Version 17

17.28 - Available Now

  • Added - New advanced filters Cartoon, Painted and Illustrated added to the Artistic filter category.
  • Added - New advanced filter Frame Maker added to the Generate filter category.
  • Added - Buffer commands added to the Lua Filter scripts in the paint category. Up to 32 buffers can be used. New commands include paint_buffer_from_layer, paint_buffer_to_layer, paint_buffer_copy, paint_buffer_clear, paint_buffer_merge_layer, paint_mask_to_buffer, paint_mask_from_buffer. This is very powerful addition.
  • Added - Numerous commands add to the Lua Filter scripts in the paint category. paint_flip_horizontal, paint_flip_vertical, paint_clear_page, paint_fill_page, paint_mask_on, paint_mask_clear, paint_mask_invert, paint_create_from_mask, paint_alpha_create_from_mask, paint_mask_create_from_image, paint_mask_create_from_image_luma, paint_mask_create_from_alpha, paint_flood_fill, paint_rectangle, paint_ellipse, paint_text, paint_gradient, paint_mask_ellipse, paint_mask_rectangle, paint_mask_wand, paint_copy, paint_paste, paint_warp, paint_rotate_brush
  • Improved - The Edge4 and Edge5 filters have been improved with new options.
  • Improved - Indicate "Density not used for this brush" when appropriate.
  • Improved - Constrain the Line tool to make horizontal or vertical lines with the shift key.
  • Changed - Shortcut keys Ctrl + F1 - Ctrl + F12 no longer activate the quick command buttons.
  • Fixed - When using the Copy to Shortcut feature in the ArtSet Editor dialog the current brush was not being update for the new ArtSet.
  • Fixed - Added the layer merge types HSL_HUE, HSL_SAT, HSL_LUM and HSL_COLOR to Lua scripting.
  • Fixed - The Tile X and Tile Y brush effects were placing dabs incorrectly. This was broken in release 17.25 and impacted the Seamless brushes and many other brushes that use the Tile_X and Tile_Y brush effects.

17.27

  • Added - Option to create a reference image from a Clip was added. Located in the pop-up menu on the clip panel.
  • Added - The Paste tool now supports Transform Size and Transform Rotate modes. Allow isolated transformations of size or rotation.
  • Added - The Paste tool now has a Centered option to place the pasted image into the center of the page.
  • Added - New filter added. Adjust RGBA in the Color category.
  • Added - Two new Edge filters added. Edge4 and Edge5. Very fine edge filters in the Stylize filter category.
  • Improvement - The Paste tool now supports rotation precision to 100th of a degree!
  • Improvement - The Glow filter now includes a Burn option for a more intense effect.
  • Changed - The Paste tool Transform Mode is now call Transform Size and Rotate.

17.26

  • Improvement - Hide the Density slider when a brush is selected that does not make use of the density values.
  • Change - The Pro HSL Sat brush is changed to not save the color information.
  • Fixed - Smooth Felt Brush in the Markers ArtSet was not working properly.
  • Fixed - The Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters were not working in 17.25. Additionally many solutions use those filters and therefore didn't work also.

17.25

  • Added - New ArtSet added. Art Pro - Scribblers with a total of 11 brushes.
  • Added - 4 new layer mix modes. HSL Hue, HSL, Sat, HSL Lum and HSL Color
  • Added - 4 new brush effects. Lay HSL Hue, Lay HSL Sat, Lay HSL Lum and Lay HSL Color.
  • Added - 4 new brushes added to the Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet. Pro HSL Colorize, Pro HSL Hue, Pro HSL Sat and Pro HSL Lum.
  • Added - A new brush was added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet. Pro Pen Sketch.
  • Added - A new option was added to hide the circle cursor when the precision cursor is active.
  • Added - A new brush effect added Fill. Fills the page evenly with dabs.
  • Added - Pro Clip Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Clips ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Image Brush Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Image Shape Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet.
  • Added - Horizontal Flip and Vertical Flip options added to the Clip Panel. Access from the right click pop-up menu.
  • Changed - The scribbler brushes have been moved from the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet to the new Art Pro - Scribblers ArtSet.
  • Improved - The Art Pro - Natural Media, Pro Artist Pen has been improved with smoother edges.
  • Improved - Most clip brushes have received a significant performance improvement.
  • Improved - Camera RAW file reading improvements.
  • Fixed - Art Tools - Pens, Velvety Smooth Pen, Thick Smooth Pen, Flowing Pen 3 and Flowing Pen 4 were not working properly.
  • Fixed - The Tile X and Tile Y brush effects were not always properly distributing the dabs on the page.

