7.9 - Color Palette Support, new Oil Paints ArtSet

• Added - Support for ACT palettes. Both loading and saving.
• Added - Color selection palette 16 x 16 grid. Editable with right click, row span with CTRL + right click and column span with ALT + right click.
• Added - Completely new Oil Paints ArtSet replaces the old Oil Paints ArtSet.
• Added - Brush Effect - Opac Abs2. Adjusts the core brush so that the intrinsic alpha range is completely controled by the alpha slider. (What the Opacity Abs brush effect should have been)
• Added - Brush Effects - Blend Str2. Like Blend Str but covers the full range of values.
• Added - Brush Effects - Blend Clr St2 - Like Blend Clr Str but covers the full range of values.
• Added - Displacement Bump Filter with Surface, Material, Nature and Other variations. Found under the Filters menu.
• Added - Option to specify the little brush icon on the brush options dialog.
• Changed - Replaced the Flare Brush in Jan Kirkland Landscape ArtSet with her Crystal Flower brush. The SpaceScape ArtSet has a number of different flare brushes.
• Changed - Brush effects panel is now a floating window.
• Changed - Updated a number of brushes in the Essentials ArtSet.
• Fixed - Cases where export images were not representing colors correctly. It appears at times that layer 1 was getting some transparency values set which are not rendered but saved therefore when later view would appear incorrect.
• Fixed - Exporting an unchanged page to the TBR format would not export.
• Fixed - Importing a TBR image would not be saved unless first changed.
• Fixed - After a script played completed, some brush settings were reset to the brush prior to the script playback but not all of them. Better to not reset any if not resetting all of them.
• Fixed - Brush shortcuts (keys 1 - 0) would at times not maintain the set brush properly.
• Fixed - The Page Fill brush in Essentials ArtSet was repeatedly filling the page if the pen was stroked.
• Fixed - When merging a single layer the transparencies were not normalized resulting in very wrong results.

7.8 - Cloner enhancements and scanner support

• Added - Cloner - Artistic 1 ArtSet. 60 brushes to turn photos into drawings and paintings.
• Added - Cloner - Process 1 ArtSet. 60 brushes to color clone your photos
• Added - Scanning support. Select Source... and Acquire from the File menu.
• Added - File Export of TwistedBrush Native format *.tbr. To preserve layer information.
• Added - File Import of TwistedBrush Native format *.tbr.
• Added - Copy Merged option to copy to the clipboard the merged layers. Under the Edit menu.
• Added - Clone source can now be any page in any book. Set in the Page Explorer or Main menu within the "Page" menu.
• Added - Popup brush label text on the brush selection windows.
• Added - Core brush types, Sketched small stamper, Sketched medium stamper and Sketched large stamper. All part of the Stampers brush category.
• Added - Drag and Drop brushes within the ArtSet panel. (Note: only works on ArtSets that are not locked. brush image samples are not moved)
• Added - Brush Effect - Pix color vary. Color variance at the pixel level!
• Added - Brush Effect - SetColor. Sets the current color into the paint engine immediate rather then waiting for last effect. Useful to alter color prior to processing a BlendTrace effect.
• Added - Brush Effects - stkDirection, stkRoughness and stkLength. Used for creating automatic dirctional strokes. stkLength must be the last of the three used since it's the effect that does the drawing.
• Added - Brush effects envelopes - size, size2, den, den2, opac and opac2.
• Added - Brush effects envelopes - if-in and if-out.
• Added - Brush Effects - blending types. Bld 2col, Bld 3col, Bld 4col, Bld colorize, Bld 1col lo, Bld 1col hi, Bld col hilo, Bld clamp lo, Bld clamp hi, Bld clamp hilo, Bld lo liner, Bld hi liner, Bld 64col and Bld 27Col
• Improved - Color fidelity on blends, one case is colors darkening when blended repeatedly.
• Changed - Renamed the "Art Tools - Cloners" ArtSet to "Cloners - Original Set".
• Fixed - Grid could not be turned off once turned on.
• Fixed - Added brush sample icons for the Masking Tools ArtSet.
• Fixed - Reduce the sensitivity of the mouse wheel for zooming.
• Fixed - Remove the dynamic brush label when leaving the Brush selection popup and load ArtSet windows.

