Version 16

16.24

  • Added - Added the Lay Transparency brush effect. This allows for proper transparency of brushes that make use of lay effects.
  • Added - Two new modes added to the Contrast Mask filter and the Photo Detailer filter.
  • Added - Detail Enhance solution added to the Special Effects category.
  • Added - Solutions Recover Detail Clean, Recover Detail Neutral and Recover Detail Vivid added to the Image Enhancement category of solutions.
  • Added - Solution Extreme Detail Neutral and Extreme Detail Vivid added to the Special Effects category of solutions.
  • Improved - The Hyper Contrast filter has some performance improvements. This helps a number of other filters that internally use this filter.
  • Improved - The Search feature of the Select Brush dialog will now also match against brush effects.
  • Changed - The brush effect Alpha Lay has been removed since it no longer is needed. Brushes that used it have been updated.
  • Fixed - The Pro Watercolor brushes could lead to incorrect results on other layers if the other layer had an Lay Alpha mix mode.
  • Fixed - A number of brushes from different ArtSets were not functioning properly due to changes introduced 2 releases back.

16.23:

  • Added - Added 2 new layer mix modes, Color and Hard Color! Very useful.
  • Added - Reduce filter added to the Distort category. This gives better results than the Zoom filter for reducing the size of the image data.
  • Added - Inlay Bottom Left and Inlay Bottom Right solutions added to the Layout category.
  • Added - New solutions, Glow Style 02, Ink Style 02 and Drawn Style 05.
  • Added - Added 9 Skin Enhancement solutions.
  • Improved - Improvements to the Frame solutions for better handling of where the paper edge meets the mat.
  • Improved - When setting the paper color set the background layer color automatically.
  • Changed - The brush size will now be treated as an absolute size when recording solutions rather than proportional.

16.22:

  • Improved - The Portrait Style 01 - 09 solutions have been complete reworked and give much nicer results on a wider range of photos.
  • Fixed - The Move action was not properly re-recording in scripts. For example if attempting to record a usage of one of the Layout Solutions.
  • Fixed - The Angle slider for the Motion Blur 2 filter was not working correctly.

16.21:

  • Added - New Artet Collections - String Art 01.
  • Improved - The Value Blur filter is nearly twice as fast! This means all the other filters and solutions that rely on this important filter also will get a performance boost.
  • Improved - The Noise Reduction filter is nearly twice as fast!
  • Improved - The Noise Reduction RGB filter is more than twice as fast!
  • Improved - The Noise Reduction 2 filter is around twice as fast, almost 3x on multi-processor systems!
  • Improved - The Anti-alias filter is around twice as fast!
  • Improved - The performance of the Line Art Cleaner filter has been moderately improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Basic Threshold filter has been moderately improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Hyper-Contrast filter has been moderately improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Adaptive Blur filter has been moderately improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Fader filter has been slightly improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Borderizer filter has been improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Clamp filter has been improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Mask Detail filter has been improved.
  • Improved - The performance of the Gaussian Blur filter has a small improved. This also helps a handful of other filters indirectly.
  • Improved - The performance of non-blending brushes has been improved by up to 15%!
  • Improved - Many CPU intensive actions through out TwistedBrush gained around 5% improvement in performance. This includes large or complex brushes. This is independent from the other improvements listed and therefore accumulative in many cases.
  • Fixed - Using the Bristles brush effect in combination with the Size brush effect could lead to a program crash.

16.20:

