The Fotometis window

The Fotometis window with a folder open.

Part	Where	What it holds
Folder sidebar	Left	The open folders, as a tree
Top bar	Above the canvas	The facts about the photo, the rating, and the export button
Pane bar	Top center	Four buttons that open the floating panes
Canvas	Center	The photo
Film reel	Below the canvas	The thumbnails, the sort control, and the filter
Tool sidebar	Right	Five tabs of controls

Both sidebars collapse. The button at the top left of the window collapses the folder sidebar. The button at the top right collapses the tool sidebar. The canvas takes the width that a collapsed sidebar leaves.

The folder sidebar lists each open folder and its subfolders as a tree. The foot of the sidebar states the number of photos in the selected folder and the size on disk, for example “43 photos · 1.71 GB”. Below that, Open Folder adds a folder.

Top bar

The top bar names the photo and states how it was taken, for example “5O2A8522.CR3 ISO 640 ƒ/8 1/80 s 500 mm”. The info button shows the EXIF data that the camera recorded. It lists only the fields that the file holds.

The five stars set the rating. The check accepts the photo. The cross rejects it. See Organize photos.

The share button at the right shares what is on the screen, with the saved export settings. It always writes a JPEG, even when the export settings name another format. For more export controls, see Export a photo.

Floating panes

The four buttons in the pane bar open a pane over the canvas. A button is blue while its pane is open. Any number of panes can be open at once.

All four panes open over the canvas, with both sidebars collapsed.

Each pane opens in its own corner of the canvas. Drag the header of a pane to move it. Click the cross to close it. Fotometis remembers where you left a pane, and it opens there next time.

Pane	Corner
Layers	Top left
Scopes	Top right
Snapshots	Bottom left
Assistant	Bottom right

Assistant

The assistant takes a request in plain words and moves the develop controls to match. The pane names the model it runs, for example “Metis Micro”. The header holds the chat history, a new chat, and the assistant settings. See Prompt the assistant.

Scopes

Scopes measures the photo on the canvas. The views are RGB, Luma, Parade, and Wave. The pane marks clipping in the shadows and in the highlights, and reports “No clipping” when there is none. HDR Headroom sets how far above white the highlights may reach. It runs from 0 to 4 stops. See Create an HDR photo.

Layers

Layers lists the photo’s layers, from the base render up. Each row states the mask, the name, and what the layer changes. A new photo has one layer, “Base render”, with “No adjustments”. A layer that holds a change names what it changes, for example “Tone”. The plus button adds a layer. See Add layers and masks.

Snapshots

Snapshots lists the saved states of the edit. Every photo starts with one snapshot, “Original”, which is the raw render. An edit that is not saved yet is listed as “Working edits”, and the row counts what it holds, for example “3 controls · Base render”.

The button at the foot saves the working edits as a new snapshot. It reads “No new edits” while there is nothing to save. See Save and restore an edit.

Canvas

The canvas draws the photo. Fotometis develops every photo in Display P3, in linear light. The space is extended, so a highlight above white survives the render. See Create an HDR photo.

The profile of an exported file is a separate choice. The options are Display P3, sRGB, and Adobe RGB. See Export a photo.

The tool sidebar holds the manual controls of Fotometis. Every control is on the right of the window. Five tabs run across the top of the sidebar.

The assistant moves the same controls when you write a request in plain words. See Prompt the assistant.

Layer controls (first tab)

The first tab develops the selected layer. The header names the layer and counts the layers, for example “Base render, Layer 1 of 1”. The mask row reads “No mask” until a mask exists.

Each group has a switch that turns the group off. A group that holds a change is marked with a dot. A control that differs from its parent snapshot is marked with a reset arrow, and a dot marks where the parent snapshot is. See Develop a photo and Add layers and masks.

The tool sidebar on the first tab, with the tone controls moved.

Group	Controls
Style	A grading, and Amount. “Neutral” applies no grading.
White Balance	Temperature, Tint
Tone	Auto, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks
Local Contrast	Fine, Medium, Coarse
Color	Vibrance, Saturation
Curve	A tone curve on RGB, Red, Green, and Blue
Color Mixer	Hue, Saturation, and Luminance, for eight bands of color
Color Grading	A wheel for Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Global. Balance, Blending
Effects	Grain, Grain Size, Grain Roughness, Halation, Halation Threshold, Halation Radius
Response	Toe, Shoulder

Crop and geometry (second tab)

The second tab frames the photo. It states the size of the crop in pixels, for example “6,720 × 4,480”.

Group	Controls
Crop	Ratio, as Wide or Tall. Free, Original Ratio, 1:1, 5:4, 3:2, 16:9. Guides.
Straighten	Auto, Guided, Angle
Orientation	Rotate left, rotate right, flip horizontal, flip vertical
Perspective	Off, Auto, Vert, Guided, Vertical, Horizontal, Aspect

Noise and optics (third tab)

The third tab corrects the lens and the sensor. A loupe at the top of the tab shows the result at full size.

Group	Controls
Optics	The lens it recognized. Distortion, Light Falloff, Chromatic Aberration, Defringe
Noise Reduction	Luminance, Detail, Color

Fotometis names the lens at the top of the tab. If the catalog holds no profile for the lens, the tab reads “No lens profile for this frame”. Distortion and Chromatic Aberration then do nothing. Defringe needs no profile, so it works on every photo. Light Falloff depends on the file: where the RAW file already corrects the dark corners, the correction still applies, and the tab says so.

Patches (fourth tab)

The fourth tab removes a spot from the photo, and counts the patches. A patch has a mode, which is Clone, Heal, or Erase. The brush settings are Size, Feather, and Opacity. See Remove a spot.

Mode	What it does
Clone	Copies the source patch as it is. The color and the brightness come with it. Good for a railing, a brick course, or a horizon.
Heal	Copies the texture of the source patch. The color and the brightness come from the destination. Good for a dust spot, a blemish, or a mark on skin.
Erase	Fills the region from the photo around it, and needs no source. Good for a distraction that has a background behind it.

You paint over the spot on the photo, and Fotometis replaces the pixels. Clone and Heal copy from a source, and Fotometis finds that source for you.

Click a patch in the list to mark it on the canvas. Fotometis outlines the patch, draws its number, outlines the source with a dashed line, and joins the two. Drag the grip on the source to move it.

Tags (fifth tab)

The fifth tab tags the photo, and counts the tags. Suggest tags asks the assistant for tags. The field adds a tag, and finds a tag already in use.

“In your open folders” lists every tag in the open folders, with the folder it is used in and the number of photos that carry it. See Organize photos.

Film reel

The film reel holds a thumbnail of every photo in the selected folder. The selected photo has a blue border, and each thumbnail carries its rating. The right of the bar counts the photos the filter left, for example “3 of 43”.

The film reel filtered to five stars.

The bar above the thumbnails holds the sort control, Filter, and Tags. Filter takes a rating, the accept mark, and the reject mark. Two buttons follow the reject mark. The sliders icon shows the photos that hold an edit. The dashed circle shows the photos that hold no edit.

The buttons at the right of the bar export the selection and delete it. See Organize photos.

The sort control takes three fields. Each field runs in one direction, and you cannot reverse it.

Sort	Direction
Capture time	Oldest first
Filename	A to Z
Recently edited	Newest first