This post was made with an older stylesheet



Fotoxx is one of the best alternatives for Gimp, being better than the most popular free and open source tool that most distributions use by default in many things that may interest you. For more information about it you can take a look at our previous review.

This great application is very actively developed with new versions becoming available every now and then, and gradually getting better and better. This time it is version 13.07 that brings more photo management options and abilities, effects and tools palette enrichment and many more. Here is the list with the most important changes for this release:

Gallery navigation was extended with new options under the [top] button.

Effects > Drawing and Effects > Outline functions were combined.

New: Effects > Sketch: Transform a photo into a simulated sketch.

New: Tools > Missing Translations: list missing translations for the current language.

Batch Add Tags and Delete Tags were combined into a more flexible tool.

Edit Collections was made easier (add/delete/cut/copy/paste images).

New startup option: gallery of the newest images added to the database.

Ascending/descending option was added to the gallery sort function.

Gallery File Selection: a [clear] button was added.

Flatten and Expand Brightness Range: buttons added for popup histogram.

Write Text: the [apply] button updates the file as well as the memory image.

The new sketch tool that transforms a photo into a simulated sketch looks especially cool

No matter how pleased you are from your photo editing tool, you owe to have Fotoxx installed in your system. It can prove itself very valuable in various situations, be more specialized in what you need to do and generally be the right tool for the job sometimes.

In the download page, you will find ready to install packages for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04, and also the latest source tarball. Fotoxx needs quite a lot dependency packages installed (cited here) so make sure you get them into your system before proceeding.

Fotoxx Website