What's new in Paintbrush 2.3.0
May 2, 2019
- Fixed: Improved compatibility with OS X Mojave, including proper Dark Mode support
- Fixed: Full support for "modern" transient scroll bars
- New: Zoom popup has been moved to a new status bar at the bottom of the window
New in Paintbrush 2.2 (Dec 24, 2017)
- This build lays the groundwork for faster, more efficient updates in the future, and requires OS X El Capitan (10.11) or later. No new features to discuss, but we’re finally building against an SDK from this current decade, so expect more overall speed and stability when using Paintbrush.
New in Paintbrush 2.1.2 (Dec 19, 2015)
- Thanks to everyone who has stuck with Paintbrush all these years! Big things are on their way, but here’s a little update to show that we still remember how to update this guy. Paintbrush 2.1.2 resolves a number of critical crashers and other irritating bugs, including:
- Text insertion is now undoable.
- Fixed a crash involving image resizing with the selection tool active
- Cursor updates are now more reliable
New in Paintbrush 2.1.1 (Oct 25, 2010)
- An updated and streamlined new UI
- Transparent selection and marching ants for the selection tool
- A completely rewritten Text tool for pinpoint-accurate insertion
- Four all-new tools: Airbrush, Rounded Rectangle, Eyedropper, and Zoom
- Image resizing, canvas resizing, and cropping
- Countless bug fixes and speed improvements
New in Paintbrush 2.0.1 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Text Tool now correctly supports subpixel antialiasing.
- Removed artifacts associated when clicking on color wells.
- Now uses higher compiler optimization.
New in Paintbrush 2.0.0 (Jan 22, 2009)
- An updated and streamlined new UI.
- Marching ants for the selection tool.
- A completely rewritten Text tool for pinpoint-accurate insertion.
- Four all-new tools: Airbrush, Rounded Rectangle, Eyedropper and Zoom.
- Image resizing, canvas resizing and cropping.
- Countless bug fixes and efficiency improvements And more!
New in Paintbrush 1.2 (Dec 25, 2008)
- Fixes graphical glitches when viewing GIFs/PNGs with transparency
- REQUESTED: Can now directly paste screenshots under Leopard
- Correctly shows dotted line when using Select All
- Fixed removal of dotted line with Selection Tool
New in Paintbrush 1.1 (Dec 28, 2007)
- Added in 1.1:
- Fill tool completely rewritten, resulting in a significant speed gain
- Limited undo stack to 10 undos (reducing chance for memory overflow)
- SUBMITTED: Grid overlay now available
- Zooming image will not cause funny scrolling to occur
- By default, images created by Paintbrush will open in Paintbrush in the Finder
- Bomb tool animation can be immediately completed by pressing ESC
- Preliminary support for Shift key in Selection tool
- Text insertion uses front color, automatically opens font panel
- Color accuracy has been improved (now using calibrated instead of device colors)
- Added button to switch foreground and background colors
- Toolbox shortcut key changed to better represent functionality
- Fixed in 1.1:
- REQUESTED: No longer uses wrong size when opening certain JPEGs
- REQUESTED: Second click on either color well hides panel, avoiding confusion
- Pastes in correct bottom-left corner when zoomed
- Changing colors during bomb animation will not change the color being used
- Undo no longer makes duplicates of image clippings when used with Selection tool
- Paste no longer occasionally places image in Toolbox instead of the document window
- Scrollbars in correct location after zoom, opening large images