PaintCAD Changelog

What's new in PaintCAD 1.5.1.1311

Aug 2, 2022
  • Interface:
  • main window in 24bpp mode: UNI palette color number is displaying on mode icon at the top-right window corner like in 8bpp mode now, and it can be changed by middle click/ctrl+click like in 8bpp mode
  • "Adaptation & Interpolation" method selection: "UNI-palette: Simple" and "UNI-palette: Super" items are extended with "(N colors)" text, where N is current UNI-palette color count from Options
  • "FC" and "BC" labels were center-aligned relative to according color cells
  • "Text" tool window can be stretched with mouse to any size now
  • main menu: language icons in Language submenu contains "Pyc" and "Eng" text instead of flags now
  • "Text" tool window: PCF font file name is displaying in "Font" panel also (if PCF font was loaded)
  • New features:
  • Minipalette in main window: you can call Minipalette with right click on FC/BC now. In Minipalette you can select FC/BC with left/right mouse button, change color in palette with middle mouse button, and close Minipalette with double click on color, by clicking on X-button or by another right click on FC/BC. Minipalette is showing FC/BC numbers, FC/BC hexadecimal values and color distance between FC and BC
  • in "Options" menu: new "Minipalette" submenu was added with minipalette settings
  • "Options"-"Minipalette" menu: new "Binding" option was added, allows you to place minipalette near to FC/BC color cells of main window or at the top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left corner of drawing area. You can switch Binding sequentially with button at the bottom of minipalette also
  • "Options"-"Minipalette" menu: new option "Show by left click on FC/BC" was added, allows you to swap functions of left and right click on FC/BC, left click on FC/BC will call Minipalette, right click on FC/BC will show Palette window is this option is checked
  • "Options"-"Minipalette" menu: new option "Hide after doubleclick on palette color" was added, enabled by default, if enabled - double click on any color will select that color and hide minipalette (if you want to show minipalette temporary, to select color and to hide minipalette)
  • popup menu by right click on picture: new "Minipalette" item was added for showing/hiding of minipalette
  • RNG in 24bpp mode: if "Minipalette" is displaying now then commands for random FC or BC color selection are selecting random color from "Minipalette", not any RGB-color
  • RNG: in 24bpp mode if "Minipalette" is displaying now, and in 8bpp mode commands for random FC or BC color selection are selecting random color from palette cell numbers in range of "UNI-palette color count" from options
  • "Gradient" effect in 8bpp mode: "Flat" gradient (mix of FC and BC colors without gradations) works with any palette now
  • "Create file" window: new "Empty" palette was added, it contains 256 black colors (for manual palette colors selection)
  • "Create file" window: if non-UNI palette was selected - "UNI-palette color count" value in options will changed to palette color count now (exception: for CGA4 value is 8) for properly work of RNG random FC/BC color selection
  • in effects menu of "Palette" window in "Colorgrid" mode: new command "Selected colors order" was added, allows you to sort selected colors (or whole palette if nothing is selected) by brightness, by spectrum (with separation of gray tones and colored tones), by saturation (minispectrums from gray to saturated color tones), to rotate (cyclic shift) selected colors, to mirror sequence of selected colors, to mix selected colors randomly, in 24bpp mode, and in 8bpp mode you can change additionally all color indexes on image and/or internal clipboard according to palette (in this case this function is not changing image and internal clipboard visionally)
  • "Text" tool window: new encoding (charset) field was added below font name, you can switch charset to next/previous/default with left/right/middle button mouse click on that field
  • "Text" tool window: new "Menu" field with button (Ctrl+0) shows menu with these features: create new empty text, create new text with charmap for ASCII-art under new Windows (unicode-pseudographics, Courier New font) or (with enabled "Text: ASCII-arts for Win9x" option in Options menu) under old Windows 9x (OEM pseudographics, Terminal font), insert charmap of 0-255 charcodes for current selected encoding, load text from old DOS text file in CP866 encoding, load text from RTF or TXT file and save text to RTF file, convert current paintcad image to ASCII-art with various methods, copy current ASCII-art with FC/BC colors as image to Windows clipboard and exit from text editor to paintcad (for loading of rendered text image from Windows clipboard to paintcad manually)
  • "Text" tool window: new button "..." was added to "Font" panel, allows you to change font settings for selected text via Windows font-selection dialog window
  • in "Options-Common" menu: "Text: ASCII-arts for Win9x" option was added, switching methods of ASCII-art processing in Text tool window to mode without unicode (Terminal font, OEM encoding) for old Windows
  • Errors fixed:
  • "Palette" window in "Colorgrid" mode and it's copy in "Minipalette": fixed selection of wrong color (first color in table line below) when you click at the right side of table
  • "Text" tool window: incorrect (in some cases) calculation of text width and cutting of text ending during paste on image were fixed
  • minipalette is redrawing properly after loading palette from PAL file in main window now
  • saving of incorrect palette in session and loading of white palette after next launch was fixed
  • "Palette" window after new file creation in 24bpp mode: fixed incorrect switching of palette tabs to first tab during opening of palette with keyboard after Ctrl key was released
  • "Text" tool window after PCF font loading is setting encoding of text input field to DEFAULT_CHARSET and showing cyrillic characters correctly now
  • "Text" tool window when using PCF font: spontaneous error of preview area text drawing was fixed

