Version 10

10.9 - Drawing Guides and Ken Wilson's Foliage ArtSet!!

  • Added - ArtSet : Collections - KW Foliage Plus 1. Special thanks for Ken Wilson for contributing this ArtSet.
  • Added - Drawing Guides tool on the main tools bar for interactively creating drawing guides.
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Grid Square
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Grid Rectangle
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Grid Circles
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Grid Ellipses
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Horizontal Line
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Horizontal Lines
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Vertical Line
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Vertical Lines
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Cross Hair
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Line
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Square
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Rectangle
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Circle
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Ellipse
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Concentric Squares
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Concentric Rectangles
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Concentric Circles
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Concentric Ellipses
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Radial
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Polar
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Sector
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Horizontal
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Vertical
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Horz / Vert
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Horz / Vert Double
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Bottom 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Top 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Left 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Right 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Bottom / Top 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Perspective Grid Left / Right 2 Point
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Horizontal Perspective Lines
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Vertical Perspective Lines
  • Added - Drawing Guide : Horz/Vert Perspective Lines
  • Added - Option to turn off the Auto Saving Message. In the Perferences dialog.
  • Removed - Toggle Grid from the View menu. This functionality is replaced by the Drawing Guides feature.
  • Removed - Grid Spacing from the Preferences dialog. This functionality is replaced by the DrawingGuides feature.
  • Fixed - If the background layer had a blend mode set it would show up during normal work yet when exporting or doing a copy merge it would impact the resulting image.
  • Fixed - When drawing straight lines with either the line tool or by holding down the shift key the line was not drawn until after the mouse was moved.
  • Fixed - Toolbar settings were lost if focus was switched to another application and then back to TwistedBrush.

10.8 - Various fixes and improvements.

  • Added - Preference option to set the Max Undo Memory in mb. A value of 0 means the size will be dynamically managed.
  • Improved - Dynamically handling of undo space. Not as restrictive as release 10.6 but still reduces used undo memory as needed.
  • Fixed - The Auto Saving...Please Wait popup message was not displaying correctly.
  • Fixed - The mouse button swap icon was disappearing at times.
  • Fixed - Undo was not working properly for Horizontal and Vertical page flips

10.7 - Various fixes and improvements

  • Added - Key repeat for Undo keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + z). Hold down to repeat the Undo steps.
  • Added - Key repeat for Redo keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Y). Hold down to repeat the Redo steps.
  • Added - Memory information reported in stats mode.
  • Added - Image size information reported in stats mode.
  • Added - Display popup message when auto-saving of the image is occuring.
  • Improved - Dynamic number of Undo levels saved. The number of Undo levels saved will vary based on the size of the stroke, up to the maximum number of Undo level specified in the Preferences dialog.
  • Improved - When using the Pixel Mode brush effect the pressure will not ease into the set strength unless the Stylus check box is enabled for the specific attribute (opacity for example)
  • Changed - Maximum number of Undo levels increased to 500.
  • Changed - The setting of the number of Undo levels in the Preferences dialogs represents a maximum number of Undo levels that will be saved.
  • Changed - Increase default number of undo levels to 50.
  • Changed - Reduce the number of possible random brushes that will be searched for before giving up from 200 to 50.
  • Fixed - Unable to allocation memory for a new layer could result in a crash, invalid layer data or other odd behaviours.
  • Fixed - When starting TwistedBrush if the initial page can not be shown report the error and restart the software on page 1 of book 1.
  • Fixed - When moving floating panels there was a delay when attempting to paint afterwards.
  • Fixed - When the background layer was hidden the following items were incorrect when that page is used as the source for the following; the reference image, cloning source, Page Explorer thumbnails, BMP backup file in the book folders and playing back a script to an AVI.
  • Fixed - Undoing more than half the saved steps and then painting new strokes and then undoing those could result in incorrect image data placed on the canvas.
  • Fixed - When using Undo and then drawing new strokes memory was not freed as early as it could have been.
  • Fixed - Autosave interval was alway set to 5 minutes for the first save regardless of what the preference option was set to.
  • Fixed - For random brush generation when a brush effect is locked that normally wouldn't be used for random brush generation a valid random brush was never created.
  • Fixed - When using the background layer after a clear page operation blending brushes could result in a dirty edge.
  • Fixed - When doing a single click on the canvas the paint dab should draw at full pressure which feeds into the size, density and opacity sliders.

10.3 - Various additions, improvemens and fixes.

