Version 4
4.9 - New brush set
- Added - Complex Brush Set 1 - 60 new brushes!
4.8 - Performance
- Added - Brush effect - Lineto (draws a line from dab to dab)
- Improved - Drawn line smoothness.
- Improved - Drawing performance.
- Fixed - Brush effects Scatter2, Jitter2, Dropout, Dropout2, Dropout3 and Scrumble not working correctly when used in combination with the filter brush effect.
4.7 - Important fixes, new ArtSet and beginning stages of help
- Added - Two Tone Sketching ArtSet.
- Added - Start of the electronic help.
- Fixed - The Distort Filters were broken in release 4.6 and accidentally assigned to the Page series of menu commands.
- Fixed - Popup text "toogle" should be "Toggle".
- Fixed - Crash case with mouse/stylus input buffer becoming empty.
- Fixed - When updating a preset (right click on present while holding shift) preserve the color only and brush only flags.
4.6 - Copy and paste for grid cells and some fixes.
- Added - Copy Grid Cell tool to copy to clipboard a part of the image.
- Added - Paste Grid Cell tool to paste from clipboard into a part of the image.
- Added - Link to the ArtSet brush catalog online. A swatch for each brush included with TwistedBrush.
- Added - Menu Page | Resize to Previous Page Size. Sets current page to that of the previous page size in the book.
- Improved - Some areas for robustness to recover more gracefully from errors.
- Fixed - Crash on script playback if paper is smaller than size used when recorded and flood fill or mask wand is used.
- Fixed - Page was been flagged as changed when a Copy was done. This is unneeded.
- Fixed - Rare memory leak on the clipboard copy function.
4.5 - Mask Improvements
- Added - Save program environment when autosaving.
- Added - Preferences option (found under Edit menu)
- Added - Preference for auto save frequency
- Added - Unmask Grid Cell tool. Assignable to the right mouse button.
- Enhanced - The Clear brush effect now honors the mask.
- Changed - The default autosave frequency to once every 120 seconds.
- Fixed - Masks were not properly masking out all drawing and masking out some when they shouldn't (very small amounts).
- Fixed - Mask tools - mask ellispe, mask rectangle and mask wand were saving undo info. they should not.
- Fixed - Script recording of the Control Points tools was broken
4.4 - Custom color palette support.
- Added - Custom color palette support. When adding a preset uncheck the "Save Brush Information" check box.
- Added - Added to the Auto ArtSet feature the ability to save only the new color (used for creating color palettes)
- Added - Allow use of mouse wheel to zoom in and zoom out.
- Added - A Script (User) brush category for user created script brushes.
- Fixed - Color picker tool selecting wrong color when in 16 bits per pixel (bpp) mode.
- Fixed - Handful of fixes to the SpaceScape ArtSet.
4.3 - Script Brush Presets, SpaceScape ArtSet and numerous fixes.
- Added - SpaceScape ArtSet - 60 brushes for building space scenes.
- Added - Tight integration of script brushes with the standard brush selection and preset system. (Very Cool!)
- Added - Brush Effect - Mask Paint. Allows creating a mask and painting at the same time.
- Added - Brush Effect - Size Abs, Density Abs and Opacity Abs (set absolute values for these)
- Added - Brush Effect - Gate and Draw gate. These limit the maximum number of dabs drawn in a stroke.
- Added - Effect Swapping menus and hot keys, Under the Effect menu. An aid for building custom preset brushes.
- Added - Brush Effect - Adv stroke - Advance the stroke dab count so that filter envelopes that use that can change within a dab.
- Added - Brush Effect - Multi 1000 - For other effect "Multipler" has a range or 1 - 10 this have a range of 1 - 1000.
- Improved - The Masking artset has been improved with new masking brushes.
- Fixed - The "i" prefixed brush effect filters (iwave, isav, isprd, etc) were not working with mask brushes.
- Fixed - All Size, Density and Opacity brush effects were not restoring the previous values after they completed.
- Fixed - Incorrect text in a menu and alert prompt.
- Fixed - When drawing the control points the guide lines did not have the correct colors to allow viewing in all cases.
- Fixed - Made the Spike brush effect properly round rather than square.
- Fixed - Script playback was broken in release 4.2 and would playback at the incorrect canvas location.
- Fixed - Script playback of single dab stroke did not work.
4.2 - Script Brush and Inverted feathered brushes.
- Added - Script Brush - powerful new feature to repeat a script relative to mouse click. Assignable to right mouse button.
- Added - Base brushes - Cover : Coverage Feather 10 - 100 Invert
- Added - Brush Effect - Color Surface (gets color from current drawing surface)
- Added - Brush Effect - Color UnderLayer (gets color from current screen but not from the current stroke
- Added - Brush Effect - Color History (gets color from previous screen, like if you hit undo)
- Added - Brush Effect - Color Trace (pulls color from previous page. Trace mode must be on for this effect to work)
4.1 - More brush effects
- Added - Brush Effect - Blend UnderLayer (pulls color from current screen but not from the current stroke)
- Added - Brush Effect - Blend History (pulls color from previous screen, like if you hit undo)
- Added - Brush Effect - Blend Trace (pulls color from previous page. Trace mode must be on for this effect to work)
- Added - Tool for setting control points - Assignable to right mouse button. Used for some brush effects and brush filters
- Added - Brush Effect Filter - cspdx and cspdy. Spreads the amount based on the x and y position respective in ralationship to the current control points
- Fixed - Undo not enabled after a page is saved, included auto-saving!
- Fixed - Line spacing on newly added effects incorrect. Effects Spikes, Tangle and Symbols, X, Crosshair, box, triangle and diamond
4.0 - 120 New Brushes, New Effects and Brush Selection improvements
- Added - Brush Werks Art Set - A collection of 60 cool natural brushes
- Added - Cover Collection Art Set - 60 brushes many geared towards creating background covers
- Added - Select preset dialog.
- Added - Brush Effect - Color1to4 and Color1to1 (for doing color ranges)
- Added - Brush Effect - Scatter Page
- Added - Brush Effect Filter - isprd2 - Interdab spread 2 (reverse from larger to smaller)
- Added - Brush Effect - Spike (draws lines from dab center)
- Added - Brush Effect - Tangle (draws random lines near dab center creating a tangled mess)
- Added - Brush Effect - Symbols, X, Crosshair, box, triangle and diamond.
- Improved - Brush Effect system performance further improved
- Improved - General improvements to the infrastructure of the blend mode brush effects.
- Fixed - Improper handling of interdab adjustments to density, alpha and size.
- Fixed - Dynamic sized brushes not properly centered and could be cropped incorrectly.