Changelog for artpaint
v2.7.2:
* Big speed-up for scaling and moving, esp. when working with large images
* Fixed crash on resizing
* Added commands to flip a selection horizontally/vertically
* Treshold add-on:
- support live preview
- fixed histogram rendering
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations
* New translations:
- Ukrainian (uk) (Alexey Lugin, stotish)
- Czech (cs) (theokeist)
v2.7.1:
* Quick fix for 1-pixel width freehand tool freezing the app.
v2.7
* Layers: added color blend modes (hue, saturation, luminosity, color)
* Colors:
- moved palette below sliders
- added key control to palette:
+ left/right/up/down to choose color
+ page up/page down to change color set
* Rectangle tool:
- added "Outline width"
* Ellipse tool:
- added "Enable rotation"
- added "Outline width"
* Text tool: always use current foreground color for whole text
* Airbrush tool: smoother performance
* Support transparency in selections and when cut/copy/deleting
* Removed red scale line from brush preview, instead use numerical size label
* Many, many bug fixes and improvements
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations, fixed Latin American Spanish
* Added Norwegian translation, thanks Johan Wagenheim
v2.6:
- Instead of a context menu to choose a tool, use the current tool to
draw with the background color.
- New misc. setting: show brush size around mouse pointer
- Added translation, rotation and scaling of selections
- Added undo/redo to layer rename, alpha, blend mode, visibility, delete, merge
- Use zlib to compress image data for each layer, resulting in massively smaller
project files, esp. with many rather empty layers.
- Brushes:
+ moved brush configuration into stored Brushes window
+ added current brush preview to status bar
+ removed Brush tool (use Freehand instead)
+ switch brushes in stored Brushes window with cursor keys
- Blur tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
- Eraser Tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ added "Pressure" slider to control opacity of erasure
- Fill tool (gradient):
+ a more intuitive usage
+ show line from start to end point
+ added modes: radial, square, cone
- Freehand tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ added "Pressure" slider to control opacity
- Straight line tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ add "Pressure" slider for opacity control
- Transparency tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ use slider instead of alpha from current color
+ changed "Speed" to "Pressure"
+ made "Pressure" a percentage of the way to the chosen value
- Wave add-on:
+ Add X and Y spinners for position
- Many bug fixes and improvements
- Updated documentation
- Updated translations
v2.5:
- Selection tool:
+ added ellipse mode
+ use SHIFT for aspect lock
+ ALT for center+to+corner mode
+ OPT to substract
+ simplified GUI
- Rectangle/Ellipse tool:
+ SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
+ SHIFT when rotating rectangle locks to 22.5° angles
+ ALT for center+to+corner mode
+ simplified GUI
- Eraser tool: Anti+alias edge
- Color selector tool: show box of sampled pixels
- Colors: support drag'n'drop of HTML text values
- Improved cropping
+ crop+to+selection
+ lock aspect
+ shaded crop area
+ better visible handles
- Added scaling of selected areas
- Improved resizing
+ use a resize+box with handles
+ added filters (bilinear, bicubic, etc.)
+ SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
- New "Selection" menu
+ added "Select all"
+ added "Select non+transparent"
+ added "Hide borders"
- Moved all manipulating actions from "Layers" and "Canvas" to "Edit" menu
+ use sub+menus for "Active/All layers" for all actions
- Anti+Dither, Transparency tool, Flip manipulator: respect selections
- DEL to delete a selection/layer
- Pan when holding SPACE
- Zoom with mouse wheel (without ALT, reversed in/out direction WRT v2.4)
- Changed color dropper shortcut to CTRL
- Close manipulator windows with ESC, apply with ENTER
- Improved visibility of crosshair cursor mode
- Improved layer re+ordering
- Forward keyboard shortcuts from Layers to main window
- More intelligent canvas+to+window fitting of opened images
- Removed "Window | Resize to fit", there's the zoom button for that
- Disable unavailable image/project files from "Open recent" menus
- Fix drawing artefacts when moving a selection
- Loads of bugfixes and polishing
- Updated documentation
- New translations:
+ Australian English (jt15s),
+ Latin American Spanish (victroniko)
v2.4:
- Overhauled the Layers window and handling:
+ improved layout
+ reduced commands to the most useful, moved to main menu
+ added naming layers
+ added transparency slider
+ added blending modes: Normal, Multiply. Divide, Screen,
Overlay, Hard light, Soft light, Vivid light, Pin light,
Hard mix, Difference, Exclusion, Color dodge, Linear dodge,
Color burn, Linear burn, Darken, and Lighten
- Improved Colors window
+ removed YIQ and YUV color modes
+ added CIELAB color mode
+ accept drag'n'dropped colors
+ set/show hex-value of current color
+ removed palette from main window
- Make current tool more obvious in Tools window
- Bufixes and polishing
v2.3.1
- Fixed initial black canvas when there are no ArtPaint settings
v2.3.0
- Fixed drawing with transparency
- Fixed drawing of text
- Added adjustable checkered background for transparency
- Interference add-on: added controls
- Color reducer add-on: fix crash of GLA mode
- Brush tool: new/improved controls
- Airbrush tool: Fixed spray mode
- Save/Restore Tools window icon arrangement
- Fixed save/restore floating window settings
- Move appropriate menu items to new "ArtPaint" menu
- General bug fixing (memory leaks etc.)
- GUI/Layout polishing
- Improved/updated localization
- Added/Updated translations: ca de en_GB fr nl pt tr
- Added ArtPaint project file icon
- New user manual
v2.2.0
- Fix drawing artefacts
- Convert to Layout API and fix various GUI issues
- Migrate to Locale Kit
- Added translations: Dutch (thanks Begasus!), Spanish (thanks twse!)
- Anti-Dither add-on: use spinner widget
- Blur add-on: react to changes live
- Fill tool: Fix gradient rendering
- Open dropped images/projects
- Fix build on modern GCC
v2.1.2
- Fix to Brush, Text, and Magic Wand tools
- Add-ons updated
- Added Brightness add-on
- Added ColorReducer add-on
- Renamed add-on PerlinWood to Wood
- Threshold add-on: fix some drawing errors
- Sentence-casing the GUI
- Better/corrected help texts
- Updated documentation
* Big speed-up for scaling and moving, esp. when working with large images
* Fixed crash on resizing
* Added commands to flip a selection horizontally/vertically
* Treshold add-on:
- support live preview
- fixed histogram rendering
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations
* New translations:
- Ukrainian (uk) (Alexey Lugin, stotish)
- Czech (cs) (theokeist)
v2.7.1:
* Quick fix for 1-pixel width freehand tool freezing the app.
v2.7
* Layers: added color blend modes (hue, saturation, luminosity, color)
* Colors:
- moved palette below sliders
- added key control to palette:
+ left/right/up/down to choose color
+ page up/page down to change color set
* Rectangle tool:
- added "Outline width"
* Ellipse tool:
- added "Enable rotation"
- added "Outline width"
* Text tool: always use current foreground color for whole text
* Airbrush tool: smoother performance
* Support transparency in selections and when cut/copy/deleting
* Removed red scale line from brush preview, instead use numerical size label
* Many, many bug fixes and improvements
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations, fixed Latin American Spanish
* Added Norwegian translation, thanks Johan Wagenheim
v2.6:
- Instead of a context menu to choose a tool, use the current tool to
draw with the background color.
- New misc. setting: show brush size around mouse pointer
- Added translation, rotation and scaling of selections
- Added undo/redo to layer rename, alpha, blend mode, visibility, delete, merge
- Use zlib to compress image data for each layer, resulting in massively smaller
project files, esp. with many rather empty layers.
