PhotoMonkee Changelog

What's new in PhotoMonkee 0.55b

May 17, 2012
  • PhotoMonkee is now 100% freeware. In addition to being free this build adds dockable windows.

New in PhotoMonkee 0.54b (May 7, 2012)

  • Added the custom brush system (for painting tool only)
  • Fixed a crash when closing the last remaining document and the subsequently playing
  • with the layers
  • Fixed a bug with the gradient tool handles
  • Fixed a bug: mouse wheel was moving the canvas when the mouse was over the image.
  • Deleting the contents of a layer wasn't updating the layer preview

New in PhotoMonkee 0.53b (May 7, 2012)

  • Added crop guides: rule of thirds, grid and diagonals.
  • Added crop tool constraints
  • Handle return key as well as enter key to apply the crop.
  • Crop size hint no longer shows negative values when dragging handles around
  • Crop tool no longer allows off-canvas cropping. Moving the current crop is also confined to the canvas.
  • Fixed bug: If crop tool is selected and a crop tool is active and a crop is in
  • progress, selecting another tool left the size label showing.
  • Fixed a crash when alt-tabbing or changing between documents.

New in PhotoMonkee 0.52b (May 7, 2012)

  • Bug fixes for layer drop shadow style:
  • Shadow distance was restricted to the current bounding box of the text, plus a
  • margin (fixed)
  • Shadow wouldn't render correctly for bottom left, top left or top right
  • positions.
  • Fixed a crash with fill tool deselection:
  • Fixed a crash with new motion blur tool (certain resolutions were hitting a buffer overrun)
  • Fixed a bug where text layers would show their marquee when clicked on, even if the text layer wasn't active
  • When using an interactive image filter on an image with transparencies the results would accumulate each frame as if it were smudging. This has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug when canceling an interactive filter with transparent source image. The transparent areas would not be preserved on cancel.

New in PhotoMonkee 0.51b (May 7, 2012)

  • Fixed crop tool handles
  • Added Gaussian blurring
  • Added Bloom filter
  • Added motion blur filter
  • Added glamour glow filter
  • Converted all the slider controls to custom sliders

New in PhotoMonkee 0.50b (Mar 16, 2012)

  • Added the info for the current update to the update dialog
  • Fix bug with selection text not being centered
  • Fixed a bug with undoing a newly created layer (would crash)
  • Converting text layers to pixmap's was not preserving the layer's opacity
  • level.
  • Flatten image wasn't preserving layer positions
  • Text tool now remembers the font family and size that was previously selected
  • Image rotate would leave artifacts on the canvas if the canvas zoom factor was anything but 100%
  • Handles can now only be left clicked for movement (right click is still available for the context menu on path handles)
  • Tool bar item for the current canvas size now updates when the canvas size changes due to rotate or resize
  • Changed palette dialog header font to match all other dialog boxes.
  • Completely re-wrote the move tool. It now supports scaling, movement and rotation all with off-canvas stretching and a MUCH better UI.
  • Using the arrow keys when the move tool is active will move the current selection by a single pixel in the specified direction.
  • Added edge detection filter
  • Import to simply be part of the "File->Open" workflow.
  • Fixed the formatting on some dialogs
  • Added document size to status bar and centered all the existing text items
  • Rewrote the scale/move tool
  • Selection tool now shows the size of the current selection
  • remove items from the recently opened files menu that don't exist
  • Undo/Redo operations show a quick tooltip in the center of the screen to indicate what action was performed
  • Added support for filter's to have icons in the menu (added a bunch of icons as well)
  • If no text is entered into a new text layer and the edit mode is exited - the layer is automatically deleted.
  • Increase text size (via mouse wheel) wasn't working properly.
  • Fixed a bug where layer styles were being applied to the text cursor and edit border when they were active.
  • Text tool - Set the size of the cursor to match the current point size