  • Added - New ArtSet added. Process - Special Effects 02 added. In the Effects category of brushes. Includes a variety of Infinity and Black Hole brushes.
  • Added - New ArtSet added. Collections - Fractal Particles 01.
  • Added - Motion Blur 2, Radial Blur 2 and Zoom Blur 2 filters added.
  • Added - Added an Liquid Infinity shaper brush to the Liquid - Shaper ArtSet.
  • Improved - The layer opacity now adjusts the transparency of Liquid and Blob layers (and any of the Alpha mix modes)!!
  • Improved - Allow the Color History palette to be cleared with the menu Palette > Clear Color Palette.
  • Improved - Don't update the color history palette if the color is already in the last 16 (first row) colors.
  • Improved - Significant performance improvements on systems with multi-core processors for the Perspective, Warp, Warp Edge, Warp 3 Point, Stretch, Stretch Edge, Horizontal Pivot, Vertical Pivot and Skew filters and any solutions that make use of them.
  • Improved - Significant performance improvement on the final placement of with the Paste tool on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Significant performance improvement for the Clip brushes on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Significant performance for the image resize functionality on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Performance improvements for the Move tool when wrap is enabled on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Performance improvementsfor the Ellipical, Lens, Marble, Pinch, Ripple, Spin, Spin Wave, Wave, Wow and Zig Zag Distort filters on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Hugh performance improvements for the Offset filter.
  • Improved - Performance improvements for the Displacement Bump filter on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Performance improvements for the Frosted Glass filter on systems with multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Some performance improvement on the final placement of text with the text tool.
  • Improved - Some performance improvement for the Warp Image tool on multi-core processors.
  • Improved - Placement of text is more accurately shown between moving and the final placement.
  • Improved - Minor quality improvements to the image brushes.
  • Improved - Some quality improvements for all brush shapes due to a internal change in resizing method used.
  • Improved - Improved quality when scaling the Background, Texture Emboss and Texture Bump filters.
  • Improved - Added some usage instruction/hints in the Fractal ArtSets.
  • Changed - Default the Image Resize functionality to Lanczos3 instead of Bicubic.

16.19:

  • Added - The Copy tool gets an option for Copy Merged.
  • Added - Facebook and Twitter links added to the Help menu.
  • Improved - Updated the Color History Palette only with colors that are actually painted with.
  • Improved - Changed to warning for automatically switching to a Liquid or Blob layer more clear.
  • Fixed - When merging layers with alpha mix modes ensure the colors don't bleed in pure alpha areas. For example merge a Alpha Smooth 2 layer into a new blank layer and then copy and use the paste tool and resize larger and a color would bleed beyond the object edge.
  • Fixed - Merging 2 liquid layers (Alpha Smooth 2) together was not working correctly.

16.18

  • Improved - Most brushes can be used to paint objects on the liquid and blob layers.
  • Change - By default setting a layer to a blob layer will use Alpha Smooth Lum 5 instead of Alpha Smooth Lum 3.
  • Fixed - The handling of the maximized windows state at start-up could result in the main application window not being shown when selected from the task bar.
  • Fixed - Fixed a case of a Invalid Gadget Canvas Handle crash that could occur after using a right click pop-up menu.
  • Fixed - Incorrect warning text when attempting to use a Liquid Paint brush on a non-Alpha Smooth 2 layer.

16.17:

  • Added - Liquid Paint ArtSets added! Liquid Modeler, Liquid Shaper and Liquid Paints.
  • Added - Collections - LNA Chains 101 ArtSet added. Thanks LNA for the fine contribution!
  • Added - Brush effect Lay Smooth2 added.
  • Added - Layer mode Alpha Smooth2 added.
  • Added - Brush effect Liquid Mode added.
  • Added - Solutions Photo Edge 01 and Photo Edge 01 Shadow added to the Border category.
  • Added - Quick Start page for Clips added.
  • Improved - When attempting to using a blob brush on a non-blob layer allow for the layer to be automatically switched.
  • Improved - For Blob (and Liquid Paint) layers automatically lock the alpha channel for the Gradient tool and the Background filters.
  • Improved - The quality of the Paste tool has been improved. Back to using a fixed Lanczos 3 algorithm.
  • Improved - When changing the page size use the current paper color for the new area edges.
  • Changed - The opening splash screen was changed.
  • Fixed - The pop-up menu on the layer mini bar was not properly detecting a blob layer for Lum types 4 and 5.
  • Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool in paint connected mode was altering the alpha channel when it should not.

