What's new in Flame Painter 4.1.5
Feb 19, 2022
- Features and Changes:
- Save .fpa projects in Demo version
- Open .fpa projects from Demo version in the full version
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed crash when a .jpg file smaller than the default canvas was opened
- Fixed crash when a new file was created after the unconfirmed image import
- Fixed image outline when a semi-transparent image was imported
- Fixed: Switching between Transform and Canvas Size tools now works correctly
- Fixed: Edit box in Canvas Size tool can now be edited correctly
- Fixed: Text of the memory limits in Preferences are now displayed correctly
- Fixed: Read-Only files now cannot be overwritten
- Other minor bugfixes
New in Flame Painter 4.1.0 (Aug 22, 2019)
- Features and Changes:
- New Straight line [shortcut Shift]
- New Ruler & Perspective tools
- Import Brushes via the "File" menu:
- "All Brushes", "Paint Brushes", "Graphic Brushes", "Effect Brushes" switch in Brushes panel
- "Use Palette and Blending from Brush" switch in Brushes panel
- Double or reduce the vertices by half on a vector path using new buttons in the "Edit Vector Layer" tool
- "Spacing" and "Spacing Jitter" added in 'Shape Profile' for 'Sequence' in Brush Creator
- New UI language: German, Spanish, and Slovak
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed: After PSD export layers were locked after opening the file in Photoshop
- Fixed: In Vector Layer Editor, when changing Particles parameter in Elastic/Ribbon Particle System, Init Curve could break
- Fixed: In Vector Layer Editor, sometimes after transforming the vector layer, Init Curve Transform could be incorrect
- Fixed: In Vector Layer Editor, undo for Edit Tool was not always working
- Fixed: Sometimes the drawing with Brush tool did not work after switching from Transform tool
- Other minor bugfixes
New in Flame Painter 4.0.0 (Jun 7, 2019)
- Particle Systems - The software supports a range of simulation types - Flame, Follow, Ribbon, Liner, Elastic and Fuzzy. The package comes with 3 default systems (Flame, Follow, Ribbon) users know from previous versions. Additionally, the new specially designed systems (Liner, Elastic and Fuzzy) are introduced as add-ons to match your specific workflow needs.
- We prepared more than 250 brush presets for you to experiment with.
- Particle Brushes - Flame Painter’s organic brushes are a unique solution nowhere to be found in other software on the market. Flowing, lashing, neon, dots, or even tentacle-like brushstrokes create attention-grabbing effects on your designs. Flame Painter 4 is shipped with hundreds of new brushes.
- Brush Creator - Ideal for creating and customizing the brush designs, the advanced Brush Creator with a wealth of adjustable parameters is at your disposal. With newly introduced variables, the range of possibilities of how the brush can look and behave is really limitless.
- Import of Vector Paths - Import an SVG file - either to one layer as a bitmap or to multiple layers as a vector which can be further edited according to your needs. Switch between brushes, edit the brush in Brush Creator or select different colors or gradients to match your specific design.
- Editable Vector Layers - Within a click, the vector brush strokes can be modified to achieve desired results. Flame Painter 4 also lets you import your own vector paths and have the particle brush effects follow them.
- Symmetry Tool - Create beautiful symmetrical artwork with any brush using only a few paint strokes with your mouse or tablet pen. Follow your artistic intuition and choose different colors or gradients to produce a fascinating scene.
- Watch the preview of main Flame Painter 4 features
- Advanced Palette Panel - The improved Palette panel gives you many new options for your work. You are able to choose any Color from the Palette which can be displayed as RGB, HSL, HSV, or HSLuv - a special mode which preserves color brightness. Moreover, you can choose from the default list or create own beautiful Gradient transitions for your brush preset and apply them on the stroke, lines or dots. Lastly, you can apply the palette from an Image - this option lets you import your own images.
- Canvas Size - Flame Painter 4 includes new tools to accelerate your creative workflow. Resize of the canvas has been designed to be very easy and interactive - resize by using the control points, or by entering the desired size of a new canvas in the edit boxes.
- Advanced Pick Color Tool - You are able to pick colors from the current layer or all layers with the new Pick Color tool. You can see in detail the previous color, color under your cursor and the newly selected color.
- Selections - Other new tools shipped with Flame Painter 4 include a Selection tool for selecting a specific area of the canvas and performing operations on this selected area. There are various types of selection tool available: rectangular, elliptical, polygonal, freehand and Magic wand.
- Improved Fill Tool - Fill tool enables you to fill not only the whole layer with the selected color or gradient but also the already painted strokes with alpha channel.
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- New Filters - Professional color filters under the Filter menu allow you to make desired adjustments to your painting or design, with a help of Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Lightness, Color Balance and other color filters. Moreover, ‘Black to alpha’ and’ White to alpha’ are very useful, especially when you import a picture with a background you want to get rid of.
- Photoshop Plug-in - Although Flame Painter works as a standalone application, a complimentary Photoshop plug-in ‘Flame Painter Connect’ is available. This handy tool gives you the possibility of exchanging layers between Flame Painter and Photoshop, making your creative process seamless and easy. Flame Painter Connect for Flame Painter 4 is compatible with Photoshop CC 2015 and higher.
- Extensive Brush Library - Browse hundreds of free brushes in the online brush library created by the developers as well as users and choose the ones which fit your design.
- Multi-touch Support - Flame Painter has complete support for multitouch gestures for Wacom, Microsoft or alternative tablet and trackpad devices, including Astropad application.
