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Portable PhotoLine Changelog

What's new in Portable PhotoLine 24.01

Dec 20, 2023
  • Improvements
  • Browse, EXR import: For EXR images, the preview is now generated in the background.
  • PSD import: With progress bar
  • SVG import, "text": Now supports relative positions and "dominant-baseline".
  • SVG import: Accelerated
  • Levels: Shows the color under the mouse in the histogram.
  • Browse > GPS data, macOS: With exiftool installed, setting the GPS data now also works on macOS.
  • Convert font to vector, Wine: Now works the same way as on Windows.
  • Layer List, search: linecolor and fillcolor now also search for color names.
  • Layer List, search: Font names can now also be tested for inequality.
  • Bug fixes
  • XR import: The document size was not set correctly in document mode.
  • PSD import: Images with superfluous channel data are now read correctly.
  • PDF import: When canceling in font replacement, the progress bar styes on-screen.
  • PDF import: Crash with DeviceN color spaces with incorrectly declared separation channels fixed.
  • PDF export: A gray image that was assigned a gradient with more than one spot color was not exported correctly.
  • PDF export, path text with shadow: The path text was not saved correctly.
  • Web Export: If an action was set that changed the image size, clicking in the document to set the preview position did not work correctly.
  • File association, Windows: PLD files were not registered correctly.
  • Levels, gray images, active multi-channel display: If the multi-channel display was active for a gray image, the limit values could not be changed in the histogram field.
  • Levels: Position of the picked color was not initialized.
  • Levels and Curves, Adjustments dialog, color picker: The color picker of the Adjustments dialog was no longer deactivated automatically.
  • Layer list, search for virtual copies, macOS: Using the function resulted in a crash.
  • Auto Mask: "Read linked" switch was set incorrectly at program start.
  • Layer tool, multiple selection with layers protected against moving, moving: Handles were not always deleted/drawn correctly.
  • Layer tool, tool settings "Align to content": With text layers, text exceeding the bounds was ignored.
  • Filter brush, "All layers": If the active layer had no alpha, but the layers above it did, there could be a crash.
  • Browse, location marker in preview: EXIF data no longer needs to be present.
  • Browse, GPS Data: After setting the GPS data, the browse panel is updated.
  • Layer masks, isolated group: Deactivated layer masks in isolated groups have been activated.
  • Text fields, dark mode, Windows: Depending on the screen profiles, there was a visible bar at the top and bottom.
  • Hue Editor: The first and last point could not be deleted.
  • macOS, Retina, temporary drawing with XOR: Did not work with extended range colors.
  • View > Original size: Visible document center is retained.
  • Layer effects, blend mode, Windows: An empty blend mode could be set with the mouse wheel.
  • Layer effects, Emboss: The lighting could be incorrect for certain edge shapes.
  • Text layers, bottom/middle alignment, baseline grid: Bottom/middle alignment ignored alignment to baseline grid.
  • Text layer, vertical alignment bottom/center: Selection was displayed incorrectly..

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.53 (Jun 30, 2023)

  • Text layers: Text could not be selected properly with the mouse..
  • Layer mask, 1-bit to 8-bit conversion: If a 1-bit layer mask was converted to 8-bit, there was a crash.
  • SVG import: Documents get sRGB as color profile.
  • SVG export: The profile of the page/document is set correctly.
  • Preferences, Working > Special: When opening, "Layer List with keyboard support" was not set correctly.
  • Layer Attributes, channel filters: The label was missing for 16/32 bit documents.
  • Optimize HDR: Extreme images could not be processed correctly.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.52 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • View > Show Layer Handles: Now also affects "Edit Vector Points", Mesh Gradient and Distort tool.
  • Layer Attributes, "Pic. Data": The file format name is now shorter.
  • Simple Browse, Recent Files: Now switches to free sorting, which uses the loading order for "Recent files".
  • Raw import: Images are opened as placeholders by default so that a lens correction is applied.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Adjustment Layer dialog: If an adjustment uses a preset, this preset is now selected in the window menu.
  • Edit Vector Points, invisible layer: When switching to an invisible layer, its outline was sometimes not completely displayed.
  • Distort tool, lighting: Undistorted layers had lighting.
  • Distort tool: For placeholders, the lighting could not be switched on/off.
  • PDF export: Complex constructions with virtual copies and layer masks could be saved incorrectly.
  • PDF Import: sh operator with BBox sometimes produced an incorrect result.
  • PDF Import: gradients with gamma are read better.
  • Layout > Vector > Vector Outline: For certain paths a wrong result was generated.
  • Polygon tool: Changing the number of corners did not always work correctly.
  • Painting Tools: In mirrored layers, the size of the opaque brush area was not displayed.
  • Filter, macOS: On macOS, the transparency could be incorrectly changed.
  • Auto Mask tool: Did not create new undo steps for changes.
  • (Simple) Browser, Recent Files: "Recent Files" started unnecessary background operations.
  • Simple Browser, Windows: Crash on repeated opening and closing
  • Placeholder: Various problems with non-existent source files fixed.
  • Quit, unsaved documents, Windows: The wrong document was saved under certain circumstances.
  • Raw import, Windows: Special characters in the file name (Unicode, UTF-8) did not work correctly.
  • Web Export: Dialog did not save its size correctly when collapsed.
  • Docked dialogs, Windows: If a dialog bar docked on the left occupied the entire height, the dialog bar could no longer be made narrower.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.52 (Feb 15, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • View > Show Layer Handles: Now also affects "Edit Vector Points", Mesh Gradient and Distort tool.
  • Layer Attributes, "Pic. Data": The file format name is now shorter.
  • Simple Browse, Recent Files: Now switches to free sorting, which uses the loading order for "Recent files".
  • Raw import: Images are opened as placeholders by default so that a lens correction is applied.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Adjustment Layer dialog: If an adjustment uses a preset, this preset is now selected in the window menu.
  • Edit Vector Points, invisible layer: When switching to an invisible layer, its outline was sometimes not completely displayed.
  • Distort tool, lighting: Undistorted layers had lighting.
  • Distort tool: For placeholders, the lighting could not be switched on/off.
  • PDF export: Complex constructions with virtual copies and layer masks could be saved incorrectly.
  • PDF Import: sh operator with BBox sometimes produced an incorrect result.
  • PDF Import: gradients with gamma are read better.
  • Layout > Vector > Vector Outline: For certain paths a wrong result was generated.
  • Polygon tool: Changing the number of corners did not always work correctly.
  • Painting Tools: In mirrored layers, the size of the opaque brush area was not displayed.
  • Filter, macOS: On macOS, the transparency could be incorrectly changed.
  • Auto Mask tool: Did not create new undo steps for changes.
  • (Simple) Browser, Recent Files: "Recent Files" started unnecessary background operations.
  • Simple Browser, Windows: Crash on repeated opening and closing
  • Placeholder: Various problems with non-existent source files fixed.
  • Quit, unsaved documents, Windows: The wrong document was saved under certain circumstances.
  • Raw import, Windows: Special characters in the file name (Unicode, UTF-8) did not work correctly.
  • Web Export: Dialog did not save its size correctly when collapsed.
  • Docked dialogs, Windows: If a dialog bar docked on the left occupied the entire height, the dialog bar could no longer be made narrower.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.51 (Nov 15, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • Text tool: You can now change the font in all layers of a group via the Tool Settings.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Delete layer(s), source of a virtual copy: Virtual copies were not handled correctly.
  • 3D body: color change with effect off and subsequent on did not redraw enough.
  • Edit vector points, "Delete Point With Correction": If a control point and a support point were almost identical, the result was incorrect.
  • Curve editor: Not all possible points could be deleted.
  • Gradient tool, macOS: If PhotoLine was closed with Command+Q while the gradient tool was active, the "In active layer" setting was not saved correctly.
  • Tool settings, presets: The active preset did not have a check mark.
  • Auto Mask tool: Possible crash fixed.
  • Windows, command line: Starting PhotoLine with multiple images did not work anymore.
  • macOS 13: It could happen that after a program start the palettes were not visible.
  • Tool > Color > Replace Colors: Crash with source tolerance 0 and transparent target color.
  • Modification of adjustment layer, modal dialog: Multiple edits were combined.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.50 (Oct 4, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • New functions: Layout > Text > Increase/Decrease Font Size:
  • Image tools:
  • Many image tools (such as the Water tool or the Filter Brush) can now work on a new layer. This leaves the original layer unchanged.
  • Many image tools now have presets.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • File formats:
  • PDF import:
  • Invisible OCR text is now imported.
  • Layers without function are now better removed.
  • Transparency masks are now supported.
  • JPEG2000 images can now be loaded with incomplete properties and with color profile.
  • SVG import:
  • Improved import of text.
  • Different language versions are read correctly.
  • CSS styles are read better.
  • SVG export:
  • Simple groups are optimized.
  • Text is output in the largest possible chunks.
  • JPEG XL: Enhanced.
  • HEIC import: Metadata is now read under macOS, as well as under Windows if a suitable WIC driver is installed.
  • WebP export: With optional conversion to YUV.
  • ICNS import: Has been updated for macOS 11 icons.
  • Menu functions/filters:
  • Adjustment layers: The "normal" functions like "Tool > Curves" now create adjustment layers for all layer types except image.
  • Tool > Color > Select Colors: You can now optionally invert the result.
  • Tool > Curves: Double-clicking a color pipette sets the target color.
  • "Edit > Find" and "Edit > Find/Replace": You can now enter return/tab/... and search for them.
  • Change Layer Size, Change Document Size: Both functions now have presets.
  • Optimize HDR:
  • Optionally, the brightness of dark parts of the image remains unchanged.
  • A histogram is also displayed for 8- and 16-bit images.
  • User interface:
  • Font list: Preselection with the mouse triggers a preview in the document.
  • Font list: If the font list is not opened by clicking on the arrow, but with the right mouse button, no entry of the last used fonts is selected.
  • Brush and color fields: If multiple layers or a file with multiple layers are dragged onto the field, all layers will now be used.
  • Gradient editor, inside document or in the Tool Settings: The context menu of the color fields now also contains the color editor.
  • Text completion in dialogs (e.g. "Layout > Dokument Information"): If the completion list was opened with the arrow down key, entries can be deleted with Delete/Backspace.
  • Context Help, macOS: The context help (in the menu under "Help > Context help") can now also be used for menu commands.
  • File dialog, Windows: If possible, the Window 10 file dialog is used.
  • File dialog, macOS: The open dialog will show the correct title.
  • Undo overlay: The display of the executed undo/redo step over the document window can be turned off (in the settings under "Working > Undo").
  • Dark user interface, macOS 10.14 and higher: If the dark mode is activated in PhotoLine, the native macOS dark mode is also activated.
  • Settings "Display > Document": The border colors can now be partially transparent.
  • Lists: For texts, a tooltip is now only displayed if the text is not completely visible.
  • Brush list, files: Brush files can be dragged onto the brush list. Before only layers/documents worked. Brush files had to be dragged onto PhotoLine itself.
  • Sliders:
  • Snap better to even values.
  • With Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) they have ten times the step size.
  • Scripting:
  • Windows: Better Powershell support.
  • Vector: Clipping mode is supported.
  • New documents can be created directly from the clipboard.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Circular and radial gradient are displayed faster.
  • Vector output is faster in some areas.
  • Brush outline inside documents: For brushes based on images, the outline is now optimized with a variable tolerance, and small outline speckles are deleted.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Filter > Digital Camera > Color Shift: The layer's ICC profile is used for conversion.
  • Layout > Text > Text on Path: Calling again after aborting the first time showed an empty path.
  • Tool > Color > Color to Transparency: Picking a color from the document did not recalculate the histogram.
  • Tool > Color > Color to Transparency: Transparency histogram no longer shows an error message before calculating the first histogram.
  • Tool > Curves: After switching from HIS to RGB, the available curve modes were not adjusted.
  • Tool > Optimize HDR: Width of the display field for minimum and maximum is adjusted to text size.
  • Tool "Rotate View", Fix: Always used fast interpolation.
  • Copy Brush: If the brush outline was turned off with Caps Lock, the preview was also no longer displayed.
  • ]*| Stamp tool: Didn't remember the last used stamp.
  • Liquify tool: Error with "Forward Warp" and "Push Left" fixed.
  • Copy/paste, insert at mouse position, Windows: Didn't work on Windows.
  • Color field, drop-down list, document colors: In the drop-down version of the document colors there was a crash when accessing the context menu.
  • Color field, drop-down list: Switching the color list in the drop-down list could cause a crash.
  • Layer List: Click on active layer reduced it visually a selected one only.
  • Layer List, two screens, macOS: If the secondary screen was docked to the left of the main screen and the layer list was docked to the right of the secondary screen, the name of a layer could not be changed properly because the text input field was not visible.
  • Buttons with pictures, macOS: The images were not inverted when the user interface was dark.
  • New Document, macOS: Problems with visible scrollbars fixed.
  • Scaled vector layer with gradient fill/stroke, Fix Layer: The gradient was incorrect after fixing.
  • Optimize Vector Layer: Selection whether selected points should be optimized did not work.
  • Fix Layer, aligned vector layers: The new layer bounds were wrong.
  • Fix Layer, vector: Layer masks were transformed.
  • Virtual copies: If a virtual copy pointed to an invisible group that had adjustment layers as children, then pixel mode was not automatically activated.
  • New path group from two path groups: The vector attributes were incorrect.
  • Text layers, text cursor: BFor heavily scaled text layers, the text cursor position was calculated very roughly.
  • Text layers, macOS: Page feed did not work in some cases.
  • Adjustment layers, document with ICC profile, rotated view: Adjustments with color space conversion didn't work correctly.
  • Open dialog, panel layout: With the Open dialog open, the panel layout could be changed.
  • Preferences, menu, macOS: The preferences did not have an icon in the menu.
  • Settings, keyboard layout, text functions like fat, italic, alignment: After a restart, the settings dialog didn't show the shortcuts correctly.
  • Document window, title bar: Information was changed depending on the size of the document, instead of the window size.
  • Plug-in EyeCandy: Problem with 16 bit images fixed.
  • External Programs: Content of the edited layer was updated too early for some programs.
  • External Programs, "Original" mode: There was a crash when the external program created a corrupted file.
  • Load document, EXIF rotation: Applying the EXIF rotation marked the document as changed.
  • Document Information, macOS: text completion didn't work correctly with "Copyright".
  • EXIF: XMP copyright was not transferred to EXIF.
  • EXIF: Exif DateTimeDigitized becomes xmp:CreateDate, Exif DateTime becomes zu xmp:ModifyDate.
  • Ghostscript import: A menu entry was also created if no Ghostscript was installed.
  • PDF import: Layer mask for a shade layer did not work properly.
  • PDF import: Flipped Type3 fonts are imported correctly.
  • PDF export: Gradients in groups that had "Align Pattern" enabled were not exported correctly.
  • SVG import: Nested <tspan> elements are now supported.
  • SVG import: "use" with unused "width" and "height" is now imported correctly.
  • SVG import: "switch" evaluates "systemLanguage.
  • SVG export: "class" and "style" were exported incorrectly.
  • JPEG export: Crash with empty docujment fixed.
  • Raw import, action: An assigned action was performed only on placeholders.
  • DXF export: Invisible layers are no longer exported.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.02 (Feb 2, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • Autosave files: They are now named "Untitled", so they have to be assigned a new name when saved
  • Bug fixes:
  • JPEGXL import: ICC data was not appended to the document..
  • "Save layer" as action: There were problems when editing the action.
  • "Save Layer" as action: When displaying the save dialog, the file extender was truncated, causing the save format to be set to the default format.
  • Browse panel: "Open as placeholder" as icon opened only one image.
  • Browse panel, macOS 12.1: Menu commands via menu buttons no longer worked.
  • PDF import: Helvetica Neue Bold became Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold.
  • SVG import: SVGs with encoding 'ascii' were not read.
  • Document frame: The document frame is now omitted in document mode only if document color and outer color differ significantly.
  • Combo boxes, macOS: If the focus was on a combo box and another combo box was opened, it was closed again immediately.
  • JPEG import: Problem when invalid EXIF data is in the JPEG fixed.
  • Distort tool: Missing redraw after inserting a point fixed.
  • Scale document, action: Scaling in "Normal" mode with active DPI did not work properly as action.
  • Layer tool: Shift+Ctrl+Click&Drag on a non-moveable layer caused a crash.
  • Clipboard, Windows: faster pasting of certain formats.

