Fotowall 0.8
26 September 2009Fotowall 0.8.2 has just been released and we’re already getting some great feedback 😉
Cherry picked 
features from the delicious 0.8 release:
- Now you’ll be able to deform text changing the shape of its baseline visually (see the “Fotowall” string in the image above and its Bezier control points)
- Pictures can be cropped to a certain area, for example to select a single person from a group. Also picture’s transparency can be adjusted, to create nice fading effects
- A lot of work has been put into enabling OpenGL acceleration, really useful if your canvas has 100+ semi-transparent objects 😉
- You can now work with a transparent window (or blurred, on Vista)
- The top-bar is now context-sensitive. We’ll move more and more content properties to that instead of the old content configuration window
Plus a lot of user suggestions and fixes have been implemented to make Fotowall always easier and intuitive to use. The 0.8 release now ships in 6 different languages: english, italian, french, german, brazilian, polish. You can even contribute your own translations.
But our favorite news is that Fotowall now has it’s official website 😉
What about next: we’re working hard on the 0.9 release and we already have lots of new features! You’ll be surprised by what you’ll be able to achieve with the next version 😀
A final special thank to Zack Rusin who created the Text on path example that was the basis of our shaped text.
Enriko, that’s great. I still have a few suggestions,
-Picture at the mouse position insert
-Shift picture by keyboard (e.g. arrow keys)
-Pictures together align
-Export:
Also parts of the picture.
1. Range mark
2. exporting
Greeting
Thunder-man
SVSLoad.com
Can you please elaborate on the first suggestion?
Thanks for the rest, already added to the TODO list 😉
(Google English …)
If we insert a new picture, it is inserted in the center by Fotowall.
It would be beautiful, if one could click with the mouse within a free range and the new picture at the pixel is inserted there. (e.g. with a Hotkey)
(I have test this for me with AutoIT _WinAPI_GetMousePosX() …)
Very very good job ! Congratulations.
@Joe: thanks a lot. We’re working on Fotowall 0.9 that comes with LOTS of cool new features!
You will like it, I can ensure you it will be your favorite Content Creation & Publishing tool 😉
Hey guys,
Fotowall is really amazing : simple and beautiful and handy !
Just a question from a newby in C++ / Qt4 : how can I create a frame ? I suppose I have to create the .h and .cpp files and recompile the whole lot ; is there a tool in Qt4 to create the frame objects ? or is it the occasion for me to get into Qt4 and C++ ;P ?
Thanks anyway for this nice and useful soft.
@Alchimy1000: Are you asking what’s needed to create a new kind of picture frame in Fotowall? Well, there are 2 ways:
1. the one you say (learning how to code in Qt/C++, adding a new h/cpp and referencing them into the code)
2. or the easy way: just provide a svg like this: http://bit.ly/551Gd6 . then you can load the new frame from the frame selection dialog in Fotowall 😉