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New in Flame Painter 3.3.1 (May 23, 2019)
- Support for high-DPI displays
- New Community menu in top menu bar added
- Access Gallery, Forum or your Account directly from application
- New registration system - log in to the application using a password which substitutes a registration key
- Fixed: Version 3.3 registration issue
New in Flame Painter 3.3 (Oct 29, 2018)
- Support for high-DPI displays:
- Until today, the Scale option was not implemented into Flame Painter like in the rest of our apps. This has changed - from Flame Painter 3.3 you can enjoy the software in higher resolutions with easily readable user interface, in both Personal and Professional edition. The UI will adapt to your high-DPI display automatically at the start.
- Community menu:
- New Community menu has been added to the top menu - you can now access Gallery, Forum or your Account easily directly from application. Moreover, you can publish your flamboyant Flame Painter artworks from this menu.
- New registration system:
- From version 3.3, Flame Painter no longer supports registration keys. New as well as existing users will need to login to Flame Painter 3.3 update using an existing Community account.
New in Flame Painter 3.2.0 (Nov 7, 2014)
- Wacom preserves tablet pressure data with vector layers
- Cancel HiRes rendering with "Esc" key
- Added file association on Mac OS
- Fixed: Switching between vector layers in Edit mode
- Fixed: publishing artwork to online gallery without safe boundary
- More minor bugfixes
New in Flame Painter 3.1.0 (Jul 21, 2014)
- New Flame Painter Connect v.1.2
- Drag & Drop PSD files
- Wacom pressure influences also Pen and Eraser
- Associate FPA files with Flame Painter Application
- Transform layer with keyboard arrows
- Mouse wheel zooms also with Alt key
- Brush Presets panel: added checkbox for keeping your current blending mode while opening brush presets
- Added new menu item: Main Menu -> Help -> Show Online Brushes
- Layers panel: merge with bottom layer if only one layer is selected
- Layers panel: added button "Export to Photoshop"
- Added progress dialog bar for Hi-Res renderer and SVG export
- Layers panel: use (2), (3), ... for names of duplicated layers instead of (copy)
- GUI changes in the Preferences dialog
- Feedback dialog added, Main Menu -> Help -> Send Feedback
- Fixed: use tablet without pressure influence in Personal Edition
- Fixed: fixed cursor on OK/Cancel buttons while importing an image
- Fixed: viewport boundary frame was 1 pixel off in the top left corner
- Fixed: question dialog box keyboard shortcuts on Mac
- Fixed: communication between FP and the photoshop plugin
- Fixed: PSD export file format fixed bugs and UTF8 filenames
- Fixed: first mouse press after showing the info dialog in painting on vector layer didn't work
- Fixed: SVG file format include dimensions and proper safe boundary offsets
New in Flame Painter 3.0.5 (May 30, 2014)
- Fixed Wacom tablet issues on Windows OS
- Fixed SVG export bug on some configurations
- Fixed Hi-Res renderer
- Photoshop Plug-in for Photoshop CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC
- Fixed minor Photoshop plug-in issues
- Fixed "Preferences -> Wacom -> Use pressure" switches
- File dialog shows thumbnails of .FPA files
- File dialog now correctly remembers last opened directories
- "Collapse layers" skips invisible layers
- Drawing area was not visible on some systems
- Layers panel works on Mac OS also with system "Voice Over" activated
New in Flame Painter 3.0.0 (Apr 30, 2014)
- Hires renderer
- Photoshop plugin
- Open and save layered PSD files
- Export SVG vector format files
- Copy&paste layers to 3rd party apps
- Wacom tablet support
- Unlimited layers
- 22 Photoshop blending modes
- Move and resize layers & canvas
- Safe boundary - extended canvas size
- Leap Motion support
- Multicore optimizations
New in Flame Painter 2.5.6 (Apr 30, 2014)
- fixed file dialog on Mac OS X
- fixed retina display resolution on Mac OS
- upgrade to version 3.0 directly from the menu
- minor bug fixes
New in Flame Painter 2.5.5 (Apr 3, 2014)
- upgrade to version 3.0 directly from the menu
- minor bug fixes
New in Flame Painter 2.5.0 (Dec 21, 2013)
- 32 bit and 64 bit application
- Blur and Glow effect filters
- Basic Brush for simple strokes
- infinite tiling - infinite canvas instead of only 2x canvas
- easy one-click brush sharing in online Brush Library
- show and hide all panels
- resizable left panel, you can see all brushes and gradients in one panel
- larger file dialogs
- swap Gradient colors with "Ctrl" shortcut
- Zoom up to 800%
- fixed darken layer blending mode
- gray viewport background was sometimes not updated correctly
- Windows: presentation mode renamed to "Show Main Menu"
New in Flame Painter 2.2.0 (Sep 6, 2013)
- New features in 2.2:
- Image Tiling - finally back from v.1.7
- Presentation borderless mode
- Image preview in file dialogs
- Move canvas also with shortcut: Spacebar + LMB
- Convert vector layer to bitmap layer (pro edition)
- Eraser with a new Step slider
- show * in title bar when file has changed
- Progress bar for vector layer rendering (pro edition)
- Keyboard shortcuts for brush size [ , ]
- DPI info is saved in images
- Core code optimizations
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed saving for large canvases
- Fixed undo for brush strokes
- Open FPA - correct layer opacity and order
- Layers opacity fix
- Fixed splash screen flickering on Win XP
- Fixed undo for Fill tool
- SuperAA is default disabled for brushes from v.1.7
New in Flame Painter 2.0.5 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Fast Flame Renderer
- Flame, Follow and Ribbon styles
- Normal, Lighten & Darken modes
- Beautiful gradient transitions
- Open and save your Brush Presets
- Drag & Drop brushes form website
- 3 Layers (Unlimited layers in Pro edition)
- Drag & Drop images from folder or web
- Publish and share artworks in Gallery
- Customizable interface with dockable tabs
- Fullscreen mode
- Show / Hide cursor for presentations
- FPA, PNG, JPG, TIF and BMP files
- Non-commercial license