What's new in NeoPaint 5.1.0
May 13, 2013
- Major Update - adds layers, alpha channel support and more.
New in NeoPaint 5.0 (Aug 27, 2012)
- New enhanced user interface and faster performance. Tool palettes can be moved, rolled up and docked.
- 32-bit Alpha Channel and PNG transparency support.
- Layers.
- Multi-resolution icons and cursors.
- New drawing and painting tools: Interactive Crop, Pen, Alpha Channel, Color Tint Brush, Tooth Whitener, Poly Ellipse.
- Dozens of enhancements to existing drawing and painting tools.
- Superb high quality text with improved formatting, options and effects - including five anti-aliasing/smoothing modes, adjustable line spacing, shadow effects and rotation to any angle.
- Levels/Histogram adjustment.
- Curves adjustment.
- Full screen editing.
- Text, cutouts, gradients and stamps can be rotated interactively - to any angle.
- Gradient and tile fills can be applied to any object.
- All geometric tools (lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, etc.) support anti-aliasing and adjustable transparency.
- Arrowhead and line style options added to Line and Bezier tools.
- 32-bit transparent stamps.
- Favorites option for often used colors.
- New color selection options: RGB, CMYK, HSV and HTML.
- Dozens of new special effects.
- Dynamic undo/redo reduces memory requirements and speeds up editing of large images.
- JPEG 2000.
- 35 RAW image formats.
- Support for many Photoshop™ plug-ins.
- Improved screen capture (NeoGrab) with website capture feature.
- 3D object lighting effects.
- Export to PDF.
- Unicode.
- Improved scanner and camera support.
- And dozens of other enhancements and improvements.
New in NeoPaint 4.7b (Apr 9, 2010)
- NeoPaint's help file has been updated and converted HTML/CHM format.
- Improved Vista compatibility.
- Many user interface enhancements, including updated true color icons, larger file selector dialog (XP/Vista), font preview, overall appearance, etc.
New in NeoPaint 4.6 (Apr 9, 2010)
- New Tools: Red-eye Removal, Burn/Dodge, Pencil and Texture Brush. Most of these tools can be found by double clicking on the Highlighter/Specialty Tools icon. The Pencil can be found by double clicking the Brush Icon. (The Texture Brush replaces the old Oil Paint Brush. However, Oil Paint is still available as one of the textures.)
- New Special Effects: Antialias, Brick, Plaster, Tissue Paper, Graphite Pencil, Colored Pencil, Dry Brush, Scratch Board, Water Color, Acrylic, Encaustic, Fresco, Crackle Glaze, Buttonize, Lighten, Darken, Split Light, Intensity Detect, Split Blur, Whirlpool, Wave, Image Tile and Trace Edges.
- Enhanced User Interface: The tool icons have been redesigned to take advantage of high color video modes. (You won't see the new high color icons unless you're running Windows in high color or true color modes.)
- Added a Hue/Saturation adjustment option to the Picture menu.
- Added a Show Full Screen option to the Picture menu.
- Added a Draw from Center option for the Selection, rectangle and ellipse tools.
- Added an Opacity option to the Selection tools. Adjust the opacity slider to draw the current selection transparently. 100% = solid, 0% = invisible.
- Added an Antialias option to the Line tool. When enabled, this option will smooth out the normally jagged edges of diagonal lines.
- Added Size and Antialias options to the Stamp tool.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for most often used tools.
- Improved compatibility with Windows XP.
- Improved scanner support.
- Improved support for switching between multiple printers.
- Added a sub format option to the Save As dialog to select between DOS or Windows format when saving 16 color PCX files.
- Added a Create Texture option to the Picture menu. This option can be used to create repeating texture patterns. A texture is a special type of image that can be tiled to create a seamless filled area, background or wallpaper. (4.6)
- Added a Copy Multiple option to the Edit menu. This option allows you to duplicate a selected area multiple times across an image. You can specify the number of copies, the direction and the distance between the copies.
- Added a Wrap option to the Stamp Pad tool. When enabled, this option causes stamp images to wrap to the opposite side when they move beyond the picture’s boundaries.
- And dozens of other fixes and enhancements.