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! ;-)
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
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 ;-)
- link to web resources
- resizing works only with the bottom right corner. fix the others.
- 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
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! ;-)
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.
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