New in PaintCAD 1.3.3.1140 (Feb 7, 2016)

  • Interface:
  • Windows 7/8/10 touch-screens are supported now for drawing/virtual keyboard pressing using fingers or stylus
  • New features:
  • "3D"-"Generate" menu: added "Generate left and right frames using anaglyph" function for decomposing anaglyph to separated red channel and cyan (green-blue) channel images
  • Qmpot: in menu "Go to (Ctrl+G)" new option "To sound cut" was added for searching of sound cuts (samples with +/-127 amplitude for 8 bit sound and +/-32767 for 16 bit sound)
  • Errors fixed:
  • Qmpot: fixed paste position calculation for "Repeating/echo paste" effect
  • Windows 95: fixed hiding of mouse cursor on buttons ("handpoint" cursor is not exists in old OS)
  • "3D"-"Service"-"Max 3D depth" menu: 8 is selected by default now instead of 4 (as it was in history for previous pcw version)
  • fixed incorrect shift of drawing position for Pen/Brush after mouse left key releasing for zoom 2x and higher
  • "Rotate" function and it's "Twisting" subfunction are using full rotation angle now instead of rotation in 360 degrees range
  • "Commands"-"Beam length" menu: fixed incorrect menu name "Beam:" to "Beam length"
  • "Text" tool: fixed impossibility of manual input of XY-coords (by Ctrl+G) when selecting text position
  • "Check updates" function: now downloading ZIP-package instead of RAR, because ZIP can be unpacked in any windows without archiver
  • added auto-tuning for currect selection coords after changing of image size and after opening/creating of new image
  • Retro IRC-chat: main server of IRCNET.RU network was changed from irc.ircnet.ru to irc.ircnet.su due to inaccessibility of old one
  • fixed incorrect changing of image width value in "Canvas/raster size" window after using of "Preserve proportions" option

