Artweaver 8

Artweaver 8 is the next major version of Artweaver with many new features and improvements.

This new version highlights the following new features
  • The brush palette which provides all brush settings is back and replaces the brush editor
  • Quick access in brush tool to frequently used features like zoom, rotation, color and last used brushes
  • Brush selector now shows by default a stroke preview of each brush besides the regular preview
  • Mirror painting is now part of the brush tool and no longer an extra tool
  • Clone source selection moved from main menu to brush tool options
  • Brush engine enhancements to Jitter, Stroke smoothing and Warp method
  • Pen calibration moved into its own dialog with a scratchpad to test settings
  • Color history for recently picked colors moved to color set palette
  • Displaying of vanishing point in perspective grid improved
  • New options Sample size in magic wand tool and Interactive in gradient tool
  • Support for selections outside of the document bounds
  • Color themes reduced to only Light and Dark and also noticeable improved
  • Read support for the SVG format
  • Read and write support for the WebP format

Further improvements and changes
  • Added shift key support to move tool
  • Added shift key support to rotate view tool
  • Added impasto support to brush warp method
  • Added option to link brush jitter to brush size
  • Added events playback controls
  • Added gradient preset selector to fill document dialog
  • Added gradient preset selector to paint bucket tool options
  • Added tools cursor preference
  • Added remembering of save options
  • Added support for latest Open Raster file format specification
  • Added support for cursor preference to eraser and stamp tool
  • Added shift key support to selections palette
  • Added support for saving grayscale TIFF files
  • Improved high dpi support
  • Improved brush stroke interpolation quality
  • Improved zooming
  • Improved tool apply button design
  • Improved brush preview
  • Improved document and canvas resize
  • Improved tool quick info
  • Improved opacity support in brush other method
  • Improved Targa file format save dialog
  • Changed default history states to 40
  • Changed supported platforms to 64-bit only