December 5th, 2011· Added - Basic Animation supported added. Accessed from the new top level menu named Animation.
· Improved - When zooming in and out with the mouse wheel or + or - keys retain the actual position on screen of the area of interest.
· Improved - Books can now have up to 1000 pages.
· Improved - When starting Page Explorer or selecting a new book in the Page Explorer give a indicator in the title bar that the thumbnails are being built.
· Improved - Support key repeat for the next and prev keys (Page Down and Page Up) to allow flipping through pages more quickly.
· Improved - Automatic zoom to fit has been refined to only do it in cases when a new file is being imported and not in cases the interrupt work flow such as when paging up and down or when working with filters or solutions.
· Fixed - When zooming out with the mouse wheel quickly there could be some visual artifacts on the drawing area background panel.
· Fixed - Using the Set Preview Area with the Motion Blur filter or any filter without a checkview check box would result in a crash.
· Fixed - When deleting a page not all the page elements were deleted.
· Fixed - When moving a page up or down in the Page Explorer not all page elements were moved.
· Fixed - The Pro Watercolor Dry 4 Pro, Watercolor Dry 5 and Pro Watercolor Wet 3 brushes had incorrect default size values.
November 14th, 2011· Added - Pro Air Flow Brush to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Twister to the Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet
· Added - Many fire and plasma brushes added to the Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet.
· Added - Lineto Reset brush effect.
· Added - Pro Spriro Line 2, Pro Snaker, Pro Spinner, Pro Fractal Snaker and Pro Fractal Spinner to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Img Shp Shaded, Pro Img Shp Pattern Shaded, Pro Img Shp Cloner Shaded, Pro Img Shp Shaded Rotate, Pro Img Shp Pattern Shaded Rotate and Pro Img Shp Cloner Shaded Rotate brushes.
· Added - Pro Snow Laden Tree, Pro Foliage, Pro Foliage 5, Pro Leaf 1, Pro Leaf 2, Pro Leaf 2, Pro Twigs and Pro Butterflies added to Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
· Added - HSL Adjustments brush effects modifiers to the Effects - Color Modifier ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effects pRot To Dir and pRot to DirInv to rotate the brush to the current particle direction.
· Added - Brush effect Spac text clip added for supporting variable pitched spacing for Text brushes.
· Added - Brush effect envelope db-ang3.
· Added - Brush effect Shaded Direction and Shaded Length.
· Improved - Pressing and holding the Shift key will constrain the painting tool to a straight line.
· Improved - The Dab Mode Rate brush effect is now set at a scale of 10x faster.
· Improved - When the Dab Mode Rate brush effect is in use don't draw triggered by movement, only by the flow rate.
· Improved - Most Pro brushes have been updated to set the brush rotation to 0 (no rotation). This results in improved quality and performance.
· Improved - The Dab Pos Mode effect is now compatible with Lay brush effects.
· Improved - Text brushes now support varable pitch spacing and also been updated to take advantage of the Brush Control option (check box) features.
· Fixed - The Tool Shortcut is Always Dynamic preference was not working properly.
· Fixed - The Dab Mode Rate brush effect and brushes that use it was not working properly on non-tablet installations.
November 1st, 2011· Added - Art Pro - Smoke and Gases ArtSet added
· Added - Pro Image Shape Particle 1, Pro Image Shape Particle 2 and Pro Image Shape Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet
· Added - Pro Image Brush Particle 1, Pro Image Brush Particle 2 and Pro Image Brush Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet
· Added - Pro Shape Particle 1, Pro Shape Particle 2 and Pro Shape Particle 3 added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet
· Added - Pro Clip Particles to the Art Pro - Clip Brush ArtSet
· Added - Pro Nu Spray Wave and Pro Nu Spray Shot to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet
· Added - TwistedBrush Automation System! Experimental but functioning. Found at menu File > Automation
· Added - Tool Shortcut is Always Dynamic preference added
· Added - Pro Eraser Text Brush added to the Art Pro - Test Brush ArtSet
· Added - Brush effects pRot, pAdj Rot, pRot Init, pRnd Rot and pRnd Rot Init added
· Added - Brush effect Dab mode rate added. Allows for Dab Mode and Dab Pos Mode brushes to paint without moving the cursor (like an air brush)
· Improved - The Brush Control panel now supports the ability to turn off and on control parameters
· Improved - Remember the last text entered for Text brushes
· Improved - When selecting a brush effect in the Brush Effect panel clear out the envelope, freq and amount fields if the brush effect doesn't use them
· Improved - Particle emitter have been changed to not filter drawing, just emitting, when it's not time to emit a new particle
· Improved - The Paste tool, clip brushes and text brushes have improved performance with rotating
· Improved - RAW camera reading has been updated to use version 1.444 of dcraw
· Changed - Remove unused Text Clip Brush effect
· Changed - The Hide Circle Cursor option has been changed to Hide Circle Cursor while Drawing
· Fixed - Don't display the Clips panel when Text Clip brushes are selected
· Fixed - The New Combo Palette popup menu action was clearing the current palette when it shouldn't
· Fixed - bStrokeScript and ubStrokeScript brush effects, if referencing an incorrect script file would lose recent changes to the brush
· Fixed - Paste tool, clip brushes and text brushes could crash in rare cases when rotating
· Fixed - Using the Import Brush Code or Export Brush Code from the brush shortcut popup menu would trigger a color selection mode for reference images
· Fixed - Closing the Brush Control panel when a Text Brush is selected would result in a crash on the next brush selected
· Fixed - Selecting a Hue Adj, Sat Adj or Luminence Adj brush effect when the Brush Control panel was not visible would result in a crash
· Fixed - Selecting a Text Clip Once or Text Clip Repeat brush effect when the Brush Control panel was not visible would result in a crash
October 11th, 2011· Added - Art Pro - Text Brushes ArtSet added!! Allows painting with text.
· Added - Brush effects Text Clip Once, Text Clip Repeat and Text Clip Brush.
· Improved - When using the Color Picker with an ImageBrush also capture the color in addition to the image beneath the cursor.
· Improved - Selecting of tools in normal and dynamic mode has been improved so that anytime a tool shortcut key is pressed and the tool is used while the key is down it will be considered a dynamic tool usage regardless of how quickly this is done.
· Improved - Don't allow tool selection while drawing.
· Changed - Some of the Help menus have been changed.
· Changed - Reinstate the feature that allows either mouse button to activate a tool when the tool is being used in dynamic mode
· Changed - Default on new installations is to not disable Aero themes when TwistedBrush starts.
· Fixed - Script recording was not recording the Color Picker action when the capturing from the current layer or trace layer.
· Fixed - The Brush Control panel was not always properly predrawn when switching brushes in Aero themes.
· Fixed - The Center Cursor shortcut Shift + P was only working at 1:1 zoom level.
· Fixed - Clip Array brushes, Image Brush Array brushes and Image Shape Array brushes were not working properly.
· Fixed - Skip 2 If brush effect was not working properly resulting in a number of brushes not working properly
October 5th, 2011· Added - Exposed the option to disable the Windows Aero themes on start-up. Found in the Preferences dialog. Previously the Aero themes were always disabled.
· Improved - Tool selection with shortcut keys is improved. Press a key to select a tool, press and hold the key and use the tool will use the tool in dynamic mode.
· Fixed - The Grid Snap drawing guide was not working when is was not visible for performance reasons.
September 30th, 2011· Added - Clear button added to the Drawing Guide tool to clear the set drawing guides.
· Added - Load from File as Reference Image menu option added to the File menu.
· Added - The Page Summary dialog gets a Reset button.
· Added - The Shortcut Key F2 will now launch the Page Explorer
· Added - Pro Clip Designer brush in the Art Pro Clips ArtSet.
· Improved - A number of drawing guides have rendering performance improvements. These include not displaying them when the size would be too small and only rendering the areas that are visible.
· Improved - Script Brush strokes can now be Undone just like any other stroke. This makes them much more usable.
· Changed - The multitude of directly selectable Zoom levels in the View menu have been moved to the Zoom submenu.
· Changed - The Opacity slider for the Magic Wand Mask took is now called Level.
· Changed - When recording scripts for the Script Brush tool the Undo system is disabled.
· Changed - Don't clear the current palette when using the New Palette option.
· Fixed - Modifier ArtSets were appearing in the User Created ArtSet category when they should not have appeared at all.
· Fixed - The tool tip popup help was not correct for the page and book navigation icons.
· Fixed - Added Shortcut Key (F1) to the Help > User Guide menu item.
September 12th, 2011· Added - Layer locking is now possible. A layer can either be not locked, alpha channel locked or fully locked. Previously no alpha channel locking was supported.
· Added - The Hue adj, Sat adj and Luminance adj brush effects when exposed in the Brush Controls will have a color preview bar.
· Added - Pro Nu Puddy Paint to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
· Changed - The Pro Img Shp Basic brush has the erase option removed since it is not compatible with the brush layer options used in that brush.
· Fixed - Pattern modifier ArtSets were appearing in the wrong category in the Brush Selection dialog.
· Fixed - Brush modifier ArtSets were not always appearing in the in the ArtSet list while in the ArtSet Edit dialog and they were also appearing in the Brush Select dialog when they should not.
· Fixed - Numerous Pro brushes where not working properly. Specifically those with optional features such as Directional Rotate On/Off for Image Brushes.
September 6th, 2011· Added - Batch processing!! Automatically apply a script to multiple files.
· Added - New menu Reset All Pop-up Messages added to the File menu to restore all hidden pop-up messages.
· Improved - Art Pro - Image Shape brushes will now automatically convert clip luminance value to alpha values for clips that are fully opaque. This does not alter the stored clip, only the version loaded for the shape brushes.
· Improved - All help resources are now online rather than integrated in the application.
· Improved - Alpha channel fidelity improvements when using clips and some filters.
· Improved - The Pro Img Shp Basic brush gets a wash option and fix for the eraser mode option.
· Improved - The Last Settings for Lua filters are now suffixed with the script name so that last settings will be saved per script.
· Changed - Installation default for the mouse button control is changed to use left mouse button for tools (more standard).
· Changed - Don't allow hiding the mouse button control message when switching between left and right mouse buttons used for tools.
· Fixed - Lua filter scripts and integrated Lua filter scripts were not recording properly in the TwistedBrush script recording system.
· Fixed - Entering a name in the Layer panel and then closing the Layer panel before selecting something else would result in the layer name not being saved.
August 22nd, 2011· Added - New ArtSet Art Pro - Pattern added. With more powerful and easier to use pattern brushes than previously available including the ability to use Clips as your pattern!
· Added - Clip Fill filter added to the Generate category of filters.
· Added - Detail Enhance filter to the Photo category of filters.
· Added - New brush effects Luminance Rnd, Luminance add, Luminance sub, Hue adj, Sat adj and Luminance adj.
· Added - New brush effects, Bsh Pat Scale, Select Pattern, Select Rotation, Select Shape and Select Texture.
· Added - New brush effect, Clip Pattern.
· Added - It is now possible for the Brush Control panel to have a button for selecting a Pattern, Rotation, Shape or Texture.
· Improved - The Brush O Matic brush in the Art Pro - Design ArtSet has been updated for better pattern handling.
· Fixed - When selecting and canceling a brush effect type in the Brush Effects panel for an effect that has brush control settings do not lose the brush control settings.
· Fixed - The Saturation brush effects where not correct when saturation was set as full.
· Fixed - The Contrast Mask filter and other other filters that rely on it could crash at some very specific image sizes.
· Fixed - With certain special brush types selected were selected the Filters dialog would not work properly to beyond the first preview.
August 8th, 2011· Added - Graphite filter added to the Artist category.
· Added - Drawn filter added to the Artist category.
· Added - Edge 6 filter added to the Stylized category.
· Added - Skin Enhance filter added to the Photo category.
· Added - Tone filter added to the Color category.
· Added - Contrast Luminance Map filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
· Added - Contrast Overload filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
· Added - Contrast Soft Light filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
· Improved - The various Hue and Saturation brush effects have been updated to give more controlled results, especially when used in combination with each other and the Luminance brush effect.
· Improved - The Combo and Global brush envelopes now are mapped to the full range of values. Previous percentages of 0 to 99 were available. The percentages 0 to 100 are now properly available (in increments of slightly more then 1%).
· Improved - The various controls sliders, lists etc in the Filter dialog box have been improvement to be more accurate.
· Improved - The Clear Page and Fill Page features are now called Clear Layer and Fill Layer and have been moved to the Edit menu.
· Changed - Adjusted the default value for the Histogram Stretch filter to be that of a value of more common usability.
· Fixed - The buffers in Lua filter scripts were not being cleared properly which could result in a crash or old image data being present in a filter.
· Fixed - Lua Integrated filters were not showing the additional information area properly.
August 1st, 2011· Added - Zoom Fit has been added to the Quick Command feature.
· Added - Brush effect Luminance added.
· Improved - Added some additional common PPI sizes for the Page Size dialog. Including 100, 110, 120, 180, 240, 400 and 500. These are in addition to the sizes that were already available.
· Improved - The random frame solutions now can be used on any layer without the need to flatten the image.
· Improved - The history color palette is now shown as an 8x8 grid of colors rather than 16x16. This makes it much easier to find a select a specific previously used color.
· Changed - The default values for the Alpha Edge Color filter have been updated.
· Fixed - Allow for more space for the text "Select the position of current image on the new page." on the Set Page Size dialog.
· Fixed - Deleting pages in the Page Explorer would not properly clear the page title.
· Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool in Erase Connected mode could result in a crash.
· Fixed - The Layer Mask layer mixing mode was not appearing properly on screen with many brushes while a paint stroke was in progress.
· Fixed - Lua function print_buffer_clear() had an issue that could lead to stability problems in scripts that use it.
· Fixed - Don't display the layer transparency warning during script playback when layers are moved to and from the background.
July 5th, 2011· Added - ArtSet Art Pro Large Format added. Brushed designed for huge brush sizes.
· Added - A Rule of Thirds Grid option has been added to the Crop tool.
· Added - Alpha Edge Color filter added to the Color category.
· Improved - When Entering a name for a Combo palette check for user supplied prefix of "Combo - " and remove it from the name otherwise that prefix will be duplicated.
· Improved - Significant improvement in the automatic disposal of Undo steps when memory is low at the time the memory is needed!
· Improved - Undo memory was not being freed as soon as it could be resulting in some actions failing if memory was low.
· Improved - When using the Save Base Palette pop-up menu option if the palette file exists present a overwrite confirm dialog.
· Improved - Pressing the space bar while using any of the rectangle or ellipse based tools will hide the coordinate information box.
· Improved - Don't allow pasting into an invisible layer.
· Improved - Don't allow loading from file into an invisible layer.
· Fixed - Eraser brushes on layer 1 (background layer) were not honoring masks
June 29th, 2011· Added - Pro Pen Fine Line brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Soft Pastel 2 and Pro Oil Paint 3 brushes added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Swap with Current Color pop-up menu added to the current selected color bar.
· Improved - When loading a page, default zoom level will now be to fit the page into the viewable area. Previously it was always at the 100% zoom level.
· Improved - Pressing and holding the Alt key with Lasso Mask tool will constrain the next segment to a line.
· Improved - When using the Search feature of the Brush Select dialog the Brush Category, Brush Variation and Effect Envelope fields will also be searched.
· Improved - When using the Search feature of the Brush Select dialog the currently selected brush if part of the search result set will appear with a yellow background to make known that it is part of the search results.
· Fixed - The Polygon Mask tool was not canceling when selecting a different tool.
· Fixed - The Palette menu commands, Create 1 Color Span, Create 2 Color Span, Create 3 Color Span, Create 4 Color Span, Create Hue Span From Current Color, Create From Image (Spot) and Create From Image (Average) were not working properly with Combo Palettes.
· Fixed - The Layer Panel, Clips Panel and Page View Panel were not honoring the Dialog Visible Adjust option when it was disabled.
· Fixed - The Polygon Mask was not accurately allowing the placement of the end point of a segment.
· Fixed - In the Filter dialog when doing adjustments for Lua based filters with a mask present the canvas was updating too frequently resulting in a flicker.
· Fixed - Lua Script filter list in the Filter dialog could not be navigated with the up and down arrow keys.
· Fixed - The Guasy filter with a Blur value of 0 was not working
June 13th, 2011· Added - New palette type added - Combo. This palette type will allow for easily selecting and saving all four colors from the color bar!
· Added - Additional pop-up menu options for palettes. New Palette, New Combo Palette, Save Base Palette and Clear Palette.
· Added - New default palette added in P3 position. Combo - Default 16.
· Added - Three new scribbler brushes. Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 1, Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu 4 Color Scribbler 3,
· Improved - The default Elevation value for the Emboss2 filter has been adjusted to a more usable value.
· Improved - Added Save Restore Point and Revert to Store Point to the Quick Command panel.
· Improved - All pop-up menus have a Cancel option added. Additionally some pop-up menus have been rearranged to make more common choices easier to select.
· Improved - The Pro Nu Sketched Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu Sketched Scribbler 3 have been updated to be usable with the currently selected color.
· Fixed - One step undo was not working after a Revert to Restore Point action.
· Fixed - It was not possible to delete a book name.
May 27th, 2011· Improved - The Apply and Continue feature was added back to the Filter Dialog.
· Improved - Exit the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) when restore points are stored.
· Improved - When moving a layer with transparency into the background layer present a warning message and choice if this action should be continued since the transparency will be lost.
· Fixed - Using the filter preview area on a special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) was not working.
· Fixed - Don't auto save when special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) are active.
· Fixed - Undo was not working properly with special layers. This change will disable the undo system while working on special layers. This may be enhanced in the future to fully support undo within the special layers.
May 16th, 2011· Added - Standard Banner Ad sizes added to the Set Page Size dialog.
· Added - Mirror Filter added to the distort category of filters.
· Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow transparency.
· Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow layer actions, layer up, layer down, merge or duplicates.
· Improved - For the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit). Don't allow Blob and Liquid brushes.
· Improved - When using the Paper Select dialog show the special Paper layer as selected for a visual cue.
· Improved - Clicking on an active special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) in the Layer Mini bar will now toggle it off rather than do nothing.
· Improved - Select a special layer (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) from the Layers panel will now activate the special layer.
· Changed - Don't give a warning message when using the Paper Select dialog about the layer being deleted.
· Fixed - Zoom levels were not being properly preserved when switching to and from the scratch layer.
· Fixed - Background Removal solutions were allowed to run on the background layer when they shouldn't. This could result in a crash.
· Fixed - When setting a new page size the special layers (Paper, Scratch and Mask Edit) the new area were not properly initialized.
May 13th, 2011· Fixed - Using the Page Exploring when a special layer (Paper, Scratch or Mask Edit) was selected could result in a crash.
· Fixed - The Paper Select dialog was creating the paper layer at the wrong layer location.
May 13th, 2011· Fixed - Eraser brushes were not working.
May 13th, 2011· Added - A new Polygon Mask tool has been added.
· Added - A new Lasso Mask tool has been added.
· Added - The Filter dialog now includes an option to select a rectangle area for previews. This is useful for very large pages.
· Added - The Lua filter scripts now support a variant slider type. This allows for a greater range of values.
· Added - New preference, Dialog Visible Adjustment. Allows during off the automatic movement of dialog boxes and panels. Useful for those with duel monitors.