New in Portable PhotoLine 23.01 (Dec 15, 2021)

  • Improvements:
  • Windows: With 32-bit version
  • Focus Stacking: With progress indicator
  • Focus Stacking: Result has the bit depth of the source images.
  • Stitch: Result has the bit depth of the source images.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Icon bars: If displayed with shadows, the shadow had the wrong intensity.
  • 3D bodies: Color change when effect was turned off and did not redraw enough when turned on again.
  • Stitch function: There was visible seam when combining images with different exposures.
  • Panorama function: Progress bar was full too early with "Create Sum Layer".
  • Panorama-Funktion: Ergebnis bekommt einen Namen
  • Focus Stacking: The names of the original layers are kept, result also gets a name.
  • Mesh Gradient tool: Pressing and releasing Alt lost selection.
  • Raw import: Crash with a specific CR3 file fixed.
  • Raw import: Appeared 2x in lists.
  • Effects > Effect Filters > Emboss: Fixed possible crash when image was not aligned to page pixels.
  • Form Lasso dialog: After changing the document zoom, the lasso frame was sometimes displayed incorrectly.
  • Scripting: SaveAs did not display a dialog.
  • PDF import, mesh gradient: Mesh gradients that form a closed circle were not read.
  • Adjustment layers: If the mask was a white rectangle, child layers were not added to the mask.
  • Hue/Saturation, Adjustments Layers dialog: Now has intensity sliders so that an intensity set via the large dialog can be post-processed.

New in Portable PhotoLine 22.52 (Jul 7, 2021)

  • Improvements:
  • Plug-ins: Plug-in support extended
  • Layers list: Layers can be copied with Shift+Ctrl/Shift+Command
  • Unicode characters, Windows: If possible, a larger encoding is used
  • Scripting: New operations: BorderSelection, ContractSelection, ExpandSelection, CreateLayerMask, CreateLayerMaskFromAlpha, ApplyLayerMaskToAlpha, CreateLayerMaskFromMask, ApplyLayerMaskToMask, CreateLayerMaskFromLayer, Invert.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Plug-ins: Luminar AI crashed with placeholder layers.
  • Histogram Correction, automatic limits: The Limits of current data are now used
  • Layer list: After moving multiple layers, all layers remain selected
  • PDF import: Various improvements
  • PDF export, PDF/X3: RGB gradients were possibly saved as DeviceRGB
  • Screen output: For transparent CMYK documents the output area is now pre-initialized with CMYK(0/0/0) so that overprinting on empty areas works correctly
  • Layer Mask > Convert for Previous: For isolated groups a real layer mask is created now
  • Layer Mask > Convert for Previous: Undo restores original name
  • Effect > Effect Filter > Custom: If a preset was selected for a gray image, there was a crash
  • Channel List: If a selection was created from a completely white adjustment layer, there was a crash
  • Rounded rectangle, relative/absolute input: When switching from relative to absolute input, the position of the text field changed
  • Layer Attributes: A changed image interpolation was possibly used only after reloading
  • Line style list: Arrow width and length were not loaded after program start
  • Browse, Open as Layers: Files are loaded in the specified order
  • Toolbar: With a hidden toolbar, the active tool was not initialized when the program was started
  • Metadata: Problem with maker notes with less than 4 characters in the manufacturer name fixed
  • Convert Layer Type: If several layers were converted to placeholders, there was a crash
  • DXF: Import and export enhanced (scaling, ...)
  • Layer tool: In the context menu of the layer tool a possibly existing numbering was cut off at the layers under the mouse
  • Color > Assign Color Profile: After switching from document to layer a color profile was not assigned under certain circumstances
  • Layer > Management > Save Layers: If several layers are saved, they are sorted in ascending order now
  • Text layers with distortion: selection was not visible
  • Lens correction: When correcting the perspective, the result did not match the preview exactly
  • Symbols, macOS, dark mode: When switching to/from dark mode, the symbols are adjusted

New in Portable PhotoLine 22.51 (Jan 7, 2021)

