June 10th, 2009· New: Detailed Editing Mode (select an area to extreme enlargement for pixel by pixel editing) -> (microscope icon button or Tools-menu)
· New: Snap to Grid
· New in Tools: "Color Depth and Dither Control"-> Change color depth and/or dithering on selection or the entire image or parts
· New: Hard Spray when using Air Brush tool (Old School type of spray can, Thanks Mike West for the tip)
· New: Export to BMP with Color Depth and Dither Control - (Pro-edition)
· New: Export and import PNG-files! (Pro-Edition)
· New look of the toolbar option buttons and major cosmetic changes throughout the program
· Toolbar has some functions replaced for ease
· New: Picture Frames! Create a picture like frame around your drawing or selected area (mask) with any type of color gradient combinations -
· or create slick transparent fading like picture frames. ..Combinations are almost unlimited
· New: Option in Pencil "Smooth Edges" (raindrop icon)
· New: Option in Pencil-> Colormix pencil(s) gives now a smooth follow of color (gradient style) option to enable gradient style or scattered
· User color Pencil-tool gave wrong color: fixed
· New: borders shows default fore- and background color used during painting
· New: "Set as Wallpaper" in menu Tools: create in one click a wallpaper on your desktop from your drawing
· Huge speed improvements throughout the entire program
· Bezier and Polygons tools greatly improved in speed! Scrollbars setting fixed
· Erase Image now under Image menu
· Bug fix: Borders: did not always made a correct fit around a selected area: fixed
· Several border issues fixed and new borders added
· Bug fix: background moving mask/selection issues and "white block" problem resolved
· New: Start with a blank page maximized to the available workspace (Pro-Edition)
· New: Cursor-keys to allow precision drawing with pencil or airbrush
· New and improved borders and textures added
· New: Edit-menu -> copy to Irfanview
· Some blend and transparency issues fixed
· New blend effects
· 4 more extra blend styles in Pro-Edition
· Selection background was changed also after applying brightness/contrast on a selection: fixed
· Huge speed increase on grayscale conversion
· Huge speed increase of "Brighten by 10%" and "Darken by 10%" options
· New option in tools-menu: Ambient Light
· Huge speed increase of all Ambient light effects, plus 4 new lightings
· Pro-Edition has 3 extra Ambient lightings: Bronze, Dusk, City Night
· Music- and weather symbols added and some changed symbols
· Bug fix: Symbols & Stamps window could not be closed sometimes
· Symbols & Stamps has now its own color pallet to choose from
· Symbols & Stamps window position remembered
· "Symbols and Stamps" window are now sorted in smaller "container" with scroll capability for easy browsing
· The file history list now also shows saved files
· History list increased to 4 (MRUD's)
· Error handling improved (in all save options)
· Maximize on open, now in Free-Edition
· New in Dissolve- and Enhance colors tools: improved, bug fix of intensity setting
· bug fix: resizing avancepaint did not always refresh the gradients below the left & right option bars
· Transparent color now always updated with the background color
· Extra undo
· Bug fix: Selecting the color white from the Fixed Colors didn't always correspond
· Recoding save and open settings
· Color Picker; quickly return to the previous tool after using the Color Picker
· User defined colors doubled (now 12 instead of 6)
· Print module totally recoded, debugged and improved with
· Margins
· fits big images
· 5 paper formats (also letter and legal)
· shows portrait/landscape AND paper size real-time
· save all print settings including the print window dimensions and position
· restore to default
· best fit of an image according to paper size
· extra zoom percentages
· easier in use
· Effects Browser enhanced with
· Hard-coded in AvancePaint
· New: Pro-Edition Text manipulations greatly enhanced with easy positioning of the text
· New: sliders allowing to move and position the "Spotlight-effect"
· Last option is remembered next time you use the Effects Browser
· Transparent color when using zoomlens, render etc. is shown correctly
· New: "TransSpecial Text" in the "Effects Browser". Enhanced with Transparent text