New in PaintCAD 1.3.2.1118 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Interface:
  • beam length now displayed at the bottom of main window as short "Beam: N px" instead of long "Beam length = N" string
  • displaying of progress-bar for "Raster size" was added
  • PCFC: fixed text positions on buttons
  • "3D"-"Service" menu: added "Antialiasing for Z-map processing" option, enables antialiasing for generation of anaglyph, stereopair or L+R frames using Z-map and picture from internal clipboard
  • "3D"-"Service"-"Max 3D depth": options sequence from 4 to 128 was inverted, now 4 is weak shift during creation of Z-map and generation of stereo using Z-map, and 128 is strong shift, 8 is selected by default
  • "Line"/"Polyline" tool: added line tilt value to status bar
  • New features:
  • main window: input of "line weight" by clicking on weight value
  • "Raster size" function changed, now allows you to select one of three methods of raster scaling: simple (w/o antialiasing, old method), smart (w/o antialiasing), universal (with antialiasing)
  • "Rotate" function changed, now allows you to select one of three methods of raster rotation: simple (w/o antialiasing, old method), smart rotation (w/o antialiasing), universal (with antialiasing)
  • twist settings were added to "Rotate" function parameters
  • Qmpot: added "Text-To-Speech voice synthesizer" sound recording option, allows you to tranform text to speech using one of installed voices (engines)
  • Qmpot: "Two instruments" template was added to menu of "Command (Shift+F3)" function, it contains new sound creation command and commands for creation of two instruments based on triangle wave with echo
  • Qmpot: cursor can be moved fast with Shift or Q key holding in sound-source movement effect now
  • "Cursor position" (Ctrl+G) function extended and now it allows you to move cursor to borders/corners of image or selection also
  • Errors fixed:
  • Qmpot: fixed possible error appearing after execution of Array length, Sound length, Transpose sound commands
  • Qmpot: fixed playing after clicking on icon of "Play/Pause" button
  • Qmpot: progressbars are redrawing correctly after window resize now
  • Qmpot: instruments based on simple signals (created with LS, LT, LR commands) can be correctly transposed with ST (set transpose) command
  • fixed possible error appearing after picture-clipboard exchange by Ctrl+D
  • fixed incorrect vertical size changing of drawing area after hiding menu in fullscreen window layout
  • "Brush", "Invertor" tools: fixed line interrupting after cursor jumping to opposing side of image with high cursor speed
  • "Pen" tool correctly draws points with 1px line weight in OS Windows 9x now
  • keybind-conflicts fixed: 3D frame-by-frame video using two cams can be called by Ctrl+Shift+F6, 3D photo using one cam by Ctrl+F6, 3D photo using two cams by Shift+F6
  • Text tool settings window: fixed error appearing after setting of large negative vertical interval for PCF font
  • Text tool settings window: added autorepaint of preview image for PCF font after window showing
  • fonts: fixed blocking access to PCF font file after loading
  • fixed skipping of palette type in 8bpp picture converting after loading of L and R stereoframes

New in PaintCAD 1.3.1.1074 (Feb 14, 2015)

  • Interface:
  • "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: "Save current melody to MID" option renamed to "Save current melody to MID/QMP"
  • "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: "MIDI-blaster" option renamed to "MIDI/QMP-blaster"
  • main window: Exit, Palette, Tools, Selection, Effects, Preview, Muzz icons were corrected to better view
  • Qmpot "Note input": line count is displaying under script-field now
  • Qmpot "Note input": script-field scrolls script to end after every note adding
  • "Photo" and "Video" functions were moved to "Utilities"-"Photo/frames/video" submenu
  • "Video (Shift+F5)" function was renamed to "Frame-by-frame video (Shift+F5)"
  • Frame-by-frame video: "Shot frequency (x 100ms)" parameter was renamed to "Seconds per frame (x 100ms)"
  • New features:
  • Muzz: now you can save current playing melody to MID-melody or QMP-script or MID+QMP or directly load current melody to Qmpot as QMP-script
  • Muzz: MIDI/QMP-blaster can compose from 1 to 100 melodies and save it to MID/QMP/MID+QMP files
  • "Utilities"-"Photo/frames/video" menu: "AVI video with sound", allowing video+sound stream recording (with feature of preview during recording) and saving of recorded video stream and audio track to single AVI file
  • Errors fixed:
  • Qmpot "Note input": script-field text capacity was increased
  • after first launch: interface language request added (Russian or English)
  • main window: incorrect hints fixed for F9, Ctrl+F9, F10, Ctrl+F10 buttons on bottom toolbar
  • "Rotate" function: fixed incorrect showing of negative real values of angles for changing angle value with Alt holding
  • cursor zoomed settings window: font of "Q-mode" flag was fixed
  • "Thermo" additional effect: fixed incorrect processing of pixels with maximum brightness
  • in photo/frame-by-frame video window: positions of texts on buttons were tuned
  • fixed appearing of error during fast moving of cursor with "Loop" cursor option disabled
  • "Blur" effect: fixed incorrect "Scanline" title of window for selection of repeat count
  • "Extender" effect: fixed showing of incorrect name effect under progress bar during processing
  • "Invertor" tool: fixed incorrect showing of tool icon after activation/disactivation of tool by space/action button
  • "Invertor" tool: fixed possible skipping of pixels in track
  • "About" window: fixed double-calling of e-mail software after clicking "Send bug-report to BS studios"

