Changes and new features

• Added new selection tools: magic wand, lasso, and polygon
• Added Automatic updates, including delta patches for smaller files (like languages). Customize the new update options from the Tools–>Options menu.
• Numerous interface improvements, including new tab strip, text up/down, image buttons, and other controls created specifically for RasterWave
• Improved file format support, including RAW support for 200 new camera models (via LibRaw), WMF and EMF metafile support, improved PNG compatibility, and many metadata improvements.
• New tone-mapping dialog for HDR and RAW images. Tone-mapping is also provided for high bit-depth variants of common formats, like 48- and 64-bit PNGs.
• Adaptive supersampling is now available for all Distort and Transformation tools
• Added Cross-Screen tool
• Overhauled the following tools: Lens Flare, HDR, Channel Mixer, Surface Blur, Unsharp Masking, and more.
• Performance, accuracy, and interface improvements to Curves, Levels, Green Screen (Chroma Key), Color Balance, Kaleidoscope, Zoom Blur, Motion Blur, and many others.
• Improved performance program-wide, including a new viewport pipeline, improved image compositor, updated localization engine, and new internal image manager.
• Improved localization and translation support
• Many improvements to the main editor screen, including a resizable and customizable left-hand toolbox, auto-hiding of the options toolbox, and new quick-access buttons for Save Lossless Copy and Fade Last Effect.
• New Fit Image, Fit Width, and Fit Height smart zoom options.

Fixed

• Fixed progressbar not disappearing after image quantization
• Fixed statusbar messages overlapping coordinate display

Changes and new features

• Added comprehensive layer support: variable opacity, custom blendmodes, on-canvas moving and resizing, and editing without flattening, etc.
• Added non-destructive quick edit options under quick fix button on toolbar
• Numerous interface improvements: new slider, radio button, and check boxes
• Added Fade and Straighten tools
• Added auto-correct and auto-enhance options for color, contrast, and lighting
• Added Split-toning, HDR, and Remove Noise (bilateral filtering) tools
• Added Colored pencil, Glass Tiles, Stained Glass, Fragment, Kuwahara, Lens Flare, and Sunshine filters
• Improved Curves tool with per-channel support and a greatly improved interface
• Overhauled Levels tool with per-channel support, click-to-set color options, best-in-class Auto levels option, and a redesigned interface
• Improved Color Balance tool by adding tonal range adjustment
• Overhauled Comic Book filter with new options for ink density and color smoothing
• Overhauled Relief filter with new options for angle, thickness, and relief depth
• Overhauled Emboss/Emgrave filter with new options for angle, thickness, and depth
• Overhauled Edge Enhance filter with new options for edge detection mode, direction, and strength
• Overhauled Find Edges dialog with new edge operators and directional support
• Overhauled Rainbow filter with new options for offset, angle, strength, and saturation boosting
• Overhauled Fog filter with new options for scale, contrast, density, and render quality
• Overhauled Ignite filter (formerly Burn) with new options for intensity, flame height, and strength
• Added Undo History browser
• Added new Performance options category
• Added Move cursor tool
• Greatly improved Paste functionality with web browsers
• Improved Drag/Drop for importing images
• Improved reliability of clipboard URL parsing
• Overhauled canvas custom cursor framework
• Greatly improved Undo/Redo engine (diff-based for faster performance and less disk space)
• Optimized image thumbnail generation
• Optimized unsaved changes dialog image preview
• Many improvements to import/export color depth handling
• Added Autosave feature
• Improved shell pipe handling for ExifTool
• Added placeholder text and icon to Canvas when no images are loaded
• Improved drag/drop support, including support for dragging images from web browsers.
• Improved statusbar with clickable resize image button and fit image on-screen button
• Added Malay and Swedish language support
• Improved support for using arrow keys to modify various settings
• Improved image metadata handling with asynchronous processing (loading/saving are much faster)
• Improved mousewheel zoom
• Added Select->Erase selected area option
• Greatly improved Content-Aware resizing with faster performance, symmetrical seam removal, and ESC-to-cancel functionality.
• Improved image load time

Fixed

• Fixed progressbar not disappearing after image quantization
• Fixed statusbar messages overlapping coordinate display
• Fixed status bar rendering on high-DPI displays
• Fixed cursor issue with check box control
• Fixed memory leak in Image->Rotate Arbitrary
• Fixed FreeImage JPEG loading quality
• Tools can now live-preview effects while color dialogs are active
• Fixed minor arbitrary rotation tool issues
• Fixed File->Revert to work with new Undo/Redo engine
• Fixed filename issue with Save/Save As dialogs
• Fixed extra space appearing in auto-incremented filenames
• Fixed nasty bug when double-clicking file dialogs

Fixed

• Fixed severe error in the Image -> Canvas Size dialog
• Fixed various problems in locales where “,” is used as a decimal separator
• Fixed some controls not displaying correctly on Windows XP

