with split-screen and a movable boundary. the way that boundary just slides 😭
• Conventional edit functions: rotate, upright, crop, rescale, add margins; retouch: brightness/color/contrast/saturation/temperature/white balance; markup: text (decorative features)/lines/arrows/boxes/circles/ellipses; edit RGB colors; convert B&W/color/negative/positive/sepia. 🎀
• Repair functions: sharpen, blur selected areas, denoise, defog, red eyes, smart erase (remove spoilers), remove halos, suppress JPEG artifacts, anti-alias (suppress jaggies), remove dust spots, fix color fringes. literally the glow-up station ✨
• Refine functions: flatten the brightness histogram (enhance detail), increase local contrast (enhance detail), match colors to master image, add soft focus, suppress fine details, amplify existing contrast, global and local retinex, brightness ramp, add/remove vignette (curve edit). 👑
• Special effect conversions: sketch, outlines, cartoon, emboss, painting, fusion, tiles, texture, pattern, dither, engrave, mosaic, shift colors, add noise (hide color bands), set no. colors per RGB, alien colors. alien colors?? ate. 👽
• Warp image: unbend (wide-angle photos, panoramas), warp selected area, fix perspective (photo from an angle), warp image (linear/curved/affine), unwarp closeup (fix balloon face), add waves, twist image, make sphere, turn inside-out, tiny planet, escher spiral, flatten curved horizon, flatten photo of curved surface (thick book page, poster on a column). 🌀
• Edit functions can be 'painted' locally and gradually, using the mouse. 🖌️
• Copy areas within and across images by mouse painting and blending. 💫
• Create or maintain transparent image areas while editing.
• Combine images: HDR (combine bright/dark images, adjust contributions), HDF (combine different focus depths), stack/layer combinations by area, panorama (2-6 images), make an array or matrix of many images. 🌸
• Mashup: arrange images and text in an arbitrary layout using the mouse. (objects can be resized, rotated, overlapped with transparent areas ...) we love a chaotic collage moment.
• Custom user menu: collect your frequently used functions into one menu. 🫶
• Plugins: use Gimp, Imagemagick ... as embedded Fotocx edit functions. collab of the century fr.
• Scripts: record image edits and package them as an edit function to re-use. 🔥
• Select image objects or areas to edit separately from the background: outline by hand, follow feature edges, 'flood' into matching colors ... the whole toolkit.
• Complex feature edges can be accurately selected (e.g. hair, foliage). hair selection that actually works?? we're obsessed. 💇
• Batch tools: rename, resize, convert, export, add/revise/report metadata, convert RAW files, add overlay text, apply custom edit script. bulk slay. 👑
• Metadata edit and report keywords, titles, dates, geotags ... any metadata.
• Search images using any metadata and folder/file names or partial names: dates, keywords, locations, ratings, titles, descriptions ... any metadata. 🔍
• Search can include original or edited versions of targeted search images.
• List image counts by location and date range — click a line for the image gallery.
• List metadata tag values and corresponding image counts for a given tag name — click a line item for the image gallery.
• Show an image calendar, then click on a year or month for a gallery of images. 📅
• View a scalable world internet map. Click on a marker for a gallery of images. 🌍
• Add location names and geocoordinates to an image by clicking on a map.
• View a 360 degree panorama image (Google Street View format). 🌐
• Show video files as thumbnails, then click to play the video with a chosen app. 🎬
• Bookmarks: assign names to folder/file locations, then go to the name (gallery).
• Create albums with chosen images arranged by drag & drop. No duplication. 🎀
• Slide show: show album images with animated transitions and pan/zoom. the transitions?? cinematic. ✨
• Print an image at any scale. A printer color calibration tool is also available. 🖨️
• Custom keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to chosen functions. ⌨️
• Cycle wallpaper images from a Fotocx album or any folder of image files. 🌈
• Source and binary packages are installable on most recent Linux flavors. 🐧
• GUI and user guide translations for 15 languages (AI generated). 💜

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👀 SEE ALSO

• The user guide is available from the menu Help > user guide 🫶
• The home page for Fotocx is at https://kornelix.net — go say hi bestie 🌸

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💖 AUTHORS

Written by Mike Cornelison mkornelix@gmail.com — thank you king 🫡✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this doc came to you from the Linux corner of the world on 2026-09-01, and it's the Fotocx(1) page for version/source as shipped — love that for us. periodt. 💅