  • Improvements:
  • Color list: If the coverage is not 100%, tooltips of the color fields show also the transparency
  • Hue/Saturation: When resetting, the range is set to "All"
  • Lasso tools: When rotating, the angle is now displayed
  • Bug fixes:
  • Copy & Paste: Fixed possible wrong position when pasting
  • Placeholder: Did not use a color profile embedded in the placeholder for the preview image
  • Popups, Windows: Arrows too small on screens with high DPI values
  • Convert Layer Type: Placeholders are now built in the color space of the placeholder
  • Settings > Operation > Keyboard mapping: Text entry was inserted twice
  • Automatic guides, Windows: Flickering (appeared with Win10 update) fixed
  • Adjustment Layer dialog, Color Lookup: When switching between two Color Lookup layers, the profile name was not updated correctly in the dialog
  • Layer List: Showing the context menu for a selected layer no longer clears the selection
  • Copy & Paste: When copying text layers within a document, the layer size is no longer adjusted to the document size if too large
  • Adjustment of text layer width: Automatic text layers now take right indentation into account
  • Automatic text layers: Are created without indentation
  • Uncolored patterns: Can be edited via "Edit vector patterns"
  • Filters: If an image layer had a different color profile than the document, the document profile was still used for color space conversions with normal filters
  • Picture document with transparency: In case of adjustment layers with frame area (e.g. Gaussian blur) the transparency pattern was not output correctly in painting tools
  • Used documents, Windows: Number of entries could not be changed
  • Tool > Color > Assign Color Profile: Assigning a color profile and subsequent undo did not invalidate the cache of an encapsulated group or image with adjustment layer respectively
  • Text To Image, macOS: Fixed endless loop
  • Document information, macOS?: Tab and Esc did not work properly in certain situations
  • Vector pattern: Crash when loading certain documents fixed
  • Create HDR image: A contrast not equal to 0 caused a crash. Also, a layer image is now created
  • Dark scrollbars, macOS 11: MacOS 11 did not draw the scrollbars correctly when moving them
  • File dialogs, macOS 11.1: Due to a bug in macOS 11.1 the size of the file dialogs was not saved
  • Font list: On a dark UI, the separator between the last used fonts and the list was not visible

New in Portable PhotoLine 21.50 (Jun 7, 2019)

  • PhotoLine automation by scripting
  • Tablet support improved
  • Lens correction: This new function removes lens distortions
  • PDF import improved

New in Portable PhotoLine 21.01 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Scale layer: In"Formula" mode there is now "dw" and "dh" document width and height
  • Placeholder layers: Mask of the embedded file is passed to Dynamic Filters
  • Raw import: Lens correction layer gets correct name
  • Scale document, text register: The text register is also scaled
  • Lens correction: If no suitable lens is found, Lensfun is deactivated
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Disabled color management, printing: Conversions could still take place
  • Action list, execution mode, Windows: An incorrect scroll bar could be displayed
  • Batch Convert: Color space in PDF was not read correctly
  • Lens correction: Chromatic aberration is executed before Lensfun
  • Lens correction: Preview image is now cropped to layer size so that it is no longer larger than the dialog preview
  • Lens correction with perspective distortion, Dynamic Filter: A perspective distortion was not taken over correctly with full screen preview turned on
  • Duplicate Layer: Editing options are retained
  • Toolbars: Now return the real tooltip because of "Layer > Layer Mask > Create".
  • BarcodePanel: Fixed text size removed
  • Batch Convert: "Browse subfolders" could not be activated with identical source and destination path
  • Tooltips, macOS, no dark surface: The dark surface was still used for transparent tooltips
  • Layer mask, Create from mask, Vector layers: "Create from mask" was not accessible for vector layers
  • Adjustment layer, Ctrl+click in Layer List: The mask is now set as selection
  • Layer list, Dynamic Filters: Dynamic Filters could be dragged out of layers but not into them
  • Lens correction, English: "aktiv" was translated as "activ".
  • Dynamic Filter, dialog, full screen preview: When turning off the full screen preview, the document was not redrawn
  • Dynamic Filter, edit dialog, cancel: The document was not redrawn when the dialog was cancelled with the full-screen preview disabled
  • Context menu: Now the tooltip is inserted as menu title because of "Layer > Layer Mask > Create".
  • PSD import: if an image has mode 7 (multichannel), an illegal image type was created, now RGB
  • Lens correction, Windows: "Horizontal" and "Vertical" switched
  • Curves, Windows: "Actions" now without frame and text
  • Menu bar, Windows: If dark mode was turned off, a part of the menu bar was green

New in Portable PhotoLine 21.00 (Jul 11, 2018)

  • Controls, Windows: Possible leftovers with scalable dialogs fixed
  • Toolbar: When scaling then toolbar, paint and brushes could disappear
  • Document Attributes, size: When changing to/from pixels, the text fields are enabled/disabled so that it is immediately clear that they are (not) editable.
  • Text input: If a character was entered that was not present in the current font, it was permanently switched to another font.
  • Browse/Show Image: When exiting, the last displayed image is selected in the browser
  • Free Lasso tool: Backspace/Delete to delete the last input did not work
  • Free Lasso tool: Temporary lasso dashed again
  • Virtual copies, copy/paste: Virtual copies were replaced by their original data
  • RTF import: Problem solved
  • Color filter, adjustment layer, Fix Layer: Color filter was not converted to layer mask
  • Color fields, layers with different color profiles: Adjustment to new color profile was often only done after clicking on it
  • Browse/Show Image, macOS 10.13: Switching to the next/previous file with the mouse wheel of the Magic Mouse or the trackpad did not work correctly
  • Non-modal color editor: Clicking on the palette field below the editor did not respect the selected color
  • Non-modal color editor, pop-up dialog: In the pop-up version of the non-modal color editor, both colors were visible instead of just the popped-up color.
  • PDF-Export: Rare crash on image export fixed
  • Action with pause, accessed via shortcuts: If the Actions dialog was not visible and an action with pause was called, the pause message was not visible
  • Image Undo: Image Undos were sometimes incorrectly combined
  • Distort With Arrow, macOS: Reset button did not work
  • Text layers, paragraph settings: Had two double arrows
  • White Point, adjustment layers, dialog: Gamma slider did not work
  • Screen output, macOS: Documents with the screen profile were not output correctly in pixel mode with a zoom above 100%.
  • Text formatting: Distance before and after paragraph can be negative
  • Text layers, flow around shape: In groups, moving child layers did not recalculate the flow
  • Projects plug-ins: Solved problem on Windows
  • PCX import: Possible crash with corrupt files fixed
  • TIFF import: Possible crash with corrupt files fixed
  • PSD import: Possible crash with corrupt files fixed
  • Copy/paste groups of virtual copies: Sometimes didn't work properly
  • Save As, Windows: No save dialog appeared for files whose name contained only a file extension
  • Strings, English: Missing error messages added
  • new Expat-Lib
  • JPEG-Lib 9c
  • Raw-Lib updated because of Sony 14 Bit

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.53 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • TIFFLib 4.09
  • openEXR 2.2.1
  • Printing, rotated, macOS: Printing a rotated document changed the paper format permanently. As a result, the print settings were no longer correct.
  • Printing, crop marks: Under certain circumstances crop marks were not printed correctly.
  • Browse, Preview, rotated image: crash fixed
  • Assign Color Profile, action: Didn't save rendering intent
  • Lasso: dashed again
  • Browse, thumbnail of raws: Aspect ratio of original image is enforced
  • Raw import: better import of thumbnails
  • Browse, macOS: By right-clicking the input focus could be lost. As a result, the Browse menu entries could no longer be selected.
  • Rendering, without antialiasing: Intermediate positions are rounded now.
  • Pixel alignment: Image and text layers are now also aligned with deactivated antialiasing
  • Document Attributes, size: Entering the same impossible value twice didn't correct the wrong value the second time
  • Layer List: Sometimes dragging of multiple layers didn't work correctly.
  • Save As, Remember Save Path: Turning the option off is also saved, if dialog was exited with Cancel
  • Adjustment layer mask, single channel display: Distorted, empty masks could create a crash
  • Quick Mask Tool: Sometimes it was not possible to define a background area with Shift directly after the object limits were drawn.
  • Color Lookup: cube files with a missing return at the end were not loaded
  • Menu, Windows: Too long menus are split.

