Artweaver Plus 4
This version includes the following new features and improvements:
New Features
- Native 64 bit version and improved support for multiple CPU cores
- New tabbed document interface (TDI) instead of a multiple document interface (MDI)
- Revised and improved icons
- Preview images of brush presets can be customized by own images
- Many tools show useful information directly on the canvas while using them
- Crop tool darkens document area outside the crop rectangle for a better visual feedback
- Shape tool now supports more complex custom shapes and includes many new custom shapes
- Custom palettes support presets commands and command order is configurable
- The team token locking has been replaced by an automatic locking
- New brush profile: Soft
- New brush settings: Merge mode and Merge opacity
- New layer blend mode: Overlay
- New effect filters: Portrait, Dithering, Video, Difference Clouds and Custom
- Support for Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) devices which replaces Twain
Improvements
- Improved palette docking and many palettes are now fully resizeable
- Added menus to more tools for a quick access to common commands on right click
- Instead of a menu brush tools show now the preset selector for variants on right click
- For both eraser and stamp tool the use of pen pressure to control size and opacity is now directly configurable on the tool properties
- Added a histogram to thresholds filter
- Built in team server functionality has been replaced by ArtweaverTeam.com
- Clouds filter shows a real-time preview directly in the document and adds new options
- Added a warning to capture imagestamp dialog if entered values are not applicable
- Auto select of layers in move tool is now more configurable
- Added Sample option for dropper tool
- Added New mode option for shape tool
- Maximum allows size for capturing presets increased
- Additional buttons added to some palettes for quick access to common commands
- Added snap to bounds / guides for many tools
- Added new Misc commands to keyboard shortcuts
- Perspective grid tool shows a hint if perspective grid is currently not visible and allows to show it
- Preset commands are now disabled if not possible (and additionally indicated by a shield symbol)
- New paper and imagestamp presets
- Many team messages improved
- Quality of smear method improved
- Event support improved (especially for playback)
- Work-flow and usability of online update improved
- Contract and expand selection combined into one single command
- Some brush categories renamed: Distortion to Smear and Warping to Warp
- Brush variant Oily – Oily Marker removed
- Many bug fixes