What's new in Artweaver Free 7.0.16
Oct 22, 2023
- Improved support for high DPI displays
- Fixed error when printing to PDF
- Fixed wrong saved 16 bits/pixel BMP documents
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.15 (Mar 26, 2023)
- Fixed an error when editing default gradients
- Fixed swapped element edits in capture imagestamp dialog
- Fixed not working auto select with 16bit documents
- Fixed wrong painted dots in lined paper filter
- Fixed resetting all controls to defaults in smart blur filter
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.14 (Nov 23, 2022)
- Fixed wrong behavior entering values in document size dialog
- Fixed wrong result with transparency and difference brush category
- Fixed selection is ignored with depth only brush impasto setting
- Fixed wrong result with various filter and uneven document sizes
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.13 (Jul 10, 2022)
- Improved FilterFX High DPI support
- Improved hiding and showing of all palettes
- Fixed a crash when loading JPEG documents
- Fixed creation of shapes with shape tool does not always work
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.12 (Apr 17, 2022)
- Improved support for High DPI displays
- Updated online help
- Fixed error using shape tool
- Fixed wrong undo with mirror layer command
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.11 (Jan 30, 2022)
- Fixed a memory leak in magic wand tool
- Fixed lasso tool cursor offset
- Fixed layer merge down changes background layer size
- Fixed a crash when hiding brush selector
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.10 (Oct 3, 2021)
- Improved document resize quality
- Improved error message when AWD loading fails
- Fixed error when painting outside of document bounds
- Fixed wrong text in load selection dialog
- Fixed display errors on layers palette
- Fixed some random appearing errors
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.9 (May 10, 2021)
- Fixed missing capture brush entry in brush selector palette menu
- Fixed wrong selection edges after free transformation
- Fixed not updated selections when changing document mode
- Fixed sometimes not updated selections palette
- Fixed error in document mode undo/redo
- Fixed wrong blend modes in AWD file format
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.7 (Sep 13, 2020)
- Improved saving of events
- Fixed occasional hang when using watercolor brushes
- Fixed capture image stamp does not work
- Fixed guides have the wrong position after cropping
- Fixed pressure sensitivity does not work in brush editor
- Fixed JFIF file extension is not supported
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.6 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Fixed wrong active layer after deleting layer group
- Fixed error in selection free transformation
- Fixed hang using brush tool and warp method
- Fixed error using brush tool and hairy brush type
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.5 (Apr 13, 2020)
- Improved Windows Ink Pen support
- Fixed error while painting with certain pen tablets
- Fixed layer send to back command does not always work correct
- Fixed pasting text from clipboard as new layer does not work
- Fixed wrong text tool behavior when entering text using keypad
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.4 (Feb 9, 2020)
- Improved brush stroke performance with impasto
- Removed not supported page setup margins
- Fixed errors when executing certain FilterFX scripts
- Fixed not correct centered document in print preview
- Fixed text tool rendering issues with some special fonts
- Fixed not all layer properties are duplicated
- Fixed errors when hiding brush selector
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.3 (Dec 1, 2019)
- Improved support for certain pen input devices
- Fixed error after closing brush selector
- Fixed error when selecting recent brushes from brush selector
- Fixed error after canceling brush tool
- Fixed error when default printer is not available
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.2 (Oct 7, 2019)
- Improved online update
- Improved sending of error reports
- Fixed error when canceling a WIA scan
- Fixed error opening JPEG files with invalid markers
- Fixed wrong palette size and default layout in high DPI environments
- Fixed not correct working Other brush method
- Fixed various error reports
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.1 (Aug 26, 2019)
- Added new brush warning for Airbrush pressure
- Improved document saving
- Fixed errors with XP-Pen tablets
- Fixed error when changing brush method in brush editor popup
- Fixed error when fast selecting brush presets
- Fixed error when closing brush editor popup
- Fixed wrong brush editor popup height
- Fixed wrong default DPI value when loading PNG files
New in Artweaver Free 7.0.0 (Aug 26, 2019)
- Improved brush handling and adjustments:
- The whole brush handling has been changed to be more intuitive and easier to use. Therefore, the brush palette is removed, and all its settings are now also accessible on the brush tool property bar. Additionally, the brush editor has been enhanced and provides all possible settings of a brush in one place. Finally, the brush selector shows now a preview of the brush stroke and a history of recently used brushes.