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.52 (Jan 9, 2018)

  • Import via Ghostscript, Windows: didn't work with GSWin64.exe
  • Create placeholder: placeholders sometimes had the wrong size
  • Browse, document preview: Is now rotated corresponding to the EXIF data.
  • Text layers, vertically aligned text: could cause redraw errors when moving text.
  • EXR import: Now also loads gray channels
  • OpenEXR: new library version
  • xy->XYZ conversion: (0;0) now becomes (0;0;1) because of XYZ-EXRs
  • Layer list, context menu of the eye: Display/clip/... now affect all selected layers (just like a simple click on the eye)
  • Layer List, eye: Shift/Ctrl/Command+click now also affects all selected layers (if applied to a selected layer)
  • Info.plist, macOS: generic image entry added
  • Dithering of 16-bit data changed
  • Problem with an action to delete transparency fixed
  • 3D-effect: arrow keys rotated too much
  • Main window, Windows: flickering when moving documents fixed
  • Working layer mask with alpha, Curves: changes to the curve of the alpha channel were not displayed during modal dialog

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.51 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • New Image Processing Features:
  • Dynamic Filters:
  • Previous releases of PhotoLine already feature many non-destructive adjustments and filters. These include complex filters such as Gaussian Blur and various sharpen filters. Some, however, could only be applied destructively.
  • In release 20 of PhotoLine all effects and filters are now nondestructive. Dynamic Filters and placeholder layers make this possible: any of the previously destructive filters and effects can be applied to a placeholder as a dynamic filter layer. Dynamic filter layers remain 'live' and their settings can be edited at any time. Update the contents of the placeholder layer and the dynamic filter layer is automatically recalculated.
  • External plugins are also supported (when the plugin developer enabled this option). Dynamic placeholder filter layers open up completely new ways of working in PhotoLine.
  • Match Colors:
  • The new Match Colors adjustment matches colors between two images. It is also easy to match the colors between a target top layer with a source layer below in photo compositing. The following example demonstrates the use of the Match Colors adjustment. Let's assume you want to superimpose a different face over a portrait photo you took. The Match Color adjustment drastically simplifies this process.
  • Color Lookup:
  • The new Color Lookup adjustment remaps the original colors of an image by applying preset 3-dimensional color lookup tables (LUTs). These are commonly in use in the film industry, and allow for quick subtle or dramatic changes to photos in order to achieve a certain look. PhotoLine supports the common 3DL and Cube LUT file formats, as well as various types of ICC profiles.
  • Context Blur:
  • The new Context Blur filter is a variation on a blur filter. Depending on the settings it may be used to:
  • create oil paint effects;
  • reduce image noise;
  • reduce JPEG artifacts.
  • Invert Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks and Clipping Layers:
  • A new checkbox option in the layer attributes panel conveniently inverts an (adjustment) layer mask, and a vector or bitmap clipping layer.
  • Copy Brush, Healing Brush, and Remove Brush Tools: Improved Source Selection:
  • More comprehensive settings to improve the image source selection for the copy brush, healing brush, and remove brush tools are now available to the user. New options provided are “Source Layer”, Active & Below” and “All Layers”.
  • Graphics: Additions and Improvements:
  • Optional Cubic Interpolation for Gradients:
  • Cubic interpolation between gradient color stops is now possible in Photoline, in addition to the standard linear interpolation. This option generates a markedly smoother transition between gradient color stops.
  • Linear and Circular Gradients with Repetition and Mirroring:
  • New options to repeat and to mirror repeat gradients are available.
  • Circular Gradients with Elliptical Scaling:
  • It is now possible to scale circular gradients non-proportionally and create elliptical gradients
  • Improved Onscreen Widget Controls of Circular Gradients:
  • Improvements are made to the onscreen widget controls of circular gradients:
  • Circular gradients can be easily scaled non-proportionally with a new widget control.
  • While editing, the circular gradient circumference is displayed onscreen as an outline.
  • A center point is added to the onscreen widget control to enable the user to reposition the circular gradient
  • Vector Patterns:
  • PhotoLine now supports vector fill patterns. Fill patterns can also consist of combination of raster (bitmap) graphics and vector graphics. Vector patterns have the advantage to be scalable without loss of resolution and quality
  • Single elements of a pattern may overlap, which simplifies the construction of repeatable patterns.
  • To assist in pattern design, a new Pattern Mode view is added to PhotoLine (See below "Pattern View Mode")
  • Onscreen widget transformation controls for Pattern Fills:
  • The transformation of pattern fills applied to vector layers is now directly controllable onscreen with the introduction of the new onscreen pattern fill control widget.
  • Access this control widget by switching to the Edit Vector Points tool. The onscreen control widget is displayed as a transformation box. Positioning the box with the top left small dot controls the origin of the pattern, while the three small square handles control rotation, proportional scaling and non-proportional scaling of the selected fill pattern. The controls are similar to Photoline's layer transformation handles.
  • Corner-aligned Line Patterns and Line Pattern Start Offset Options:
  • Line patterns (dashed lines) introduce two new options: one that scales the line pattern in order to create corner-aligned dashes in a vector shape, and a second option that sets a start offset value to achieve finely-tuned line pattern alignment.
  • New Display Modes For Documents:
  • PDF Proof Display Mode:
  • The new PDF Proof display mode simulates the color space conversions on-screen that occur when a document is exported to PDF. This is particularly useful when you wish to soft-proof colors before exporting as PDF/X1a.
  • Pattern View Mode:
  • To assist in the creation of patterns, PhotoLine adds a new Pattern Mode in its View menu. When activated, the view will display a tiled version of the document's content. This view mode enables the user to quickly check whether the fill pattern correctly aligns relative to the document's edges.
  • Layer List Panel:
  • Layer Search Function:
  • Find Function
  • Layers can now be searched. This becomes especially useful when working with complex documents and many layers.
  • The user can either filter by layer type(s), or search for layer names.
  • Protect Content:
  • A new option is added to safeguard a layer's content from editing. When this option is activated for a layer, that layer is still selectable and moveable, but the content cannot be changed.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Browse Panel: Custom Sorting Of Files:
  • Selecting the custom sorting option in the browse panel allows the user to freely arrange the files to display in any custom sorting order.For example, it is possible to sort files according to the daytime or based on their content. When done ordering the files manually, the Rename Multiple command can be applied to "fix" the custom file order.
  • Spell Checking, Windows: Native Support on Windows 10:
  • If Photoline is installed on Windows 10, the built-in spell checker is used - just as is the case on macOS. It is no longer necessary to install a separate spell checker such as ASpell or Hunspell.
  • Note: supported in the 64-bit version of PhotoLine.
  • File Formats:
  • Import and export of PDF, PSD and SVG are significantly enhanced. PSD import now attempts to import both Smart Objects and Smart Filters and convert these to PhotoLine's native placeholder layers and dynamic filters. Almost all color adjustment layers are converted to PhotoLine's adjustment layers, thereby retaining editability of the original file.
  • Placeholder Layers:
  • Existing layers can now be directly converted to placeholder layers.
  • A new command “Open as Placeholder” creates a placeholder document that references the selected file.
  • Placeholders can now be used as layer masks, as clipping layers, and as masks for adjustment layers.
  • “Dehaze” can now also be applied to placeholders.
  • Minor Enhancements:
  • Non-modal color editor: Double-clicking edits patterns as well.
  • Tiled document preview: real progress view added.
  • Tiled document preview: preview is now recalculated in the background, resulting in smoother dialog interactions.
  • New Document: a color model instead of a color space can be selected.
  • Color List: load color lists from FreeColor (sbz).
  • Page List: sped up thumbnails creation.
  • Guides: Creating a new guide with Shift+drag will place the guide on the active page only.
  • New zoom commands: “Fit to Selection” and “Fit to Selection Width. The zoom factor fits the view to the selected object and the selected object's width respectively.
  • You can now assign colors (also spot colors) to 1 bit images, too. Furthermore, the images are allowed to have transparency.
  • Gradients may be used to colorize gray images (instead of just a single color).
  • Tool “Edit Vector Points”: an additional tool setting is added to hide and show the onscreen control widget for gradients and patterns.

