14.4:

• Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Mandala Paint 1.
• Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Mandala Paint 2.
• Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Line Paint.
• Added - New brush effects envelope - Global. Effects for a current brush that has a global envelope will use and store the strength of the effect globally for use in other brushes. Otherwise the it acts like the combo envelope.
• Added - When using brushes that rely on the stroke origin point such as those in the Line and Outlines ArtSet pressing and holding the Ctrl key will allow dragging the placement of the line or outline.
• Added - Pressing Alt + mouse click on the canvas when using an image brush will capture the entire page (square and up to a maximum of 999 pixels) as the image brush. Previously the Alt + click would capture the merged layers for the image brush which is the default action of the right mouse click (for image brushes).
• Added - Brush effect - Rect.
• Added - Brush effect - Adv Stroke2. More properly advances the stroke. The effect Adv Stroke remains unchanged for backward compatiblity with exisitng brushes.
• Added - Various brushes to the Line and Outlines ArtSet.
• Improved -The Liquid Ink pen in the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
• Improved - Give a warning if an invalid script name is entered in the Script Recorder dialog.
• Improved - Don't automatically move focus away from controls that take keyboard input, including the text fields in modeless dialogs, text fields on the tool bar and the Layer mode combo box.
• Improved - More accurate color selection from dynamic palettes especially when using a drawing tablet.
• Changed - Collections - Mandalas was renamed to Collections - Mandala Designs.

14.3

• Added - ArtSet Collections - Mandalas.
• Added - ArtSet Collections - Lines and Outlines.
• Added - 5 brushes to the Blob Modeler ArtSet.
• Added - 2 Brushes to the Blob Paints ArtSet.
• Added - New Effects Brush Modifier ArtSets. Effects - Symmetry, Effects - Color, Effects - Jitter Postion size, Effects - Shading, Effects - Multi Dab.
• Added - New brush modifiers to the Effects - Basics brush modifier ArtSet. Many others were moved to the new Effects ArtSets.
• Added - Brush effects, Symmetry and Symmetry page. Will draw the number of dabs controls by the strength of the effect (1 - 100).
• Added - Brush effect Radial page. Draws a line to from each dab to the page center.
• Added - Brush effect Page Fames2. Use the value of the effect to determine the number of evenly placed dabs along each edge of a rectangle matching the page aspect ratio.
• Added - Brush effect envelope pg-ang. This will generate a rotation value from the current dab position to the center of the page. Useful with shapes or image brushes and the rotate brush effect.
• Added - Brush effect envelope db-ang. This will generate a rotation value from the current dab position to the initial stroke position. Useful with shapes or image brushes and the rotate brush effect.
• Added - Brush effect Lay Normal. Make use of the paint layer.
• Added - Brush effect Clear Lay. Clear the paint layer. When combined with one of the "Lay" brush effects allows for a stamping mode where you can position your stamp (dab) without a trial.
• Added - Brush effect Dab mode.
• Added - Brush effect Outline Mode. Draws an outline instead of just dabs for Symmetry Symmetry pg and Page Frame 2.
• Improved - No delay when setting a cloning offset.
• Improved - Clicking the current layer in the layer mini bar will toggle the visibility of that layer.
• Improved - Better recover from cases when a palette file is missing.
• Improved - Significantly improved the quality of image brushes that are painted at a size larger than captured.
• Changed - When using brush modifiers for effects all effects of the same name will be replaced in the current brush. Previously it was just a select few.
• Fixed - The Optimize button in the Edit ArtSet dialog was not saving the optimizations resulting in no effect.
• Fixed - Unchecking the preview box in the Filter dialog would not show the unfiltered image.
• Fixed - A single dab (just a click) in the same location would not draw the subsequent dabs.
• Fixed - when upgrading from versions 10.2 or earlier a palette loading error could occur on startup.
• Fixed - Bottom and right edges of the page were not being painted with pattern brushes.
• Fixed - In some cases drawing wasn't correct when quickly tapping a single point on the page.

14.2

• Added - Menu option to Flatten Layers and Flatten Visible Layers from the popup menu of the layer mini bar.
• Improved - Significantly improved performance when selecting a cloning brush.
• Improved - When selecting a TBR file with the menu File > Load from File Into present a confirmation dialog indicating that the current page will be erased.
• Improved - Increase the size of the checkered pattern for transparent backgrounds and masks to avoid distortion when zooming out.
• Improved - Added a small mark to make it easier for distingish between a layer and empty slot in the layer mini bar.
• Improved - Don't show the clone offset source brush cursor when cloning to a different page (than the source).
• Improved - Performance of all filter previews.
• Improved - Much faster Move tool when used in the default mode of not wrapping at the edges!
• Improved - Allow hiding future ocurences of the "Unable to create cloning source..." message.
• Improved - When the screen resolution or color depth changes redraw the TwistedBrush application immediately.
• Improved - When a page is saved for any reason reset the auto save timer. Previously it was reset only during an auto save.
• Improved - When importing a TBR file don't immediately save the page afterwards.
• Improved - Minor performance improvement when saving a restore point.
• Improved - When exporting a page don't save the page prior to doing so. It adds no value.
• Changed - The Auto Save message is now a general purpose Saving message. The preferences option is still used to control if it should be shown or not.
• Fixed - In cases where a page couldn't be loaded because of lack of memory not all of the used memory by the partially loaded page was freed.
• Fixed - Cases where the separators between layers in the layer mini bar could become overwritten by the layer thumbnail for certain page sizes.
• Fixed - When resizing a image and changing the aspect ratio the layer thumbnails in the mini bar and main layer panel were not properly updated.
• Fixed - Typo in the selection popup menu.
• Fixed - Occurance of a crash when switching to a new page when using the cloning offset.
• Fixed - When exporting to a TBR file it was possible that changes to the page may not be saved to the page between the time span of the last save and the export.

