Fotoxx Change Log         http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx
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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.