· Added - Special Layer added. Mask Edit Layer allows quick and easy highly refined mask editing.
· Added - The three special layers (30, 31, and 32) now are shown with icons. P - Paper Layer, S - Scratch Layer, M - Mask Layer. Selecting one of these special layers from the layer mini bar will immediately enter the edit mode for that special layer.
· Added - Brush Code Import and Brush Code Export menus added to the Brush Shortcut pop-up menu.
· Improved - The Rectangle Mask tool now includes options for Replace, Add, and Subtract as well as an inverted rectangle option.
· Improved - The Ellipse Mask tool now includes options for Replace, Add, and Subtract as well as an inverted ellipse option.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: Editing mode of the scratch layer is now persistent so that it is no longer required to hold the A key to remain on the scratch layer.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: Textual indicator at the top of the page when editing the scratch layer was added.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: Switching to and from the scratch layer can now be done view the A key, layer menu, or Quick Command button.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: When exiting the scratch layer a Reference Image titled Scratch Layer Reference is automatically created / updated! Allows for easy color selections.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: The scratch layer's zoom and page position is remembered the next time you go to edit the scratch layer.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: The scratch layer is automatically named Scratch layer.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: The visibility of the scratch layer is now always turned off when exiting the scratch layer.
· Improved - Scratch Layer: When creating the scratch layer via toggling into the scratch layer edit mode the layer is automatically filled with fully opaque white. If desired the layer can be cleared for transparency.
· Improved - The Frame Maker filter now allows for a much great range of variations.
· Improved - The Quick Command panel buttons are now color coded to make it easier to quick find the desired button.
· Improved - The Layer Panel Launcher has been replaced with a more general Panel Launcher. This is the little bar that appears under the color palette area.
· Improved - The Paper Layer (previously called Texture Layer) now can more easily be manually edited in addition to the paper select dialog.
· Improved - Non-blending brushes work more logically with soft mask edges.
· Improved - Up to 256 layers can now be created. This is increased from the previous maximum of 32 layers.
· Improved - In the Layers panel the Click to Create Layer text now includes the layer number for reference.
· Changed - The Filter dialog no longer supports the Apply and Continue option.
· Changed - Hot keys for changing pages in a book are now Page Up and Page Down keys instead of the Left and Right arrow keys.
· Removed - The Unmask Grid Cell tool has been removed.
· Removed - The menu Mask > Mask Filter has been removed since it is now easier and more powerful to use the special Mask Edit layer.
· Removed - The menu Layer > Set Scratch Layer has been remove. The scratch layer will always be at layer position 31.
· Removed - Removed the hot keys Up and Down arrows for changing books. It was too easy to accidentally press these.
· Fixed - The Quick Command panel was not always properly sized.
· Fixed - The Move tool was not working correctly when ESC was used to cancel the Move action.
· Fixed - Don't remove the Scratch Layer when flattening a page.
February 28th, 2011· Added - New advanced filters Cartoon, Painted and Illustrated added to the Artistic filter category.
· Added - New advanced filter Frame Maker added to the Generate filter category.
· Added - Buffer commands added to the Lua Filter scripts in the paint category. Up to 32 buffers can be used. New commands include paint_buffer_from_layer, paint_buffer_to_layer, paint_buffer_copy, paint_buffer_clear, paint_buffer_merge_layer, paint_mask_to_buffer, paint_mask_from_buffer. This is very powerful addition.
· Added - Numerous commands add to the Lua Filter scripts in the paint category. paint_flip_horizontal, paint_flip_vertical, paint_clear_page, paint_fill_page, paint_mask_on, paint_mask_clear, paint_mask_invert, paint_create_from_mask, paint_alpha_create_from_mask, paint_mask_create_from_image, paint_mask_create_from_image_luma, paint_mask_create_from_alpha, paint_flood_fill, paint_rectangle, paint_ellipse, paint_text, paint_gradient, paint_mask_ellipse, paint_mask_rectangle, paint_mask_wand, paint_copy, paint_paste, paint_warp, paint_rotate_brush
· Improved - The Edge4 and Edge5 filters have been improved with new options.
· Improved - Indicate "Density not used for this brush" when appropriate.
· Changed - Shortcut keys Ctrl + F1 - Ctrl + F12 no longer activate the quick command buttons.
· Changed - Links to forum content have been undated.
· Fixed - When using the Copy to Shortcut feature in the ArtSet Editor dialog the current brush was not being update for the new ArtSet.
· Fixed - Added the layer merge types HSL_HUE, HSL_SAT, HSL_LUM and HSL_COLOR to Lua scripting.
· Fixed - The Tile X and Tile Y brush effects were placing dabs incorrectly. This was broken in release 17.25 and impacted the Seamless brushes and many other brushes that use the Tile_X and Tile_Y brush effects.
February 6th, 2011· Added - Option to create a reference image from a Clip was added. Located in the pop-up menu on the clip panel.
· Added - The Paste tool now supports Transform Size and Transform Rotate modes. Allow isolated transformations of size or rotation.
· Added - The Paste tool now has a Centered option to place the pasted image into the center of the page.
· Added - New filter added. Adjust RGBA in the Color category.
· Added - Two new Edge filters added. Edge4 and Edge5. Very fine edge filters in the Stylize filter category.
· Improvement - The Paste tool now supports rotation precision to 100th of a degree!
· Improvement - The Glow filter now includes a Burn option for a more intense effect.
· Changed - The Paste tool Transform Mode is now call Transform Size and Rotate.
January 31st, 2011· Improvement - Hide the Density slider when a brush is selected that does not make use of the density values.
· Change - The Pro HSL Sat brush is changed to not save the color information.
· Fixed - Smooth Felt Brush in the Markers ArtSet was not working properly.
· Fixed - The Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters were not working in 17.25. Additionally many solutions use those filters and therefore didn't work also.
January 30th, 2011· Added - New ArtSet added. Art Pro - Scribblers with a total of 11 brushes.
· Added - 4 new layer mix modes. HSL Hue, HSL, Sat, HSL Lum and HSL Color
· Added - 4 new brush effects. Lay HSL Hue, Lay HSL Sat, Lay HSL Lum and Lay HSL Color.
· Added - 4 new brushes added to the Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet. Pro HSL Colorize, Pro HSL Hue, Pro HSL Sat and Pro HSL Lum.
· Added - A new brush was added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet. Pro Pen Sketch.
· Added - A new option was added to hide the circle cursor when the precision cursor is active.
· Added - A new brush effect added Fill. Fills the page evenly with dabs.
· Added - Pro Clip Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Clips ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Image Brush Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Image Shape Fill brush added to the Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet.
· Added - Horizontal Flip and Vertical Flip options added to the Clip Panel. Access from the right click pop-up menu.
· Changed - The scribbler brushes have been moved from the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet to the new Art Pro - Scribblers ArtSet.
· Improved - The Art Pro - Natural Media, Pro Artist Pen has been improved with smoother edges.
· Improved - Most clip brushes have received a significant performance improvement.
· Improved - Camera RAW file reading improvements.
· Fixed - Art Tools - Pens, Velvety Smooth Pen, Thick Smooth Pen, Flowing Pen 3 and Flowing Pen 4 were not working properly.
· Fixed - The Tile X and Tile Y brush effects were not always properly distributing the dabs on the page.
January 17th, 2011· Added - 3 Scribbler brushes added Pro Nu Scribbler 1, Pro Nu Scribbler 2 and Pro Nu Scribbler 3. Found in the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
· Added - The options for Horizontal Flip and Vertical Flip to the Quick Command panel.
· Added - Added brush effects Scribbler 1, Scribbler 2, Scribbler 3 and Scribbler 4.
· Improved - Don't automatically stop Time-Lapse Recording when switching pages or changing page sizes. However, recording will only resume when the page size matches the original page size used when the recording started.
· Improved - Added controls (buttons) to the Time-Lapse Recording dialog to allow manually forcing frames to record in 1, 5, 10 and 20 frame groups.
· Improved - Constrain the Line tool to straight lines when holding down the Shift key.
· Fixed - The Color Contrast filter was not honoring masks.
· Fixed - The Gallery link in the Help menu was not linking directly to the gallery anymore.
· Fixed - The Auto Clean tool (turned off) was not working correctly.
· Fixed - After scanning an image (with Acquire) the page was not being re-drawn.
December 20th, 2010· Added - Two perspective brushes added to the Pro Clips ArtSet and the Pro Image Brush ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect envelop added. Dst h.perspc. This will give a value tied to the perspective drawing guides.
· Fixed - When using the Time-Lapse Painting feature changing the page size with the Crop or Border features could result in a crash. Now recording will be stopped.
· Fixed - The brush Fractal Paint 028 was not painting anything.
· Fixed - The Pro Image Brush Stamper brush was defaulting to tiled when it should not.
· Fixed - Bld Tint now smoothly supports the range from no tinting to full tinting.
· Fixed - The Pro Image Brush brushes that support tinting now smoothly supports the full range from no tinting to full tinting.
December 5th, 2010· Added - Pro Watercolor Wet 4 brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Pollock filter moved to the new Auto Paint category.
· Added - Horizontal Lines filter added to the new Auto Paint category.
· Added - Vertical Lines filter added to the new Auto Paint category.
· Added - Mosaic 2 filter moved to the Pixelate category.
· Added - Mosaic 3 filter moved to the Pixelate category.
· Added - Simplified filter moved to the Stylized category.
· Updated - The security system has been updated.
· Improved - Reduced the frequency that the Clips panel will automatically display.
· Improved - Lua Filters can now be properly recorded in scripts.
· Improved - Lua Filters can now be integrated and accessed as normal filter via menus and use the preset systems as well. This is not exposed to users and is accomplished with software changes.
· Improved - When using a Lua Filter don't update the Brush Effect panel and Brush Control panel. This reduces screen updates when adjusting the filter sliders.
· Fixed - The Bleed brush effect was not working correctly. It was unbalanced bleed colors too much from one location and not the others.
· Fixed - When Importing a Clip bank if select No and Cancel on the Delete Clips prompts don't continue with the operation.
November 21st, 2010· Added - Three new watercolor brushes added. Pro Watercolor Dry 4, Pro Watercolor Dry 5 and Pro Watercolor Wet 3.
· Improved - A number of small improvements have been made to the newly named Record Time-Lapse Painting feature.
· Changed - Record to AVI features is now called Record Time-Lapse Painting.
· Changed - Minor reorganization to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Fixed - A handful of brushes in 4 ArtSets has used the ImageBrush effect when they shouldn't have. This resulted in the Clips panel showing when it wasn't needed.
October 17th, 2010· Fixed - The Page View panel was not updating properly in some cases.
October 16th, 2010· Improved - Reset All will now clear the Adobe Plug-ins list.
· Changed - Resizing the Page View panel is now handled with a right click on the Page View panel to cycle through 4 different sizes.
· Fixed - If a previously selected Plug-ins directory was removed from the computer file system a crash could occur when selecting the Plug-ins option from the Filter menu.
October 10th, 2010· Added - Page View panel. Dynamic full view of the page with panning support to aid when zoomed in.
· Added - Clip bank import and export feature added. Bundles all clips from a bank into a single file.
· Improved - Small performance improvement for the Fractal 01 Lua Script Filter.
· Improved - Quick Start pages have received visual enhancements to improve readability.
· Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool was inadvertently alpha locking and alpha unlocking layers in some cases.
· Fixed - When saving a brush to an ArtSet with a different color storage setting than the current brush the brush color after exiting the ArtSet edit dialog was not correct.
· Fixed - The Clips panel could get into a state where it would show 2 instances and appear when it shouldn't.
· Fixed - Setting the Scale slider too low for the Background filter could result in a crash.
· Fixed - The Art Pro - Photo Edit brush Pro Fix Dynamic Angle was not working correctly.
September 7th, 2010· Added - Pro Clip Array, Pro Image Brush Array and Pro Image Shape Array brushes added.
· Added - Brushes Pro Nu Infinity Paint, Pro Design Infinity Paint and Pro Mandala Infinity Paint.
· Added - Brush effect "Select Clip". Selects a clip from the current clip bank.
· Added - Brush effect envelopes "clip rnd" and "clip next" added.
· Improved - Major speed increase for the Pro Fractal, Pro Infinity and Pro Infinity Paint brushes.
· Improved - The Pro Cloner Dabs 1 and Pro Cloner Dabs 2 brushes now offer and option for Dab Luminance Variance.
· Improved - The pFix Color Trace brush effect now uses a brush strength for controlling the color luminance variance.
· Improved - Added a visual indicator when selecting a clip.
· Fixed - The Pro Image Brush Spray brush was not working correctly with brush rotation.
· Fixed - The Center Page option was not working.
August 29th, 2010· Added - Art Pro - Cloner ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Seamless ArtSet added.
· Added - Brush effect pFix Color Trace added.
· Added - 4 brushes added to the Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet
· Added - Brush effect envelope "peak slow" added.
· Improved - Retain the canvas position information (set with Pan tool) when zooming in and out.
· Improved - The Fractal and Infinity brushes have been improved in the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
· Improved - The Fractal brushes have been improved in the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Improved - The Infinity brush has been improved in the Art Pro - Effects ArtSet.
· Fixed - On new installations the default brush size and colors were not being set correctly.
· Fixed - The brush rotation indicator on the cursor was not drawing at the correct location.
· Fixed - The db-ang and db-ang2 brush effect envelopes were not handling the first dab well.
· Fixed - The Repeat control for the Line tool was not working.
August 19th, 2010· Added - Brush effects envelopes "pg ang2" and "db ang2"
· Improved - The Pro Blooming Blender brush has been improved.
· Improved - Automatically show the Clips panel when using any Clip Brush, Image Brush or Image Shape Brush.
· Improved - Brush rotation has been improved to be consistent between clips, shapes and image brushes as well as based on brush direction or brush rotation via the rotation tool.
· Improved - The Pro Clip, Pro Image Brush, Pro Image Shape and Pro Mandala ArtSets have been updated to save the brush rotation to a default angle.
· Improved - Hide the Freq and Amp columns of the Brush Effects panel if a brush effect envelope does use those columns.
· Improved - The Art Pro - Image Brush and Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSets have received a number of improvements.
· Fixed - Corrected a typo in the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
· Fixed - Pro Clip Brushes with direction rotation on where not drawing the first clip in a sequence rotated correctly.
· Fixed - The Update button in combination with editing a Color brush modifier brush was not working correctly.
August 9th, 2010· Added - Art Pro - Liquid ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Clip Brush ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Image Brush ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Design ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet added.
· Added - Art Pro - Image Shape ArtSet added.
· Added - Pro Fix Dynamic Angle and Pro Fix Area Sample brushes added to he Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Oil Paint Flat Brush added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect Global Spin added.
· Added - Pro Infinity brush added to the Art Pro - Effects ArtSet.
· Added - Three Pro Fractal Brushes added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Added - Three Pro Mandala Fractal Brushes added to the Art Pro - Mandala ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Lathe brush added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Flower Design brush added to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effects envelopes icounter1 - icounter4 added.
· Added - Brush effect Init added. Runs the next effect only the specified number of times.
· Added - Brush effect "Shape Brush" added. Sets the brush shape when selecting a clip or using the Copy tool.
· Added - Brush effect "Bld tint" added.
· Added - Brush effect "Disable Smooth Stroke".
· Improved - The Pro Palette Knife brush has been improved.
· Improved - Brush effects envelopes b-ang(1-4) have been improved to work properly with multi-dab brushes.
· Improved - The Pro Soft Pastel brush has been improved.
· Improved - When loading the Shortcuts from an ArtSet or to defaults retain the original ArtSet link for each brush.
· Improved - The distance based brush effect envelopes (dst, dst x, dst pg, etc) can now be used with the brush control system.
· Improved - Using the Copy tool will set the Image brush values if an image brush is selected.
· Changed - A number of ArtSets that have been recreated as Pro ArtSets have been moved to the Legacy category.
· Changed - Pro Spiro Line brush moved to the Art Pro - Design ArtSet.
· Changed - Image Brushes no longer color the clip when an image is selected. Use the new Image Shape brushes to use a clip as a shape.
· Fixed - Brush effect envelope b-ang4 was not working properly.
· Fixed - Multi-dab blending brushes were not properly cleaning the brushes.
July 16th, 2010· Added - Art Pro - Blob Modeling ArtSet added.
· Added - Pro Watercolor and Pro Palette Knife brushes added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Spiro Line added to the Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet.
· Added - Pro Cat Tail brush added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effects envelope b-ang4 added. In most cases this should be used instead of b-ang1 - b-ang3.
· Added - Brush effects Blender Count and Select Blender added.
· Added - Brush effects envelope iIndex added. Results in a value equivalent to the current effect dab count. Used when dabs are replicated such as with mirror or symmetry effects.
· Added - The ability for blending brushes to be used with multi-dab effects such as mirror, tile and symmetry. This requires
· very specific brush effects to work properly.
· Added - Brush effect envelopes bnk10 - bnk19 have been added.
· Added - Pro Pen Taper added to the Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet.
· Improved - Brush Controls can now used to select directory based objects, bShape, bPattern etc. for sequential items. The Pro Watercolor brush makes use of this.
· Improved - The Pix Lum Vary and Pix color Vary effects result in no operation when the strength is 0.
· Improved - The Pro Watercolor Digital Wet brush has been improved.
· Improved - Many of the brush effect envelopes that use the freq value can now be exposed to the Brush Controls panel.
July 5th, 2010· Fixed - When zoomed in or zoomed out some brushes were not showing the painted results on screen until the page was redrawn.
July 4th, 2010· Added - 8 new brushes added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effects "Skip 2 if", "Skip once" and "Skip 2 once" added.
· Improved - The Art Pro - Photo Edit brushes have been improved so that they work with transparent areas of layers.
· Improved - Brushes with Lay effects (many of the Pro brushes) now can but used to paint on Blob and Liquid layers.
· Improved - A number of brushes in the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet have been improved.
· Fixed - Layer blending modes Color and Hard Color no longer replace pure alpha areas.
· Fixed - The f-in-fast brush effect was not working correctly.
· Fixed - Brushes with the new Lay effects (Lay Dodge, Lay Multiple etc) were not working properly with the transparent areas of layers.
June 28th, 2010· Added - 29 new Pro brushes added to the Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet!
· Added - Brush effects now can have up to 16 levels. Increased from 12.
· Added - Brush effect pEmit Radial added.
· Added - Brush effect envelope t-ang2 added.
· Added - Brush effect VM Randomize. Value modifier to randomize the strength of the following brush effect.
· Added - Added brushes Pro Basic Paint and Pro Basic Wet Paint to the Art Pro Natural Media ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect envelopes f-in-fast and f-out-fast. Faster fading in and out.
· Added - Brush effect Disperse added. This is a 10x stronger jitter.
· Added - Brush effect Gap added. This is the reverse of the Skip effect.
· Added - Brush effects pEmit DInv 2 Alt and pEmit Dir 2 Alt added. Alternates the branched directional particles.
· Added - Brush effect Skip2 added. Skips the next 2 brush effects (instead of just 1).
· Added - Brush effect Gap2 added. Reverse of Skip2.
· Added - Brush effect pSpd Init. Sets the initial particle speed.
· Added - Core brush variations, Fine Coverage, Fine Coverage 50 percent feather and Fine Coverage 100 percent feather.
· Improved - Retain brush size and color information when switching to and from brushes with integral color and size information!
