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4.3.1 - released on 2023-09-06

06 Sep 12:09
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  • New themes: flat dark, flat light, system
  • UI font type and size in Preferences
  • Support reading WebP files (without ImageMagick)
  • New filters: Abstract Lights, Tile Seamless, Rose, Concentric Shapes, Border Mask
  • Blinds, Checkerboard, Goo and Shapes Grid as separate transition filters
  • Improved filters: Photo Collage, Spheres
  • Snapping to pixel boundaries
  • Layer isolation
  • Crop to content
  • Adjustment layers, layer groups (experimental)
  • Color fill and gradient fill layers are no longer experimental
  • Many smart object improvements (still experimental)
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.3.0 - released on 2022-04-14

14 Apr 21:25
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  • Contributions by Anirudh Sharma:
    • New filters: Flow Field, Comic Book
    • Improved filters: Grid, Spiral, Color Wheel, Mirror
    • Area zooming in the Zoom Tool and in the Navigator
    • New UI for "Enlarge Canvas"
    • Tapering and Reverse Tapering strokes
    • Higher undo limit for lightweight changes
  • The beginnings of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish translations (with contributions by Albano Battistella, Jonas Mohr, Heimen Stoffels)
  • Pixelitor 4.3.0 requires Java 17 or higher
  • The Windows installer includes the required Java, on Windows there's no need anymore to install Java first
  • Support for the TGA and NetPBM file formats
  • ImageMagick-based export/import for all the formats supported by ImageMagick 7
  • SVG export in the Pen Tool and the Render/Shapes filters
  • Erase blending mode
  • Presets for filters, tools, and in other places
  • Curved strokes and angle setting in Auto Paint
  • New filters: Spider Web, Spiral, Grid, Truchet Tiles, Bump Map, Displacement Map
  • Improved filters: Circle to Square, Checker Pattern, Four Color Gradient, Value Noise, Channel Mixer, Threshold, Waves, Marble, Polar Glass Tiles, Starburst, Spiral, Flashlight, Magnify
  • Filter Search
  • Show Last Filter
  • Shape settings in the Shapes Tool
  • Shift-drag creates equally sized shapes in Shapes Tool
  • New options for zooming and panning (in Preferences)
  • Printing
  • Better tool icons on HiDPI screens
  • Optional Operating System file choosers
  • Experimental features:
    • Smart objects, smart filters
    • Color fill layers
    • Gradient fill layers
    • Shape layers
    • Operating System theme
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.3.0 beta 4 - released on 2021-06-06

06 Jun 19:19
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Changes since 4.2.4 beta 3:

  • Changed version numbering: next version will be 4.3.0
  • Contributions by Anirudh Sharma:
    • Area zooming in the Zoom Tool
    • New UI for "Enlarge Canvas"
    • More options in the "Grid" and "Spiral" filters
  • Image size is shown in the window title (#188)
  • Curved strokes in Auto Paint
  • Show Last Filter
  • Java 16 is now required in order to run Pixelitor
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.4 beta 3 - released on 2021-03-25

25 Mar 02:14
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Changes since beta 2:

  • Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-C work in the filter dialog (issue #165 )
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.4 beta 2 - released on 2021-03-13

13 Mar 16:19
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Changes since beta 1:

  • The Windows installer includes the Java dependecy, there's no need to install Java first
  • Presets for Curves/Levels
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.4 beta 1 - released on 2021-01-17

16 Jan 23:27
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  • Require Java 15+
  • Filter search
  • Presets can be saved for most filters and for text layers
  • The beginnings of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish translations
  • Support for the TGA and NetPBM file formats
  • ImageMagick-based export/import
  • New options for zooming and panning in Preferences
  • Shape settings in the Shapes Tool
  • Shift-drag creates equally sized shapes in Shapes Tool
  • New "Render Shape" filters: "Spider Web", "Spiral"
  • New options for the filters "Circle to Square", "Checker Pattern", "Four Color Gradient", "Value Noise"
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.3 - released on 2019-12-11

11 Dec 20:15
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  • Brush outline in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone Tools
  • Create selection from the text of a text layer
  • Move selection in the Move Tool
  • Copy/paste for selections
  • Selection crop can be nonrectangular (with generated layer masks)
  • "Color randomness" option in the "Spray Shapes Brush"
  • "Image Source" option and Hue/Saturation distances in the "Mask from Color Range"
  • Add layer mask from transparency and from layer contents
  • Chaos Game, Mandelbrot and Julia fractal renderers
  • "Watermarking" option for the Render/Shapes filters
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.2 - released on 2019-10-11

11 Oct 16:10
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  • Keyboard nudging for the Gradient, Pen, Shapes tools
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.1 - released on 2019-09-26

26 Sep 15:25
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  • Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
    • "Layer Auto Selection" checkbox in the Move Tool
    • Styles and colors for the guides (in the Preferences)
  • Transform mode in the Pen Tool
  • Rotating and resizing shapes in the Shapes Tool
  • "Delete Cropped Pixels" checkbox in the Crop Tool
  • In the Crop Tool, the initial Alt-dragging creates the rectangle from the center
  • File/View Metadata (using the metadata-extractor library)
  • Right-click popup menus on tabs
  • Many bugfixes and UI improvements

4.2.0 - released on 2018-10-03

03 Oct 22:17
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  • Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
    • New "Curves" filter
    • New composition guides in the Crop Tool: golden spiral, triangles, grid
  • Tabbed user interface (it's optional, the old internal windows are still available in the Preferences)
  • New Pen Tool
  • Handles in the Gradient Tool
  • Image files can be drag-and-dropped on the layers area to be added as image layers
  • New "Lazy Mouse" smoothing option in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone tools
  • New "Spray" and "Connect" brushes in the Brush and Eraser tools. "Connect" is based on ideas from the harmony project
  • Guides (in the View menu)
  • More brushes have settings
  • New filters: "Striped Halftone", "Concentric Halftone", "Render Grid", "Checker Pattern"
  • New options for the "Channel Mixer", "Slice" filters
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements