Version 11

11.9 - Numerous new brushes and brush effects

  • Added - Collections - Meta Blobs - ArtSet
  • Added - Collections - Angela's Potpourri of Brushes - ArtSet. Thank you once again Angela for sharing your brushes!
  • Added - Numerous brushes to the Collections - 3D ArtSet.
  • Added - A few brushes to the Images Brush - Basics ArtSet
  • Added - One brush to the Cloners - Artistic 1 ArtSet. Band Color Cloner
  • Added - One brush to the Art Tools - Pen ArtSet. Liquid Ink.
  • Added - Menu option to Clear All Drawing Guides. Undo the Control menu.
  • Added - Brush effect - Lay Shd Txt2. Similar to Lay Shd but is applied as a texture to the paint surface.
  • Added - Brush effect - Lay High Txt2. Similar to Lay Shd and Lay Shd Txt2 but works only on the highlights.
  • Added - Brush effect - Lay Smooth. The alpha edge of the stroke is compressed giving the entire the stroke a more liquid edge.
  • Added - Brush effect - Lay Txt2. Applied the entire stroke as a Texturized2 layer blend.
  • Added - Layer blend modes. Alpha Shader Texture2, Alpha Hightlight Texture2 and Alpha Smooth.
  • Added - Brush effect - Bld bandcol. Doesn't actually mix as most other Bld effects but it does band the color based on the strength. Values in the range of 60 - 95 give the most noticable change. That would be combo,6,0 - combo,9,5
  • Added - Brush effects - Shdw top left, Shdw top, shdw top rt, Shdw right and Shdw left.
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi TL. Draw immediate dab towards the top left.
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi T. Draw immediate dab towards the top.
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi TR. Draw immediate dab towards the top right.
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi R. Draw immediate dab towards the right
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi BR. Draw immediate dab towards the bottom right
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi B. Draw immediate dab towards the bottom
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi BL. Draw immediate dab towards the bottom left.
  • Added - Brush effects - Hi L. Draw immediate dab towards the left.
  • Improvements - Many changes and additions to the Collections - Frames 1 ArtSet
  • Fixed - When using the right mouse click to delete a brush in the Brush Edit Dialog when exiting the state would be stuck in the color picker mode until a right mouse button was clicked.

11.8 - Various incremental improvements and fixes

  • Added - Key repeats for the shortcuts for Size, Density and Opacity.
  • Added - Additions and updates to Angela's Artistic Oils ArtSet.
  • Added - Ctrl + B will toggle the Stats mode.
  • Added - Menu option to clear the undo steps that are currently stored. Undo the Control menu.
  • Added - Preference to start TwistedBrush in the Page Explorer so the page can be selected prior to loading. This is useful for those who work on very larger pictures and allow them to determine the first page to load. Found in the Preferences dialog.
  • Added - Drawing Guide - Virtual Page. Interacts with the brush effects envelopes PSPDX and PSPDY. If a virtual page guide isn't set PSPDX and PSPDY continue to work across the span of the entire page.
  • Added - Drawing Guide - Control Rectangle. Interacts with the brush effects envelopes CSPDX and CSPDY. If a control rectangle guide isn't set CSPDX and CSPDY continue to work across the span of the entire page.
  • Added - Crop to Virtual Page operation to the Control menu. The Virtual Page is a drawing guide.
  • Added - Mask Virtual Page operation to the Control menu. The Virtual Page is a drawing guide.
  • Added - Crop to Control Rectangle operation to the Control menu. The Control Rectangle is a drawing guide.
  • Added - Mask Control Rectangle operation to the Control menu. The Control Rectanlge is a drawing guide.
  • Improved - Up to 8 drawing guides can be present on a single page at a time. Previously only 1 could be present.
  • Improved - Removed the TwistedBrush.env file when uninstalling TwistedBrush. This is the settings file.
  • Improved - On an abnormal program shutdown don't lose the program settings. Previously the settings would be reset to the defaults. Now the setting will be reset to the defaults if a failure occurs during the startup.
  • Improved - When zoomed in don't keep a border around the image. Gives a larger drawing area.
  • Changed - Toggle Drawing Guides menu moved from the View to the Control menu.
  • Fixed - Memory leak each time the Brush Selection Dialog was opened.
  • Fixed - Clicking on very fine gap next to the Brush Shortcut Tab B6 would result in a crash.
  • Fixed - Cases where the dynamic tools could be stuck on even after the hot key was released.
  • Fixed - Cases where while using a dynamic tool and pressing the hot key for another tool it could switch to that tool.
  • Fixed - Menu text on Zoom in and Zoom out.
  • Fixed - In Stats mode the Cur Undo Mem total was not always correct.
  • Fixed - The Circle Grid drawing guide was not drawing correctly.
  • Fixed - When the Brush options dialog was open the cursor would be inviisable over the canvas area.
  • Fixed - After a crop operation the currently selected brush would not paint properly until reselected.

