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BlackInk Changelog

What's new in BlackInk 2020.3 (0.509.3810)

Jan 11, 2021
  • FIXED:
  • Black Ink doesn’t start with CPU that have more than 32 CORE detected
  • Crash at startup if the GPU provides several device
  • FCrash when using the command/shortcut “Fill eyedropper”
  • FWhen using the command “Duplicate as layer”, the content of this layer was still influenced by modifications made by its original operators.
  • FRandom crash after using the CropTool
  • Rendering problem with brushes: Canvas Fill, Free Fill and Polygonal Fill
  • Brush with dual primitive (like Charcoal) can miss the secondary texture when rendered
  • Crash when pasting in a Grayscale layer
  • When a RGBA image is dragged and dropped into a grayscale layer the layer is transformed into a RGBA layer.

New in BlackInk 2020.2 (0.484.3639) (Aug 20, 2020)

  • New:
  • Now Black Ink is operating in native 64-bit
  • Brightness/Contrast Operator in the layer editor
  • Windows Explorer .bkd file preview
  • Blending Type Multiply Preserve Alpha
  • Black Ink About
  • Set the Vram in the GPU Preferences options
  • Shortcut “FreezeReportDialog” (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F4) that will make Black Ink Crash. Useful if you think Black Ink is in a Frozen state when saving or loading.
  • Fixed:
  • Some random crashes
  • Crash when using other than D3D11 rendering API (Other D3D9,D3D10 and OpenDL API has been removed and aren’t supported anymore)
  • Crash when loading 16bits grayscale PNG
  • Duplicating layer stack with external reference create artifact in the duplicated stack
  • Sometimes when using the transform tool, the content disappears
  • After clicking on the rotate tool it’s impossible to disable it.
  • Mouse / Stylus problem when Zooming, Drawing, changing the brush size with gizmo ( like these links: Steam or Youtube)
  • Freeze at startup if a brush with multiple textures was created by the user.
  • Rendering problem with the brush “Watercolor pen”
  • Crash when clicking on the output of the first layer (see)

New in BlackInk 2020.1 (0.423.3471) (Feb 9, 2020)

  • 2 new commands in the Layer Editor:
  • Merge Visible layers
  • Merge Layers / Merge Down
  • Fixed:
  • Crash sometimes when using the Straight line tool
  • Crash at startup when your tablet isn’t plugged in to your computer
  • Crash when searching in Preference Shortcut on a system using non latin character
  • Crash when double clicking on the Create Mask Icon of the Layer stack operator
  • The toggle Layer Editor button does nothing in the Main toolbar
  • Overlay, HardLight, SoftLight blending doesn’t behave like in Photoshop
  • Enhanced:
  • Tooltip for the first 2 icons of the Layer stack has been added

New in BlackInk 1.167.3471 Beta (Jan 17, 2020)

  • N! 2 new commands in the Layer Editor
  • Merge Visible layers
  • Merge Layers / Merge Down
  • Image:
  • F! Crash sometimes when using the Straight line tool
  • F! Crash at startup when your tablet isn’t plugged in to your computer
  • F! Crash when searching in Preference Shortcut on a system using non latin character
  • F! Crash when double clicking on the Create Mask Icon of the Layer stack operator
  • F! The toggle Layer Editor button does nothing in the Main toolbar
  • F! Overlay, HardLight, SoftLight blending doesn’t behave like in Photoshop

New in BlackInk 0.356.2642 Beta (Aug 2, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Native High DPI Screen display support.
  • Black Ink now automatically scale the user interface according to the OS settings.
  • The user can modify this scaling by clicking the the BI Logo on the top left of each window. The customised scaling will be saved by each individual Black Ink’s window
  • The Ctrl+Wheel and the Ctrl+Q shortcut are introduced to set the scaling
  • Fixed:
  • Some crash when saving a BKD
  • Some crash/Freeze when loading a lot of textures when opening the Brush Manager
  • Some crash when Changing a Shortcut after moving the focus to another panel of control.
  • Sometimes Black Ink suffers a severe hang/freeze when opening the Brush Manager
  • The Elastic Gizmo ( visible with some smoothness is set ) was not displayed
  • Some layout problem when the Preference Keyboard Tab when stacked
  • Can’t DragDrop color from the Brush Preview color selector into preference
  • The command “Copy Merged” wrongly took invisible layers into the operation

