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Welcome to the PixelFx guide. PixelFx is a fast, friendly photo editor for Linux: pick a look and see it on your own photo, fine-tune light and colour with the controls photographers expect, and finish a whole folder of photos in one go. Your original photos are never changed.

PixelFx with the Looks panel open

Install

PixelFx 2 is in the Snap Store's edge channel until its release:

sudo snap install pixelfx --edge

Flathub is on its way. Windows and macOS builds will follow the Linux release.

The guide

Page What it covers
Getting started Opening photos, a tour of the window, how your edits are kept
Editing controls Light, colour, curves, colour mixer, grading, detail, effects, before and after
Looks One-click looks, their strength, making your own, LUTs
Presets The built-in catalog, saving your own, Lightroom and Camera Raw presets
Crop, straighten and fix Crop, straighten, perspective, four corners, Heal
Batch Editing, converting, resizing, renaming and shrinking many photos at once
Export Formats, sizes, colour spaces, metadata, watermarks
Keyboard shortcuts Every shortcut in one place
Files and folders Where PixelFx keeps your settings, presets, looks and edits
Troubleshooting Common problems and how to report a bug

Help and feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue. Report a bug in the app's main menu gathers the details that help find the problem.

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