16.16:

  • Added - Grayscale Visually Solution added.
  • Added - An option is added to the plug-in filter to lock the alpha channel to improve compatibility with some plug-ins.
  • Added - Brush effect "Filter on first" added. This will result in filtering the dab if it's the first dab in a stroke.
  • Added - Brush effect envelop "B-ang3" added. Designed to work with the Rotate effect and spaced dabs.
  • Added - Brush effect envelop "B-ang clips" added. Designed to work with the Rotate effect and clip brushes.
  • Added - Clip Dragged Spaced Directional brush added to the Clips : Basic ArtSet. The clip is rotated as in the direction of the stroke as you paint.
  • Added - Charcoal Style 02 Solution added to the Artistic category.
  • Added - Save the last filter settings as a preset called Last Settings for all filters except Lua scripts and plug-ins.
  • Added - WM Map brush effect added. This is a value modifier effect (modifiers the following effect). Maps the resulting value if matching the frequency column to that of the amplitude column.
  • Improved - When selecting a plug-in folder automatically add it to the folder list so that Add button doesn't have to be pressed.
  • Improved - Only scan the plug-in folders after the plug-in folder selection dialog is used. Improves performance of selecting the Plug=in filter type.
  • Improved - Give a warning message when trying to save a Filter Preset for a plug-in.
  • Fixed - Plug-ins with sub-menus were not showing the full list of sub-menus items in the plug-ins list.
  • Fixed - Some plug-ins were reporting that an editable alpha layer was needed.
  • Fixed - Some plug-ins were erasing the alpha channel values resulting in a blank image.
  • Fixed - Memory leak when selecting Load File as New or Load File Into for some file types.

16.15:

  • Added - Support for Adobe Photoshop ™ compatible filters (8bf) has been added!
  • Added - A group of 11 Chromatic Aberration reduction solutions are added to the Image Enhancement category.
  • Added - Two new filters added. Glow Inner and Glow Outer. Found in the Filter > Stylize menu.
  • Added - Added option in Mask menu to Create Mask from Image Visual Luminance.
  • Added - Four Drawn Style Solutions added to the Artist category.
  • Added - A Special Effects Solution category added with three Neon Style Solutions.
  • Added - Five Hyper Image solutions added to the Special Effects category.
  • Added - Added a Sketch Style 01 solution to the Artists category.
  • Added - Added Glow Style 01 solution to the Special Effects category.
  • Fixed - Gaussian Blur was not working in some cases.
  • Fixed - The Duotone filter was not making full use of the color range.
  • Fixed - When moving the layers either up and down from the background the resulting image on layer 2 would not properly allow for the alpha channel to be changed when a mask was active.

16.14:

  • Added - The Art Pro - Soft Pastels ArtSet is added!
  • Added - A new category of Solutions added. Background Removal. For removing solid color backgrounds.
  • Added - Brush effect VM Range is added. This is a value modifier that will allow clamping the value of the follow effect to the range specific in the Freq and Amp columns.
  • Added - Brush effect envelopes, Cur Lum, Cur Luma, Cur R, Cur G and Cur B. These are based on your currently selected color.
  • Improved - Some improvements to the floating tools to increase robustness.
  • Improved - Show a visual indicator in the Clips panel for empty Clip slots.
  • Fixed - The Screen Capture options in the Edit menu were not working correctly.

16.13:

  • Added - Clips feature!! Accessed from the Copy tool or Paste tool.
  • Added - Clip Brush - Basics ArtSet.
  • Added - Brush effect "Clip Brush" added.
  • Added - Brush effect "Skip If" added.
  • Improved - Image Brushes are tied to the new Clips feature. Selecting a Clip will load the image into the image brush.
  • Fixed - The new rotation indication would sometimes leave an artifact on the screen until redrawn.
  • Fixed - At 90 degrees the rotation indicator was not being shown.
  • Fixed - The Art Pro - Oil Pastel ArtSet had no descriptions.

