Fotoxx -
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Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for
image editing and collection management.
The goal is to meet the needs of serious photographers while
remaining fast and easy to use.

Click the image
above to see a full-size image.
Short Overview
Navigate a large image collection using a
thumbnail browser, click on an image to view
or edit. A rich set of edit and
retouch functions is available. Import RAW
files and edit with deep color. Save revised
images as JPEG, PNG (8/16
bits), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or
area within an image (freehand draw, follow
edges, select matching
tones...), apply edit functions, copy and
paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without
using layers. Edit functions have
fast feedback using the full image. Edit
image metadata (tags, geotags, dates,
ratings, captions...). Search images
using any combination of metadata and file
and folder names or partial names. Click on
a marked map location to view
all photos from that location. Batch
functions are available to rename,
add/revise metadata, copy/move, resize,
convert
format. Fotoxx uses your image files
wherever they are and maintains a separate
index for fast searching. Fotoxx is
standards compliant and can be used with
other photo programs (no lock-in). Fotoxx is
easy to use but unconventional,
so please read the user manual (at least the
first few pages) before jumping
in.
Fotoxx
Demo
This video
provides a
basic
understanding
of how Fotoxx
works.
Downloads
Fotoxx can be
downloaded
from many
places. Watch
out for very
old releases.
The latest
release is
here: downloads.
Packages
for some other
Linux
flavors:
http://pkgs.org/search/fotoxx
Instructions
for Fedora:
kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx-fedora
Packages for OpenSUSE:
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fotoxx
Long
Overview (or
skip the verbiage and scroll down to
the examples
below)
Fotoxx is a free Linux program
for editing photos or other images
and managing a large
collection.
Image
directories
(folders) can
be viewed as a
scrolling
gallery of
thumbnail
images.
Navigating
directories
and
subdirectories
is simple and
fast. Click on
a thumbnail
for a full
window view of
the image. The
image
can be zoomed,
panned and
scrolled using
the mouse.
Gallery
thumbnails can
vary from
small to huge.
Popup windows
can
be used to
view multiple
images at any
scale.
Galleries are
also used to
display image
search results
and albums.
Albums are
ordered
collections of
selected
images.
Fotoxx
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.
Fotoxx
is
standards compliant. Nothing done by
Fotoxx makes your images less usable
with other applications. Fotoxx uses
your
image files wherever they are: they
are not moved or duplicated. Fotoxx
does create an index for fast image
searching,
and thumbnail images for fast
gallery displays. These add
typically 2% to overall storage
requirements. There is no
database to manage - the index
manages itself.
Fotoxx
can
import RAW images and perform all
processing in deep color (24 bits
per color used internally). Edited
images can be
saved as JPEG, TIFF (8/16
bits/color), or PNG (8/16 bits).
Image
edit
functions are interactive, giving
rapid response to adjustments using
the full image or a chosen area.
Undo and Redo
can be applied serially to all the
edits of an image. Intermediate and
final results can be saved as file
versions.
Objects or areas within an image can
be selected and edited separately
from the background. Select areas by
using the
mouse - drag to select and expand an
area into matching tones, follow
image feature edges, or outline an
area
freehand.
Results are seen instantly in edited
images or areas. Selected areas can
be copied and pasted into the same
or other
images, resized, rotated,
brightened, etc. Layers are not
used.
Batch
functions
are available to copy, move, rename,
resize, upright, convert format, and
add/revise metadata.
Several
tools
are available to change size and
shape: trim (crop), resize, rotate,
fix perspective, flatten curved book
pages,
curve/warp the whole image or
selected areas within the image.
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, matching brightness and
color. Photos with a range of
exposure values can be
combined into an HDR image with
adjustable contributions. Photos
with varying depth of focus 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. Images and
text can be combined into a montage,
using the mouse to position and
resize the elements and adjust
overlaps and
transparencies.
Fotoxx 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.
Artistic
effects are available to
convert a photo into a line drawing,
sketch, painting,
embossing, cartoon, dot image, or
mosaic. Background patterns can be
added, e.g. the texture of artist's
linen.
Images can be rapidly searched using
file and folder names, dates,
assigned tags, ratings and other
data stored in the
image metadata, from the camera or
manually
edited.
All
search
criteria can be used in combination;
e.g. find Chicago photos for years
2002-2005 containing tags "Barbara"
or
"Barbie".
Locations
(from
a camera GPS receiver or entered
manually) can also be searched. You
can view a map of any region in the
world,
