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New
- Text: Show formatting marks.
- Undo list: Undo steps can be turned into actions.
- Layer Tool: can move selection with content, double click writes selection to image, Alt rereads without deleting, Shift creates layer directly
- HEIC, macOS: HEIC export with metadata
- AVIF, macOS: read support starting with macOS 13
- Export commands and settings: View > Panels > Export Attributes
- Document windows, Windows: PhotoLine now draws document windows itself and no longer uses the Windows design
- Document windows: Are aligned to each other when moved or resized.
- Document windows: Aligned document windows can be resized by pressing Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) simultaneously.
- Document windows: Ctrl/Command+double-click on title bar places document window in largest free space.
- Document windows: When hiding/showing the auxiliary dialogs, the document windows are scaled as well.
- Layer > Crop Layer > Delete Crop Layers: Deletes layers that are made invisible by a clipping layer.
- Layer Compositions: View > Panels > Layer Compositions
- Placeholder layers: Layer attributes with layer composition setting.
- ChordPro import
- XCF import
- Symmetric filters (Gaussian blur, USM, ...): Speed up, especially with large images/filter radii and many processor cores.
- Layer List, Find: Use "&font=" to search for fonts.
- Layer List, Find: Can find the virtual copies of a layer.
- Layer list, layer entry, protect content: The "Protect content" status is now also displayed at the right edge of the layer entry.
- Dialogs: Double-click on slider resets value to its original value.
- Formulas in text fields: abs(value) is supported.
- List fields: Cells now have a 3rd size.
- Document color list, color lists, brush lists, line style list: Single click assigns delayed so double click no longer changes the document.
- Curves: with sliders for all handles at the bottom edge
- Tab bars: a tooltip is now displayed for truncated text.
- Zoom with mouse wheel: It is rounded more aggressively to the next even zoom step.
- Batch Converting, macOS: Folders can be dragged to the source/destination path.
- Presets dialog: After merging a file, the first new entry is selected.
- Color Replace Brush: Can create transparency in images with transparency.
- Copy Brush: Now with Replace mode (only with active layer as source).
- Lighten/Darken tool: Now with an "All" area.
- Healing Brush, Patch Tool: Now optionally work in HIS or Lab.
- Auto Mask: "Remove Object" uses the "Read Merged" option.
- Brushes, Stamps: Brushes and stamps can now have an even size.
- Brush editor: Now uses "size" instead of "radius" and the set value corresponds to the real brush size.
- Painting tools: Right mouse button no longer shows the context menu by default, but alternative functions (for example the eraser).
- File imports: For file formats without resolution value, the resolution is now read from the EXIF data.
- Raw import: with camera-specific actions
- SVG import: Basic support for "textPath" added.
- SVG import: Basic support for namespaces implemented.
- SVG export: Support for "textPath".
- TIFF import: Generates color profile from TIFFTAG_PRIMARYCHROMATICITIES and TIFFTAG_WHITEPOINT.
- TIFF import: Can now load 16-bit float images.
- TIFF import: Embedded PSD data are read better.
- TIFF export: Empty layer names no longer become "layer", background layer with filename is saved without name.
- PDF export: 1-bit layer masks for images with the same size are now saved more efficiently.
- Color Editor: Order of color models unified (gray, RGB, CMYK).
- Moving Hand Tool: Synchronization of multiple windows now also works when double-clicking (100%).
- View > 100%, View > Zoom In, View > Zoom Out: When the commands are called from a toolbar, Shift changes the zoom of all open windows.
- Layer Attributes, Scale: With Proportional, the current aspect ratio is kept.
- View > Panels > Histogram: When the mask is changed, the histogram is updated.
- Scripting: Page has a PageNumber call.
- Scripting: Paste/Duplicate can be inserted at the end of the root layer of a page.
- Registry, Windows: PhotoLine writes a SupportedTypes section for better Explorer integration.
- Document window, cascaded positions: If all "normal" positions are occupied, positions in between will be occupied.
- Curves, presets:
- Gradation, presets: ACV files can be loaded without switching to "All Files".
- Layer > New Layer: When changing the free size, "free" is automatically activated.
- Crop Tool: "Select All" sets aspect ratio only if one was already set before.
- Curve fields, Curves: Keep their background color for border.
- Crop document: Color picker positions keep their position.
- Vector operations (union, intersection, ...): Improved quality for curves.
- Clipping layers and layer masks, images: In 16/32-bit documents, 16/32-bit images can now be used as layer masks.
- Tool > Color > Vibrance: Step size was different for Dynamic and Saturation.
- PLD Export, overprint, preview image: The preview image did not take overprinting into account.
- Windows, quit application: PhotoLine did not exit correctly in extreme cases.
- Main window, Windows, minimized documents: When restoring the main window, minimized documents could be pushed out of the visible area.
- Filter brush, Gaussian blur: Stripes could appear when painting horizontally.
- Curve import, ACV format: Curves could be incorrect.
- Quick Selection Tool: Progress field is aligned to the right.
- Levels: If a value was changed in a tone value text field, the display of the tone value slider was wrong at times.
- Auto mask: Now also works if a layer is set as not changeable.
- Crop function, lasso tools: The crop function in the lasso tools is now only active if the image is modifiable.
- Tool settings, "Remove object": "Remove object" is now only active if the image is modifiable.
- Edit Vector Points: The additional key for asymmetric curve bending collides with angle constraint (Shift), so this is now Alt.
- Hue/Saturation: Did not replace formulas with result after exiting a text field.
- View > Panels > Histogram: In document mode with a selection, the wrong area could be used for calculating the histogram.
- Ansicht > Dialoge > Histogramm: Im Dokumentmodus mit Auswahl konnte der falsche Bereich ausgelesen werden.
- Lasso tool settings: Crop button was not activated when switching from vector to image layer.
- PDF Export, PDF/X-4: Document ID was not written for documents without metadata.
- PDF export, Linux, PDF/X, PDF/A: PDF document ID was not generated.
- Vector pattern, colorless, Color Editor: A colorless vector pattern lost the assigned color when its properties were changed.
- "Move Layer" action: "Proportional" is now called "Relative" and after leaving the dialog with OK, the action always changes both values.
- Tooltips, Toolbar, macOS 13: A tooltip was always displayed for the first tool only.
- Context menu of color, Vector Pattern from Document: did not work properly with images in document mode.
- Mesh gradient: if all colors of the mesh were HIS or HSV, there could be a crash.
- PDF export, PDF/X-3: Colorless patterns were not written correctly.
- Vector patterns: If the width or height was set to 0, there could be a crash.