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Version 15.29 - Available now
- Added - User selectable options for the mask display colors and transparency. Found in the perferences dialog menu Edit > Preferences.
- Added - 2 new pens to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet. Flowing Pen 3 and 4.
- Added - Insert Layer action added to the Quick Command list.
- Added - A counter in Stats mode for how many times tablet compatibility mode has been triggered.
- Improved - Small improvement to line smoothness (not anti-aliasing) for fine lines.
- Improved - Stability when saving a page when memory is low and working on large pages.
- Improved - Checking for out of memory when starting a flood fill operation.
- Improved - When setting Stats mode or Tutorial mode in the preferences dialog show the changes on the canvas immediately.
- Improved - Many of the brushes in the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet were saved with a predefined color (black). These are now changed to not override the current color.
- Changed - Reduced the chances of the tablet compatibility mode being automatically set at the start of a stroke.
- Fixed - The undo system was too agressive with use of memory especially on large pages which allowed all memory to become exhausted and could result in a program crash.
- Fixed - The layer blend mode Soft Light was not working properly.
- Fixed - The Merge and Merge and Continue layer actions from the Quick Command dialog were not giving warning and didn't leave the layer merged into in the correct state.
- Fixed - The Duplicate Layer Quick Command action was not properly updating all the program states.
- Fixed - Memory leak when a copy (clipboard) operation fails. This could happen on very large pages because Windows has a maximum size for clipboard data.
- Fixed - A number of program crash cases when memory becomes low and new memory allocations are needed. This also results in a less aggressive ulitization of memory.
- Fixed - When the message "Unable to paint on an invisible layer" was display in response to a tool usage the mouse button state was invalid and could result in odd behavior in later actions.
- Fixed - If out of memory creating the image filter dialog don't continue with the filter.
- Fixed - Program crash cases when very low on memory and attempting a capture and image but or select color from the canvas.
Version 15.28 - Available Now
- Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Designers.
- Added - 9 new brushes added to the Collections - 3D ArtSet.
- Added - Quick Command support for Duplicate Layer.
- Added - Quick Command support for Alpha Filter.
- Added - New Alpha Flood option added to the Flood Fill tool. Alpha Flood act upon the alpha channel for color tolerances ignoring the colors.
- Added - Calligraphy Pen 2, Calligraphy Pen 3 and Calligraphy Pen 4 to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
- Improved - Brush blending now honors masks when picking up color from the canvas.
- Improved - Capturing image brushes now honors masks.
- Improved - Flood and Flood Eraser have been improved when working on a layer where a transparent boundary area is crossed.
- Changed - Flood to Alpha option for Flood Fill is now called Flood Eraser and will act as an eraser would. Clearing the alpha values on layers and setting colors to the paper color on the background.
- Changed - Replace to Alpha option for Flood Fill is now called Replace Eraser and will act as an eraser would. Clearing the alpha values on layers and setting colors to the paper color on the background.
- Changed - Calligraphy Pen 4 replaced Flowing Pen 2 in the default brush shortcut set.
- Fixed - Exporting brush codes was not working in Windows Vista.
- Fixed - The Share Image Online Helper from the File menu was not working properly in Windows Vista.
- Fixed - The brush effect Grid would result in a crash if used with a effect strength of zero (or combo,0,0)
Version 15.27 - Available Now
- Added - ArtSet - Image Brush Array - Basics. Brushes for working with arrays of image brushes.
- Added - ArtSet - Collections - Tree Builder 1. Brushes for constructing trees. Included are brushes for Paper Birch, Cherry Birch, River Birch, Silver Birch, Sugar Maple, Red Maple, White Oak, Gnarly Oak and Bonsi Trees.
- Added - Brush modifers ArtSet - Colors - Image Array 1. Includes image array for dollars and rocks.
- Added - 3 new ribbon like pens added to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
- Added - Brush effect bImageArray and ubImageArray. Loads an image array (like an array of image brushes) from the bImageArray or ubImageArray directory.
- Added - Brush effect Select bImage. Selects an image from the loaded image array for use like an image brush.
- Improved - For directional particle emiters detect the stroke direction sooner resulting it more predicable stroke start locations.
- Changed - The Flowing Pen 2 replaces the Soft Tapered Pen in the default shortcuts.
- Fixed - When using a tablet stylus and just tapping the canvas the pressure of 100% was used when it should not have been.
