Lightbox-Style Image Viewer `PhotoQt` Updated With Window Mode, GraphicsMagick Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://photoqt.org/">PhotoQt</a> (previously called "<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/photo-is-fancy-image-viewer-written-in.html">Photo</a>") is a fast, stylish image viewer that supports basic image manipulation and file management and more. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application has been updated recently, getting a window mode (previously it was full-screen only) along with other interesting changes. Also, the application now uses <a href="http://www.graphicsmagick.org/">GraphicsMagick</a> which means it supports 80+ file types.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/photoqt.png"><img alt="PhotoQt" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJY_YQaFJIIqhUZYWzP4sSUA-7aPJG81FBJKScfgaRcwWrF-MfRRBOfwWLoUBbSfBuovYA5jOuPA2IvHXTLgZB-ofDavtUbm9rVv4J0oB2EA5dY8pQG5xlPv4u1lb_5F2Hl9DSA9eJqE/s320/photoqt.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">PhotoQt looks similar to the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox_%28JavaScript%29">Lightbox</a>" Javascript plugins available on many websites: it uses a semi-transparent background and there are thumbnails at the bottom which can be used to easily navigate through the images available in the current folder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides some basic image manipulation (rotate, flip, zoom) and file management (rename, delete, move, copy) features, the application also comes with customizable keyboard and mouse shortcuts, can display EXIF information, display images as slideshow and more. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the most important <b>changes in the latest PhotoQt 1.0:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">A window mode has been added and it can be used with or without window decorations;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">PhotoQt now uses GraphicsMagick;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Significantly faster start-up (on average more than 7 times faster);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Revamped style of most widgets;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can now set an image as wallpaper from PhotoQt;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Dropdown menu updated and image manipulation functions moved to image context menu;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Smart context menu options;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved thumbnail handling and view;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Dynamic thumbnail creation (only create those thumbnails currently visible);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Faster image and directory loading;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved fading between images;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Natural sort of images;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Many other improvements.</li></ul><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To use PhotoQt in window mode</b>, from its menu select <i>Setting > Look and Behaviour</i>, then on the Behaviour sub-tab, check the "Run PhotoQt in Window Mode" box. If you want the application to use window decorations, also check the "Show Window Decoration" box.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The menu is hidden by default - to access it, point the mouse to the top right edge of the application window:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/photoqt-menu.png"><img alt="PhotoQt" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/photoqt-menu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Install PhotoQt in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Ubuntu Saucy, Raring, Quantal and Precise users can install the latest PhotoQt by using Sam Rog's PPA:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install photoqt</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions</b>, see the PhotoQt <a href="http://photoqt.org/down">downloads page</a> (there are packages available for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia and Mandriva as well as source files).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://github.com/luspi/photoqt/issues">GitHub</a>.</div>

Lightbox-Style Image Viewer `PhotoQt` Updated With Window Mode, GraphicsMagick Support

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Elegant Image Viewer `Photo` Sees New Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"<a href="http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?content=147453">Photo</a>", a fancy Qt image viewer, has been updated recently with new features some of you have requested, such as a slideshow, new settings and others.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T34TkxkPh8E/UQA7nTwZzoI/AAAAAAAAM50/etqFvgBffU8/s1600/photo-application.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo image viewer" border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T34TkxkPh8E/UQA7nTwZzoI/AAAAAAAAM50/etqFvgBffU8/s320/photo-application.png" title="photo image viewer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Photo is an image viewer in which the image is displayed in full-screen with a configurable, semi-transparent overlay behind the photo if it doesn't cover the whole screen. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application also features image thumbnails on the bottom, which are set to autohide in the new version, but you can set them to always be visible from the settings. The menu is also hidden by default and to access it, you must point the mouse to the top right edge of the screen.  </div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">`Photo` isn't just elegant, it's also highly customizable and a great way to view a large number of images.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TItfyZr6_8A/UQA7_7fF0lI/AAAAAAAAM58/hSZ8yYBI6Fg/s1600/photo-app_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TItfyZr6_8A/UQA7_7fF0lI/AAAAAAAAM58/hSZ8yYBI6Fg/s320/photo-app_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest<b> Photo 0.9</b>, released a few days ago (well, two versions were released, one being a minor bug-fix release) comes with a <b>completely re-written and re-structured code</b>, a <b>new look</b> for various parts of the application, implements a<b> slideshow</b> feature as well as:</div><ul><li>faster startup;</li><li>better shortcut handling;</li><li>better exif handling;</li><li>improved thumbnail implementation;</li><li>lots of new settings, including customizable context menu (by default it uses KDE apps such as Dolphin, but you can change that from the settings window - "Other Settings" tab);</li><li>better image handling;</li><li>new command line options;</li><li>many bug fixes.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Photo image viewer in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Photo image viewer in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install photoqt</code></pre><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest Photo image viewer via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/photo/">AUR</a>. <br /><br />For other Linux distributions, see the Photo <a href="http://photoqt.org/down">downloads page</a>.