14.1

• Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Angela's Various and Sundries Brushes. Thank you Angela for donating these fine brushes!
• Added - Grid Snap drawing guide. Will snap virtually all canvas actions to the grid set including brush strokes. Very handy guide!
• Added - Up to 16 references images can be active at once. Previously it was just 1.
• Added - From the page explorer if multiple images are selected the menu Page > Make Reference Image will create a reference image for each selected image up to the maximum allowed.
• Added - Make Reference Image from a selection rectangle. Accessed from the poppup menu on the selection rectangle.
• Added - Zoom to actually pixels (zoom in normally) by right clicking in a reference image. Right clicking in a reference image a second time will return to be to fit mode (zoom out normally).
• Added - Preview button to the Resize Image dialog.
• Added - Allow the instruction dialog when entering ArtSet build mode to not be shown anymore.
• Added - Hot keys Ctrl + F1 throught Ctrl + F12 are assigned to the 12 quick command buttons.
• Added - Six new brushes to the Art Tools - Masks Artset.
• Added - Link to the online video tutorials in the Help menu.
• Improved - Minor performance improvement on the interface.
• Improved - When using the File > Reset All menu option also remove previous settings to not show specific notice messages.
• Improved - The Copy Grid Cell tool is now a more general purpose Copy Tool. It will copy the contents under the cursor. If the new Grid Snap Guide is enabled then the area copied will be the size of the grid cell similiar to the previous functionality.
• Improved - The Paste Grid Cell tool is now a more general purpose Paste Tool. It will paste the contents of the clipboard at the cursor location. If the new Grid Snap Guide is enabled the clipboard contents won't be centered at the cursor but will snap to the nearest grid intersection.
• Removed - The image resize choices other than nearest neightbor, bi-linear, bi-cubic and lanczos3 have been removed since they do not differ enough in result than what can be achieved with the choices that remain.
• Removed - A number of older redundant brushes were removed from the Art Tools - Masks Artset. There are other more flexible ways to get the same result.
• Fixed - Grid Square Ref Image drawing guide the guides on the reference image would not be removed in some cases.
• Fixed - Dynamic brush rotation was not working for masks.

14.0

• Added - Hot key to toggle the Tutorial Display Mode option. F2
• Added - Ability to hide the left hand tools panel. Toggled with hotket F3, menu View > Toggle Tools Panel or the Quick Command panel hot button.
• Added - Pressing the Ctrl key while setting the drawing guides will move the start position.
• Added - Three new palettes the allow for some color mixing withing the palettes with the right mouse button. Mixer - Airbrush, Mixer - Blend and Mixer - Splat.
• Added - Two new drawing guides Golden Rectangle Landscape and Golden Rectangle Portrait.
• Added - Dynamic - History Blend color palette creates a blend of the last 4 selected colors.
• Added - ArtSets - Colors - Patterns - Surface 1 and Colors - Patterns - Surface 2. These are brush modifiers ArtSets like all the color ArtSets.
• Added - Brush effect Bld lum alpha. Convert the luminence into the alpha value. Very useful effect!
• Added - Pattern brush to the Blob - Modeler ArtSet.
• Added - Three texture brushes to the Pattern - Basics ArtSet.
• Added - Popup menu to Load shortcuts from ArtSet and Save shortcuts to ArtSet. Found by right clicking on the ArtSet name above the shortcut panel.
• Added - Menu items to Load shortcuts, Save shortcuts and load default shortcuts from the ArtSet menu.
• Added - Message when reversing the mouse buttons.
• Improved - In the Load Palette dialog select the palette list item for the currently loaded palette when the dialog opens.
• Improved - If a problem occurs when loading a page because of a corrupt file the backup TBR file will be loaded instead.
• Improved - Small performance improvement when saving pages.
• Improved - Detecting problems when saving a page.
• Improved - Detecting out of memory situtions in a few more cases.
• Improved - Automatically switch to tablet compatibility mode as needed.
• Improved - Automate the clipboard paste on the Import Brush Code dialog.
• Improved - Automate the clipboard copy on the Export Brush Code dialog.
• Changed - The import option has been removed from the Palette load dialog. If you wish to import ACT palette files into TwistedBrush copy them to the Palettes folder under TwistedBrush.
• Changed - Selecting a color from the Dynamic - History color palette no longer updates the history palette which made it hard accurately select a color because it was a moving target.
• Changed - The default color palettes now include the Mixer - Blend and Mixer - Airbrush palettes.
• Changed - Right clicking on the shortcut tabs will not longer bring up the Brush options for the selected brush. Right clicking on the brush slot will still do this.
• Fixed - Changes to the current color palette were not being automatically saved when the application exited.
• Fixed - When selecting cancel from the Palette Load dialog the file names for the loaded palette would become incorrect.
• Fixed - When selecting colors from the palette if the mouse was dragged past the edge of the palette the wrong colors could be selected.
• Fixed - Multiple palettes of the same name loaded and edited were not being uniquely saved.
• Fixed - When selecting cancel from the Palette Load dialog the current palette edits if there were any would be lost.