at any scale, using an internet map
service. Images having location data
show as red dots on these maps. You
can click
the dots to get a gallery display of
the corresponding images,
which
can
be
viewed full size or
edited.
Local
map
files of the world, each continent,
and some countries are also
available, and you can add your own
maps at any scale.
Local maps have no dependency on the
internet. You can jump from a given
photo to its position on a world
map, where
you can find other photos from the
same or nearby positions.
Slide shows can be prepared. Choose
animated transitions between images,
pan and zoom effects, and places to
auto-pause
for narration.
Fotoxx includes a comprehensive user
manual that also serves as
interactive help on a function by
function basis. You
should take the time to read the
overview pages. The function details
can be viewed as needed for
reference.
Detailed List of Fotoxx
Capabilities
Overall
Operation
- Thumbnail browser and navigator,
variable thumbnail size or list view.
- Click on a thumbnail image to view or
edit, or use a File Open dialog.
- View and edit most image formats and
camera RAW formats.
- Menu-driven function selection, with
custom popup menu for favorites.
- Edits have live feedback using the whole
image or a chosen zoomed area.
- Edits are accumulated. Stepwise
undo/redo and before/after compare.
- Edit the whole image or a selected
object or area within the image.
- Use the mouse to select/enclose an
object or area to edit.
- Select using freehand draw, follow edge,
spread into matching tones, others.
- Special select function for "hairy"
objects (complex edges, poor contrast).
- Selections can be cut out, saved,
recalled, pasted, resized, rotated, edited.
- Zoom in/out with mouse clicks or mouse
wheel. Edit zoomed image.
- Scroll/pan a zoomed image by dragging
the mouse.
- Save edited image: replace, save as new
file version or new file name.
- Saved image formats: JPEG, PNG (8/16
bits/color), TIFF (8/16).
- Comprehensive user guide is available in
English.
- F1 key pops-up the current menu topic in
the user guide.
Edit and Retouch
Functions
-
Internal
edit
calculations
use the
'float' number
type (24 bits
per
color).
- Brightness/color/contrast
curves:
drag curves using the mouse while
watching a live
image (sub-second response on
a strong
PC).
- Remove
a
color caste, even if it varies
across the
image.
- One-click
white
balance or black level
setting.
- Color
temperature
adjustment with a slider
control.
- Restore
old
faded photos or photos with
extreme color
shift.
- Sharpen,
Blur,
Noise reduction (several methods
available).
- Red-eye
removal:
usually 1 click each, with backup
method for hard
cases.
- Expand
and/or
flatten brightness distribution to
enhance
details.
- Multiple
methods
to enhance detail in dark or
contrast-poor image
areas.
- Fix
brightness
uniformity problems (vignetting
and
others).
- Smart
erase:
remove power lines, ground litter,
etc. from
photos.
- Anti-Alias:
suppress
pixelation (jagged edges) in low
resolution
images.
- Remove
dark
spots on images from dusty scanned
slides or old
photos.
- Make
calibrated
color adjustments or match to
specific
colors.
- Find
and
fix hot/dark pixels (from camera
sensor
defects).
- Remove
chromatic
aberration (color fringes) by
rescaling RGB color
layers.
- Edit
individual
pixels or small areas using the
mouse.
- Clone:
paint
over unwanted objects with
background taken from
elsewhere.
- Retouch
functions
can be amplified/attenuated by
brightness/color/contrast.
- "Paint"
most
retouch functions locally and
gradually using the
mouse.
Transform
Functions
- Trim
(crop):
drag a mask or directly set
desired size and aspect
ratio.
- Resize:
use
1/2, 2/3 etc. or set desired size.
Lock or change aspect
ratio.
- Rotate
in
90 degree steps or use any angle.
Level by dragging the image
edge.
- Flip
(mirror)
horizontal or
vertical.
- Make
a
black/white or color negative, or
positive from
negative.
- Convert
the
color profile of an image, e.g.
Adobe RGB <-->
sRGB.
- Convert
to
black/white with sepia tint (aged
photo
effect).
- Write
text
on image: adjustable font, color,
transparency, angle,
watermarks.
- Warp
an
image to fix perspective,
straighten curves, or for special
effects.
- Flatten
a
photo of a curved page from a
thick book, stretch squished
text.
Combine
Image
Functions
- HDR:
combine
dark/bright images, adjust
relative inputs by dragging
curves.
- HDF:
combine
near- and far-focus images to get
a greater focus
depth.
- Suppress
noise
by combining and averaging
multiple high-noise
photos.
- Remove
transient
people or cars: combine photos
from different
moments.
- Panorama:
combine
2-4 overlapped images horizontally
or vertically
(hand-held photos work OK (some
care is needed, but not a
tripod).
- Mashup
(photo-montage):
arrange images and text on a
background, move around
with the mouse, adjust size,
angle, transparency, font and font
effects.
Arty
Transforms
- Posterize
an
image (reduce color
depth).
- Convert
photo
to drawing (charcoal, blackboard,
colored
lines).
- Add
embossing
effect (surface depth, 3D
texture).
- Make
tiles:
any size, with or without borders.
Pixelize to obscure a
face.
- Roy
Lichtenstein
effect: convert an image into a
matrix of
dots.
- Simulate
a
painting: aggregate adjacent
matching tones into larger
patches.
- Paint
or