New in BlackInk 0.345.2599 Beta (Jun 21, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Shortcut Customization:
  • The user can now customize Black Ink shortcuts in the Preferences Panel > Keyboard
  • Default Brushes:
  • Charcoal dual Texture
  • Charcoal dual texture lines 62px
  • Charcoal background pattern 40px
  • Ink droplet bicolor canvas fill
  • One Edge textured 24px
  • Felt pen textured 16px
  • Airbrush texture pattern 12px
  • Random color shift textured
  • Smudge Charcoal background pattern 40px
  • Smudge noise colored
  • Smudge expand colored 50px
  • Scribble Circles 20px
  • Texture resources are automatically reloaded if modified on disk
  • N! A rendering indicator shows if the canvas isn’t 100% accurate due to a background rendering process
  • FIXED:
  • Performance problems when using ReadBack brushes on big canvas
  • Black Ink Window wasn’t displayed on Windows 10 Creator Update
  • Crash when inverting the current selection
  • Crash when using the Merge All function
  • Crash when tried to crop with an active selection
  • Crash when trying to reload a corrupted BKD
  • ctrl+z(undo) doesn’t respond immediately after selecting color, different brush
  • some crashes when editing the source code of a BSL
  • some crashes due to a RAM usage overflow
  • entering a hexadecimal value in the color picker displayed the wrong corresponding color
  • Saving in wrong path when the target path contained a ‘.’
  • Black Ink main or Child window sometimes doesn’t resize/maximize correctly on multi-monitor system.
  • The Step brush exposes now parameters to generate the position of a second primitive
  • BSL with custom blending can now be used as an Eraser when using the idatas.eraser parameter
  • Autorecover files are now deleted only after 2 weeks

New in BlackInk 0.301.2448 Beta (Feb 1, 2017)

  • New:
  • Use shaders on brushes
  • You can now select a Shader effect for a Brush
  • BSL Editor
  • Brush Preview Panel
  • Brush Manager in an independent panel with search and filter options
  • Brush Float parameter has been redesigned
  • Brush Vector 2 parameter has been redesigned
  • Brush Color parameter has been redesigned :
  • Solid color type now can be embedded in the Brush Parameter bar
  • You can now choose between 2 types of color picking interface ( normal or Wheel )
  • Gradient editor has been redesigned
  • New Autopicking color type is introduced. In this mode the color above the cursor when starting a Stroke is automatically returned ( like a EyeDropper )
  • New Raw color type was introduced. Here a color created entirely with the controller editor is returned.
  • Brush texture parameter
  • Brush gradient parameter
  • Some default controllers have been added
  • some default Brushes have been added
  • Fixed:
  • Pink flashes on the User Interface on Intel GPU ( see issue, issue, issue )
  • Image saving issue on AMD GPU ( see issue, issue )
  • Flickering in the Brush Preview windows when moving Brush Parameters
  • crash when using the transform tool on tiny canvas resolution ( see issue )
  • crash when tried to crop with an active selection
  • Popup on child window transparency issue ( see issue, issue )
  • if a crash occurrs, the file is recovered with its orignal filename and directory ( see issue )
  • Incorrect Hue color in color picker ( see issue and issue )
  • Fill bug from the layer menu ( see issue )
  • Invalid Azimuth interpolation along a stroke
  • If an invalid stylus calibration is detected the error message will only be displayed one time per application launch.
  • The size of the drawing cursor is now clamped and can’t exceed 96 pixels
  • The fade in/out of the cursor when drawing has been changed.
  • The trial time for the demo version is now 4 Hours.

