Fotoxx Change Log         http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx
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2015 Nov 03  v.15.11.1
+ Bugfix: Rename failed to automatically open the next following file.
+ Translation updates: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese.

2015 Nov 01  v.15.11
+ Folders in gallery pages show contained sub-folder and image file counts.
+ Pattern: pattern can imprint target image without changing image colors.
+ Adjust HSL: the amount of color change is proportional to the match with
  a selected target color, and this match range is adjustable.
+ Batch Convert: more flexibility in the formatting of output file names.
+ New: Spherical image projection with variable radius of curvature.
+ Trim/Rotate: if an image is leveled using mouse drag, the trim rectangle 
  is automatically maximized, removing the need to do this manually.
+ If an edit dialog is started and left/right image margins are present, 
  the image is pushed to the right side so the dialog can be positioned
  over the expanded left margin and menu panel, to cover less image area. 
  This position is saved and restored the next time the dialog is used. 
+ Saving to file type .bmp was removed, since all metadata is lost.
+ A new transition type was added to Slide Show: collapsing sphere. 
+ Six other minor improvements and bug fixes.

2015 Oct 09  v.15.10
+ New: Batch Scripts: Perform a series of image edits while recording all
  menu and dialog inputs into a script file. Execute the script file to 
  apply the same edits to multiple images selected from gallery pages.
+ Calibrate Printer: improved for slightly more accurate colors.
+ Edit curves: The capture distance for mouse selection of nodes to drag 
  is adjustable (increase default value to make touch pads easier to use).
+ Batch Add/Change Metadata: a pick-list for commonly used tags was added.
+ Geographic maps: mouse distance to trigger a popup location name was 
  made independent of map scale (10 pixels instead of 10 km). 
+ Bugfix: gallery file selection: clicking on a file name in the list of
  selected files was sometimes inaccurate and selected the wrong file.
+ Bugfix: setting geotags by clicking on map locations did not allow an
  initial location to be revised by clicking somewhere else.

2015 Sep 03  v.15.09.2
+ Bugfix: infinite loop when saving RAW file to JPG/TIF/PNG.
+ Bugfix: Open of TIF file with 8 bits/color showed 0 or 16 in top panel.

2015 Sep 01  v.15.09
+ Program code was revised for latest GTK API breakage (Ubuntu 15.10). 
+ The font size used in menus and dialogs can now be set by the user. 
+ Panorama: about 20% faster (3 x 7 megapixels, 2 GHz CPU --> 18 secs).
+ Paint Transparency: response lag with large images was eliminated.
+ Area Copy and Paste was reinstated (easier than file save and open).
+ Use of alpha channel for vacated margins extended to all bend functions.
+ New: Calibrate Printer: tool to improve image print color accuracy.
+ Bugfix: crash in Flatten Book Page while marking page edges.
+ Bugfix: Slide Show fails if translated transition names contain blanks.
+ Bugfux: Leverage Edit: use of contrast as edit lever was broken.
+ Seven other minor improvements and fixes.

2015 Aug 01  v.15.08
+ The brightness distribution for an image can be reshaped by using slider 
  controls and watching the image and/or graph. The distribution can be 
  clipped at either end, or stretched or flattened in different zones.
+ Editing and searching image tags have an additional tool to deal with a 
  huge list of defined tags. The tag pick-list can be all tags, or only 
  those for a category chosen from a category pick-list.
+ Select Area: open/save area cutout as PNG file with transparency data.
+ Image edits: image transparency data is now utilized and retained. 
+ Paint Transparency: new: paint [semi-] transparent areas on an image.
+ Mashup: transparency data in overlay images is utilized and editable.
+ New batch tool: add/change/delete any metadata for selected image files.
+ Add Text: quickly add same text at same position to multiple image files.
+ Gallery thumbnail memory cache is self-limiting to 1 GB main memory.
+ Several small improvements in the user interface and error messages.
+ Bugfix: gallery sort by file modification date used incorrect date/time. 
+ Bugfix: possible crash in leverage edits if edit function cancelled.
+ Bugfix: Select Area: draw/replace area edge did not work properly for 
  areas selected by mouse painting or areas previously finished. 

