What's new in AvancePaint 5.6.0
Oct 25, 2017
- Now released as FreeWare application! Every option is enabled. No registration required any more!
- bug fix: export as BMP was visible before a new document was opened
- Improved support with new installer for Windows 8 and 10
New in AvancePaint 5.5.1 (Apr 26, 2013)
- New In Effects Browser:
- Effect: Brass Plate
- Effect: Pencil Art
- New menu: Ambient Light; with 16 effects!
- Bug fix: program ended after returning to Effects Browser when last option was Text: fixed
- Some changes for easier use and minor bug-fixes in the Effect Browser
- Effective area enlarged
- New: Guidelines for accurate drawing
- Change guideline color
- Change guideline style (solid, dash, dot, dash-dot)
- New in Advanced Polygons and Bezier curves:
- Effective area enlarged
- Real-time scroll
- Center on owner
- All effects revised, improved and enlarged effective area!
- New effect: Carve! (also available in the free edition)
- New: Show Grid and grid color
- New: Hide Toolbar (allows the largest effective paint area to be used)
- Zoom now also in View menu
- New in Zoom: Fit to Window
- New stamps and new category: birthday
- New in Borders:
- Real time preview!
- New borders
- Transparent borders and other effects (Pro)
- Shows the real size of the selected image next to Thumbnail
- and several bug fixes
- bug fix: in Picture Frames a thin line could be spotted on the right corners when using transparent frames: fixed
- bug fix: when closing all windows "Paste" menu stayed enabled, hence crash when selecting: fixed
- Open Borders from Picture Frames and visa versa
- Comes now with a complete PDF manual
- Automatically check for updates (can be disabled)
- Plug-in awareness
New in AvancePaint 5.0.0 (Jun 10, 2009)
- New: Detailed Editing Mode (select an area to extreme enlargement for pixel by pixel editing) -> (microscope icon button or Tools-menu)
- New: Snap to Grid
- New in Tools: "Color Depth and Dither Control"-> Change color depth and/or dithering on selection or the entire image or parts
- New: Hard Spray when using Air Brush tool (Old School type of spray can, Thanks Mike West for the tip)
- New: Export to BMP with Color Depth and Dither Control - (Pro-edition)
- New: Export and import PNG-files! (Pro-Edition)
- New look of the toolbar option buttons and major cosmetic changes throughout the program
- Toolbar has some functions replaced for ease
- New: Picture Frames! Create a picture like frame around your drawing or selected area (mask) with any type of color gradient combinations -
- or create slick transparent fading like picture frames. ..Combinations are almost unlimited
- New: Option in Pencil "Smooth Edges" (raindrop icon)
- New: Option in Pencil-> Colormix pencil(s) gives now a smooth follow of color (gradient style) option to enable gradient style or scattered
- User color Pencil-tool gave wrong color: fixed
- New: borders shows default fore- and background color used during painting
- New: "Set as Wallpaper" in menu Tools: create in one click a wallpaper on your desktop from your drawing
- Huge speed improvements throughout the entire program
- Bezier and Polygons tools greatly improved in speed! Scrollbars setting fixed
- Erase Image now under Image menu
- Bug fix: Borders: did not always made a correct fit around a selected area: fixed
- Several border issues fixed and new borders added
- Bug fix: background moving mask/selection issues and "white block" problem resolved
- New: Start with a blank page maximized to the available workspace (Pro-Edition)
- New: Cursor-keys to allow precision drawing with pencil or airbrush
- New and improved borders and textures added
- New: Edit-menu -> copy to Irfanview
- Some blend and transparency issues fixed
- New blend effects
- 4 more extra blend styles in Pro-Edition
- Selection background was changed also after applying brightness/contrast on a selection: fixed
- Huge speed increase on grayscale conversion
- Huge speed increase of "Brighten by 10%" and "Darken by 10%" options
- New option in tools-menu: Ambient Light
- Huge speed increase of all Ambient light effects, plus 4 new lightings
- Pro-Edition has 3 extra Ambient lightings: Bronze, Dusk, City Night
- Music- and weather symbols added and some changed symbols
- Bug fix: Symbols & Stamps window could not be closed sometimes
- Symbols & Stamps has now its own color pallet to choose from
- Symbols & Stamps window position remembered
- "Symbols and Stamps" window are now sorted in smaller "container" with scroll capability for easy browsing
- The file history list now also shows saved files
- History list increased to 4 (MRUD's)
- Error handling improved (in all save options)
- Maximize on open, now in Free-Edition
- New in Dissolve- and Enhance colors tools: improved, bug fix of intensity setting
- bug fix: resizing avancepaint did not always refresh the gradients below the left & right option bars
- Transparent color now always updated with the background color
- Extra undo
- Bug fix: Selecting the color white from the Fixed Colors didn't always correspond
- Recoding save and open settings