New in BlackInk 0.249.2089 Beta (Sep 5, 2015)

  • N! Straight Line Draw mode( Shortcut: K )
  • N! Pressing the Shift key when drawing now displays a Snap Angle Wheel. The angles can be edited in the Straight Line Parameters
  • N! Angle snap parameters on the main Toolbar
  • N! Simple line default brush.
  • N! Pencil default brush.
  • N! Free Fill default brush.
  • N! Polygonal Fill default brush.
  • N! PondPlant Fill default brush.
  • N! Angle line Fill default brush.
  • N! Ruins default brush.
  • Felt pen default brush has been updated (It now uses the tilt and the pressure of the stylus to adjust opacity).
  • N! Crop Tool (shortcut: Shift+C)
  • N! Image - Resize Dialog
  • N! Auto Recover - Auto recover option can be accessed throught the Preference Panel in the General Tab section
  • The New.. Dialog has been redesigned. It has default and user presets and the ability to define a starting background color.
  • The Fill layer tool is now directly accessible in the Main toolbar. It comes with these associated shortcuts:
  • G - Fill the current layer or selection with the current fill color
  • Ctrl-G - Fill the current layer alpha with the current fill color
  • Ctrl+Alt+G - Fill the empty areas of the current layer with the fill color.
  • Alt+G - Switch the Eyedropper between the current brush color and the fill color
  • F! The time parameter wasn’t reinitialised between strokes ( issue )
  • F! When cancelling the transform operation of a selection the selected area was erased ( issue )
  • F! Using the “Del” shortcut when using the transformation tool clears the canvas instead of the currently transformed object
  • F! Problem occurred when using the stylus button when drawing ( issue )
  • F! Grayscale JPG can now be opened
  • F! Random crashes
  • Better Image sampling after a transformation ( less blur after a simple Transform -> Move operation ).
  • The shortcut for Flip Vertical has been changed ( previously G, now Shift+F )
  • Be carefull if using the Tilt stroke parameter in controller because now return a value between 0 and Half PI ( previously 0 to 1 )

New in BlackInk 0.225.1998 Beta (May 13, 2015)

  • New:
  • Secondary Viewport. This panel displays another view of the canvas with the same drawing features and live editing.
  • U shortcut: toggle Secondary Viewport
  • Drawing view can be flipped horizontally(shortcut: F) or vertically (shortcut: G)
  • The brush size can be made constant in view space or in canvas space (toggle with: Y)
  • Preferences Panel ( can be accessed from Main Menu > Edit or Main Menu > Window)
  • Stylus Section : User can now monitor some parameters of their stylus.
  • A calibration process is accessible now if Black Ink doesn’t retrieve correct stylus position.
  • The Reset button sets the calibration values back to the driver’s default.
  • The Precise stylus calibration check box discards the tablet driver’s stylus position and relies on the system’s mouse position (less accurate)
  • GPU Section : User can choose a rendering API, a specific adapter and whether Black Ink should wait for the VSync of the monitor when rendering the user interface.
  • Log View panel. This panel displays logged information of Black Ink activity (shortcut: I)
  • Notification Bar : Warning and error messages are displayed on this bar if the Log panel isn’t visible.
  • Fixed:
  • Rendering artifacts on some brushes
  • Random crash when changing color after clicking the color button in parameter editor.
  • Crash when using the Transform tool on little canvas.
  • Crash when opening a grayscale JPEG image.
  • Using the second button on a stylus stops the stroke and the user can’t draw until he uses another tool
  • An error in color mode blending equation.
  • The lasso informations are now in canvas space. This enables the user to transform the view while retaining all lasso data.
  • Tool icons and brush favorites overlaps after a Black Ink Window resize
  • Color palette is now interpolated in gamma space instead of linear space for easier color picking.
  • The maximum zoom limit is now 6400% instead of 1600%
  • TestPanel 1 and TestPanel 2 have been removed.

New in BlackInk 0.205.1923 Beta (Jan 29, 2015)

