18.18

• Added  - Basic Animation supported added. Accessed from the new top level menu named Animation.
• Improved - When zooming in and out with the mouse wheel or + or - keys retain the actual position on screen of the area of interest.
• Improved - Books can now have up to 1000 pages.
• Improved - When starting Page Explorer or selecting a new book in the Page Explorer give a indicator in the title bar that the thumbnails are being built.
• Improved - Support key repeat for the next and prev keys (Page Down and Page Up) to allow flipping through pages more quickly.
• Improved - Automatic zoom to fit has been refined to only do it in cases when a new file is being imported and not in cases the interrupt work flow such as when paging up and down or when working with filters or solutions.
• Fixed - When zooming out with the mouse wheel quickly there could be some visual artifacts on the drawing area background panel.
• Fixed - Using the Set Preview Area with the Motion Blur filter or any filter without a checkview check box would result in a crash.
• Fixed - When deleting a page not all the page elements were deleted.
• Fixed - When moving a page up or down in the Page Explorer not all page elements were moved.
• Fixed - The Pro Watercolor Dry 4 Pro, Watercolor Dry 5 and Pro Watercolor Wet 3 brushes had incorrect default size values.

18.17

• Added - Pro Air Flow Brush to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
• Added - Pro Twister to the Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet
• Added - Many fire and plasma brushes added to the Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet.
• Added - Lineto Reset brush effect.
• Added - Pro Spriro Line 2, Pro Snaker, Pro Spinner, Pro Fractal Snaker and Pro Fractal Spinner to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
• Added - Pro Img Shp Shaded, Pro Img Shp Pattern Shaded, Pro Img Shp Cloner Shaded, Pro Img Shp Shaded Rotate, Pro Img Shp Pattern Shaded Rotate and Pro Img Shp Cloner Shaded Rotate brushes.
• Added - Pro Snow Laden Tree, Pro Foliage, Pro Foliage 5, Pro Leaf 1, Pro Leaf 2, Pro Leaf 2, Pro Twigs and Pro Butterflies added to Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
• Added - HSL Adjustments brush effects modifiers to the Effects - Color Modifier ArtSet.
• Added - Brush effects pRot To Dir and pRot to DirInv to rotate the brush to the current particle direction.
• Added - Brush effect Spac text clip added for supporting varible pitched spacing for Text brushes.
• Added - Brush effect envelope db-ang3.
• Added - Brush effect Shaded Direction and Shaded Length.
• Improved - Pressing and holding the Shift key will constrain the painting tool to a straight line.
• Improved - The Dab Mode Rate brush effect is now set at a scale of 10x faster.
• Improved - When the Dab Mode Rate brush effect is in use don't draw triggered by movement, only by the flow rate.
• Improve - Most Pro brushes have been updated to set the brush rotation to 0 (no rotation). This results in improved quality and performance.
• Improved - The Dab Pos Mode effect is now compatible with Lay brush effects.
• Improved - Text brushes now support varable pitch spacing and also been updated to take advantage of the Brush Control option (check box) features.
• Fixed - The Tool Shortcut is Always Dynamic preference was not working properly.
• Fixed - The Dab Mode Rate brush effect and brushes that use it was not working properly on non-tablet installations.