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.50 (Sep 28, 2017)

  • MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Full screen mode, Windows
  • Painting tools: Convert color using layer profile if necessary
  • Color fields/lists: Adjust to document profile
  • Vector stars "symmetrical" structure
  • Text formatting: Unicode 00ad is treated as a hyphenation proposal
  • Text formatting: Unicode 200b (zero width space) identifies separation point
  • Hyphenation proposals, macOS: Ctrl+Minus should now also work with English keyboard layout
  • Paragraph alignment: Can now be recorded as action
  • Windows, drag files to main window: Keeping the Shift key pressed opens all files in one document
  • Page navigation bar: Switching off via "AppendNavigationToImages" is now also supported on macOS
  • HANDLING:
  • Color Picker: If the color picker has a simple shortcut (i. e. only a simple character without additional keys), it can be accessed temporarily by pressing and holding this key.
  • Adjustments dialog: Adjustments can be copied/pasted
  • Rotate view with alt-mouse wheel can be switched off in the settings
  • Attributes: Ctrl+/Command+mouse drag changes values of non-active lines too
  • "New image" is opened when a 0 byte PLD file is dragged to PhotoLine
  • Layer tool with setting which layer types should be aligned to the actual content
  • Curve Creation tool: If the end point of a subpath is selected, the following point is inserted behind it
  • Brush outline: Can be temporarily switched off via the Caps Lock key
  • UI:
  • Histogram with double arrow for min/max
  • Exposure with icons in front of the sliders
  • Windows: New scrollbars for dialogs
  • Windows: New double arrow controls
  • Dialogs, Windows: in all dialogs the scrollbars are replaced by sliders
  • Multiline text fields, Windows: Are now using relative text metrics (better typeface)
  • Text layer: Selection is now visible regardless of the background
  • Precise mouse cursor: Spray and Liquify tool now also have one
  • PRINTING:
  • Print dialog, Windows: If the default setting was "System", the print dialog no longer changes it
  • Print, Windows: The rendering intent in the print dialog temporarily replaces the rendering intent of the document.
  • Print, labels, macOS: only the first label was displayed, the rest was clipped away
  • Print dialog, macOS: Now with "Paper format".
  • OPTIMIZATIONS:
  • Light/Shadow: faster
  • Mix modes: slightly accelerated
  • Adjustment layers: With a completely white mask, the mask is no longer set
  • Adjustment layers with vector mask: A white rectangle mask is no longer set
  • Zoomed documents: in certain situations faster screen output
  • Screen output: with "slow" documents dragging of small layers could be slower on the lower right side than on the upper left.
  • Document window, focus, painting tools: If the document window loses focus when the drawing tool is active, the document will not be redrawn.
  • Screen output, macOS: screen cache is now displayed faster
  • Menu icons, macOS: Rebuilt only if changed
  • Embedded placeholders: PLDs no longer save preview
  • FILE FORMATS:
  • PLD settings: Preview size and fast saving
  • PDF import, spot colors: Lab values were not read correctly for spot colors with Lab replacement
  • PDF import: Incorrect character encodings of FrameMaker are partially read
  • PDF import: Solved problems with bizarre PS-PDFs
  • PDF export, path text with background layer effects: The path text was not output as path text
  • PDF export, lines with variable thickness: With a simple, linear thickness curve, the variable line thickness was not exported
  • SVG export, text layer with color filter: Crash fixed
  • SVG export: Background layer effects are output separately
  • PSD export with groups
  • PSD export: Writes a resource for clip layers
  • GIF import: possible buffer overflow for defective files fixed
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Colors in toolbar: "Spot color" could be activated
  • Nik-Filter as a dynamic filter, Windows: Since the dialogs of the Nik-Filter are not modal under Windows, one could provoke problems
  • Background layer, moveable: Handles are displayed, after special scaling "moveable" status is no longer turned off
  • Layer list, add/remove transparency to mask: Works only with transparent images
  • Crop tool: Changes with keyboard are displayed
  • Vector layers: Curve-line-curve sequences were not deleted correctly
  • Average filter, very large images: Calculation improved
  • Edge antialiasing, sheared images: The left/right edge of sheared images is now antialiased better
  • HTML image overview: Code updated
  • Dynamic Filters: If a placeholder had several Dynamic Filter layers, the intensity and mixing mode of a Dynamic Filter layer had no influence on the following Dynamic Filter layers
  • Dynamic Filters, painting: The following dynamic filters on the same hierarchy are hidden during painting
  • Distort image with image, Twirl, Ripple: The alpha channel has not been edited
  • Circle tool: After a restart, a "circle segment" was always displayed with 360°.
  • Text layers, pixel alignment: For pixel aligned text layers, text layers are now preferably output via the operating system
  • Layer attributes, overprint: For vector layers the outline setting wasn't visible.
  • Layer attributes, reset and size, layers with layer masks: The origin that may has been clipped, was kept at its original position
  • Layer effects, 3D shadows: Position was displayed incorrectly if it was larger than 100 pixels
  • Match colors: Had wrong name
  • Brush editor, non-modal: If the brush size was changed in the document window, it did not show the correct size
  • Vector tool: Deleting a point could also delete the successor
  • Cut vector points: if more than 2 sub-paths were used, the cut-out may not have worked correctly
  • Edit vector pattern: Pattern size is now better maintained
  • Create vector outline: Accuracy depending on the layer size in the PCS
  • Radial blur: Problems with dialog preview and alpha images fixed
  • Radial blur: Support for 32-bit images
  • Pixel alignment, vector: fixed distortion with only one aligned point
  • Mouse focus, Windows: If another application was topped during a modal event loop, PhotoLine may not respond correctly to mouse clicks afterwards.
  • Brush outline, macOS: Since 10.12.6 (?) the brush outline was not deleted correctly when leaving the document window
  • Navigation bar, macOS: Was shifted slightly for duplicated documents
  • Quick selection: With "Delete speckles" turned on speckles with manual marking are no longer deleted
  • Online help, Windows: For menu entries, the superordinate title is now included if necessary
  • Text: various modifications to avoid speed problems with many layers.
  • Create vector outline: Could produce incorrect results with multiple sub-paths
  • Slideshow: the last 4 transition modes are reversed in themselves
  • Color to transparency: For 16-bit and 32-bit images, the mask was not evaluated correctly.
  • Linear ICC profiles, JPEG import, sRGB: JPEGs whose sRGB profiles were set via EXIF data could not be switched to linear sRGB

