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8.9 - Numerous Fixes
- Fixed - Program crash after hidding the layer dialog and selecting a new
brush from the Brush Select dialog.
- Fixed - Update the layer thumbnails in-sync with the main canvas.
- Fixed - Update the layer dialog when loading pics, switches pages, new page,
etc.
- Fixed - Typo in the "Crop" warning dialog.
- Fixed - Clicking and draging off the brush shortcuts could result in the
Brush Select dialog coming up when it shouldn't.
- Fixed - Don't change the ArtSet of a shortcut brush when it's merging it
with another brush (color, shape, texture or effects)
- Fixed - Don't change the brush options of a shortcut brush when it's merging
it with another brush (color, shape, texture or effects)
- Fixed - Some text in the preferences dialog was being cropped.
8.8 - Usability improvements, more special effects brushes and fixes.
- Added - 18 new Process - Special Effects brushes.
- Added - Layer mode "Adjustment Mask" to allow for more powerful composing.
- Added - Brush effects "Shift x" and "Shift y" to move the brush dab along
the x and y axis.
- Changed - Layer window was made more narrow.
- Changed - Layer window is now floating. It can remain open while you paint!
- Changed - Adjustment to many dialogs so that the bottom buttons aren't
cropped off.
- Changed - Hotkey (Z) to (Alt + Z) to toggle ArtSet and Brush names in the
brush shortcut panel.
- Changed - Save ArtSet name in shortcut artset rather than separately so that
it remains persistent.
- Changed - The option for ArtSet names is now in the ArtSet menu and called
"Toggle Shortcut Mode"
- Changed - When the shortcuts are in ArtSet mode pick the original brush from
the ArtSet rather than the shortcut. This has the effect of using the original
default brush settings.
- Enhanced - When the shortcuts are in ArtSet mode show the brush sample icon.
- Enhanced - Hightlight the current brush in the Select Brush Dialog.
- Enhanced - Recreated the default Shortcuts ArtSet so that the ArtSet name is
stored and will default to the Essentials ArtSet when pulling up the Brush
Selection dialog.
- Fixed - The Blend Capture brush effect was mixing incorrectly resulting in
colors on some brushes being dirty and moving towards black.
- Fixed - Small improvement to the Bld_x brush effects to improve color
mixing.
- Fixed - Undo was not properly restoring 1 pixel along the right and bottom
edges.
- Fixed - Moving a layer with paper textures turned on resulted in
reapplication of the paper texture. Paper textures should not be applied when
moving a layer.
8.7 - Emergency fix to correct crash case on operations that change the size
of the picture. Resize and crop.
8.6 - Undo system rewrite, new brushes, improved performance
- Added - Preference to Keep Brush Colors. Toogles between the shortcut
brushes retaining the last used settings (color, size etc) or using the defaults
for the brush as selected from the ArtSet.
- Added - Preference for number of undo levels 0 - 100. Found in the
preferences dialog unto the edit menu.
- Added - Process - Special Effects ArtSet. Includes around 30 brushes.
- Added - Collections - Flowers ArtSet. Includes around 25 brushes.
- Added - 9 new brushes to the Art Tools - Oil Paints set.
- Added - Option in the Brush Select dialog (in edit mode) to create an icon
for the selected brush from the current image. For good results draw your
stroke on a page size of 200x100.
- Improved - Completely rewrote the undo/redo system resulting in better
memory usage and better performance for undos and redos.
- Improved - Performance enhanced between strokes. Most noticeable on large
canvases. Previously there was a lag between strokes limiting high speed
sketching on large canvases.
- Changed - Minor adjustment to license checking.
- Fixed - Applying a filter would not enable the undo menu items.
- Fixed - If a paper texture was selected during, crop, resize, rotates or
image flips the texture was applied to the image layer as well as re-applied to
the texture layer.
8.5 - Improved color picking, masks, copy and paste, page explorer and
various other items.
- Added - SaveAs option in the Edit ArtSet dialog.
- Added - Color picking from Traced Image. If tracing mode is active the
color picker will select colors from the traced picture.
- Added - Color picking from just any layer - non-merged colors. Holding the
Alt key and using the color picker will result in looking at each layer
separately until a color is found (non-alpha)
- Added - Ability to name books and pages in the Page Explorer.