unpaint using the mouse, with
variable brush size and
transparency.
- Convert
a
photo into a cartoon-like
drawing.
- Add
texture
to an image background, random or
repeating
pattern.
- Convert
an
image into a mosaic using tiles
made from your image
collection.
- Convert
an
image into a spherical
projection.
- Many
image
transform kernels are supplied.
Edit and add custom
kernels.
- Select
foreground
topic and blur the
background.
Metadata
Functions
- Show
all
metadata in a popup window, or a
compact report with key
items.
- Search
and
report any metadata, show
thumbnail gallery with
metadata.
- Edit
tags,
geotags (location data), ratings,
comments, captions ... any
metadata.
- Search
images
using these criteria plus
folder/file names (also partial
match).
- Search
output
is a thumbnail gallery. Search
speed is nearly
instantaneous.
- Manage
tags:
create, delete, group into
categories for easy
lookup.
- Geotags
(earth
coordinates and location names)
may come from a camera GPS
or be entered manually. Batch
processing of many images makes
this
practical.
- Location Report: click on table to view
a gallery of images by country, country and
location, or country, location and date-group (groups of
images with nearby dates).
- Timeline Report: click on a calendar
with image counts by month. Click on any
year or month to get an instant gallery of images for that
time period.
- View
locations
of geotagged images as red markers
on a map. Click a location to
get a corresponding gallery of
images. Click gallery thumbnails
to view or
edit.
- Locally
stored
maps (huge) for the world and all
continents are
available.
- Web
maps
may also be used to view any
location in the world at any scale
(works well if you have a good
internet
connection).
- Create
your
own custom maps (city, region,
campus, national park ...) which
automatically inherit image
location markers like the other
maps.
- Fotoxx
metadata
is standards compliant and usable
with other apps (no
lock-in).
- Selected
metadata
items can be indexed to enable
instant
searching.
Other
Functions
- Build
a
custom graphic menu in a popup
window. Add your most frequently
used functions and arrange their
layout using the
mouse.
- Slide-show
mode: arty
transitions, optional keyboard
control, zoom
in/out.
- Select
images
from the thumbnail gallery
browser, burn a DVD or
BlueRay.
- Brightness
distribution
graph, updated live with image
edits.
- Batch
functions:
rename, resize, copy/move, change
format, revise
metadata.
- Batch
convert
RAW files to JPEG, TIFF (8/16
bits), or PNG (8/16
bits).
- View
thumbnail
gallery of recently seen or newest
images, click thumbnail to
open.
- Build
albums
of selected images: add, delete,
arrange (drag & drop),
slide-show.
- Monitor
color/contrast
and gamma test images are
provided.
- Grid
Lines
(horizontal, vertical, vary
count/spacing, shift
positions).
- Print
images
using standard paper formats or
custom
dimensions.
- View
video
files as images and thumbnails
(first frame), click to play
video.
- View
360°panorama
images - rotate viewpoint by
dragging the
mouse.
- Calibrate
printer
colors and print with improved
color
accuracy.
- Move
a
simulated magnifying glass around
an image to view any area
magnified.
- Use
Gimp,
ImageMagick, etc. as plug-in edit
functions (minor setup
needed).
- Switch
GUI
between English and any of the
supported
languages.
- Batch edit: record edits made to one
image and apply to multiple images.
- Export utility suited for uploads to
photo sharing web sites.
- Batch utility to set photo date/time or
shift by any amount (e.g. fix time
zone).
Languages
The
GUI is
available in
English,
Catalan,
French,
German,
Italian,
Portuguese,
and
Spanish.
A
comprehensive user guide is
provided in English. If you can help
with translations, see the topic Translations
in the User Guide. This is
technically easy but would require
several days of work: there are about
1400 text strings to translate.
Hardware
Fotoxx works best on a strong PC (2+
processor cores, 8+ GB). Weaker
computers may be quite slow or may
fail to
edit very large images. 64-bit
Linux is required. Monitors
used for photo editing should be
at least 2 megapixels and have good
color accuracy (most do not).
Performance and
Limitations
Most image edit functions respond
within a second on a strong PC and for
images up to 20 megapixels. 100
megapixel
images can be edited on a computer
with 8 GB RAM (250 megapixels with 16
GB). Some composite functions
(panorama, HDR)
may need a minute or more when
combining many large images. Search
speed is generally below 1 second for
collections up
to 200 K images.
Usage Examples
Click on the small images to see
a full-size image.
These examples are not very
useful on a smart phone (small)
screen.
Navigation
View a large
collection of image files using a thumbnail gallery. Click
on a thumbnail to view or edit a full-size image. Move around
within gallery pages and navigate to other pages. A
gallery may be a directory (folder) of image files, the output of
an image search, or an album (ordered set of images).
The thumbnails can be large or small and can be zoomed out to any
scale with the mouse wheel.
Images can have geotags (via camera GPS or manually added). A
scalable world map shows image location markers. Click on
a marker to get a gallery of images, instantly.
Custom Favorites Menu