- Brushes:
+ moved brush configuration into stored Brushes window
+ added current brush preview to status bar
+ removed Brush tool (use Freehand instead)
+ switch brushes in stored Brushes window with cursor keys
- Blur tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
- Eraser Tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ added "Pressure" slider to control opacity of erasure
- Fill tool (gradient):
+ a more intuitive usage
+ show line from start to end point
+ added modes: radial, square, cone
- Freehand tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ added "Pressure" slider to control opacity
- Straight line tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ add "Pressure" slider for opacity control
- Transparency tool:
+ added "Use current brush" option
+ use slider instead of alpha from current color
+ changed "Speed" to "Pressure"
+ made "Pressure" a percentage of the way to the chosen value
- Wave add-on:
+ Add X and Y spinners for position
- Many bug fixes and improvements
- Updated documentation
- Updated translations
v2.5:
- Selection tool:
+ added ellipse mode
+ use SHIFT for aspect lock
+ ALT for center+to+corner mode
+ OPT to substract
+ simplified GUI
- Rectangle/Ellipse tool:
+ SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
+ SHIFT when rotating rectangle locks to 22.5° angles
+ ALT for center+to+corner mode
+ simplified GUI
- Eraser tool: Anti+alias edge
- Color selector tool: show box of sampled pixels
- Colors: support drag'n'drop of HTML text values
- Improved cropping
+ crop+to+selection
+ lock aspect
+ shaded crop area
+ better visible handles
- Added scaling of selected areas
- Improved resizing
+ use a resize+box with handles
+ added filters (bilinear, bicubic, etc.)
+ SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
- New "Selection" menu
+ added "Select all"
+ added "Select non+transparent"
+ added "Hide borders"
- Moved all manipulating actions from "Layers" and "Canvas" to "Edit" menu
+ use sub+menus for "Active/All layers" for all actions
- Anti+Dither, Transparency tool, Flip manipulator: respect selections
- DEL to delete a selection/layer
- Pan when holding SPACE
- Zoom with mouse wheel (without ALT, reversed in/out direction WRT v2.4)
- Changed color dropper shortcut to CTRL
- Close manipulator windows with ESC, apply with ENTER
- Improved visibility of crosshair cursor mode
- Improved layer re+ordering
- Forward keyboard shortcuts from Layers to main window
- More intelligent canvas+to+window fitting of opened images
- Removed "Window | Resize to fit", there's the zoom button for that
- Disable unavailable image/project files from "Open recent" menus
- Fix drawing artefacts when moving a selection
- Loads of bugfixes and polishing
- Updated documentation
- New translations:
+ Australian English (jt15s),
+ Latin American Spanish (victroniko)
v2.4:
- Overhauled the Layers window and handling:
+ improved layout
+ reduced commands to the most useful, moved to main menu
+ added naming layers
+ added transparency slider
+ added blending modes: Normal, Multiply. Divide, Screen,
Overlay, Hard light, Soft light, Vivid light, Pin light,
Hard mix, Difference, Exclusion, Color dodge, Linear dodge,
Color burn, Linear burn, Darken, and Lighten
- Improved Colors window
+ removed YIQ and YUV color modes
+ added CIELAB color mode
+ accept drag'n'dropped colors
+ set/show hex-value of current color
+ removed palette from main window
- Make current tool more obvious in Tools window
- Bufixes and polishing
v2.3.1
- Fixed initial black canvas when there are no ArtPaint settings
v2.3.0
- Fixed drawing with transparency
- Fixed drawing of text
- Added adjustable checkered background for transparency
- Interference add-on: added controls
- Color reducer add-on: fix crash of GLA mode
- Brush tool: new/improved controls
- Airbrush tool: Fixed spray mode
- Save/Restore Tools window icon arrangement
- Fixed save/restore floating window settings
- Move appropriate menu items to new "ArtPaint" menu
- General bug fixing (memory leaks etc.)
- GUI/Layout polishing
- Improved/updated localization
- Added/Updated translations: ca de en_GB fr nl pt tr
- Added ArtPaint project file icon
- New user manual
v2.2.0
- Fix drawing artefacts
- Convert to Layout API and fix various GUI issues
- Migrate to Locale Kit
- Added translations: Dutch (thanks Begasus!), Spanish (thanks twse!)
- Anti-Dither add-on: use spinner widget
- Blur add-on: react to changes live
- Fill tool: Fix gradient rendering
- Open dropped images/projects
- Fix build on modern GCC
v2.1.2
- Fix to Brush, Text, and Magic Wand tools
- Add-ons updated
- Added Brightness add-on
- Added ColorReducer add-on
- Renamed add-on PerlinWood to Wood
- Threshold add-on: fix some drawing errors
- Sentence-casing the GUI
- Better/corrected help texts
- Updated documentation