17.24

  • Added - 3 Scribbler brushes added Pro Nu Scribbler 1, Pro Nu Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu Scribbler 3. Found in the Pro Nu Media ArtSet.
  • Added - The options for Horizontal Flip and Vertical Flip to the Quick Command panel.
  • Added - Added brush effects Scribbler 1, Scribbler 2, Scribbler 3 and Scribbler 4.
  • Improved - Don't automatically stop Time-Lapse Recording when switching pages or changing page sizes. However, recording will only resume when the page size matches the original page size used when the recording started.
  • Improved - Added controls (buttons) to the Time-Lapse Recording dialog to allow manually forcing frames to record in 1, 5, 10 and 20 frame groups.
  • Improved - Constrain the Line tool to straight lines when holding down the Shift key.
  • Fixed - The Color Contrast filter was not honoring masks.
  • Fixed - The Gallery link in the Help menu was not linking directly to the gallery anymore.
  • Fixed - The Auto Clean tool (turned off) was not working correctly.
  • Fixed - After scanning an image (with Acquire) the page was not being re-drawn.

17.23

  • Added - Two perspective brushes added to the Pro Clips ArtSet and the Pro Image Brush ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effect envelop added. Dst h.perspc. This will give a value tied to the perspective drawing guides.
  • Fixed - When using the Time-Lapse Painting feature changing the page size with the Crop or Border features could result in a crash. Now recording will be stopped.
  • Fixed - The brush Fractal Paint 028 was not painting anything.
  • Fixed - The Pro Image Brush Stamper brush was defaulting to tiled when it should not.
  • Fixed - Bld Tint now smoothly supports the range from no tinting to full tinting.
  • Fixed - The Pro Image Brush brushes that support tinting now smoothly supports the full range from no tinting to full tinting.

17.22

  • Added - Pro Watercolor Wet 4 brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Added - Pollock filter moved to the new Auto Paint category.
  • Added - Horizontal Lines filter added to the new Auto Paint category.
  • Added - Vertical Lines filter added to the new Auto Paint category.
  • Added - Mosaic 2 filter moved to the Pixelate category.
  • Added - Mosaic 3 filter moved to the Pixelate category.
  • Added - Simplified filter moved to the Stylized category.
  • Updated - The security system has been updated.
  • Improved - Reduced the frequency that the Clips panel will automatically display.
  • Improved - Lua Filters can now be properly recorded in scripts.
  • Improved - Lua Filters can now be integrated and accessed as normal filter via menus and use the preset systems as well. This is not exposed to users and is accomplished with software changes.
  • Improved - When using a Lua Filter don't update the Brush Effect panel and Brush Control panel. This reduces screen updates when adjusting the filter sliders.
  • Fixed - The Bleed brush effect was not working correctly. It was unbalanced bleed colors too much from one location and not the others.
  • Fixed - When Importing a Clip bank if select No and Cancel on the Delete Clips prompts don't continue with the operation.

17.21

  • Added - Three new watercolor brushes added. Pro Watercolor Dry 4, Pro Watercolor Dry 5 and Pro Watercolor Wet 3.
  • Improved - A number of small improvements have been made to the newly named Record Time-Lapse Painting feature.
  • Changed - Record to AVI features is now called Record Time-Lapse Painting.
  • Changed - Minor reorganization to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Fixed - A handful of brushes in 4 ArtSets has used the ImageBrush effect when they shouldn't have. This resulted in the Clips panel showing when it wasn't needed.

17.20

  • Fixed - The Page View panel was not updating properly in some cases.
  • Improved - Reset All will now clear the Adobe Plug-ins list.
  • Changed - Resizing the Page View panel is now handled with a right click on the Page View panel to cycle through 4 different sizes.
  • Fixed - If a previously selected Plug-ins directory was removed from the computer file system a crash could occur when selecting the Plug-ins option from the Filter menu.

17.19:

  • Improved - Reset All will now clear the Adobe Plug-ins list.
  • Changed - Resizing the Page View panel is now handled with a right click on the Page View panel to cycle through 4 different sizes.
  • Fixed - If a previously selected Plug-ins directory was removed from the computer file system a crash could occur when selecting the Plug-ins option from the Filter menu.

