CHANGELOG

v2.7.1:

* Quick fix for 1-pixel width freehand tool freezing the app.


v2.7

* Layers: added color blend modes (hue, saturation, luminosity, color)
* Colors:
  - moved palette below sliders
  - added key control to palette:
    + left/right/up/down to choose color
    + page up/page down to change color set
* Rectangle tool:
  - added "Outline width"
* Ellipse tool:
  - added "Enable rotation"
  - added "Outline width"
* Text tool: always use current foreground color for whole text
* Airbrush tool: smoother performance
* Support transparency in selections and when cut/copy/deleting
* Removed red scale line from brush preview, instead use numerical size label
* Many, many bug fixes and improvements
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations, fixed Latin American Spanish
* Added Norwegian translation, thanks Johan Wagenheim


v2.6:

* Instead of a context menu to choose a tool, use the current tool to
  draw with the background color.
* New misc. setting: show brush size around mouse pointer
* Added translation, rotation and scaling of selections
* Added undo/redo to layer rename, alpha, blend mode, visibility, delete, merge
* Use zlib to compress image data for each layer, resulting in massively smaller
  project files, esp. with many rather empty layers.
* Brushes:
  - moved brush configuration into stored Brushes window
  - added current brush preview to status bar
  - removed Brush tool (use Freehand instead)
  - switch brushes in stored Brushes window with cursor keys

* Blur tool:
  - added "Use current brush" option

* Eraser Tool:
  - added "Use current brush" option
  - added "Pressure" slider to control opacity of erasure

* Fill tool (gradient):
  - a more intuitive usage
  - show line from start to end point
  - added modes: radial, square, cone

* Freehand tool:
  - added "Use current brush" option
  - added "Pressure" slider to control opacity

* Straight line tool:
  - added "Use current brush" option
  - add "Pressure" slider for opacity control

* Transparency tool:
  - added "Use current brush" option
  - use slider instead of alpha from current color
  - changed "Speed" to "Pressure"
  - made "Pressure" a percentage of the way to the chosen value

* Wave add-on:
  - Add X and Y spinners for position

* Many bug fixes and improvements
* Updated documentation
* Updated translations


v2.5:

* Selection tool:
  - added ellipse mode
  - use SHIFT for aspect lock
  - ALT for center-to-corner mode
  - OPT to substract
  - simplified GUI
* Rectangle/Ellipse tool:
  - SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
  - SHIFT when rotating rectangle locks to 22.5° angles
  - ALT for center-to-corner mode
  - simplified GUI
* Eraser tool: Anti-alias edge
* Color selector tool: show box of sampled pixels
* Colors: support drag'n'drop of HTML text values
* Improved cropping
  - crop-to-selection
  - lock aspect
  - shaded crop area
  - better visible handles
* Added scaling of selected areas
* Improved resizing
  - use a resize-box with handles
  - added filters (bilinear, bicubic, etc.)
  - SHIFT to lock aspect ratio
* New "Selection" menu
  - added "Select all"
  - added "Select non-transparent"
  - added "Hide borders"
* Moved all manipulating actions from "Layers" and "Canvas" to "Edit" menu
  - use sub-menus for "Active/All layers" for all actions
* Anti-Dither, Transparency tool, Flip manipulator: respect selections
* DEL to delete a selection/layer
* Pan when holding SPACE
* Zoom with mouse wheel (without ALT, reversed in/out direction WRT v2.4)
* Changed color dropper shortcut to CTRL
* Close manipulator windows with ESC, apply with ENTER
* Improved visibility of crosshair cursor mode
* Improved layer re-ordering
* Forward keyboard shortcuts from Layers to main window
* More intelligent canvas-to-window fitting of opened images
* Removed "Window | Resize to fit", there's the zoom button for that
* Disable unavailable image/project files from "Open recent" menus
* Fix drawing artefacts when moving a selection
* Loads of bugfixes and polishing
* Updated documentation
* New translations:
  - Australian English (jt15s),
  - Latin American Spanish (victroniko)

v2.4:

* Overhauled the Layers window and handling:
  - improved layout
  - reduced commands to the most useful, moved to main menu
  - added naming layers
  - added transparency slider
  - added blending modes: Normal, Multiply. Divide, Screen,
	Overlay, Hard light, Soft light, Vivid light, Pin light,
	Hard mix, Difference, Exclusion, Color dodge, Linear dodge,
	Color burn, Linear burn, Darken, and Lighten
* Improved Colors window
  - removed YIQ and YUV color modes
  - added CIELAB color mode
  - accept drag'n'dropped colors
  - set/show hex-value of current color
  - removed palette from main window
* Make current tool more obvious in Tools window
* Bufixes and polishing

v2.3.1:

* Fixed initial black canvas where there are no ArtPaint settings

v2.3.0:

* Fixed drawing with transparency
* Fixed drawing of text
* Added adjustable checkered background for transparency
* Interference add-on: added controls
* Brush tool: new/improved controls
* Airbrush tool: Fixed spray mode
* Save/Restore Tools window icon arrangement
* Fixed save/restore floating window settings
* Move appropriate menu items to new "ArtPaint" menu
* General bug fixing (memory leaks etc.)
* GUI/Layout polishing
* Improved/updated localization
* Added/Updated translations: ca de en_GB fr nl pt tr
* Added ArtPaint project file icon
* New user manual