Release 2.7.1

Quick fix for 1-pixel width freehand tool freezing the app.

Release 2.7

Changes since v2.6:

• Layers: added color blend modes (hue, saturation, luminosity, color)
• Colors:
  • moved palette below sliders
  • added key control to palette:
    • left/right/up/down to choose color
    • page up/page down to change color set
• Rectangle tool:
  • added "Outline width"
• Ellipse tool:
  • added "Enable rotation"
  • added "Outline width"
• Text tool: always use current foreground color for whole text
• Airbrush tool: smoother performance
• Support transparency in selections and when cut/copy/deleting
• Removed red scale line from brush preview, instead use numerical size label
• Many, many bug fixes and improvements
• Updated documentation
• Updated translations, fixed Latin American Spanish
• Added Norwegian translation, thanks Johan Wagenheim

Release 2.6

Changes since v2.5:

• Instead of a context menu to choose a tool, use the current tool to draw with the background color.

• New misc. setting: show brush size around mouse pointer

• Added translation, rotation and scaling of selections

• Added undo/redo to layer rename, alpha, blend mode, visibility, delete, merge

• Use zlib to compress image data for each layer, resulting in massively smaller project files, esp. with many rather empty layers.

• Brushes:

  • moved brush configuration into stored Brushes window
  • added current brush preview to status bar
  • removed Brush tool (use Freehand instead)
  • switch brushes in stored Brushes window with cursor keys

• Blur tool:

  • added "Use current brush" option

• Eraser Tool:

  • added "Use current brush" option
  • added "Pressure" slider to control opacity of erasure

• Fill tool (gradient):

  • a more intuitive usage
  • show line from start to end point
  • added modes: radial, square, cone

• Freehand tool:

  • added "Use current brush" option
  • added "Pressure" slider to control opacity

• Straight line tool:

  • added "Use current brush" option
  • add "Pressure" slider for opacity control

• Transparency tool:

  • added "Use current brush" option
  • use slider instead of alpha from current color
  • changed "Speed" to "Pressure"
  • made "Pressure" a percentage of the way to the chosen value

• Wave add-on:

  • Add X and Y spinners for position

• Many bug fixes and improvements

• Updated documentation

• Updated translations

Release 2.5

Changes since v2.4:

• Selection tool:
  • added ellipse mode
  • use SHIFT for aspect lock
  • ALT for center-to-corner mode
  • OPT to substract
  • simplified GUI
• Rectangle/Ellipse tool:
  • SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
  • SHIFT when rotating rectangle locks to 22.5° angles
  • ALT for center-to-corner mode
  • simplified GUI
• Eraser tool: Anti-alias edge
• Color selector tool: show box of sampled pixels
• Colors: support drag'n'drop of HTML text values
• Improved cropping
  • crop-to-selection
  • lock aspect
  • shaded crop area
  • better visible handles
• Added scaling of selected areas
• Improved resizing
  • use a resize-box with handles
  • added filters (bilinear, bicubic, etc.)
  • SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
• New "Selection" menu
  • added "Select all"
  • added "Select non-transparent"
  • added "Hide borders"
• Moved all manipulating actions from "Layers" and "Canvas" to "Edit" menu
  • use sub-menus for "Active/All layers" for all actions
• Anti-Dither, Transparency tool, Flip manipulator: respect selections
• DEL to delete a selection/layer
• Pan when holding SPACE
• Zoom with mouse wheel (without ALT, reversed in/out direction WRT v2.4)
• Changed color dropper shortcut to CTRL
• Close manipulator windows with ESC, apply with ENTER
• Improved visibility of crosshair cursor mode
• Improved layer re-ordering
• Forward keyboard shortcuts from Layers to main window
• More intelligent canvas-to-window fitting of opened images
• Removed "Window | Resize to fit", there's the zoom button for that
• Disable unavailable image/project files from "Open recent" menus
• Fix drawing artefacts when moving a selection
• Loads of bugfixes and polishing
• Updated documentation
• New translations:
  • Australian English (jt15s),
  • Latin American Spanish (victroniko)

Release 2.4

• Overhauled the Layers window and handling:
  - improved layout
  - reduced commands to the most useful, moved to main menu
  - added naming layers
  - added transparency slider
  - added blending modes: Normal, Multiply. Divide, Screen,
  Overlay, Hard light, Soft light, Vivid light, Pin light,
  Hard mix, Difference, Exclusion, Color dodge, Linear dodge,
  Color burn, Linear burn, Darken, and Lighten
• Improved Colors window
  - removed YIQ and YUV color modes
  - added CIELAB color mode
  - accept drag'n'dropped colors
  - set/show hex-value of current color
  - removed palette from main window
• Make current tool more obvious in Tools window
• Bufixes and polishing

Release 2.3.1

• Fixed initial black canvas where there are no ArtPaint settings

Release 2.3.0

• Fixed drawing with transparency
• Fixed drawing of text
• Added adjustable checkered background for transparency
• Interference add-on: added controls
• Color reducer add-on: fix crash of GLA mode
• Brush tool: new/improved controls
• Airbrush tool: Fixed spray mode
• Save/Restore Tools window icon arrangement
• Fixed save/restore floating window settings
• Move appropriate menu items to new "ArtPaint" menu
• General bug fixing (memory leaks etc.)
• GUI/Layout polishing
• Improved/updated localization
• Added/Updated translations: ca de en_GB fr nl pt tr
• Added ArtPaint project file icon
• New user manual

Release 2.2.0

• Fix drawing artefacts
• Convert to Layout API and fix various GUI issues
• Migrate to Locale Kit
• Added translations: Dutch (thanks Begasus!), Spanish (thanks twse!)
• Anti-Dither add-on: use spinner widget
• Blur add-on: react to changes live
• Fill tool: Fix gradient rendering
• Open dropped images/projects
• Fix build on modern GCC

ArtPaint 2.1.2

• Fix to Brush, Text, and Magic Wand tools
• Add-ons updated
• Added Brightness add-on
• Added ColorReducer add-on
• Renamed add-on PerlinWood to Wood
• Threshold add-on: fix some drawing errors
• Sentence-casing the GUI
• Better/corrected help texts
• Updated documentation

ArtPaint 2.1.1

Merge pull request #64 from PeteCA/master

Fixed all add-ons and restored documentation