New in PaintCAD 1.3.0.1055 (Feb 14, 2015)

  • Interface:
  • Main window: step of cursor movement for Q-mode can be changed now using Shift+A and Shift+Q instead of Ctrl+Q and Shift+Q
  • Main window: clicking on current image width/height value shows "Canvas size" window
  • New features:
  • in "Extra" menu: Qmpot digital sound editor was added, allows you to create and edit sound effects, music, sound track for AVI videos
  • key -qmpot in command line of paintcad.exe allows you to run Qmpot digital sound editor immediately after paintcad launching (like other keys: -bro, -retro, -muzz)
  • in "Options" menu: new Qmpot hub, allows you to select RAM or HDD for sound/instrument/clipboard storing, to activate option of showing of all codecs (including incompatible), to switch on/off adding of guitar strings number to QMP script in "Note input" system
  • Scriptaint: new script templates were added - "Monosound generation (for Qmpot)" and "Stereosound generation (for Qmpot)", allows you to generate sound array using Java Script and copy this array to Windows clipboard for future opening in Qmpot via "Open" - "Windows clipboard (from Scriptaint)"
  • Scriptaint: in text of graphical script templates were added _fillrecttrans, fillrecttrans, imgouttrans, imgoutframetrans, textouttrans, textoutframetrans functions, which have transparency parameter (from 0 to 100), allowing you to draw semitransparent rectangles, texts or images
  • in "Options-Common" menu: "Bro like GoogleBot" option was added, allows you to browse sites with GoogleBot user-agent (with advanced access to closed forums, etc.).
  • in "Options-Common" menu: "GIF loading: fill transparent pixels with FC" option was added, allows you to recolor transparent areas of opened GIF to FC color (directly in 24bpp mode or via RGB-color changing in palette in 8bpp mode). Also it is working when converting GIF-frames to BMP/JPG-frames.
  • in "Utilities-BMPs/JPGs processing": you can convert BMP/JPG frames to GIF frames with selection of transparent color number or selection of X:Y coordinates of transparent pixel
  • Paste window: Target-button (Ctrl+G) for manual input of cursor coordinates was added (for texts and images)
  • in "Utilities" menu: "AVI-video processing" submenu was added and filled with commands from Utilities menu (AVI-video creation using frames, unpacking AVI-video to separate frames)
  • in "Utilities-AVI-video processing" menu: "Attach/replace WAV-audio in AVI-video" command was added, allows you to insert or replace audio track in AVI-video file
  • in "Utilities-AVI-video processing" menu: "Extract WAV-audio from AVI-video" command was added, allows you to extract audio track from AVI-video and save it to WAV file
  • in "Utilities" menu: "GIF-animations processing" submenu was added and filled with commands from Utilities menu (GIF creation using frames, unpacking GIF to separate frames, etc.)
  • Errors fixed:
  • Scriptaint: incorrect highlight of broken HTML comments was fixed
  • Scriptaint: incorrect highlight of large scripts was fixed
  • Scriptaint: incorrect highlight of reserved words with various letter-cases was fixed
  • "Synchronize time" function name misspelling fixed
  • Scriptaint: script size is not limited by 65536 characters now
  • "Text" tool: incorrect text selection from last to first chars was fixed
  • when cursor is reaching image border with enabled "Loop" flag: new cursor position will be calculated more precisely now
  • "Rotate" function: incorrect displaying of negative fractional rotate angles was fixed