- Added - A menu bar in the Page Explorer.
- Added - Brush options dialog is now available for the brushes in the brush
shortcut banks. Use right click to access the brush options dialog.
- Added - Masks are honored on Copy operations. Areas under the masked parts
will not be copied.
- Added - Paste as New. Menu option under Edit to paste your clipboard image
as a new page.
- Added - Effects - Basic ArtSet for an easier way to construct new brushes.
- Improved - Color picker will now return the color that is visible (merged
layer view) instead of the color on that layer. The color on just one layer can
be returned by holding the ALT key when using the color picker.
- Improved - Allow only one copy of TwistedBrush to run at a time.
- Improved - Preserve original brush options when setting into the shortcut
banks.
- Improved - Paste will now paste the image data into a new layer. Use Paste
as New or Paste Into for previous behavior.
- Changed - In the Edit ArtSet dialog the Select button is now called Copy and
doesn't select the brush but only copies the brush for placement in other
ArtSets.
- Changed - Don't show the license key in the about screen.
- Changed - Removed hot keys in the Page Explorer. It confllicts with the
edits areas that were added.
- Fixed - Layers names were getting overwritten when selecting another layer
in the layer dialog.
- Fixed - Selecting a pattern brush with a different density but the same
pattern would not make the scale adjustments.
- Fixed - The currently edited brush settings were lost after going into the
Select Brush dialog in edit mode.
- Fixed - The ArtSet text edited in the Select Brush dialog was not saved when
exiting the dialog.
- Fixed - Typo in Quick Start screens.
8.4 - Additional layers, UI improvements, saving DPI and fixes.
- Added - Save DPI setting when writing to JPG, PNG, TIF and BMP files.
- Added - Support up to 32 layers now instead of just 16.
- Added - Pattern Brushes can all now be scaled!! Use the density slider to
change the scale of the pattern.
- Added - Protection from trying to load a new version of a TBR file into a
version of TB that doesn't support it.
- Added - Allow the script brush tool to draw while dragging the mouse (with
right mouse button down)
- Added - Option to scale the Backgrounds filter. Found in the Filters menu.
- Added - Hotkey (Z) to toggle ArtSet and Brush names in the brush shortcut
panel.
- Changed - When recording a script the current brush is not automatically
recorded. This allows for scripts that can generically be used for any brush.
To get the previous behavior just select a brush as your first step when
recording a script.
- Improved - Performance inproved in the layers dialog when scrolling and
selecting layers.
- Improved - Give warning if exiting the layer dialog with the current layer
invisible.
- Improved - Don't switch layers when setting the visibility or lock attribute
in the layer dialog.
- Fixed - When creating a new ArtSet the ArtSet name was always seen as
ArtSet.
- Fixed - Typo in sketchbook quick help page.
- Fixed - When flattening an image (merging all layers) don't remove the
texture surface layer (papers).
- Fixed - When deleting a layer and then closing the layer dialog the main
TwistedBrush screen wasn't almost on top most window on the screen.
8.3 - Quick Start Guide and minor fixes.
- Added - Option for Showing ArtSet names in the brush slots rather than the
brush names. The option is found in the menu Edit | Preferences
- Added - Quick Start Guide
- Improved - Center the selected layer in the layer dialog box when it opens
up.
- Fixed - When deleting a layer the, attributes of the delete layer were
applied to the layer below it.
- Fixed - ArtSet mapping to the brush slot was not being preserved between
sessions.
8.2 - New Layer User Interface and various other improvements
- Added - Filter Preview Off option. Turns off the default to have preview on
for filters. Found in the menu Edit | Preferences.
- Added - Brush Numbers option. Allows showing the brush numbers (1 - 60) in
the select brush dialog. Turns this on from the menu Edit | Preferences.
- Added - Hotkey "Y" to pull up the Layers dialog
- Improved - New layer user interface with thumbnails for each layer.
- Improved - Remember the ArtSet for each brush selection so that pulling up
the brush selection dialog will default to the same ArtSet as the brush for that
selection box.
- Improved - All brush setting are returned to what they were prior to script
playback
- Improved - Deleting a layer will now select the next layer down rather than
layer 1.
- Improved - Merging a layer will now select the next layer down rather than
layer 1.
- Updated - Copyright year.
