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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

PhotoQt (previously called " Photo ") is a fast, stylish image viewer that supports basic image manipulation and file management ...

<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

" Photo ", a fancy Qt image viewer, has been updated recently with new features some of you have requested, such as a slideshow, n...

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