What's new in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.6
Dec 27, 2020
- Fixed text size issues on high DPI monitors.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.5 (Dec 5, 2020)
- Small interface improvements, slightly bigger font for improved readability.
- Improved cursor pointer visibility.
- New brush image 'snowflake_01' with corresponding brush preset 'snowflakes'.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.4 (Jan 11, 2020)
- Fixed loading image into reference view.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.3 (Mar 14, 2019)
- Bucket fill tool: added a checkbox that allows to sample all visible layers in order to detect the fill area. When this new option is on you can, for example, have the lineart on one layer and use the bucket fill tool into another layer, and the fill area will still be restricted inside the lineart boundaries.
- Layers list widget: added a button to merge current layer with the underlying one (in previous versions this functionality was accessible only via the [CTRL+E] keyboard shortcut).
- improved compatibility with older graphics cards.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.2 (Jan 18, 2019)
- solved a major bug causing application crash at startup on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
- solved a small glitch occurring when the application window was maximized on a high dpi monitor, leaving a small part of the screen uncovered.
- small fixes with high dpi support (size of the secondary view on image, gui shadows).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.1 (Dec 14, 2018)
- Reference view that replicates canvas movements, in order to always focus on the portion of the image we are currently working on. You can see a simple demonstration here.
- Video export of drawing process into an avi video file: ready to upload it on YouTube, Vimeo or other web video sharing platforms. (**)
- Multiple layers.
- Ability to vary stroke size and/or opacity according to pen pressure (supports Wacom digitizers and tablets with Wacom technologies, like ASUS VivoTab note 8 ***)
- Replay of drawing process.
- Very rich brush engine (possibility to specify brush texture, color dynamics, scattering, size and angle jitter, and more..).
- Import/export of the whole drawing process.
- Loading and saving of most common image formats (jpg, png, tif, tga, dds).
- Canvas rotation.
- Canvas horizontal flip.
- Selection mask.
- Image crop: watch demo.
- Perspective grid overlay: watch demo.
- Brush library: possibility to choose among different brushes, import new brushes and even to define new custom brushes: watch demo.
- Mirror tool: to create horizontally mirrored images (useful for symmetrical shapes or drawing faces) or radial repetitions of a pattern, like in mandala paintings: watch demo.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.6.0 (Dec 12, 2018)
- Added support for Windows Ink. Now pen pressure is detected also by tablets that do not support Wacom Wintab technology (like Microsoft Surface Pro 2017 and Microsoft Surface Pro 6).
- The application is now DPI aware, and properly scales the interface on High DPI monitors.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.16 (Oct 19, 2018)
- Solved a bug that caused wrong reproduction of drawing processes created using a simple (not textured) round brush.
- Improved brush scattering, now the scattering direction is not wrongly affected by the rotation angle of the brush.
- New brush image 'platanus' with corresponding brush preset 'leaves'.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.15 (Jul 27, 2018)
- Brush dynamics: brush opacity jitter slider, by which the user can set the amount of random variation in brush opacity along a single brushstroke.
- The Brush property dialog now contains an additional button that opens the "brushes" folder, where the user can put additional custom brushes (in PNG or ABR format). The newly added brushes will be loaded at next SpeedyPainter startup (this short video shows how to create a simple custom brush in SpeedyPainter).
- [Setup version and Microsoft store version only]: custom brushes folder is now moved under user folder (%APPDATA%SpeedyPainterbrushes), this way the user can easily add add his custom brushes to SpeedyPainter, without the need of administrator privileges. This new folder is accessible using the button described in the previous point.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.14 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Reference view that replicates canvas movements, in order to always focus on the portion of the image we are currently working on. You can see a simple demonstration here.
- Video export of drawing process into an avi video file: ready to upload it on YouTube, Vimeo or other web video sharing platforms. (**)
- Multiple layers.
- Ability to vary stroke size and/or opacity according to pen pressure (supports Wacom digitizers and tablets with Wacom technologies, like ASUS VivoTab note 8 ***)
- Replay of drawing process.
- Import/export of the whole drawing process.
- Loading and saving of most common image formats (jpg, png, tif, tga, dds).
- Canvas rotation.
- Canvas horizontal flip.
- Selection mask.
- Image crop: watch demo.
- Perspective grid overlay: watch demo.
- Brush library: possibility to choose among different brushes, import new brushes and even to define new custom brushes: watch demo.
- Mirror tool: to create horizontally mirrored images (useful for symmetrical shapes or drawing faces) or radial repetitions of a pattern, like in mandala paintings
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.13 (Mar 15, 2018)
- Reference view that replicates canvas movements, in order to always focus on the portion of the image we are currently working on. You can see a simple demonstration here.
- Video export of drawing process into an avi video file: ready to upload it on YouTube, Vimeo or other web video sharing platforms. (**)
- Multiple layers.
- Ability to vary stroke size and/or opacity according to pen pressure (supports Wacom digitizers and tablets with Wacom technologies, like ASUS VivoTab note 8 ***)
- Replay of drawing process.
- Import/export of the whole drawing process.
- Loading and saving of most common image formats (jpg, png, tif, tga, dds).
- Canvas rotation.
- Canvas horizontal flip.
- Selection mask.
- Image crop: watch demo.
- Perspective grid overlay: watch demo.
- Brush library: possibility to choose among different brushes, import new brushes and even to define new custom brushes: watch demo.
- Mirror tool: to create horizontally mirrored images (useful for symmetrical shapes or drawing faces) or radial repetitions of a pattern, like in mandala paintings: watch demo.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.12 (Feb 18, 2018)
- Bucket fill tl extensin: new algrithm ptimized fr filling regins inside lineart cnturs, aviding cmmn artifacts near the brders (details here).
- Better CPU handling when the applicatin is nt active.
- Mre efficient CPU usage.
- Slved sme memry issues that ccasinally lead t applicatin crash, especially while dealing with bigger image sizes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.11 (Feb 7, 2018)
- Load and save dialogs have been replaced with Windows native Open/Save dialogs, to simplify filesystem navigation.
- More responsive interface during the loading of big files.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.10 (Jan 29, 2018)
- Better handling of crashes due to unfulfilled system requirements (OpenGL 3.0 not supported by graphics hardware).
- Splash screen.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.9 (Jan 12, 2018)
- the DevIL image library has been replaced with the CxImage library, now SpeedyPainter can also read RAW images produced by digital cameras.
- solved some artifacts occurring when saving a semitrasparent image in the JPG format.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.8 (Dec 22, 2017)
- new 'pencil' brush preset.
- whe a selection is active, the Bucket Fill tool now works only on active selection.
- improved selection tool. Finally the selection tool produces smooth selections, this resolves a great limitation of the selection tool in previous version, in which selected area exhibited very jagged borders (details here).
- solved some bugs in the selection tool, occasionally causing a wrong correspondence between the selection contour and the actual masked area of the canvas.
- solved some bugs in the gradient tool.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.7 (Dec 12, 2017)
- Improved rendering of round brush at very small sizes (see comparison here)
- Improved rendering and interpolation of brushstrokes when drawing very fast lines, like while applying hatching and crosshatching techniques. Previous versions occasionally produced some annoying glitches in such scenarios.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.6 (Dec 9, 2017)
- removed some small GUI glitches (in the Save Image dialog and Second view Widget positioning).
- small GUI refinements in the Brush Properties dialog.
- updated user manual.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.5 (Nov 24, 2017)
- finer control over color dynamics. Now user can select the amount of hue, saturation and value jitter that will affect the randomness of the resulting color.
- brush orientation: user can now select a different orientation angle for the brush.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.4 (Nov 19, 2017)
- Color picker is now accessible also with a specific toolbar button (in addition to keyboard binding with the "ALT" key). This can be useful when a physical keyboard is not available, like in a tablet configuration.
- Solved some inconsistencies in the width/height values shown in the Crop/Resize tool.
- Solved a small bug in the color selector.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.3 (Nov 12, 2017)
- More clean and organized Brush Properties Dialog, brush settings are now grouped into different tabs.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.2 (Nov 7, 2017)
- added brush color dynamics (demo here).
- added a pressure enhancement flag to improve simulation of dry brushes.
- new brushes and presets!
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.1 (Oct 5, 2017)
- finally solved an annoying bug that caused brushtrokes to occasionally disappear while drawing (especially when drawing very fast lines).
- small modifications in the crop/resize tool.