  • New:
  • DirectX11 renderer when available
  • Hold Z shortcut: set the drawing smoothness
  • The Controller Editor can now be dragged out of Black Ink’s main window. More panels will have this behavior in future versions.
  • This feature shows the new Stacking capacity for such windows in Black Ink. However, some controls/editors are fixed to their place to keep a consistent UI.
  • Ctrl+← shortcut: Toggle Black Ink main window left panel
  • Ctrl+↓ shortcut: Toggle Black Ink main window bottom panel
  • Ctrl+→ shortcut: Toggle Black Ink main window right panel
  • M shortcut: Toggle Brush Manager panel ( for the moment this panel is fixed and can’t be dragged out )
  • Ctrl+T shortcut: Transform current selection
  • Improved Framerate when drawing.
  • Black Ink window can be resized by the dragging the top border
  • In the transform tool, after clicking a command button (like “flip horizontally”) the focus is not tied to this button anymore, so that pressing Enter validates the current transform.
  • You can now click on the brush and eraser icon in the top right part of Black Ink to directly select the last brush or the eraser ( same as B and E shortcut )
  • An option have been added in the Zoom tool to enable/disable zooming at more than 100%.
  • When using the Save command on a document which isn’t a BKD, the program automatically transforms the command into a Save As.
  • Fixed:
  • Sometimes when doing Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V on big images, the copied content isn’t polluted with some invalids squares anymore.
  • The Color Blending mode doesn’t output blocky results when using dark color
  • Crash in trial version when saving when the trial time has expired ( issue )
  • Random crash after loading a BKD
  • Crash when importing a grayscale JPG
  • Several ( all ? ) random crashes when using the program
  • If the Selection or Transform properties are opened in the sidebar panel, clicking the "Show Brush manager" has effect ( issue )
  • When hovering the Selection and Transform tools, the popups can disappear under the cursor, and you can only get them back by moving the cursor out of the panel and back into it. ( issue )
  • With multiple monitor, the Black Ink Window is moved to another monitor when activating the application.

New in BlackInk 0.173.1777 Beta (Aug 23, 2014)

  • New:
  • Selection tools :
  • Create Polygonal Lasso.
  • Tip : When you Adjust a Polygonal Lasso primitive
  • Use Shift+Click to add a new control point
  • Use Alt+Click to remove a control point or an edge
  • Create Lasso.
  • + shortcut ( Zoom step in )
  • - shortcut ( Zoom step Out )
  • We can now zoom more than 100%
  • Fixed:
  • Some random crash when using a Tablet and when a wrong auto calibration is computed ( issue )
  • Crash when loading an image when the Select & Transform toolbar is collapsed.
  • Some brush Shape type was not affected by the current selection ( issue )
  • Fill Layer was not affected by the current selection.
  • Crash when loading a grayscale PNG ( issue )
  • Sometimes brush preview is incorrect ( displaying the preview of another brush )

New in BlackInk 0.168.1749 Beta (Jun 12, 2014)

  • New:
  • Selection tools
  • Create rectangle primitive
  • Create ellipse primitive
  • Tip - When you create a new primitive you can use shortcuts to choose an operation
  • Use Shift+Click to add a primitive to the selection
  • Use Alt+Click to subtract a primitive to the selection
  • Use Shift+Alt+Click to keep only the intersection of the primitive with the selection
  • Adjust last selection. Allows you to adjust the latest selection primitive to refine your selection instead of canceling and starting over
  • Ctrl+C shortcut (copy selection from the current layer)
  • Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut (copy selection from all visible layers)
  • Ctrl+V shortcut (paste content of the Black Ink clipboard on the current layer)
  • Ctrl+X shortcut (cut the current selection)
  • Ctrl+Shift+A shortcut (select current layer’s opacity)
  • Ctrl+A shortcut (select all)
  • Ctrl+I shortcut (invert selection)
  • Ctrl+D shortcut (deselect all)
  • Ctrl+F4 Exit Black Ink
  • Fixed:
  • Losing DynamicsTextures on the canvas when resizing the Black Ink window in Direct3D 9
  • Edition of double slider sometimes buggy when a value is entered in a numeric box
  • The Eraser side of stylus didn’t work
  • Crash when saving with the transform tool active
  • Wrong window size when windows taskbar is not positionned at the bottom of the screen
  • Overwrite message displayed in all situation when using the Save As command
  • The brush cursor is thinner and uses an inverse color technique for better visualisation
  • Transformation Editor update:
  • When transforming a layer the gizmo now surrounds only meaningful content and not necessarily the entire layer
  • It’s now possible to undo/redo with the transformation tool active (useful to compare original state and current transformation without exiting the mode)
  • You can now configure (in options) the alpha and the visibility of the handles and the frame of the transformation gizmo
  • You can define a snap angle in the transformation parameters
  • It’s now possible to open .BKD directly from the windows explorer if you assign Black Ink to this file format.