Elegant Image Viewer `Photo` Sees New Release

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`Photo` Is A Fancy Image Viewer Written In Qt [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Photo?content=147453">Photo</a> is a fast, fancy and highly configurable image viewer written in Qt.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides supporting most popular image formats like gif, jpeg, png, bmp, tiff, xpm and so on, Photo can also <b>perform some basic image manipulation</b> like rotating, flipping or zooming, display exif information and comes with a beautiful interface. When opening an image, you can quickly switch to another image in the same folder by using the thumbnails displayed at the bottom:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J2dPGH6n8U0/UIVT75EmZNI/AAAAAAAALM0/Hc0V8n0uM_4/s1600/photo_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo image viewer" border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J2dPGH6n8U0/UIVT75EmZNI/AAAAAAAALM0/Hc0V8n0uM_4/s320/photo_1.png" title="photo image viewer" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The menu is hidden by default and can be accessed by pointing the mouse to the top right edge of the screen. In the same way, the exif information is initially hidden and is displayed when your mouse goes near the top left screen edge. Since Photo is highly customizable, you can change how the menu is displayed and other UI settings from the Photo preferences.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C3dZNNwJwbw/UIVUJKnHviI/AAAAAAAALM8/hiQNGP1YZOM/s1600/photo-menu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo image viewer" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C3dZNNwJwbw/UIVUJKnHviI/AAAAAAAALM8/hiQNGP1YZOM/s320/photo-menu.png" title="photo image viewer" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><b>Other Photo features:</b><br /><ul><li>tumbnail cache</li><li>can be closed to the system tray</li><li>command line options</li><li>customizable keyboard shortcuts</li><li>basic file management: rename, delete, move, copy</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Photo in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install Photo from a PPA, using the instructions below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install photoqt</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions, see the Photo <a href="http://photoqt.co.cc/?down">downloads page</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To make Photo the default image viewer under GNOME / Unity, open System Settings and select Photo under <i>Details > Default applications > Photos</i>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://ubuntutoday.com/2012/10/16/photo-0-8-qt-graphic-viewer-en-kubuntu-12-04/">UbuntuToday</a> (Spanish)</i></div>

`Photo` Is A Fancy Image Viewer Written In Qt [Ubuntu PPA]

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gThumb Gets WebP Support In The Latest 3.1.1 Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>gThumb, an image viewer and organizer, has reached version 3.1.1, adding</b> <b>support for WebP</b>, the image format that employs lossy and lossless compression, developed by Google as a WebM sister project.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The new version also comes with a new <b>application menu on the top GNOME Shell bar</b> when used with GNOME Shell.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0GVkn_Zf8Ng/UGG4hRLl07I/AAAAAAAAKQk/bYxMlmO5A88/s1600/gthumb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gthumb" border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0GVkn_Zf8Ng/UGG4hRLl07I/AAAAAAAAKQk/bYxMlmO5A88/s320/gthumb.png" title="gthumb" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes in gThumb 3.1.1 :</b><br /><ul><li>Allow to specify the format options when saving a file (can be disabled)</li><li>Save and restore the window maximized state, the filterbar status, the visited locations history and the viewer sidebar status</li><li>Image viewer: use the dark background by default, and use a more neutral color instead of black</li><li>Video viewer: save and restore the volume level</li><li>Rotation tool: allow to rotate an image from -180 to 180 degrees</li><li>Selections: allow to cut the files</li><li>Added a menu item to hide/show the file properties</li><li>Enhance colors: use a faster algorithm and rename to "Adjust Contrast"</li><li>Equalize histogram: use a faster algorithm</li><li>Desaturate tool: added ability to choose the method to use, renamed to "Grayscale"</li><li>Removed the format chooser from the file dialog</li><li>Added an high resolution application icon</li><li>More</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, with this version, gThumb depends on GTK3.4 so for instance, it can't be compiled on Ubuntu 11.10 (and obviously older versions) anymore. </div><br /><br /><h2>Install gThumb 3.1.1 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest gThumb 3.1.1 is available in the WebUpd8 gThumb PPA for Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04 - add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gthumb<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gthumb</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions, get the latest gThumb from <a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/3.1/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><i>Other packages from our PPAs updated today: <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/32256413648/audacious-3-3-2">Audacious 3.3.2</a>, <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/32258183535/umplayer-youtube-update">UMPlayer</a>, <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/32257799992/subtitle-editor-0-40-0-available-in-our-main-ppa">Subtitle Editor 0.40.0</a>.</i>

gThumb Gets WebP Support In The Latest 3.1.1 Release

gThumb, an image viewer and organizer, has reached version 3.1.1, adding support for WebP , the image format that employs lossy and lossles...

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