The Fotoxx menus are large and finding the function you want may
take time. You can put the functions you use most
frequently into a small popup window, and arrange the layout as
desired. The popup is activated with a toolbar icon.
You can use text or icons or both. Drag the menu items with the
mouse to arrange as wanted. The popup window can be
positioned anywhere and left open for convenient access to many
functions.
RAW file import

The first image is the JPEG produced by the camera. The 2nd image
is the RAW file from the camera, converted to
TIFF-16. The 3rd image is the edited TIFF file saved as a JPEG
file. The dark areas were lightened and color was
slightly increased.
RAW files can be directly opened and edited, or you can use a
batch function to select and convert many RAW files at
once. The speed is 1-2 seconds per file on a strong PC. The
converted files can be JPEG, TIFF (8 or 16 bits per RGB
color), or PNG (8 or 16 bits). All editing is done with 24 bits
per color.
Search Images

Add tags (keywords), geotags, titles, captions, dates, and ratings
to images. Search images using these criteria as
well as image file and directory names. Partial matching also
works. Matching images are shown in a thumbnail gallery.
Click a thumbnail to view or edit, or step through sequentially.
Search speed is thousands of images per second. Tags,
etc. are stored inside the images using EXIF and IPTC standards.
They can be shared with other standards-compliant
photo programs.
Search Metadata

Find images with any desired metadata, show thumbnail images with
metadata text. Click a thumbnail to view full-size.
There are also functions to view the key metadata for an image,
view all available metadata, or edit any metadata. The
search speed is slower (around 100 images per second) for metadata
that is not indexed and must be read from the image
files. The search speed can still be very fast if some indexed
data is included in the search criteria (e.g. date
range, folder/file names, tags, etc.).
Geotags
Newer cameras with GPS receivers can add geotags (location and
earth coordinates) to images automatically. Fotoxx also
has a function to find the earth coordinates for a given location
(city, park, monument ...) and add geotags to a bunch
of images at once. If many photos made in one location are located
together in your collection, you can quickly process
all of them. If this work has been done, you can use the following
geotag functions to find and display images from a
given location as a gallery of clickable thumbnails.
Search Images Using Geotags

List image locations: group by country, country/location, or
country/location/date. Click on a list entry to see all
the images in that group as a gallery of thumbnails. The example
here shows 28 photos made in Jan. 2012 at Achensee,
Austria. If listing by dates, you can consolidate dates that are
separated by less than a given number of
days.
Search Images by Clicking on a Map

Click on a map location to instantly see all the photos made in or
around that location. Location names pop up as you
move the mouse over the map. In this case, "Leipzig" was clicked
to retrieve 25 photos of Leipzig.
Search Images Using a Calendar

The calendar has image counts by year and month. Click on any
month to get an instant gallery of images for that
month.
Edit Selected Object or Area

