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 0.9.x:

• Arnaud's Undo/Redo system
• More properties in the top bar
• Arrange Contents, finally!
• Desk-wide effects
• Polish translation? ask Marek Walczak, see 4ba1502
• ...

Version 0.8.0 (2009-09-12):

• Bezier Shaped Text
• Pictures: Crop and change Opacity
• Context-sensitive Top-Bar
• Window Transparency
• OpenGL Acceleration
• Added many User Requested Features
  • add ok button for finalizing the text and just close the tab with X (req. by Rossana)
  • network image loading from http (req. by Rossana)
  • pictures on background: keep ratio in some way (req. by Rossana)
  • same folder when you open the picture (req. by Rossana)
  • Video -> Webcam (req. by Rossana)
  • FotoWall -> Fotowall (req. by Rossana)
• Merged external Contributions
• fixes from Georges Dubus (intro overflow and translation) and Andreas Brech (bad accelereators, scale with all corners)
• Other changes
  • restore the common behavior for rotating (left click)
  • animations with 4.6: top bar, item show/hide, properties show/hide
  • builds with 4.4 (without many features), 4.5 (without animations), 4.6
  • fix: left alignment of some items
  • fix: resizing works only with the bottom right corner. fix the others.

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 or higher 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

• handle initial load-save after being shown. also evaluate normalized rescaling.
• save/restore background transparency state (or check current bg code)
• svg drawings [balloons, signs, etc..]
• masked pic
• both new and old resize&co
• webcam: on win32
• webcam: multiple webcams
• add the undo/redo support
• provide some default files, also loadable with a short path
  • use a fotowall scene as gui (4 squared load/save/welcome/etc..)
  • scene-in-scene for 'recent files'
• duplicate/clone content
• real cropping
• scissors tool
  • real shaping, intersects frame shape
• scene matrix (global perspective)
• embedded examples (inside/network)
• templates
• new graphics effects (like Colorize or Warhol-ize ;-)
• update the video tutorial (still at 0.2!)
• add the "color changing stuff" to the picture themselves (req. by Contrast, Superstoned)
• add google images, like flickr ones (req. by Rossana)
• win: photo dragging from the 'add picture' filedialog (seems harder that it should be. works on linux) (req. by Rossana)
• auto-placement [force field, shape, collage, etc..]
  • ap: perform rectangular image composition based on an input picture (color, pattern)
  • ap: perform image distribution based on shapes or probability sampling (on a sprayed grayscale canvas)
• Google-suggest completion (already in, but misplaced when embedded into qgraphicsview)
• integrate kde-apps knowledgebase (already in, but doesn't work great)
• regional links to web resources
• italian: http://www.dylanblog.com/2009/05/27/creare-dei-wallpaper-personalizzati-con-fotowall-061/
• french: ubuntu-fr ?
• 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? note that building on windows requires qm to be on the packages!

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 4.4/4.5/4.6-git and GCC 4.0+
• on windows this is tested witn Qt 4.5.2+ and MSVC Express 2005 and 2008
• on mac it is tested with Qt 4.5+

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! ;-)

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