New in PaintCAD 1.2.4.950 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Interface:
  • Palette window was enlarged for placing of new buttons
  • New features:
  • menu "Extra": new "Scriptaint" tool, allows you to program drawing of pictures and animations with Java Script using graphic primitives, text and image files
  • "Colorswitch" can exchange FC and BC color on picture now
  • Palette window : RGB tab: new button for inverting RGB values of selected color was added
  • Palette window : RGB tab: new button for exchanging RGB values of FC and BC was added
  • Options-Common menu: "Bro in silent mode" option was added. You can disable it and activate login dialogs and error dialogs
  • Extra-Special-Syncronize time menu: you can enter multiple NTP servers, separated by vertical line symbol
  • saving and loading of PAL files (palette) available for 8bpp and 24bpp mode now
  • Palette window : Table tab: buttons for select, cut, copy, paste, clear color cells, effects with selected cells, saving\loading palette were added
  • Palette window : RGB tab: buttons for copy and paste were added
  • in 24bpp mode: palette will not reset to UNI type automatically
  • in 24bpp mode: tab will not be switched to RGB after palette window opening
  • in 24bpp mode: position of frames for FC and BC in palette Table tab will not reset now
  • in 24bpp mode: exchanging FC and BC (by Ctrl+Left) will exchange FC and BC frames position now
  • Errors fixed:
  • "8 bpp" mode name will shows correctly now in Main window after loading of previous 8bpp session
  • fixed fatal error, occured during creation of 8bpp new image after drawing in 24bpp mode with image in internal clipboard
  • Download file window have "stay on top" style now
  • fixed error occuring when image\clipboard is redrawing in 8bpp mode after palette changing
  • incorrect palette data saving to PAL file is fixed now
  • incorrect selection borders setting after loading of previous session is fixed now

New in PaintCAD 1.2.3.922 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • Interface:
  • added messageboxes in PCW style
  • New features:
  • Muzz music generator: Couplets max count increased to 20 (and it is 1-5 by default)
  • "Extra" menu: new "Special" submenu was added, it contains useful tools
  • "Extra"-"Special" menu: new "Raw-log site analyzer" tool was added, allows you to analyze logs of your website
  • "Extra"-"Special" menu: new "Download file" tool was added, allows you to download file by URL
  • "Check updates" feature is using "Download file" tool for downloading new PCW version now
  • "Extra"-"Special" menu: new "Syncronize time" tool was added, allows you to syncronize system time of your PC with any NTP-server
  • "Extra"-"Special" menu: new "Open file in Bro browser" tool was added, allows you to open files in Bro browser
  • "Help" menu: new "Battery charge" (Shift+F1) menu item, shows charge of your notebook battery and remained time to full discharge
  • "3D"-"Files" menu: new features for loading and saving of JPS stereofiles. Your can make anaglyphs or stereopairs from 3D JPS-screenshots, created using Alt+F1 in any game displayed with NVidia 3DTV (3dtv internal key combination to create 3d screenshot)
  • "File"-"Open"-"..." and "File"-"Save"-"..." menus: JPS file format was added
  • settings are saving after exit and loading after next running of PCW now
  • "unexpected error" window: after using Restart or Exit buttons PCW trying to save session and settings now
  • "Options"-"Common" menu: new "Load previous session during launch" option, allows you to enable/disable loading of picture, clipboard, palette, selection borders and cursor position after next launch, this option is enabled by default
  • "Preview" window: arrows for image moving using touchscreen were added to top-right corner of screen
  • Errors fixed:
  • error during some effects applying to 1px-height image was fixed
  • language changing will not reset palette now
  • FC and BC colors will not displaying incorrectly after previous session loading now
  • "Preview" window: clicking "Alpha-render" and "Fit to screen" button icons will call correct action now
  • first launch on some PCs: IRC-nick generation error handled
  • settings-loading errors occured during launch (if PCW loaded from read-only drive e.t.c.): handled with message and attempt to load PCW with default settings

New in PaintCAD 1.2.2.873 (Jul 1, 2013)