11.7 - More and improved Photo Cloning Brushes

  • Added - Cloner : Artistic 2 Artset
  • Added - Cloner - Artistic 3 Artset
  • Added - Numerous additions to the Angela's Artistic Oils ArtSet!! Thank you Angela!
  • Added - 5 new brushes to the Cloners - Fancy ArtSet
  • Added - Adjust HSV filter for adjusting Hue, Saturation and Value.
  • Added - Brush effect - Flt Grayscale. Apply a grayscale filter to the current blending buffer.
  • Added - Brush effect - Flt Negative. Apply a negative filter the current blending buffer.
  • Added - Brush effect - Flt Ths Low. Apply a threshold low filter to the current blending buffer
  • Added - Brush effect - Flt Thr High. Apply a threshold high filter o the current blending buffer.
  • Added - Brush Effect - Solid. Takes away the feathered edge from a brush shape.
  • Added - 4 Shapes to the Shapes ArtSet.
  • Improved - The menu text for the screen captures to make it more clear where the capture image will go.
  • Improved - ArtSets are now sorted alphabetically not relying on Windows.
  • Improved - ESC will cancel the current stroke in progress. Very handy if you have a very complex brush and draw a long stroke.
  • Changed - The hot key for Edit ArtSet is now M previously was Ctrl + B and G
  • Changed - The hot key for merge and continue with current layer is now Ctrl + M previously it was M
  • Fixed - Updated the Edit ArtSet menu to reflect the shortkey for the Edit ArtSet function.
  • Fixed - Selecting Layers from the Quick Help dialog was pulling up the wrong screen.
  • Fixed - The brush effect Color Trace was broken in 11.6.

