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fxPAINT V1.0 (Nov. 1999)
- initial release at the Cologne Show
fxPAINT V1.0 EK #1 (Nov. 1999)
- Printing of very large images is now possible
- Support for DPI-measure
- improved look of fxALBUM und Brush Manager
- recompiled plugins
- Reworked scale-requester
- direct Picasso96-support
- optimizations
- bugfixes
fxPAINT V1.0 EK #2 (April 2000)
- fxVIDEO-System: Tutorial-videos directly within fxPAINT!
- new icons
- all GUI-images now have a second phase
- new bevelcircle-drawingtool
- Magnification-degree is now displayed in the windows
- improved convolution-module
- support for 24Bit-PCX-files
- optimized PPC-communicationroutines
- new effects
- Edgedetect
- Sharpen
- Texture
- "Deep inside"
- DisplaceMap
- New mode for the button-border-effect
- faster and completly rewritten rubthrough-effect
- speeded up display-routines
- new menu-concept to avoid problems with older MagicMenu-versions
- Auto-Crop, to crop away unneeded borders
- improved PCD-loader
- real antialiasing for the creation of text-brushes
- improved tablett-support and ability for individual configuration
for your personal needs
- Fat screen-text on own screens can now be turned off
- Integrated "AXIS-Display Calibration" for optimized display on
normal monitors and especially LCD-panels
- heavily improved fxALBUM
- improved HTML-overview-creation
- Head- and footer can be defined
- number of thumbnails per line definable
- "Readable", cleaned-up HTML-Code
- Size of thumbnails now adjustable
- scrollbar on the right border for better navigation
- new wap.plugin
- Loading and saving of WBMP-graphics
- special dithering-algorithm for high-quality results even on
black+white displays.
- stargate.plugin now part of the fxPAINT-distribution
- Access to internal image-data as to a harddisk
- direct linkage from other graphics-programs
- speeded up loaders and savers and porting of most modules to PPC
- Mousewheel support (e.g. VMC 4D+ Mouse is supported, see
http://www.vmc.de)
- optimizations
- bugfixes
fxPAINT V1.5 Update (July 2000)
- Release on CD at the "World of Alternatives"
- requires V1.0 CD-ROM
- includes all changes of EK #1 and EK #2 (see above)
new
Tutorial-video(s)
- new HTML-Tutorial(s)
- heavily improved fxALBUM
- improved HTML-overview
- table- and picturebordersize can now be adjusted
- "readable" code now also for the single HTML-files
- Thumbnails can now have smooth borders
- Full pictures can now have smooth borders
- Creation of high-quality thumbnails as option (needs more time, but
reduces the "pixel-effect")
- insertion of logos in the full-picture
- full-pictures can now be automatically scaled
- Thumbnail-size can now vary between 50 and 320 pixels and be
independant of the catalog-size.
- improved slideshow
- correct detection of the display-mode
- Fade-effects
- Blocks
- stripes (H/V)
- stripefade
- random selection
- mouse-pointer is now faded out
- pause can be defined
- picture can be scaled up or down to fit the screen
- double-click to load a picture
- extended & improved palette
- "cleaned up" GUI
- three different modes
- display HTML-Code
- Colorchooser
- Palette-entries/index
- can vary in size
- export of the current color as HTML-code to the Clipboard
- standard-palette with more entries
- bugfixes
- ARexx-Launcher
- Start an ARexx-script directly from within fxPAINT
- improved Toolbar
- can now be moved vertically
- optically "compressed" and improved progressbar
- improved plugin-launcher
- only one click to start a plugin
- improved bubblehelp-behaviour
- new fxPAINT-logo in About-requester
- new effects
- Support for DigiCams
- requires VHI Studio
- transparent support of VHI Studio
- extended stargate.plugin
fxPAINT V2.0 (Dezember 2002)
- new and improved modules
- improved: fxALBUM-Module (image-cataloging and -handling)
- Alphabetical sort functions for entries
- Manual sorting and rearranging via drag and drop
- Album tools for easy 90° step rotation and comment-addition
- improved HTML-export
- skinable - many beautiful skins already included
- option to create metarefresh-based slideshow
- option to create PHP4-based greeting cards (requires PHP4 on the
webserver)
- multi-page support (e.g. span the overview for hundreds of images
over several pages)
- user-definable file endings
- speed-optimized handling of JPEGs
- export as PNGs supported
- exported HTML-code now conforms to the XHTML-standard
- you can now load and save profiles
- improved fxCONV-Module (Batch image processing)
- option to rescale and rotate images "on the fly"
- option to include ARexx-script (that is: full power of fxPAINT's
image processing!)