- Simplified preset handling:
- All presets and its selectors are now combined into one new media palette instead of being spread all around the application. Importing of preset is now also easier as there is only one import dialog which can import all supported preset files.
- Windows Ink Pen support:
- Besides the common used Wintab interface to retrieve pressure information from tablets and pens, Artweaver now also supports the Windows Ink Pen interface for pen pressure information which has been introduced with Windows 10 and is today used by many mobile devices (e.g. tablets and laptops).
- Improved update:
- For any available update there is now an update dialog shown on Artweaver startup which informs about the update and asks to install them. Afterwards the mandatory User Account Control is shown, and updates are downloaded and installed.
- Misc improvements / adjustments:
- Paper color is removed and is replaced by background or transparent color in tools and filters
- The size of filter dialogs is increased
- Automatic saved recovery information is now in Awd format instead of events which makes the recovering faster and more reliable
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.12 (May 21, 2019)
- Improved stability
- Fixed error when using clone sources
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.11 (Apr 7, 2019)
- Removed email notification from error report upload as it is no longer supported
- Improved palette drag & drop
- Improved stability
- Fixed error on startup after changing color theme
- Fixed wrong name after restoring default brush variant
- Fixed empty brush category list in brush editor
- Fixed not correct loading of stroke smoothing brush setting
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.9 (Aug 26, 2018)
- Improved pixel brush type
- Improved memory handling
- Improved performance of multi-threaded filters
- Fixed various issues reported by automatic error reports
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.8 (Mar 9, 2018)
- Reduced overall memory usage
- Fixed a crash closing all documents with a special tab arrangement
- Fixed not updating coordinates while a tool is in use
- Fixed wrong shown transformation frame with low zoom levels
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.7 (Dec 6, 2017)
- Improved virtual memory management and overall stability
- Improved support for Photoshop compatible plugins
- Fixed not always correct shown selection preview
- Fixed not correct handled transparency in Jitter blur FilterFX script
- Fixed some small errors in online help
- Fixed not always correct updating info palette
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.6 (Oct 7, 2017)
- Improved loading of preset previews
- Fixed not properly working color blend mode
- Fixed not properly working merging of invisible layers
- Fixed not completely clickable color selector on property bar
- Fixed some not correct working tools at borders of documents
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.5 (Aug 24, 2017)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Increased maximum zoom level to 3200%
- Changed default check for updates interval to daily
- Improved stability of layer, history and selections palette
- Fixed some issues reported by automatic error reports
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.4 (Jun 30, 2017)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Online help improved
- FilterFX help improved
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.3 (May 23, 2017)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Added delete script command to FilterFX filter
- Added undo and redo commands to FilterFX filter editor
- Added context menu to FilterFX filter editor
- Display errors using tools in rotated view fixed
- Wrong zoom tool preview in rotated view fixed
- Crash when using FilterFX help fixed
- Various errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.2 (Apr 8, 2017)
- Hang when using text tool under Windows 7 fixed
- Input error when entering font size on property bar fixed
- Various errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 6.0.1 (Mar 10, 2017)
- Italian language file added to setup
- Save button on button bar improved
- English localization improved
- Faulty copy & paste via clipboard fixed
- Not working default script in FilterFX filter fixed
- Error applying custom filters on 16bit documents fixed
- Memory errors fixed
- Various errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 6.0 (Feb 15, 2017)
- Support for High DPI displays:
- Artweaver is now able to adjust its whole user interface to the current DPI scaling of the system. Therefore Artweaver will no longer look blurry if the system scaling is set to a higher value than 100%.
- Besides improving the stroke interpolation while painting and the displaying of configuration warnings also some new options have been added:
- Clone color method
- Grain randomize texture
- Stroke smoothing
- The Artweaver user interface has been improved in many places with small, but very useful enhancements:
- New button bar with common commands
- Brush category and variant preset selectors merged into one preset selector
- Change preset order buttons on all preset selectors
- Reset preset order to default in preset manager
- Min Size option on brush palette has been replaced by grain option
- Color history for recent picked colors on color palette
- Convert background layer by just clicking lock symbol in layer palette layer list
- Event playback shows current played event number and total number of events
- Current number of layers added to available document status bar information
- Advanced support for Photoshop compatible Plug-Ins:
- Besides improved compatibility the 64 bit version of Artweaver is now able to load and execute 64 bit Photoshop compatible Plug-Ins. Also support for 16 Bits/Channel has been added and additional locations for Plug-Ins are configurable in the preferences.