18.16

• Added - Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet added.
• Added - Pro Image Shape Particle 1, Pro Image Shape Particle 2 and Pro Image Shape Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet
• Added - Pro Image Brush Particle 1, Pro Image Brush Particle 2 and Pro Image Brush Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet.
• Added - Pro Shape Particle 1, Pro Shape Particle 2 and Pro Shape Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet
• Added - Pro Clip Particles to the Art Pro - Clip Brush ArtSet
• Added - Pro Nu Spray Wave and Pro Nu Spray Shot to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
• Added - TwistedBrush Automation System! Experimental but functioning. Found at menu File > Automation.
• Added - Tool Shortcut is Always Dynamic preference added.
• Added - Pro Eraser Text Brush added to the Art Pro - Test Brush ArtSet.
• Added - Brush effects pRot, pAdj Rot, pRot Init, pRnd Rot and pRnd Rot Init added.
• Added - Brush effect Dab mode rate added. Allows for Dab Mode and Dab Pos Mode brushes to paint without moving the cursor (like an air brush)
• Improved - The Brush Control panel now supports the ability to turn off and on control parameters.
• Improved - Remember the last text entered for Text brushes
• Improved - When selecting a brush effect in the Brush Effect panel clear out the envelope, freq and amount fields if the brush effect doesn't use them
• Improved - Particle emitter have been changed to not filter drawing, just emitting, when it's not time to emit a new particle.
• Improved - The Paste tool, clip brushes and text brushes have improved performance with rotating.
• Improved - RAW camera reading has been updated to use version 1.444 of dcraw.
• Changed - Remove unused Text Clip Brush effect.
• Changed - The Hide Circle Cursor option has been changed to Hide Circle Cursor while Drawing.
• Fixed - Don't display the Clips panel when Text Clip brushes are selected.
• Fixed - The New Combo Palette popup menu action was clearing the current palette when it shouldn't
• Fixed - bStrokeScript and ubStrokeScript brush effects, if referencing an incorrect script file would lose recent changes to the brush.
• Fixed - Paste tool, clip brushes and text brushes could crash in rare cases when rotating.
• Fixed - Using the Import Brush Code or Export Brush Code from the brush shortcut popup menu would trigger a color selection mode for reference images.
• Fixed - Closing the Brush Control panel when a Text Brush is selected would result in a crash on the next brush selected.
• Fixed - Selecting a Hue Adj, Sat Adj or Luminence Adj brush effect when the Brush Control panel was not visible would result in a crash.
• Fixed - Selecting a Text Clip Once or Text Clip Repeat brush effect when the Brush Control panel was not visible would result in a crash.

18.15

• Added - Art Pro - Text Brushes ArtSet added!! Allows painting with text.
• Added - Brush effects Text Clip Once, Text Clip Repeat and Text Clip Brush.
• Improved - When using the Color Picker with an ImageBrush also capture the color in addition to the image beneath the cursor.
• Improved - Selecting of tools in normal and dynamic mode has been improved so that anytime a tool shortcut key is pressed and the tool is used while the key is down it will be considered a dynamic tool usage regardless of how quickly this is done.
• Improved - Don't allow tool selection while drawing.
• Changed - Some of the Help menus have been changed.
• Changed - Reinstate the feature that allows either mouse button to activate a tool when the tool is being used in dynamic mode
• Changed - Default on new installations is to not disable Aero themes when TwistedBrush starts.
• Fixed - Script recording was not recording the Color Picker action when the capturing from the current layer or trace layer.
• Fixed - The Brush Control panel was not always properly predrawn when switching brushes in Aero themes.
• Fixed - The Center Cursor shortcut Shift + P was only working at 1:1 zoom level.
• Fixed - Clip Array brushes, Image Brush Array brushes and Image Shape Array brushes were not working properly.
• Fixed - Skip 2 If brush effect was not working properly resulting in a number of brushes not working properly.

18.14

• Added - Exposed the option to disable the Windows Aero themes on start-up. Found in the Preferences dialog. Previously the Aero themes were always disabled.
• Improved - Tool selection with shortcut keys is improved. Press a key to select a tool, press and hold the key and use the tool will use the tool in dynamic mode.
• Fixed - The Grid Snap drawing guide was not working when is was not displayed for performance reasons.

18.13

• Added - Clear button added to the Drawing Guide tool to clear the set drawing guides.
• Added - Load from File as Reference Image menu option added to the File menu.
• Added - The Page Summary dialog gets a Reset button.
• Added - The Shortcut Key F2 will now launch the Page Explorer
• Added - Pro Clip Designer brush in the Art Pro Clips ArtSet.
• Improved - A number of drawing guides have rendering performance improvements. These include not displaying them when the size would be too small and only rendering the areas that are visible.
• Improved - Script Brush strokes can now be Undone just like any other stroke. This makes them much more usable.
• Changed - The multitude of directly selectable Zoom levels in the View menu have been moved to the Zoom submenu.
• Changed - The Opacity slider for the Magic Wand Mask took is now called Level.
• Changed - When recording scripts for the Script Brush tool the Undo system is disabled.
• Changed - Don't clear the current palette when using the New Palette option.
• Fixed - Modifier ArtSets were appearing in the User Created ArtSet category when they should not have appeared at all.
• Fixed - The tool tip popup help was not correct for the page and book navigation icons.
• Fixed - Added Shortcut Key (F1) to the Help > User Guide menu item.

