Artweaver

We are happy to announce the availability of Artweaver 4 Free and Plus. Artweaver 4 is the next major version of Artweaver with many new features and improvements of existing features. You can download the new version directly from the Artweaver homepage.

Due to the fact that Artweaver 4 Plus is a new major version there is a new license needed. But you can upgrade any older Artweaver Plus license to the latest Artweaver Plus version at a reduced price compared to the full version.

Artweaver 4 Highlights

• Native 64 bit and improved support for multiple CPU cores *
• New tabbed document interface and improved appearance of the user interface
• Improved palette docking and many palettes are now fully resizeable *
• Many tools show useful information directly on the canvas while using them *
• Shape tool supports and includes many new complex custom shapes
• Preview images of brush presets can be customized by own images *
• Custom palettes support presets commands and command order is configurable *
• Team token locking has been replaced by an automatic locking which is more intuitive
• New soft profile and merge mode settings in paint engine and speedups *
• New effect filters: Portrait, Dithering, Video, Difference Clouds and Custom *
• Support for Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) devices which replaces Twain
• Improved work-flow for online update

For a complete list of all new features, improvements and changes please visit the Artweaver 4 changelog page.

* Not all new features are available in Artweaver Free but only in Artweaver Plus.

Third sneak preview for the next Artweaver major release which should be available around this summer. Please visit this blog regularly to see more sneak previews over the next months or register today for free to the Boris Eyrich Software Beta Portal and join the Artweaver 4 beta test where you can learn more about new feature in Artweaver 4.

An update for Artweaver Free and Plus 3.0 to version 3.1.5 is now available. You will get this update automatically over the Artweaver self update feature the next days.

This update includes the following improvements / fixes

• Palette handling improved
• Automatic update improved
• Filter preview with existing selection improved
• JPEG image buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2013-3481 fixed (thanks to Kaveh Ghaemmagham via Secunia SVCRP)
• Artifacts when applying filters with existing selections fixed
• Black borders with blur brush category fixed
• Wrong selection order when saving into PSD format fixed *
• Error on applying filters with selections fixed
• Wrong spacing of warp brush method fixed *
• Crash on loading default keyboard shortcuts fixed *

Third sneak preview for the next Artweaver major release which should be available around this summer. Please visit this blog regularly to see more sneak previews over the next months or register today for free to the Boris Eyrich Software Beta Portal and join the Artweaver 4 beta test where you can learn more about new feature in Artweaver 4.

As you might have noticed, Artweaver 4 beta is now available to the public. Besides improving existing features and enhancing the overall usability of the application there are also some nice enhancement to the team functionality.

Artweaver 4 now uses a transparent locking system for sessions instead of the token locking system in version 3. This makes it much more easier to work on images in a team as there is no need to care about the locking anymore. Artweaver 4 automatically locks the session when changing the image (e.g. painting something) and afterwards unlocks it again. Additional Artweaver 4 also makes sure that concurrent locks are handled right and all events synchronized in the right order.

But this is not all! There are more small changes to improve the usability while connected to a team like:

• Welcome message shows now name of the connected user
• Names of connected users are always unique and team server takes care of it
• Warning and errors messages have been improved
• Messages show now the time of creation

Please register today for free to the Boris Eyrich Software Beta Portal and join the Artweaver 4 beta test to check out all new features.