Changes and new features

• Updated all language files
• Updated ExifTool plugin to version 9.54
• Updated FreeImage plugin to version 3.16.0
• Improved perlin noise generation
• Improved spatial accuracy and design of Figured Glass algorithm
• Improved accuracy when determining monitor physical display size
• Increased accuracy of unit measurement
• Allow user to change size unit directly from status bar
• Added support to launch Resize dialog when double-clicking size status bar panel
• Added Spanish language translation
• Added fully automatic machine translation for languages (using Google Translate)
• Greatly improved dithering for Black and White dialog
• Completely reworked Black and White (Grayscale) dialog
• Added JPEG XR import/export support
• Added WebP import/export support with live previews when saving
• Added WebP saving support
• Redesigned JPEG-2000 export dialog to match JPEG one
• Added screen color picker to color selector
• Added inch, cm, and resolution support to Image Resize
• Added support or percent based resize
• Greatly improved image DPI detection
• Greatly improved image load performance
• Added click-to-drag Nav tool
• Allow user to set custom composite color for 8bpp reductions
• Remove old thumbnail-specific EXIF tags when preserving metadata
• Improved handling of technical JPEG metadata
• Added seperate metadata panel to JPEG export dialog
• Added various metadata handling improvements
• Added automatic JPEG quality calculation when saving
• Updated JPEG export dialog to utilize preview window
• Added special handling for multiline EXIF comments
• Made About window URLs clickable
• Added small list of last-used colors in color selector
• Added Chrome Blur tool
• Minor improvements to Film Grain tool
• Greatly improved performance of Trace Contour tool
• Added custom center-point selection to Vignetting, Rotate (distort), Lens Distort, Kaleidoscope, Pinch/Twirl, Distort Poke, and Ripple tools
• Added click to select coordinate feature to preview windows
• Added pan/zoom support for preview windows
• Added Content-aware resize tool (smart resize)
• Converted update checks to be asynchronous

Fixed

• Fixed issue with loading size unit drop-down on main canvas
• Fixed various high-DPI issues
• Fixed status bar rendering on high-DPI displays
• Many high-DPI fixes for UI
• Fixed potential freeze when unloading “import from internet dialog
• Fixed critical error in Selection->Export menus
• Fixed invalid radius calculation on initial Oil Painting loading
• Added fail-safe termination for long-running metadata parsing
• Fixed minor issues on Resize dialog
• Fixed issues with screen capture
• Fixed potential viewport error on Windows XP
• Fixed broken tooltip theming for color selector
• Fixed DPI metadata parsing issue
• Improved failsafe against image tabstrip corruption
• Fixed strange behavior when switching to/from line selections
• Fixed floating toolbars appearing over Save dialog
• Fixed erroneous image unload behavior
• Added safe shutdown detection for Autosave dialog
• Fixed Curves dialog presets to account for comma as a potential decimal
• Fixed error if clicking on the canvas while an image is unloading
• Fixed canvas background color when changed from Options dialog
• Fixed critical command-line image loading bug
• Fixed 32bpp issues with new JPEG export features
• Fixed several tabstrip issues
• Fixed multiple floating toolbar issues
• Fixed bad tooltip on command bar
• Fixed live translation updates for various toolbars
• Fixed alpha handling on Crop to Selection when feathered or antialiased is used
• Fixed batch processor
• Fixed various issues when minimizing main window
• Fixed visual artifacts on main window after changing image tabstrip alignment

Changes and new features

• Removed old auto-enhance filters
• Added dialog for selection tool settings
• Added full selection menu
• Removed real-time selection feathering on Windows XP/Vista due to absence of GDI+ (can still be accessed from Selections->Feathering)
• Added Curves tool
• Improved rendering of image histogram
• Improved Perspective tool UI
• Added Resize option to Batch Wizard
• Added Fix lighting problems option to Batch Wizard
• Disabled auto-adjust zoom after resize (image or canvas)
• Added Alt+T as universal toggle for original/preview image
• Converted all program settings to use XML files
• Converted Custom Filter saved files to XML format
• Improved validation when loading custom convolution filters from file
• Converted macro files to XML format
• Improved saving of selections in macro files
• Improved selection file format
• Image layer data is now compressed when saved to undo file, decreasing size.
• Updated zLib to version 1.2.8
• Added Normalize option for custom filters (automatically calculates divisor and offset based off current matrix entries)
• Improved filter interpolation on edges
• Rewrote exposure tool algorithm
• Added Sharpen dialog (removed old sharpen items)
• Added Oil Painting effect
• Separate language folder added to /Data
• Busy cursor now displays while changing language
• Improved ClearType type handling for interface fonts
• Added color selection ability to preview windows
• Enabled preview color selection on relevant tool dialogs
• Automatically select to color when new color is selected
• Added green screen tool (Image->Make color Transparent)
• Changed program settings to write only relevant metadata by default
• Added Command Bar control to all tool/filter windows which allows saving/loading of presets
• Added allowPreview control to Brightness/Contrast
• Removed /Filters folder (presets made obsolete)
• Removed Despeckle and Orphan Pixel tools (made obsolete)
• Added Rotate distort effect
• Improved mousewheel handling
• Improved Tile tool performance
• Moved manual color reduction functions to Posterize tool
• Added Motion Blur and Radial Blur tools
• Reorganized artistic and distort filters in Effects menu

Fixed

• Fixed severe Undo bug when no selections are active
• Fixed edge behavior of antialiased elliptical selections
• Fixed critical PNG save bug if colors must be counted
• Fixed Fade Last Effect not enabling correctly
• Fixed ESC key handling (undo data properly resets now)

Changes and new features

• Major improvement in selection handling
• Undo/Redo now supports selections
• Added loading/saving of selection files
• Renamed Color menu to Adjustment and reorganized
• Added Vibrance tool
• Added new selection tool options window
• Added Select menu with full support for selection adjustment