- New Filters:
- FilterFX to execute FilterFX scripts as filters
- Tilt Shift to create tilt shift effects
- Smart Blur to apply blur with precision
- The text tool has been enhanced by some small but very helpful features:
- New text palette with many additional text formatting options (alignment, kerning ...)
- Support for copy & paste shortcuts while editing
- Displaying of baselines while editing
- Reposition text caret with mouse while editing
- Not only the text tool but also other tools got some small but helpful improvements:
- Move tool moves the content of selections if there are any
- Move, selection and crop tools move by 10 pixels when shift key is pressed
- Stamp and eraser tool got a new profile: Square
- Misc improvements / adjustments:
- Clone document draws original document with only 50% opacity
- Swatch exchange (*.ASE) color set support
- Online update improved
- Memory handling improved
- ArtweaverTeam.com integration removed
- Standalone team server application added
New in Artweaver Free 5.1.5 (Dec 22, 2016)
- Error handling for failed updates improved
- Sometimes losing foreground and background color fixed
- Various errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.1.4 (Sep 18, 2016)
- Events loading and playback improved
- Error handling for corrupt preset files improved
- Drag & drop error on layers palette fixed
- Various errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.1.2 (Jan 18, 2016)
- Language file for Hong Kong Cantonese added
- Measuring unit support for grid size setting in preferences added
- Various small errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.1.1 (Nov 9, 2015)
- Stability improved
- Various small errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.1 (Nov 9, 2015)
- Optimized user interface for 2in1 devices added
- Touch gestures support added
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.8 (Jul 27, 2015)
- Language file for Dutch added
- PSD file format support improved
- English translation improved
- Wrong settings after selecting brushes fixed
- Wrong displaying of brush preview cursor fixed
- Error during closing fixed
- Error using shape tool fixed
- Various small errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.7 (May 26, 2015)
- Language files for Spanish and simplified Chinese added
- Hang while changing brush settings fixed
- Various small errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.6 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Selecting of tools improved
- Occasional application hang while painting or tool changing fixed
- Display error while using transformation tool fixed
- Various small errors fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.5 (Mar 9, 2015)
- Playback of events improved
- Changing visibility of docked palettes improved
- Error report creation improved
- Virtual memory management improved
- Black borders after using shape tool fixed
- Wrong positioning of clone source indicator fixed
- Wrong brush category symbols when exporting fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.4 (Feb 8, 2015)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Set and restore of brush default variant improved
- Displaying of brush strokes while drawing on small areas improved
- Selecting of grouped layers improved
- Various appearance improvements
- Error when importing ABR brushes with drag & drop on application window fixed
- Error using clone color on layers fixed
- Pixel error in palette preview fixed
- Wrong custom shape preview in shape tool fixed
- Error message when closing documents fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.3 (Jan 24, 2015)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Support for category symbols in brush export and import
- Preset deletion improved
- Events sending in team mode improved
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.2 (Jan 24, 2015)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Shape tool improved
- Importing from clipboard improved
- Error during import of brush presets fixed
- Missing opacity and grain support in Other - Add grain category fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0.1 (Jan 24, 2015)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Version differences in online help updated
- Wrong colors when using big brushes fixed
- Error loading corrupt BMP files fixed
New in Artweaver Free 5.0 (Jan 24, 2015)
- New Features:
- High precision 16bit brush engine for exact results especially with low opacity values.