- suffix adaption
- new: Color Variation Wizard
- new: Gradient Manager
- new: Navigation Builder
- new: Size Manager
- New and improved effects
- rewritten "fisheye"-effect, now offers much more possibilites and
options
- rewritten median-effect for maximum speed
- new: Antialias (reduce stairs in images)
- new: Gradient (replace image with gradient)
- new: Glow (adds glow to characteristic points)
- new: Neon
- new: Pinch
- new: Ripple
- new: Whirl
- improved: Bumpmapper - faster and improved
- improved: Button Border - improved look
- improved: Compose-effect now supports Dark Glow
- improved: Pyro-Plugin - even more realistic results
- improved: Rotation - faster and with quick 90° previews
- Improved paint-tools and -functionality
- new tool: spread
- new tool: filled polygon
- new tool: unfilled polygon
- new tool: gradient (linear, bilinear, conical, radial, different
repetition schemes)
- new tool: rotated rectangle
- improved tool: magic stick can now also select all pixels of
equal/similiar color at once
- unified tool options window
- new option: add positioning-/helplines
- paint-preview now is magnifiable, too
- exact pixel positioning
- Global improvements
- native support for PowerPC (MorphOS, PowerUP, WarpUP), x86
(Amithlon) and 68K
- Clipboard-support for images and pens
- support for Truetype-fonts via TTEngine by Gregorz Kraszewski
- new loaders and savers
- new: PNG-loader and -saver, including support for transparency and
progressive PNGs
- new: PDF-export (requires installed fxSCAN V4.04 or better)
- new: PBM-loader (black&white PNMs)
- JPEG loader now also supports EXIF-JPEGs
- TARGA-loader now with transparency support
- loaders/savers now with full PPC support and lower memory
consumption
- improved printer support
- improved support for Turboprint GraphicsPublisher
- improved printer driver system detection
- manual selection possible
- direct TurboPrint support added
- pseudo-themable GUI with new default skin "IO ONE"
- improved and reworked GUI for better workflow
- brand-new undo/redo system, optimized for low memory consumption
and raw speed, now can also undo fixations (!)
- vast speed improvements, especially for handling of bigger images
- new IOBench Benchmark plugin for objective comparison of system
speeds
- automatic suffix-adaption
- improved file- and path-memorisation
- improved ARexx-interface with nearly 90 new commands
- improved error- and progress-notification
- reworked documentation in HTML- and PDF-format with many
illustrations
fxPAINT V2.01 (January 2003)
- choose gradient function now has dual functions
- fxPAINT no more *requires* fxPAINT: assign
- changed behaviour of the slider BOOPSI class in fxPAINT
- further adaptions to new MOS Intuition features
- fixed refresh bug in gradient manager
- fixed dropshadow-skin
- fixed IFF24 saver - trashed files if width not dividable by 16
- fixed PCX loader - problems with 24 bit files where width != bpl
fxPAINT V2.02 (Juli 2003)
- added for MorphOS: Iconify button in each project window
- added for MorphOS: IDCMP_REFRESH handling
- fxALBUM sorting is much faster now and shows a progress bar
- mousewheel-support now also in fxALBUM
- fixed a bug in startup of PPC-servertasks
- fixed IFF 24 saver (final fix this time)
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