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Photo Toolbox Changelog

What's new in Photo Toolbox 1.12.3.1

Jun 14, 2012
  • Features:
  • Add some history management options. Users can choose the storage method and capacity of the history data. Click for more information.
  • Remove Multicore-Optimization option. This optimization is turned on by default.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The sliders of adjustment tools can't be controled by arrow keys.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.12.1.2 (May 26, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Add the Effect-Brush Tool. With this tool, users can apply any effect onto the picture by painting.
  • Optimize the memory usage.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Crash occurs sometimes while saving image files.
  • Non-image files may be displayed in the browse-panel.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.11.6.2 (Apr 20, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Add the Browse-Panel.
  • Add Navigator tool-panel
  • Redesign the style of tool-panels.
  • Optmize zooming speed.
  • Support opening/saving PPM format files.
  • Add hot-key [Shift+MouseWheel] to zooming the image.
  • Adjust some default settings.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The encoder options dialogs display at the wrong place sometimes.
  • The scroll-bar doesn't work when displays/zoom-in a huge image.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.10.4.3 (Mar 16, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Support to open many camera raw format files.(The raw decoding codes are modified from David Coffin's dcraw.c)
  • Support to open image file which is in the pixel format of 1bpp / 4bpp / 8bpp / 48bpp.
  • Fixed Bug: The encoder options dialogs display at the wrong place sometimes.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.10.2.2 (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Add Modify-Selection feature. This tool can adjust the position and size of the current selection.
  • Redesign Crop feature for better understanding, and change it's icon.
  • Adjust some tooptips and hotkeys to avoid conflicts.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The display window flickers when switch opened picture files.
  • The source sample point of the clone stamp tool losts after switching tools.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.9.2.0 (Feb 14, 2012)

  • Redesigns the Free-Rotate feature.
  • Add Mosaic effect.
  • Delete the recent opened file records if the file is not existed.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.8.6.4 (Jan 31, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Improves selection accuration. Displays size & position while creating marquees.
  • Improves display accuration. Users can manipulate every pixel accurately.
  • Changes some cursors and line-styles of selection tools.
  • The position of selection region can be moved by pressing the direction keys when any selecting-tool is selected.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The size of previewing image is incorrect.
  • Scrollbars disply incorrectly when the size of image is very large.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.8.2.2 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Features:
  • Preview result in the main window for all color adjustment tools.
  • Add more instructions for selection tools and retouching tools and white-balance tool.
  • Improve the UI of white-balance, effect tools.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Access network even the 'Notify me if a new version is avaiable' option is checked off.
  • Application crashes sometimes when undo operations.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.7.4.5 (Dec 19, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Options added to auto-organize image files while importing.
  • Show detailed information after importing if error occurrs.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Opening image file via double-clicking or context-menu in 'Windows Resource Explorer' may be failed.
  • After importing photos, the modal dialog may become modeless.
  • Application may crash after set the option 'Memory usage for history data' from a large size to a smaller size during editing.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.7.2.2 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Importing photos from the digital camera. Users can directly import and edit photos from any digital camera connected to the PC.
  • Add memory management options for controling the memory usage of history data.
  • Add an option to support the 'Orientation' information in EXIF.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The option 'Notify me if a new version is avaiable' can not be unchecked.
  • Options for saving(encoding) can not be remembered.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.6.4.5 (Nov 26, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Add Feathering feature. It's usually used to soften the edges of your selections.
  • Add Color Range feature. With this feature, you can create selections which only contains some specified color and it's related colors.
  • Add a context menu in the editing-area.
  • Compress currently unused history data to reduce the memory consumption.
  • Add 'Aligned' option for clone stamp tool.
  • Change the behavior of the 'Clear all operations' button in the 'History' window.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The states of some menu items are incorrect while processing.
  • The 'History' window can be operated while processing.
  • Memory leak when create selections.
  • Crash happens sometimes when switch among history records.
  • Zoom operation is very slow when the selection region is complex.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.4.2.2 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Add Magic Wand Tool. This tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its colour.
  • On Windows 7, the progress information while processing image can be displayed on the taskbar button.
  • The installer can detect the existed VC runtime to avoid the repeated installation.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Correct the display precision problem of selections while the view scale is larger than 100%.
  • Cursors of Marquee Selection Tools are displayed incorrectly when the overlapping mode is 'add' or 'substract'.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.3.0.2 (Aug 17, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Add Red-eye Reduction Tool. With this new tool, you can fix the red-eye effect in your photos very easily. Just press the left-mouse-button and drag the mouse to select one red-eye, and all be fixed automatically when you release the mouse button.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Crash occurrs sometimes while detecting a new version.
  • Message-box pops up on 'History' tool-pad, not on the main window.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.2.1.3 (Jul 23, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Add Curves Tool. It is the most sophisticated tool for changing the color, brightness, contrast or transparency of the picture or a selection.
  • Users can adjust levels of each color channel at the same time with Levels Tool.
  • Improve mouse cursors in the main editing window.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • It's unable to preview feathering effect in the the preview window of editing tools.
  • Moving selection area offset a bit distance(less than 1 pixel), the selection will become empty.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.1.0.2 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Spot Remover is a very useful tool. You can remove stain spots on photos only by clicking on the spots.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The cursor size doesn't change sometimes while using Dodge & Burn tool.
  • The saved picture will be flipped if the memory is insufficient.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.0.14.3 (Jun 2, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Add a check-box in Options dialog to control whether a message-box will be shown when a new version is avaiable.
  • The show/hide states of tool-bar, side-bar and status bar can be saved and resumed.
  • The Floating toolpad window's states, size and position can be resumed when startup.
  • Application main window's states, size and position can be resumed when startup.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • When the selection is in some special situations, cropping operation can not be performed.
  • Set default values for application settings/options when the first running.
  • Application title is not changed immediately after registration.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.0.10.0 (May 29, 2011)

  • Feathering effect is supported in cropping and cutting features.
  • The installation of VC Runtime will be performed in background. Uses will not be bothered any more.

New in Photo Toolbox 1.0.8.6 (May 26, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Lasso tool can switch to Polygonal Lasso tool while pressing 'Alt' key during dragging.
  • If you make a mistake while using Polygonal Marquee tool, you can press 'Delete' key to erase the latest segment.
  • During using Polygonal Marquee tool. If the pointer is not over the starting point, double-click, or Ctrl-click. A straight selection segment is drawn from your pointer to the starting point of your selection.
  • To reposition a marquee tool selection border, hold down the spacebar as you drag with the selection tool.
  • Copy feature is disabled in TRIAL VERSION.
  • Improved the application's exception handler.
  • Detect new version automaticaly.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • The Help->Register menu is always shown even the app has registered.
  • Appication crashes when select history record if the first record is a selection modification.
  • RegNow BuyURL error.
  • Text can not be displayed on pen options GUI.
  • When the momery is not enough to perform operations. The wrong history record is removed.