18.12

• Added -  Layer locking is now possible. A layer can either be not locked, alpha channel locked or fully locked. Previously no alpha channel locking was supported.
• Added - The Hue adj, Sat adj and Luminance adj brush effects when exposed in the Brush Controls will have a color preview bar.
• Added - Pro Nu Puddy Paint to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
• Changed - The Pro Img Shp Basic brush has the erase option removed since it is not compatible with the brush layer options used in that brush.
• Fixed - Pattern modifier ArtSets were appearing in the wrong category in the Brush Selection dialog.
• Fixed - Brush modifier ArtSets were not always appearing in the in the ArtSet list while in the ArtSet Edit dialog and they were also appearing in the Brush Select dialog when they should not.
• Fixed - Numerous Pro brushes where not working properly. Specifically those with optional features such as Directional Rotate On/Off for Image Brushes.

18.11

• Added - Batch processing!! Automatically apply a script to multiple files.
• Added - New menu Reset All Pop-up Messages added to the File menu to restore all hidden pop-up messages.
• Improved - Art Pro - Image Shape brushes will now automatically convert clip luminance value to alpha values for clips that are fully opaque. This does not alter the stored clip, only the version loaded for the shape brushes.
• Improved - All help resources are now online rather than integrated in the application.
• Improved - Alpha channel fidelity improvements when using clips and some filters.
• Improved - The Pro Img Shp Basic brush gets a wash option and fix for the eraser mode option.
• Improved - The Last Settings for Lua filters are now suffixed with the script name so that last settings will be saved per script.
• Changed - Installation default for the mouse button control is changed to use left mouse button for tools (more standard).
• Changed - Don't allow hiding the mouse button control message when switching between left and right mouse buttons used for tools.
• Fixed - Lua filter scripts and integrated Lua filter scripts were not recording properly in the TwistedBrush script recording system.
• Fixed - Entering a name in the Layer panel and then closing the Layer panel before selecting something else would result in the layer name not being saved.

18.10

• Added - New ArtSet Art Pro - Pattern added. With more powerful and easier to use pattern brushes that previously available,
• Added - Clip Fill filter added to the Generate category of filters.
• Added - Detail Enhance filter to the Photo category of filters.
• Added - New brush effects Luminance Rnd, Luminance add, Luminance sub, Hue adj, Sat adj and Luminance adj.
• Added - New brush effects, Bsh Pat Scale, Select Pattern, Select Rotation, Select Shape and Select Texture.
• Added - New brush effect, Clip Pattern.
• Added - It is now possible for the Brush Control panel to have a button for selecting a Pattern, Rotation, Shape or Texture.
• Improved - The Brush O Matic brush in the Art Pro - Design ArtSet has been updated for better pattern handling.
• Fixed - When selecting and canceling a brush effect type in the Brush Effects panel for an effect that has brush control settings do not lose the brush control settings.
• Fixed - The Saturation brush effects where not correct when saturation was set as full.
• Fixed - The Contrast Mask filter and other other filters that rely on it could crash at some very specific image sizes.
• Fixed - With certain special brush types selected were selected the Filters dialog would not work properly to beyond the first preview.

18.09

• Added - Graphite filter added to the Artist category.
• Added - Drawn filter added to the Artist category.
• Added - Edge 6 filter added to the Stylized category.
• Added - Skin Enhance filter added to the Photo category.
• Added - Tone filter added to the Color category.
• Added - Contrast Luminance Map filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
• Added - Contrast Overload filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
• Added - Contrast Soft Light filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
• Improved - The various Hue and Saturation brush effects have been updated to give more controlled results, especially when used in combination with each other and the Luminance brush effect.
• Improved - The Combo and Global brush envelopes now are mapped to the full range of values. Previous percentages of 0 to 99 were available. The percentages 0 to 100 are now properly available (in increments of slightly more then 1%).
• Improved - The various controls sliders, lists etc in the Filter dialog box have been improvement to be more accurate.
• Improved - The Clear Page and Fill Page features are now called Clear Layer and Fill Layer and have been moved to the Edit menu.
• Changed - Adjusted the default value for the Histogram Stretch filter to be that of a value of more common usability.
• Fixed - The buffers in Lua filter scripts were not being cleared properly which could result in a crash or old image data being present in a filter.
• Fixed - Lua Integrated filters were not showing the additional information area properly.