- additional keyboard combinations for changing brush size and zoom (CTRL+SPACE+horizontal/vertical MOUSE DRAG).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.5.0 (Sep 27, 2017)
- Improved brushstroke blending algorithm, now with a smoother transition according to pen pressure variations (see comparison here ).
- Brush scattering.
- Brush angle jitter.
- Improved brush properties dialog (see details here).
- New brushes.
- Added the possibility to remove brush presets.
- Solved a major bug, causing the window not loading at startup if in the previous execution the application was closed while in windowed mode (not maximized).
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.16 (Apr 5, 2017)
- Improved cut and paste (now you can also rotate the pasted image).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.15 (Mar 3, 2017)
- Draggable toolbar (preview here).
- Fixed erroneous window positioning when in fullscreen mode in a multi-monitor configuration (including Wacom cintiq + monitor configurations).
- Adding some small optimizations in the drawing algorithm of textured brushstrokes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.14 (Feb 20, 2017)
- Improved brush presets list (now showing a preview for each existing brush preset).
- Visualization of current cursor coordinates is now disabled during the video export process (thus avoiding overlapping with the print of the estimated time to completion).
- Solved some bugs occurring when user aborted the video export process.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.13 (Feb 20, 2017)
- Better looking interface.
- Longer names for brush presets.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.12 (Feb 3, 2017)
- improved crop tool, now with snap at canvas boundaries and at canvas pixels level.
- solved a bug occurring when cropping and resizing images, causing the loss of the opacity status of layers.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.11 (Jan 30, 2017)
- Reference view that replicates canvas movements, in order to always focus on the portion of the image we are currently working on. You can see a simple demonstration here.
- Video export of drawing process into an avi video file: ready to upload it on YouTube, Vimeo or other web video sharing platforms.
- Multiple layers.
- Ability to vary stroke size and/or opacity according to pen pressure (supports Wacom digitizers and tablets with Wacom technologies, like ASUS VivoTab note 8)
- Replay of drawing process.
- Import/export of the whole drawing process.
- Loading and saving of most common image formats (jpg, png, tif, tga, dds).
- Canvas rotation.
- Canvas horizontal flip.
- Selection mask.
- Image crop: watch demo.
- Perspective grid overlay.
- Brush library: possibility to choose among different brushes, import new brushes and even to define new custom brushes.
- Mirror tool: to create horizontally mirrored images (useful for simmetrical shapes or drawing faces) or radial repetitions of a pattern
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.9 (Oct 24, 2016)
- loading .abr brush sets (to load them just copy the .abr file in the "databrushes" subfolder, more infos here).
- fixed some a small bug occurring when zooming.
- fixed a bug that prevented loading a user defined default canvas size from the .ini file (portable version).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.8 (Aug 16, 2016)
- selection tool: added a "close selection" button in control bar (useful for tablet usage).
- better handling of activation status for "mirror tool" and "perspective grid".
- print of x, y canvas coordinates under current cursor position.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.7 (Aug 15, 2016)
- improved selection tool, now using a more standard way to close the selection (click on first point).
- solved a bug that created some inconsistencies when undoing an action after using the bucket fill tool.
- file name on title bar.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.6 (Aug 2, 2016)
- solved a bug with semi-transparent png images.
- improved and cleaner graphical user interface.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.5 (May 27, 2016)
- improved image filtering.
- solved a bug occurring when using textured brushes in mirror mode (leading to wrong brush orientation in the mirrored image).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.3 (May 4, 2016)
- fixed a bug causing erroneous pen coordinates in multi-monitor configurations (including configurations with Wacom cintiq + monitor).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.2 (Apr 25, 2016)
- Added french localization.
- Added support for a more simplified localization mechanism. Now all the strings of a language reside in a specific txt file. Everyone can add a specific language localization by simply adding a new file in the ./languages folder, redefining all the keys defined in the already existing localization files. (More details are available in the file '/languages/Readme.txt')
- Image resize action now produces better quality results than previous version.
- Improved mirror tool (now it allows also to create images like this one.)
- Improved autopan & autozoom during replay.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.1a (Jan 20, 2016)
- Added missing Microsoft redistributable runtime dlls (This solves various missing dll errors at startup).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.1 (Nov 22, 2015)
- Separated settings for brush and eraser.
- Improved Mirror Tool.
- Better UI animations.
