What's new in MyPaint 1.2.0
Jan 16, 2016
- New intuitive Inking tool for smooth strokes.
- New Flood Fill tool.
- Automated backups of your working docs, with recovery on startup.
- Improved symmetry-setting and frame-setting modes.
- New workspace UI: two sidebars, with dockable tabbed panels.
- Smoother scrolling and panning.
- New brush pack.
- New brush and color history panel.
- New layer trimming command in frame options.
- Added layer groups.
- New layer modes: several masking modes added.
- Add display filters: greyscale, simulate dichromacy for trichromats.
- New color wheel options: Red/Yellow/Blue, Red-Green/Blue-Yellow.
- Uses dark theme variant by default.
- Clearer icons, prettier freehand cursors.
- Device prefs allow glitchy devices to be restricted.
- Eraser mode no longer changes the size of the brush.
- New vector layers, editable in an external app (Inkscape recommended).
- New fallback layer types: non-PNG image, data.
- More kinds of images now work as backgrounds.
- Improved Windows support
- Ported to GTK3.
- Accelerator map editor has moved to preferences.
- Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.
New in MyPaint 1.1.0 (Jan 3, 2013)
- geometry tools: sequence of lines, curved lines, ellipses
- new brush and layer blending modes; different layer merging
- new color dialog: palette and gamut mapping
- improved document frame, can be resized on canvas
- symmetric drawing mode
- old color changer ("washed") from 0.6 is available again
- toolbar improvements, e.g. move layer mode, pan/zoom
- revised cursor and on-canvas color picker
- better separation of mypaint's brush library; json brush file format
- translations, performance improvements, bugfixes, and more
New in MyPaint 1.0.0 (Nov 23, 2011)
- A configurable toolbar has been added with dropdown widgets for colour, brush, and brush settings.
- Floating tool windows can now be docked into a sidebar inside the main window.
- A "Lock Alpha" mode has been added for brush strokes, and there are now basic layer compositing modes.
- Mouse and stylus buttons can be bound to different actions via the preferences.
- There's a new scratchpad tool that can be used for thumbnails, notes, or recording strokes and colour.
- Finally, there have been numerous little improvements and bugfixes to MyPaint's speed, user interface, and its brush collections.
New in MyPaint 0.9.1 (Mar 7, 2011)
- This is a bugfix release without any new features.
- Several problems with non-ASCII file names, directory names, and layer names have been fixed, as well as a number of other minor issues.
- Integration with the Windows platform has been improved.
New in MyPaint 0.9.0 (Nov 3, 2010)
- New features:
- Users can import and export brushes. This feature was developed mainly by Ilya Portnov. Ilya also added tilt support to the brush engine.
- One can now shows/hide all sub-windows with a key shortcut and there is a key for showing the menu at the cursor. This work was done by Andrew Chadwick. Andrew also tweaked window behavior and fixed a number of issues in input handling and in the color sampler.
- New preferences have been added:
- You can now set the default zoom level/resolution, and the default save format. The color history popup bound to the secondary stylus button can also be disabled.
- We now save thumbnails for OpenRaster files according to the freedesktop.org specification thanks to Till Hartmann.
- User Interface:
- Open dialog now shows a preview supported files, also by Till Hartmann.
- Saving and editing of brushes has moved together with the brush settings dialog, which has been renamed to “Brush Editor” to reflect it’s intended use. The brush selector has instead got the most commonly used brush settings in an expander, for quick access during painting.
- The save dialog and exception dialog have gotten small updates to improve usability.
- There are no new translations but 10 languages have been updated.
- Performance:
- Performance has been greatly improved in two areas: startup and file saving. File-saving optimization was done by Martin Renold, and should make MyPaint the fastest OpenRaster implementation out there! The changes in how we save PNGs also make us require much less memory when saving, which makes out-of-memory conditions less likely.
- Brushes:
- The default set of brushes has been changed slightly. There are now a maximum of 35 brushes in each group so that it is easier to view the entire group. There are now three artists brush sets; “Deevad” by David Revoy (of Sintel fame), “Ramón” by Ramón Miranda and “Tanda” by Marcelo Cerviño and two non-artist brush groups; “classic” and “experimental”. The last two groups has gotten new icons by David. In addition, pixel and tilt brushes have been added. The wiki has more Brush Packages for download.
- There was also many other contributions, minor improvements and bugfixes that did not make it into this post. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release.
New in MyPaint 0.8.2 (Mar 1, 2010)
- This release fixes a regression in 0.8.1 that was making temporary layers stick around, notably when picking strokes from the canvas.
New in MyPaint 0.8.1 (Feb 21, 2010)
- A memory leak has been fixed, which was keeping all layers ever visited in memory. Layer names are now loaded correctly. When saving PNG, layer visibility is now handled correctly. Other minor bugs were fixed, and the GUI has been translated into Korean.
New in MyPaint 0.8.0 (Jan 29, 2010)
- A way to organize brushes in groups has been added, together with many new brushes contributed by various artists. Other additions include a layer dialog, selection of brushes by pointing at a previous stroke, a way to draw straight lines (by holding shift) and a new color selector. The user interface has been translated into 14 different languages.
New in MyPaint 0.7.1 (Jul 23, 2009)
- This is a bugfix release without any new features worth mentioning. Screen artefacts seen by Compiz users were fixed by limiting the cursor size. Windows specific bugs were fixed; we finally have a recent Windows binary again.
New in MyPaint 0.7.0 (Jun 8, 2009)
- This release adds a color history, support for eliptical dabs, new brushes and background patterns. Other new functions (eg. merging layers) have been added. There were many bugfixes and usability tweaks.
New in MyPaint 0.6.0 (Jan 26, 2009)
- This release adds layer support. With that comes support for transparency, an eraser mode for every brush and the OpenRaster file format.
- Other major additions include canvas rotation (slow), background patterns, a new color popup and some nice clean brushes.