6.9 - Various enhancements and additions

• Added - Brush effect envelopes - "zfan", "zf-in", "zf-out", "zwave", "zpulse", "zsaw1", "zsaw2", "zstp u", "zstp d" and "zpeak". The prefix of "z" adds a little fuzziness to the pattern.
• Added - Stats Mode in the preferences dialog. Shows Frames Per Sec when drawing. No practical value it's just for fun.
• Added - Six new palette knives added to the Palette Knive ArtSet.
• Added - Three new brush textures.
• Added - Enter License Key option on the File menu.
• Added - Hot key "G" for bringing up the select ArtSet dialog.
• Enhanced - Increased canvas framerate which gives a more natural feel to the brushes.
• Enhanced - The three "wet" markers in the Felt Marker ArtSet to not move to black so quickly.
• Changed - Hot key for the gradient tool is now "Alt + G"
• Fixed - When resetting the brush effects the current shape and textures were not reset.

6.8 - Various enhancements and additions

• Added - Brush Texture No. 7 (Blobs)
• Added - Brush Texture No. 8 (Textured Blobs)
• Added - Core Oil Pastel Brushes, Fine wet, regular wet, Coarse wet and Extra coarse wet
• Added - Core Conte Brushes, Soft, Med and Hard
• Added - Menu commands for Select ArtSet, Select Brush and Select Brush List
• Added - Hot key for Select Brush added "B"
• Added - Hot key for Select Brush List added "Ctrl+B"
• Added - Option to lock an ArtSet. Prevents accidental edits.
• Added - Conte ArtSet
• Added - Palette Knives ArtSet
• Added - Option to show brush name labels in the two places where the ArtSet brush icons are shown.
• Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the ArtSet Load dialog
• Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the Brush Load dialog (non-graphical)
• Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the page explorer dialog
• Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the various filter dialogs
• Enhanced - Handling of the list box in the set page size dialog
• Enhanced - Allow editing ArtSet from the Load ArtSet dialog
• Enhanced - Allowing editing the brush options from the brush selection list
• Enhanced - Added tabbing support in many dialogs.
• Enhanced - All Pixarra supplied ArtSets are locked by default to avoid accidental changes.
• Changed - Label ArtSet dialog and menu are now called Edit ArtSet.
• Changed - Hot key for the paint bucket tool is now "Alt-B" (used to be "B")
• Fixed - Some cases of failure to run on Windows XP with SP2
• Fixed - Prompt if OK before erasing page when using the "New" menu command.
• Fixed - The various controls (colors, size, density etc) were not updated when selecting a preset from the Load ArtSet dialog.
• Fixed - Spacing on ArtSet panel rollover text

6.7 - Restructing of Core Tools! Many new ArtSets. A number of usability enhancements.

• Added - 17 ArtSets representing core artist tools.
• Added - "Sketched Oil" core brushes - Small, medium and large versions under the Artist brush category.
• Added - "New ArtSet" menu command. Found under the File menu.
• Added - SaveAs ArtSet" menu command. Found under the File menu.
• Added - Brush effect "Soften".
• Added - Save brush angle settings when exiting.
• Added - Optionally save brush angle with brush presets.
• Added - Optionally save brush size with brush presets.
• Added - Packaged all Pixarra ArtSets with TwistedBrush.
• Enhanced - ArtSet no longer needed to be imported to be used. When selected into an ArtSet tab (slot) changes occur on the origninal ArtSet.
• Enhanced - Brush History and Color History are now saved to predefined Artsets and it doesn't need to be loaded into one of the ArtSet tabs.
• Enhanced - Brush History and Color History are now completely indepentent either can be enable or disabled to record your usage history and they get written to separate ArtSets.
• Enhanced - Brush History and Color History settings are remembered when you exit TwistedBrush so there is no need to re-enable them if you choose to always run with them on.
• Enhanced - The color sliders to make visible color bars larger yet reduce overall amount of screen area required.
• Enhanced - In the "Load ArtSet" dialog start off with the current ArtSet already selected.
• Enhanced - On the "load ArtSet" dialog clicking a brush icon within the ArtSet will select the preset and exit the dialog without loading the ArtSet.
• Enhanced - Tracking the current brush name when brush edits occur and when the program exits.
• Enhanced - Core brush selection lists are now hidden and shown as part of the Effects Panel.
• Enhanced - ArtSet panel is now shown near the top in place of the core brush selection lists.
• Enhanced - Renamed, categorized and moved all ArtSets to the ArtSets folder under TwistedBrush.
• Enhanced - Pressing the "CTLR" key when selecting a preset will result in an attempt to merge the preset effects with the current effects. Useful with the Shapes Artsets.
• Changed - Menu choices for import and export ArtSet. Now "Load" and "Save"
• Removed - Clear ArtSet menu command. Use "New ArtSet" instead.
• Fixed - In the Load ArtSet dialog preset names were being shown at times even when there wasn't a preset stored at a location.