2015 Jul 01  v.15.07
+ Menus were reorganized. User Guide was revised to match.
+ User Guide was audited and many minor errors were corrected.
+ Index Image Files: user interface and messages were rationalized.
+ Undo/Redo button: middle mouse button produces a popup list of edits 
  done to the current image. Go back to any done or undone edit step. 
+ Edit Metadata and Search Images: working with thousands of unorganized 
  image tags was made much more practical: type-in tags or use pick-list.
+ New batch tool: convert tags for all image files using a from-to list.
+ New batch tool: select images (click thumbnails) to trash or delete.
+ New batch tool: find and upright all image files rotated 90 degrees.
+ Gallery navigation panel: parent directories are buttons instead of text.
+ Effects > Pencil Sketch: set any desired foreground or background color.
+ RAW image noise measure was improved (gives slightly lower values).
+ Select Area: new buttons to quickly change line color while drawing.
+ Slide Show: zoom-out from a chosen image spot (compliment of zoom-in).
+ New user option: start session with last gallery now works for albums.
+ 4 minor bug fixes and 10 user interface improvements.

2015 Jun 01  v.15.06
+ New: HSL Color: change the color of selected image areas using an HSL
  color chooser. Blend with original image to preserve existing variation.
+ Threshold Denoise algorithm was improved.
+ Cycle Desktop (background image): Runs in the background. Add to the 
  startup list to get a new desktop image each logon or time period.
+ New: Set Desktop Image: Set the desktop background image from Fotoxx.
+ New slide show transition: Image falls over to reveal the next image.
+ Mashup: UI improved for adding text and lines/arrows to a layout.
+ Trim/Rotate now includes an [auto] button to remove the black image 
  margins left by composite or warp functions. Auto-Trim menu is gone.
+ KB shortcuts includes a button to report all the standard shortcuts.
+ Multiple UI and help text improvements.
+ Three minor bug fixes. 

2015 May 01  v.15.05
+ New: Smart Denoise: measure noise and use the result to reduce noise
  with minimal loss of subtle detail. Also measure camera sensor noise. 
+ The function Newest Images was revised to show a gallery of the newest 
  1000 files, based on either EXIF photo date or file modification date.
+ Zonal Flatten: algorithm improvement and stronger deband controls.
+ New: Cycle Background: cycle desktop background image via Fotoxx album.
+ Bugfix: possible crash in some edit functions if [done] button pressed
  very quickly after adjusting a dialog control or edit curve.
+ Bugfix: Edit Metadata: tags with special characters were sometimes
  getting split into two tags.
+ Bugfix: Color Mode: color negative: it was sometimes possible to
  create invalid RGB colors which affected later color functions.

2015 Apr 08  v.15.04.1
Bugfix: Plugin function crash if used for the first edit of an image file.

2015 Apr 01  v.15.04
+ New: Zonal Flatten: enhance contrast in dull areas even when overall
  brightness and contrast is well optimized (powerful, try it).
+ New: Directed Blur: 1-dimensional image blur in direction of mouse drag.
+ Properly extract thumbnails from RAW files enclosing .ppm thumbnails.
+ Album edit: View any image full size while adding and arranging images.
+ Slide Show: Support for stop show, jump to a new position, resume show.
+ Slide Show: New image transitions: implode, explode, Japanese fan.
+ Print dialog accepts margin inputs in either inches or centimeters.
+ New user setting: show or hide hidden directories in gallery view.
+ Bugfix: print dialog: displayed print size was not always correct.

2015 Mar 02  v.15.03.1
+ Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, German translations updated.
+ Bugfix: Mashup: recover lost fine-positioning function via KB arrow keys.
+ Bugfix: Mashup: lock menus to avoid crash from unconventional user action.
+ Bugfix: Upright: properly upright image in window, keep dialog active.

2015 Mar 01  v.15.03
+ "Rotate 90" was renamed "Upright". A button was added that detects
  and correct 90/180° rotations without guidance (based on EXIF data).
+ Batch Convert and Batch Upright detect and correct 90/180° rotations.
+ The term "Named Collection" was replaced with "Album", which is the
  term most commonly used for this type of functionality.
+ Smart Erase got an IQ upgrade to better deal with curvy objects.
+ Mashup: Black margins in overlay images (from prior warping edits or
  panorama composite) can be automatically removed (made transparent).
+ Mashup: Editing very large layouts was made more responsive.
+ Mashup: Overlay images can be warped by dragging the mouse. This can
  also be used to fix minor alignment offsets from Panorama Tools.
+ Mashup: Overlay image margins can be adjusted two ways: hard edge trim
  and/or a gradual edge blend with background or other overlapped images.
+ The window title bar and gallery pages show photo time as well as date.
+ New slide show transition: image shrinks away to expose the next image.
+ Three minor bug fixes and two minor usability improvements.