New in BlackInk 0.161.1686 Beta (Feb 21, 2014)

  • New:
  • User can now use the .JPG image format in Black Ink for saving and loading
  • Command Menu for each layer (in the upper left of the layer thumbnail)
  • Duplicate Layer
  • Fill - Fill the layer with the given solid color
  • Transform - Transform the whole layer
  • Merge Down - Merge down the layer
  • Merge Visible - Merge all visible layers
  • Merge All - Merge All layers into a flattened image
  • Export Image - Export the layer as an image
  • Import Image - Import an image in the layer
  • You can Drop an image file from the Window Explorer to open it. If it’s a .BKD it will open the document but if it’s another file format( .JPG, .PNG ) it will import it in the current selected layer
  • T shortcut ( Transform the current selected layer )
  • “General Shortcuts” section added in the Toolbar
  • “Transform” section added in the Toolbar
  • Transform Editor ( invoked when user starts a Transform operation )
  • You can set the opacity of the current transformed object before applying the transformation
  • Center the transformed object
  • Tile the transformed object thought the entire canvas
  • Fit the transformed object thought the entire canvas
  • Fill the canvas with transformed object content
  • Flip the Transformed object Horizontally or vertically
  • Reset the Transformed aspect ratio back to its original size
  • Fixed:
  • The Eraser function of stylus is not recognised on new Intuos PRO ( issue )
  • Black Ink installer now support 32-bit Windows 8.1 x86
  • Problem when resizing the application window with the controller panel opened ( issue )
  • Crash when using the stylus Eraser when brushing with the mouse
  • Crash when switching to the stylus Eraser when editing some Controller parameter
  • Crash when selecting the Crepe Default Brush, editing the 2nd color and drag&dropping one of the color-markers away (to remove it)
  • Brush Preview flooding when Dragging out controller block from a slot without destroying it. A Preview was created each time the user start to draw while it was unnecessary
  • Black Ink Window is correctly placed when Maximized with a Task bar pinned on the left, right or top of the desktop ( issue )
  • An Empty= Layer is created above the default white Background when the New command is invoked (request)
  • The Shortcut Esc that sometimes close Black Ink has been removed

New in BlackInk 0.151.1634 Beta (Nov 14, 2013)

  • N! 7 new default brushes (Swarm, Follow Bubbles, Hard fur, Nasca Fan, Garland, Dot Aligned, Rake).
  • N! Scatter parameter for brush parameters (even old default brushes have a scatter effect now)
  • N! 2D vector operators for controllers
  • F! Glitch & Artefacts on AMD HD video of class 68xx, 79xx ( issue )
  • Black Ink try to recover now corrupted .BKD files at opening and not simply skip the loading of it.
  • When saving a .BKD Black Ink use now a temporary file and overwriting the current one after the creation is complete ( issue )
  • Coma is now a valid decimal mark for numeric input ( see )
  • Brush Default Stroke for preview has been updated to reflect new speed compute behavior.
  • All default brushes has been updated with a default Scatter behavior.

New in BlackInk 0.144.1617 Beta (Oct 7, 2013)

  • New:
  • Main Menu > Edit > Disable Precise Stylus position. This option is useful If you still encounter stroke offsets after using Reset Stylus Calibration. This will read position from the mouse pointer and only take the pressure from the tablet’s pen.
  • Fixed:
  • Crash when press on the num pad ‘9’ ( more infos )
  • Precision issue when sketching. Now Black Ink is more accurate with the stroke input and should fidelity follow what you do with your tablet (if you have not Disabled Precise Stylus position see above). ( more infos )
  • The way the Speed is computed from stroking has changed. It’s now more accurate and reflect better the dynamic. Warning if you have created some of which use speed, their look could have changed.
  • The way are handled Mouse positions has been changed : a smoothing is applied which induce a little latency but a smoother stroke result and a better Pressure simulation.
  • The old Menu in front of the current brush name has been removed. ( he will be replaced by a new one in a future version ).
  • The skin of the Black Ink installer has been updated. The packages doesn’t include anymore DirectX & Visual Studio redist and rely on network download if not present on the installed computer. The Installer EXE size has been reduced to 13Mb instead of 19Mb.

