quickstart

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 - Runs after initial installation (slow) and afterwards as needed (fast).
Creates an index of key image data. 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

| Image File: View the current image using the entire window.
| 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.
| World Maps: View a map (world, continent, country, city), click on a marked location to view a gallery of photos from that location. Requires optional package fotoxx-maps.

Menus

| File: Select an image file as the current image to view or edit. Print, delete, trash, view a gallery of recently seen images or newest images. Open a RAW file.
| Save: Save a modified image to the original file, new file version, or new file name.
| Open previous or next file (right / left mouse click). Move sequentially within a gallery.
| Metadata: Edit image captions, comments, ratings, tags (keywords), geotags (locations) ... Search images using these criteria, file and directory names, dates, or any image data.
| Areas: Select image areas to edit separately. Copy and paste selections within or across images.
| Edit: trim / crop, rotate, resize, brightness, color, contrast, tone mapping, add text ...
| Repair: sharpen, clean noise, fix red eyes, adjust color, paint, clone ...
| Bend: fix perspective, straighten curves, flatten book page, various types of warping ...
| Effects: posterize, convert to drawing or painting, emboss, tiles, dots, cartoon, vignette ...
| Combine: combine multiple images for HDR, HDF, stack, panorama, mashup.
| Undo / Redo: Left / right click for before / after view, within an edit or for each completed edit for the current image file.
| Tools: User settings, batch functions (move, rename, convert, RAW files ...), manage albums, slide show, various utilities. Used in both File View and Gallery View.
| Help: Read the user guide, check release notes for recent changes.

To Edit an Image
Open an image. Select an edit menu (e.g. Edit > Retouch Combo).
Adjust the dialog controls or drag the curve. Watch the image change. Press [Done].
Do more edits likewise. Press [Save] and then select [New Version].