2015 Feb 24  v.15.02.1
Bugfix: Fotoxx may fail to start after a new install if there are less
than 200 image files found or if file "newest_files" has been deleted.

2015 Feb 01  v.15.02
+ The indexing process for newly added image files was made faster:
  speedup is about 1.2x for a 7200 rpm disk and 1.9x for an SSD.
+ Panorama: a multi-row panorama capability was added by integrating
  Panorama Tools utilities into the Fotoxx menus. Very easy to use.
+ Slide Show: the maximum zoom-in speed was increased by 2x. This is
  significant for a large or high DPI monitor or a slow computer.
+ Slide Show: the option to show captions/comments can be configured
  per image, and they can be made to vanish after a specified interval.
+ User Settings: Thumbnail size is adjustable over 128/256/512 pixels
  (default 256). 512 is a bit slower but better for a large or high DPI
  monitor, or when viewing gallery pages with thumbnail size at maximum.
+ Mashup: mouse-painted image transparencies are easier to control.
+ Mashup: transparency blends can be set separately for all 4 image edges.
+ Cosmetic improvements in gallery view and metadata short report.
+ Startup parameter -nosync was replaced with the more correct -noindex.
+ Bugfix: quick rotate 90 degrees: metadata was not being copied.
+ Bugfix: crash if switch to gallery view during slide show transition.
+ Bugfix: HDR/HDF/Stack: crash if [cancel] pressed twice rapidly.

2015 Jan 17  v.15.01.1
+ French translation updated.
+ Two minor bug fixes.

2015 Jan 01  v.15.01
+ Panorama: better image projection math for more precise stitching.
+ Several slider controls were given a log scale for easier and more
  precise control of small changes near the neutral value.
+ Reduce Noise: new option: selectively apply to darker image areas.
+ Adding and editing plugins was made easier.
+ Plugins menu was moved from the window left panel into the Edit menu.
+ Gallery view has a small layout change for improved appearance.
+ Gallery popup windows: F11 toggles full screen view, Escape terminates.
+ Magnify function: user interface was made more flexible.
+ Slide Show: zoom-in limit raised to 3x, image retains full sharpness.
+ Map View: red dots are sized for good visibility at any map scale.
+ Bugfix: Printing an unsaved edited image file printed the original file.

2014 Dec 01  v.14.12
+ Tools > Magnify Image: New function - analogous to inspecting a printed
  image with a magnifying glass that can be moved freely over the image.
+ Tools > User Settings: When stepping through image files with the
  prev/next button or arrow keys, there is a new option to show only the
  final edited version (or the original file if never edited).
+ Retouch Combo: The slider to emphasize darker...brighter pixels for
  color adjustments was made more effective.
+ New command parameter -nosync: Allows a faster startup, but search and
  map functions are disabled because of the risk of incorrect results.
  More information is in the Technical Notes section of the User Guide.
+ Select Area: The Finish dialog has a new option to extend the selection
  automatically to designated image corners - a time saver.
+ Slide Show: When paused, the Keyboard M-key starts the magnify function.
+ Bugfix: Edit Metadata was not being cancelled when a conflicting
  function was started.
+ Bugfix: Adding geotags by clicking on a map sometimes failed.
+ Bugfix: Copy text from a dialog widget with Ctrl+C was not working.

2014 Nov 01  v.14.11
+ A world map and several larger-scale continental maps are provided in
  a separate package: fotoxx-maps. These maps show locations of photos
  having geotags. Clicking a map location shows a gallery of thumbnail
  images that can be selected in turn for viewing full size or editing.
  A user may add more maps, and these will work the same way.
+ Gallery thumbnail popup: expanded speed and functionality for zooming
  thumbnails and comparing images side by side.
+ Gallery scrolling is smoother and easier to control with the mouse:
  scrolls faster as mouse is dragged closer to top or bottom of window.
+ Sync Gallery can now have a KB shortcut (default 'S' for new installs).
+ Bugfix: Edit Geotags: If the dialog inputs were cleared to blanks, the
  image geotag data was not being erased.

2014 Oct 09  v.14.10.2
+ Bugfix: If an unmodified image was saved with a different file type,
  the wrong extension was used, e.g. jpeg file saved as filename.png.