- Autopan and autozoom during replay.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.4.0 (Sep 7, 2015)
- Mirror Tool
- Bug fixes
- CropTool rectangle endpoints are now draggable
- Toolbar redesign
- Smoother lines, improved antialiasing of image
- Improved Gradient Tool (bug fixes + draggable endpoints)
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.6 (Jun 15, 2015)
- Flat interface.
- Now the app memorizes and restores its previous window status.
- Solved a bug occurring when starting drawing over an existing image. Previously the original image was lost when re-playing the drawing process.
- Solved a bug causing sensible cpu usage when the app was minimized.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.5 (May 15, 2015)
- Better separation between portable version and installer version, portable version now relies only on the corresponding .ini file, whilst installer version uses the Windows Registry.
- Removed [512x512] canvas size limitation on Intel HD graphics hardware.
- Solved a bug occurring when starting a drawing over an existing image.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.4 (Apr 6, 2015)
- Improved brush properties dialog.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.2 (Jan 7, 2015)
- Added autosave functionality to prevent losing data on application crashes.
- New set of brushes: "plants".
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.1 (Dec 30, 2014)
- Improved brush properties dialog.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.3.0 (Jul 1, 2014)
- Better tablet support: added finger gestures for zoom and panning.
- More standard combo box behaviour (works better on tablet devices).
- Fixed textured brush cursor.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.10 (May 19, 2014)
- Fixed some pixel glitches occurring with pasted selections.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.9 (May 15, 2014)
- Solved application crash occasionally occurring when pasting a selection (CTRL+V).
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.8 (May 12, 2014)
- Added Cut and Paste actions, this finally solves a major limitation of previous versions of SpeedyPainter.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.7 (Mar 24, 2014)
- New brush: brushed metal
- New brush: skin freckles
- Fixed some major bugs accidentally introduced in version 3.2.5.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.6 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Fixed some major bugs accidentally introduced in version 3.2.5.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.5 (Feb 3, 2014)
- Improved support of integrated graphics hardware.
- Improved drawing algorithm.
- Big improvement with anti-aliasing of lines, this solves a well known problem that occurred expecially when drawing thin lines.
- Overlay message "created with SpeedyPainter" removed from the exported .avi video.
- Some modifications in the gradient tool, now you can change the color at the two extremities of the gradient using the same color selector used to change the brush color, instead of additional sliders for hue, saturation and brightness.
- When applying a gradient inside a selection, the result has now smoother borders.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.4 (Jan 6, 2014)
- Improved drawing algorithm.
- Big improvement with anti-aliasing of lines, this solves a well known problem that occurred expecially when drawing thin lines.
- Overlay message "created with SpeedyPainter" removed from the exported .avi video.
- Some modifications in the gradient tool, now you can change the color at the two extremities of the gradient using the same color selector used to change the brush color, instead of additional sliders for hue, saturation and brightness.
- When applying a gradient inside a selection, the result has now smoother borders.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.3 (Dec 13, 2013)
- Resize tool (added as a variant of the crop tool).
- Small improvements in the gradient tool.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.2 (Nov 11, 2013)
- Solved a bug occurring when zooming in and out, introduced in version 3.2.1.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.1 (Nov 8, 2013)
- Improvement in the rotation feature: rotation is now always relative to the center of the visible area. In previous versions rotation was always relative to the center of the canvas, and it was hard to execute the desired rotation when we were zooming in a small portion of the image.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.2.0 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Bucket fill tool.
- Gradient tool.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.12 (Oct 10, 2013)
- Added the possibility to select a different drive letter inside load/save dialogs.
- Added Spanish language localization (you can change the language in the "settings dialog").
- Bug fixes:
- Solved a bug in the function that shows/hides the bottom control bar.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.11 (Oct 7, 2013)
- Added Spanish language localization (you can change the language in the "settings dialog").
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.10 (Oct 2, 2013)
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts for two additional commands: "fit canvas to window" and "zoom 100%".
- Fixed a bug leading to application crash, occurring when the user tried to save an image within a folder where he has no write permissions.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.9 (Sep 29, 2013)
- solved a bug occurring when changing the GUI color inside the settings dialog. In previous versions, the new chosen color was not reloaded properly at application restart, and the default color was restored.