17.18:

  • Added - Page View panel. Dynamic full view of the page with panning support to aid when zoomed in.
  • Added - Clip bank import and export feature added. Bundles all clips from a bank into a single file.
  • Improved - Small performance improvement for the Fractal 01 Lua Script Filter.
  • Improved - Quick Start pages have received visual enhancements to improve readability.
  • Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool was inadvertently alpha locking and alpha unlocking layers in some cases.
  • Fixed - When saving a brush to an ArtSet with a different color storage setting than the current brush the brush color after exiting the ArtSet edit dialog was not correct.
  • Fixed - The Clips panel could get into a state where it would show 2 instances and appear when it shouldn't.
  • Fixed - Setting the Scale slider too low for the Background filter could result in a crash.
  • Fixed - The Art Pro - Photo Edit brush Pro Fix Dynamic Angle was not working correctly.

17.17:

  • Added - Pro Clip Array, Pro Image Brush Array and Pro Image Shape Array brushes added.
  • Added - Brushes Pro Nu Infinity Paint, Pro Design Infinity Paint and Pro Mandala Infinity Paint.
  • Added - Brush effect "Select Clip". Selects a clip from the current clip bank.
  • Added - Brush effect envelopes "clip rnd" and "clip next" added.
  • Improved - Major speed increase for the Pro Fractal, Pro Infinity and Pro Infinity Paint brushes.
  • Improved - The Pro Cloner Dabs 1 and Pro Cloner Dabs 2 brushes now offer and option for Dab Luminance Variance.
  • Improved - The pFix Color Trace brush effect now uses a brush strength for controlling the color luminance variance.
  • Improved - Added a visual indicator when selecting a clip.
  • Fixed - The Pro Image Brush Spray brush was not working correctly with brush rotation.
  • Fixed - The Center Page option was not working.

17.16:

  • Added - Art Pro - Cloner ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Seamless ArtSet added.
  • Added - Brush effect pFix Color Trace added.
  • Added - 4 brushes added to the Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet
  • Added - Brush effect envelope "peak slow" added.
  • Improved - Retain the canvas position information (set with Pan tool) when zooming in and out.
  • Improved - The Fractal and Infinity brushes have been improved in the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
  • Improved - The Fractal brushes have been improved in the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
  • Improved - The Infinity brush has been improved in the Art Pro - Effects ArtSet.
  • Fixed - On new installations the default brush size and colors were not being set correctly.
  • Fixed - The brush rotation indicator on the cursor was not drawing at the correct location.
  • Fixed - The db-ang and db-ang2 brush effect envelopes were not handling the first dab well.
  • Fixed - The Repeat control for the Line tool was not working.

17.15:

  • Added - Brush effects envelopes "pg ang2" and "db ang2"
  • Improved - The Pro Blooming Blender brush has been improved.
  • Improved - Automatically show the Clips panel when using any Clip Brush, Image Brush or Image Shape Brush.
  • Improved - Brush rotation has been improved to be consistent between clips, shapes and image brushes as well as based on brush direction or brush rotation via the rotation tool.
  • Improved - The Pro Clip, Pro Image Brush, Pro Image Shape and Pro Mandala ArtSets have been updated to save the brush rotation to a default angle.
  • Improved - Hide the Freq and Amp columns of the Brush Effects panel if a brush effect envelope does use those columns.
  • Improved - The Art Pro - Image Brush and Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSets have received a number of improvements.
  • Fixed - Corrected a typo in the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
  • Fixed - Pro Clip Brushes with direction rotation on where not drawing the first clip in a sequence rotated correctly.
  • Fixed - The Update button in combination with editing a Color brush modifier brush was not working correctly.

