Pictor Changelog

What's new in Pictor 1.27.1

Feb 11, 2022
  • Draw: Arrow shapes updated.

New in Pictor 1.27.0 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • Draw: Pen transparency supported.
  • Draw: Free drawing performance optimized.

New in Pictor 1.26.1 (Nov 12, 2021)

  • Batch processing: added option to maintain file date and time or not.
  • Email address to contact us updated: [email protected] is the new email address to contact us.

New in Pictor 1.26.0 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • Program icon updated.

New in Pictor 1.25.1 (Feb 13, 2021)

  • Batch processing: Initialize the source directory with the directory where the current file is located.

New in Pictor 1.25.0 (Nov 1, 2020)

  • Color: Dynamic range
  • Color: Auto brightness and contrast
  • Color: Gamma updated with support for the mouse to manipulate the gamma curve
  • Color: Gamma, brightness and contrast updated with the options of RGB channels or the luminance channel

New in Pictor 1.24.0 (May 10, 2020)

  • Batch: Processing... added to support more batch processings, usage examples:
  • Crop > Crop in the normal way, select region to crop, then Batch > Processing... to start batch cropping.
  • Color > Gamma, adjust parameters, then Batch > Processing... to start batch gamma correction.
  • More color-related batch processings are supported.

New in Pictor 1.23.0 (Jun 23, 2019)

  • Interpolation algorithm: Lanczos4
  • Color: Bilateral filter improved with fast mode added
  • Color: Morphology improved with kernel shape options added

New in Pictor 1.22.0 (May 26, 2019)

  • Color: Bilateral filter pen
  • Color: Morphology
  • Color: Histogram dialog updated with mouse support

New in Pictor 1.21.1 (Apr 7, 2019)

  • PPM/PGM/PBM: optimized decoding.

New in Pictor 1.20.0 (Mar 5, 2019)

  • Color: Bilateral filter
  • Updated mosaic/focus/blur/color/brightness pen: if you cancel the pop-up dialog when entering the tool, you exit the tool.

New in Pictor 1.19.3 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Color: Initial parameter of Black & white updated
  • Color: Apply tool editings by default when switching to other tools

New in Pictor 1.19.2 (Feb 4, 2019)

  • File name sorting algorithm updated.

New in Pictor 1.19.1 (Jan 12, 2019)

  • PNG: fixed bug when decoding 16-bit RGB & RGBA PNG files.

New in Pictor 1.19.0 (Dec 30, 2018)

  • View: Next directory
  • View: Previous directory
  • Color: Black and white (adaptive)

New in Pictor 1.18.0 (Nov 4, 2018)

  • Color: 32-bit RGBA -> RGB channel
  • Color: 32-bit RGBA -> Alpha channel
  • Color: Apply alpha channel
  • Size: Expand
  • Size: Tile
  • Size: Insert grid
  • Draw: added some new shapes, updated the arrow shape.

New in Pictor 1.17.0 (Oct 2, 2018)

  • Erase: Erase by mask shapes.
  • Restore: Restore by mask shapes.

New in Pictor 1.16.0 (Oct 1, 2018)

  • Crop: Crop by mask shape.
  • Crop by free selection: undo.
  • Crop by shape: undo, set shape angle, size, center point.

New in Pictor 1.15.0 (Sep 2, 2018)

  • Crop:
  • Crop by mask pen.
  • Erase:
  • Erase by mask pen.
  • Restore:
  • Restore by mask pen.

New in Pictor 1.14.0 (Aug 24, 2018)

  • Create Collage in two steps:
  • File > New collage
  • Add > Collage image

New in Pictor 1.13.0 (Aug 20, 2018)

  • Color: Blur.
  • Add: Grid.
  • Replace: added support for RGB to replace RGBA regions, besides RGB to replace RGB and RGBA to replace RGBA.
  • Draw Line/Arrow: set center point, set angle, set two points were added to popup menu.
  • New 32-bit RGBA image: set alpha = 0 as default.
  • File Save: Pormpt user to confirm before overwriting DualPhoto files.

New in Pictor 1.12.1 (Aug 11, 2018)

  • WebP: fixed bug.

New in Pictor 1.12.0 (Aug 1, 2018)

  • WebP supported.

New in Pictor 1.11.1 (Jul 26, 2018)

  • Color Sharpen, Dithering, Emboss: 32-bit RGBA supported.

New in Pictor 1.11.0 (Jul 7, 2018)

  • Undo: improved.
  • Text: set center point.
  • File Save: prompt user to confirm when overwriting multi-frame TIFF files.

New in Pictor 1.10.1 (Jun 23, 2018)

  • Status bar text made more compact.

New in Pictor 1.10.0 (Jun 10, 2018)

  • Add: Text circle
  • Shape dialog: close dialog automatically when shape is selected.

New in Pictor 1.8.0 (May 21, 2018)

  • Batch: Add image.

New in Pictor 1.7.0 (May 13, 2018)

  • Batch: Crop.

New in Pictor 1.6.1 (May 6, 2018)

  • Batch rotate and flip: fixed bug.

New in Pictor 1.5.1 (Apr 30, 2018)

  • Fixed crash when saving files, introduced in version 1.5.0.

New in Pictor 1.4.1 (Apr 22, 2018)

  • Fixed bug: 32-bit png save as bmp fails.

New in Pictor 1.3.5 (Apr 10, 2018)

  • Resize: algorithm options.

New in Pictor 1.3.4 (Apr 5, 2018)

  • Frame: updated user interface.

New in Pictor 1.3.3 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Draw: updated user interface.
  • Optimized for very large image files.

New in Pictor 1.3.1 (Mar 4, 2018)

  • Fixed bug: add text, move text outside image, undo, text rectangle does not disappear.

New in Pictor 1.3.0 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Added Restore: Restore by pen, Restore by shapes.

New in Pictor 1.2.2 (Feb 10, 2018)

  • Updated RGBA -> RGB: If the choose color dialog is canceled, conversion is canceled.

New in Pictor 1.2.1 (Feb 4, 2018)

  • Fixed a bug of Cut/Copy/Paste (maintain transparency).

New in Pictor 1.1.0 (Jan 14, 2018)

  • Added: Erase small regions automatically
  • Added menu items to "Edit": OK, Cancel

New in Pictor 1.0.1 (Jan 2, 2018)

  • Modified zoom in/out logic when the cursor is outside image
  • Erase by shape: show shape rect when drawing shape
  • Update image point and color when editing image