11.6 - Brush Sizes up to 999 pixels and pattern brush improvements

  • Added - ArtSet - Angela's Artistic Oils!! A special thanks to Petite_Poisson_2 for contributing these wonderful brushes!
  • Added - Brush effects envelops Bnk0...Bnk9. Ised for bshape, btexture, bimage and pattern effect so that more than 100 unique items can be reference. Now up to 1000 of each can be referenced.
  • Added - Brush sizes up to 999 pixels are now supported!!
  • Added - Additional brush sizes to the brush size modifier artset.
  • Added - Three pattern brush color modifier ArtSets selectable from the color modifier icon.
  • Added - 2 brushes to the Image Brush ArtSet. Acrylic and Fine Spray.
  • Added - Patterns - Basic Brushes ArtSet. These brush can be combinated with any of the patterns.
  • Added - Dynamic tools. Many of the tools now work in a dynamic mode. While pressing and holding the key associated with the tool the tool can be used with either mouse button. Once the key is released the previous tool is selected. This is very useful for example with the Pan or Color Picker tools.
  • Added - I selects the Color Picker tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + I selects the Color Picker tool
  • Added - L selects the Line tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + L selects the Line tool
  • Added - U selects the Rectangle tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + U selects the Rectangle tool
  • Added - O selects the Ellipse tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + O selects the Ellipse tool
  • Added - H selects the Paint Bucket tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + H selects the Paint Bucket tool
  • Added - G selects the Gradient tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + G selects the Gradient tool
  • Added - F selects the Rectangle Mask tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + F selects the Rectangle Mask tool
  • Added - J selects the Ellipse Mask tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + J selects the Ellipse Mask tool
  • Added - K selects the Magic Wand Mask tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + K selects the Magic Wand Mask tool
  • Added - N selects the Rotate Brush tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + N selects the Rotate Brush tool
  • Added - P selects the Pan tool in dynamic mode
  • Added - Ctrl + P selects the Pan tool
  • Improved - Allow the Pattern brush effect to work on any core brush type. Previously only worked on blending brush types.
  • Improved - Allow the Cloner brush effect to work on any core brush type. Previously only worked on blending brush types.
  • Improved - The size slider positions were adjusted to better match the adjustments panel width.
  • Improved - Performance when selecting large brush sizes from the size slider.
  • Improved - Responsiveness when doing repeated operations such as Panning. Previously the system could get a bit bogged down.
  • Changed - The visable range of the frequency and amplitude in the brush effects panel to go from 0 - 9 instead of 1 - H. What previously was 1 is now 0 and what previously was H is now 9.
  • Changed - Center the cursor in the view is now done with a Shift + P instead of a Ctrl + P
  • Removed - The three pattern artsets have been removed. The patterns are all available now in the colors modifier. This allows for a tremendous improvement in flexibility in using the patterns.
  • Fixed - In the Art Tools - Oil Pastels the new brush Oil Patels was a typo.
  • Fixed - A number of modifier brushes in the Effects ArtSet were improperly named.

11.5 - Various enhancements and fixes

  • Added - Shortcut keys + and - (without CTRL) will zoom in and zoom out . The position will center to where the cursor was.
  • Added - Brush effects to the brush modifiers tool bar.
  • Added - Support for additional keyboard configurations. AZERTY (French/Belgium) and QWERTZ (German) for example.
  • Added - Zoom to 1 to 1 (100%) menu bar icon and hot key ([).
  • Added - Zooming to 1 to 1 (100%) is now a toggle. Pressing it a second time will bring you back to your previous zoom level.
  • Added - Redo hot key of Shift + Z. Ctrl + Y still is supported as well.
  • Added - 5 Brushes to the ArtTools - Pastels ArtSet
  • Added - 5 Btushes to the ArtTools - Oil Pastels ArtSet.
  • Improved - When using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. The postion will center to where the cursor was.
  • Improved - The Unsharp Mask filter has a much greater range of effect.
  • Changed - The hot keys for increasing and decreasing Size, Density and Opacity have been adjusted so that the unshifted key will make adjustments in 1 unit and the shifted key will make adjustments in 10 units. Those keys are Q, A, W, S, E, D.
  • Changed - The text on the fabs for the brush shortcuts and the palettes.
  • Changed - Allow the brush modifier icons to popup to multiple ArtSets. Such as the Shapes ArtSets.
  • Changed - Removed the Hold Brush feature. The ability of image brushes replaces it.
  • Fixed - The "-" shortcut key for zooming out was not working since version 11.1..
  • Fixed - When restoring from a minimized state the scroll position was being lost.
  • Fixed - Cancel was not working on the Palette load dialog.
  • Fixed - When exiting with a cloner brush selected and on page 1 when you restart the page would be erased.
  • Fixed - The Mirror Page effect brush in the Effects - Basic ArtSet was incorrectly changing the brush type.

11.4 - Quick Access to brush modifiers and various other improments and fixes.