· Improved - When using the Line tool don't redraw the last line when releasing the mouse button. This allows for greater control with use of advanced brushes that have a random factor to them.
· Changed - The 3D Abs effect now results in no action when the strength is 0.
· Fixed - Using the Move tool on a locked layer would result in the layer being cleared. Now the layer lock (alpha lock) is ignored for the Move tool
· Fixed - Using the Cor Dab Spc set to a value of 0 in combination with other effects could result in a crash.
· Fixed - In Blob modes 4 and 5 when using a lowering brush switching pages and returning could result in a change in the fully lowered areas.
June 9th, 2010· Added - Brush Control feature added. Allows for brushes to have custom sliders!!
· Added - Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet added. Covers most natural media brush with flexible brush control!
· Added - Art Pro - Nu Media ArtSet added. Beginning stages of interesting brushes.
· Added - Art Pro - Effects ArtSet added. Beginning stages of useful and flexible effects.
· Added - Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet added. New brushes for photo editing!
· Added - Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet added. Very early stages of this ArtSet with just one great brush so far.
· Added - Art Pro - Utility ArtSet added. The location for new utility oriented brushes.
· Added - Support for reading camera RAW files added. Well over 100 camera models supported.
· Added - Color Contrast filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category.
· Added - Solutions Paint Style 01, Pastel Style 01 and Pastel Style 02 added.
· Added - New solutions added to the Image Enhancement category. Bright Detail Style 1 - 4, Bright Hyper Light Style 1 - 3 and Bright Light Details Style 1 - 4.
· Added - New solutions added to the Special Effects category. Extreme Bright Detail 1 - 2.
· Added - A new solutions category Noise Reduction added with 10 new noise reduction solutions.
· Added - Auto Levels Solution added to the Image Enhancement category.
· Added - Mask High Low filter added to the Mask Generation category of filters.
· Added - A new solution category called Channels was added with solutions for splitting and merging an image into channels components.
· Added - New brush effects Shift Dab Up, Shift Dab Down, Shift Dab Right, Shift Dab Left, Shift Dab Angle and Rebase Dab Pos. These are used for the new Photo Repair brushes.
· Added - Brush effects pRnd Ang Init and pRnd Pos Init added.
· Added - D Blender brush added to Duarte's Brushes ArtSet. Thank you for the contribution!
· Added - Conte Style 01 solution added to Artistic category of solutions.
· Added - Colored Pencil Style 01 solution added to Artistic category of solutions.
· Added - Brush effect Repeat added.
· Added - pMove Smooth brush effect added.
· Added - pRegress brush effect added.
· Added - Brush effects, Lay Multiply, Lay Screen, Lay Darken, Lay Overlay, Lay Hard Light, Lay Soft Light, Lay Dodge, Lay Burn, Lay Add, Lay Subtract, Lay Color and Lay Hard Color added.
· Improved - Added a pixel isolation mode to the Mask Detail filter.
· Improved - Added an Auto Levels option to the Levels filter!
· Changed - Don't remove disabled effects from brushes when using the Optimize ArtSet feature.
· Changed - Return to using the higher quality, but slower Gaussian blur filter. The faster one has some poor quality side effects.
· Changed - All Scatter and Jitter brush effects now result in no action when the strength is zero.
· Changed - All particle random position and angle effects no result in no action when the strength is zero.
· Changed - All Bld Mix brush effects result in no action when the strength is zero.
· Changed - The default shortcuts have been completely updated to include mostly Pro brushes.
· Removed - The ArtSets Art Pro Watercolor, Art Pro Soft Pastel and Art Pro Oil Pastel have been removed.
· Fixed - Using the Fixed Size Edge and Rectangle options for the Vignette filter could result in a crash on some image sizes.
· Fixed - Using the mask wand tool off the top of the image would result in a crash.
· Fixed - When selecting brush sizes larger than 600 pixels for brushes with a texture a crash would occur.
· Fixed - The Lay Normal brush effect was not working correctly.
· Fixed - The core brush attribute Prime Primary Color was not working correctly for dynamically sized brushes.
· Fixed - A number of brushes including Cartoon brushes were not working properly on layers.
· Fixed - The dynamic status panel was not updating when a system was not restarted for over 21 days.
April 17th, 2010· Added - Added the Lay Transparency brush effect. This allows for proper transparency of brushes that make use of lay effects.
· Added - Two new modes added to the Contrast Mask filter and the Photo Detailer filter.
· Added - Detail Enhance solution added to the Special Effects category.
· Added - Solutions Recover Detail Clean, Recover Detail Neutral and Recover Detail Vivid added to the Image Enhancement category of solutions.
· Added - Solution Extreme Detail Neutral and Extreme Detail Vivid added to the Special Effects category of solutions.
· Improved - The Hyper Contrast filter has some performance improvements. This helps a number of other filters that internally use this filter.
· Improved - The Search feature of the Select Brush dialog will now also match against brush effects.
· Changed - The brush effect Alpha Lay has been removed since it no longer is needed. Brushes that used it have been updated.
· Fixed - The Pro Watercolor brushes could lead to incorrect results on other layers if the other layer had an Lay Alpha mix mode.
· Fixed - A number of brushes from different ArtSets were not functioning properly due to changes introduced 2 releases back.
April 6th, 2010· Added - Added 2 new layer mix modes, Color and Hard Color! Very useful.
· Added - Reduce filter added to the Distort category. This gives better results than the Zoom filter for reducing the size of the image data.
· Added - Inlay Bottom Left and Inlay Bottom Right solutions added to the Layout category.
· Added - New solutions, Glow Style 02, Ink Style 02 and Drawn Style 05.
· Added - Added 9 Skin Enhancement solutions.
· Improved - Improvements to the Frame solutions for better handling of where the paper edge meets the mat.
· Improved - When setting the paper color set the background layer color automatically.
· Changed - The brush size will now be treated as an absolute size when recording solutions rather than proportional.
March 29th, 2010· Improved - The Portrait Style 01 - 09 solutions have been complete reworked and give much nicer results on a wider range of photos.
· Fixed - The Move action was not properly re-recording in scripts. For example if attempting to record a usage of one of the Layout Solutions.
· Fixed - The Angle slider for the Motion Blur 2 filter was not working correctly.
March 29th, 2010· Added - New Artet Collections - String Art 01.
· Improved - The Value Blur filter is nearly twice as fast! This means all the other filters and solutions that rely on this important filter also will get a performance boost.
· Improved - The Noise Reduction filter is nearly twice as fast!
· Improved - The Noise Reduction RGB filter is more than twice as fast!
· Improved - The Noise Reduction 2 filter is around twice as fast, almost 3x on multi-processor systems!
· Improved - The Anti-alias filter is around twice as fast!
· Improved - The performance of the Line Art Cleaner filter has been moderately improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Basic Threshold filter has been moderately improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Hyper-Contrast filter has been moderately improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Adaptive Blur filter has been moderately improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Fader filter has been slightly improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Borderizer filter has been improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Clamp filter has been improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Mask Detail filter has been improved.
· Improved - The performance of the Gaussian Blur filter has a small improved. This also helps a handful of other filters indirectly.
· Improved - The performance of non-blending brushes has been improved by up to 15%!
· Improved - Many CPU intensive actions through out TwistedBrush gained around 5% improvement in performance. This includes large or complex brushes. This is independent from the other improvements listed and therefore accumulative in many cases.
· Fixed - Using the Bristles brush effect in combination with the Size brush effect could lead to a program crash.
March 12th, 2010· Added - The Copy tool gets an option for Copy Merged.
· Added - Facebook and Twitter links added to the Help menu.
· Improved - Updated the Color History Palette only with colors that are actually painted with.
· Improved - Changed to warning for automatically switching to a Liquid or Blob layer more clear.
· Fixed - When merging layers with alpha mix modes ensure the colors don't bleed in pure alpha areas. For example merge a Alpha Smooth 2 layer into a new blank layer and then copy and use the paste tool and resize larger and a color would bleed beyond the object edge.
· Fixed - Merging 2 liquid layers (Alpha Smooth 2) together was not working correctly.
March 7th, 2010· Improved - Most brushes can be used to paint objects on the liquid and blob layers.
· Change - By default setting a layer to a blob layer will use Alpha Smooth Lum 5 instead of Alpha Smooth Lum 3.
· Fixed - The handling of the maximized windows state at start-up could result in the main application window not being shown when selected from the task bar.
· Fixed - Fixed a case of a Invalid Gadget Canvas Handle crash that could occur after using a right click pop-up menu.
· Fixed - Incorrect warning text when attempting to use a Liquid Paint brush on a non-Alpha Smooth 2 layer.
March 3rd, 2010· Added - Liquid Paint ArtSets added! Liquid Modeler, Liquid Shaper and Liquid Paints.
· Added - Collections - LNA Chains 101 ArtSet added. Thanks LNA for the fine contribution!
· Added - Brush effect Lay Smooth2 added.
· Added - Layer mode Alpha Smooth2 added.
· Added - Brush effect Liquid Mode added.
· Added - Solutions Photo Edge 01 and Photo Edge 01 Shadow added to the Border category.
· Added - Quick Start page for Clips added.
· Improved - When attempting to using a blob brush on a non-blob layer allow for the layer to be automatically switched.
· Improved - For Blob (and Liquid Paint) layers automatically lock the alpha channel for the Gradient tool and the Background filters.
· Improved - The quality of the Paste tool has been improved. Back to using a fixed Lanczos 3 algorithm.
· Improved - When changing the page size use the current paper color for the new area edges.
· Changed - The opening splash screen was changed.
· Fixed - The pop-up menu on the layer mini bar was not properly detecting a blob layer for Lum types 4 and 5.
· Fixed - The Paint Bucket tool in paint connected mode was altering the alpha channel when it should not.
February 20th, 2010· Added - Grayscale Visually Solution added.
· Added - An option is added to the plug-in filter to lock the alpha channel to improve compatibility with some plug-ins.
· Added - Brush effect "Filter on first" added. This will result in filter the bad if it's the first dab in a stroke.
· Added - Brush effect envelop "B-ang3" added. Designed to work with the Rotate effect and spaced dabs.
· Added - Brush effect envelop "B-ang clips" added. Designed to work with the Rotate effect and clip brushes.
· Added - Clip Dragged Spaced Directional brush added to the Clips : Basic ArtSet. The clip is rotated as in the direction of the stroke as you paint.
· Added - Charcoal Style 02 Solution added to the Artistic category.
· Added - Save the last filter settings as a preset called Last Settings for all filters except Lua scripts and plug-ins.
· Added - WM Map brush effect added. This is a value modifier effect (modifiers the following effect). Maps the resulting value if matching the frequency column to that of the amplitude column.
· Improved - When selecting a plug-in folder automatically add it to the folder list so that Add button doesn't have to be pressed.
· Improved - Only scan the plug-in folders after the plug-in folder selection dialog is used. Improves performance of selecting the Plug=in filter type.
· Improved - Give a warning message when trying to save a Filter Preset for a plug-in.
· Fixed - Plug-ins with sub-menus were not showing the full list of sub-menus items in the plug-ins list.
· Fixed - Some plug-ins were reporting that an editable alpha layer was needed.
· Fixed - Some plug-ins were erasing the alpha channel values resulting in a blank image.
· Fixed - Memory leak when selecting Load File as New or Load File Into for some file types.
February 16th, 2010· Added - Support for Adobe Photoshop compatible filters (8bf) has been added!
· Added - A group of 11 Chromatic Aberration reduction solutions are added to the Image Enhancement category.
· Added - Two new filters added. Glow Inner and Glow Outer. Found in the Filter > Stylize menu.
· Added - Added option in Mask menu to Create Mask from Image Visual Luminance.
· Added - Four Drawn Style Solutions added to the Artist category.
· Added - A Special Effects Solution category added with three Neon Style Solutions.
· Added - Five Hyper Image solutions added to the Special Effects category.
· Added - Added a Sketch Style 01 solution to the Artists category.
· Added - Added Glow Style 01 solution to the Special Effects category.
· Fixed - Gaussian Blur was not working in some cases.
· Fixed - The Duotone filter was not making full use of the color range.
· Fixed - When moving the layers either up and down from the background the resulting image on layer 2 would not properly allow for the alpha channel to be changed when a mask was active.
February 2nd, 2010· Added - The Art Pro - Soft Pastels ArtSet is added!
· Added - A new category of Solutions added. Background Removal. For removing solid color backgrounds.
· Added - Brush effect VM Range is added. This is a value modifier that will allow clamping the value of the follow effect to the range specific in the Freq and Amp columns.
· Added - Brush effect envelopes, Cur Lum, Cur Luma, Cur R, Cur G and Cur B. These are based on your currently selected color.
· Improved - Some improvements to the floating tools to increase robustness.
· Improved - Show a visual indicator in the Clips panel for empty Clip slots.
· Fixed - The Screen Capture options in the Edit menu were not working correctly.
January 22nd, 2010· Added - Clips feature!! Accessed from the Copy tool or Paste tool.
· Added - Clip Brush - Basics ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect "Clip Bruah" added.
· Added - Brush effect "Skip If" added.
· Improved - Image Brushes are tied to the new Clips feature. Selecting a Clip will load the image into the image brush.
· Fixed - The new rotation indication would sometimes leave an artifact on the screen until redrawn.
· Fixed - At 90 degrees the rotation indicator was not being shown.
· Fixed - The Art Pro - Oil Pastel ArtSet had no descriptions.
January 15th, 2010· Added - Art Pro - Oil Pastel ArtSet added.
· Added - A tick mark is now shown on the brush cursor to indicate the rotation of the brush.
· Added - Added brush effects Density Max and Opacity Max.
· Added - Added Blend Mix Capture2, Blend Mix UnderLayer2, Blend Mix History2 and Blend Mix Trace2 brush effects. Covers a wider range than the similarly named effects.
· Added - Brush effects Bld luma darker and Bld luma lighter added.
· Improved - The brsh effects Density Min, Density Max, Opacity Min and Opacity Max now limit the dynamic pen pressure and sliders in the same way the Size Min and Size Max effects do.
· Improved - In the Brush Effects panel for the Frequency and Amplitude menu popups increase the width of the target areas to make it easy to select the values (0 - 9).
· Improved - Improved the performance of the Paint to AVI feature.
· Improved - The Paint to AVI feature will now only record when changes occur. Something like an auto pause feature. Note: at least one frame per minute will still be recorded.
· Improved - Clicking outside of the Brush Select dialog when not in ArtSet Edit mode will close the dialog.
· Improved - The Stats mode now shows the core brush attributes. This will be useful for brush designers.
· Fixed - Selecting a paper texture when there is already image data in layer 32 results in a warning box. If Cancel is selected for the warning box TwistedBrush would suddenly exit.
· Fixed - When using the About Color Palette menu option selected from the color palette menu popup moving the cursor over the color palette would select a color even when the mouse button wasn't depressed.
· Fixed - In the Paper Select dialog the slider text values were not always updated properly.
· Fixed - Most of the "Cor " brush effects did not allow setting values properly to the maximum range.
January 4th, 2010· Added - Auto clean toggle and clean brush action were added to the quick command panel.
· Added - New brush effect, Bristles.
· Added - Pro Watercolor Wet Base brush added to the Art Pro Watercolor ArtSet along with 10 diffusion modifiers.
· Added - Scale option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
· Added - Invert option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
· Improved - ArtSets are now grouped into 19 different categories.
· Improved - Paper selection has been completely redone. Now paper can be adjusted by scale, weight, adherence, contrast and inverted.
· Improved - Give a warning message when attempting to use a color palette creation menu on dynamic palettes.
· Improved - When a tool is selected always show the cursor with a red outline as an indicator that a tool and not the brush is selected.
· Changed - Renamed the Pro Watercolor Base brush to Pro Watercolor Dry Base.
· Changed - Art Pro Watercolor Dry Base is now listed in the default brush shortcuts.
· Fixed - Typos in the the Art Pro - Watercolor ArtSet.
· Fixed - In the Brush Effects dialog for the Blend and Color Sources there was a duplicate Blend bImage entry.
· Fixed - When using the option to Start in Page Explorer the previously selected page would be cleared.
· Fixed - When using a dynamic color palette don't adjust the color when the cursor movement is of the palette.
· Fixed - When luminance was set at 0 or 100 the hue and saturation values were lost when switching to a new brush.
· Fixed - When using Auto Brush Cleaning off, when switching to a brush that has colors saved with it make sure the brush is cleaned in that case and the correct color is selected.
· Fixed - Using filter presets would set the currently selected color when it should not have.
December 13th, 2009· Added - Art Pro - Watercolors ArtSet added.
· Added - A new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Fur 101. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
· Added - Two new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Skin 101 and 102. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
· Added - Alpha Lay new brush effect. For use in combination with other Lay brush effects to allow for transparency with many of the Lay brush effects.
· Added - Shape Blur new brush effect. Allows for setting a blur factor for brush shapes. Gives significant flexibility for brush designers.
· Added - Blend Mix Capture, Blend Mix Underlayer, Blend Mix History and Blend Mix Trace brush effects added. These mix the source buffer with the blending buffer. Useful when used in combination with the Lay brush effects.
· Added - Added one new texture - Full Coverage. Mostly for internal utility purposes.
· Improved - The Value Blur filter has received both performance and quality improvements. This is a core blur type that is used in a number of other filters and solutions in TwistedBrush.
· Improved - Do not reload pigment onto brushes when the size dynamically changes during a stroke. This results in a smoother color flow when the brush sizes change.
· Improved - The Bleed brush effect has been improved when moving over fully transparent areas.
· Improved - Added an Extreme option to the Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters.
· Improved - The Bld brush effects work in combination with the new Blend Mix brush effects. These can lead to some powerful combinations.
· Improved - The Color Picker no longer switches colors when selecting a fully transparent area of the layer. Previously it was changing the color to white.
· Improved - The Resat (re-saturation) brush effect now works with blending brushes.
· Fixed - There were some typos in the Cloners - Artistic 2 ArtSet.
· Fixed - The Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 filters were not working below a size value of 5.
· Fixed - When using variable size brushes that blend it was possible that the brush was not fully cleaned at the start of the next stroke.
· Fixed - When dismissing the Brush Options dialog moving the cursor over the color palette would change the current color.
October 19th, 2009· Added - A collection of Layout solutions added. Allows for laying out the layers side by side.
· Added - 3 new ArtSets from Lee-N-Ardo. Collections - LNA Hair 101, Collections - LNA Mermaids and Collections - LNA Mermaid Tails. A big thanks to LNA for the contributions!!
· Improved - Gaussian Blur is much faster now (at higher blur levels). This also improves many other filters and solutions that rely on the guassian blur
· Fixed - Selecting a layer did not result in the indicator being set for a page change. This can have some adverse effects when canceling certain actions such as Solutions.
October 4th, 2009· Added - Support for floating panels. Accessed from View menu, hotkeys F4 - F8 and right clicking (for pop up menu) on the brush panels.
September 24th, 2009· Added - Zoom Fit menu option now available under the View menu. Automatically selects the zoom level that will fit the entire image on the screen without scrolling.
· Added - Drawing guides Ruler Rect: Inches and Ruler Rect: Centimeters added. Define a rectangle area on the page for a set of rulers to appear.
· Improved - Zoom out is now handled at smaller increments, allowing for zoom out ratios of 80%, 67% etc.