- Fixed - Disabled brushes effects envelopes were still being processes which could impact performance as in rare cases impact the brush stroke.
Version 15.26 - Available Now
- Changed - Roll back change to show the mask completely hidding the image between it.
- Fixed - The masks were not showing a visible difference between 50% and 100% mask coverage.
Version 15.25 - Available Now
- Added - ArtSet - Art Tools - Bristles Brushes.
- Added - 8 brushes to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
- Added - 1 Brush to the Collections - Mandala Paints 2 ArtSet.
- Added - 1 Brush to the Art Tools - Felt Markers ArtSet.
- Added - Brush Effect 3D Abs in the 3D and Highlights section. This is an easier to use brush effect for getting 3D brush strokes.
- Added - Brush Effect Blend Cap3. Uses the effect strength to control the blending between the current brush and the current surface when the current surface is captured.
- Improved - When the Brush History option is on save the brush at the end of the brush stroke rather than the beginning. This results in better stroke action at the start of strokes.
- Changed - Alt + click when using an image brush will capture the merged image under the brush. Previously it would capture the entire page into the image brush.
- Changed - Alt + Shift + click when using an image brush will capture the entire page merged into the image brush.
- Changed - The button labeled Done to Exit in the Filter dialog.
- Changed - Show the mask at the full range of opacity over the underlaying image.
- Changed - Reduce the length of time that brushes are flagged as new.
- Fixed - Dynamic tool selections were very sensitive to when the hot key was pressed and released to work with out drawing oddities.
- Fixed - In tablet compatibility mode stylus pressure could have moments of inconsistent pressure.
- Fixed - When using a tablet at the start of the strokes it was possible for pressure to be incorrect.
Version 15.24 - Available Now
- Changed - The Copy Tool now operates as a right click and drag to select the area you want to copy. Previously it would copy the current size of the brush.
Version 15.23 - Available Now
- Fixed - The shortcut keys listed in the Control menu for adjusting size, density and opacity did not match the actual shortcut keys.
- Fixed - The Alpha Filter was not working properly is a mask was enabled.
Version 15.22 - Available Now
- Fixed - The Font tool was broke in 15.21.
- Fixed - Script playback was broke in 15.10.
Version 15.21 - Now Available
- Added - Alpha channel filter. From the menu Layers > Alpha Filter any of the image processing filters can be applied to the alpha channel. Makes feathering or stylizing the edges of objects on layers easy.
- Added - New option to show the hue slider at full intensity or adjusted to the current saturation and luminance. The option is found in the perferences dialog.
- Added - Brush Effect Pos Stroke Start. Will force a dab to the stroke initial position.
- Added - 4 new brushes to the Art Tools - Gouache Artset.
- Added - 1 shape brush modifier (Hard and Soft) to the Shapes - Basics ArtSet.
- Improved - Turn off snap to grid when drawing the drawing guides.
- Improved - The Paste Tool now overlays the alpha channel of the image being pasted instead of replacing the alpha values.
- Improved - The Paste Tool now allows dynamically altering the size and rotation of the image being pasted by dragging the mouse while right clicked!
- Improved - The Paste Tool now allows for moving the placement of the image being pasted by pressing Ctrl and continuing to right click the mouse.
- Changed - The Paste tool on a single right click (without dragging the mouse) will default the size and rotation of the image being pasted to that of the last paste size and rotation.
- Changed - The Copy Tool and Paste Tool now use the mouse center when the snap to grid drawing guide is enabled. It used to use the mouse position as the upper left of the data.
- Changed - The hot keys for adjusting size. Now it's E to increase size and D to decrease size.
- Changed - The hot keys for adjusting density. Now it's Shift+E to increase density and Shift+D to decrease density.
- Changed - The hot keys for adjusting opacity. Now it's Ctrl+E to increase opacity and Ctrl+D to decrease opacity.
- Changed - The hot key Q is now used for selecting the Copy tool.
- Changed - The hot key W is now used for selecting the Paste tool.
- Fixed - The new brush modifier Rotate Towards Brush Direction was not smooth enough. Changed.
- Fixed - Loaed masks from file were no properly able to be undone which resulted in odd behavior when undoing other operations after loading a mask from file.
- Fixed - The Background filters were not properly honoring the mask on transparent layers resulting in the mask area becoming fully opaque.