18.08

• Added - Zoom Fit has been added to the Quick Command feature.
• Added - Brush effect Luminance added.
• Improved - Added some additional common PPI sizes for the Page Size dialog. Including 100, 110, 120, 180, 240, 400 and 500. These are in addition to the sizes that were already available.
• Improved - The random frame solutions now can be used on any layer without the need to flatten the image.
• Improved - The history palette is now shown as an 8x8 grid of colors rather than 16x16. This makes it much easier to find a select a specific previously used color.
• Changed - The default values for the Alpha Edge Color filter have been updated.
• Fixed - Allow for more space for the text "Select the position of current image on the new page." on the Set Page Size dialog.
• Fixed - Deleting pages in the Page Explorer would not properly clear the page title.
• Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool in Erase Connected mode could result in a crash.
• Fixed - The Layer Mask layer mixing mode was not appearing properly on screen with many brushes while a paint stroke was in progress.
• Fixed - Lua function print_buffer_clear() had an issue that could lead to stability problems in scripts that use it.
• Fixed - Don't display the layer transparency warning during script playback when layers are moved to and from the background.

18.07

• Added - ArtSet Art Pro Large Format added. Brushed designed for huge brush sizes.
• Added - A Rule of Thirds Grid option has been added to the Crop tool.
• Added - Alpha Edge Color filter added to the Color category.
• Improved - When Entering a name for a Combo palette check for user supplied prefix of "Combo - " and remove it from the name otherwise that prefix will be duplicated.
• Improved - Significant improvement in the automatic disposal of Undo steps when memory is low at the time the memory is needed!
• Improved - Undo memory was not being freed as soon as it could be resulting in some actions failing if memory was low.
• Improved - When using the Save Base Palette pop-up menu option if the palette file exists present a overwrite confirm dialog.
• Improved - Pressing the space bar while using any of the rectangle or ellipse based tools will hide the coordinate information box.
• Improved - Don't allow pasting into an invisible layer.
• Improved - Don't allow loading from file into an invisible layer.
• Fixed - Eraser brushes on layer 1 (background layer) were not honoring masks.

18.06

• Added - Pro Pen Fine Line brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
• Added - Pro Soft Pastel 2 and Pro Oil Paint 3 brushes added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
• Added - Swap with Current Color pop-up menu added to the current selected color bar.
• Improved - When loading a page, default zoom level will now be to fit the page into the viewable area. Previously it was always at the 100% zoom level.
• Improved - Pressing and holding the Alt key with Lasso Mask tool will constrain the next segment to a line.
• Improved - When using the Search feature of the Brush Select dialog the Brush Category, Brush Variation and Effect Envelope fields will also be searched.
• Improved - When using the Search feature of the Brush Select dialog the currently selected brush if part of the search result set will appear with a yellow background to make known that it is part of the search results.
• Fixed - The Polygon Mask tool was not canceling when selecting a different tool.
• Fixed - The Palette menu commands, Create 1 Color Span, Create 2 Color Span, Create 3 Color Span, Create 4 Color Span, Create Hue Span From Current Color, Create From Image (Spot) and Create From Image (Average) were not working properly with Combo Palettes.
• Fixed - The Layer Panel, Clips Panel and Page View Panel were not honoring the Dialog Visible Adjust option when it was disabled.
• Fixed - The Polygon Mask was not accurately allowing the placement of the end point of a segment.
• Fixed - In the Filter dialog when doing adjustments for Lua based filters with a mask present the canvas was updating too frequently resulting in a flicker.
• Fixed - Lua Script filter list in the Filter dialog could not be navigated with the up and down arrow keys.
• Fixed - The gussy filter with a Blur value of 0 was not working.

18.05

• Added - New palette type added - Combo. This palette type will allow for easily selecting and saving all four colors from the color bar!
• Added - Additional pop-up menu options for palettes. New Palette, New Combo Palette, Save Base Palette and Clear Palette.
• Added - New default palette added in P3 position. Combo - Default 16.
• Added - Three new scribbler brushes. Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 1, Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 3,
• Improved - The default Elevation value for the Emboss2 filter has been adjusted to a more usable value.
• Improved - Added Save Restore Point and Revert to Store Point to the Quick Command panel.
• Improved - All pop-up menus have a Cancel option added. Additionally some pop-up menus have been rearranged to make more common choices easier to select.
• Improved - The Pro Nu Sketched Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu Sketched Scribbler 3 have been updated to be usable with the currently selected color.
• Fixed - One step undo was not working after a Revert to Restore Point action.
• Fixed - It was not possible to delete a book name.

18.04

• Improved - The Apply and Continue feature was added back to the Filter Dialog.
• Improved - Exit the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) when restore points are stored.
• Improved - When moving a layer with transparency into the background layer present a warning message and choice if this action should be continued since the transparency will be lost.
• Fixed - Using the filter preview area on a special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) was not working.
• Fixed - Don't auto save when special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) are active.
• Fixed - Undo was not working properly with special layers. This change will disable the undo system while working on special layers. This may be enhanced in the future to fully support undo within the special layers.