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.02 (Sep 28, 2017)

  • Unicode Hex Input, macOS: works now
  • Icons with names, Windows: on Windows PicturesUser.pld didn't work correctly with icon names (for plug ins)
  • Liquify: a low-res Liquify layer is antialiased if scaled-up
  • Liquify: applying "Scale Layer" to a Liquify layer could cause redraw problems
  • Liquify: Faster, but no longer in the Adjustment Layer dialog
  • Quick Selection tool: can be stopped more smoothly now
  • Blend mode action: consecutive blend mode actions are merged
  • Quick Selection tool: crash with invisible layers fixed
  • Crop tool, picture mode: inverted layer mask/clippings layers/adjustment layers lost the inversion
  • Plugins: are supporting path property
  • Tool tips, Windows: now have a larger distance from the mouse position
  • Calendar, special days, macOS: merging special days works now
  • Redraw: with "slow" documents dragging a small layer at the bottom right was slower than at the top left
  • PDF Export, Export with continuous transparency, layers with layer masks and layer styles: layer styles outside the document bounds were clipped
  • Layer with layer masks and layer styles, Reduce to One Layer: layer styles outside the document bounds were clipped
  • Isolated groups: the cache of isolated groups no longer contains layer styles
  • PDF import: 1 bit images might have become black
  • Simple Browse, macOS: it was possible to leave the root folder
  • Simple Browse: regardless of the sorting direction folders are now always at the top and ".." is always the first entry
  • Browse, file preview: the preview of documents with placeholders failed sometimes
  • Crop Document/Crop tool: is now working fully recursive and changes the size of vector adjustment layers, too
  • Automatic guides, document frame: aligning to the document corners didn't wirk correctly with very large documents (or documents with a very large frame)
  • Neat Image < version 8, macOS: possible crash if used twice
  • Layer masks, filters: applying a filter to a layer mask might have crashed
  • Convert with ICC Profile: Sometimes "Linear gamma" was incorrectly enabled
  • System CMYK profile, Windows: Warning if there is no system CMYK profile
  • PSD import: groups with color filter are automatically set to "Draw Isolated", blend mode "Subtract" is supported
  • Scale Layer, macOS: Changing the DPI value in "Normal" mode automatically activates the DPI

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.01 (Dec 15, 2016)

  • PSD import: layer masks were sometimes at the incorrect position
  • Web > Create Animation: movement allows now values up to 500%
  • PDF import: rg, RG, k, K, g, G are now setting the correct color space
  • PDF import: 1 bit images with colors are now imported correctly
  • Screen output of documents: mirrored 1 bit images with colors were displayed incorrectly
  • PDF export: 1 bit images with an assigned gradient were exported incorrectly
  • Isolated placeholder layers with color profile: if cached they were displayed without color profile
  • Isolated placeholder layers with color profile: if not cached the color profile wasn't restored. Following layers were displayed using the color profile of the placeholder.
  • Liquify tool: a liquify layer with a dpi value smaller than the document caused redraw errors
  • Vector layers, stroke inside/outside: holes in shapes haven't been handled correctly
  • Quick selection tool: displayed the result before applying edge correction
  • Actions, action step showing a dialog: if an action step did show a dialog, the full preview was incorrect
  • Color list: sometimes tried to import image files, which is why drag&drop of files sometimes didn't work
  • Exposure adjustment layer: wasn't updated after loading a document
  • PSD export: problem when saving a document with a transparent background layer and additional transparent effects
  • Show All Layer, Show Only Active Layer: can be recorded as action
  • Windows: undocked dockable dialogs can be switch from horizontal to vertical layout and viceversa by using the context menu of the dialog - just like on macOS
  • Plug ins as action/dynamic filter: windows actions/filters didn't work on macOS and viceversa
  • Placeholders with dynamic filters: are now always drawn isolated
  • Status bar in document window, Windows: in picture mode the status bar can be turned off via manual editing of the preferences (PhotoLine.xml or registry)
  • Dynamic filters, plug ins: Documents with 2 dynamic filters which used plug-ins could cause trouble
  • Automatic guide lines, Windows: if the mouse was exactly over an automatic guide, a mouse click wasn't recognized
  • Tool Settings: resizeable
  • Plug ins, icons: icons with the name of the plug in didn't work correctly
  • Placeholders, saving: Editing and saving an embedded placeholder never reduced its memory size

New in Portable PhotoLine 20.00 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • The most important new features of this release are:
  • Dynamic Filters: effects that were previously unavailable as adjustment layers can now be nondestructively applied to placeholder layers. Even external plug-ins can be used in this way (when supported by the plugin).
  • Match Color, Color Lookup, and Context Blur are new filters added to the existing set of image processing filters.
  • A new invert mask option in the layer panel greatly simplifies tasks when working with adjustments and clipping layers. This option works with both bitmap and vector masks.
  • Patterns now support vector graphics, as well as a mixture of both vector and bitmap elements. The quality of gradients is improved. New onscreen control widgets drastically simplify working with patterns and textures, and existing gradient widget controls are improved.
  • Placeholder layer functionality and workflow in PhotoLine are both much enhanced and extended.
  • And of course numerous small enhancements, workflow improvements, and performance improvements.

New in Portable PhotoLine 19.02 (Oct 14, 2015)

  • HDR import: new
  • SVG export: with options
  • PDF import: enhanced
  • PSD import: enhanced
  • JPEG export: enhanced
  • Text Layers: new vertical alignment "bottom"
  • Color management: now with optional black point compensation
  • Ruler tool with options for text height
  • Batch renaming with key words
  • Barcode with option {pf} to read CSV data
  • Document loading, OS X: Files read by using OS X are now imported as PDF (mainly useful for EPS)
  • Dokument loading, OS X: Images read by using OS X are now imported with 16/32 bits/channel and with the appropriate color profile
  • Path Painting: Now with support of patterns, color jitter of brushes and width curve of line styles
  • Full View: hold Alt to apply it to all open documents
  • Text layers: text selection is has a better visibility on various backgrounds
  • Status bar, Windows: with 2 points it now showing the length and angle
  • Layer List, thumbnail: Alt+Shift+click on thumbnails of adjustment layers or layer masks is displaying the mask transparently now
  • Brush size: can now be modified by Shift+mouse wheel
  • Paste Ruler Settings, Paste Character Settings: If the Text tool is not the active tool, the commands will be applied to all active text layers
  • Color Picker tool: "... From Active Layer" works now with all layer types
  • Layer Move tool, pivot point: is now saved using PLD format
  • Edit > Clear, OS X: Del is now an additional shortcut
  • Color Editor: color palette is adjusted to the current color model
  • Layer List: Show the intensity of group if not equal to 100%
  • Layer Effect "Special Emboss": higher quality
  • Options, Color Management, Printer, Windows: now with "System" to use the options defined inside the printer driver
  • Layer Attributes, Clipping: now with icon and inline editing
  • Next/Previous Picture: size of document window is changed less often
  • Import of ASFE color palettes
  • Document window, implicit pixel mode: If PhotoLine implicitly uses the pixel mode for a document, this will be shown in the document title and the corresponding menu entry will be disabled
  • Painting with textures/patterns: Faster, if they are not transformed
  • Serial Letter: with progress bar

