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New in Version 15.50

Enhancements

Full Document Preview

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.

Vector Editor

The vector editor has been rewritten nearly completely. Creating and editing vector graphics is now much more comfortable.

Vector Editor
Histogram Correction

The Histogram Correction dialog is now arranged clearlier.

Histogram Correction
Delete/Copy/Move Picture

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.

Guides

There is now a new Guides dialog.
> Additionally you can now create guide lines, that are only used on even, odd or the active page.

Guides
PSD Import And Export

The PSD import can now read layer effects better.
On export the layer intensity and the display mode will be saved, too.

Scale Layer/Scale Document

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.

Scale Layer/Scale Document
Text Layers

You can now insert soft returns in text layers with Shift+Return.

Text

The dialog for managing tabs was made new and is now simpler.

Text

New in Version 15.00

Better User Interface

Docking Helper Dialogs

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.

Docking Helper Dialogs
Editing of Color Blends

Color blends can now be edited directly in the document window:

  • Clicking and dragging moves a blend color.
  • By clicking on the blend line a new color is created.
  • Dragging a color away deletes that color. But note, that there have to be at least two colors in the blend.
  • The context menu of the blend line allows to modify the blend type and the color space.
    Editing of Color Blends
    The Attributes Dialog

    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.

    Attributes Dialog
    Document Window: Background Color Adjustable

    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.

    Background Color
    Text Options

    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.

    Text Options

    Image Processing

    The „Red Eye“ Tool

    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.

    Red Eye
    The Tool "Color Position"

    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 Position
    Color Correction

    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.

    Color Correction

    Variable Blur

    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

    Variable Blur
    Scaling/Change Layer Size/Change Document Size Now With Formula Support

    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.

    Formula Support
    Curves

    Curves now optionally allows to work in Lab or HIS color space.

    Additionally the transparency (alpha channel) can now be edited, too.

    Curves

    Working With Files

    SVG Import

    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.

    Batch Converting

    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.

    Batch Converting