  • Interface:
  • some icons were repainted
  • New features:
  • in Alpha menu: new command "Create mask in clipboard" (Ctrl+Shift+M), allows you to create alpha-mask of current picture using selected transparent color and place it to clipboard.
  • in RGB-tab of Palette window: new button (G) was added, allows you to convert current color to gray equivalent
  • in RGB-tab of Palette window: new button (C) was added, allows you to copy other color to current (FC or BC)
  • in Extender submenu: new Pixelbuffer effect was added, transforming every FC pixel on current picture to image from clipboard and every non-FC pixel to BC background.
  • in "Extra" menu: Muzz Music Generator has new submenu now
  • in "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: new "Play (Ctrl+P)" item allows you to start-stop composing and playing music
  • in "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: new "Save current melody to MID (Alt+P)" item allows you to save current playing music to MID-file
  • in "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: new "Settings (Ctrl+Shift+P)" item allows you to define setting for Muzz auto-composing (tone, size, instruments e.t.c.)
  • in "Extra"-"Muzz Music Generator" menu: new "MIDI-blaster (Shift+P)" item allows you to create instantly from 1 to 100 melodies and save it to MID-files
  • Errors fixed:
  • when extracting frames from AVI: "Go to (G)" function must work now correctly with every option from list
  • in Preview window: "Alpha-render (D)" button is disabled now if clipboard sizes are not equal to picture sizes
  • Animation mode button (F7) on bottom panel of main window is flat after releasing now, not extruded

New in PaintCAD 1.2.1.850 (Jun 10, 2013)

  • Interface:
  • Create, Open, Save, Processing (brush) icons and Muzz, Bro, Retro icons for Extra menu were redrawed. Open icon is folder now, not bag. icon black borders were replaced with lighter colors in Commands panel in Main window: "Undo" button exchanges its position with "Commands menu" button main PaintCAD icon now have additional 128?128px size. You can see this icon in "About" window.
  • New features:
  • in "Utilities" menu: new submenu "Tile editor" was added, allows you to draw tiles for game maps, graphic table borders e.t.c.
  • in "Utilities"-"Tile editor" menu: new item "Tile preview" was added, which shows interface for tile layout editing and tile editing
  • in "Utilities"-"Tile editor" menu: new item "Separate picture to tiles" was added, allows you to disassemble ready tile-maps to BMP tiles with selected size
  • in "Utilities"-"Tile editor" menu: new item "Delete equal tiles" was added allows you to optimize tile set and delete repeating tiles
  • in "Utilities"-"Tile editor" menu: new item "Restore matrix using picture" was added, allows you to get matrix (tile layout) using currenty opened tile-map and external BMP tiles
  • in "Help" menu: new item "Web-page and newest PCW beta" was added, it navigates your browser to PCW home page
  • in "Help" menu: new item "Safe restart" was added, it restarts PCW with picture and clipboard restoring like after crash
  • "Raster size" command now changes clipboard size also if "3D drawing" (Ctrl+T) is enabled
  • in Preview window: new button "Fit to screen (F)" was added, allows you to fit previewable image size to screen size
  • in "Utilities" menu: new item "Extract BMP/JPG-frames from AVI-video" was added, allows you to extract some frames or some frame sequences from AVI files using new "Frame sequence" interface window
  • in "..." file open menu (Ctrl+O) new format "AVI" was added, which calling "Extract BMP/JPG-frames from AVI-video" command for selected file
  • in "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing": new item "Sequence view" was added, allows you to construct video-sequences from BMP/JPG frames and render it to AVI-files
  • in "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing": new item "Rename to N.xxx" was added, allows you to rename frames from camera/scanner to usual PCW format (1.bmp, 2.bmp e.t.c.). Log of renamings will be saved to rename.rnl file.