16.12:

  • Added - Art Pro - Oil Pastel ArtSet added.
  • Added - A tick mark is now shown on the brush cursor to indicate the rotation of the brush.
  • Added - Added brush effects Density Max and Opacity Max.
  • Added - Added Blend Mix Capture2, Blend Mix UnderLayer2, Blend Mix History2 and Blend Mix Trace2 brush effects. Covers a wider range than the similarly named effects.
  • Added - Brush effects Bld luma darker and Bld luma lighter added.
  • Improved - The brsh effects Density Min, Density Max, Opacity Min and Opacity Max now limit the dynamic pen pressure and sliders in the same way the Size Min and Size Max effects do.
  • Improved - In the Brush Effects panel for the Frequency and Amplitude menu popups increase the width of the target areas to make it easy to select the values (0 - 9).
  • Improved - Improved the performance of the Paint to AVI feature.
  • Improved - The Paint to AVI feature will now only record when changes occur. Something like an auto pause feature. Note: at least one frame per minute will still be recorded.
  • Improved - Clicking outside of the Brush Select dialog when not in ArtSet Edit mode will close the dialog.
  • Improved - The Stats mode now shows the core brush attributes. This will be useful for brush designers.
  • Fixed - Selecting a paper texture when there is already image data in layer 32 results in a warning box. If Cancel is selected for the warning box TwistedBrush would suddenly exit.
  • Fixed - When using the About Color Palette menu option selected from the color palette menu popup moving the cursor over the color palette would select a color even when the mouse button wasn't depressed.
  • Fixed - In the Paper Select dialog the slider text values were not always updated properly.
  • Fixed - Most of the "Cor " brush effects did not allow setting values properly to the maximum range.

16.11:

  • Added - Auto clean toggle and clean brush action were added to the quick command panel.
  • Added - New brush effect, Bristles.
  • Added - Pro Watercolor Wet Base brush added to the Art Pro Watercolor ArtSet along with 10 diffusion modifiers.
  • Added - Scale option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
  • Added - Invert option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
  • Improved - ArtSets are now grouped into 19 different categories.
  • Improved - Paper selection has been completely redone. Now paper can be adjusted by scale, weight, adherence, contrast and inverted.
  • Improved - Give a warning message when attempting to use a color palette creation menu on dynamic palettes.
  • Improved - When a tool is selected always show the cursor with a red outline as an indicator that a tool and not the brush is selected.
  • Changed - Renamed the Pro Watercolor Base brush to Pro Watercolor Dry Base.
  • Changed - Art Pro Watercolor Dry Base is now listed in the default brush shortcuts.
  • Fixed - Typos in the the Art Pro - Watercolor ArtSet.
  • Fixed - In the Brush Effects dialog for the Blend and Color Sources there was a duplicate Blend bImage entry.
  • Fixed - When using the option to Start in Page Explorer the previously selected page would be cleared.
  • Fixed - When using a dynamic color palette don't adjust the color when the cursor movement is of the palette.
  • Fixed - When luminance was set at 0 or 100 the hue and saturation values were lost when switching to a new brush.
  • Fixed - When using Auto Brush Cleaning off, when switching to a brush that has colors saved with it make sure the brush is cleaned in that case and the correct color is selected.
  • Fixed - Using filter presets would set the currently selected color when it should not have.

16.10:

  • Added - Art Pro - Watercolors ArtSet added.
  • Added - A new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Fur 101. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
  • Added - Two new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Skin 101 and 102. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
  • Added - Alpha Lay new brush effect. For use in combination with other Lay brush effects to allow for transparency with many of the Lay brush effects.
  • Added - Shape Blur new brush effect. Allows for setting a blur factor for brush shapes. Gives significant flexibility for brush designers.
  • Added - Blend Mix Capture, Blend Mix Underlayer, Blend Mix History and Blend Mix Trace brush effects added. These mix the source buffer with the blending buffer. Useful when used in combination with the Lay brush effects.
  • Added - Added one new texture - Full Coverage. Mostly for internal utility purposes.
  • Improved - The Value Blur filter has received both performance and quality improvements. This is a core blur type that is used in a number of other filters and solutions in TwistedBrush.
  • Improved - Do not reload pigment onto brushes when the size dynamically changes during a stroke. This results in a smoother color flow when the brush sizes change.
  • Improved - The Bleed brush effect has been improved when moving over fully transparent areas.
  • Improved - Added an Extreme option to the Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters.
  • Improved - The Bld brush effects work in combination with the new Blend Mix brush effects. These can lead to some powerful combinations.
  • Improved - The Color Picker no longer switches colors when selecting a fully transparent area of the layer. Previously it was changing the color to white.
  • Improved - The Resat (re-saturation) brush effect now works with blending brushes.
  • Fixed - There were some typos in the Cloners - Artistic 2 ArtSet.
  • Fixed - The Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters were not working below a size value of 5.
  • Fixed - When using variable size brushes that blend it was possible that the brush was not fully cleaned at the start of the next stroke.
  • Fixed - When dismissing the Brush Options dialog moving the cursor over the color palette would change the current color.