- Fixed - The ellipse tool was not properly honoring masks or paper texture.
- Fixed - The new filters added in 15.20 were not properly honoring masks or paper texture.
- Fixed - Moving a page up in the Page Explorer would result in the page name (if named) being duplicated with the previous page.
- Fixed - When using the hot key Ctrl + M to merge the current layer and continue the layer thumbnails were not updated.
Version 15.20 - Now Available
- Added - Art Tools - Gouache ArtSet.
- Added - 6 new brushes to the Art Tools - Watercolor 2 ArtSet.
- Added - 1 Brush - Rotate Towards Brush Direction to the Effects - Basics brush modifier Artset.
- Added - Filter Hyper Contrast. Found in menu Filter > Brightness and Contrast > Hyper Contrast.
- Added - Filter Photo Pop. Found in menu Filter > Brightness and Contrast > Photo Pop.
- Added - Filter Bas Relief. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Bas Relief.
- Added - Filter Color Pencil. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Color Pencil.
- Added - Filter Crayon. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Crayon.
- Added - Filter Pointillism. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Pointillism.
- Added - Filter Charcoal. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Charcoal.
- Added - Filter Color Pencil 2. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Color Pencil 2.
- Added - Filter Watercolor and Ink. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Watercolor and Ink.
- Added - Filter Glow. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Glow.
- Added - Filter Emboss3. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Emboss3.
- Added - Filter Outliner 1. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Outliner 1.
- Added - Filter Outliner 2. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Outliner 2.
- Added - Filter Radiant. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Radiant.
- Added - Brush effects envelope rnd rng. Generate a random strength values between the frequency value and strength value.
- Added - New brush effects category - Dab Spacing and moved 5 effects from the Flow Control category to the Dab Spacing category.
- Added - Lua command. merge(merge_mode, opacity). Like the flush() method but a merge mode and opacity can be specified for the merging of the destination buffer back into the source buffer. The valid merge modes are defined as MERGE_NORMAL, MERGE_MULTIPLY, MERGE_SCREEN, MERGE_DARKEN, MERGE_LIGHTEN, MERGE_DIFFERENCE, MERGE_NEGATION, MERGE_EXCLUSION, MERGE_OVERLAY, MERGE_HARD_LIGHT, MERGE_SOFT_LIGHT, MERGE_DODGE, MERGE_BURN, MERGE_REFLECT, MERGE_GLOW, MERGE_ADD, MERGE_SUBTRACT, MERGE_TEXTURIZE, MERGE_TEXTURIZE2, MERGE_TEXTURIZE3.
- Improved - Brush stroke smoothness at the standard level of zoom and much improved when zoomed out.
- Improved - Automatically enable and display the mask anytime the mask is changed from tools or brushes.
- Improved - Further improvements to the b-ang brush envelope to rotate the brush at the start of the stroke to the direction of the brush stroke.
- Fixed - When an effect is disabled in the Brush Effects Panel and the selection dialog is used but Canceled or Closed without making a selection the effect became reenabled.
- Fixed - Possible crash or instability case when drawing an ellipse mask smaller than 2 pixels in diameter.
- Fixed - The layer mix mode Dodge was sligthly wrong.
- Fixed - The Texturize layer mode was not working properly when merged or zoomed in or out.
Version 15.10 - Now Available
- Added - Hue wheel Lua Filter. Thanks RJP74
- Added - Lua filter method get_cmyk(x,y) and set_cmyk(x,y,c,m,y,k)
- Added - Brush effect envelope b-ang2. More predictable dynamic brush rotation than b-ang.
- Improved - Brush Effect panel - complete overhaul. Combo boxes are gone. Effects and envelopes are split into catgories with a popup tree view. Effect rows and be reordered by dragging them and effect rows can be disabled and reenabled with a single click.
- Improved - Minor performance improvement for the Value Blur filter.
- Improved - Brush effect envelope b-ang. Allows the stroke to start painting earlier even when the freq setting is set high.
- Improved - The position of icons in the the menu bar to put Undo and Redo in closer position to the page and moved the page navigation icons to the left to reduce the chance of them accidently being pressed.
- Improved - The Horizontal Mirror Lua filter now supports an adjustable slider for setting the mirror horizon.
- Fixed - The Value Blur filter had no fall-off which means the entire page was blurred a small amount.
- Fixed - Case where the buttons on the Quick Command panel would stay depressed.
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