  • in "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing": new item "Revert frames by RNL-list" was added, allows you to revert file renamings using previously saved rename.rnl file
  • in "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing": new item "Extender" was added, allows you to batch-process your frame with one of Extender effects
  • "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing" menu was restructured and separated to some submenus
  • new menu "Alpha" was added to main menu, allows you to operate with alpha channel when you draw semitransparent PNG files
  • in "Alpha" menu: new item "PictureClipboard" (Ctrl+D) was added, allows you to exchange clipboard and picture. It is fully analogue of similar command in Commands menu and in "3D drawing" mode, and can be called with Ctrl+D key combination.
  • in "Alpha" menu: new item "Render picture with alpha-clipboard" was added, allows you to render current picture with alpha-channel to black, white, FC, BC or grid background
  • in "Alpha" menu: new item "Capture picture and alpha-clipboard for SuperPaste" (Ctrl+Shift+C) was added, allows you to prepare opened PNG for SuperPaste. After opening PNG and calling this menu item - you can open any other picture and paste your PNG with alpha channel on this picture using SuperPaste.
  • in "Alpha" menu: new item "Cancel capture" (Ctrl+Shift+X) was added, allows you to abandon preparing image for SuperPaste. After you call it - you can use SuperPaste as usual (with selecting transparent color and transparency ratio).
  • in Preview window: new button "Alpha-render (A)" was added, allows you to render your picture and alpha in clipboard on black, white or grid background
  • in "File"-"Save" menu: new formats PNG and WBMP were added
  • in "..." file open menu (Ctrl+O) new formats PNG and WBMP were added
  • opening PNG via "Open ???": you can load image on picture only, or alpha-channel on picture only, or image on picture and alpha-channel to internal clipboard
  • saving PNG: you can save opaque picture, picture with transparent color or picture with semi-transparent alpha-channel (from internal clipboard)
  • in "Options" menu: new submenu "Common" was added
  • in "Options"-"Common": new item "Effect-action outside of defined color" was added, allows you to apply Gradient, Stars, Snow, Combustion on any colors with exception of defined color
  • hold "E" key when rotating bug-cursor and set bug direction to pseudo-3D isometry "2:1" axes
  • "Cursor position" command after applying now automatically calls for "Cursor to center" command
  • "Circle" cursor option now hides bug-cursor arrow also
  • "Show marks" flag now enabled automatically and it draws Marks in "Zoom 11x11" and on picture
  • in any tab of "Palette": you can see distance between FC and BC like "D = number" and you can measure difference between two tones using it
  • Retro IRC-chat: "C" button now controls flooding text in chat instead of colors. You can pause chat refreshing and continue it after reading.
  • Retro IRC-chat: Variable version requests will be answered by RetroIRC with something like "PCW Retro ICO 1.0"
  • Errors fixed:
  • in 8bpp mode: FC and BC cells will be repainted correctly after transforming palette to UNI
  • fixed error occuring after fast switching of Focus and Vector cursor options
  • in "Clipboard color selection" window: previously selected color must be cleared after new window showing
  • first tab of Palette have increased repainting speed now
  • flat "Gradient" have normal pixels distribution now
  • fixed incorrect hiding of Marks after using Pen, Brush or pressing some buttons in Main Window
  • when PCF-font loaded: clicking on its name in Text Input window must not show TTF-fonts list now
  • opening ICO via "???" must not change its size to your system default icon size now
  • batch converting GIF to BMP must not request JPG-compression ratio now