16.09:

  • Added - A collection of Layout solutions added. Allows for laying out the layers side by side.
  • Added - 3 new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Hair 101, Collections - LNA Mermaids and Collections - LNA Mermaid Tails. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
  • Improved - Gaussian Blur is much faster now (at higher blur levels). This also improves many other filters and solutions that rely on the guassian blur
  • Fixed - Selecting a layer did not result in the indicator being set for a page change. This can have some adverse effects when canceling certain actions such as Solutions.

16.08:

  • Added - Support for floating panels. Accessed from View menu, hotkeys F4 - F8 and right clicking (for pop up menu) on the brush panels.

16.07:

  • Added - Zoom Fit menu option now available under the View menu. Automatically selects the zoom level that will fit the entire image on the screen without scrolling.
  • Added - Drawing guides Ruler Rect: Inches and Ruler Rect: Centimeters added. Define a rectangle area on the page for a set of rulers to appear.
  • Improved - Zoom out is now handled at smaller increments, allowing for zoom out ratios of 80%, 67% etc.
  • Improved - The maximum Zoom out ratio is now increased to 8% where previously it was at 12%.
  • Fixed - At some levels of zoomed out the right or bottom edge were not rendering properly on screen.
  • Fixed - The ruler text had an inconsistent thickness when the cursor passed over the unit counters.

16.06:

  • Added - Ruler: Inches and Ruler: Centimeter drawing guides added.
  • Fixed - The Move action recorded in older scripts were not playing back correctly.
  • Fixed - The Texturize Bump filter recorded in a script prior to release 10 was not playing back well. This has been improved.

16.05:

  • Added - Blob - Styler 01 and Styler 02 ArtSets added.
  • Updates - The Effects - Blob ArtSet was updated for consistency.
  • Fixed - On some system configurations the drawing of the layers panel and layer mini bar was very slow and made some actions sluggish when more then a few layers were present.

16.04:

  • Added - A couple of brushes to the Art Tools - Airbrushes ArtSet.
  • Added - A new brush effect Spc Cen Abs Fine was added. Allows for smaller increments of dab spacing from the brush center.
  • Added - 2 brushes each to the Blob - Modeler and blob - Surface Modeler ArtSets.
  • Added - A new brush effects modifier ArtSet Effects - Blobs was added to aid in creating blob brushes.
  • Improved - Merging of layers with the same Alpha mix mode is now handled better. This includes allowing blob layers (Alpha Smooth Lum) to be merged.
  • Improved - Performance when moving between floating dialogs and the main application has been improved.
  • Improved - Some improvements to cases of the application not redrawing fully after a login.
  • Fixed - The Quick Command entry for Toggle Mask was not correct and not working.
  • Fixed - The Collections - Seamless Paint and Collectins - Seamless Design had incorrect brush effect modifiers.
  • Fixed - Brushes with the global brush effect envelope were being updated in ArtSet edit mode when they shouldn't.

