RAINBOW PAINTER VERSION INFO Rainbow Painter v1.5.0 (November 14th 1999) New user interface features: Ą'Tips' added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'), where you'll find useful hints and tips. Ą'FAQ' added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'), where you'll find some frequently asked questions and their answers. Ą'Info' buttons added to the dialogs of all picture effects, picture operations and layer operations. Clicking on the 'Info' button will bring up brief info about the effect/operation and how it works. New image editing features: ĄNew picture format: JPEG/JFIF pictures can now be imported. ĄNew picture effects: "Charcoal", "Ink", "Oil-Paint", "Crayon", "Night Driving", "Tutti Frutti", "Cloth", "Glow Flakes". ĄNew picture operations: "Scale", "Flip", "Crop". ĄNew picture tools: "Scroll Layer", "Square Selection". ĄYou can now make a 'Selection' using the picture tool "Square Selection". The 'Selection' is supported by all picture effects (so they only affect the selected area), as well as some picture/layer operations. Improved image editing features: ĄAll picture effects now support 'Selection'. ĄThe picture operation 'Crop To Alpha' has been replaced with 'Crop', which crops to 'Selection' (if no selection has been made, it crops to alpha). ĄThe name of the layer operation 'Copy' has been changed to 'Transfer', and it now supports 'Selection' (on the source picture). ĄIn the picture effect dialogs, the 'Effect strength' has been replaced with 'Intensity' and 'Opacity'. ĄMisc. changes and improvements have been made to some dialogs. Killed bugs: ĄRunning Rainbow Painter from CD crashed the program. Now an alert is displayed, telling the user not to run from CD. ĄThe layer operation 'Move' corrupted the picture if all edit buttons were turned off. ĄTrying to 'Undo' after using the layer operation 'New' with all edit buttons turned off, would corrupt the picture. ĄHaving two 'Realtime Zoom' contents visible at the same time could, in some rare cases, crash the program. ĄTrying to apply an effect when no edit buttons were switched on, did not generate an error dialog. ĄImporting a picture didn't work if the file's extension was in lower case. Rainbow Painter v1.4.0 (September 5th 1999) New features: ĄNew picture effects: "Frost", "Water-Color", "Spots", "Tar", "Acid", "Carpet", "Soap", "Peel", "Psychedelic", "Bluescreen", "Sketch", "Neon". Improved features: ĄNew picture effect sets added: "Backdrop FX", "Edge FX", "Art FX". ĄSome picture effects have been slightly improved. ĄNew hotkey: The 'Quick Help' function is now also available by pressing 'Command-Space'. ĄSelecting which layer(s) you want to edit is now done in the following way: Clicking on any of the red edit buttons selects that layer (automatically deselecting all others). To deselect or to select more than one layer just hold down the 'Alt' ('Option') key while clicking. ĄThe 'busy' mouse pointer is now animated, when applying picture effects. ĄThe portfolio now takes up less disk space. Killed bugs: ĄBlowing up a window with a picture editor and then returning to normal mode could, in some cases, crash the program. ĄThe layer operation 'Merge' handled some situations poorly, sometimes crashing the program. ĄThe picture operation 'Rotate' corrupted the picture when doing a '90ˇ right'. Rainbow Painter v1.3.0 (August 8th 1999) New user interface features: ĄTutorial extended. ĄQuick Help extended. New image editing features: ĄNew picture effects: "Enhance", "Plasma", "Impressionism", "Mineral", "Cosmic Glow". ĄThe color of the mask layer can now be changed (click on the color shown below the mask tools). ĄCoordinates are now displayed in the "Realtime Zoom", when the mouse pointer is over a picture. ĄThe picture's size is now displayed to the right of the picture's name. Ą"Export" as "Raw" has been improved with a settings dialog. ĄThe "Raw" importer now recognizes both 16-bit and 15-bit pixels. ĄThe picture effects have been divided into 2 sets ("Classic FX", "Modern FX") for easier reference. ĄThe mask operation 'Remove' has been renamed "Clear", to better reflect its function. Rainbow Painter v1.2.0 (July 12th 1999) New user interface features: ĄThe "Realtime Zoom" is now displaying brief info about what's underneath the mouse pointer. ĄTutorial extended. ĄManual extended. ĄQuick Help extended. New image editing features: ĄNew picture tool: "Spray". ĄNew picture effect: "Split". ĄNew mask tools: "Blur", "Spray". Ą"Undo" is now available in the dialogs of all picture effects and layer operations and some picture operations, to complement the "Make/Use Backup" function. ĄThe picture tool "Smear" has been improved. Killed bugs: ĄThe mouse pointer didn't change to "busy mode", when switching the mask on/off. ĄChanging of a picture's name was refused by the program in some rare cases. Rainbow Painter v1.1.0 (June 17th 1999) New user interface feature: ĄQuick Help extended. New image editing features: ĄNew picture tool: "Saturation Pen". ĄNew picture operation: "Clone". ĄA marker, showing exactly which pixel the mouse pointer is over, has been added to the "Realtime Zoom". ĄThe name of the picture is now shown in the "Picture Editor" and in the "Picture Viewer". ĄYou can now rename a picture by clicking on its name, and typing. Killed bug: ĄRepeated clicking on "Use Backup" on several different pictures could, in some cases, freeze the computer. Rainbow Painter v1.0.0 (June 9th 1999) New user interface features: ĄFullscreen mode for the windows ("Blow Up Window", its button looks like a small explosion and is situated on the right bar in every window). ĄHotkeys assigned to "Blow Up Window" ('F9') and "Rotate Contents" ('F10'). Both affect the last window you used that action on. ĄChanging between the 3 studios can now be done using the keys 'F5', 'F6' and 'F7' . ĄTutorial added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'). Manual and Quick Help extended. ĄThe mouse pointer changes to "busy", when performing operations etc on a picture. New image editing features: ĄNew picture tools: "Fill", "Lighten", "Darken", "Blur", "Sharpen", "Smear". ĄNew picture effects: "Set", "Tint". ĄNew mask tool: "Magic Wand". Ą"Reset Zoom" (its button looks like a magnifying glass with a "=" on it). ĄThe mask operation "Bluescreen" and the layer operation "Copy" have been improved. Killed bugs: ĄCrashed when viewing more than 1 picture, in different windows, in low-memory situations. ĄA general low-memory bug. ĄThe picture operation "Crop To Alpha" produced incorrect result on multiple layer pictures. ĄWhen painting, holding down the mouse button in one window and releasing it in another, produced funny results. ĄWhen clicking on "Use Backup" or "Mask On/Off", and quitting to MacOS directly after, those changes were not saved correctly, unless the picture was also changed in some other way. ĄSometimes, when starting Rainbow, a "false" picture was added to the portfolio, causing random problems. Ą"Shrink Window" could, in some cases, make the window too small for its contents. ĄThe MacOS mouse pointer appeared over Rainbow's pointer in some rare cases. ĄIf the background color of a picture was changed, the backup system ignored that, unless the picture was also changed in some other way. Rainbow Painter v0.9.1 (April 17th 1999) An extension conflict that caused Rainbow to crash in some cases, has now been fixed. Rainbow Painter v0.9.0 (April 3rd 1999) First public release. This document is copyright © Addiction Interactive HB 1999.