· Improved - The maximum Zoom out ratio is now increased to 8% where previously it was at 12%.
· Fixed - At some levels of zoomed out the right or bottom edge were not rendering properly on screen.
· Fixed - The ruler text had an inconsistent thickness when the cursor passed over the unit counters.
September 14th, 2009· Added - Ruler: Inches and Ruler: Centimeter drawing guides added.
· Fixed - The Move action recorded in older scripts were not playing back correctly.
· Fixed - The Texturize Bump filter recorded in a script prior to release 10 was not playing back well. This has been improved.
August 30th, 2009· Added - Blob - Styler 01 and Styler 02 ArtSets added.
· Updates - The Effects - Blob ArtSet was updated for consistency.
· Fixed - On some system configurations the drawing of the layers panel and layer mini bar was very slow and made some actions sluggish when more then a few layers were present
August 24th, 2009· Added - A couple of brushes to the Art Tools - Airbrushes ArtSet.
· Added - A new brush effect Spc Cen Abs Fine was added. Allows for smaller increments of dab spacing from the brush center.
· Added - 2 brushes each to the Blob - Modeler and blob - Surface Modeler ArtSets.
· Added - A new brush effects modifier ArtSet Effects - Blobs was added to aid in creating blob brushes.
· Improved - Merging of layers with the same Alpha mix mode is now handled better. This includes allowing blob layers (Alpha Smooth Lum) to be merged.
· Improved - Performance when moving between floating dialogs and the main application has been improved.
· Improved - Some improvements to cases of the application not redrawing fully after a login.
· Fixed - The Quick Command entry for Toggle Mask was not correct and not working.
· Fixed - The Collections - Seamless Paint and Collectins - Seamless Design had incorrect brush effect modifiers.
· Fixed - Brushes with the global brush effect envelope were being updated in ArtSet edit mode when they shouldn't.
August 9th, 2009· Added - New brush effects modifier ArtSet added. Effects - Seamless Tiles.
· Added - ArtSet Collections - LNA Rocks 101. A special thanks to Lee-N-Ardo for contributing this ArtSet!!
· Added - ArtSet Collections - Seamless Design added.
· Added - ArtSet Collections - Seamless Paint added.
· Added - New Solution, Smart Saturation Level 0.
· Added - 2 new brush effects added Tile X and Tile Y. Used for painting seamlessly tiling pages.
· Improved - Allow for smaller increments on the Grid Snap drawing guide. Previously 10 pxiels was the smallest.
· Improved - For drawing guides smaller than 10 pixels draw as a multiple of the size below 10 pixesl.
· Changed - For the Quick Command disscriptions for Enable Mask change to Toogle Mask. This better matches the button text.
· Changed - Removed the icons for Delete Book and Clear Book from the Page Explorer. It is too easy to confuse them with Delete Page. The menu must now be used to delete or clear a book.
· Fixed - The Paste tool could result in a crash. Problem introduced ni 16.02.
· Fixed - Some brushes in the Mandala Paint 1 and Mandala Paint 2 ArtSets incorrectly had colors stored when they should not.
July 27th, 2009· Added - New filter added, Mask Detail. Allows generating a mask of the details in the image.
· Added - New solution added, Zap Jaggies. Used to anti-alias.
· Added - New Border Solutions. Varied Bands, Small, Medium and Large.
· Added - New Border Solution. Color Band 3 (Random) and Color Band 2 (Random)
· Added - Background 3D Solution. Background 13.
· Added - 20 new Edge Solutions added to the Borders category.
· Added - Lua script commands get_mask() and set_mask()
· Improved - Give a warning and don't allow Background 3D and Box and Fold Solutions to run on the background layer.
· Improved - The Patterned Cube 01 Solution was improved to run properly on the background layer.
· Improved - The Vignette filter gets a new flag. Current Color. For using the current brush color for the vignette (when color is enabled).
· Improved - The Color Picker action is now recorded in scripts.
· Improved - The Paste tool now uses Lanczos3 instead of bi-cubic for resizing.
· Fixed - The Borderize filter was missing the pixel row on the left and bottom.
· Fixed - Doing a Copy Merged Selection action with a mask enabled would result in a crash.
· Fixed - The following filters were altering the color in transparent areas of the layer - Offset, Sine Distortion, Wow, Rotate, Waves, Tilt, Twirl and Zoom.
· Fixed - The Warp 3 Point filter had a mislabeled control.
July 20th, 2009· Added - Page Resize and Image Resize are now supported in Solutions.
· Added - New filter Clamp added. Found in the Color category.
· Added - Tile 02 and Patterned Cube Solutions in the Generative category.
· Improved - On Vista 64 Editions TwistedBrush will get up tp 4GB or memory where previously the limit was 2GB! This allows much greater capability for those working on huge images.
· Changed - Improved the text in the Brush Select dialog when a filter or search is done that ends up with no results.
· Changed - The Channel filter which was added in 16.0 has been disabled until a time when it is reworked.
· Fixed - The Rectangle tool was drawing the rectangles 1 pixel too wide.
· Fixed - The Mask Ellipse tool was not automatically enabling the mask after using the tool.
· Fixed - The auto removal of undo steps when memory is low was not working properly resulting in premature out of memory messages.
July 9th, 2009· Added - Solutions! A new feature to easily apply sets of actions to your images to add borders, frames, image enhancements, etc. Accessed from the main menu!
· Added - Over 100 solutions added, covering areas such as artist effects, frames, boxes, 3d backgrounds and image enhancements!
· Added - Nearly 300 new brush shapes added in ArtSets Shapes- Collections 01 - 05. Access these from the Shape Modifiers!
· Added - Solution script recording mode added to the Script Recording dialog. Recorded script in proportional size and position. Very useful for recording actions that can be applied to different sized pages.
· Added - Step and Skip options on script playback to allow single stepping and skipping script commands.
· Added - The color mixing palettes now have versions without the grid lines. You will need to select the color palette with the suffix "Smooth" from the load color palette dialog.
· Added - Filters Smart Blur, Noise Reduction and Noise Reduction RGB.
· Added - Filters Surface Blur and Noise Reduction 2 added. (Bilateral filter)
· Added - Channel filter. To isolate the RGBA channels. Found in the Filters | Color menu.
· Added - Reflection filter. Works on the transparent regions of your layer, with falloff.
· Added - Stretch Edge filter. Similar to the Stretch filter but allow stretching from any combination of the 4 edges.
· Added - Fader filter. Allows adjusting the alpha, saturation or luminance of the image or object on a gradient.
· Added - Warp Edge filter. Allows distortion of one edge by perspective, skew and inset all at once.
· Added - A new mode of HSL Range added to the Wand Mask tool. Considers hue, saturation and luminance.
· Added - New category of filters Mask Generation. The filters in this section will generate masks based on image information. This gives finer control that what is possible with the Wand Mask tool.
· Added - New filter, Mask Generate HSL. Create a mask from image HSL values with separate tolerances for each channel (H, S and L).
· Added - New filter, Borderize. Found in the Stylized section. It is used for creating borders from the exiting image data.
· Added - Filter Warp 3 point. Allows adjusting the x and y position of 3 corners of an object.
· Improved - The Vignette filter gets a new flag for fixed sized edges.
· Improved - The Vignette filter is improved for working with transparent layers.
· Improved - Script playback is improved when working with layers.
· Improved - The Alpha Filter actions are now recorded in scripts.
· Improved - The Bevel Filter gets a new flag for proportional size edges.
· Improved - The Page Resize action is now recorded in scripts.
· Improved - The line tool script recording only records the final line instead of each incremental line position as it's drawn.
· Improved - The line tool has a repeat option now to randomly repeat the line up to 100 times on the page.
· Improved - On the Script Player dialog the running script log now includes the total line count as well as the current line the script is processing.
· Improved - The Gaussian filter gets a new proportional flag.
· Improved - Allow layers of different mixing modes to be merged. A confirmation is given.
· Improved - When using the Mask Filter show the mask fully opaque as a grayscale image to allow for better visualization of the filter previews.
· Improved - Export and Import buttons added to the Script Play dialog to make it easier to save or load scripts from other locations.
· Improved - Reduction of redundant commands recorded in scripts.
· Improved - The Perspective, Warp, Stretch, Horizontal Pivot, Vertical Pivot and Skew filters get an options flag call Isolate Object that allows for automatically finding the image data on a layer and basing the distortion on it's location.
· Improved - Added Proportional flag to the Generate Noise filter.
· Changed - The Vignette filters blur amount is now proportional to the size of the page.
· Changed - Adjusted the default settings for the Unsharp Mask filter to be more moderate.
· Changed - Completely reworked the Drop Shadow filter.
· Fixed - In the Brush Effects panel the Blend Trace effect was hiding the envelope columns when it shouldn't.
· Fixed - Full scene script recordings were not always playing back properly.
· Fixed - The Auto Dismiss toggle of the popup tools panel was not updating on some systems.
· Fixed - The Vignette filter was not properly covering the full range of the image in rectangle mode.
· Fixed - The brush cursor was not showing during script playback.
· Fixed - The position readouts for the Rectangle and Ellipse tools were not correct when not at the normal zoom level.
· Fixed - After using the standard Windows Color Select dialog on the color squares mouse movement continued to adjust the sliders.
· Fixed - Using filters when a mask was present could result in fully opaque areas of the image becoming slightly transparent in areas even where there was no mask.
· Fixed - Doing a Copy when a mask is present could result in fully opaque areas of the image becoming slightly transparent in areas even where there was no mask.
· Fixed - Various tools were not drawing at full opacity. Tools include, rectangle, ellipse, gradient and flood fill.
· Fixed - When merging a fully opaque layer into another layer with the normal mixing mode some color resolution was lost.
· Fixed - The Adjust HSL filter was giving slightly wrong results.
· Fixed - The Lua Script command gethsl() was giving slightly incorrect results.
· Fixed - Layer Masks were not properly handled when merging a page (for export or copy merged).
May 10th, 2009· Added - Levels filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category of filters.
· Added - Radiant 2 filter added to the new Photo category.
· Added - New filter category Photo.
· Improved - In the Page Explorer show the text "No Thumbnail" when no thumbnail is available for a page.
· Improved - In the Page Explorer show the text "Empty Page" when there is no page created yet.
· Changed - Brightness Histogram Stretch is now called Histogram Stretch.
· Changed - Brightness Histogram Equalize is now called Histogram Equalize.
· Changed - Moved the Radient, Photo Pop and Photo Detailer filters to the new Photo category.
· Removed - Histogram Stretch, Histogram Equalize and Brightness Histogram Stretch HSL have been removed.
· Fixed - Histogram Stretch and Histogram Equalize had a problem with some images.
· Fixed - Undo were not properly working after a layer duplicate action. Introduced in previous release with changes to the duplicate layer feature.
· Fixed - Selecting a color from the popup tools on a netbook class of computer was resulting in a crash.
· Fixed - Cases where the saved TBR files could have an extra pixel per line saved.
· Fixed - Protect against possible error in reading corrupt image file.
May 3rd, 2009· Added - Popup modifier tools auto dismission option.
· Added - Added Quick Command button for the Color Picker.
· Improved - Cleaner looking removal of the popup modifiers panel.
· Improved - The layer duplicate action places the duplicatd layer right above the source layer.
· Fixed - The brush effect Auto Merge and the menu command Merge and Continue were not properly clearing the undo steps resulting in erratic behavior when attempting to undo those actions.
· Fixed - After selecting a color palette from the Load Palette dialog the mouse was still in select color mode when over the color palette.
· Fixed - When the mouse button invert option was on the color palette tabs selection was inverted also but it shouldn't be.
· Fixed - The layer duplicate action didn't work on very large pages.
April 26th, 2009· Added - ArtSet Collections - Duarte's Brushes. A special thanks to Duarte for sharing his fine brushes!! (PRO)
· zAdded - Brush tool. Give right mouse button access to the new brush modifier popup.
· Added - Brush modifier tools popup!!
· Added - Brush modifier Quick Command option.
· Added - 8 additional buttons to the Quick Command panel.
· Improved - The appearance of the Quick Command panel has been improved.
· Improved - Show the cross hair for the precision cursor as either black or white to improve visibility.
· Improved - The help text for the mouse button select icon.
· Improved - Save the setting of the invert mouse icon between instances.
· Improved - Allow non-image data changing tools such as Pan to function on invisible layers.
· Improved - When the entire canvas is visible (zoomed out) in the draw panel the Pan tool can be used to reposition the canvas on the screen.
· Improved - For panels and dialogs whose position is remembered between instances (Layers, Quick Command, Brush Effects and Filters) make sure they appear on screen.
March 30th, 2009· Enhanced - Significant reduction in the overhead for repeated script playback of the Script Brush Tool when clicking and dragging resulting in much improved performance for small scripts. (Pro)
· Enhanced - Don't update the page between during script playback for the script brush. Visually less distracting and results in better performance. (Pro)
· Improved - When starting the Page Explorer the currently selected page will show in the middle row rather then the top row.
· Improved - When using the Move Page actions in the Page Explorer keep the selected page visible when moving the page off the currently shown pages.
· Improved - In the Page Explorer clicking on the scroll bar (not the arrow) will page down a full page of thumbnails.
· Improved - The Space bar is now tied to the Pan tool. This is more standard with graphic software. The P key still works as well.
· Improved - Support for Netbook resolutions (1024x600). Dynamically detects this resolution and adjusts the UI.
· Changed - The Scratch Layer is now activated with the A key instead of the Space bar.
· Changed - Default the option for Full Intensity Hue slider to on. This can be altered in the Preferences dialog.
· Fixed - Right clicking and moving the mouse off the canvas when the Script Brush Tool was selected would result in the script being run when it shouldn't. (Pro)
· Fixed - Script brushes (not Script Brush Tool) were not repeating properly. (Pro)
· Fixed - The Bristles Size 1 brush modifier in the Art Tools - Watercolors Real Artset was inncorrect. (Pro)
· Fixed - The Real Watercolor Core brush in the Art Tools - Watercolors Real ArtSet was incorrect. (Pro)
· Fixed - Starting the Page Exploring with page 500 selected would result in invalid pages being shown.
· Fixed - The Page Flip and Page Rotate commands were not properly undoing. Now an undo restore point is saved for these operations.
· Fixed - Prevent brush strokes at the same time as tool actions.
March 22nd, 2009· Added - ArtSet Art Tools - Watercolors Real.
· Added - ArtSet Collections - Fractal Paint 02
· Added - 16 new brushes to the Art Tools - Watercolors 2 ArtSet.
· Enhanced - The Script Brush Tool has been enhanced for ease of use.
· Enhanced - In the Edit ArtSet dialog the Optimize feature will now remove the disabled effects from the brushes in addition to condensing the effects to the top of the list.
· Fixed - Brush effect "Cor Dabit Len X 100" was not working properly.
March 14th, 2009· Added - New brush effect added. Rebase Stroke Start. (Pro)
· Added - A new category of brush effect envelopes called Colors. Includes the following envelops, "surf lum", "surf r", "surf g", "surf b", "surf a", "under lum", "under r", "under g", "under b", "under a", "trace lum", "trace r", "trace g", "trace b" and "trace a". (Pro)
· Added - Hundreds of fractal based brushes in the ArtSets. Collections - Fractal Design XX, Collections - Fractal Dab XX, and Collections - Factal Paint XX. (Pro)
· Improved - A number of the warming messages in the Page Explorer have been improved to make more clear.
· Improved - The Brush Options dialog has a few small improvements.
· Fixed - When using the Edit button in the Edit ArtSet dialog don't automatically update the Brush Name in the Brush Options dialog.
· Fixed - Using the Palette menu options to create color spans from the currently selected colors resulted in incorrect ranges.
· Fixed - Duplicating the background layer would leave the alpha lock setting on which could be confusing.
March 2nd, 2009· Added - ArtSet Collections - Fractal Design 01. (Pro)
· Added - Color Modifier ArtSet. Colors - Combos 01. (Pro)
· Added - Mask and Unmask Artist Sketch Pen added to the Art Tools - Masking Tools ArtSet. (Pro)
· Improved - When a tablet is not detected do not save stylus settings for brushes. (Pro)
· Improved - When using the File > Load From File as New command if the image has transparency it will be loaded into layer 2, otherwise it will be loaded into the background layer.
· Improved - When using the File > Load from file into command if the image being loaded is larger than the current page the option to increase the page size if now given.
February 24th, 2009· Added - ArtSet Collections - LNA Mtns 101. A big thanks to LNA for his work and contributing it to TwistedBrush!!
· Added - Menu item Help > Video Guides.
· Added - Mask and Unmask Artist Sketch Pen added to the Art Tools - Masking Tools ArtSet.
· Added - Added the "Core" category of brush effects. These brush effects override the core integral brush settings. The effects include: "Cor Dab Spc", "Cor Dab Spc Adj", "Cor Dabit Alpha", "Cor Dabit Size", "Cor Dab Den", "Cor Dabit Den", "Cor Dab Soft", "Cor Color Var", "Cor Dabit Len", "Cor Dabit Len X 100", "Cor Bld Mode", "Cor Bld Pri Clr", "Cor Bld Remix", "Cor Prime Clr".
· Added - New brush effects modifiers ArtSet added. Effects - Layers. For adding layer effects to brushes.
· Added - Additional brush effect modifiers added to the ArtSet Effects - Shading.
· Added - Additional brush effect modifiers added to the ArtSet Effects - Basics for overriding the core texture length.
· Improved - Significant reduction (elimination) in delay between brush strokes for brushes that use any Lay* effect. This improvement impacts around 10% of the currently available brushes!!
· Improved - The Paste Tool was improved to perform more quickly on large pages.
· Improved - The brush modifiers for Mask and Unmask effects have been updated to match how the standard masking brushes work.
· Fixed - When using the option to Load Shortcuts from ArtSet now all the shortcut brushes will be mapped to the loaded ArtSet as would be expected.
· Fixed - When using the move tool a single click without moving the mouse would result in the undo stack being incorrect.
February 15th, 2009· Added - Brush effects Square Grid and Rect Grid. (Pro Studio only)
· Added - Rect Grid and Square Grid effect brush to the Effects Brush Modifiers ArtSet. (Pro Studio only)
· Added - Rect Grid and Square Grid brushes to the Lines and Outlines ArtSet. (Pro Studio only)
· Added - New ArtSet Collections - Brush 0 Matic. Inspired from a brush of the same name by Ken Wilson. (Pro Studio only)
· Added - New ArtSet Collections - Plaid Designer. A series of brushes to aid in creating plaid patterns. (Pro Studio only)
· Improved - The menu File > New, File > Load File as New and Edit > Paste as New now have improved warming messages and an option to export the current page image before continuing.
February 2nd, 2009· Added - Brush Options quick start page.
· Added - Remember the last selected tool between instances of TwistedBrush. The settings for the selected tool are not yet retained.
· Added - The Art Tools - Masking Tools ArtSet gets a number of new brushes for blending masks!
· Improve - Nice improvement to the color quality of JPEG images. Previously JPEG images could end up with reds being a bit muted. The size of the JPEG images will increase in many cases with this improvement.
· Improved - The memory used for saving undo steps has been reduced for most operations. Around 20% improved for non-mask operations and around 80% for mask operations (except for mask brushes).
· Improved - Small performance improvement between brush strokes.
