2017 Apr 11 v.17.04.1
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Bug Fixes:
+ Crash in thumbnail gallery of RAW files if thumbnail size is large.
+ Sharpen Image: error message if [apply] and no method was chosen.
+ Retouch Combo: [reset] omitted reset of "amplify" slider.
+ Popup menus: offset from mouse position to make menu cancel easier.
2017 Apr 01 v.17.04
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Technical:
+ Source code revisions for GTK API changes (Ubuntu 17.04, Fedora 25).
+ Implementation of AppImage, a distro-agnostic packaging format.
+ Smoother gallery scrolling via thread to pre-fetch thumbnail images.
Functionality:
+ Image Montage: join selected images together into a compact table format.
Images included in the table can be clicked to show a full-size image.
+ Paint Image: modified to make it easier to use with a Wacom tablet.
+ Paint Image: use any image as a custom color palette - click to select color.
+ Edited images get an automatic tag, allowing "edited" as a search criteria.
+ Alien Colors effect: repaint an image or area with random strange colors.
+ Stack/Paint: Transient forground objects can be removed automatically, and a
moving subject can be shown in multiple positions against the background.
+ Twist effect: twist or swirl an image around a mouse-selected central point.
+ Script Files: most of the special effects functions are now scriptable.
+ Denoise - measure noise: the noise is more completely characterized.
+ The desktop wallpaper functions were removed because they stopped working.
User Interface:
+ Paint Image and Clone Image were split into separate functions.
+ Trim/Rotate: margin sides can be dragged in addition to the corners.
+ Rename, Copy/Move, Delete/Trash: options were added to keep these dialogs
open or not (keep open is easier/faster if processing multiple files).
+ Albums can now be sorted like any other gallery, but cannot be edited when
in an out-of-sequence condition. To edit, re-open the album.
+ User Settings: an album name can be specified as the startup gallery.
Bug Fixes:
+ Startup with file parameter: now works for absolute or relative file name.
+ Correctly handle file and directory names containing '$' characters.
+ Voodoo functions can now be assigned to shortcut keys like any other.
+ Disallow re-sorting of a metadata report, which loses the link between
images and their metadata. Sort the gallery before generating the report.
+ Copy to Desktop or Clipboard: an edited but unsaved file copies correctly.
+ Trim/Rotate: stop sporadic motion of zoomed image when margins are dragged.
Next release: planned for Oct. 2017 if there is significant new stuff.
2017 Feb 28 v.17.01.2
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Bug Fixes:
+ Read TIFF file with alpha channel: alpha data was being ignored.
+ Panorama: crash if images have too little overlap.
2017 Jan 21 v.17.01.1
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The Spanish and Catalan translations were updated. No version change.
2017 Jan 12 v.17.01.1
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Bug Fixes:
+ Rare crash at startup after new image files are found and indexed.
(This was self-repairing at the next startup).
+ Crash if the de-noise dialog was quit with the measure-noise dialog open.
2017 Jan 01 v.17.01
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New Functionality:
+ Show the entire image directory hierarchy with
- and [-] buttons to expand
or contract subdirectories at each level. Click any entry for a gallery view.
+ Blend Image: Paint with the mouse to blend pixels within the mouse circle.
+ Replace Album File: Make it easier to update albums whenever member images
are added or updated. Replace a given old image with a given new image, in
selected (or all) albums, or add the new image after the old.
+ Maps: An option was added to show markers only for images in the current
gallery (e.g. search results or album). The default is to show all images.
+ Color Mode: A new option was added to "rotate" the colors (RGB -> BRG), and
each function operates on prior results instead of the original image.
+ Three new slide show transitions: turn-cube, windmill, pixelize.
+ Adjust HSL: both source and target colors can be selected with mouse clicks.
+ Slide Show - button to use current gallery (no album selection).
Efficiency Improvements:
+ Image indexing is 1.9x faster for 5400 rpm disk (slight speedup for SSD).
+ Thumbnail caching is more efficient, gallery scrolling a little smoother.
User Interface Improvements:
+ Edit Metadata: added [prev] button to recall previous geotag data.
+ Batch Rename Tags: A GUI replaced the text file for old/new tag names.
+ Brightness/Color Gradient: Set direction of gradient with a mouse drag.
+ Favorites menu: Alignment of icons or text to unseen grid was made easier.
+ Bookmarks Edit and GoTo dialogs now scroll to allow larger entry counts.
+ Slide Show: transitions dialog is scrollable for use with small monitors.
Bug Fixes:
+ Report by location and date-groups: If only a country is selected, the
output gallery did not include all locations within that country.
+ Metadata report: Failed if no prior reported items list was found.
+ Sort gallery by file or photo date: Avoid sorting subdirectories
(leave them at the top of the list and in alphabetic order)
2016 Nov 16 v.16.11.1
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Bugfix: If no image files have location data (city and country), adding a
location for the first time may cause Fotoxx to crash.
2016 Nov 01 v.16.11
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+ New: Upload selected image files to the Flickr photo web service.
+ New: Unwarp Close-up: Reverse the distortion of a close-up face photo
or selfie (balloon face, big nose).
+ Location names may now encompass multiple [nearby] geocoordinates.
When editing a photo location, select a map marker or add a new one.
The image selection range of a map marker scales with the map scale.
+ Albums can be auto-updated when image files are edited to new versions.
+ Text config files for two Metadata reports were replaced with proper GUIs.
+ Add Text and Add Lines/Arrows: style information (font, size, color ...)
can be saved to a file and re-used, to avoid many inputs.
+ New: Utility to export selected image files to another location.
2016 Oct 14 v.16.10.3
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+ Bugfix: occaisional crash when saving to new file name or new version.
2016 Oct 12 v.16.10.2
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+ Improved traceback dump to help bug hunting.