7.7 - Page explorer improvements and grid lines

• Added - Ability to delete a page from the Page Explorer
• Added - Double click to open a page in the Page Explorer.
• Added - Ability to move pages back and forward within Page Explorer
• Added - Grid view option. Found under the View menu.
• Added - Ability to set grid spacing. Found in the Preferences box.
• Improved - Initial drawing cleaner (less color flashing) on the Page Explorer.
• Improved - Page Explorer now uses standard menus for actions rather than butons.
• Enhanced - Minor performance enhancement on drawing.
• Changed - When deleting a layer don't automatically change to layer 1. Only if the current layer is the one being deleted.
• Fixed - Changing the page size of any page with layers would cause a crash.
• Fixed - Some crash cases with Copy and Paste operations.
• Fixed - Cases where the mask menu check marks didn't match what was being used.

7.6 - Pattern ArtSets and Script playback to AVI

• Added - ArtSets - "Pattern - Material", "Pattern - Nature" and "Pattern - Other".
• Added - Playback a script to an AVI (animation) file.
• Added - Preference for script playback speed. Found in the Preferences option in the Edit menu.
• Added - Brush Effect envelope "zero". A value of zero, same as combo 1 1.
• Added - Brush effect "Clone".
• Added - Brush Effects "Pattern1", "Pattern2", "Pattern3", "Pattern4" and "Pattern5"
• Enhanced - Allow cloning to work on pages that aren't the same size.
• Enhanced - Cloning brushes will work regardless if Tracing is turned on.
• Fixed - Layer names were not moving with layers when the layer was moved.
• Fixed - When selecting a new brush the Brush History was not recording the event.
• Fixed - Selecting a texture and cloning failed to work properly together.

7.5 - Saving Transparent Information

• Added - Support for exporting the transparency for PNG, TGA and TIF files. Layer 1 must to hidden to use this feature.
• Added - Ability to name layers.
• Added - Color replace option added to paint bucket tool. Now includes flood fill and color replace. The replace option is like a color replace filter but inplemented at a tool to make multiple uses easier.
• Enhanced - When doing a Saveas ArtSet default the directory to the proper location.
• Enhanced - Remember the last ArtSet in the ArtSet selection list next time it is used.
• Fixed - When exporting an image if a file type isn't selected default to JPEG.
• Fixed - When exporting an image if Cancel was hit the export was still attempted.

7.4 - Trees ArtSet

• Added - Collections - Trees. 60 Tree brushes
• Added - Save Restore Point and Revert to Saved Restore Point. Found in the File menu.
• Added - ubshape brush effect. Like bshape but for user (your own) shapes so that indexes don't conflict with Pixarra.
• Added - ubtexture brush effect. Like btexture but for user (your own) textures so that indexes don't conflict with Pixarra.
• Enhanced - When creating a New ArtSet default the directory to the proper location.
• Fixed - Crash when pasting a different sized image into a layer. Now will be treated as a Paste Into operation.
• Fixed - When Flattening a picture (merging all layers) hidden layers were merged. They are now properly ignored.
• Fixed - Crash cases when unable to open the TBR file for reading.
• Fixed - Sometime after a crash the program wouldn't open properly. Now the twistedbrush.env is automatically removed on a crash exit case to prevent re-crashing for the same possible reason.
• Fixed - Crash when unable to load a BMP page image. Prevent the crash from occuring.

7.3 - Impressionistic ArtSet

• Added - Collections - Impressionistics Artset. 50+ new brushes suitable for a loose impressionistic style.
• Added - Precision Cursor support. A cross hair at the cursor point. Option is available in the Preferences dialog accessed from the Edit menu.
• Added - Brush effects envelopes E8_01, E8_01, E8_10 and E8_11
• Changed - Don't prevent program from running in 800x600 mode even though all the toolbar elements can't be seen.
• Fixed - The swap effects hot keys Ctrl + 1 through Ctrl + 7 that was broken in verison 7.2.

