Fotoxx
Quick Start
Menu: Help > User Guide
Please read the first few pages. In Fotoxx, use key F1 to get help for whatever you are
doing.
Index Image Files - This runs for initial installation
(slow) and afterwards as needed (fast).
Creates an index of key image data. This makes thumbnail galleries
and image searching fast.
Image Zoom: Left / right mouse click, or mouse
wheel.
Image Scroll / Pan: Drag the zoomed image with the
mouse.
View Modes - These three buttons select the viewing
mode
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Image File: View the current image using the entire window. |
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Gallery: View a thumbnail
gallery of the current directory, image album or search results.
Navigate the directories containing your image files. Click
thumbnail to view full size. |
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Maps: View a world map,
zoom in or out to any scale, click on a marked location to view a
gallery of photos from that location. Requires good internet
connection. |
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File: Open an image file to
view or edit. Print, delete, trash, view a gallery of recently seen
images or newest images. Open a RAW file. |
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Save: Save a modified image to the original file, new file version, or new file name. |
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Open previous or
next file (right / left
mouse click). Move sequentially within a gallery. |
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Metadata: Edit captions,
comments, ratings, tags (keywords), geotags (locations) ... Search images using these criteria, file and directory names, dates, or any metadata. |
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Areas: Select image areas
to edit separately. Copy and paste within or across
images. |
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Edit: trim / crop, rotate, resize, brightness, color, contrast, tone mapping, add text ... |
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Repair: sharpen, clean noise, fix red eyes, adjust color, paint, clone ... |
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Warp: fix perspective, straighten curves, various types of warping ... |
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Effects: posterize, make a drawing or painting, emboss, tiles, dots, cartoon, vignette ... |
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Undo / Redo: Left / right
click for before / after view, within an edit or for each completed
edit. Middle click: see all past edits, view image at selected edit
stage. |
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Combine: combine multiple images for HDR, HDF, stack, panorama, montage. |
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Process: batch convert, export, tags,
geotags, metadata, search. |
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Tools:
index images, user settings, keyboard shortcuts, various
utilities |
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Help: Read the user guide,
check release notes for recent changes. |