6.6 - Brush Shapes and various other goodies!

• Added - Brush effect bShape. Select brush shapes. Use Combo envelope to select the shape.
• Added - Brush effect bTexture. Select brush textures. Use Combo envelope to select the texture.
• Added - Brush Shapes 1 ArtSet. Included as part of TwistedBrush.
• Added - Rotate Brush tool assignable to the right mouse button.
• Added - Shortcut keys for most tools (including color picker, crop, gradient, move, paint bucket etc.)
• Added - Blend Remix brush effect.
• Added - Brush Effect - Col vary - randomness to the color.
• Added - Center Pointer menu command to center the pointer on the page. Under the Control menu. Hot key enabled also (Ctrl+P). Currently only works properly in normal zoom mode.
• Enhanced - Honor masks when pasting into a image.
• Enhanced - Brush presets can now optionally contain or not contain the effects. Makes it possible for an ArtSet preset to just be an effect.
• Enhanced - The ArtSet slots set1 - set8 our now represented as tabs rather than buttons.
• Enhanced - Darkened the drawing area panel.
• Changed - Adjustment to the Generate filter types to consider the image size for the amount specification.
• Fixed - Prevent invalid particle effect combinations that can cause a program crash.
• Fixed - For the Copy Grid Cell and Paste Grid Cell the width value was properly remembered for use with the other grid cell tools.

6.5 - Additional Effect Envelope Types

• Added - Brush Effect pSpd - Set particle speed
• Added - Brush Effect pAng - Set particle angle
• Added - 7 new brush effect envelopes with four variations each. Normal, fade, reversed and reversed fade.
• Enhanced - All the particle branch effects were improved to give more predicable branch times when using dynamic envelopes.
• Fixed - Cases when not all parts of the application screen would redraw fully. Like when changing the display mode.

6.4 Particle Brush Effects System

• Added - 42 Brush effects making up the particle brush effects system. See the brush effects reference for details.
• Added - Brush effect envelope "invl". Interval. Issue the strength value at an interval, zero all other times.
• Added - Brush effect envelope "iinvl". Intra-dab Interval. Issue the strength value at an interval, zero all other times.
• Changed - Improved random brush selection so that very slow brushes are less likely to be choosen.

6.3 Restructuring pricing model

• Change - Most ArtSets removed from base product - now available as separate purchase.
• Fix - License information not being shown on the about screen.

6.21 Critical Fix

• Fixed - On new installs page saving within the first book results in a crash.

6.2 Page Explorer Added!

• Added - Page Explorer for navigating your sketchbooks. Found under Page menu and on the tool bar.
• Enhanced - Pages in books are now organized into subdirectories within the main TwistedBrush install directory.
• Enhanced - Use the same grid width and grid height values for the grid based tools (paste grid cell, copy grid cell and unmask grid cell)
• Enhanced - Give warning on startup if display resolution is less then 1024 X 768.
• Fixed - On image export, overwrite warning was not being given anymore (problem introduced in 6.1).
• Fixed - On image export, file extensions were not automatically being appended anymore (problem introduced in 6.1).
• Fixed - Crash case selecting a different tool after using the text tool.
• Fixed - Clicking a tool icon twice would result in some screen controls not being cleared.

6.1 Text support and various usability improvements.

• Added - Text tool - for drawing text on the canvas.
• Added - Pan tool. Alternate/easier approach to scrolling the canvas.
• Added - Constrain rectangle, rectangle mask and crop tool to square if [shift] is pressed.
• Added - Center base rectangle, rectangle mask and crop tool if [alt] is pressed.
• Added - Constrain ellipse and ellipse mask tool to circle if [shift] is pressed.
• Added - Center base ellipse and ellipse mask tool if [alt] is pressed.
• Enhanced - Remember last directory and file choosen within the export and import image dialogs
• Enhanced - Better desciptions of image types within the export and import image dialogs
• Fixed - Program crash when attempting to draw very small ellipses.
• Fixed - Ellipses were not drawing properly on layers.
• Fixed - Some tools on the tool bar were not cleaning up there controls when unselected.

6.0 Selecting brushes by graphic representation!

• Enhanced - Now brushes can be selected by a graphic representation of what they draw!
• Enhanced - Now artsets to load show the swatch of brushes available in that artset!
• Fixed - Resizing images larger and rotating images were broken in 5.9.
• Fixed - The tool settins (those assigned to the right mouse) were reset when a new brush was selected.
• Fixed - Text labels for Width and Height in the Set Page Size dialog.