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].