- Changed - Layer Up and Layer Down now move layers in the opposite direction
then before. It's more intuitive when looked at in the new layer interface.
- Fixed - Brush options were not properly being saving when a new brush was
added to an ArtSet.
- Fixed - Script brushes were only playing back properly the first time.
- Fixed - Setting the clone/trace source was failing if the page had not been
saved yet.
8.1 - Major Brush Selection and ArtSet Usage Improvements
- Improved - Major changed to how brushes and ArtSets are selected and used.
- Changed - ArtSet menu items for optimize ArtSet, Select Brush, Select Brush
List and Select ArtSet are no longer needed.
- Changed - The ArtSet panel is replaced by a panel of current brushes of
which 54 are remembered as shortcuts in 6 banks of 9 brushes each.
- Changed - The brush shortcut keys are replaced by the key brush shortcut
system where pressing the keys 1 - 9 will select that shortcut brush.
- Changed - Setting the shortcut brush is now supported with a full UI and no
longer requres holding down the number keys.
- Changed - The concept of loading ArtSets is completely gone. Brushes are
selected from the entire array of ArtSets and are stored in the brush Shortcuts
area.
- Changed - The Load ArtSet, Save ArtSet and Saveas ArtSet from the File menu
are removed.
- Changed - The Brush Selection dialog is completely redone, showing the text
of every brush in the ArtSet and a brush sample.
- Changed - The Brush Selection List dialog is complete gone.
- Changed - Editing ArtSets is unified into the Brush Select dialog when
envoked in edit mode which is done from the ArtSet | Edit ArtSet menu.
- Changed - The concept of a locked ArtSet is no longer used since editing an
ArtSet is done via special menu.
- Changed -The concept of an ArtSet name is removed and the file name is used
also as the ArtSet name.
- Changed - Selecting a Shape, texture, or any brush that doesn't store the
primary brush information will only update the current brush. Previously had to
hold the Ctrl key to force a merge.
- Changed - Brush sample pictures are moved with the brushes within ArtSets.
- Changed - The History - Brush and History - Color ArtSet now appear in the
brush selection dialog.
- Changed - The History - Brush and History - Color ArtSet now store the brush
sample picture along with the brush.
- Changed - Updated the "Set as Clone Source" to read "Set as Clone/Tracing
Source"
- Changed - Wording and position of File menus, Save, Import Image and Export
Image.
8.0 - EYEeffects Color Palletes (59 total new color palettes)!
- Added - 59 Color Palettes contributed by Shayne of EYEeffects!!!
- Added - The original Oil Paints ArtSet back into the distribution. While
the new Oil Paints ArtSet released in 7.9 is generally more realistic this
artset has a different feel on some brushes that aren't available elsewhere.
- Added - Import and Export Brush String Code. A way to share brush settings
as a block of text characters.
- Added - Brush Effects - Spray 1, Spray 2 and Spray 3 with values of 5 and
10.
- Added - Numerous brush icons.
- Added - 5 additional brushes to the Palette Knife ArtSet.
- Added - Palette menu managing color palettes.
- Added - Commands to create a color palette based on 1, 2, 3 or 4 colors. In
the Palette menu.
- Added - Command to clear the current color palette. In the Palette menu.
- Added - Command to reset all the color palettes back to the original state.
In the Palette menu.
- Added - Ability to keep 8 color palettes loaded at once and switched with
the tabs below the palettes (Pal1...Pal8).
- Added - 7 New Pixarra color palettes. Spectrum 02, Spectum 03, RGB White,
RGB Black, Red Scale, Green Scale, Blue Scale and Artist Paints.
- Added - Fine Tune Settings for size, density, opacity, red, green or blue
values. Right click on sliders.
- Added - Right clicking on the ArtSet tab will bring up the load ArtSet
Dialog. (same for color palette tabs)
- Added - Color palette preview in the Load Palette dialog.
- Added - ArtSet - Collections - User Brushes. A repository for user
contributed brushes.
- Changed - Reorganized the Essentials ArtSe and added in some new improved
brushes.
- Changed - Slightly darken unselected ArtSet and Color Palette tabs.
- Changed - Look of selected ArtSet and selected Brush name areas and allow
clicking anywhere in the name bar to bring up the select ArtSet or select Brush
dialogs.
- Fixed - Spelling error in Preferences dialog.
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