New in Portable PhotoLine 19.00 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Colour: Colour tints: all colour dialogs are extended with a colour tint option to create tints of colour.
  • Colour: All colour preview icons now include a visual indicator that alludes to their colour space. CMYK: corner bottom right. Grey: corner bottom left. Lab: corner top right. An additional dot in the corner indicates a spot colour.
  • Colour: A colour can be assigned to greyscale bitmap layers in the layer properties (transparency must also be unchecked for this to function). Spot colours can also be assigned in this case.
  • Colour: Histogram improvements.
  • Colour Management: Colour management: optional Little CMS CMS engine. This makes Photoline colourmanagement compatible with Linux under WINE.
  • Colour Management: Colour management ICC profiles are optionally loaded from a ICCProfiles folder in the preferences folder.
  • External App link: External application link is improved: the file options include a “None” option.
  • File Formats: Jpg files now support clipping paths
  • File Formats: Tiff files now support saving of layers (Photoshop extension)
  • File Formats: DDS import. Cube image are loaded on different pages.
  • File Formats: Jpg2000 with ICC support.
  • Filter/effect: New Wipe Filter layer
  • Filter/effect: Color to Transparency filter layer
  • Filter/effect: New De-haze filter to remove haze in photos (landscapes, city photograpers will like this)
  • Gradients: Gradient tools offer a new mid-point control to affect the balance between two colours.
  • Gradients: Photoshop gradient libraries are now supported
  • Gradients: Gradient tool: option to create a vector layer.
  • Guides: Guides can now be based on a formula! (w=width, h=height)
  • Guides: Extensive new guides-based grid and column generator! Build complex grids in seconds. These can also be based on formulas!
  • Guides: Guide panel overhaul: guides can now be easily deleted, and multiple selections are possible.
  • Import: Scanner or Camera: option to generate multi-page documents.
  • Interface: All input fields can now be dragged with the middle mouse button to set the value.
  • Interface: Improved icons for several features, such as vector options, colours, etc.)
  • Interface: Dark interface options extended to include all interface elements and other dark GUI improvments
  • Interface: Skinning: custom icon set can be loaded by Photoline when a PicturesUser.pld file is saved in the preferences folder.
  • Interface: New splash screen
  • Interface: Pattern dialogs extended with rotation and shear options without the need to enter a second dialog
  • Interface: External application link menu extended with icons and separators.
  • Layers: Layer panel option to turn off the automatic display of the currently selected layer.
  • Layers: Many improvements to layer selection and handling. Additional options in the layer tool have been added to control layer selection and dragging in the view. Shortcut keys can be customized to switch selection behaviour.
  • Layers: Content in layers can now be selected and dragged in one action in the viewport.
  • Layers: Changes to the default blend mode and opacity are now displayed in the layer in the layers panel! This is an extraordinarily useful addition – no more guessing around which blend mode and opacity was set for specific layers.
  • Layers: Layer properties include option to change the rotation point with exact numbers
  • Layers: Shortcut keys added to control previous/next layer blend mode.
  • Layers: Multiple selections of layers in the layers panel highlight all selected layers. The active layer is more pronounced in highlighting. This is also a preference setting, and can be turned off.
  • Operating System: Windows Explorer: Photoline installs a thumbnail/preview driver in Windows. Previews are available for Photoline PLD files. (Tip: combine with SageThumbs)
  • Placeholder layers: New Placeholder layer type!
  • import external files in a file layer which automatically updates when changes are made to the external file
  • placeholder layer properties display resolution.
  • various options to control the cropping.
  • native PLD files with all supported options are placeholder layer compatible as well (improving asset management)
  • all supported formats are compatible with placeholder layers (including Photoshop PSD files, SVG files, and so on)
  • Print/PDF: Spot Colour support! These are managed via the new document colour panel.
  • Print/PDF: Overprint options for more complex print jobs! Individual layers can be set to overprint.
  • Print/PDF: PDF Export: PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 are now supported.
  • Tools: Rotate View tool with easy rotation point setting (click anywhere on the canvas, then drag to rotate)
  • Tools: Rotate Layer tool
  • Tools: Vector Lasso tool: easy vector based selections
  • Tools: Blend mode choice for all drawing tools! (Photoline can also draw in HSV and Lab channels.)
  • Tools: Copy brush (stamp tool for PS users) now supports scaling and rotating options. The source layer options have been extended as well, and now allow for precise control over the source layers.
  • Tools: Liquify tool: option to load and save images for displacement effect
  • Tools: Crop tool rounds to pixels.
  • Tools: Zoom tool: right mouse drag option to zoom in and out.
  • Tools: Zoom tool: maximum zoom factor increased (1% and smaller) to accommodate large files.
  • Tools:
  • Liquify tool: the liquify image can be copied, pasted, loaded and saved now.
  • Vector: Vector stroke options have seen many essential improvements:
  • strokes can have variable thickness, which is controlled by a curve. Graphic tablets pressure controls the thickness while drawing.
  • three new panels!
  • line styles panel which displays all line styles
  • line style panel which offers direct control over selected strokes
  • line pattern panel which offers thickness curve control and line pattern options.
  • Outer stroke, Center Stroke, and Inner stroke options have been added!
  • possibility to define custom line patterns.
  • Vector: New Vector Outline function to convert shapes to an outlineWith two views open of the same document (side by side), only the active view the user works in displays the anchor points and handles of the active vector/clipping layer. This simplifies mask creation, and provides a effective preview of any change you make.
  • Vector: Vector points can be copied and pasted. Vector paths can be added as sub elements in a vector layer.
  • Vector: A hairline is displayed for invisible vector layers (no fill and no stroke assigned)

New in Portable PhotoLine 18.51 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • New Functions:
  • New Filter "Polar Coordinates"
  • New Function "Cut"
  • New Alignment Functions "Distribute Layers Equally Hor.“ and "Distribute Layers Equally Vert."
  • Enhancements:
  • Paint Tools with Smoothing
  • Positioning of Groups With Clipping
  • Optimizing of Curves
  • PDF Import and Export
  • Icon Bars
  • Isolated Group now with Cache
  • External Programs
  • Touch Gestures on Windows 8
  • Editing Vector Layers Editing Vector Layers
  • Map
  • Optimizations:
  • Energy Consumption
  • "Copy Brush" Tool
  • Adjustment Layers and Modal Dialogs
  • Text Layers
  • Optimizations for Many Layers
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Layer List
  • Channel List
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Save As...
  • Batch Converting
  • Document Attributes
  • Text Ruler
  • The Layer Tool
  • Selected Layers
  • Load Page(s)
  • Open Recent
  • Transparency Pattern
  • Guides
  • By pressing the Alt key guides are now optionally aligned to the active layer, too. This way new guides can be easily created to match existing layers.