16.03:

  • Added - New brush effects modifier ArtSet added. Effects - Seamless Tiles.
  • Added - ArtSet Collections - LNA Rocks 101. A special thanks to Lee-N-Ardo for contributing this ArtSet!!
  • Added - ArtSet Collections - Seamless Design added.
  • Added - ArtSet Collections - Seamless Paint added.
  • Added - New Solution, Smart Saturation Level 0.
  • Added - 2 new brush effects added Tile X and Tile Y. Used for painting seamlessly tiling pages.
  • Improved - Allow for smaller increments on the Grid Snap drawing guide. Previously 10 pxiels was the smallest.
  • Improved - For drawing guides smaller than 10 pixels draw as a multiple of the size below 10 pixesl.
  • Changed - For the Quick Command disscriptions for Enable Mask change to Toogle Mask. This better matches the button text.
  • Changed - Removed the icons for Delete Book and Clear Book from the Page Explorer. It is too easy to confuse them with Delete Page. The menu must now be used to delete or clear a book.
  • Fixed - The Paste tool could result in a crash. Problem introduced ni 16.02.
  • Fixed - Some brushes in the Mandala Paint 1 and Mandala Paint 2 ArtSets incorrectly had colors stored when they should not.

16.02:

  • Added - New filter added, Mask Detail. Allows generating a mask of the details in the image.
  • Added - New solution added, Zap Jaggies. Used to anti-alias.
  • Added - New Border Solutions. Varied Bands, Small, Medium and Large.
  • Added - New Border Solution. Color Band 3 (Random) and Color Band 2 (Random)
  • Added - Background 3D Solution. Background 13.
  • Added - 20 new Edge Solutions added to the Borders category.
  • Added - Lua script commands get_mask() and set_mask()
  • Improved - Give a warning and don't allow Background 3D and Box and Fold Solutions to run on the background layer.
  • Improved - The Patterned Cube 01 Solution was improved to run properly on the background layer.
  • Improved - The Vignette filter gets a new flag. Current Color. For using the current brush color for the vignette (when color is enabled).
  • Improved - The Color Picker action is now recorded in scripts.
  • Improved - The Paste tool now uses Lanczos3 instead of bi-cubic for resizing.
  • Fixed - The Borderize filter was missing the pixel row on the left and bottom.
  • Fixed - Doing a Copy Merged Selection action with a mask enabled would result in a crash.
  • Fixed - The following filters were altering the color in transparent areas of the layer - Offset, Sine Distortion, Wow, Rotate, Waves, Tilt, Twirl and Zoom.
  • Fixed - The Warp 3 Point filter had a mislabeled control.

16.01:

  • Added - Page Resize and Image Resize are now supported in Solutions.
  • Added - New filter Clamp added. Found in the Color category.
  • Added - Tile 02 and Patterned Cube Solutions in the Generative category.
  • Improved - On Vista 64 Editions TwistedBrush will get up tp 4GB or memory where previously the limit was 2GB! This allows much greater capability for those working on huge images.
  • Changed - Improved the text in the Brush Select dialog when a filter or search is done that ends up with no results.
  • Changed - The Channel filter which was added in 16.0 has been disabled until a time when it is reworked.
  • Fixed - The Rectangle tool was drawing the rectangles 1 pixel too wide.
  • Fixed - The Mask Ellipse tool was not automatically enabling the mask after using the tool.
  • Fixed - The auto removal of undo steps when memory is low was not working properly resulting in premature out of memory messages.

16.00:

