New in Version 19.50

[Gerhard Huber]

• New:
• Align All: in Window menu
• Align To Pixels (Layout > Alignment)
• Browse, new function: Filename to XMP
• EXIF colorspace: the colorspace of the EXIF data ist imported cleared, if custom ICC profile is set
  
  Verbesserungen:
  Werkzeuge:
• Presets for tools: via the window menu of the Tool Settings
• Lasso: outline is more precise when zoomed
• Lasso tools, transform: outline is visible while transforming the lasso
• Mask brush: shift can be used to draw lines
• Airbrush: with blend mode
• Flood fill: with blend mode
• Brush display in document: soft brushes show the inner radius
• Brighter/Darker Tool: with "Protect Tones"
• Vector tools: now tools for creating vector layer are having controls for defining the fill and line style
• Painting tools: better quality when painting with low intensities in 8-Bit
  
  Dateihandling:
• PSD import: general improvements
• PSD import: better import of adjustment layers
• new PNG library
• PNG is now saving a sRGB chunk if possible
• Import of APNGs
• new WebP library
• PDF export: many small improvements for better quality
• PDF import: many small improvents
• New JPEG Library
• Mov import, Mov export, OS X: adjusted to newer OS versions
  
  Handling:
• Modal curve editor: scalable
• Curve editor: points can be deleted by dragging them outside the editor
• Layer effects: are applied to all active layers
• Layer effects: are new automatically adjusted to the layer quality
• Layer effect "Shadow 3D": Unsharpness increases with the depth
• Layereffect "Outline outside" and "Outline inside": new with antialiased edges and subpixel width
• Gradient editor, document window: Gradient can be dragged with Alt+click&drag
• Gradient editor, document window: normalized handle size, are now scaling with screen dpi
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• Layer List: Shift to extend selection now also works with the checkbox field
• Layer List: Shift can now be used to select, too
• Layer List: Adding to the selection is optionally recorded as action, if the there are no gaps in the selection
• Layer List: optionally with keyboard contrl (via options "Working > Special")
• Layer List: Alt+double click on thumbnail turns transparency on/off
• Layer List: visibility of opeing triangle of groups is now better with certain UI brightnesses
• Document List: now with arrows in Tab mode
• Document List, drag&drop: drag&drop of layers and files to documents in the Document List supported
• Placeholder layers: data can be be embedded and exported
• Placeholder layers, external programs: data are now longer converted, if they are fitting the external program
• Placeholder layers, drag&drop: dropping several files to an empty placeholder layer will insert the remaining files in the following empty placeholders
• Formula fields: context command "Fix" replaces the formula with its value
• Document Attributes, Layer Attributes: now sorting order for entries
• Precise mouse cursor: less visually distracting
• Layer tool, multiple selection: multiple selected layers can be transformed together
• Histogram: optionally extended information
• Full preview in modal dialogs: by assigning a shortcut to "Layer > Display > Show Layer" the preview can be turned on/off by keyboard
• Crop tool: The cropping box can now be moved outside the document bounds using the keyboard
• Text styles: are applied to all active layers
• Navigation bar in document window: zooming keeps the visible area
• Curve creation tool: closing path while holding shift will create a line
• Dockable dialogs, OS X: context menu of title bar now has commands for switching the orientation
• ICC color profiles: now the source profile controls the rendering intent
• Ligatures, OS X: now with option to turn off ligatures
• Combo boxes: now with simple calculations
  
  Performance:
• Faster image output
• Vector output: now multithreaded
• Presets files are now loaded on demand
• Clipping layers, images: clipping bounds are cached now
  
  Others:
• Power consumption, OS X: fewer UI updates
• Batch convert: now prefers the import fitting the file extender
• Align to pixels: now interpolates the position of the uncorrected points
• Open file: If a file is opened with a problem, there is now longer an error, but a warning message
• Save document: a severe error while saving will keep the original file
• Image output, picture mode: images with antialiasing "Always" are no longer antialised if zoomed in
• Implicit "save as" by closing document, OS X: there is no longer an extender appended
  