· Improved - Performance improvement for Mask Wand when doing dynamic adjustments.
· Improved - Small performance improvement undoing multiple steps when holding done the Ctrl+Z key in repeat mode.
· Improved - The Move tool has three new options. Copy, Mask Source and Mask Destination. These options when used in combination with masks greatly enhance the flexibility of what the Move tool can do!
· Improved - Mask type brushes can now have blending capabilities.
· Fixed - When using the Mask Filter feature the Undo stack became incorrect.
· Fixed - Using the Move tool on the background layer would result in non-paper color being exposed beneath the moved page.
January 19th, 2009· Added - Popup message giving one time guidence on the tool usage.
· Added - 3 Quick Start help pages for simple getting starting topics.
· Improved - Pressing Shift while clicking on a color bar color will copy the currently selected color to that color slot. Similar to how a brush can be copied in the shortcuts panel.
· Changed - The initial tool selected is now the Pan tool. Previously it was the color picker. This is changed to reduce the chance ofo new users having difficulties get started.
· Changed - The color controls on the left hand panel have been reorganized to make them more centrally located.
December 28th, 2008· Removed - The popup screen when closing the trial has been removed.
· Fixed - Mask brushes were not working properly in the limited release 15.64.
November 27th, 2008· Added - A new collection of Patterns, Utility 1. These are accessed from the brush modifier icons like all the patterns.
· Added - Two new collections of 60 new procedural brush textures each can be accessed from the brush texture modifier!
· Added - A collection of 53 new procedural brush shapes each can be accessed from the brush shape modifier.
· Added - A new ArtSet called Collections - Foliage has been added.
· Added - 60 new patterns (Utility) are added to the Filters, Backgrounds, Texture Emboss, Texture Bump and Displacement Bump.
· Added - A new ArtSet Collections - Lathes with a handful of brushes.
· Added - Real Color Wheep Palette CMYK. A special thanks to Don Jusko for making this palette available in TwistedBrush!
· Added - A new ArtSet called Collections - Structures 02. This is the second ArtSet of structures. A special thanks for Lee and Spuddy for contributions to this Artet!
· Added - 9 new brushes added to the Collections - Skyline ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect "VM Invert". This is used to invert the value of the following effect. (VM stands for value modifier).
· Added - 4 new brush effects. Line Up, Line Dn, Line Rt and Line Lt.
· Added - Procedural brush textures support is added. This will allow for more brush textures without increasing the program download size.
· Added - Procedural brush shape support is added. This will allow for more brush shapes without increasing the program download size.
· Improved - The variability of textures used in texture brushes is improved.
· Improved - Allow the backgound layer to be moved up and layer 2 to be moved down.
November 10th, 2008· Added - Collections - Structures 01 ArtSet. A collection of brushes for creating man made structures.
· Improved - When a blending paint stroke began off the page the current color was not filled on that area of the brush resulting in the brush acting like an eraser on the page edge.
· Changed - The Collections - Skyline ArtSet has a number of brushes moved to the new Collections - Structures 01 ArtSet.
· Fixed - The filter Histogram Stretch was not working properly on layers.
November 3rd, 2008· Added - Real Color Wheel Palette by Don Jusko added as a standard palette. This is one of the default palettes now in position P2. A special thanks to Don Jusko for creating this 256 color version of his Real Color Wheel Palette and allowing it to be included in TwistedBrush!!
· Added - Collections - Skyline ArtSet added. A special thanks to Spuddy (Dave) for contributions to this Artset and discovering and creating the Skyscraper line of brushes!!
· Added - The original Extra Smooth Charcoal was added back to the Art Tools - Charcoals ArtSet. It is named Orig Extra Smooth chorcoal.
· Added - Quick Commands for Adjusting Size, Density, Opacity, Hue, Sat and Luminence. Also one for Pan. These are linked to the tools of the same function.
· Added - 6 brush effects. VLine1, VLine2, VLine3, HLine1, HLine2 and HLine3. These are variations for drawing horizontal or vertical lines.
· Improved - Reference images are preserved when closing TwistedBrush and restored when TwistedBrush is started again.
· Improved - A number of the brushes in the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet now have the Size Min effect disabled to maintain compatibility with previous versions of the brushes.
· Changed - The default Quick Command buttons.
· Fixed - The filter Histogram Stretch was not working properly on layers.
· Fixed - When using the Copy tool and selecting an area that extends beyond the edge of the page the Paste size setting was not correctly set
October 20th, 2008· Added - Smooth Stroke brush effect. A useful effect for smoothing out strokes drawn with a mouse.
· Added - Smooth Stroke brush modifier added to the Brush Effects ArtSet.
· Added - Menu option to Clear Shortcuts. From the ArtSets menu and the popup menu from the ArtSet name.
· Added - Artist Sketcher Pen added to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Added - The installation now adds a desktop shortcut to the internet based FAQ.
· Improved - The Set Page Size feature is now non-destructive to the image. This allows increasing the size of the page without altering the page content.
· Improved - The masking brushes in the Art Tools - Masking Brushes no longer rely on the currently selected color. This allows for more consistent usage of these important brushes.
· Improved - Small improvements to the warning dialog before the shortcuts are updated with the current ArtSet in the Edit ArtSet dialog.
· Improved - Allow the brush shortcuts panel to have unassigned brush slots.
· Improved - Allow the confirmation dialog for reseting the ArtSets to be by passed.
· Improved - What saving brush shortcuts to an ArtSet make sure the new ArtSet shows up in the Artset list in the Brush Select dialog without needing to press the Show All button.
· Improved - Give a failure message when using the brush effects modifiers to add effects to a current brush when there is no space for additional effects.
· Improved - The brush effects "Size Min" and "Size Max" are not fully enforced even when using the size selection slider.
· Improved - Significantly reduced the need to search ArtSets when loading the Brush Select dialog. These means the Brush Select dialog will much more frequently load quickly.
· Improved - Reduce the number of brushes that are shown in the New Brushes search in the Brush Select dialog.
· Improved - The Extra Smooth Charcoal brush in the Art Tools - charcoals has been improved and more more smooth and expressive.
· Fixed - The menu File | Reset All was not reseting the Brush Shortcuts.
· Fixed - When using varible sized brushes controlled by tablet pressure there were cases when the begining of the stroke could be the wrong size.
· Fixed - Some brush sizes were not properly drawing. For example brushes of size 2.
October 13th, 2008· Added - Metallize Lua Filter script.
· Added - Simplify Lua Filter script.
· Added - 1 brush added each to the following Artsets: Art Tools - Cover Paints, Art Tools - Pens and Effects - Basics. Each related to a anti-aliased brush.
· Added - Brush Shape Dab Position to the Collections - Shape Paint ArtSet.
· Added - 2 brushed added to the Art Tools - Eraser ArtSet. Anti-Aliased Eraser and Ribbon Eraser.
· Added - 4 Brushes added to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet. Artist Pen 1 - 4.
· Added - 4 Brushes added to the Art Tools - Blenders ArtSet. Charcoal Blender, Charcoal Brusher, Dark Blur and Light Blur.
· Added - 3 Brushes added to the Art tools - Oil Paints Artset.
· Added - 3 Brushes added to the Art Tools - Charcoals ArtSet.
· Improved - The Lua Filter scripts LSystem and checkerbox have been updated with new improved versions. A special thanks to RJP74 for the updates!
· Improved - A number of the Lua scripts have been updated to take advantage of new features in the Lua Filter language. A special thanks to rjp74!!
· Improved - Additions to the Lua Filter script Fractal 01.
· Improved - Any time a copy is done the Paste tool (with stamp mode) will be prepared to paste the same area as what was copied. Previously only the Copy tool would do this, now all copy commands will do this.
· Improved - Quality and preformance improvements for the subsample brush effect. The subsample brush effect is useful for adding anti-aliasing to a brush.
· Improved - Quality improvements for the line smoothness.
· Improved - The Bld_* brush effects have been improved to support more correct blending to keep a number of these effects from resulting in the paint turning darker than the soruce paint.
· Fixed - The brush icons in the shortcut panel could become corrupt wth the video mode is switched (if the computer is awoken from hiberation).
· Fixed - Dynamic brush sizing was not working in combination with the SubSample brush effect. This had impacted a small handful of brushes.
September 29th, 2008· Added - Lua Filter script function is_escape() to check if the Esc key is currently hold down. Useful for script writter to allow their script to be aborted.
· Added - Lua Filter scripts, Fill N, LSystem, White to Alpha and SimpleGrid. A special thanks to RJP74 for the contributation!!
· Added - Two new Lua Filter scripts Mosaic 01 and Mosaic 02.
· Improved - The Fractal 01 Lua filter script (revision 4) received numerous additions and improvements.
· Improved - Updates to the Lua Filter scripts CheckerBox, Snowflake and Star. A special thanks for RJP74 for the contributions!!
· Improved - Pressing ESC during a TB script play will end the script playback. Handy for TB scripts triggered from script brushes or Lua scripts.
· Improved - Very small reduction in the height of the Filter dialog box.
· Improved - Force the background layer to always have the alpha channel locked. This takes care of a few visual anomylies that could previously arise.
· Improved - Reduced the contrast between active and inactive brush effects in the Brush Effects dialog.
· Changed - Rollback this change from a couple of releases ago. "Don't buffer up events on the filter dialog. This improves the cases where a filter is applied repeatedly because one of the sliders was adjusted repeatedly."
· Fixed - The Filter dialog information box was not being properly cleared.
September 22nd, 2008· Added - A Lua Filter function paint_filter(). Allows for scripting other filters.
· Added - Lua editor improvements: Resizable window, row and column position indicator in a status bar and word wrapping off.
· Added - New Lua Filter controls for drop down list. --@TBCONFIG STYLE: is the directive for including up to 20 items in a drop down list.
· Added - The Filter dialog has a new Info area for showing additional information on each filter. The content (information) will follow in later releases.
Added - New Lua Filter directive for displaying information to the user. --@TBCONFIG INFO:
· Improved - On the Page Summary dialog make the summary area readonly.
· Improved - On the Brush Selection dialog make the ArtSet description area readonly (when not in ArtSet edit mode)
· Improved - In the Filter dialog if a preview has already been processed (rendered) don't undo it and re-process the same thing when the Apply and Continue or Apply and Exit buttons are pressed.
· Improved - Many improvements to the Lua Filter script Fractal 01.
· Fixed - The texturize and texturize2 layer blending modes were very slow when mixing with transparent areas because of an unhandled situation.
September 16th, 2008· Added - A Lua Filter script added. Ellipse_and_Circle_var_2.
· Added - A Lua Filter script added. Page_border_2.
· Added - A Lua function output_debug_string(). This will output the string to a running OutputDebugString monitor on Windows.
· Added - A Lua filter script added Rounded Rectangle.
· Added - A Lua filter script added Snowflake.
· Added - A Lua filter script added Fractal 01.
· Improved - Don't buffer up events on the filter dialog. This improves the cases where a filter is applied repeatedly because one of the sliders was adjusted repeatedly.
· Improved - Hide and disable parts of the Brush Effects panel when a brush effect is selected that results in the other columns being ignored.
· Improved - Using the Apply and Continue button in the filter dialog will retain the current settings and be ready for additional applications of the same filter.
· Improved - When using the SaveAs option in the Lua Editor select the new script automatically when returning to the filter dialog.
· Improved - When in image brush is selected clicking in a reference image will capture the image brush from that area of the reference image as the scaling currently shown in the reference image window.
· Fixed - Situation where a crash could occur when changing layer position. Problem was recently introduced.
· Fixed - When editing a Lua script the directives for the UI components were not being re-evaluated
September 8th, 2008· Added - A Lua Filter script added. Star. Special thanks to RJP74 for the work and contributions!
· Added - New Lua Filter script functions allow for painting with standard brushes. New functions include: paint_open, paint_close, paint_stroke_start, paint_stroke_stop, paint_stroke_pos, paint_select_brush, paint_brush_size, paint_brush_density, paint_brush_opacity, paint_brush_color, paint_set_color_banks, paint_line, paint_spline, paint_dab
· Added - A few sample scripts that demostrate usage of the new Lua paint functions. Pollock, Radial Paint, Scribble Spline.
· Improved - Cleanup the brush effects in the new ArtSet Cloners - Color Trace.
· Improved - The line tool with the curve option more efficently records the line for script recording.
· Improved - Some improvements to TB script playback speed.
· Improved - Lua scripts with errors now display an error message when attempting to run them.
· Fixed - Some of the toolbar icons had artifacts.
· Fixed - The popup help window from the dynamic help panel could be shown partially off the screen.
· Fixed - The popup help window could become hidden if clicking on a different popup panel (layers panel for example)
· Fixed - The Line tool was not properly recording brush settings for script recording.
September 2nd, 2008· Added - Dynamic information panel. Includes, context help topics, cursor information and memory information.
· Added - Cloners - Color Trace ArtSet.
· Added - 5 Lua Filter scripts added. Spiral, Radial, Checkerbox, Lissajous, and Spirograph3. Special thanks to RJP74 for the work and contributions!!!
· Added - Brush effect SetStrokeColor. Sets the color for use in the stroke from the current effect color. A common use will be for brushes that capture a color from a trace image and then use that color for the rest of the stroke.
· Added - Bitwise operation functions for Lua scripting. bit_not, bit_and, bit_or, bit_xor, bit_shfr and bit_shrl.
· Improved - Changed the brush width slider range for the Oil Paint filter to cover the usage range.
· Improved - The Radial, Polar and Sector drawing guides are now based on 24 parts rather than 19 which allows for a more uniform usage of those aids.
· Improved - Small visual improvement to the tool bar icons (drop shadow).
· Improved - On a new install allow for room for the Windows task bar when setting the initial size of the application.
· Changed - On a new install default the initial page size to the area that fills the drawing space.
· Fixed - When pasting an image As New or loading an image As New the background layer was not properly set to opaque.
· Fixed - Attempting to close a modeless dialog (layers panel for example) when the Quick Start dialog was open would result in the Quick Start dialog closing.
· Fixed - The Process - Photo Retouch Multiply brushes were not working. Blending brushes with a Bld Multiply effect were not working properly.
August 11th, 2008· Improved - Positioning text with the Text tool is now faster (but no longer shown anti-aliased until the mouse button is released).
· Improved - Significantly reduced the likelihood of accidental layer mini bar selections and layer creations. Action is now triggered by both the click and release (mouse button up and down) on the same layer in the mini bar. Because of its location close the settings panel and the drawing page it was not uncommon to accidently create or select a layer.
· Improved - The readability of the RGB and HSL textual readouts.
· Changed - Default the Line tool to not connected.
· Fixed - Using the warp tool would cause the image data to darken quickly. A number of other tools also had this problem but not at the rate of the warp tool.
August 3rd, 2008· Added - The Line tool now has a curve option for drawing curve lines (bezier spline).
· Improved - The Line tool now also supports a mode where it is detached from the previous line end point. In other words click and drag to draw the line segment.
· Improved - Pressing the Ctrl key when using the Line tool will allow you to adjust the position of the line.
· Improved - The Create Blob from Image operation now makes the conversion less close to the transhold between transparent and black so that there is less chance to get transparent regions when applying filters or resizing.
· Fixed - Typo in the Brush Effects Panel. Sprays and Bursts.
· Fixed - Case of a white outline on a paste tool usage following the steps of, rect tool, copy tool and paste tool. Other occurances might be corrected too since new layer and clear layer actions were not fully prepping the image for later operations.
July 28th, 2008· Improved - Reduce time it takes to save pages.
· Improved - Reduce time it takes to save restore points.
· Improved - Auto restore points are now integrated into the Undo functionality so that when there are no more undo steps to undo the previous saved version of the page will be loaded. This allows for clearer recovery for operations such as crops and layer deletes and also allows for some level of recovery to older data after switching pages.
· Improved - Previously in the Page Explorer selecting to load the currently loaded page would result in a page being reloaded and the undo information being lost.
· Improved - Present a warning when switching pages if undo information will be lost.
· Improved - Give a more descriptive warning on new page actions.
· Improved - Give a more descriptive warning on setting page size actions.
· Improved - When saving a color modifier brush default the brush options to having just the Save Color Info. box checked.
· Improved - Increased the size of the Exit button on the Edit ArtSet dialog.
· Removed - The menu File > Revert to Automatic Restore Point has been removed since the functionality is now integrated into the Undo system.
· Fixed - The HSL color sliders were not properly updated when a color from the brush color modifier was selected.
· Fixed - When deleting a layer the undo steps were not cleared resulting in undefined behavior.
· Fixed - Attempting an undo after setting a cloner source would result in a crash.
· Fixed - Cases where the brush attributes options could still revert to all enabled even after manually turning some of the brush attribute options off.
July 7th, 2008· Added - Adjustable Transparent Windows Lua Filter. Found in menu Filters > Lua Script Filters
· Improved - Many new and improved topics in the Quick Start guide.
· Improved - The image in the splash screen is changed to a random selection of 4 TwistedBrush paintings. A special thank you to Jewel (Jeweled), Sunny, Ralph (Rabnoolas) and Paul (Lancelott) for allowing their work to be shown here.
· Improved - The Quick Start dialog get Next and Prev buttons added to make it easier to scroll through the topics.
· Improved - The Quick Start guide topics are included at a higher quality.
· Improved - When selecting a parent node in the Quick Start dialog the subtopics will automatically be expanded. Basically the same as pressing the little indicator.
· Improved - Trapping of cases where files could not properly be opened due to system access problems.
· Improved - JPEGs are saved at a significantly higher quality than before. This does result in a file size increase for your exported (as jpg) images.
· Fixed - Layer Mask mix mode was only working at normal zoom levels.
July 1st, 2008· Added - Stretch Filter. Found at the menu Filters > Distort > Stretch.
· Added - Horizontal Pivot Filter. Found at the menu Filters > Distort > Horizontal Pivot.
· Added - Vertical Pivot Filter. Found at the menu Filters > Distort > Vertical Pivot.
· Added - Skew Filter. Found at the menu Filters > Distort > Skew.
· Added - The Edit ArtSet dialog gets a new button labeled Clean ArtSets. This will clean all unused data from all ArtSets. Only has value for personel ArtSets created prior to 15.47 and only if you intend to manually edit or search .pre files. In other words it's a very specialize feature for users doing advanced brush editing.
· Improved - The Radiant filter gets a Stregth slider. This allows for much better control over the amount of the effect. Prior to this the filter would act as 100% strength which was often too much.
· Improved - Don't allow the Opacity or Mix mode of the Layer panel to be adjusted for the background layer.
· Improved - All Artsets have been cleaned of unused data.
· Improved - Small visual improvements to the ArtSet name panel that appears above the brush shortcuts.
· Improved - The Perspective and Warp filters now allow adjusts off the edge of the page.
· Improved - The visual quality of the Quick Start Guide pages was improved.
· Improved - The Quick Start Guide get a Topic title bar.
· Improved - New topics added to the Quick Start Guide.
· Improved - Small reduction of storage requirements for the Quick Start Guide.
· Improved - The ordering and naming of the Paint Bucket modes were changed to be more logical and consistent.
· Improved - The naming of the Wand Mask modes were changed to be more consistent with the new terms used in the Paint Bucket tool.
· Fixed - Many typos, fonts sizes and layout changes in the Quick Start Guide.
