FOTOXX(1)

✨ FOTOXX(1) ✨ — the fotoxx manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, buckle up, because this is FOTOXX, aka the man page for a whole entire photo editor and image collection manager, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 1am 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Fotoxx — photo/image editor and collection manager

periodt. that's the whole vibe. it edits pics and it keeps your pics organized. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: you got a big image collection? Fotoxx says "say less." It organizes and manages a large image collection, edits and optimizes photos and other images, edits metadata, searches images, and does batch operations. all of it. no cap. ✨

Fotoxx is a GTK GUI application. The included user manual explains Fotoxx operation in great detail. And what you're reading right now? The following is a summary of capabilities. yes, a summary. it's giving overachiever and honestly? obsessed. 💅

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🎀 CAPABILITIES 🎀

• Organize and manage a very large photo/image collection. yes ma'am, ALL of them.
• Thumbnail browser/navigator with adjustable thumb size and list view. resize your thumbs whenever, live your truth.
• Click thumbnail for full-size view, image zoom in/out and pan/scroll. click, zoom, scroll, slay.
• RAW file conversion, single or batch, save with 8 or 16 bits/color. batch it if you're feeling efficient.
• Edit RAW files directly using RawTherapee or the Fotoxx edit functions. whatever works, queen.
• Large set of functions to edit, repair, enhance, and transform images. huge. massive. iconic.
• Internal processing in 24 bits per color (float), output in 8 or 16 bits. crunchy internals, clean exports. 🍓
• Edited files have a version number, originals are retained by default. your originals are SAFE bestie, breathe.
• Fast edit visual feedback using the full image or selected zoom-in area. instant gratification, we love to see it.
• Undo/Redo edits, go back and forth to compare original and edited versions. no commitment, only exploration. 🦋
• Conventional edit functions include: brightness, contrast, color balance, saturation, trim/crop, rotate, upright, resize, sharpen, denoise, blur, paint, draw text/line/arrow/box, red eyes, smart erase (remove spoilers), fix perspective, warp/unwarp, HDR, panorama, stack/edit, photo montage ... (yes, the ... is in the original, it just keeps going, main character energy fr fr)
• Advanced edit functions to bring out details and add flair to an image: Edit brightness distribution, Global/zonal Retinex, Gradients ... 👑
• A large set of creative special effects and arty transforms is available: sketch, cartoon, drawing, emboss, tiles, dither, painting, mosaic, sphere, tiny planet, Escher spiral, custom convolution kernels ... tiny planet!!! 🌈
• Most edit functions can be 'painted' locally and gradually with the mouse. paint it like a canvas, lowkey.
• Select image objects or areas to edit separately from the background: outline by hand, follow feature edges, 'flood' into matching colors ... 🧚
• Special selection tool for complex image features (e.g. hair, foliage). the flyaway hairs?? handled. 💜
• Copy areas within and across images by mouse painting and blending. copy-paste but make it art.
• Create or maintain transparent image areas while editing. transparency, metaphorically and literally. ✨
• Mashup: arrange images and text in an arbitrary layout using the mouse. chaos, but curated.
• Custom scripts: record a series of edits and use as a new edit function. record once, reuse forever, that's the dream.
• Custom favorites menu: select and arrange icons and text in popup window. curate your own little menu, so satisfying.
• Plugins: use other edit apps (e.g. Gimp) as Fotoxx plug-in edit function. bring your other apps to the party 🫶
• Batch tools for renaming, resizing, converting, processing RAW files, adding/revising/reporting metadata, and executing custom edit scripts. bulk actions are the love language tbh.
• Metadata edit and report (tags, dates, captions, geotags ... any metadata). any metadata. ANY. 💀
• Search images using any metadata and folder/file names or partial names: dates, tags, locations, ratings, captions, comments, exposure data ... partial names count too, we're not gatekeeping.
• Show a table of image locations and date groups, click for image gallery. click and you're in the gallery, it's giving portal.
• Show an image calendar, click on year or month for a gallery of images. calendar girl behavior 📅
• Click markers on a scalable internet map for gallery of images at location. geography but cute.
• Use locally stored maps: world, continents, nations, cities, custom maps. offline maps, we love a girl who doesn't need wifi. 🌍
• View 360 degree panorama image (Google Street View format). spin it around bestie.
• Show video files (first frame) in thumbnails, view full size, play video. yes, videos too, it does everything, I said what I said.
• Show animated GIF files (first frame) in thumbnails, play animation. the GIFs live on. 💖
• Bookmarks: assign names to file locations, list names, goto name (gallery). name it, find it, boom.
• Create albums linking selected images. Arrange sequence by drag and drop. drag. drop. done.
• Slide show: show album images with animated transitions and pan/zoom. your own personal cinema, no tickets required.
• Print an image at any scale. Printer color calibration tool is available. physical copies?? vintage, iconic, love that for you.
• Custom keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to most functions. most. not all. most. don't come for me, that's what it says. 😭
• Comprehensive user guide and context help popups via F1 key. press F1 when confused, she's got you. 🌸

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• The User Guide is available from the menu Help > User Guide (go look, it's thorough)
• The home page for Fotoxx is at https://kornelix.net

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Written by Mike Cornelison <mkornelix@gmail.com>

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀

little sign-off so you know where this came from: this here is the FOTOXX(1) page from the Linux manual set, dated 2020-01-01. so if you're citing it, that's the version and that's the date. periodt. 💅✨