  • Added - ArtSet : Sizes - Basic. A preset collection of standard brush sizes.
  • Added - ArtSet : Rotation - Degrees. A preset collection of standard brush rotations in 10 degree increments.
  • Added - Brush modifier quick access icons. These 6 icons allow for quick access to common brush modifiers. Specifically, brush shape x2, brush rotation, brush size, brush texture and standard colors by name!
  • Added - Clicking on a empty slot in the layer mini bar will create the layer.
  • Changed - Reduced the width of the left hand tool panel to recover more canvas space.
  • Changed - Text in the Preferences dialog from Auto Save Sec (o for none) to Auto Save Sec (0 to disable)
  • Changed - The default page size back to 800x600.
  • Fixed - The Translucent Image Brush was stroking offset from the cursor.
  • Fixed - On the layer mini bar when the selected layer is hidden the selection outline wasn't being shown.
  • Fixed - The move tool was hard to control when zoomed in.
  • Fixed - Using the main layer menu or hot keys to move layer order up or down would have bad side effects if the layer panel was not open.

11.3 - Layer Mini Bar, undo for masks and other improvements

  • Added - Layer mini bar!
  • Added - Right click displays a popup menu for common actions on the layer mini bar.
  • Added - Mask operations can now be undone!
  • Added - ArtSet : Collections - Flower and Flakes Designs. Donated by a very generous TwistedBrush user.
  • Added - Ability to turn off the autosave feature. A value of zero for the auto save frequency.
  • Added - 6 new brushes in the Image Brushes : Basics ArtSet
  • Added - 4 new brushes in the ArtTools : Palette Knives Artset.
  • Improved - When selecting a color when an image brush is in use the alpha channel of the brush is no longer altered. This allows for using image brushes as easy to create shaped brushes!
  • Improved - The ImageBrush effect will now work on any core brush type.
  • Improved - When clearing a mask from the Mask menu the mask system will also be disabled. This yields performance improvements in subsequent operations such as painting.
  • Changed - The minimum auto save frequency is 30 secs.
  • Changed - If an autosave interval is missed because the page hasn't changed or drawing is occuring reset the timer. This way saving doesn't occur right after drawing on the page after a period in inactivity.
  • Changed - The default page size from 800x600 to 770x600. To avoid the scroll bars on a display set to 1024x768.
  • Fixed - When an image brush is first selected it was not ready to paint with if no image was captured yet.
  • Fixed - The Undo system was allocating twice as much memory as needed!
  • Fixed - Creating a mask from image was not automatically enabling the mask.
  • Fixed - Creating a mask from the alpha channel was not automatically enabling the mask.
  • Fixed - Inverting a mask was not automatically enabling the mask.
  • Fixed - Masking brushing was causing too much undo memory to be used.
  • Fixed - The Layer (lay *) brush effects weren't working in brush effect slots 9, 10, 11 and 12.
  • Fixed - The Step brush effect wasn't working correctly.
  • Fixed - The Skip brush effect wasn't always correct.

11.2 - Image Brushes, dirty brushes and color selection Improvements

  • Added - Alt + Left Click will select the merged color at the cursor if not using a image brush or Cloner brush.
  • Added - Clt + Left Click will select the current layer color at the cursor if not using a image brush or Cloner brush.
  • Added - Shift + Left Click will select the scratch layer color at the cursor if not using a image brush or Cloner brush.
  • Added - Ctrl + Alt + Left Click will select the trace color at the cursor if not using a image brush or Cloner brush.
  • Added - Using an Image Brush and Shift + Click will now capture an image from the scratch layer.
  • Added - Using an Image Brush and Ctrl + Alt + Click will now capture an image from the trace layer.
  • Added - When using the color picker tool and an imge brush is selected the image will be captured.
  • Added - Core stampers brush types : Fine stamper, Regular stamper and Coarse stamper
  • Added - When using an image brush selecting a color will fill the image brush with that color.
  • Added - 5 Brushes to the Image Brush - Basics ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush Cleaner tool. Allows turning off the defauft of auto cleaning your brush in each new stroke.
  • Added - Comma key (,) will clean the brush when auto brush cleaning is off.
  • Changed - The color picker tool now supports the color picking modes of Alt + Click, Ctrl + Click, Shift + Click and Ctrl + Alt + Click.
  • Changed - Increased maximum settable undo memory to 10000mb. Up from 1000mb.
  • Changed - Shift + Click will no longer draw a straight line. Use the line tool instead.
  • Changed - While using an Image Brush Alt + Click will now capture a merged image. Basically what you are current seeing on screen.
  • Changed - When the color picker tool is selected the surrounding colors are not averaged but if you draw the mouse the additional colors will be blended in.
  • Improved - Color picking is a little faster.
  • Improved - Performance and other improvements to the Image Brush - Basics ArtSet.
  • Fixed - The default Undo memory setting of dynamic was not working properly on systems with too much memory (over 2gb).
  • Fixed - The effects menu did not properly represent the addition of the new brush effects levels.
  • Fixed - The color picker could pick up the drawing guide colors.
  • Fixed - In some cases when blending on pure white there could be a dirty trail at the edges of the stroke.

