Available now for all GNU/Linux operating systems

Feb 2, 2016 20:04 GMT  ·  By

Michael Cornelison has informed us about the general availability of the February maintenance release of his open source image editor software Fotoxx for all GNU/Linux operating systems.

According to the release notes, which we've attached at the end of the article for reference, Fotoxx 16.02 introduces a new Cartoon effect that lets artists convert a photo into a cartoon-like drawing. Take a look at the image posted at the bottom of the article to see the new Cartoon effect in action on a Marilyn Monroe portrait.

Furthermore, there's now better support for images that contain transparent areas when working with the Add Lines and Add Text features, artists will also be able to paint over a transparent area either gradually or instantly via the Paint/Clone feature, and long text strings are now better supported.

There's also a new batch function that works by allowing the user to select the image files he/she wants to convert all together just by clicking on their thumbnails, and then output a file that contains a list of the selected images, which you can then import to external apps that support shell scripts.

Brasero replaced with growisofs

Fotoxx 16.02 also implements support for sizing overlay images for a constant screen resolution in the Batch Convert feature, and the keyboard navigation has been improved with support for full-screen mode with panel and menu (F10) and without menu and panel (F11). Moreover, growisofs is now used for writing image galleries to DVD or Blu-Ray media instead of Brasero.

Lastly, Fotoxx is now capable of spanning adjacent folders when browsing images sequentially using either keyboard or mouse navigation, without user navigation. A bug related to the "file color" button has been fixed in the Panorama feature, and another one, linked to the reset button, has been squashed in the Retouch Combo functionality. There's also a new command-line option that lets users open an album (e.g. fotoxx -album < name >).

Download Fotoxx 16.02 right now from Softpedia.

Cartoon Marilyn
Cartoon Marilyn
Fotoxx 16.02 Changelog