February 13th, 2012· Improved: GFIE will be cross-platform in the near future
· Rearranged user interface: tabs instead of MDI windows
· Greatly improved: image processing speed
· Added feature: loading/saving Apple ICNS files
· Added feature: loading/saving JPEG 2000 files
· Added feature: loading/saving 16-bit executables and icon libraries
· Added feature: pressing Escape deselects all
· Added feature: rotating selection by an arbitrary angle
· Added feature: textboxes which expect numbers can now accept and calculate expressions, like 12*(128+10)
· Added feature: Wand/Bucket can be switched to non-contiguous mode
· Added feature: patterns for drawing
· Added feature: new blend modes: Hue, Hue Shift and Saturation
· Added feature: new menu items "Import pages" and "Export all pages"
· Fixed bug: XPM export sometimes wrote unescaped backslash (\) characters into output
November 3rd, 2011· Added feature: Paste as New Document (Shift+Ctrl+D)
· Added feature: pressing Ctrl+V pastes as new document when no documents are open
· Added feature: selection antialiasing is now optional
· Improved: speed of loading huge image files (which need to be cropped)
· Improved: text antialiasing
November 3rd, 2011· Added feature: holding down Space activates a hand tool and allows the user to pan the editing screen
· Added feature: some filters (Blur, Shadow, Glow, etc.) can now be used in torus mode (useful when editing textures or tiles)
· Added feature: 24x24 size under Create icon from image...
· Fixed bug: error messages were thrown when no desktop was active (e.g. when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del under Vista)
· Fixed bug: removing the check from the Preview checkbox did not revert viewed image to original state
March 3rd, 2010· Added feature: antialiasing images when resizing
· Fixed bug: the file association setters were sometimes disabled though GFIE was run in admin mode
· Improved: the Tool Behavior dialog now shows only the relevant controls
August 28th, 2009· Added feature: Layer support with lots of blend modes
· Added feature: native GFIE file format
· Added feature: when resizing a page, user can choose between cropping and stretching
· Added feature: cell grid (for editing toolbars)
· Fixed bug: an error occurred when trying to modify file associations without running GFIE as administrator
· Improved: painting with a transparent color now erases
November 11th, 2008· Fixed some minor bugs
· Added feature: setting max. image width and height separately
August 8th, 2008· Fixed bug: when copying to clipboard, inverted parts were replaced with the transparent color
· Added feature: GIF support
· Added feature: assembling ICL (icon library) and RES (Win32 resource) files
· Added feature: editing Metadata (ANI summary info, JPEG quality, GIF loop count)
· Added feature: the canvas can also be enlarged using the Crop tool
· Added feature: exporting individual pages
· Added language packs: Chinese (traditional), Dutch, Russian
November 8th, 2007· Fixed bug: Glow filter sometimes generated the inverted color when choosing white glow color
· Fixed listbox flicker, now double-buffered
· Fixed bug: a tag was missing from contents.html, this made the Help unusable under IE.
· Added feature: Bevel filter
· Added feature: "Save all" menu item
· Added feature: Open and Save dialog boxes now start in "Thumbnails" view mode
· Added feature: tutorials