FOTOXX
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OUR EXPERT
Nick Peers may fancy himself as a wannabe photographer, but the sad truth is that without his vintage Panasonic bridge camera’s intelligent auto setting, he’d be screwed.
Are you on the lookout for a tool to organise, edit and manipulate your photos? Fotoxx is A a powerful free open source tool developed with one eye on semi-professional photographers, but you don’t need to be an enthusiast with an expensive digital camera to benefit from its powerful feature set.
In this tutorial, we’re going to introduce you to the full range of Fotoxx’s capabilities, from indexing and organising your photos to editing all or parts of the image for a range of purposes, whether fixing common mistakes or looking for ways to make your photos pop.
Installation
Fotoxx exists in most distros’ universal packages, but it’s probably out of date. The current build at time of writing is 23.60; go to https://kornelix.net/downloads/downloads.html and click the fotoxx-23.60-bin.tar.gz link, saving the file to your Downloads folder. From here, install it by issuing these terminal commands:
Log off and on again, and the program shortcut should appear in the launcher. Click this and you’ll see an Outboard Programs window appear, listing all required (and recommended) programs. If necessary, make a note of any packages listed under ‘Install following programs…’ and install the package name via the terminal (for example, sudo apt install dcraw ). Also install any packages required for optional file types you plan to use, such as HEIC and WEBP files. Once done, relaunch which should now