Little Mermaid was backlighted. The fix was to select her and
flatten (spread out) her brightness distribution.
Areas are selected using the mouse: freehand draw, follow edges,
or select matching tones (color and brightness) from
the mouse position outwards. Edge effects can be blended out.
Copy and Paste Selected Areas



There is a special tool for copying hair and other irregular
shapes. Drag over the area with the mouse, clicking as
needed on colors to be selected or suppressed. This can be tedious
if the background contrast is weak. This example was
difficult because of varying background colors and areas of low
contrast. This was about a 10 minute project for an
experienced user, but novices will need more time to get the feel
of this tool.
Flatten Brightness Distribution

This tool is an easy way to improve detail in areas that lack
contrast. Uses a single sliding control with live
feedback. Sometimes works miracles and sometimes not very
effective. Good for fog/haze removal.
Retinex

This tool can be used to restore the full color range for a badly
faded photo or one with an extreme color caste. It
can also be used to add flair to any image. The original and
modified images can be blended in any ratio.
View 360°Panorama Image

This tool is used to view a 360°panorama image. Use the mouse to
rotate the viewpoint through the full
360°. The view
window is 90°(right
image) and can be zoomed-in for a larger/narrower view.
Sharpen Image

Comparison of different sharpening methods on a blurred image.
The 'gradient' method increases sharpness about as well as the
classic 'unsharp mask' method, but with less "halo"
effect around high-contrast edges. 'Kuwahara' produces excellent
sharpness but more details are lost.
Suppress Noise

Reduce noise in photos made under low-light conditions.

The original image was scanned from a magazine at 600 dpi.
The results from four noise suppression methods are shown.

Noise can be measured and noise suppression
can be quantitatively evaluated.
Revise Brightness by Editing a Curve

Edit a brightness curve while watching the live output image.
Defog London

Remove fog and haze with flatten and tone mapping.
Vignette

Compensate for radial brightness loss (vignetting), or highlight
some part of the image. Response curve can be
customized, saved and reused. Use the mouse to set the center for
the response curve. Image can be brightened or
darkened, or a color-caste can be added or removed.
Smart Erase

The power lines and roadside trash were replaced with neighboring
pixels. Select an object to erase using the mouse
like a paintbrush. Click to erase. Neighboring pixels replace the
erased area. This usually works well for small areas,
or even larger areas when surrounded with fairly uniform
background, like sky or grass.
Remove Dust

Remove the dark spots from images made from dusty scanned slides
or old images. This example has dust with at least 3
different characteristics - gray on bright (boat), dark on bright
(pier), and dark on dark background (lake). Three
iterations were used to select each of these dust types. Removal
rate is not 100% but close enough.
Remove Chromatic Aberration (color fringes)

Click to enlarge and view carefully. The left image is a photo
taken from inside a church (a small part of a large
image). It has color fringes on the dark to bright transitions,
and these were mostly eliminated in the edited version
on the right. Slider controls change the scale of individual RGB
color planes, and you simply adjust them to minimize
the color bands. It works for the usual sort of chromatic
aberration which increases radially from the
center.
Tone Mapping
Increase
contrast where it is weak without changing
overall contrast. Details in Niagara Falls have been brought out
from behind the mist, and the cliff has been brought
out from the shadows. Watch the image change as you move a curve
or slider. Response is sub-second on a strong PC for
image sizes up to 20 megapixels.

This one was taken to extremes, giving the impression of an
illustration.
Tools for Brightness and Contrast

5 methods to change brightness and contrast
HDR - High Dynamic Range Image

The lower image is a composite of the upper ones. Brighter areas
were taken mostly from the darker image, and darker
areas from the brighter image. Image alignment is automatic and
hand-held photos work fine. Optionally use editable
curves to adjust the contribution of each image in each brightness
region.
Tone mapping was added after the images were combined.
The people moved between the photos, so ghosting can be seen.

HDR made from photos having significant camera movement and
rotation. Minor changes in image scale are
compensated.

HDR was used here to photograph a strongly backlighted scene. The
resulting image was also edited for color correction
and tone mapping.
HDF - High Depth of Field
Combine multiple photos of the same subject, each having a
different focus distance. The combined image has a depth of
field spanning all the input images. This function is very
sensitive to changes in camera position or aiming point -
these cause parallax errors and changes in image scale that cannot
be fixed with simple translation and rotation. The
software compensates for small errors in scale. If you are careful
not to move the camera too much, you can get good
results. All photos here were hand-held.