11.1 - Image Brushes, Scratch Layer and other improvements.

  • Added - The brush effects system now has 12 levels of effects instread of 8.
  • Added - Image Brushes as scaled to the currently selected size.
  • Added - Image Brushes are preserved from page to page.
  • Added - ArtSet : Image Brush : Basics
  • Added - Menu option to Load Captured Image Brush. Under the File menu.
  • Added - Menu option to Save Captured Image Brush. Under the File menu.
  • Added - Brush effect "Blend bImage" refresh the current blend buffer with the image brush image.
  • Added - Brush effect "bImage" loads a ImageBrush image from the bImage directory. The strength is used to select the bImage name. Works the same as the bShape and bTexture effects.
  • Added - Brush effect "ubImage" loads a ImageBrush image from the ubImage directory. The strength is used to select the bImage name. Works the same as the ubShape and ubTexture effects. The effect is designed for users to add captured images to their installation.
  • Added - Scratch Layer feature. Very useful for mixing your own color and image brush palettes..
  • Added - While using an Image Brush Alt + Click will capture an image from the scratch layer.
  • Added - Pressing and holding the space bar will temporarily switch the the scratch layer, making it visible, and unzoom the canvas. Once the space bar is release your previous layer and zoom level will return.
  • Added - Set Scratch Layer menu item under the Layer menu to set the current layer as the scratch layer.
  • Added - The scratch layer number is saved with the page.
  • Changed - On the Brush Effects dialog the effect levels are now swapped with Alt+number key rather than Ctrl+number key.
  • Fixed - Don't use the DPI of the image imported when doing "Load Image Into". In other words honor the DPI settings that may have already been specifiied when setting up the page.
  • Fixed - The displayed shortcut key for the Random Brush menu item. Should be Ctrl+R
  • Fixed - The ImageBrush effect could at times paint the transparent areas incorrectly.

11.0 - Numerous additions and improvements

  • Added - ArtSet : Collections - KW Petal Makers. Special thanks for Ken Wilson for contributing this ArtSet.
  • Added - ArtSet : Collections - Angela's Pretty Brushes. Special thanks for Angela (Petite_Poisson_2) for contributing this ArtSet.
  • Added - Save DPI setting in the TBR (TwistedBrush) native files.
  • Added - When loading images from file, import in the DPI setting from the image file.
  • Added - Warning when doing "Load from File as New" since the current page data will be erased.
  • Added - Zoom in steps up to 1600%
  • Added - Page Summary. Shows brushes used, filters used, stroke count etc. for a page. Found in the Page menu.
  • Added - Reporting of last internal error to the stats mode display.
  • Added - Toggle display of drawing guides with the R key.
  • Added - Menu to toggle display of drawing guides. Under the View menu.
  • Added - Drawing guide settings are remembered for each page seperately.
  • Added - Brush effect : ImageBrush. Causes transparency to act as the brush shape for stampers and blenders.
  • Added - Brush effect : Step. Paints dabs at the interval based on the strength value.
  • Added - Ctrl + Click will capture the brush image when an image brush is selected.
  • Changed - Default Auto Save Shortcut Brushes option to on.
  • Changed - Increase the number of pages per book to 500. Perviously was 100.
  • Changed - Clone offset setting is only possible when a Clone brush is selected.
  • Fixed - When setting the cloning source from the Page Explorer clear the cloning offset settings.