- Brush Engine Improvements:
- Improved quality of the Other - Blur and Other - Sharpen method
- Behavior of Grainy cover and Grainy mild cover method changed so that for less grain the regular brush is applied and not almost nothing
- User Interface Improvements:
- Documents are saved as a copy if they contain features which not supported by the selected file format
- All presets can be exported, brush categories completely with all their variants
- Do not show again option for more message dialogs
- Better warning message for unsupported features while saving
- Confirmation before restoring recovery information on application startup
- Test of entered ArtweaverTeam.com account details in preferences
- More Improvements:
- Improved export of presets in events
- Improved selection tools
- Improved event support for tools
- Better quality for some filters on layers with transparency and impasto
- Read and write support for the OpenRaster file format (0.0.4-pre.1 specification)
- JPEG support for YCbCR, CMYK and YCCK color formats
New in Artweaver Free 4.5.5 (Jan 24, 2015)
- This version includes the following improvements and fixes:
- Error during document closing fixed
- Color pickup error in rectangle color picker fixed
New in Artweaver Free 4.5.4 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Russian language file added
- Maximum grid size to 250 pixels increased
- Error when selecting text layer in text tool fixed
- Error reports: 2386096378, 2433739697, 2851387731, 1492471284
New in Artweaver Free 4.5.3 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Palettes drag & drop improved
- Crash during layer drag & drop fixed
- Error reports: 1222557223, 2014397977, 10089453
New in Artweaver Free 4.5.2 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Selection tool mode change via keyboard shortcuts improved
- Quality of blur and sharpen filter on layers with transparency improved
- Maximum radius of Gaussian blur to 999 increased
- Palettes update during new document creation improved
- Merge layer group undo improved
- Error reports: 3857223659, 2845497383, 3389773297, 2824182983, 2148969243, 4201597897
New in Artweaver Free 4.5.1 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Reading of corrupt AWD files improved
- Impasto support in various tools improved
- PSD read error handling improved
- Applying of minimum size during painting improved
- Capturing of presets improved
- Online Update improved
- Smaller program interface improvements
- Error when reading grouped layers in AWD file format fixed
- Error in difference and reduce saturation brush category with existing selection fixed
- Error when cloning from background to normal layer fixed
- Error in loading move tool settings fixed
New in Artweaver Free 4.5 (Jan 24, 2015)
- New Features:
- ArtweaverTeam.com integration improved
- Artweaver Team Uploader Plug-In added to default setup
- Automatic saving of recovery information added
- Character limits for many preset names removed
- Clone color support for imagestamp brushes added
- Improvements:
- Impasto quality improved
- Color variability quality improved
- Support of layer groups in AWD file format improved
- Various program interface improvements
- Fixes:
- Missing transparency support in color range command fixed
New in Artweaver Free 4.0.5 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Number of visible messages in chat window on Team palette increased
- Error with palette drag & drop preview fixed
- Inconsistent display of cursor coordinates fixed
- Missing update of Info palette when using transformation tools fixed
- Error reports: 1066162992, 3483279406, 287267234, 4080593803, 2410196407, 2502447577
New in Artweaver Free 4.0.4 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Danish translation improved
- Error on capturing non square imagestamps fixed
- Error in direction expression of Imagestamp brushes fixed
- Wrong error report links fixed
- Error reports: 1749236336, 1952525287, 889825442, 2277753631, 503774859, 1627553306, 3067540866
New in Artweaver Free 4.0.3 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Danish language file added
- Tablet support improved
- Color blending precision improved
- Language file support improved
- Wrong handling of opacity in paint bucket tool fixed
- Error reports: 1317833505, 2502119626, 57184839, 1439009687
New in Artweaver Free 4.0.2 (Jan 24, 2015)
- French language file and help added
- Loading of old Artweaver 0.x brush presets improved
- Preview of transformation tools improved
- File format registration while installing improved
- Arrangement of palettes improved
- Error in smear brush method fixed
- Error when deleting Imagestamp presets fixed
- Error in HSL color variability fixed
New in Artweaver Free 4.0.1 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Chinese language file (traditional) added
- Reading of BMP files improved
- Precision of text tool cursor improved
- Wrong filter preview with layers fixed
New in Artweaver Free 0.5.6 (Nov 18, 2008)
- Error in line tool fixed
- Display error with scaled paper structures fixed
- Error in selection size adjustment fixed
- Stamp tool improved
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New in Artweaver Free 0.4.9.1 (Dec 15, 2007)
- Portable Artweaver Loader added
- Problems with mirrored transformation fixed
- Problems with loading brushes under Vista fixed
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New in Artweaver Free 0.4.9 (Oct 25, 2007)
- Portable mode added (via command line parameter /P or /PT)
- Brush preview at high zoom levels and big images improved
- Point interpolation while painting and high zoom levels improved
- Problems with opening images via double click fixed
- Error while rendering text layer fixed
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New in Artweaver Free 0.4 (Jul 26, 2006)
- Improved support of pen tablets
- Bug in paste from clipboard fixed
- Problems with brush variant import/export fixed
- Layer to Image Size improved
- Various bug fixes