· Fixed - When loading a new page or pasting as new there were cases when the layer mix modes were not properly cleared to defaults.
· Fixed - Image Brushes were not working properly when the brush size was dynamically changed such as with a stylus pressure.
June 23rd, 2008· Added - Contrast Mask filter. Used for bringing details out of the shadow and highlights.
· Added - Adjust Color Balance filter. Found in the menu Filters > Colors > Adjust Color Balance.
· Added - Photo Detailer filter. Found in the menu Filters > Brightness and Contrast > Photo Detailer. Enhances overall detail (without sharpening) and brings details out of the shadow and highlights.
· Improved - The Gaussian Blur Filter has some performance improvements.
· Improved - The Gaussian Blur filter now allows for dynamic previews.
· Improved - The Gaussian Blur filter has the Amount slider scale reworked for coverage more realistic usages ranges.
· Improved - Significant improvements in quality and control of the Vignette filter that was introduced in the previous release.
· Improved - The Radiant filter gets some performance improvements and now has a slider adjustment for softness.
· Improved - Small performance gain on the Blur More filter.
· Improved - When placing text with the Text tool the text being dragged will look exactly like the text the will be finally placed. This allows for fine placement of text which was hard to do previously.
· Improved - Small performance gain when using the Paste tool.
· Changed - The default Outline Strength value for the Outliner 2 filter has been reduced. This does not change the range of control just the default setting.
· Changed - Replaced Dry Pastel brush in the default shortcuts with Gentle Round Eraser.
· Changed - Replaced Wet Watercolor brush in the default shortcuts with Wet Finger Paint Blender.
· Fixed - The Copy command (not tool) could lead to application instability and later a crash. This is the Copy command from the Edit menu or Ctrl C. This is an important fix that has been in TB for a long time.
· Fixed - In rare cases the Copy tool could lead to a memory leak.
· Fixed - In rare cases the Copy Merged operation could lead to a memory leak.
· Fixed - Extra spaces and the beginning or end of fields in the brush codes would cause the brush import to be incorrect.
· Fixed - Seed 53 for the Pattern Explorer filter was the incorrect size making it inconsistent with the rest of the seeds.
· Fixed - The Text was still in some cases draw text with a white outline.
· Fixed - The Warp tool could result in the warped image data outlined in a different color when warped to pure alpha areas.
· Fixed - Selecting areas off the edge of the page with the Copy tool would result in incorrect copying.
June 17th, 2008· Added - Filter Patternizer. Found in the menu Filter > Distort > Patternizer.
· Improved - The Lasy Mask mode will not work on the next visible layer below it. Previously it had to be the exact layer below it.
· Fixed - The Layer Mask mode was not working properly.
June 8th, 2008· Added - A Stamp mode to the Paste Tool for fine control over size and rotation of the pasted object.
· Added -Size and rotation readout for the Paste tool when in Transform mode. Transform mode is the default behavior from previous versions.
· Improved - The Line tool now allows dragging the end point.
· Improved - When using the Copy tool the size of the copied object will be recorded for use in the Paste tool when in Stamp mode.
· Fixed - Using blending tools on transparent areas was not smoothly blending into the transparent areas.
· Fixed - The Paste Tool was drawing an outline around the pasted object when placed.
· Fixed - A number of filters were drawing an edge on the border between colored and transparent areas. Filters improved include. Elliptical, kaleidoscope, Lens, Marble, Perspective, Warp, Tilt, Twirl, Wow, Zig Zag, Zoom, Wave, Waves, Spin Wave, Spin, Sign Distortion, Rotate, Ripple, Pinch, Arithmetic Mean, Midpoint, Radiant and Displacement Bump. This may still be an issue for Gausy, Mosaic, Minimum and Scribble.
· Fixed - The Warp tool was drawing an outline around the warped image on the border between colored and transparent areas.
· Fixed - The Text tool was at times drawing a thin outline around the text painted on the canvas.
· Fixed - Occurrence of the crop rectangle disappearing when the confirmation dialog was shown.
· Fixed - Some typos on the confirmation dialogs.
· Fixed - When doing a paste the layer dialog setting were not being reset to defaults for the new layer.
· Fixed - When Duplicating an invisible layer the resulting new layer would not show the layer visibility icon properly in the layer dialog.
· Fixed - When zoomed out there were cases when the checkered pattern used for transparency could display incorrectly.
· Fixed - The Rubber mode of the Warp tool was not properly able to be undone.
June 2nd, 2008· Improved - The Adjust Brush tool now uses radio buttons instead of push buttons for selecting the mode.
· Improved - The quick start pages are now shown with anti-aliased text and with 256 colors. The size of the download package increases a little with this but still smaller than 15.40.
· Improved - When using the Adjust Brush tool show the readout as soon as the right mouse button is pressed.
· Improved - A number of improvements to the Adjust Brush adjustment control to make it more intuitive.
· Fixed - Using the hot keys to enable the dynamic tools could result in cases where even after releasing the key the tools was still
· considered to be in a state of active in dynamic mode and both the left and right mouse buttons would only function for that tool until ESC was pressed or the program restarted.
· Fixed - Cases where during tool drawing the screen would refresh and hide the on canvas tool controls.
June 2nd, 2008· Added - The Size Brush tool now has modes for adjusting density, opacity, hue, saturation and luminance.
· Added - Option check boxes to not show many of the confirmation dialogs.
· Added - Ratio readout when using tools that draw a rectangle shape.
· Improved - The brush size tool now starts with the current brush size.
· Improved - Pressing the Ctrl key when using the brush size tool will move the location of the brush sizing indicator.
· Improved - Altering the brush size is now constrained to right and left mouse movement rather than allowing both right/left and up/down. Allow both resulted in difficulty controlling the sizing.
· Improved - When using the brush size tool update the brush size slider in addition to the visual cursor indicator.
· Improved - Most of the filters that had a Preview button now have a check box for enabling dynamic previews.
· Improved - Adjusted the default settings for the Dust and Scratches filters to allow for more intuitive adjustments.
· Improved - A number of changes to make better attempts to keep the undo system working even when memory is very low.
· Improved - The Quick Start guide received numerous updates and smaller file sizes to reduced the program download size.
· Changed - Size Brush tool is now called Adjust Brush tool. Since other brush attributes can be adjusted now with this tool.
· Fixed - Cases when using the rectangle or ellipse tool with the CTRL where the size of the shape would change.
· Fixed - A number of filters were allowing the background layer to show the transparency pattern.
· Fixed - The Dust and Scratches filter was not working.
· Fixed - Don't allow brush sizes greater than 999 when using the size brush tool.
May 26th, 2008· Fixed - Brushes with a Lay effect were not working on the background layer.
· Fixed - The texturize blend mode was not honoring the opacity setting.
May 20th, 2008· Improved - Brushes with the Bld Multiply brush effect now mix properly on transparent areas of layers.
· Changed - The Negation blending mode was changed to act just like the exclusion mode. This is not identical to earlier version but closest.
· Fixed - The hard light blending mode was incorrect in 15.37.
· Fixed - The soft light blending mode was incorrect in 15.37.
· Fixed - The Texturize blending mode was incorrect in 15.37. Note: it will still be a bit different than earlier version but overall improved.
· Fixed - The Texturize2 blending mode was incorrect in 15.37. This also fixes the Alpha Highlight Texture blending mode which relied on the Texturize2 mode.
· Fixed - Texturize3 has returned. It is required for proper functioning of the paper textures.
· Fixed - The Subtract blending mode was incorrect in 15.37.
· Fixed - The layer mini-bar was not updated when selecting a paper texture.
· Fixed - When using a mouse to paint in some cases the last portion of the stroke wouldn't draw when the mouse button was released but would after the mouse was moved
April 21st, 2008· Improved - When the undo steps automatically get cleared now the current page is saved to a single auto restore point that can be reverted to from the File menu.
· Improved - All cases where restore points were automatically stored are centralized to a single auto restore point that can be reverted to from the File menu.
· Improved - Auto restore points are saved at times when the entire page is cleared. For example on a File > New menu selection.
· Fixed - Importing brush codes created prior to 11.1 may not import correctly. The brush effects slots 9, 10, 11 and 12 were not being cleared in this case.
· Fixed - When a layer had the alpha lock enabled cropping, resizing, rotating left and rotating right would result in the image data for that layer being lost.
April 18th, 2008· Added- Mask Wand Alpha Contiguous mode. This is similar to the Alpha Flood mode introduced recently.
· Added - When recording a script, display a warning message when using a brush that TwistedBrush detects as not properly scriptable.
· Improved - When setting a cloning source there were times when the clone source was being saved to disk more than once.
· Improved - The handling of distort filters interacting with masks over transparent areas of layers.
· Improved - Recovery and reporting if the font selection dialog fails.
· Improved - When starting a Flood operation on a purely transparent location on a layer the Flood will be treated as an Alpha Flood operation and therefore driven by the alpha values and not color luminance.
· Improved - Mask Wand Contiguous mode when starting the operation on a purely transparent location on a layer the selection will be treated as an Alpha Continuous operation and therefore driven by the alpha values and not color luminance.
· Improved - Mask Wand Contiguous mode will now better handle not crossing transparent boundaries.
· Improved - Reduced draw in when displaying the purchase info dialog for the trial.
· Improved - The Fill Page action now honors masks more correctly.
· Improved - The Rectangle tool was changed to have more consistent transparency behavior with the rest of the system.
· Improved - When using dynamic memory calculations for undos preserve a small amount so that small and medium size pages will have undos available on systems with very limited memory.
· Fixed - When using the Paint Bucket (flood fill) on a transparent area the blue areas of the image may get filled when they shouldn't have.
· Fixed - The Flood option on the paint bucket tool was not interacting correctly with masks over transparent areas of a layer.
· Fixed - There were cases that if a cloning brush was selected and a clone source was set that it didn't persist to a new page.
· Fixed - The color picker was not working when cloner brushes were selected.
April 7th, 2008· Crash protection if unable to access the registry to check for license information.
· The create palette from image features now only work off the visible portion of the image.
· Non-blending brushes that are turned into blending brushes via brush effects did not properly capture the underlaying image data on the first stroke after selecting the brush. This has never been correct.
· When using the stylus eraser if a different brush was selected the resulting brush when done erasing was incorrect.
· Create palette from image did not work properly when zoomed in or out.
· Brushes with a blending attribute were not working properly with the line tool. This has been an issue for a long time.
March 24th, 2008· Added - User selectable options for the mask display colors and transparency. Found in the perferences dialog menu Edit > Preferences.
· Added - 2 new pens to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet. Flowing Pen 3 and 4.
· Added - Insert Layer action added to the Quick Command list.
· Added - A counter in Stats mode for how many times tablet compatibility mode has been triggered.
· Improved - Small improvement to line smoothness (not anti-aliasing) for fine lines.
· Improved - Stability when saving a page when memory is low and working on large pages.
· Improved - Checking for out of memory when starting a flood fill operation.
· Improved - When setting Stats mode or Tutorial mode in the preferences dialog show the changes on the canvas immediately.
· Improved - Many of the brushes in the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet were saved with a predefined color (black). These are now changed to not override the current color.
· Changed - Reduced the chances of the tablet compatibility mode being automatically set at the start of a stroke.
· Fixed - The undo system was too agressive with use of memory especially on large pages which allowed all memory to become exhausted and could result in a program crash.
· Fixed - The layer blend mode Soft Light was not working properly.
· Fixed - The Merge and Merge and Continue layer actions from the Quick Command dialog were not giving warning and didn't leave the layer merged into in the correct state.
· Fixed - The Duplicate Layer Quick Command action was not properly updating all the program states.
· Fixed - Memory leak when a copy (clipboard) operation fails. This could happen on very large pages because Windows has a maximum size for clipboard data.
· Fixed - A number of program crash cases when memory becomes low and new memory allocations are needed. This also results in a less aggressive ulitization of memory.
· Fixed - When the message "Unable to paint on an invisible layer" was display in response to a tool usage the mouse button state was invalid and could result in odd behavior in later actions.
· Fixed - If out of memory creating the image filter dialog don't continue with the filter.
· Fixed - Program crash cases when very low on memory and attempting a capture and image but or select color from the canvas.
March 20th, 2008· Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Designers.
· Added - 9 new brushes added to the Collections - 3D ArtSet.
· Added - Quick Command support for Duplicate Layer.
· Added - Quick Command support for Alpha Filter.
· Added - New Alpha Flood option added to the Flood Fill tool. Alpha Flood act upon the alpha channel for color tolerances ignoring the colors.
· Added - Calligraphy Pen 2, Calligraphy Pen 3 and Calligraphy Pen 4 to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Improved - Brush blending now honors masks when picking up color from the canvas.
· Improved - Capturing image brushes now honors masks.
· Improved - Flood and Flood Eraser have been improved when working on a layer where a transparent boundary area is crossed.
· Changed - Flood to Alpha option for Flood Fill is now called Flood Eraser and will act as an eraser would. Clearing the alpha values on layers and setting colors to the paper color on the background.
· Changed - Replace to Alpha option for Flood Fill is now called Replace Eraser and will act as an eraser would. Clearing the alpha values on layers and setting colors to the paper color on the background.
· Changed - Calligraphy Pen 4 replaced Flowing Pen 2 in the default brush shortcut set.
· Fixed - Exporting brush codes was not working in Windows Vista.
· Fixed - The Share Image Online Helper from the File menu was not working properly in Windows Vista.
· Fixed - The brush effect Grid would result in a crash if used with a effect strength of zero (or combo,0,0)
March 10th, 2008· Added - ArtSet - Image Brush Array - Basics. Brushes for working with arrays of image brushes.
· Added - ArtSet - Collections - Tree Builder 1. Brushes for constructing trees. Included are brushes for Paper Birch, Cherry Birch, River Birch, Silver Birch, Sugar Maple, Red Maple, White Oak, Gnarly Oak and Bonsi Trees.
· Added - Brush modifers ArtSet - Colors - Image Array 1. Includes image array for dollars and rocks.
· Added - 3 new ribbon like pens added to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect bImageArray and ubImageArray. Loads an image array (like an array of image brushes) from the bImageArray or ubImageArray directory.
· Added - Brush effect Select bImage. Selects an image from the loaded image array for use like an image brush.
· Improved - For directional particle emiters detect the stroke direction sooner resulting it more predicable stroke start locations.
· Changed - The Flowing Pen 2 replaces the Soft Tapered Pen in the default shortcuts.
· Fixed - When using a tablet stylus and just tapping the canvas the pressure of 100% was used when it should not have been.
· Fixed - Disabled brushes effects envelopes were still being processes which could impact performance as in rare cases impact the brush stroke.
March 3rd, 2008· Changed - Roll back change to show the mask completely hidding the image between it.
· Fixed - The masks were not showing a visible difference between 50% and 100% mask coverage.
March 3rd, 2008· Added - ArtSet - Art Tools - Bristles Brushes.
· Added - 8 brushes to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Added - 1 Brush to the Collections - Mandala Paints 2 ArtSet.
· Added - 1 Brush to the Art Tools - Felt Markers ArtSet.
· Added - Brush Effect 3D Abs in the 3D and Highlights section. This is an easier to use brush effect for getting 3D brush strokes.
· Added - Brush Effect Blend Cap3. Uses the effect strength to control the blending between the current brush and the current surface when the current surface is captured.
· Improved - When the Brush History option is on save the brush at the end of the brush stroke rather than the beginning. This results in better stroke action at the start of strokes.
· Changed - Alt click when using an image brush will capture the merged image under the brush. Previously it would capture the entire page into the image brush.
· Changed - Alt Shift click when using an image brush will capture the entire page merged into the image brush.
· Changed - The button labeled Done to Exit in the Filter dialog.
· Changed - Show the mask at the full range of opacity over the underlaying image.
· Changed - Reduce the length of time that brushes are flagged as new.
· Fixed - Dynamic tool selections were very sensitive to when the hot key was pressed and released to work with out drawing oddities.
· Fixed - In tablet compatibility mode stylus pressure could have moments of inconsistent pressure.
· Fixed - When using a tablet at the start of the strokes it was possible for pressure to be incorrect.
February 25th, 2008· Changed - The Copy Tool now operates as a right click and drag to select the area you want to copy. Previously it would copy the current size of the brush
February 24th, 2008· Fixed - The shortcut keys listed in the Control menu for adjusting size, density and opacity did not match the actual shortcut keys.
· Fixed - The Alpha Filter was not working properly is a mask was enabled.
February 17th, 2008· Added - Art Tools - Gouache ArtSet.
· Added - 6 new brushes to the Art Tools - Watercolor 2 ArtSet.
· Added - 1 Brush - Rotate Towards Brush Direction to the Effects - Basics brush modifier Artset.
· Added - Filter Hyper Contrast. Found in menu Filter > Brightness and Contrast > Hyper Contrast.
· Added - Filter Photo Pop. Found in menu Filter > Brightness and Contrast > Photo Pop.
· Added - Filter Bas Relief. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Bas Relief.
· Added - Filter Color Pencil. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Color Pencil.
· Added - Filter Crayon. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Crayon.
· Added - Filter Pointillism. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Pointillism.
· Added - Filter Charcoal. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Charcoal.
· Added - Filter Color Pencil 2. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Color Pencil 2.
· Added - Filter Watercolor and Ink. Found in menu Filter > Artist > Watercolor and Ink.
· Added - Filter Glow. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Glow.
· Added - Filter Emboss3. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Emboss3.
· Added - Filter Outliner 1. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Outliner 1.
· Added - Filter Outliner 2. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Outliner 2.
· Added - Filter Radiant. Found in menu Filter > Stylize > Radiant.
· Added - Brush effects envelope rnd rng. Generate a random strength values between the frequency value and strength value.
· Added - New brush effects category - Dab Spacing and moved 5 effects from the Flow Control category to the Dab Spacing category.
· Added - Lua command. merge(merge_mode, opacity). Like the flush() method but a merge mode and opacity can be specified for the merging of the destination buffer back into the source buffer. The valid merge modes are defined as MERGE_NORMAL, MERGE_MULTIPLY, MERGE_SCREEN, MERGE_DARKEN, MERGE_LIGHTEN, MERGE_DIFFERENCE, MERGE_NEGATION, MERGE_EXCLUSION, MERGE_OVERLAY, MERGE_HARD_LIGHT, MERGE_SOFT_LIGHT, MERGE_DODGE, MERGE_BURN, MERGE_REFLECT, MERGE_GLOW, MERGE_ADD, MERGE_SUBTRACT, MERGE_TEXTURIZE, MERGE_TEXTURIZE2, MERGE_TEXTURIZE3.
· Improved - Brush stroke smoothness at the standard level of zoom and much improved when zoomed out.
· Improved - Automatically enable and display the mask anytime the mask is changed from tools or brushes.
· Improved - Further improvements to the b-ang brush envelope to rotate the brush at the start of the stroke to the direction of the brush stroke.
· Fixed - When an effect is disabled in the Brush Effects Panel and the selection dialog is used but Canceled or Closed without making a selection the effect became reenabled.
· Fixed - Possible crash or instability case when drawing an ellipse mask smaller than 2 pixels in diameter.
· Fixed - The layer mix mode Dodge was sligthly wrong.
· Fixed - The Texturize layer mode was not working properly when merged or zoomed in or out.
February 4th, 2008· Added - Hue wheel Lua Filter.
