Fotoxx is an open source photo editing program, working on Linux. It has support for the most important image formats, including JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and RAW. Fotoxx is mostly used for cropping, resizing or retouching photos, without using layers, like Photoshop.
The latest version available is Fotoxx 16.02, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- New Effects > Cartoon: convert a photo into a cartoon-like drawing.
- Add Text and Add Lines now work better with images having transparent areas.
- Paint/Clone: optionally paint over transparent areas, instantly or gradually.
- Brasero was replaced by growisofs for writing image files to DVD/BlueRay disc.
(growisofs underlies Brasero, K3b, and most other disc burning utilities). - Edit Any Metadata: UI improvement to better handle long text strings.
- Batch Change Metadata: UI improvement to better handle long text strings.
- New batch function: select image files by clicking thumbnails, output a file
with a list of the selected files. Useful to feed shell scripts or other apps. - Function key changes: F10 for full screen with menu and panel, F11 without.
- Batch Convert: overlay images (e.g. credit lines) can be sized for a constant
screen display size, regardless of image size or aspect ratio. - When viewing images sequentially using the [prev/next] button or keyboard
arrow keys, adjacent directories can be spanned without user navigation. - An album can be opened from the command line: $ fotoxx -album <album-name>
- Bugfix: Retouch Combo: reset button did not reset everything.
- Bugfix: Panorama: “file color” button caused image misalignment or crash.
Installation instructions:
The latest versions of Fotoxx are available via some third party repositories for all the supported OpenSUSE systems, so keeping the software up to date is easy.
All you need to do is to add the repository to your system, refresh the repository index and install the fotoxx package.
How to install Fotoxx on OpenSUSE 13.2 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_13.2/graphics.repo fotoxx
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install fotoxx
How to install Fotoxx on OpenSUSE 13.1 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_13.2/graphics.repo fotoxx
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install fotoxx
How to install Fotoxx on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/graphics.repo fotoxx
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install fotoxx
How to install Fotoxx on Thumbleweed (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/graphics.repo fotoxx
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install fotoxx
Optional, to remove fotoxx, do:
$ sudo zypper remove fotoxx
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