  • Added - Solutions! A new feature to easily apply sets of actions to your images to add borders, frames, image enhancements, etc. Accessed from the main menu!
  • Added - Over 100 solutions added, covering areas such as artist effects, frames, boxes, 3d backgrounds and image enhancements!
  • Added - Nearly 300 new brush shapes added in ArtSets Shapes- Collections 01 - 05. Access these from the Shape Modifiers!
  • Added - Solution script recording mode added to the Script Recording dialog. Recorded script in proportional size and position. Very useful for recording actions that can be applied to different sized pages.
  • Added - Step and Skip options on script playback to allow single stepping and skipping script commands.
  • Added - The color mixing palettes now have versions without the grid lines. You will need to select the color palette with the suffix "Smooth" from the load color palette dialog.
  • Added - Filters Smart Blur, Noise Reduction and Noise Reduction RGB.
  • Added - Filters Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 added. (Bilateral filter)
  • Added - Channel filter. To isolate the RGBA channels. Found in the Filters | Color menu.
  • Added - Reflection filter. Works on the transparent regions of your layer, with falloff.
  • Added - Stretch Edge filter. Similar to the Stretch filter but allow stretching from any combination of the 4 edges.
  • Added - Fader filter. Allows adjusting the alpha, saturation or luminance of the image or object on a gradient.
  • Added - Warp Edge filter. Allows distortion of one edge by perspective, skew and inset all at once.
  • Added - A new mode of HSL Range added to the Wand Mask tool. Considers hue, saturation and luminance.
  • Added - New category of filters Mask Generation. The filters in this section will generate masks based on image information. This gives finer control that what is possible with the Wand Mask tool.
  • Added - New filter, Mask Generate HSL. Create a mask from image HSL values with separate tolerances for each channel (H, S and L).
  • Added - New filter, Borderize. Found in the Stylized section. It is used for creating borders from the exiting image data.
  • Added - Filter Warp 3 point. Allows adjusting the x and y position of 3 corners of an object.
  • Improved - The Vignette filter gets a new flag for fixed sized edges.
  • Improved - The Vignette filter is improved for working with transparent layers.
  • Improved - Script playback is improved when working with layers.
  • Improved - The Alpha Filter actions are now recorded in scripts.
  • Improved - The Bevel Filter gets a new flag for proportional size edges.
  • Improved - The Page Resize action is now recorded in scripts.
  • Improved - The line tool script recording only records the final line instead of each incremental line position as it's drawn.
  • Improved - The line tool has a repeat option now to randomly repeat the line up to 100 times on the page.
  • Improved - On the Script Player dialog the running script log now includes the total line count as well as the current line the script is processing.
  • Improved - The Gaussian filter gets a new proportional flag.
  • Improved - Allow layers of different mixing modes to be merged. A confirmation is given.
  • Improved - When using the Mask Filter show the mask fully opaque as a grayscale image to allow for better visualization of the filter previews.
  • Improved - Export and Import buttons added to the Script Play dialog to make it easier to save or load scripts from other locations.
  • Improved - Reduction of redundant commands recorded in scripts.
  • Improved - The Perspective, Warp, Stretch, Horizontal Pivot, Vertical Pivot and Skew filters get an options flag call Isolate Object that allows for automatically finding the image data on a layer and basing the distortion on it's location.
  • Improved - Added Proportional flag to the Generate Noise filter.
  • Changed - The Vignette filters blur amount is now proportional to the size of the page.
  • Changed - Adjusted the default settings for the Unsharp Mask filter to be more moderate.
  • Changed - Completely reworked the Drop Shadow filter.
  • Fixed - In the Brush Effects panel the Blend Trace effect was hiding the envelope columns when it shouldn't.
  • Fixed - Full scene script recordings were not always playing back properly.
  • Fixed - The Auto Dismiss toggle of the popup tools panel was not updating on some systems.
  • Fixed - The Vignette filter was not properly covering the full range of the image in rectangle mode.
  • Fixed - The brush cursor was not showing during script playback.
  • Fixed - The position readouts for the Rectangle and Ellipse tools were not correct when not at the normal zoom level.
  • Fixed - After using the standard Windows Color Select dialog on the color squares mouse movement continued to adjust the sliders.
  • Fixed - Using filters when a mask was present could result in fully opaque areas of the image becoming slightly transparent in areas even where there was no mask.
  • Fixed - Doing a Copy when a mask is present could result in fully opaque areas of the image becoming slightly transparent in areas even where there was no mask.
  • Fixed - Various tools were not drawing at full opacity. Tools include, rectangle, ellipse, gradient and flood fill.
  • Fixed - When merging a fully opaque layer into another layer with the normal mixing mode some color resolution was lost.
  • Fixed - The Adjust HSL filter was giving slightly wrong results.
  • Fixed - The Lua Script command gethsl() was giving slightly incorrect results.
  • Fixed - Layer Masks were not properly handled when merging a page (for export or copy merged).