17.14:

  • Added - Art Pro - Liquid ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Clip Brush ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Design ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet added.
  • Added - Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet added.
  • Added - Pro Fix Dynamic Angle and Pro Fix Area Sample brushes added to the Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Oil Paint Flat Brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effect Global Spin added.
  • Added - Pro Infinity brush added to the Art Pro - Effects ArtSet.
  • Added - Three Pro Fractal Brushes added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
  • Added - Three Pro Mandala Fractal Brushes added to the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Lathe brush added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Flower Design brush added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effects envelopes icounter1 - icounter4 added.
  • Added - Brush effect Init added. Runs the next effect only the specified number of times.
  • Added - Brush effect "Shape Brush" added. Sets the brush shape when selecting a clip or using the Copy tool.
  • Added - Brush effect "Bld tint" added.
  • Added - Brush effect "Disable Smooth Stroke".
  • Improved - The Pro Palette Knife brush has been improved.
  • Improved - Brush effects envelopes b-ang(1-4) have been improved to work properly with multi-dab brushes.
  • Improved - The Pro Soft Pastel brush has been improved.
  • Improved - When loading the Shortcuts from an ArtSet or to defaults retain the original ArtSet link for each brush.
  • Improved - The distance based brush effect envelopes (dst, dst x, dst pg, etc) can now be used with the brush control system.
  • Improved - Using the Copy tool will set the Image brush values if an image brush is selected.
  • Changed - A number of ArtSets that have been recreated as Pro ArtSets have been moved to the Legacy category.
  • Changed - Pro Spiro Line brush moved to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
  • Changed - Image Brushes no longer color the clip when an image is selected. Use the new Image Shape brushes to use a clip as a shape.
  • Fixed - Brush effect envelope b-ang4 was not working properly.
  • Fixed - Multi-dab blending brushes were not properly cleaning the brushes.

17.13:

  • Added - Art Pro - Blob Modeling ArtSet added.
  • Added - Pro Watercolor and Pro Palette Knife brushes added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Spiro Line added to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
  • Added - Pro Cat Tail brush added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effects envelope b-ang4 added. In most cases this should be used instead of b-ang1 - b-ang3.
  • Added - Brush effects Blender Count and Select Blender added.
  • Added - Brush effects envelope iIndex added. Results in a value equivalent to the current effect dab count. Used when dabs are replicated such as with mirror or symmetry effects.
  • Added - The ability for blending brushes to be used with multi-dab effects such as mirror, tile and symmetry. This requires
  • very specific brush effects to work properly.
  • Added - Brush effect envelopes bnk10 - bnk19 have been added.
  • Added - Pro Pen Taper added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Improved - Brush Controls can now used to select directory based objects, bShape, bPattern etc. for sequential items. The Pro Watercolor brush makes use of this.
  • Improved - The Pix Lum Vary and Pix color Vary effects result in no operation when the strength is 0.
  • Improved - The Pro Watercolor Digital Wet brush has been improved.
  • Improved - Many of the brush effect envelopes that use the freq value can now be exposed to the Brush Controls panel.

17.11:

  • Added - 8 new brushes added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effects "Skip 2 if", "Skip once" and "Skip 2 once" added.
  • Improved - The Art Pro - Photo Edit brushes have been improved so that they work with transparent areas of layers.
  • Improved - Brushes with Lay effects (many of the Pro brushes) now can but used to paint on Blob and Liquid layers.
  • Improved - A number of brushes in the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet have been improved.
  • Fixed - Layer blending modes Color and Hard Color no longer replace pure alpha areas.
  • Fixed - The f-in-fast brush effect was not working correctly.
  • Fixed - Brushes with the new Lay effects (Lay Dodge, Lay Multiple etc) were not working properly with the transparent areas of layers.

17.10:

  • Added - 29 new Pro brushes added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet!
  • Added - Brush effects now can have up to 16 levels. Increased from 12.
  • Added - Brush effect pEmit Radial added.
  • Added - Brush effect envelope t-ang2 added.
  • Added - Brush effect VM Randomize. Value modifier to randomize the strength of the following brush effect.
  • Added - Added brushes Pro Basic Paint and Pro Basic Wet Paint to the Art Pro Natural Media ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effect envelopes f-in-fast and f-out-fast. Faster fading in and out.
  • Added - Brush effect Disperse added. This is a 10x stronger jitter.
  • Added - Brush effect Gap added. This is the reverse of the Skip effect.
  • Added - Brush effects pEmit DInv 2 Alt and pEmit Dir 2 Alt added. Alternates the branched directional particles.
  • Added - Brush effect Skip2 added. Skips the next 2 brush effects (instead of just 1).
  • Added - Brush effect Gap2 added. Reverse of Skip2.
  • Added - Brush effect pSpd Init. Sets the initial particle speed.
  • Added - Core brush variations, Fine Coverage, Fine Coverage 50 percent feather and Fine Coverage 100 percent feather.
  • Improved - Retain brush size and color information when switching to and from brushes with integral color and size information!
  • Improved - When using the Line tool don't redraw the last line when releasing the mouse button. This allows for greater control with use of advanced brushes that have a random factor to them.
  • Changed - The 3D Abs effect now results in no action when the strength is 0.
  • Fixed - Using the Move tool on a locked layer would result in the layer being cleared. Now the layer lock (alpha lock) is ignored for the Move tool
  • Fixed - Using the Cor Dab Spc set to a value of 0 in combination with other effects could result in a crash.
  • Fixed - In Blob modes 4 and 5 when using a lowering brush switching pages and returning could result in a change in the fully lowered areas.