· Soften and Rotate Text, widening text, extra large text size...(pro-edition)
· New Effects: Glass Mirror effects, Quad mirror
· and a main bug fix revision
· Revision on ALL External Effects (also those on the website), debugged, increased speed and functionality. Now all have progress-bars. Some of them are major revisions
· Black & white effect
· Decolorize effect
· Jagged Effect
· Engrave effect
· Noise effect re-written
· Striped effect also usable for grids and speed increased by 500%
· Psychedelic enhanced
· High-Q Contrast enhanced
· and many other additions to all effects
· New Effect: Expressionist
· Bug fix: Font: input box did not show all of the text when entering multiple lines of text
· Bug fix: Font: The applied text did not always positioned correctly
· New in Text: solid text (with background color)
· Easy mode (Beginners/kids mode) now in Free-Edition
· New menu-> Extra (where menu options former resided in the Window-menu has been put)
· Save the present draw-tool settings
· Load the last saved draw-tool settings
· Restore all settings back to default (Pro-Edition)
· Improved visibility of the drawing cursors
· Hourglass is shown when processing an effect
· ESC key can be used to stop an effect during processing
· Export GIF had a bug in transparency; saved it always with a transparent color: fixed
· Several Zoom issues fixed
· The scrollbar that handles line/pen thickness/sizes has been enhanced higher precision, with + - and cosmetically improved
· Resizing with 'Constrain Proportions' enabled did not update the dimensions: fixed
· Brightness & Contrast window rearrangements, 'out of stack space' fixed, and cosmetic changes
· Major bug fix: texture fill did not always work
· Major bug fix: applying borders did not always work
· Desktop- and My Documents folder can be selected In 'Texture-fill' and 'Borders'
· Drawing squares and end corner wrongly placed fixed
· Re-assigned shortcut keys
· Shortcut keys added
· Shift -> vertical/horizontal lines
· CTRL -> select cursor/pointer (during area selection you'll be able to move the selection)
· H-key line drawing during pencil tool
· Right-click shows "Grab Selection/mask" to move the selected area
· "True Color Palette" now updates its color range according to the active color
· Base colors added in "True Color Palette" tool
· Undo issues fixed
· A lot of bug fixes and less obvious changes to improve user interfacing with more ease (more then 175 changes!!)
October 23rd, 2008· Bug fix: Image Resize gave sometimes Run-time Error 5
· Image Resize: prevent non-numeric values to be entered
· New: transparent font-typing (T symbol when choosing Text-option from the left toolbar)
· Text: added box line around text input fields to clearly show the boundaries
· Hovering mouse over the Textbox will change the cursor to show user it's an input-field
· Word 'Action:' in Text toolbar options replaced with 'Apply:'
· Warn user when closing Avancepaint if picture has changed (using Close of the titlebar controlbox [X])
September 17th, 2007· Main screen toolbar-icons updated
· Erase (white, black, background color) image did not work when using an opened picture
· Sharpen effect view enlarged
· Jagged effect did only a part of the screen, fixed
· Soften-, Smooth, Crease and Decolorize effects had a cyan line at the right edge, fixed
· UNDO when applying an effect inside a selection and pressing the X (undo effect) did not always undo the last applied effect, fixed
· with some external effects a line(s) at the edges of the image was shown: fixed
· Borders: selecting user border is now done with one click (no double click anymore)
· Effects browser update (v1.6)
· Autozoom when larger pictures was to small format: fixed
· Centre smaller images in the viewport
· Emboss, Engrave, Relief gave sometimes a line on the side: fixed
· Colorpicker position better placed
· Right-click Fill tool opened Texture fill -> removed in v2.1 but now placed in the Fill toolbar
· Freehand dots/donuts as new pencil
· Some general debugging and minor changes
June 18th, 2007· New: Draw advanced Polygons - move points, color, thickness etc...
· New: Draw Advanced Bezier curves - move points, color, thickness etc...
· New: Twain compatible! (Eztw32.dll)
· import images/pictures from your scanner, cam etc. any twain compatible device!
