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6.9 - Various enhancements and additions
- Added - Brush effect envelopes - "zfan", "zf-in", "zf-out", "zwave",
"zpulse", "zsaw1", "zsaw2", "zstp u", "zstp d" and "zpeak". The prefix of "z"
adds a little fuzziness to the pattern.
- Added - Stats Mode in the preferences dialog. Shows Frames Per Sec when
drawing. No practical value it's just for fun.
- Added - Six new palette knives added to the Palette Knive ArtSet.
- Added - Three new brush textures.
- Added - Enter License Key option on the File menu.
- Added - Hot key "G" for bringing up the select ArtSet dialog.
- Enhanced - Increased canvas framerate which gives a more natural feel to the
brushes.
- Enhanced - The three "wet" markers in the Felt Marker ArtSet to not move to
black so quickly.
- Changed - Hot key for the gradient tool is now "Alt + G"
- Fixed - When resetting the brush effects the current shape and textures were
not reset.
6.8 - Various enhancements and additions
- Added - Brush Texture No. 7 (Blobs)
- Added - Brush Texture No. 8 (Textured Blobs)
- Added - Core Oil Pastel Brushes, Fine wet, regular wet, Coarse wet and Extra
coarse wet
- Added - Core Conte Brushes, Soft, Med and Hard
- Added - Menu commands for Select ArtSet, Select Brush and Select Brush List
- Added - Hot key for Select Brush added "B"
- Added - Hot key for Select Brush List added "Ctrl+B"
- Added - Option to lock an ArtSet. Prevents accidental edits.
- Added - Conte ArtSet
- Added - Palette Knives ArtSet
- Added - Option to show brush name labels in the two places where the ArtSet
brush icons are shown.
- Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the ArtSet Load dialog
- Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the Brush Load dialog (non-graphical)
- Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the page explorer dialog
- Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the various filter dialogs
- Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the set page size dialog
- Enhanced - Allow editing ArtSet from the Load ArtSet dialog
- Enhanced - Allowing editing the brush options from the brush selection list
- Enhanced - Added tabbing support in many dialogs.
- Enhanced - All Pixarra supplied ArtSets are locked by default to avoid
accidental changes.
- Changed - Label ArtSet dialog and menu are now called Edit ArtSet.
- Changed - Hot key for the paint bucket tool is now "Alt-B" (used to be "B")
- Fixed - Some cases of failure to run on Windows XP with SP2
- Fixed - Prompt if OK before erasing page when using the "New" menu command.
- Fixed - The various controls (colors, size, density etc) were not updated
when selecting a preset from the Load ArtSet dialog.
- Fixed - Spacing on ArtSet panel rollover text
6.7 - Restructing of Core Tools! Many new ArtSets. A number of usability
enhancements.
- Added - 17 ArtSets representing core artist tools.
- Added - "Sketched Oil" core brushes - Small, medium and large versions under
the Artist brush category.
- Added - "New ArtSet" menu command. Found under the File menu.
- Added - SaveAs ArtSet" menu command. Found under the File menu.
- Added - Brush effect "Soften".
- Added - Save brush angle settings when exiting.
- Added - Optionally save brush angle with brush presets.
- Added - Optionally save brush size with brush presets.
- Added - Packaged all Pixarra ArtSets with TwistedBrush.
- Enhanced - ArtSet no longer needed to be imported to be used. When selected
into an ArtSet tab (slot) changes occur on the origninal ArtSet.
- Enhanced - Brush History and Color History are now saved to predefined
Artsets and it doesn't need to be loaded into one of the ArtSet tabs.
- Enhanced - Brush History and Color History are now completely indepentent
either can be enable or disabled to record your usage history and they get
written to separate ArtSets.
- Enhanced - Brush History and Color History settings are remembered when you
exit TwistedBrush so there is no need to re-enable them if you choose to always
run with them on.
- Enhanced - The color sliders to make visible color bars larger yet reduce
overall amount of screen area required.
- Enhanced - In the "Load ArtSet" dialog start off with the current ArtSet
already selected.
- Enhanced - On the "load ArtSet" dialog clicking a brush icon within the
ArtSet will select the preset and exit the dialog without loading the ArtSet.
- Enhanced - Tracking the current brush name when brush edits occur and when
the program exits.
- Enhanced - Core brush selection lists are now hidden and shown as part of
the Effects Panel.
- Enhanced - ArtSet panel is now shown near the top in place of the core brush
selection lists.
- Enhanced - Renamed, categorized and moved all ArtSets to the ArtSets folder
under TwistedBrush.
- Enhanced - Pressing the "CTLR" key when selecting a preset will result in an
attempt to merge the preset effects with the current effects. Useful with the
Shapes Artsets.
- Changed - Menu choices for import and export ArtSet. Now "Load" and "Save"
- Removed - Clear ArtSet menu command. Use "New ArtSet" instead.