New in PaintCAD 1.2.0.756 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Interface:
  • interface is more flat now
  • start window and About window have PaintCAD Mobile style now
  • in Main menu-"Commands" submenu: added shortcuts for Eyedropper (Ctrl+Down) and commands menu (Ctrl+Right)
  • in Main window: cursor settings panel elements were positioned to strict grid any zoom of view changing calls new "Cursor to center" function automatically
  • icon for Retro IRC-client was added in paintcad.exe
  • new "-retro" key in command line calls Retro IRC-client automatically after paintcad.exe launching
  • New features:
  • in Main Menu: new submenu "Pixel search" was added to "Edit" menu. Allows you to find any pixels on your picture including pixels with BC colors and replace it to FC color by Pen or any another tool
  • in Main menu-"Commands" menu: added new "Cursor to center" (Ctrl+Alt+C) command: allows you to center picture with cursor in view area
  • in Main menu-"Commands" menu: added new submenu "Beam length" (BL). Allows you to set beam length value. In bug-cursor mode any line (polyline) with equal start and finish points will draw: line with infinite length if BL=0, line with length equal to beam length if BL>0, point distanced from cursor by BL pixels count if BL

New in PaintCAD 1.1.0.652 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Interface:
  • in preview window: you cant exit by clicking on any place now, instead of it you can show/hide bottom-screen buttons by pressing on image or on empty place or by pressing "Spacebar" key on keyboard
  • in preview window: you can move image on screen in any case (without blocking small images)
  • menu item "Utilities"-"JPGs processing" renamed to "BMPs/JPGs processing", processing format depends on selected file
  • in "Extender" tool menu: zoom ratio added to every item (x2, x3 e.t.c)
  • "Rotate" tool now shows full angle value and angle value limited by 0-360 range
  • in status bar: "Line"("Polyline") tool shows start-end coordinates, horizontal and vertical sizes, line length in pixels
  • clicking to status bar in full-screen mode (F4) exchanges FC and BC now
  • New features:
  • added "3D" submenu to main menu
  • added 3D drawing mode: "3D"-"3D drawing" (Ctrl+T), allows to draw two frames (first - current picture, second - internal clipboard, for left and right eye) according to selected 3D depth. See help for details.
  • added "3D"-"3D photo/video" menu: allows you to capture 3D photos using one or two webcams, 3D videos using two webcams, assemble it to anaglyphs (red-cyan) or stereopairs
  • added "3D"-"Generate" menu: allows you to generate anaglyphs and stereopairs using L and R frames or Picture and Z-map (depth map), contains some additional functions also.
  • added "3D"-"Files" menu: allows you to load/save 3D MPO files and separated L and R frames (BMP and JPG)
  • added "3D"-"Service" menu: settings for 3D functions
  • added "3D"-"Anaglyph glasses test": allows you to test your red-cyan 3D glasses
  • in "File"-"Open"-"..." and "File"-"Save"-"..." added MPO 3D file format and separated L and R file-format for BMPs and JPGs
  • "Undo" function: now reverts current picture and internal clipboard to its previous state
  • in Preview window: you can switch preview of picture and clipboard by pressing Z or special button
  • in Preview window: you can preview your left and right frame of picture and Z-map as anaglyph or stereopair
  • "Blur" effect: "Kernel radius" parameter was replaced by "Kernel diameter" and limited to range 2-50 now
  • "Blur" effect: you can repeat blurring N times now, where N selected by you
  • "Blur" effect: you can blur images by horisontal or vertical axis only, or can blur by both (old mode)
  • in 8bpp mode: "Hyperpalette" color interpolation method recreated, you can get 250-255 clr pictures with it now and it works without brightness losses now
  • in menu "Utilities"-"BMPs/JPGs processing": added functions for converting BMP/JPG to GIF and GIF to BMP/JPG. You can easy Convert GIF-animation to AVI-video or capture video and create GIF-animation from capture results
  • in "New file", "Canvas size", "Raster size": added "Preserve proportions (Q)" flagbutton, allows you to change width and height in pair with image aspect preserving
  • in "Extender" tool: added "x2: AdvMAME2x", "x3: AdvMAME3x", "x4: AdvMAME2x + AdvMAME2x", "x9: AdvMAME3x + AdvMAME3x" methods
  • in "Extender" tool: added "Manual drawing" functions which emulates manual drawing of your picture or photo (using AdvMAME2x, AdvMAME3x, AdvMAME2x+AdvMAME2x)
  • in Commands menu: added "Merge tones" function, allows you to merge nearest every N tones to 1 for every component (R,G and B). It is very fast method, because "near tones" from color scale, not from picture. You can make picture with few colors based on source fully-colored picture with this function.
  • "Extra" menu added
  • "Muzz" player moved from "Utilites" to "Extra" and named as "Muzz Music Generator"
  • in "Extra" menu: some gray items added for future functions (in future versions)
  • Errors fixed:
  • when mode changes: file name in Main window title will clearing correctly
  • multiclick on mode icon (24bpp-8bpp) will not resulted by PCW crash now
  • when you save ICO in 24-bpp mode: progress bar will show current operation name correctly
  • in 8bpp mode: single request for color adaptation type in "BMPs/JPGs processing" function
  • after changing of mode (8bpp-24bpp): "Table" tab will selected by default for 8bpp mode or "RGB" tab for 24bpp mode correctly
  • saving picture with 1 pixel height to JPG: instead of error and crash you will see warning message
  • fixed error: packing GIFs to GIF animation write correct palettes of every frame even for frames with different palettes