FotoWall

FotoWall is a creative tool that allows you to layout your photos or pictures in a personal way. You can add pictures, then resize, move, change colors, text, shadows, etc.. Check out the home page and the blog too.

Focus is on simplicity, express your creativity! ;-)

ChangeLog

Unreleased Version:

• Auto-placement (nearly done)
• Google-suggest completion (ok, misplaced)

Version 0.7.1 (2009-07-23):

• Flickr content download
• Qt 4.6 GFX cuteness and network speed (4.6 highly recommended)
• Rubberband selection of items
• Prettified properties dialogs
• Better load/save (even of network objects)
• Load additional frames + 1 new frame (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• German translation (by Martin Zimmermann)
• Check for updates
• Fixed many bugs

Version 0.6 (2009-04-29):

• PosteRazor Integration
• Live Video (Linux only, requires a WebCam)
• Export Wizard (Wallpaper, Image, PosteRazor, Print)
• XML file format (will ensure compatibility from now on)
• Multi-items selection (to move, delete, set properties, ...)
• All-in-one Scale+Rotate button (different with LMB/RMB and Shift/Ctrl)
• Perspective Transform
• Fixed Size mode
• Sepia Effect
• Scale Text like Images

Version 0.5 (2009-04-11):

• CD/DVD Cover composition and printing (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• Rich Text (with extended editing)
• Glow effect (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• Properties configurable for all objects [reqby Ilan d'Inca]
• Usability fixes [reqby Ilan d'Inca]
• Save to all the supported image formats (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• Properties close button [reqby Ilan d'Inca]
• Improved stacking (fixes + relative to neighbourhoods) [reqby Ilan d'Inca]
• Add the 'No effect' effect removal option (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• French Introduction translation (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• Translation of the Introduction text (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• Fall back to QTextDocument where QtWebkit is not available

Version 0.4 (2009-03-29):

• Windows executable on github
• Image Effects (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• French Translation (by Arnaud Tanguy)
• German translation [Martin]
• Apply properties to All

Version 0.3.1 (2009-03-13):

• builds with Qt 4.4
• Brazilian translation [Marcio Moraes]
• Configuration Panel: right click on an image and edit properties
• More Frame types (default, heart, Plasma backgrounds) [David Eccher]
• More Image Formats (bmp, tiff, gif, ...) [Superstoned]
• Reflections, and really cool ones
• Mirror the photo by clicking on an axis [Alberto Scarpa]
• DoubleClick on a picture -> set it as background, and vice-versa [Alberto Scarpa]
• More pretty (plasma icons) and usable (behavior) frame buttons
• Stacking order [Superstoned]
• Export a single picture as-you-see-it on disk
• Fixed-ratio resize: hold CTRL while resizing
• Visual Help [Alberto Scarpa]
• Drag&Drop: better behavior and can change a picture inside an existing frame too
• Pictures stay on-screen

Sharing Ideas

I hope to expand the program as soon as I can, since there is many room for improvement and the code is kept clean and small.

• You can join the development.. the whole stuff is done with Qt 4.5 using the GraphicsView framework.
• And if you have any Idea or Suggestion, just drop me a line, on the project homepage or by mail at enrico.ros@gmail.com ;-)

Current Wishlist

• link to web resources
• italian: http://www.dylanblog.com/2009/05/27/creare-dei-wallpaper-personalizzati-con-fotowall-061/
• webcam on windows
• multiple webcams
• transparent background of the window
• restore the common behavior for rotating (left click)
• add the undo support
• link the download to blogs and fix links everywhere
• check for updates + add a link to the website
• update the video tutorial
• display on-screen selection for pictures
• perform rectangular image composition based on an input picture (color, pattern)
• perform image distribution based on shapes or probability sampling (on a sprayed grayscale canvas)
• add the "color changing stuff" to the picture themselves [Contrast, Superstoned
• BUG: when loading a .fotowall file from the command line some items are aligned to the left
• relicences
• 3rdparty/enricomath.h: Could you re-release it with GPL v2+ like the rest of your source?
• 3rdparty/richtextedit/richtexteditor*: redo 'cause non free
• ./GlowEffectWidget.cpp: GPLv2 with all rights reserved, a no-go
• videocapture is partially BSD and LGPLv2+ - not mentioned + no complete copy of lgplv2 available (add the file into that folder)
• posterazor GPLv3+ need license file
• remove qm?

Enrico:

• auto-placement [force field, shape, collage, etc..]
• integrate kde-apps knowledgebase
• svg drawings [balloons, signs, etc..]
• masked pic
• both new and old resize&co

Building

This FotoWall package provides source code; to make an executable out of the sources you have to know a little about programming or ask one of your friends to do it ;-) Or just grab an 'executable package' from the project homepage.

In Linux/X11, Mac, or Windows, install the latest Qt development packages that you will find on http://www.trolltech.com:

• on linux this is tested with Qt 4.4 and GCC 4.0+
• on windows this is tested witn Qt 4.4 and MSVC Express 2005 and 2008
• on mac this was not tested, report me if it simply works out of the box ;-)

Just open a command prompt (win), shell (linux, mac) and go the sources location and issue the followings commands:

• qmake (or qmake-qt4 if your system is weird)
• make (or nmake, if you're on windows)

The executable will be built and you can start Enjoying FotoWall! ;-)

Notes for the Windows Download

You must have the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Redistributable package (1.7MB) installed in your system, otherwise you will get an error. Click here for downloading the file.

Old News

2009-03-02 FotoWall is now on GitHub. Development will continue here. Changes are coming soon!

2008-09-03 Peter Upfold put together a great ScreenCast of the application!!

See http://fosswire.com/2008/09/03/fotowall-make-wallpaper-collages-from-your-photos/ fot the article and click on the Video link to see the screencast.

2008-08-01 Thanks to everybody that is sending me patches!

I really appreciate that, even if I don't have time right now to check and apply them.. but I'm willing to give everybody the SVN access, so drop me a note if you want to contribute!

2008-04-14 Updated this page including the Wishlist

2008-04-06 FotoWall 0.21 released

Changes in this release are: relicensing and a new program icon

2008-04-06 Imported the project into Google Code