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Pixelitor Changelog

What's new in Pixelitor 4.0.2

Jun 29, 2016
  • Polygonal selection
  • Duplicate image
  • Rubylith mask view mode
  • Color palette, color variations
  • Color history
  • Copy/paste colors
  • Shapes Tool: more gradient fill types
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Pixelitor 4.0.1 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Navigator window
  • Mask from Color Range
  • Thumbnail image size in Settings
  • Selection edges can be hidden
  • New Filters "Marble" and "Morphology"
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 4.0.0 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Layer masks
  • Text layers
  • Most filters show a progress bar in the status bar if they need more than 0.2 seconds
  • Zoom control in the status bar
  • File reload
  • History dialog
  • Transform settings for all Render/Shapes filters
  • A few filters became faster. "Box Blur" became just as fast as "Fast Blur", so "Fast Blur" was removed
  • On Mac the Command key is used in the menu keyboard shortcuts (instead of Control)
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.4 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • Auto Paint
  • New filters: "Flashlight", "Focus", "Invert Transparency", "Fractal Tree", "Mystic Rose", "Lissajous Curve", "Spirograph", "Flower of Life"
  • After resize, flip, rotate, crop, the selection is also resized, flipped, rotated, cropped (instead of deselecting)
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.3 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • Layers have thumbnail images
  • Shapes Tool: transparent fill option
  • "Enlarge canvas" menu
  • Kerning, tracking and ligatures support for text
  • Improved performance for the "Rays", "Oil Painting", "Drop Shadow" filters
  • The Move, Clone Stamp and Color Picker tools can use the right-mouse as an alternative to Alt-mouse (so that Linux users don't have to reconfigure their window managers).
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.1.2 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • "Keyboard nudging": in the move, crop and selection tools the arrow keys move things one pixel, and shift-arrow keys move things ten pixels.
  • New "Modify" menu under Selection that can expand/contract a selection or create a new selection around the selection border
  • New "Voronoi Diagram", "Drunk Vision" and "Weave" filters
  • The angle, spiral and diamond gradients are anti-aliased
  • The anti-aliasing of the one-pixel brush can be configured in the brush settings
  • The Windows installer and the jar file are digitally signed (Thanks to Certum for the free open source code signing certificate).
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.1 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • Clone Tool: new scale, rotate and mirror options
  • Smudge Tool: soft brush option
  • Pixel grid is disabled by default (see View/Show Pixel Grid)
  • More angle settings for shape brushes
  • Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

New in Pixelitor 3.1.0 (May 19, 2015)

  • New tool: Smudge
  • Clone Tool: soft brush option
  • "Random Filter" maintains history, and has "Back" and "Forward" buttons to navigate it
  • A generic "Shape" brush type (instead of the "Heart" brush), with settings
  • New filter: "Channel to Transparency"
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.0.1 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • Clone Tool: "Aligned" and "Sample All Layers" options
  • Pixel grid is shown if the zooming is 1600% or higher
  • Button for duplicating layers
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 3.0.0 (Mar 27, 2015)

  • Starting with this version, Pixelitor requires Java 8 or newer
  • New Clone Tool
  • "Ping pong" option for both the layer-based and tweening animations
  • Batch processing: apply a filter to all images in a folder
  • Reseed parameter for the "Add Noise", "Brushed Metal", "Smear" filters
  • "Show Original" option for "Levels"
  • "Randomize and Normalize" button for "Channel Mixer"
  • "One Pixel" Brush (like the pencil tool in other programs, but also available for Eraser Tool)
  • "Central 3" mirror option for Brush Tool and Erase Tool
  • "Stroke with Current Brush/Eraser" in Selection Tool considers the mirror setting of brush/erase
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.3.0 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Tweening animation export
  • New "2D Transitions" filter with more than 30 transitions
  • Layers can be reordered by dragging
  • New meta-filter "Random Filter"
  • "Rotate" and "Reseed" parameters for "Starburst"
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.2.1 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Image centered in the internal window
  • "Allow Growing" option for the Crop Tool
  • More zoom levels and "Ctrl + mouse wheel" zooming
  • New "Underwater" filter
  • The "Pinch, Bulge, Twirl" and "Swirl" filters were unified into one filter
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.2.0 (Nov 25, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Pixelitor can now open and save files in the OpenRaster format - layered images can be transferred to/from other editors such as Gimp, Krita, Paint.net, etc.
  • Animated GIF export (the frames of the animation are based on the layers)
  • Performance improvements and new "Reseed" button for the "Crystallize", "Pointillize", "Cells" filters
  • New "Sepia" filter (contributed by Daniel Wreczycki)
  • Performance improvements for the "Color Wheel" filter
  • A new "Random Star" shape in the Shapes Tool

New in Pixelitor 2.1.4 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Performance improvements for the "Clouds", "Value Noise", "Caustics", "Wood" filters
  • New parameter for the "Threshold" filter
  • Fixed a bug that led to "out of memory" errors under certain conditions, so you should upgrade

New in Pixelitor 2.1.3 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • New filters: "Angular Waves", "Radial Waves", "Polar Glass Tiles", "Slice"
  • New or improved parameters for the "Pinch, Bulge, Twirl", "Swirl", "Kaleidoscope", "Polar Coordinates", "Glass Tiles", "Waves" filters
  • All filters with an "Edge Action" parameter now also have the "Mirror" option for it
  • Performance improvements for the "Crystallize", "Pointillize", "Cells", "Glint", "Glow", "Sparkle", "Brushed Metal", "Frosted Glass", "Canny Edge Detector" filters
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.2 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Many filters became faster due to the usage of the Jafama library
  • Some other filters are faster because they can use multiple processor cores
  • The "Add Noise" filter has a "Saturation" option
  • The "Stamp" filter has a "Blur Method" option
  • Menus and keyboard shortcuts for "Fit on Screen" and "Actual Pixels"
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.1 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • "Check for Update" functionality (in the Help menu)
  • "Hand Tool"-like behavior in the "Save Optimized JPEG" dialog
  • Some filters have better default settings for large images
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.1.0 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • Brush engine improvements, the new "Heart" brush is an example of angle-aware brush
  • New zoom tool
  • More zoom levels
  • Smaller tool buttons
  • Bugfixes

New in Pixelitor 2.0.0 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • New crop tool
  • Some filters are much faster (they use all the CPU cores)
  • More filters have a "show original" option
  • There are some new filters like "Little Planet", "Swirl", "Perspective", "Tritone", "Color Halftone", "Dither"
  • Bugfixes