  Bug fixes:
• Start/flower tool: layers could change their size after creation or by changing the options
• OS X, 10.11, open dialog: embedded subdialogs didn't work correctly
• Morph vector layers (maybe other situations, too): turning on preview didn't fully update the document
• Vector layer: in rare cases vector layers could be displayed incorrectly
• Text output, Windows: the ascents of fonts with wrong metrices could be cut off
• Layer masks/clipping layers, vector layers with child layers: using vector layer with child layers as clipping layer/layer mask didn't work correctly (only used the outline)
• Layer masks/clipping layers, isolated groups: isolated group containing only vector layers didn't work correctly when used as clipping layer/layer mask (only used the outline)
• Vector layer, dotted lines: if zoomed out, the opacity of the dotted line was wrong
• Document window, OS X 10.11: unnecessary redraw on layer change
• External programs, shortcuts: modifying the list of externla programs no longer deletes the shortcuts
• Gradient editor in document window: Color editor via context menu didn't work correctly
• Layer effects: applied to scaled vector layers and using the "layer" mode could displace the effect by 1 pixel
• Layer effect "Shadow inside": didn't work correctly without distance
• Layer effect "Shadow outside" : better quality
• Pasting a virtual copy: virtual were adjusted to the page bounds (in contrast to ordinary layers)
• Open dialog, OS X: it should the wrong path
• Fixing morphed vector layers: It could revert the order of the created layers
• Automatic text layers: now with a low tolerance to avoid disappearing text
• Mosaic: better quality
• Text layer, vertical alignment, underline, text to vector conversion: the underlines could have a wrong position
• Text fields: releasing Ctrl could leave the wrong mouse cursor
• Remove object: used with a very small selection the user had to cancel the operation with Esc
• Rotate image: now uses the transparency
• Fix layer with Shift: relative values are recalculated for the new layer size
• Special channel: "Show mask" modified the display of the special channel
• Font problem, Windows: problem with Futura Oblique fixed
• Vektor layer, stroek with variable thickness: redraw error with simple lines fixed
• brush editor, non-modal: didn't adjust brush size, if the brush size has been modified by using the arrow keys
• Modal filter dialogs, picking color from dialog preview: color picking picked the wrong color
• Modifying adjustment layers: document was set to modified, even when leaving the dialog with "Cancel"
• Path text: crash fixed with scaling, if the path had an invisible child layer
• Lab colors, OX X 10.11: crash fixed
• Distort tool fixed problem with 1-bit images
• Brush size, modifying softness with Shift+arrow keys: crash with bitmap brushes fixed
• Scale layer, formula mode: DPI formula didn't work correctly
• Context menu of popup-dialogs, OS X: The context menu appeared behind the popup-dialog
• Localizing, OS X: some popups haven't been localized
• Create button: text wasn't centered correctly
• Painting tools: pen pressure in intensity mode now changes flow
• Non-modal brush editor: after using a bitmap brush the inner radius hasn't been enabled
• 32-bit images: removed imprecise calculations with very high pixel values

[kevjon]

Wow, nice additions, thanks so much.

[iABecca]

Thank you so much! I wish I remembered more of the German I took in high school for 4 years...I'd like to explore the other boards here, lol.

I have been searching for something to replace Fireworks and finally stumbled on a forum, yesterday, where Photoline was suggested - I wish I had found this a couple years ago instead of dealing with Adobe's stupid cloud subscription - only to have them kill Fireworks! I'm so excited to check this out further - but it seems like it will do everything I was using FW for (I make educational printables). And this is even better because in some quick playing I see I can export ALL my pages right to PDF - and that is a huge time saver for me!

Any chance you'll be creating a way for Photoline to open FW files (with the layers intact)?! Now that would be worth millions (to me, at least).

Blessings,
Becca B