This HDF required several minutes of manual work to choose which
input image to use for each area in the output image.
This is done by choosing an image and "painting" with the mouse.
This can take time if there are lots of edges
separating near and far details.

This one was easier because there are no overlaps of near and far
details.
Stack - Noise Suppression

9 photos were made at ISO 1600 in a darkened room with a hand-held
camera. My strong PC needed almost 1 minute to align
and combine them into a low-noise image. This is part of the
10-megapixel image shown at full size.
Stack - Paint

The two images were taken a few seconds apart, during which time
the cyclist (left image) moved out and the red car
(right image, left side) moved in. The images were combined, and
the car and cyclist were removed by choosing one image
or the other and "painting" with the mouse.

Four photos made in quick succession.
Stack - Paint can be used to make transient objects disappear or
make them appear multiple times.
Panorama
Combine up to four images to make wide-angle images. Rough
alignment is done with the mouse and fine alignment is
automatic. All photos here were hand-held.

Indoor scene with house pet pasted in.
Brightness and color matching was automatic.

3 images with poor camera handling. The final image was
straightened and retouched for brightness and color.

Acropolis closeup. A case where turning the camera with minimal
lateral movement was important for good image
alignment. The guy in the striped shirt moved up the steps between
the two photos, so he is seen twice in the panorama.
The joint can be seen behind his upper image, since no blending
was done.

A vertical panorama. Brightness and color matching was automatic.
Mashup

Photo montage. Add images and text to a background layout of
arbitrary size. Images and text can be moved around using
the mouse, resized, rotated, and made party or wholly transparent.
Transparency can also be painted, gradually or
fully. Text can have any font, size, and angle. Background,
outline and shadow can be added to text, with adjustable
color and transparency for all of these.
Magnify Image

Move around over an image with a simulated magnifying glass.
Diameter and magnification are adjustable.
Unbend

Sometimes panorama images must be straightened.
Adjust while watching a live output image.
Fix Perspective

Fix images photographed from an angle, e.g. gallery paintings,
buildings, etc. Select the 4 corners and transform into
a rectangle.
Flatten Photo of a Book Page

Flatten the page edges and stretch the squished text where the
page curves down at the center binding. Mark the page
top and bottom edges at several points using the mouse. The rest
is automatic.
Pixel Edit

Use for retouching. Pick a color from the image or from a palette.
Variable brush size and transparency allow gradual
change without edge effects.
Warp Image, 4 variations

Pull the image with the mouse.
The image behaves like sheet rubber.
Unwarp Close-up Photo (selfie)
Close-up portraits exhibit a "balloon face" distortion.
There is a special function just for this problem.
Improve Botticelli

Straighten her eyes and smooth her skin.
Make Mosaic Image

Make any image into a mosaic with tiles created from your images.
Click on a tile to get a larger popup image which you
can resize and drag. This requires that you have thousands of
images in your collection, with an adequate range of
available colors.
Click on image to view full size.
Make a Montage
Images can be mixed
sizes. They are rearranged and
resized as needed to make all the columns even.
You can click on any image to get a larger popup image which can
be zoomed to any size, and disappears with another
click.
Add Texture to an Image

Combine texture with tone mapping and embossing to get interesting
effects.
Add Background Pattern
A background pattern
can be added to an entire image or selected areas. The
pattern is a small image file that is repeated to cover a larger
target image. If the pattern repeats, dimensions are
found automatically so that the resulting background pattern is
seamless (left example). The pattern file can be a
photo of a texture, as in the right sample. Pattern size and
opacity are adjustable.
Write Text

Write text on images. Select font, colors, transparencies, shadow,
angle. Watermarks are made by writing faint text and
embossing.
Fix a Lousy Photo

The upper photo had multiple retouches to produce the one below.
The functions used were trim/rotate, flatten
brightness distribution, increase contrast, increase color
saturation, and tone mapping. These were applied in
different areas of the image.
The photo
was back-lighted and the Fall colors came out faded. The
following steps were made in sequence: select the sky, invert the
selection (everything but the sky), increase overall
brightness with an upward slope for more contrast, select the
foreground vegetation areas, add more contrast, add color
saturation, add slight tone-mapping.
Suppress Haze

Select hazy areas, flatten brightness distribution, add color
saturation, add tone mapping.
Art Effects
Convert a photo into a simulated drawing, painting, embossing,
cartoon. These take a few seconds to a few minutes,
depending on how long you want to play with the controls to
optimize the result.













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