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The full document preview has been rewritten and is updating faster now.
All functions and filters, that are also available as working layer, are now
usually updating in real time. The delay of the full document preview of all
other functions is dependent of the image size, the complexity of the
calculations and the speed of the computer. On fast computers the preview
is shown much faster than in earlier versions.
The vector editor has been rewritten nearly completely. Creating and editing vector graphics is now much more comfortable.
The Histogram Correction dialog is now arranged clearlier.
Picture files can now be deleted, moved and copied directly from inside the main application. On previous versions you had to use "Show Image" or the Browse function to manage files.
There is now a new Guides dialog.
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Additionally you can now create guide lines, that are only used on even,
odd or the active page.
The PSD import can now read layer effects better.
On export the layer intensity and the display mode will be saved, too.
These functions now have a "Resolution" option. Using this option images and documents can be converted to a different printer resolution. Images will be resampled.
You can now insert soft returns in text layers with Shift+Return.
The dialog for managing tabs was made new and is now simpler.
On Mac OS the OS-provided Fonts panel is now supported.
All shadow effects and the effect "Window Shades/Tubes" now have the option "Hide Original".
Furthermore the quality of many effects has been enhanced.
The standard filters "Soften", "Gaussian Blur", "Sharpen", "Unsharp Masking" and "High pass" are now faster, especially if the filter radius is large.
The handling of the helper dialogs has been reworked. On Windows you can now dock helper dialogs to each other, that are not embedded in the main window, too.
Furthermore the current layout can be saved and used later by using the main menu ("View/Dialog Layout") or the context menu of the title bar of a helper dialog.
Color blends can now be edited directly in the document window:
The Attributes dialog has been extended to a very important control center.
It will show you all important information of the active document, the active page
and the active layer. Usually these values can be edited directly.
You can still work the „classic way“ by using the main menu, but using the Attribute
dialog is much faster.
The standard background of document windows is very bright and not best for editing dark images. Therefore the background color can now be changed optionally.
All options needed for formatting text have been combined in the tool settings of the Text tool. The now useless dialog „Text Options“ has been removed.
The Red Eye tool can correct the red eyes, that originate from taking a photo by using a flash light. In order to do this, you have to mark the red eyes by using the mouse first. On releasing the mouse button the correction will take place. The options in the Tool Settings can be used to enhance the result.
With the tool Color Position you can lay down positions in the document. The color at these positions will then be displayed in the Picture Info dialog. This allows to control the effect of an image manipulation at glance.
Color Correction can be used to correct the colors of an image. If Adjust Whitepoint is activated, bright colors and especially white are kept unmodified.
Variable Blur is a specialized Version of the Gaussian Blur. While the Gaussian Blur applies the same filter radius to the whole image, the Variable Blur adjusts the radius based on the mask value (see chapter 2.4.1) at the current location. This can used to simulate depth of field.
A mask value of 0 means a radius of 0. There is no filtering. A mask value of 255 means maximum filtering: the value entered in the dialog will be used. The calculation of the values in between depends on Bias. If the bias value is 0.50, the radius will be interpolated linearly
The scaling functions and the functions for modifying the document and the layer size now have a new working mode: Formula. Formula allows to set the new size as a formula allowing more flexibility. Especially on recording actions this is a major enhancement.
Curves now optionally allows to work in Lab or HIS color space.
Additionally the transparency (alpha channel) can now be edited, too.
SVG is going to be a standard format for vector graphics. Aside from vector graphics it can contain images and text.
PhotoLine is now able to import SVG files.
If you want to use a fix destination file format, you can now change the options of this file format directly in the dialog Batch Converting.
By default the Web Export is now saving RGB images in sRGB color space. This way the problem, that pictures look different on web pages, is reduced.
PhotoLine is now supporting the two new icon sizes 256x256 and 512x512 pixels. Both sizes can be read and written.
The PDF Export can now export the image map entries created with the function "Web/Image Map/Assign Command".
If a TIFF file contains a not correctly marked preview, PhotoLine will now recognize it nevertheless and will not load it any longer.
On Mac OS there is now a simple support of Quick Look for PLD files. It will show the embedded preview.
The Browse window can now show a large preview of the selected file.
The size of the preview is adjustable.
Previews of JPEG, TIFF and PNG files are now calculated in the background. This way the user interface is more responsive.
Wird in der Suchfunktion der Bildübersicht nach einem leeren The search function of the Browse window now allows to search for empty keywords by clearing the search text and using the condition "is equal".
The resolution of the images in the created catalog can now be reduced to the document resolution. This minimizes the memory consumption of the catalog.
PhotoLine can now run as a 64 bit application on a suitable computer system and can now utilize the whole installed RAM.
On PCs you need a XP-64 or a Vista-64 and on Macs a OS X 10.5 with Core 2 processor or better. By using the 64 bit version there is an additional performance win.
Of course, PhotoLine can still be used on 32 bit systems.
The text register allows to overlay the pages of the document with a line raster. A paragraph can be aligned to this raster by using the new paragraph attribute "Text in Register". This results in a better looking text, if there are multiple columns or both sides of a sheet of paper are used for printing.
Date/Page Number will insert a special character showing a certain kind of information.
For example in a document with several pages this allows you to create a headline containing "Page 2 Of 4" which is automatically adjusted to the current page number and the number of pages.
This tool can be used to create rays.
By using the context menu of a color field, you can call the function "Harmony".
You can now insert one or more pauses in an action. While playing an action, a pause allows you make modifications in your document, that are important for the following steps of the action. You can for example enter text or create a selection.
