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Photo Editing For Real People With Fotox

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Carla Schroder
May 30, 2008

“I first read about Fotox in an article by Dmitri Popov, who
writes a lot of articles that I enjoy reading. I gave it a test
drive, and it’s no Adobe Photoshop. Which for me is a plus–for
editing digital photographs, Photoshop is overpriced, lardy
overkill, and there is no Linux version anyway. Fotox comes with a
small but useful feature set, including red-eye repair, sharpen,
bend, stretch, noise reduction, cropping, and resize. It only
supports the JPEG format. It fills a neglected niche in Linux photo
editing, and that is an easy-to-use photo editor that includes the
most commonly-used functions. It also comes with two useful
features that a lot of bigger image editors don’t have: panorama
and HDR…”

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Carla Schroder

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