v5.5.1 [Apr 19, 2013]
- Effect: Brass Plate
- Effect: Pencil Art
- 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
- Guidelines for accurate drawing
- Change guideline color
- Change guideline style (solid, dash, dot, dash-dot)
- Advanced Polygons and Bezier curves:
- Effective area enlarged
- Real-time scroll
- Center on owner
- All effects revised, improved and enlarged effective area!
- Effect: Carve
- Show Grid and grid color
- Hide Toolbar (allows the largest effective paint area to be used)
- Zoom now also in View menu
- Zoom: Fit to Window
- Stamps and category: birthday
- Real time preview!
- Borders added
- Transparent borders and other effects (Pro)
- Shows the real size of the selected image next to Thumbnail
- 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
v5.0.0 [Jun 8, 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