7.2 - Quick Brush Keys, Artist Oils color ArtSet

• Added - Quick Brush Keys. Press and hold any number key 1 - 0 for quick access to brushes. Changing brush or brush settings while holding down the key will result in those settings being assigned to that key.
• Added - Shortcuts ArtSet. This ArtSet is not intended for direct use but is used internally by Quick Brush Keys.
• Added - 3 new brush textures (16, 17 and 18)
• Added - Colors - Oil Paints ArtSet. 60 standard artist colors.
• Added - Textures - Basic Artset.
• Fixed - Changing the surface texture to Ultra Smooth Paper then selecting layer 16 resulted in a crash.

7.1 - Bring back previous style surface textures - but better! More brushes!

• Added - "Texturize3" Layer blend mode. Functions like previous progressive paper texture.
• Added - 1 new brush shape.
• Added - Honor surface texture when applying filters and tools objects such as rectanges and ellipses.
• Added - Brush effect envelop "t-ang". Uses the tool brush rotate setting for its value. Useful with the Spin effect.
• Added - Sumi-e ArtSet gets 17 new brushes.
• Added - Dynamic surface texture. The surface texture layer updates your surface texture (paper) when used with Texturize3.
• Added - Collections - Water ArtSet. Currently has 7 water ripple brushes. More water brushes coming in the future.
• Enhanced - The StarBurst brush within the Landscape ArtSet has been updated to fix some issue and look better.
• Changed - Selecting a surface texture (paper) defaults to the Texturize3 mode for compatibility with the old paper system (by popular demand)
• Changed - Removed duplicate brushes from Sumi-e ArtSet.

7.0 - Brush stroke improvements, painting surfaces redesigned, Sumi-e ArtSet

• Added - Complete Sumi-e ArtSet!
• Added - 5 new brush shapes.
• Added - Brush Effect Envelope "Pen2" reverses the value of the pen pressure for the brush effect.
• Added - 4 new brush textures (12, 13, 14 and 15)
• Added - 77 new drawing surfaces (papers, canvases etc). Previously had 18.
• Added - Filters for the new surfaces in combination with the Backgrounds, texture emboss and texture bump.
• Enhanced - The drawing surface system has been completely reworked. More verstile, faster and better. It should be noted that it is different and the look achieved is different as well.
• Enhanced - Much improved smoothness of the pressure sensitivity.
• Enhanced - The "Pen" brush effect envelope now is handled much more smoothly. Now more smoothly and naturally you can control any (almost any) of the 200+ brush effects dynamically with the pen pressure!
• Enhanced - The "Soften" brush effect was reworked and is now much faster and now uses the strength to determine the softness. Good values are Combo 1 7.
• Enhanced - Minor performance improvement during drawing.
• Changed - Page autosave defaults to 5 minutes instead of 2 minutes. Existing installs will not be affected.
• Changed - layer number 16 is now dedicated to the surfaces systems, however it remains visible to allow tweaking.
• Changed - Surface selection (paper) is now tied to the image rather than the entire program.
• Fixed - Problems when pointer (pen or mouse) was done drawing well before the strokes were processed and painted. Caused the Redo buffer to be incorrect and the blend underlayer effect to show an artifact which affects the watercolor wash brushes.
• Fixed - Odd sized brushes (1, 3, 5, 7 etc) that were dynamically size (by pen or brush effect) were not positioned correctly
• Fixed - When drawing a line by holding the Shift key the tablet pressure was not correct.
• Fixed - When just doing a single tap pressure was always 100% now it represents the actual pressure.
• Fixed - Don't autosave during a brush stroke. It now waits until the brush stroke is complete.
• Fixed - The stylus option for size, density and alpha were not properly handled with scripts.
• Fixed - The brush angle was not properly handled with scripts.