New in BlackInk 0.140.1596 Beta (Sep 19, 2013)

  • New:
  • Straight Line constraint through 2 directions. Hold Shift Key while drawing to activate the Straight Line drawing constraint.
  • Fixed:
  • Random Crash ( occurred frequently when saving a PNG ).
  • The preview of Image reference wasn’t updated correctly when panning & zooming in the control.
  • Crash when resizing the Black Ink window ( crash occurred when there was no more area for the Canvas ).
  • Crash when Black Ink open an invalid .png file
  • Crash when Black Ink open an corrupted .bkd file
  • Ctrl+O shortcut now works
  • The default tracking cursor is more opaque.
  • Hold Shift + R while rotating the Canvas active the snapping.

New in BlackInk 0.135.1579 Beta (Aug 22, 2013)

  • New:
  • Trial system now offer 2 hours of Black Ink without any limitations. You can test Black Ink ( or future update of Black Ink ) during 2 hours without any restrictions or limitations. After the 2 Hours of effective use of Black Ink will regress into the previous limited Trial system.
  • Shortcut Hold S to set the size of the current brush
  • Shortcut Hold D to set the opacity of the current brush
  • Shortcut Hold E the current Brush is transformed temporarily into an Eraser
  • Shortcut E Switch between the Eraser & the previous Brush
  • Improved framerate when Stroking large brush on big canvas

New in BlackInk 0.128.1572 Beta (Aug 19, 2013)

  • New: The canvas display a checker background instead of the default color if there’s NULL alpha.
  • Fixed: There’s no more default background color when saving in PNG.

New in BlackInk 0.119.1563 Beta (Jul 11, 2013)

  • New: Layers
  • Up to 8 layers in a document for best GPU compatibility
  • 12 different layers blending modes with real time preview
  • Preserve transparency option
  • New: Brush cursor when drawing on the canvas now displays the size of the brush (instead of the previous default windows mouse pointer)
  • New: Ctrl+R shortcut to reset the canvas rotation
  • Fixed: Crash when loading a PNG without alpha channel.
  • Fixed: Crash when loading a 16bit png as an Image-based color
  • Fixed: Random crash when using the Crepe Brush
  • Fixed: Color shifting not working
  • Fixed: Canvas Rendering problem on intel HD4000
  • Drastically Improved Rendering performance on mid range GPU( like Intel HD4000 )
  • The behavior of the Ctrl+1 has been improved, the zoom animation is less chunky and if you trigger this shortcut twice you will return to your previous Zoom position.
  • The number of Undo is now setted to 50 ( you must edit the C:\Users\”UserName”\AppData\Roaming\Bleank\BlackInk\AppParams.xml if you want to modify this parameter ).
  • Default Brushes have been updated :
  • Hay added
  • Simple flat pen added
  • Ruffle added
  • Felt Pen 2 removed
  • Calligraphic Pen 2 removed
  • Dotted Line updated
  • Paintbrush updated
  • Tail updated
  • Sticks updated

New in BlackInk 0.117.1504 Beta (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Fixed! Correct Gamma curve when saving a PNG

New in BlackInk 0.116.1503 Beta (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Fixed: Can't save in PNG format under Windows XP

New in BlackInk 0.115.1500 Beta (Jun 3, 2013)

  • New: .BKD proprietary format for quick and complete picture save. Only available in the Full version.
  • Fixed: Crash when loading a PNG without alpha channel.

New in BlackInk 0.111.1444 Beta (Apr 24, 2013)

  • New rendering engine
  • 64bits color support for better blending
  • Improved undo/redo latency
  • Better rendering performance (most visible on the volute brush)
  • It’s now possible to force BlackInk to start with DX9 renderer under Windows Vista/7/8 ( request from this thread )
  • Main Menu > Edit > Reset stylus calibration - If you encounter an offset between the mouse pointer & your stroke, use this function to reset the auto calibration.
  • The “Ctrl-1” shortcut will now zoom at 100% at the cursor location (Instead of view center)
  • PNG file are now saved in 16bits per channel.
  • A wait dialog is now displayed when opening large files.
  • When editing a color the color picker automatically activates.