- fixed a bug occurring in rotation mode, the CTRL+SHIFT keyboard combination was erroneously not detected in version v3.1.8.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.8 (Sep 27, 2013)
- The new info dialog now allows to customize some of the main application's keyboard shortcuts.
- Smoother contour of selection mask.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.7 (Aug 31, 2013)
- Improved Layers Preview widget, the maximum height of the widget is now fixed and a scrollbar will be visible when the number of previews will exceed the widget height.
- Solved a problem with the Color Selector square, occurring with Intel® HD Graphics hardware.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.5 (Aug 23, 2013)
- The second view now highlights the visible area rectangle when, according to the current zoom level, only a portion of the canvas is visible.
- The "Brush properties" dialog now includes a preview of how brushstrokes will look according to the new selected options.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.3 (Aug 20, 2013)
- Most of the brush options are now grouped inside a new "Brush properties" dialog, easily accessible through a small button placed on the upper right corner of the window.
- [CTRL]+click over the "brush" button now opens the new "Brush properties" dialog.
- Added the possibility to change spacing between each point inside single brushstrokes, this adds the possibility to create new nice effects.
- Improved algorithm for the generation of brush strokes.
- Antialiasing of BrushStrokes. This fixes a major limitation of previous versions of SpeedyPainter. Antialising is on by default, but, if desired, this option can still be disabled in the new "Brush properties" dialog.
- [CTRL]+click on the "fit canvas" button does a 100% zoom on the image (actual pixels zoom level).
- Solved a bug occurring when the replay was started with disabled GUI. In previous versions, at replay ending the window title and border were not restored, even if the GUI was set to visible again.
- Solved a bug at replay termination, image was not restored properly if we started a drawing from an existing image.
- Simpler shader used for the ColorSelector, this should fix a problem intel Intel® HD Graphics 4000.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.1.0 (Aug 12, 2013)
- A message displaying the current zoom percentage is shown every time the user zooms in and out in the image.
- Autohide of cursor during replay.
- Added the possibility to constrain drawing the along horizontal or vertical lines, by holding th [SHIFT] key while drawing a line.
- Drawing is restored to its final state when the user aborts replay before completion.
- Improvements of the "second view" widget, now all the four corners of the view are draggable.
- Added a new hotkey to quick zoom into image: [CTRL] + [ALT] + vertical mouse movement.
- Added a new hotkey to quick change brush size: [CTRL] + [ALT] + horizontal mouse movement.
- The help dialog now shows also current build number, this way the user is better aware of the version he is actually using.
- User manual updated according to the new keyboard shortcuts.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0.7 (Jul 29, 2013)
- Added the possibility to show an additional view of the image being drawn. This way the user can always have a look of the image on its whole, even while drawing just some details on the main view. The additional view can be enabled in the settings dialog.
- Solved a bug occurring when trying to open .spf and .dpf files created with newer versions of SpeedyPainter.
- Small improvements of some GUI controls.
- User manual was updated according to the modifications introduced in latest releases.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0.6 (Jul 17, 2013)
- User interface color is now configurable via the Settings dialog.
- Improved display of brush cursor while using textured brushes.
- Added a short user manual, in the file "SpeedyPainter - user manual.pdf".
- Added an additional button that allows the user exiting replay mode without using the keyboard, as an alternative to the "ESC" keyboard shortcut.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0.5 (Jul 5, 2013)
- User interface color is now configurable via the .ini file.
- Fixed Z step of horizontal depth lines in the perspective grid.
- Bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0.4 (Jun 21, 2013)
- Settings dialog, to change application language, toggle UI shadow and change reference view position.
- Improved fullscreen mode (now hiding Windows title bar).
- New toolbar buttons: "settings" and "toggle reference view".
- Added a button on top left corner to show/hide GUI, as an alternative to the "TAB" keyboard shortcut.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0.2 (Jun 10, 2013)
- Better support for integrated graphics cards.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Speedy Painter Portable 3.0 (Jun 6, 2013)
- Added a brush library. The library contains some simple default brushes. The user can add his own custom brushes to the library, by simply moving them into the brush folder (data/brushes) and restarting the application. When saving a drawing process, if the user used a custom brush which is not present in the default library, the brush will be automatically saved inside the drawing process file. This way the drawing process can be replicated also on installations of SpeedyPainter which don't contain that particular brush.