- Color Picker; quickly return to the previous tool after using the Color Picker
- User defined colors doubled (now 12 instead of 6)
- Print module totally recoded, debugged and improved with
- Margins
- fits big images
- 5 paper formats (also letter and legal)
- shows portrait/landscape AND paper size real-time
- save all print settings including the print window dimensions and position
- restore to default
- best fit of an image according to paper size
- extra zoom percentages
- easier in use
- Effects Browser enhanced with
- Hard-coded in AvancePaint
- New: Pro-Edition Text manipulations greatly enhanced with easy positioning of the text
- New: sliders allowing to move and position the "Spotlight-effect"
- Last option is remembered next time you use the Effects Browser
- Transparent color when using zoomlens, render etc. is shown correctly
- New: "TransSpecial Text" in the "Effects Browser". Enhanced with Transparent text
- Soften and Rotate Text, widening text, extra large text size...(pro-edition)
- New Effects: Glass Mirror effects, Quad mirror
- and a main bug fix revision
- Revision on ALL External Effects (also those on the website), debugged, increased speed and functionality. Now all have progress-bars. Some of them are major revisions
- Black & white effect
- Decolorize effect
- Jagged Effect
- Engrave effect
- Noise effect re-written
- Striped effect also usable for grids and speed increased by 500%
- Psychedelic enhanced
- High-Q Contrast enhanced
- and many other additions to all effects
- New Effect: Expressionist
- Bug fix: Font: input box did not show all of the text when entering multiple lines of text
- Bug fix: Font: The applied text did not always positioned correctly
- New in Text: solid text (with background color)
- Easy mode (Beginners/kids mode) now in Free-Edition
- New menu-> Extra (where menu options former resided in the Window-menu has been put)
- Save the present draw-tool settings
- Load the last saved draw-tool settings
- Restore all settings back to default (Pro-Edition)
- Improved visibility of the drawing cursors
- Hourglass is shown when processing an effect
- ESC key can be used to stop an effect during processing
- Export GIF had a bug in transparency; saved it always with a transparent color: fixed
- Several Zoom issues fixed
- The scrollbar that handles line/pen thickness/sizes has been enhanced higher precision, with + - and cosmetically improved
- Resizing with 'Constrain Proportions' enabled did not update the dimensions: fixed
- Brightness & Contrast window rearrangements, 'out of stack space' fixed, and cosmetic changes
- Major bug fix: texture fill did not always work
- Major bug fix: applying borders did not always work
- Desktop- and My Documents folder can be selected In 'Texture-fill' and 'Borders'
- Drawing squares and end corner wrongly placed fixed
- Re-assigned shortcut keys
- Shortcut keys added
- Shift -> vertical/horizontal lines
- CTRL -> select cursor/pointer (during area selection you'll be able to move the selection)
- H-key line drawing during pencil tool
- Right-click shows "Grab Selection/mask" to move the selected area
- "True Color Palette" now updates its color range according to the active color
- Base colors added in "True Color Palette" tool
- Undo issues fixed
- A lot of bug fixes and less obvious changes to improve user interfacing with more ease (more then 175 changes!!)
New in AvancePaint 2.2.1 (Oct 23, 2008)
- Bug fix: Image Resize gave sometimes Run-time Error 5
- Image Resize: prevent non-numeric values to be entered
- New: transparent font-typing (T symbol when choosing Text-option from the left toolbar)
- Text: added box line around text input fields to clearly show the boundaries
- Hovering mouse over the Textbox will change the cursor to show user it's an input-field
- Word 'Action:' in Text toolbar options replaced with 'Apply:'
- Warn user when closing Avancepaint if picture has changed (using Close of the titlebar controlbox [X])
New in AvancePaint 2.1 (Sep 17, 2007)
- Main screen toolbar-icons updated
- Erase (white, black, background color) image did not work when using an opened picture
- Sharpen effect view enlarged
- Jagged effect did only a part of the screen, fixed
- Soften-, Smooth, Crease and Decolorize effects had a cyan line at the right edge, fixed
- UNDO when applying an effect inside a selection and pressing the X (undo effect) did not always undo the last applied effect, fixed
- with some external effects a line(s) at the edges of the image was shown: fixed
- Borders: selecting user border is now done with one click (no double click anymore)
- Effects browser update (v1.6)
- Autozoom when larger pictures was to small format: fixed
- Centre smaller images in the viewport
- Emboss, Engrave, Relief gave sometimes a line on the side: fixed
- Colorpicker position better placed
- Right-click Fill tool opened Texture fill -> removed in v2.1 but now placed in the Fill toolbar
- Freehand dots/donuts as new pencil
- Some general debugging and minor changes
New in AvancePaint 2.0.0 (Jun 18, 2007)
- New: Draw advanced Polygons - move points, color, thickness etc...