- Fixed - In the Load ArtSet dialog preset names were being shown at times
even when there wasn't a preset stored at a location.
6.6 - Brush Shapes and various other goodies!
- Added - Brush effect bShape. Select brush shapes. Use Combo envelope to
select the shape.
- Added - Brush effect bTexture. Select brush textures. Use Combo envelope
to select the texture.
- Added - Brush Shapes 1 ArtSet. Included as part of TwistedBrush.
- Added - Rotate Brush tool assignable to the right mouse button.
- Added - Shortcut keys for most tools (including color picker, crop,
gradient, move, paint bucket etc.)
- Added - Blend Remix brush effect.
- Added - Brush Effect - Col vary - randomness to the color.
- Added - Center Pointer menu command to center the pointer on the page.
Under the Control menu. Hot key enabled also (Ctrl+P). Currently only works
properly in normal zoom mode.
- Enhanced - Honor masks when pasting into a image.
- Enhanced - Brush presets can now optionally contain or not contain the
effects. Makes it possible for an ArtSet preset to just be an effect.
- Enhanced - The ArtSet slots set1 - set8 our now represented as tabs rather
than buttons.
- Enhanced - Darkened the drawing area panel.
- Changed - Adjustment to the Generate filter types to consider the image size
for the amount specification.
- Fixed - Prevent invalid particle effect combinations that can cause a
program crash.
- Fixed - For the Copy Grid Cell and Paste Grid Cell the width value was
properly remembered for use with the other grid cell tools.
6.5 - Additional Effect Envelope Types
- Added - Brush Effect pSpd - Set particle speed
- Added - Brush Effect pAng - Set particle angle
- Added - 7 new brush effect envelopes with four variations each. Normal,
fade, reversed and reversed fade.
- Enhanced - All the particle branch effects were improved to give more
predicable branch times when using dynamic envelopes.
- Fixed - Cases when not all parts of the application screen would redraw
fully. Like when changing the display mode.
6.4 Particle Brush Effects System
- Added - 42 Brush effects making up the particle brush effects system. See
the brush effects reference for details.
- Added - Brush effect envelope "invl". Interval. Issue the strength value
at an interval, zero all other times.
- Added - Brush effect envelope "iinvl". Intra-dab Interval. Issue the
strength value at an interval, zero all other times.
- Changed - Improved random brush selection so that very slow brushes are less
likely to be choosen.
6.3 Restructuring pricing model
- Change - Most ArtSets removed from base product - now available as separate
purchase.
- Fix - License information not being shown on the about screen.
6.21 Critical Fix
- Fixed - On new installs page saving within the first book results in a
crash.
6.2 Page Explorer Added!
- Added - Page Explorer for navigating your sketchbooks. Found under Page
menu and on the tool bar.
- Enhanced - Pages in books are now organized into subdirectories within the
main TwistedBrush install directory.
- Enhanced - Use the same grid width and grid height values for the grid based
tools (paste grid cell, copy grid cell and unmask grid cell)
- Enhanced - Give warning on startup if display resolution is less then 1024 X
768.
- Fixed - On image export, overwrite warning was not being given anymore
(problem introduced in 6.1).
- Fixed - On image export, file extensions were not automatically being
appended anymore (problem introduced in 6.1).
- Fixed - Crash case selecting a different tool after using the text tool.
- Fixed - Clicking a tool icon twice would result in some screen controls not
being cleared.
6.1 Text support and various usability improvements.
- Added - Text tool - for drawing text on the canvas.
- Added - Pan tool. Alternate/easier approach to scrolling the canvas.
- Added - Constrain rectangle, rectangle mask and crop tool to square if
[shift] is pressed.
- Added - Center base rectangle, rectangle mask and crop tool if [alt] is
pressed.
- Added - Constrain ellipse and ellipse mask tool to circle if [shift] is
pressed.
- Added - Center base ellipse and ellipse mask tool if [alt] is pressed.
- Enhanced - Remember last directory and file choosen within the export and
import image dialogs
- Enhanced - Better desciptions of image types within the export and import
image dialogs
- Fixed - Program crash when attempting to draw very small ellipses.
- Fixed - Ellipses were not drawing properly on layers.
- Fixed - Some tools on the tool bar were not cleaning up there controls when
unselected.
6.0 Selecting brushes by graphic representation!
- Enhanced - Now brushes can be selected by a graphic representation of what
they draw!
- Enhanced - Now artsets to load show the swatch of brushes available in that
artset!
- Fixed - Resizing images larger and rotating images were broken in 5.9.
- Fixed - The tool settins (those assigned to the right mouse) were reset when
a new brush was selected.
- Fixed - Text labels for Width and Height in the Set Page Size dialog.
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