17.00

  • Added - Brush Control feature added. Allows for brushes to have custom sliders!!
  • Added - Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet added. Covers most natural media brush with flexible brush control!
  • Added - Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet added. Beginning stages of interesting brushes.
  • Added - Art Pro - Effects ArtSet added. Beginning stages of useful and flexible effects.
  • Added - Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet added. New brushes for photo editing!
  • Added - Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet added. Very early stages of this ArtSet with just one great brush so far.
  • Added - Art Pro - Utility ArtSet added. The location for new utility oriented brushes.
  • Added - Support for reading camera RAW files added. Well over 100 camera models supported.
  • Added - Color Contrast filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
  • Added - Solutions Paint Style 01, Pastel Style 01 and Pastel Style 02 added.
  • Added - New solutions added to the Image Enhancement category. Bright Detail Style 1 - 4, Bright Hyper Light Style 1 - 3 and Bright Light Details Style 1 - 4.
  • Added - New solutions added to the Special Effects category. Extreme Bright Detail 1 - 2.
  • Added - A new solutions category Noise Reduction added with 10 new noise reduction solutions.
  • Added - Auto Levels Solution added to the Image Enhancement category.
  • Added - Mask High Low filter added to the Mask Generation category of filters.
  • Added - A new solution category called Channels was added with solutions for splitting and merging an image into channels components.
  • Added - New brush effects Shift Dab Up, Shift Dab Down, Shift Dab Right, Shift Dab Left, Shift Dab Angle and Rebase Dab Pos. These are used for the new Photo Repair brushes.
  • Added - Brush effects pRnd Ang Init and pRnd Pos Init added.
  • Added - D Blender brush added to Duarte's Brushes ArtSet. Thank you for the contribution!
  • Added - Conte Style 01 solution added to Artistic category of solutions.
  • Added - Colored Pencil Style 01 solution added to Artistic category of solutions.
  • Added - Brush effect Repeat added.
  • Added - pMove Smooth brush effect added.
  • Added - pRegress brush effect added.
  • Added - Brush effects, Lay Multiply, Lay Screen, Lay Darken, Lay Overlay, Lay Hard Light, Lay Soft Light, Lay Dodge, Lay Burn, Lay Add, Lay Subtract, Lay Color and Lay Hard Color added.
  • Improved - Added a pixel isolation mode to the Mask Detail filter.
  • Improved - Added an Auto Levels option to the Levels filter!
  • Changed - Don't remove disabled effects from brushes when using the Optimize ArtSet feature.
  • Changed - Return to using the higher quality, but slower Gaussian blur filter. The faster one has some poor quality side effects.
  • Changed - All Scatter and Jitter brush effects now result in no action when the strength is zero.
  • Changed - All particle random position and angle effects no result in no action when the strength is zero.
  • Changed - All Bld Mix brush effects result in no action when the strength is zero.
  • Changed - The default shortcuts have been completely updated to include mostly Pro brushes.
  • Removed - The ArtSets Art Pro Watercolor, Art Pro Soft Pastel and Art Pro Oil Pastel have been removed.
  • Fixed - Using the Fixed Size Edge and Rectangle options for the Vignette filter could result in a crash on some image sizes.
  • Fixed - Using the mask wand tool off the top of the image would result in a crash.
  • Fixed - When selecting brush sizes larger than 600 pixels for brushes with a texture a crash would occur.
  • Fixed - The Lay Normal brush effect was not working correctly.
  • Fixed - The core brush attribute Prime Primary Color was not working correctly for dynamically sized brushes.
  • Fixed - A number of brushes including Cartoon brushes were not working properly on layers.
  • Fixed - The dynamic status panel was not updating when a system was not restarted for over 21 days.