What's new in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 4.2

Apr 22, 2023
  • New: Windows Explorer integration: metadata and thumbnail providers for all known image file formats
  • New: Customize keyboard shortcuts
  • New: Allow pasting a dropped image file for Explorer and Firefox clipboard interoperability
  • Improved: Show UI in appropriate colors if Windows is set to high-contrast mode
  • Improved: Different versions of GFIE can be installed and coexist on the same computer
  • Improved: Nicer thumbnails for small images
  • Improved: Faster random number generator
  • Fixed: Exif datetime was sometimes displayed incorrectly if time zone information was missing
  • Fixed: Program sometimes crashed when bucket tool was used on very large (>8000x8000) images
  • Fixed: Load/save failed for some NE/PE resources

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 4.1 (Dec 24, 2022)

  • New: X11 Mouse Cursor (XCursor) support
  • New: Macintosh resource fork (.rsrc) support
  • New: View | Always on top
  • Improved: Blurring an image with a selected region will not blend unselected pixels into the result. This can be configured in the Blur dialog.
  • Improved: WebP: Exif metadata and animation support
  • Improved: UI: Larger mouse cursors on HDPI displays
  • Improved: Support for more ICNS formats
  • Fixed: Fall back to OpenGL if failed to create Direct3D context
  • Fixed: Paint Contour filter was missing

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 4.0 (Oct 7, 2022)

  • New: GPU-based rendering, much faster for large images
  • New: Support for multiple sizes in ANI cursors by separating the concept of pages and frames. Now documents have pages and pages have frames. See the Help for more.
  • New: Perspective transform of selection
  • New: Rich text formatting in text tool dialog
  • New: Exif metadata support
  • New: Anti-aliasing support for selection tools (ellipse, lasso)
  • New: Option for linear interpolation when upscaling the selection (on by default)
  • New: Adjustments can be made after using certain tools (e.g. crop, rect, ellipse, line, gradient)
  • New: Blend mode option for brush and gradient
  • New: Morphological filters (median, minimum, maximum, opening, closing)
  • New: Context help ("What's this?") in main window
  • New: GIF disposal method support
  • Improved: Much better file format compatibility, especially SVG and TIFF
  • Improved: Pop-up notifications instead of "OK" dialogs in most cases
  • Improved: High DPI-aware UI
  • Improved: Lots of bugfixes, thank you all for reporting them!
  • Improved: Language pack updates, many thanks to all contributors!

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.6 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • New: Linux support
  • New: Load/Save WebP
  • New: Load/Save Portable AnyMap
  • New: Load/Save TGA (Targa) files
  • New: Contrast adjustment in Exposure dialog
  • Improved: RGB Formulae (alpha adjustment, new operations)

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.5 (Apr 18, 2016)

  • Greatly improved the icon library editor
  • Fixed: GFIE did not start on XP because of GetTickCount64
  • Fixed some memory leaks

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.4 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • New: Create Android drawable, test 9-patch button
  • New: Import SVG
  • New: Load/Save TIFF (no layers yet)
  • New: Set DPI of document and pages
  • New: Test image as 3D texture
  • New: Pascal-based scripting
  • aster, more responsive drawing
  • Faster GIF load/save
  • Fixed numerous bugs

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.31 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • Reintroduced Win32 support.

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.3 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • Finally open source! You can compile your own version for 32-bit, 64-bit, Linux, Mac, etc.
  • Official executables run only on Win64 from now on.
  • Added feature: Save a Copy
  • Updated translations

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.25 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Updated links to the Greenfish Homepage

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.2 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Fixed bug: some GIF files could not be opened
  • Fixed bug: removed loop count limitation (now maximum number of loops is 65535 instead of 100)

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.1 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • Fixed bug: batch conversion dialog misinterpreted file type
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.0 (Feb 13, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 2.3 (Nov 3, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 2.2 (Nov 3, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 2.1 (Mar 3, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 2.00 (Aug 28, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 1.71 (Nov 11, 2008)

  • Fixed some minor bugs
  • Added feature: setting max. image width and height separately

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 1.6 (Aug 8, 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

New in Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 1.0 Beta (Nov 8, 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