· New: Pencil now also acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
· New: 5 new pencil color mixes (user selected color, grayscales, pastel pink, blue, yellow)
· Total new look for easier use
· Several bugs concerning closing the application after an effect: fixed
· Render gave wrong displacement : fixed
· Zoom gave wrong displacement: fixed
· Color picker enhanced with RGB color pallet picker
· New: Spot light aperture size
· Default effect settings improved
· New: mirror image horizontal
· New: mirror image vertical
· Color selector always on top
· User selected color (in Avancepaint) now default in color-selector
· New Pro Edition effect: Anti Aliasing!
· transparency color for zoom, rotate and rendering
· Render picture displacement
· Bug fix: zoom, render and rotate centering image not always correct: fixed
· general debugging
· Spot light now updates automatically after moving image
· New Text functions (Pro Edition): font, bold, italic, underline, 3D shadow text, all fonts added, text entry now logically placed
· Text updates automatically after moving (Tip: After apply use it to create 3D)
· AvancePaint Brightness/Contrast: preview enlarged, centre image, flickering when moving image: fixed, more speed
· Reset back to original image
· Pencil -> acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
· Right click when using Color Picker Tool sets now the background color
· double click html color code -> clipboard
· Right-click Circle icon -> allows drawing Bezier curves
· 3D borders (Pro Edition) enhanced: thickness between 1 and 20 points
· New: extra 3D border "etched"
· Borders improved with: now a pallet of 50 colors (instead of 18), size adjusted according to selected border, resize border allowing background color change in solid colors (dual color borders), general debugging
· New effect: Interlacing, Crease and Moody (replacing blur, brighten, darken, emboss as it is already available in AvancePaint itself)
· All effects debugged and enhanced
· Effects enabled in Free Edition: Crease, Diffuse, Interlacing!
· Major effect updates of: Sharpen (5 styles: Pro), Psychedelic (now 5 extra effects: Pro), Emboss, Black & white, Jagged (Pro), Striped (user color, step size: Pro), Moody (Pro)
· Free Edition effects available for download: Emboss, Blur, Grayscale, Brighten, Darken - New Statue effect!
· Pro effects available for download: Lighting Blur (and many more will follow)!
· Add Free Edition effects up to 4 extra free downloadable effects
· Speedup some effects: grayscales, color scales, bright/contrast
· Convert single Color Scale New -> black & white, yellow, purple, cyan
· New: Cyan color pallet added to the main color pallet
· New in Draw Text : Center text , left justify, Font
· Copy/Paste bug fixed - After paste user needed to click the selection to allow moving the pasted image, now automatic
· Bug: Blend and transparency during Selection did not work: fixed!
· 8 new textures!
· 4 user selected Textures stored for next use
· Bug fix: Transparency fixed with Paste and with inserting Symbols
· New: ESC during effect stops the current running effect (to stop effect press ESC-key)
· 28 new symbols!
· Associate JPG, BMP or GIF with AvancePaint to open these files from within the Explorer
· Several cosmetic changes
May 8th, 2007· Priority update
· Effects Browser quitted: Runtime Error 53 – File not found fx.dll -> fixed
· Error 481 in Texture Fill when user selected a graphic file that has an incorrect file extension: User tried to assign a graphics format other than a bitmap, icon, jpg or gif to a texture (even if the extension is a .bmp, .gif, .jpg because the file format does not correspond to the file extension)
· New: icon (.ICO) format support in texture fill
May 2nd, 2007· Program quitted after save/export JPG: Runtime error 53 - File not found ijl11.dll or ijl15.dll -> Fixed
· default filenames truncated (untitled.jpg -> unti.jpg) when saving - fixed
· filename not parsed in export JPG
April 16th, 2007· Released as Free Edition with possibility to upgrade to the Pro Edition
· New GUI: icons, layout, style and workspace
· New: Effects browser > More powerful, faster and easier to use photographical effects
· New: Enhance
· New: Dissolve
· Extra borders and textures
· Several bug fixes
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