fotoARRAY Release Notes

25. September 2026 fotoArray V3.0.20

fotoARRAY V3 has been thoroughly revised. The database is now managed by a separate process, the server, for maximum data safety. For the same reason, images are scanned in a sandbox.

Working with fotoARRAY hasn’t changed. You select several folders or albums as the source and narrow down the view with filters (keywords, date, EXIF, colors, stars ...). You can format the view in several layout modes and export it as a PDF.

Highlights:

• AI content recognition (stored separately from your keywords)
• Built-in map for images with GPS data
• Improved comparison stage with synchronized zoom
• Cropping and straightening directly in the display grid
• Batch export
• Export of an album as a package for a web app. See the demo: https://myfotoarray-demo.fotoarray.com

fotoARRAY RAW (inbuilt and stand alone photo editor)

The built-in photo editor supports perspective correction, warp and a sophisticated layer-based masking system. It puts special emphasis on a clean 16-bit development pipeline. You can also connect other editors if you prefer.

The PRO Editon also includes the “fotoARRAY FileBrowser”. It shares data with the server to display your images, and it also shows all your other files.

Upgrading from the previous version

You can import a catalog from the previous version, including previews, folders, stars, colors, keywords, albums and EXIF data. Note that V3 allows a maximum of 5 stars, while V2 allowed 10. If this matters to you, I recommend assigning keywords to the affected images in V2 before you import.

New in V3 at a glance

• Database managed by a separate server process for maximum data safety
• Image scanning runs in a sandbox
• AI content recognition, stored separately from keywords
• Built-in map for images with GPS data
• Improved comparison stage with synchronized zoom
• Crop and straighten directly in the display grid
• Batch export
• Export albums as packages for a web app
• Photo editor with perspective correction, warp and layer-based masking
• Clean 16-bit RAW development pipeline
• Option to connect other photo editors
• Procedural layers and optical lens simulation in the editor

fotoARRAY 1 was released in July 2020. It started from a simple need: a way to look at a large collection of pictures quickly, to mark the good ones and to find them again, without importing everything into a program that wants to own the pictures. It brought the file browser that shows several folders in one view, the database with thumbnails, albums and hierarchical keywords, the timeline and the date filter that understands "every 24th of December". From the first version it could export the grid as it was shown, and it could hand pictures over to other programs.

fotoARRAY 2.0 followed in January 2022. It added the non destructive editor with recipes, the compare view, the PDF export with the original JPEG data embedded, the album directories that show developed versions in place of the originals, fotoARRAY Broadcast for sharing pictures with a phone in the local network, XMP sidecars and the filter toolbar. Version 2 was the program most of our users worked with for four years, and much of what we learned from them went into version 3.