Artweaver Plus 5
This version includes the following new features and improvements:
New Features
- Mirror painting to create easily symmetrical paintings
- Support for documents with 8 and 16 Bits/Channel
- High precision 16bit brush engine for exact results especially with low opacity values.
- 3 different color themes for the user interface (default, light gray or dark)
- Order of each preset in the selectors view can be adjusted
Brush Engine Improvements
- Maximum brush size to 999 pixels increased
- New option: Rate for continuous time deposition
- New option: Pickup color from underlying layers for resaturation and bleed
- New option: Range for angle
- New option: Drift with continuous time deposition for jitter
- Support for stroke attributes in Airbrush category
- Support for size expression in Pixel category
- Improved quality of the Other - Blur and Other - Sharpen method
- Behavior of Grainy cover and Grainy mild cover method changed so that for less grain the regular brush is applied and not almost nothing
User Interface Improvements
- Documents are saved as a copy if they contain features which not supported by the selected file format
- All presets can be exported, brush categories completely with all their variants
- Do not show again option for more message dialogs
- Better warning message for unsupported features while saving
- Support for picking up colors from the current document outside the color picker dialog
- Brush engine angle configurations moved to a dedicated page in the brush editor
- Marching ants can be hidden
- Shift key support for scrubby sliders
- Confirmation before restoring recovery information on application startup
- Test of entered ArtweaverTeam.com account details in preferences
More Improvements
- Improved export of presets in events
- Improved selection tools
- Some tools allow scrolling, zooming and rotating the document while in use (Crop, transformation, selection and text tool)
- Improved event support for tools
- Loading of palettes layout allows it to keep current custom palettes
- New customizable Misc shortcuts
- Better quality for some filters on layers with transparency and impasto
- Read and write support for the OpenRaster file format (0.0.4-pre.1 specification)
- JPEG support for YCbCR, CMYK and YCCK color formats
- Test period extended to 30 days