Romain F. T.
rrroschan@gmail.com
Changes and new features in Drawing

# What's new?

The most recent versions are listed first.

# Version 1.0.2

Saving the image should be more reliable, especially when replacing the transparent pixels with a solid color. Pictures are now automatically reloaded from the disk after being saved.

The user interface of the "select" tool changed, as well as the keyboard shortcuts to change tab.

A small rendering issue when previewing a blur filter has also been fixed.

# Version 1.0.1

By popular demand, the "highlighter" tool is now enabled by default, and the message dialog to warn you about the release notes is less intrusive.

The main improvement in this update is the zoom workflow: since the version 1.0.0 it's possible to zoom in very deep, but the process was very slow, and the view didn't stay well centered around the mouse pointer; and once at 2000%%, scrolling up or down, or left or right, was quite violent. These problems should all have disappeared in this new version!

Incorrect command line parsing when using the app outside of a flatpak sandbox has also been fixed.

For users on elementary OS, a small issue concerning window resizing has been mended too.

# Version 1.0.0

## Performance

This new version improves rendering performance, which is visible when editing large images with a poor CPU.

It's still not perfect, but it's better!

## Keyboard controls

You can select tools with keyboard accelerators (Alt+letter). This may not work yet with languages using a non-latin alphabet.

Pressing Ctrl will display the cursor coordinates in a tooltip. If you do it while using a tool, it may display additional data, for example the dimensions of the shape you're drawing!

Pressing Shift, or Alt when using a tool enables specific options, such as locking the direction for the "line" tool, or changing the filling style of a shape.

## New tool!

You can now use the new "skew" tool , to tilt an image from a rectangle to a parallelogram. Such a deformation can be applied horizontally or vertically.

## New options!

Using the "scale" tool, you may optionally set the new size as a relative percentage rather than an absolute value in pixels.

Thanks to a new option, the highlighter will draw straighter, less messy lines.

Pixel rendering is now very sharp when the image is very zoomed in, and the pencil is more precise, so you can draw each pixel precisely.

## Translations

The version 1.0.0 also features new updates to many translations, such as czech, croatian, german, hebrew, and many more.

The help manual you're reading is now mostly translated in spanish, russian, and turkish.

A huge "thank you" to contributors all around the world!

# Version 0.8.5

Changing the view's position within the thumbnail preview now dynamically and immediately updates the view, instead of only reacting to your the click release.

The text tool gains an option to use a thicker outline.

Both the thumbnail preview and the blending mode selection have become more reliable and efficient.

The version 0.8.5 also features new translations.

# Version 0.8.4

Undoing several operations one after another should be less slow.

It's not possible anymore to reload the picture from the disk if it has never been saved on the disk to begin with.

The text tool gains an option to disable anti-aliasing.

# Version 0.8.3

After rotating the selection, it had an incorrectly big height, but now it's fixed.

The outline of the free selection is now visible even when the image is very zoomed out.

In specific configurations, opening a file would open a second tab with an empty image. This weird behaviour should have disappeared.

# Version 0.8.2

The boundaries of the canvas are now always visibly delimited, to better render the area where you can draw, even if the canvas is transparent. It also helps to see what parts of the selection may disappear when you will unselect it.

Transform tools can now draw a preview of the pixels they may create outside of the current canvas, which makes the 'crop', 'scale', and 'rotate' tools more intuitive to use.

The straight line tool has a new option to lock its angle, so you can draw perfect horizontal, vertical, or 45° strokes.

The `--edit-clipboard` command line option now works better with Wayland.

Scaling an image using the numerical inputs now preserves the original proportions of the image (unless the "never keep proportions" option is enabled).

This version of the app is compatible with older GNOME versions (Ubuntu LTS 18.04).

# Version 0.8.1

You can now crop or expand the canvas to an "automatic" size based on the current selection size, using new actions available in the selection menus.

A bug, where the "crop" tool could erase the image under certain conditions, has been fixed.

In the preferences window, there is now an option to select if you prefer the dark theme variant.

Several minor options have been added to the tools:

The orientation of the calligraphic nib (Brush tool);

Various ways to censor an information using filters, with a far quicker workflow, as an option of the Eraser tool;

An "outline" option to the Pencil, Line and Curve tools, to get better contrast, or just a cool effect around your lines.

# Version 0.8.0

The fullscreen mode has been completely redesigned to provide an easier yet less intrusive access to the tools and their options.

The help manual has been splitted in smaller pages to be easier to read, and several buttons to access it have been added across the application.

## New tools

You can now use a tablet and a stylus to draw with pressure-sensitive brushes, available under the new optional 'brush' tool: a simple brush, an airbrush, a hairy brush, and a calligraphic nib.

## New options for existing tools

The selection tools have a new, more rich, more readable bottom pane.

Filters have been rewritten to be more reliable, and a new filter to harmoniously increase contrast has been added.

When you move or delete the selection, now the pixels left behind can optionally be a specific color, rather than always transparency. This specific color can be excluded from the selection. That feature is complex to explain with words, try it yourself you'll see.

The eraser tool now as options: it can use a specific color, rather than always transparency. This option has the same value as the selection replacement color mentioned above. This tool also have a new icon, based on the Adwaita theme.

Options such as the text background type, the shape filling style, or the aforementioned eraser/selection replacement color, are now persisted when closing the application.

## Color modes

The user interface for selecting the active color application mode has been redesigned to better show the accurate label, and better organize the possible modes as submenus.

The "blur" mode has been removed, which simplifies the situation and allows several tools ("shapes" and "brushes") to get support for the color application modes in general.

## Bugs fixed

Coordinates of the selection were lost when unselecting a selection defined by an undo.