- New: Draw Advanced Bezier curves - move points, color, thickness etc...
- New: Twain compatible! (Eztw32.dll)
- import images/pictures from your scanner, cam etc. any twain compatible device!
- New: Pencil now also acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
- New: 5 new pencil color mixes (user selected color, grayscales, pastel pink, blue, yellow)
- Total new look for easier use
- Several bugs concerning closing the application after an effect: fixed
- Render gave wrong displacement : fixed
- Zoom gave wrong displacement: fixed
- Color picker enhanced with RGB color pallet picker
- New: Spot light aperture size
- Default effect settings improved
- New: mirror image horizontal
- New: mirror image vertical
- Color selector always on top
- User selected color (in Avancepaint) now default in color-selector
- New Pro Edition effect: Anti Aliasing!
- transparency color for zoom, rotate and rendering
- Render picture displacement
- Bug fix: zoom, render and rotate centering image not always correct: fixed
- general debugging
- Spot light now updates automatically after moving image
- New Text functions (Pro Edition): font, bold, italic, underline, 3D shadow text, all fonts added, text entry now logically placed
- Text updates automatically after moving (Tip: After apply use it to create 3D)
- AvancePaint Brightness/Contrast: preview enlarged, centre image, flickering when moving image: fixed, more speed
- Reset back to original image
- Pencil -> acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
- Right click when using Color Picker Tool sets now the background color
- double click html color code -> clipboard
- Right-click Circle icon -> allows drawing Bezier curves
- 3D borders (Pro Edition) enhanced: thickness between 1 and 20 points
- New: extra 3D border "etched"
- Borders improved with: now a pallet of 50 colors (instead of 18), size adjusted according to selected border, resize border allowing background color change in solid colors (dual color borders), general debugging
- New effect: Interlacing, Crease and Moody (replacing blur, brighten, darken, emboss as it is already available in AvancePaint itself)
- All effects debugged and enhanced
- Effects enabled in Free Edition: Crease, Diffuse, Interlacing!
- Major effect updates of: Sharpen (5 styles: Pro), Psychedelic (now 5 extra effects: Pro), Emboss, Black & white, Jagged (Pro), Striped (user color, step size: Pro), Moody (Pro)
- Free Edition effects available for download: Emboss, Blur, Grayscale, Brighten, Darken - New Statue effect!
- Pro effects available for download: Lighting Blur (and many more will follow)!
- Add Free Edition effects up to 4 extra free downloadable effects
- Speedup some effects: grayscales, color scales, bright/contrast
- Convert single Color Scale New -> black & white, yellow, purple, cyan
- New: Cyan color pallet added to the main color pallet
- New in Draw Text : Center text , left justify, Font
- Copy/Paste bug fixed - After paste user needed to click the selection to allow moving the pasted image, now automatic
- Bug: Blend and transparency during Selection did not work: fixed!
- 8 new textures!
- 4 user selected Textures stored for next use
- Bug fix: Transparency fixed with Paste and with inserting Symbols
- New: ESC during effect stops the current running effect (to stop effect press ESC-key)
- 28 new symbols!
- Associate JPG, BMP or GIF with AvancePaint to open these files from within the Explorer
- Several cosmetic changes
New in AvancePaint 1.2.7 (May 8, 2007)
- Priority update
- Effects Browser quitted: Runtime Error 53 – File not found fx.dll -> fixed
- Error 481 in Texture Fill when user selected a graphic file that has an incorrect file extension: User tried to assign a graphics format other than a bitmap, icon, jpg or gif to a texture (even if the extension is a .bmp, .gif, .jpg because the file format does not correspond to the file extension)
- New: icon (.ICO) format support in texture fill
New in AvancePaint 1.2.5 (May 2, 2007)
- Program quitted after save/export JPG: Runtime error 53 - File not found ijl11.dll or ijl15.dll -> Fixed
- default filenames truncated (untitled.jpg -> unti.jpg) when saving - fixed
- filename not parsed in export JPG
New in AvancePaint 1.2.0 (Apr 16, 2007)
- Released as Free Edition with possibility to upgrade to the Pro Edition
- New GUI: icons, layout, style and workspace
- New: Effects browser > More powerful, faster and easier to use photographical effects
- New: Enhance
- New: Dissolve
- Extra borders and textures
- Several bug fixes