New in BlackInk 0.103.1393 Beta (Feb 7, 2013)

  • New:
  • Brush Manager ( you can now save and manage your brushes )
  • Stroke Parameters ( stroke direction, stylet tilt, stylet azimuth(tilt orientation), canvas positions, view position )
  • 10 new default Brushes
  • Alt shortcut for quick Color Picking on the canvas
  • Fixed:
  • Black Ink sometimes doesn’t run on window 8 system
  • BlackInk sometimes doesn’t handle tablet pressure ( for some Wacom Bamboo & Non Wacom Tablet ).
  • BlackInk sometimes doesn’t handle tablet pointer position ( for Non Wacom Tablet ) ( see this topic )
  • BlackInk installer is now always in english even when installed on a non-english windows OS
  • Crash when selection a NULL type in MathFX node operator
  • Crash when the user Dblclick on color of the Gradient editor
  • Crash when the user change the current selected brush with a shortcut while he still Brushing
  • Skip first shape” parameter added in the Flow Tab ( useful to remove the drawing of the first shape )

New in BlackInk 0.90.1355 Beta (Dec 8, 2012)

  • Fixed: Crash after the splash screen on Windows XP.

New in BlackInk 0.89.1346 Beta (Nov 24, 2012)

  • New: Controller Editor. Usefull to visually create / program custom behavior for each parameter of your brush
  • The slider system for float parameter of Brush react more intuitively when folded

New in BlackInk 0.81.1290 Beta (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash when opening the New.. dialog.
  • Crash when opening the Activate dialog.
  • Licence agreement not visibile in the installer in some region.
  • more tooltips infos has been added
  • DblClick on tool icon in the ToolBar reset the default value
  • The free rotation tool is smoother when moving at the center of the canvas
  • Click effect has been added when selecting a brush in the historic
  • Some parameter icons has been added
  • The Buy popup is displayed less frequently in trial version

New in BlackInk 0.80.1284 Beta (Sep 19, 2012)

  • Tooltip system added.
  • Buttons now display their meaning.
  • Another use is the possibility to view a big version of each brush preview.

New in BlackInk 0.78.1279 Beta (Sep 17, 2012)

  • New:
  • Navigation Tools. Usefull to transform the view of the Canvas
  • Smooth Canvas transformation
  • H shortcut to hide the UI
  • Brush Preview has wrong background color
  • Eyedropper picking old canvas color
  • Navigation shortcut are now working even if the mouse is outside of BlackInk Window
  • Rendering glitches when Dialogbox Appear/Disappear under Windows 7
  • Rendering glitches when changing Brush Parameters in the BrushPreview
  • Removed the black Borders of BlackInk if the window is Maximized under Windows 7
  • Crash when DblClick on GradientStops
  • The MainToolBar has been redesigned
  • All Brush preview has a default Grey background

New in BlackInk 0.77.1274 Beta (Sep 5, 2012)

  • Brush parameters : Blending type
  • Brush parameters : Shape type
  • Brush parameters : Boolean
  • System menu for BlackInk ( RightClick on the TaskBar )
  • invalid BlackInk window positionning if the desktop has changed monitors position
  • invalid BlackInk window maximizing in multi monitor configuration
  • ImageReference rotation bug more infos
  • Invalid Clipping region for expanded parameters of the Gradient Editor & the ImageReference editor
  • Brush Parameters design has been updated

New in BlackInk 0.76.1267 Beta (Aug 25, 2012)

  • Auto selection of the Eraser when flipping the stylus
  • You can now hide the entire UI when drawing
  • Main Menu has been re-designed
  • Now Shaders are pre-compiled and delivered in the installation package -> Loading time of BlackInk significantly decreased after re-installation/update.
  • The default canvas size after a first installation is greater ( 5Kx3K pixels )

New in BlackInk 0.74.1265 Beta (Aug 23, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Crach when Dragging a SolidColor

New in BlackInk 0.73.1264 Beta (Aug 23, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Application DeadLocked when using the Crepe Brush
  • Rendering bug around the Eraser preview
  • Random crash report when closing the application
  • No UI element animation in random case

New in BlackInk 0.72.1262 Beta (Aug 23, 2012)

  • New - you can load Jpg file for Image-based color
  • New - Brush and Eraser keyboard shortcut shortcut
  • Fixed - the rendering of little brush thumbnail was sometimes not correct.
  • Improved performance for the application when modifing Brush parameter

New in BlackInk 0.71.1257 Beta (Aug 23, 2012)

  • New - Eraser Brush is now available
  • Fixed - Tablet detection bug when multitple ones are installed on a computer
  • Trial Borders are more restrictive now only a safe zone of 1024x768 is available