· Added - Lua filter method get_cmyk(x,y) and set_cmyk(x,y,c,m,y,k)
· Added - Brush effect envelope b-ang2. More predictable dynamic brush rotation than b-ang.
· Improved - Brush Effect panel - complete overhaul. Combo boxes are gone. Effects and envelopes are split into catgories with a popup tree view. Effect rows and be reordered by dragging them and effect rows can be disabled and reenabled with a single click.
· Improved - Minor performance improvement for the Value Blur filter.
· Improved - Brush effect envelope b-ang. Allows the stroke to start painting earlier even when the freq setting is set high.
· Improved - The position of icons in the the menu bar to put Undo and Redo in closer position to the page and moved the page navigation icons to the left to reduce the chance of them accidently being pressed.
· Improved - The Horizontal Mirror Lua filter now supports an adjustable slider for setting the mirror horizon.
· Fixed - The Value Blur filter had no fall-off which means the entire page was blurred a small amount.
· Fixed - Case where the buttons on the Quick Command panel would stay depressed.
January 22nd, 2008· Changed - Show the Hue color slider at full saturation and normal luminance rather than reflecting the current saturation and luminance settings.
· Fixed - Selecting About from the Help menu resulted in a crash.
January 21st, 2008· Added - Anti-Alias filter. found in the menu Filter > Blur > Anti Alias.
· Added - Adpative Blur filter. Found in the menu Filter > Blur > Adaptive Blur.
· Added - Detail Blur filter. Found in the menu Filter > Blur > Detail Blur.
· Added - Detail Blur filter. Found in the menu Filter > Blur > Value Blur.
· Added - Line Art Cleaner filter. Found in the menu Filter > Color > Line Art Cleaner.
· Added - Basic Threshold filter. Found in the menu Filter > Color > Basic Threshold.
· Added - Adjust HSL filter. Found in the menu Filter > Color > Adjust HSL.
· Added - Adjust Lab filter. Found in the menu Filter > Color > Adjust Lab.
· Added - Flag (checkbox) user control directive to the Lua script filter language.
· Added - message_box() function added to the lua script filter language.
· Added - single_buffer() function added. This will result in both gets and sets working from the same buffer.
· Fixed - Deleting the last script in the Lua script filter list would result in a program crash.
· Fixed - Gradient support masks and paper textures again. 15.05 broke this when true alpha overlays were added. Now all combinations work together!
· Fixed - The ellipse tool could result in invalid data being drawning.
· Fixed - When using the Lua Editor the main windows was not disabled when returning to the Filter dialog.
· Fixed - Using Alt click with an image brush on a large page could result in a program crash.
January 14th, 2008· Fixed - Lua Script Filters were clipping the bottom and right edge of the image.
January 3rd, 2008· Added - Palettes the begin with the name prefix of Smooth will be presented with smooth gradiant colors for finer color selections.
· Added - Color palette Smooth - Hue Saturation.
· Added - Menu item File > Revert to Last Loaded Page. Useful to purge all change done to the current page.
· Added - Confirmation before all Revert to restore point menus.
· Added - HSL (Hue/Saturation/Luminance) sliders to the main work panel.
· Improved - Dynamic palettes now have a smooth color gradiant and no separating lines in the color palette area. Except the history palette is
· not presented this way.
· Improved - Preserve the position of the brush effects panel and layer panel between TwistedBrush sessions.
· Improved - Preserve the shown state of the layer panel between TwistedBrush sessions.
· Improved - Preserve the position and shown state of the quick command panel between TwistedBrush sessions.
· Improved - Preserve the position of the filter dialog between usages of it.
· Improved - The tools bar settings are preserved when switching from tool to tool for all the tools.
· Improved - The previous Lumiance slider is now part of the HSL sliders and behaves as a standard luminance component of HSL.
· Changed - The two hue span dynamic palettes to not include a luminance gradiant within the palette.
· Changed - The two hue span dynamic palettes to have a more standard hue progression.
· Changed - Reduced size of the palette area to make room for the HSL sliders.
December 27th, 2007· Added - Cloning option added to set as a cloning source the current layer. Found in the menu Page > Set Layer as Cloning/Trace Source.
· Added - A Pick color button to the Colorize and Duotone filters.
· Added - 2 positionable Line erasers and a positionable Hole Punch to the Art Tools : Eraser ArtSet.
· Improved - For the generate filters the default mix mode, which is Normal, is now the first mode in the list.
· Improved - When setting a cloning source if the background is transparent preserve the transparency in the cloning. (only supported when the page is loaded, in other words can not be used from the Page Explorer)
· Improved - When using the flood fill tool in repeat mode treat the repeated flood fills as a single operation that can be undo with a single undo.
· Improved - Improved performance of flood fill adjust and repeat modes.
· Improved - Handling to of the Tolerance slider for flood fill and wand mask tools.
· Improved - For the Colorize and Duotone filters default the color to the currently selected color.
· Improved - For the wand mask tool in repeat mode a single undo will undo the last set of repeated wand mask applications.
· Improved - All the brushes in the Lines and Outlines ArtSet now use the Dab Mode Position effect instead of the combination of Dab Mode, Clear Lay and Norm Lay effects. This allows for more flexible modifications of these brushes, for example adding an eraser effect will work now.
· Improved - Internally restructing in preparation for possible improvements to the Brush Effects panel and a descrease in the installable program download size.
· Changed - The cloning option Page > Set as Cloning/Trace Source is now called Set Page as Cloning/Trace Source and sets as the cloning source the merged page.
· Changed - Increased the width of the effects column in the Brush Effects panel.
· Fixed - The hue range option for the wand mask was not properly covering ranges crossing the 0 degree.
· Fixed - Focus was not properly shifting away from combo boxes in the tool bar after a selection was made and clicking occuring on the canvas.
· Fixed - A single right clip with the crop tool would result in bad behavior or a crash.
· Fixed - When using flood fill in repeat mode if positioning the cursor off the screen a crash could occur.
· Fixed - When moving to previous or next page and the current page doesn't exist and no changes were made don't save (create) the page.
December 17th, 2007· Added - 19 new blender brushes added to the Art Tools : Blenders Artset.
· Improved - The icons for the existing blender brushes have been improved and more easily so the strength of the blend.
· Improved - For the generate filters with a mix mode default to Normal instead of Add.
· Improved - The interactive control via mouse dragging for flood fills now covers the entire range allow 0 - 100% coverage.
· Improved - The numeric readout for flood fills are shown as a percent rather than a value from 0 - 50000.
· Improved - Pressing and holding down the shift key while dragging the mouse will fine tune the flood fill tolerance level.
· Improved - The interactive control via mouse dragging for wand mask now covers the entire range allow 0 - 100% coverage.
· Improved - The numeric readout for wand masks are shown as a percent rather than a value from 0 - 50000.
· Improved - Pressing and holding down the shift key while dragging the mouse will fine tune the wand mask tolerance level.
· Improved - The 2 stamping image brushes from the Image Brushes : Basics ArtSet now allow for positioning of the image dab by dragging the mouse.
· Improved - Display the layers panel with less drawin (flashing).
· Improved - Not focusing away from the layer mix mode combo box allowing easy arrow controls for changing mix modes.
· Fixed - On the Filter dialog when using the More>> or
December 10th, 2007· Added - Layer mode Alpha Smooth Lum5. It's like Alpha Smooth Lum but with smoothed edges.
· Added - Adjust Mode for the flood fill tool to interactively decrease or increase the flood fill tolerance by dragging the mouse left and right.
· Added - Repeat Mode for the flood fill tool to repeat the flood fill as you drag the mouse while using the tool.
· Added - Adjust Mode for the Mask Wand tool to interactively decrease or increase the mask tolerance by dragging the mouse left and right.
· Added - Most of the Generate filters have a Color option now. Default is white which produces the full jue of random color. The other option is Current color which is how they use to always work, basing the random hue from the current color.
· Added - Most of the Generate filters have a Mix Mode option now. This allows for much easier experimentation of generated patterns combined with your current image without needing to use layers. There are 18 mix modes available here some are the same as used for layers but there are some differences.
· Added - Helper buttons to the tool effects panel to make it easier to swap position of effects.
· Added - 12 brushes to the Blob: Modeler ArtSet for adding and subtracting basic lines and outlines.
· Improved - Handling of Blob Surface ArtSet brushes on Alpha Smooth Lum4 and Lum5 modes.
· Improved - The Rotate filter wasn't allowing the case of no zoom. No zoom is the default and is correct now.
· Improved - Increased the number of tolerance levels for flood fill from 100 to 50000.
· Improved - Increased the number of tolerance levels for mask wand from 100 to 50000.
· Improved - Reorganized the menu section Filter > Generate to put like generation filters next to each other.
· Improved - For color palettes that support mixing. Perform mixing regardless if the left mouse button is depressed as long as the right mouse button is depressed. Allows for more natural mixing with tablet pens.
· Removed - The Swap Effects items from the Brush menu. This is handled from the tool effects panel directory now. The hot keys for swapping effects are still available.
· Fixed - Correct issue introduced in 15.0 with the Layer Mask blending mode.
· Fixed - When resizing an image (or rotating) if a cloning source was already set a crash would occur.
· Fixed - The tolerance label for the mask wand was incorrectly showing a value of 100 when first selected.
· Fixed - Selecting menu Filter > Generate > Noise would result in a crash.
· Fixed - For the Stipple artistic filter the first blur type was listed as YPMean. That was incorrect it was really Arithmetic.
December 3rd, 2007· Changed - New name for TwistedBrush. Now named TwistedBrush Pro Studio.
· Added - Description on the Lines and Outlines ArtSet and Line Paint ArtSet to include information about usage of the Ctrl key for dragging.
· Added - Brush effect envelop added - dst pg. Stength increase based on the distance from the center of the page. Handy for brush designers for Mandala type brushes.
· Added - Brush effect Dab pos mode. Allows for dab positioning on the current layer for more flexible lines and outlines. Does the work of the effects Dab mode, Clear Lay and Lay normal and does it better.
· Added - Imager Filter Hyper Saturation. Found under at menu Filter > Color > Hyper Saturation
· Added - New layer blend mode Alpha Smooth Lum4. Similar to Lum3 but with smoothed edges.
· Added - Brush effect Lay Smth Lum4. A smoothed edge version of Lay Smth Lum3.
· Fixed - A few brushes in the Collections - Lines and Outlines were incorrect. (Circle Shape Rotate)
· Fixed - When using undo and redo it was possible for more then one layer to appear selected in the layer mini bar.
· Fixed - Cases where the Layer Mask mix mode was considering colors in pure transparent regions when it shouldn't resulting in incorrect masking.
· Fixed - When the About dialog is show don't automatically shift focus away from it during mouse movement.
November 26th, 2007· Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Mandala Paint 1.
· Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Mandala Paint 2.
· Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Line Paint.
· Added - New brush effects envelope - Global. Effects for a current brush that has a global envelope will use and store the strength of the effect globally for use in other brushes. Otherwise the it acts like the combo envelope.
· Added - When using brushes that rely on the stroke origin point such as those in the Line and Outlines ArtSet pressing and holding the Ctrl key will allow dragging the placement of the line or outline.
· Added - Pressing Alt mouse click on the canvas when using an image brush will capture the entire page (square and up to a maximum of 999 pixels) as the image brush. Previously the Alt click would capture the merged layers for the image brush which is the default action of the right mouse click (for image brushes).
· Added - Brush effect - Rect.
· Added - Brush effect - Adv Stroke2. More properly advances the stroke. The effect Adv Stroke remains unchanged for backward compatiblity with exisitng brushes.
· Added - Various brushes to the Line and Outlines ArtSet.
· Improved -The Liquid Ink pen in the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Improved - Give a warning if an invalid script name is entered in the Script Recorder dialog.
· Improved - Don't automatically move focus away from controls that take keyboard input, including the text fields in modeless dialogs, text fields on the tool bar and the Layer mode combo box.
· Improved - More accurate color selection from dynamic palettes especially when using a drawing tablet.
· Changed - Collections - Mandalas was renamed to Collections - Mandala Designs.
November 21st, 2007· Added - ArtSet Collections - Mandalas.
· Added - ArtSet Collections - Lines and Outlines.
· Added - 5 brushes to the Blob Modeler ArtSet.
· Added - 2 Brushes to the Blob Paints ArtSet.
· Added - New Effects Brush Modifier ArtSets. Effects - Symmetry, Effects - Color, Effects - Jitter Postion size, Effects - Shading, Effects - Multi Dab.
· Added - New brush modifiers to the Effects - Basics brush modifier ArtSet. Many others were moved to the new Effects ArtSets.
· Added - Brush effects, Symmetry and Symmetry page. Will draw the number of dabs controls by the strength of the effect (1 - 100).
· Added - Brush effect Radial page. Draws a line to from each dab to the page center.
· Added - Brush effect Page Fames2. Use the value of the effect to determine the number of evenly placed dabs along each edge of a rectangle matching the page aspect ratio.
· Added - Brush effect envelope pg-ang. This will generate a rotation value from the current dab position to the center of the page. Useful with shapes or image brushes and the rotate brush effect.
· Added - Brush effect envelope db-ang. This will generate a rotation value from the current dab position to the initial stroke position. Useful with shapes or image brushes and the rotate brush effect.
· Added - Brush effect Lay Normal. Make use of the paint layer.
· Added - Brush effect Clear Lay. Clear the paint layer. When combined with one of the "Lay" brush effects allows for a stamping mode where you can position your stamp (dab) without a trial.
· Added - Brush effect Dab mode.
· Added - Brush effect Outline Mode. Draws an outline instead of just dabs for Symmetry Symmetry pg and Page Frame 2.
· Improved - No delay when setting a cloning offset.
· Improved - Clicking the current layer in the layer mini bar will toggle the visibility of that layer.
· Improved - Better recover from cases when a palette file is missing.
· Improved - Significantly improved the quality of image brushes that are painted at a size larger than captured.
· Changed - When using brush modifiers for effects all effects of the same name will be replaced in the current brush. Previously it was just a select few.
· Fixed - The Optimize button in the Edit ArtSet dialog was not saving the optimizations resulting in no effect.
· Fixed - Unchecking the preview box in the Filter dialog would not show the unfiltered image.
· Fixed - A single dab (just a click) in the same location would not draw the subsequent dabs.
· Fixed - when upgrading from versions 10.2 or earlier a palette loading error could occur on startup.
· Fixed - Bottom and right edges of the page were not being painted with pattern brushes.
· Fixed - In some cases drawing wasn't correct when quickly tapping a single point on the page.
November 5th, 2007· Added - Menu option to Flatten Layers and Flatten Visible Layers from the popup menu of the layer mini bar.
· Improved - Significantly improved performance when selecting a cloning brush.
· Improved - When selecting a TBR file with the menu File > Load from File Into present a confirmation dialog indicating that the current page will be erased.
· Improved - Increase the size of the checkered pattern for transparent backgrounds and masks to avoid distortion when zooming out.
· Improved - Added a small mark to make it easier for distingish between a layer and empty slot in the layer mini bar.
· Improved - Don't show the clone offset source brush cursor when cloning to a different page (than the source).
· Improved - Performance of all filter previews.
· Improved - Much faster Move tool when used in the default mode of not wrapping at the edges!
· Improved - Allow hiding future ocurences of the "Unable to create cloning source..." message.
· Improved - When the screen resolution or color depth changes redraw the TwistedBrush application immediately.
· Improved - When a page is saved for any reason reset the auto save timer. Previously it was reset only during an auto save.
· Improved - When importing a TBR file don't immediately save the page afterwards.
· Improved - Minor performance improvement when saving a restore point.
· Improved - When exporting a page don't save the page prior to doing so. It adds no value.
· Changed - The Auto Save message is now a general purpose Saving message. The preferences option is still used to control if it should be shown or not.
· Fixed - In cases where a page couldn't be loaded because of lack of memory not all of the used memory by the partially loaded page was freed.
· Fixed - Cases where the separators between layers in the layer mini bar could become overwritten by the layer thumbnail for certain page sizes.
· Fixed - When resizing a image and changing the aspect ratio the layer thumbnails in the mini bar and main layer panel were not properly updated.
· Fixed - Typo in the selection popup menu.
· Fixed - Occurance of a crash when switching to a new page when using the cloning offset.
· Fixed - When exporting to a TBR file it was possible that changes to the page may not be saved to the page between the time span of the last save and the export.
October 29th, 2007· Added - New ArtSet - Collections - Angela's Various and Sundries Brushes. Thank you Angela for donating these fine brushes!
· Added - Grid Snap drawing guide. Will snap virtually all canvas actions to the grid set including brush strokes. Very handy guide!
· Added - Up to 16 references images can be active at once. Previously it was just 1.
· Added - From the page explorer if multiple images are selected the menu Page > Make Reference Image will create a reference image for each selected image up to the maximum allowed.
· Added - Make Reference Image from a selection rectangle. Accessed from the poppup menu on the selection rectangle.
· Added - Zoom to actually pixels (zoom in normally) by right clicking in a reference image. Right clicking in a reference image a second time will return to be to fit mode (zoom out normally).
· Added - Preview button to the Resize Image dialog.
· Added - Allow the instruction dialog when entering ArtSet build mode to not be shown anymore.
· Added - Hot keys Ctrl F1 throught Ctrl F12 are assigned to the 12 quick command buttons.
· Added - Six new brushes to the Art Tools - Masks Artset.
· Added - Link to the online video tutorials in the Help menu.
· Improved - Minor performance improvement on the interface.
· Improved - When using the File > Reset All menu option also remove previous settings to not show specific notice messages.
· Improved - The Copy Grid Cell tool is now a more general purpose Copy Tool. It will copy the contents under the cursor. If the new Grid Snap Guide is enabled then the area copied will be the size of the grid cell similiar to the previous functionality.
· Improved - The Paste Grid Cell tool is now a more general purpose Paste Tool. It will paste the contents of the clipboard at the cursor location. If the new Grid Snap Guide is enabled the clipboard contents won't be centered at the cursor but will snap to the nearest grid intersection.
· Removed - The image resize choices other than nearest neightbor, bi-linear, bi-cubic and lanczos3 have been removed since they do not differ enough in result than what can be achieved with the choices that remain.
· Removed - A number of older redundant brushes were removed from the Art Tools - Masks Artset. There are other more flexible ways to get the same result.
· Fixed - Grid Square Ref Image drawing guide the guides on the reference image would not be removed in some cases.
· Fixed - Dynamic brush rotation was not working for masks.
October 15th, 2007· Added - Hot key to toggle the Tutorial Display Mode option. F2
· Added - Ability to hide the left hand tools panel. Toggled with hotket F3, menu View > Toggle Tools Panel or the Quick Command panel hot button.
· Added - Pressing the Ctrl key while setting the drawing guides will move the start position.
· Added - Three new palettes the allow for some color mixing withing the palettes with the right mouse button. Mixer - Airbrush, Mixer - Blend and Mixer - Splat.
· Added - Two new drawing guides Golden Rectangle Landscape and Golden Rectangle Portrait.
· Added - Dynamic - History Blend color palette creates a blend of the last 4 selected colors.
· Added - ArtSets - Colors - Patterns - Surface 1 and Colors - Patterns - Surface 2. These are brush modifiers ArtSets like all the color ArtSets.
· Added - Brush effect Bld lum alpha. Convert the luminence into the alpha value. Very useful effect!