18.03

• Added - Standard Banner Ad sizes added to the Set Page Size dialog.
• Added - Mirror Filter added.
• Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow transparency.
• Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow layer actions, layer up, layer down, merge or duplicates.
• Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow Blob and Liquid brushes.
• Improved - When using the Paper Select dialog show the special Paper layer as selected for a visual cue.
• Improved - Clicking on an active special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) in the Layer Mini bar will now toggle it off rather than do nothing.
• Improved - Select a special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) from the Layers panel will now activate the special layer.
• Changed - Don't give a warning message when using the Paper Select dialog about the layer being deleted.
• Fixed - Zoom levels were not being properly preserved when switching to and from the scratch layer.
• Fixed - Background Removal solutions were allowed to run on the background layer when they shouldn't. This could result in a crash.
• Fixed - When setting a new page size the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) new area were not properly initialized.

18.02

• Fixed - Using the Page Exploring when the special layer (Paper, Scratch or Mask) was selected could result in a crash.
• Fixed - The Paper Select dialog was creating the paper layer at the wrong layer location.

18.01

• Fixed - The eraser brushes were not working.

18.00

• Added - A new Polygon Mask tool has been added.
• Added - A new Lasso Mask tool has been added.
• Added - The Filter dialog now includes an option to select a rectangle area for previews. This is useful for very large pages.
• Added - The Lua filter scripts now support a variant slider type. This allows for a greater range of values.
• Added - New preference, Dialog Visible Adjustment. Allows during off the automatic movement of dialog boxes and panels. Useful for those with duel monitors.
• Added - Special Layer added. Mask Edit Layer allows quick and easy highly refined mask editing.
• Added - The three special layers (30, 31, and 32) now are shown with icons. P - Paper Layer, S - Scratch Layer, M - Mask Layer. Selecting one of these special layers from the layer mini bar will immediately enter the edit mode for that special layer.
• Added - Brush Code Import and Brush Code Export menus added to the Brush Shortcut pop-up menu.
• Improved - The Rectangle Mask tool now includes options for Replace, Add, and Subtract as well as an inverted rectangle option.
• Improved - The Ellipse Mask tool now includes options for Replace, Add, and Subtract as well as an inverted ellipse option.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: Editing mode of the scratch layer is now persistent so that it is no longer required to hold the A key to remain on the scratch layer.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: Textual indicator at the top of the page when editing the scratch layer was added.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: Switching to and from the scratch layer can now be done view the A key, layer menu, or Quick Command button.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: When exiting the scratch layer a Reference Image titled Scratch Layer Reference is automatically created / updated! Allows for easy color selections.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: The scratch layer's zoom and page position is remembered the next time you go to edit the scratch layer.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: The scratch layer is automatically named Scratch layer.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: The visibility of the scratch layer is now always turned off when exiting the scratch layer.
• Improved - Scratch Layer: When creating the scratch layer via toggling into the scratch layer edit mode the layer is automatically filled with fully opaque white. If desired the layer can be cleared for transparency.
• Improved - The Frame Maker filter now allows for a much great range of variations.
• Improved - The Quick Command panel buttons are now color coded to make it easier to quick find the desired button.
• Improved - The Layer Panel Launcher has been replaced with a more general Panel Launcher. This is the little bar that appears under the color palette area.
• Improved - The Paper Layer (previously called Texture Layer) now can more easily be manually edited in addition to the paper select dialog.
• Improved - Non-blending brushes work more logically with soft mask edges.
• Improved - Up to 256 layers can now be created. This is increased from the previous maximum of 32 layers.
• Improved - In the Layers panel the Click to Create Layer text now includes the layer number for reference.
• Changed - The Filter dialog no longer supports the Apply and Continue option.
• Changed - Hot keys for changing pages in a book are now Page Up and Page Down keys instead of the Left and Right arrow keys.
• Removed - The Unmask Grid Cell tool has been removed.
• Removed - The menu Mask > Mask Filter has been removed since it is now easier and more powerful to use the special Mask Edit layer.
• Removed - The menu Layer > Set Scratch Layer has been remove. The scratch layer will always be at layer position 31.
• Removed - Removed the hot keys Up and Down arrows for changing books. It was too easy to accidentally press these.
• Fixed - The Quick Command panel was not always properly sized.
• Fixed - The Move tool was not working correctly when ESC was used to cancel the Move action.
• Fixed - Don't remove the Scratch Layer when flattening a page.