  • Added - Mask Wand option Hue Range. Create mask based on the clicked hue.
  • Added - Drop Shadow filter - Under Filters | Stylized
  • Added - Tablet Compatibility Mode option. This will cause a tablet to be treated like it was prior to release 10.0. Found in the preferences dialog under the Edit menu.
  • Added - Additional resizing algorithms. Box, Triangle, Hanning, Gaussian and Bell are better suited when reducing the size of an image. Cubic 1, Cubic 2, Mitchell, Sinc, Hermite, Hanning and Catrom are better suited when enlarging the size of an image.
  • Added - Insert Layer button to create a new layer above the current layer as an insertion, moving the other layers up.
  • Added - Clone offsets. Alt + Click on a page will make it the cloning source. When you start to draw with your cloning brush the location in the cloned page will be that set with the Alt + click!
  • Improved - The button layout on the Layer Panel has been rearranged to address the error of accidently flattening the picture.
  • Changed - Wording on the warning prompt when Flattening layers.
  • Changed - Selecting the menu to set a cloning source page will remove the clone offset that might have been set with an Alt + click operation.
  • Fixed - Resize type of B-Spline and Lanczos3 were not resulting in different resizing algorithms.
  • Fixed - In some cases when drawing fast without or tablet or the tablet disabled there would be a anomaly in the stroke curve.

10.2 - New color palettes, demo scripts and various fixes.

  • Added - Three demo scripts that create an entire scene. Tiger's Eye, Oranges and Desolate Beach
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - Hue Span.
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - 1 Color.
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - 2 Color.
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - 3 Color.
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - 4 Color.
  • Added - Dynamic palette. Dynamic - History. Replaces the previous color history mechanism.
  • Added - Clearing the color palette when the Dynamic - History palette is displayed will also clear the history palette.
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra Luminence Color Wheels
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra Complimentary Span
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra Color Wheel 1
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra Color Wheel 2
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra Color Square
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra CYMK Color Cube
  • Added - Color palette. Pixarra RGB Color Cube
  • Changed - Color history is recorded automatically and always.
  • Changed - Color history menu under ArtSet is removed.
  • Changed - Color history artset is removed.
  • Changed - Default color palettes loaded on a new install have been changed.
  • Fixed - Paper textures weren't working since the 10.0 release.
  • Fixed - The Buy menu items were conflicting with the Layer menus.
  • Fixed - Message typo with selecting a paper texture when layer 32 is already being used.
  • Fixed - The script playback cursor was not positioned properly on playback with zoomed in or zoomed out.
  • Fixed - Lay OTint1 and Lay OTint2 brush effects.
  • Fixed - Alpha Outline Tint 1 and Alpha Outline Tint 2 layer blend modes.
  • Fixed - Create Palette from Image (Spot and Average) were not properly sampling the bottom and right edges of the image.

10.1 - Fixes and improvements for tablet support

  • Added - Option to enable/disable a drawing tablet. Even when the tablet is disabled it can still be used but TwistedBrush will just view it as a mouse input device.
  • Enhanced - More accurate start of stroke location when using a tablet.
  • Fixed - Selecting a color from the reference image windows was not working.
  • Fixed - A number of cases of an incorrect line drawn when painting the first stroke after closing a dialog when using a tablet.
  • Fixed - After starting and stopping TwistedBrush a number of times the tablet functionality may no longer be available for this application until the system is rebooted.

10.01 - Allow both Tablet and Mouse brush strokes.

  • Changed - Allow both tablet and mouse brush strokes. Version 10.0 through enhancements in tablet support had abandoned the feature to use the mouse to paint with when a tablet is detected. Strong demand resulted in this support to continue. The enhanced tablet support introduced in 10.0 is still fully in place as well.

10.0 - Color improvements, better tablet support and various fixes.

  • Added - Color palette : Pixarra Hues. Full spectrum of standard hues.
  • Added - Menu. Create Palette From Image Spot. Samples the current image and creates a color palette from it.
  • Added - Menu option to Create Palette Hue Span From Current Color. Under the Palette menu.
  • Enhanced - A Weight slider is now available for the Texturize Bump filter.
  • Improved - Fine lined brushes (1 pixel for example) won't bunch up when moving slowly.
  • Improved - Much smoother strokes when using a drawing tablet.
  • Improved - Random based brushes should playback the same in script each time. However, they will not match the original brush strokes at this time.
  • Changed - The text for the brush shortcuts from "Set" to "Bnk". Using the word Set was being confused with ArtSets.
  • Changed - Made the Pixarra Hues color palette one of the default 8 color palettes.
  • Changed - Brush Effect : Grid don't extend the dabs off the page.
  • Fixed - If the opacity of the background layer was reduced the merge to the background layer would give incorrect results.
  • Fixed - Generate > Splines -- Knots Slider quickly leads to severe overworking of the processor. The range of the Knots was much to high.
  • Fixed - Generate > Trees > -- The Pomp and Hardness sliders were switched.
  • Fixed - Stylize > Edges 2 -- Threshold High slider was not working.
  • Fixed - Stylize > Gauzy -- Clarity slider was not working
  • Fixed - On the Sine Plasma dialog, there is an "o,i" transposed and there are two missing "t's."
  • Fixed - Perspective, Warp and many other distort filters were not properly handling the exposed areas after the filter was processed on the background layer.
  • Fixed - Clear Page on a layer would leave a invisible ghost color that could become seen when the Mask Wand was used.
  • Fixed - Close down the tablet context properly when exiting.
  • Fixed - Don't miss the initial part and ending part of the stroke when using a drawing tablet.
  • Fixed - A somewhat rare case where a brush stroke would have off the mark dab position.