· Added - Pattern brush to the Blob - Modeler ArtSet.
· Added - Three texture brushes to the Pattern - Basics ArtSet.
· Added - Popup menu to Load shortcuts from ArtSet and Save shortcuts to ArtSet. Found by right clicking on the ArtSet name above the shortcut panel.
· Added - Menu items to Load shortcuts, Save shortcuts and load default shortcuts from the ArtSet menu.
· Added - Message when reversing the mouse buttons.
· Improved - In the Load Palette dialog select the palette list item for the currently loaded palette when the dialog opens.
· Improved - If a problem occurs when loading a page because of a corrupt file the backup TBR file will be loaded instead.
· Improved - Small performance improvement when saving pages.
· Improved - Detecting problems when saving a page.
· Improved - Detecting out of memory situtions in a few more cases.
· Improved - Automatically switch to tablet compatibility mode as needed.
· Improved - Automate the clipboard paste on the Import Brush Code dialog.
· Improved - Automate the clipboard copy on the Export Brush Code dialog.
· Changed - The import option has been removed from the Palette load dialog. If you wish to import ACT palette files into TwistedBrush copy them to the Palettes folder under TwistedBrush.
· Changed - Selecting a color from the Dynamic - History color palette no longer updates the history palette which made it hard accurately select a color because it was a moving target.
· Changed - The default color palettes now include the Mixer - Blend and Mixer - Airbrush palettes.
· Changed - Right clicking on the shortcut tabs will not longer bring up the Brush options for the selected brush. Right clicking on the brush slot will still do this.
· Fixed - Changes to the current color palette were not being automatically saved when the application exited.
· Fixed - When selecting cancel from the Palette Load dialog the file names for the loaded palette would become incorrect.
· Fixed - When selecting colors from the palette if the mouse was dragged past the edge of the palette the wrong colors could be selected.
· Fixed - Multiple palettes of the same name loaded and edited were not being uniquely saved.
· Fixed - When selecting cancel from the Palette Load dialog the current palette edits if there were any would be lost.
October 1st, 2007· Added - Tutorial Mode preference to display a read out that is helpful when recording video tutorials.
· Added - Link to the Freqently Asked Questions from the Help menu.
· Improved - Blob Modeler ArtSets have been further refined and organized, now totaling 5 ArtSets.
· Improved - Draw popup menus without the drawing flash.
· Improved - When using the Create Blob Layer From Image retain the color information from the image. It's much easier to paint to gray than to try to recover the color later.
· Improved - Mouse click accuracy when working with floating panels such as the layers panel.
· Fixed - The Layer Create Blob From Image option was not properly updating the main layer panel if open.
September 24th, 2007· Fixed - Rolled back the smoother edges for Blob Modeler Brushes. It has some undesirable behavior in some cases.
· Fixed - The Blob : Surface ArtSet was incorrectly storing the colors with the brushes.
September 24th, 2007· Added - Create Blob from Image option in the Layer menu.
· Added - Centering the page in the drawing space is now optional. If turned off the page will be placed in the upper left of the drawing space.
· Added - Additional brushes to the Blob : Modeler, Blob : Surface and Blob : Paints ArtSets.
· Improved - A number of brushes in the Blob Artsets.
· Improved - Smoother edges for Blob Modeler and Meta Blob 2 brushes.
· Improved - Minor performance improvement for page rendering.
· Improved - Handling of reducing the layer opacity on blob layers (Alpha Smooth Lumx).
· Fixed - On the Effects ArtSet the first Mirrored Page named effect should have been just Mirrored.
September 9th, 2007· Added - Blob - Modeler ArtSet (Previously part of Collections - Blob Modeler)
· Added - Blob - Paints ArtSet (Previously part of Collections - Blob Modeler)
· Added - Blob - Surface ArtSet (Previously part of Collections - Blob Modeler)
· Added - Brush Effect - Color Lock
· Added - Brush Effect - Blob Lock
· Added - Brush Effect - Blob mode
· Added - Brush Effect - Set Alpha
· Added - Option to lock the layer alpha channel from the layer mini bar popup menu.
· Added - Option to set the layer mix mode to Alpha Smooth Lum3 from the layer mini bar popup menu.
· Enhanced - When using Blob Modeler brushes don't allow using them on layers without the properly Mix Mode set.
· Enhanced - Don't allow merging into a layer that doesn't have a mix mode of Normal.
· Enhanced - For the layer mini bar popup menu show the text of the menu items more dynamically.
· Removed - Collections - Blob Modeler ArtSet.
· Fixed - In the Brush Selection dialog if an ArtSet file couldn't be loaded it became impossible to exit the dialog normally.
· Fixed - Using the Duplicate Layer option from the layer mini bar would not preserve the layer settings in the copied layer.
· Fixed - Using the Duplicate Layer option from the layer panel would not properly redraw the canvas afterwards.
· Fixed -Using the merge layer options from the main menu would not give a warning about not being able to undo the merge.
· Fixed - The layer Alpha Lock option was not properly protecting the alpha channel from change when using filters or the various tools such as gradients, fills, warps etc.
September 7th, 2007· Added - ArtSet - Collections : Blob Modeler!
· Added - Layer blend mode - Alpha Smooth Lum3. A version with a slightly darker shadow than Alpha Smooth Lum
· Added - Brush Effect - Lay Smth Lum3.
· Added - Brush Effect - Alpha Lock. Locks the alpha channel of a layer.
September 3rd, 2007· Added - 10 additional Color Artsets allowing selection of common colors by name. The colors are split into ArtSets, Blues, Browns, Cyans, Golds, Greens, Greys, Oranges, Pinks, Reds, Violets and Yellows.
· Added - ArtSet - Collections - Meta Blobs 2. A second generation of meta blob brushes.
· Added - Two brushes to the Collections - Impressionistics ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effects Rad Scatter and Rad Scatter2. Scatter the dabs within the original size of the brush diameter.
· Added - Brush effects, Lum, Lum add, Lum sub, Lum vary and Lum pix vary. These are for adjusting the luminance druing painting.
· Added - Layer modes Alpha Smooth Lum and Alpha Smooth Lum2
· Added - Brush Effects, Lay Smth Lum and Lay Smth Lum2
· Changed - The User Guide is now fully online and the help menus were updated to reflect that.
· Fixed - In the Page Explorer using the menus to operate on pages was not working.
· Fixed - Didn't allow using the menu bar to move pages back and forward in the Page Explorer if more than 1 page is selected.
· Fixed - Menus Filter > Generate > Perlin Noise and Perlin Noise2 were not working and could result in a crash.
· Fixed - When editing an ArtSet if a return (carriage return) is placed in the description the ArtSet will become corrupt.
August 13th, 2007· Added - Selection Tool. For selecting a rectangle area. Right clicking on the rectangle area will give a menu of choices for Clearing the selection, Cropping, Saving, Copying, Copying Merged, Mask Add, Mask New, Unmask Sub and Unmask New of the selected area.
· Added - Filter Mask. Apply any of the standard filters to the current mask. Access from the Mask > Filter Mask menu.
· Added - Layer blend mode Luminance Alpha. Convert the luminance of the layer to an alpha value and sets visible areas to white.
· Added - Layer blend mode Luminance Alpha Invert. Convert the lack of luminance of the layer to an alpha value and sets visible areas to black.
· Added - Reset All option from the File menu.
· Improved - Display a message when attempting to load an ArtSet that is newer than the version of TwistedBrush that is running. This isn't allowed and can happen if you try to install an older version of TwistedBrush over the top of a newer version.
· Improved - Display the standard cursor over the drawing canvas when pipup menus are shown.
· Improved - Hide popup menus before processing the command. Visual improvement.
· Improved - For tools where the area is selected as a rectangle constrain the rectangle to pixel edges. This is very helpful when zoomed in to know exactly which pixels are included in the selected rectangle area.
· Improved - Make Create Alpha From Mask and Create Mask From Alpha compatible so that they reverse each other.
· Changed - The menu Effects is now called Brush.
· Changed - Moved menu items Generate Random Brush and Toggle Random Brush Explorer from the Control menu to the Brush menu.
· Changed - Removed Reset Brush effects and Generate Random Brush from the menu bar.
· Fixed - When switching pages to a page of a different size the new page would not initialliy draw positioned correctly.
· Fixed - The crop tool would not properly crop the last column or row of a page if crop selection extended beyond the edge of the page.
· Fixed - Right clicking on one of the color selection squares would result in a crash in TwistedBrush Essentials and TwistedBrush Free Edition.
· Fixed - The core Cover brush Coverage 40 Feather would lead to inconsistent results. This effected around 10 brushes including the Fire Whip particle brush.
· Fixed - When selecting a new page in the Page Exploring the page name field would not be cleared if the destination page didn't have a name yet.
July 3rd, 2007· Added - Create PDF SlideShow option! Found in the Page Explorer under the File menu.
· Added - Ability to select multiple pages in the Page Explorer
· Added - Ability to delete selected pages in the Page Explorer
· Added - When starting TwistedBrush remember if maximized when last closed and start back up maximized.
· Added - An eraser brush is assoicated with the eraser element of the stylus for drawing tablets.
· Added - Auto Arrange menu added to Page Explorer under the Book menu. Fills in the empty slots by moving pages up in your book.
· Changed - Slightly reduced the size of the page created when using the Size Page to Fill Space option.
June 25th, 2007· Added - Menu option to set page size to the fill the available drawing area. Under the Page menu.
· Added - Menu option to set page size to double the size needed to fill the available drawing area. Under the Page menu.
· Added - Share Image Online Helper dialog. Under the File menu. Makes it easier to post your images to the Pixarra gallery.
· Added - Drawing Guide. Grid Square Ref Image. A grid that appears both on the canvas and the reference image.
· Added - Essentials - Art Brushes. This is an ArtSet from the TwistedBrush Essentials product. They are duplicates of brushes that appear in other ArtSet but included as a nice collection.
· Added - Essentials - Wild Brushes. This is an ArtSet from the TwistedBrush Essentials product. They are duplicates of brushes that appear in other ArtSet but included as a nice collection.
· Added - 5 brushes to the Collections - Impressionistics 2 ArtSet.
· Added - One brush to Angela's Potpourri of Brushes ArtSet.
· Improved - Don't show brush modifier ArtSets in the brush select dialog. Only show them when using the brush modifier icons.
· Improved - Don't show Shortcuts ArtSets in the brush select dialog.
· Improved - Application redraw when PC wakes up from sleep state.
· Improved - Quality and speed of thumbnails for the Page Explorer.
· Changed - Slightly reduced the size of the Select Brush dialog.
· Fixed - The Bnk brush effect envelopes weren't working in brush effect slot 10.
· Fixed - After using Rotate Page 90 degrees a number of brushes could cause a program crash.
· Fixed - Mask and Crop to Virtual Page and Control Rectangle commands were not working correctly for zoomed images or if an image was scrolled.
· Fixed - The Grid Squares drawing guide could draw incorrectly at times.
· Fixed - Reference Image was getting cropped in some cases.
April 2nd, 2007· Scanner support, Pattern brushes, Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet, particle brush effects, page explorer, text tool, pan tool, select brushes of graphic representation.
March 19th, 2007· Fixed - The palette selection dialog could get out of sync and not have the palette names matched to the actual palette.
January 29th, 2007· Added - Numerous brushes to the Collections - Meta Blobs ArtSet.
· Added - Three new brushes to the Art Tools - Pens ArtSet.
· Added - Brush effect envelope Dens. Use the full range of the density slider for strength of the effect.
· Added - Brush effect envelope Dens2. Use the full reversed range of the density slider for strength of the effect.
· Added - Brush effect. "Spac cen abs" Space brush dabs from center an absolute distance.
· Added - Brush effect. "Spac cen pro" Space brush dabs from center an proportional distance.
· Added - Brush effect. "Spac edg abs" Space brush dabs from edge an absolute distance.
· Added - Brush effect. "Spac edg abs" Space brush dabs from edge an proportional distance.
· Improved - If a name is assigned to a book or page show that in the TwistedBrush title bar in place of the book and page numbers.
· Improved - In the Page Explorer when entering a book name reflect the book name in the list immediately.
· Improved - In the Page Explorer if a page name is assigned show it under the thumbnail.
· Improved - When starting the Page Explorer highlight the currently selected book.
· Changed - Hot key for moving a layer up from Alt Q and Ctrl Q
· Changed - Hot key for moving a layer down from Alt A and Ctrl A
· Changed - Updated the version on the internal licensing system used in TwistedBrush
· Changed - Make the default directory for saving and loading images brushes ubImage.
· Changed - Widened the Brush Effects Panel so that effect and envelope names can be more fully read.
· Changed - Adjustments to allow more consistent use of brushes that use the Lay effects on a transparent layer. For example many of the watercolor brushes.
· Fixed - Problems of getting stuck in a color picker mode preventing painting.
· Fixed - In Page Explorer the page naming was not always being properly recorded.
· Fixed - In Page Explorer if there were gaps in the book numbers the book names in the list could be displayed wrong.
November 13th, 2006· Added - The brush effects system now has 12 levels of effects instread of 8.
· Added - Image Brushes as scaled to the currently selected size.
· Added - Image Brushes are preserved from page to page.
· Added - ArtSet : Image Brush : Basics
· Added - Menu option to Load Captured Image Brush. Under the File menu.
· Added - Menu option to Save Captured Image Brush. Under the File menu.
· Added - Brush effect "Blend bImage" refresh the current blend buffer with the image brush image.
· Added - Brush effect "bImage" loads a ImageBrush image from the bImage directory. The strength is used to select the bImage name. Works the same as the bShape and bTexture effects.
· Added - Brush effect "ubImage" loads a ImageBrush image from the ubImage directory. The strength is used to select the bImage name. Works the same as the ubShape and ubTexture effects. The effect is designed for users to add captured images to their installation.
· Added - Scratch Layer feature. Very useful for mixing your own color and image brush palettes..
· Added - While using an Image Brush Alt Click will capture an image from the scratch layer.
· Added - Pressing and holding the space bar will temporarily switch the the scratch layer, making it visible, and unzoom the canvas. Once the space bar is release your previous layer and zoom level will return.
· Added - Set Scratch Layer menu item under the Layer menu to set the current layer as the scratch layer.
· Added - The scratch layer number is saved with the page.
· Changed - On the Brush Effects dialog the effect levels are now swapped with Alt number key rather than Ctrl number key.
· Fixed - Don't use the DPI of the image imported when doing "Load Image Into". In other words honor the DPI settings that may have already been specifiied when setting up the page.
· Fixed - The displayed shortcut key for the Random Brush menu item. Should be Ctrl R
· Fixed - The ImageBrush effect could at times paint the transparent areas incorrectly.
October 23rd, 2006· Scanner support,
· Pattern brushes,
· Trees ArtSet,
· Sumi-e ArtSet,
· particle brush effects,
· page explorer,
· text tool,
· pan tool,
· select brushes of graphic representation
September 18th, 2006· Added - Mask Wand option Hue Range. Create mask based on the clicked hue.
· Added - Drop Shadow filter - Under Filters | Stylized
· Added - Tablet Compatibility Mode option. This will cause a tablet to be treated like it was prior to release 10.0. Found in the preferences dialog under the Edit menu.
· Added - Additional resizing algorithms. Box, Triangle, Hanning, Gaussian and Bell are better suited when reducing the size of an image. Cubic 1, Cubic 2, Mitchell, Sinc, Hermite, Hanning and Catrom are better suited when enlarging the size of an image.
· Added - Insert Layer button to create a new layer above the current layer as an insertion, moving the other layers up.
· Added - Clone offsets. Alt Click on a page will make it the cloning source. When you start to draw with your cloning brush the location in the cloned page will be that set with the Alt click!
· Improved - The button layout on the Layer Panel has been rearranged to address the error of accidently flattening the picture.
· Changed - Wording on the warning prompt when Flattening layers.
· Changed - Selecting the menu to set a cloning source page will remove the clone offset that might have been set with an Alt click operation.
· Fixed - Resize type of B-Spline and Lanczos3 were not resulting in different resizing algorithms.
· Fixed - In some cases when drawing fast without or tablet or the tablet disabled there would be a anomaly in the stroke curve.
September 5th, 2006· Scanner support,
· Pattern brushes,
· Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet,
· particle brush effects,
· page explorer,
· text tool,
· pan tool,
· select brushes of graphic representation
July 31st, 2006· Added - Replace To Alpha option for the Paint Bucket (Flood Fill) tool.
· Added - Non-Contiguous option for the Wand Mask tool.
· Added - Colpr Range option for the Wank Mask tool.
· Added - Luminance Range option for the Wank Mask tool.
· Added - A delete script option to the Script Player.
· Added - Brush effect "Shrink". Generates additional dabs each one smaller.
· Added - ArtSet : Shapes - Geometrics
· Added - ArtSet : Collections - Geometrics 1 Color
July 17th, 2006· Added - Layer actions are now recorded in scripts.
· Added - Copy and Paste actions are now recorded in scripts.
· Added - Automatically save a restore point before script playback. Revert to the pre-script restore point from the File menu.
· Added - It is now possible to play back scripts while recording a new script. The actions being played back will be recorded in the new script.
· Added - Script Player dialog (from the script menu)
· Added - Script Recorder dialog (from the script menu)
· Added - Scripts can now be played from a list rather then requiring them to be loaded first from the File menu.
· Added - Scripts now record and playback the Move tool actions.
· Added - A backup TBR file is created with the extension of ".BAK" when saving a page.
· Enhanced - For most filters that have a random element the randomness can now be controlled.
· Enhanced - Prompt before restoring an save point since it can't be undone.
· Enhanced - When exiting the program if scripting is still recording, cleanly stop the recording.
· Enhanced - Now have two modes of recording. The standard mode where the initial brush settings are recorded and Strokes were the initial brush settings are not recorded.
· Changed - Scripts now reside in their own directory "scripts".
· Changed - Removed the Load Script and Save Script items from the File menu. These are no longer needed.
· Changed - Removed the script playback speed setting from the Preferences dialog. It's handled directly in the Script Player dialog now.
· Fixed - Significant memory leak that occurred on each save!! Has been around for a long time, very good find. Should help stability for long sessions.
· Fixed - When saving a page don't delete both the BMP and TBR files before writing out the new saved image.
· Fixed - Sometimes script playback wasn't identical with regards to the stylus pressure.
· Fixed - Duplicate Rotate menu item under Filters | Distort
· Fixed - After script playback the page was not marked as changed and therefore wouldn't be automatically saved when exiting if no other edits were performed.
· Fixed - After script playback the current brush settings displayed were not always correct.
· Fixed - Typo in Menu | Filter | Stylized | Scratch
· Fixed - Check for the proper script version during repeated playback.
July 17th, 2006· Scanner support, Pattern brushes, Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet, particle brush effects, page explorer, text tool, pan tool, select brushes of graphic representation.
June 19th, 2006· Scanner support, Pattern brushes, Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet, particle brush effects, page explorer, text tool, pan tool, select brushes of graphic representation.
May 21st, 2006· Scanner support, Pattern brushes, Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet, particle brush effects, page explorer, text tool, pan tool, select brushes of graphic representation.
March 6th, 2006· Scanner support, Pattern brushes, Trees ArtSet, Sumi-e ArtSet, particle brush effects, page explorer, text tool, pan tool, select brushes of graphic representation.
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