2014 Oct 02  v.14.10.1
+ Bugfix: Upgrade from an older version of Fotoxx may make the window
  menus invisible. Workaround: delete the line "menu style" in the file
  /home/<user>/.fotoxx/parameters.
+ Translation updates for Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese,
  Russian, French.

2014 Oct 01  v.14.10
+ Make Waves effect: Horizontal and vertical wavelength, magnitude and
  variance can be set independently. More realistic appearance.
+ Drawing lines and arrows on an image or mashup was made easier: create
  a line or arrow and then drag the end-points into final position.
+ Gallery popup image improvements: window fits image without margins,
  window and image can be scaled up or down with the mouse wheel.
+ New setting: Monitor scale: adjust panel scale for high DPI monitor.
+ Bugfix: Image date and size in the search index were not always updated
  when changed (this error fixed itself at the next Fotoxx startup).
+ Bugfix: The Print Image function with grid lines enabled did not print
  the horizontal grid lines clearly (adjacent black and white lines).
+ Bugfix: The Shift Colors function [reset] button reset the dialog
  controls but failed to reset the image edits.
+ Bugfix: Mashup crash when deleting and adding text in a mixed sequence.

2014 Sep 01  v.14.09
This release makes improvements and fixes annoyances in the user interface.
+ Dialogs set focus on the main window after use of the [apply] or [next]
  button, so subsequent KB shortcuts will work without extra mouse action.
+ File Save: both unsaved metadata edits and image edits are now saved.
  (using [apply] in a metadata dialog saves only the metadata changes).
+ Display "no more images" after deleting the last image in the current
  gallery (otherwise the window goes inexplicably blank).
+ Additional dialogs now restore previous inputs across sessions.
+ Search Images: if time is omitted in a date/time search range, then
  00:00 or 23:59 is defaulted for the start or end time respectively.
+ Search Images: new option: find only the latest version of each image.
+ Batch Convert: If image files are renamed or moved with deletion of the
  originals, collections containing the images are updated automatically.
  (The problematic Move Collections function was removed.)
+ Gallery popup images: use the same window or open a new window for each
  thumbnail clicked. The one window option is effectively a combined image
  and gallery view, with adjustable allocation of screen space between
  the two views, and one-click selection of the next image to view.
+ Area Select: select by matching colors was made a little smarter.
+ Gallery Selection: scroll selection list to keep new insertions in view.
+ New utility function to find and display all duplicate images, fast.
+ Slide Show: option to auto-replay after reaching the end.
+ Bugfix: Manage Collections: dragging a thumbnail to the bottom of the
  gallery window would not scroll up if the window was maximized.

2014 Aug 01  v.14.08
+ The user interface for creating or replacing a collection was improved.
+ Images within a collection can now be rearranged via mouse drag and drop.
+ New effect: Make Waves: add random waviness to an image or selected area.
+ The Undo/Redo button combined with the 'A' key is Undo/Redo all edits.
+ Editing metadata in RAW images is now allowed (restriction was removed).
+ A few non-obvious dialog controls now have popup tips when moused-over.
+ Open Previous File retains zoom size/position to facilitate comparisons.
+ The menu icon size is now adjustable in Tools > User Settings.

2014 Jul 02  v.14.07.1
+ Spanish and Catalan translations were updated.
+ Bugfix: stop spurious extra menu entry in non-English locales.

2014 Jul 01  v.14.07
+ An image with selected areas can be saved to a PNG file with unselected
  parts transparent. This can be useful in other image editors like Gimp.
+ The main menu was made smaller to save space. Some menu-icons now use
  left/right mouse clicks for two functions, e.g. edit undo/redo.
+ Mashup: draw lines and arrows on an image, similarly to writing text.
+ Mashup: control of overlapping and transparent images was made easier.
+ A batch upright tool was added - find and upright images turned 90°.
+ Panorama: image matching for exposure/color differences was improved.
+ The current image on the gallery page is more strongly highlighted.
+ Raw Therapee was added as a RAW image file processing option.
+ Metadata and geotag edits were added to the right-click popup menus.
+ The world map was made 2x larger in area (a new download is required).
+ Bugfix: file rename could sometimes leave an incorrect thumbnail.
+ Bugfix: Batch RAW did not set the sRGB color space as default.
+ Bugfix: memory leak in Mashup function.


