•'Tips' added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'), where you'll find useful hints and tips.
•'FAQ' added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'), where you'll find some frequently asked questions and their answers.
•'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:
•New picture format: JPEG/JFIF pictures can now be imported.
•You 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:
•All picture effects now support 'Selection'.
•The picture operation 'Crop To Alpha' has been replaced with 'Crop', which crops to 'Selection' (if no selection has been made, it crops to alpha).
•The name of the layer operation 'Copy' has been changed to 'Transfer', and it now supports 'Selection' (on the source picture).
•In the picture effect dialogs, the 'Effect strength' has been replaced with 'Intensity' and 'Opacity'.
•Misc. changes and improvements have been made to some dialogs.
Killed bugs:
•Running Rainbow Painter from CD crashed the program. Now an alert is displayed, telling the user not to run from CD.
•The layer operation 'Move' corrupted the picture if all edit buttons were turned off.
•Trying to 'Undo' after using the layer operation 'New' with all edit buttons turned off, would corrupt the picture.
•Having two 'Realtime Zoom' contents visible at the same time could, in some rare cases, crash the program.
•Trying to apply an effect when no edit buttons were switched on, did not generate an error dialog.
•Importing a picture didn't work if the file's extension was in lower case.
•Some picture effects have been slightly improved.
•New hotkey: The 'Quick Help' function is now also available by pressing 'Command-Space'.
•Selecting 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.
•The 'busy' mouse pointer is now animated, when applying picture effects.
•The portfolio now takes up less disk space.
Killed bugs:
•Blowing up a window with a picture editor and then returning to normal mode could, in some cases, crash the program.
•The layer operation 'Merge' handled some situations poorly, sometimes crashing the program.
•The picture operation 'Rotate' corrupted the picture when doing a '90° right'.
•The color of the mask layer can now be changed (click on the color shown below the mask tools).
•Coordinates are now displayed in the "Realtime Zoom", when the mouse pointer is over a picture.
•The picture's size is now displayed to the right of the picture's name.
•"Export" as "Raw" has been improved with a settings dialog.
•The "Raw" importer now recognizes both 16-bit and 15-bit pixels.
•The picture effects have been divided into 2 sets ("Classic FX", "Modern FX") for easier reference.
•The mask operation 'Remove' has been renamed "Clear", to better reflect its function.
Rainbow Painter v1.2.0 (July 12th 1999)
New user interface features:
•The "Realtime Zoom" is now displaying brief info about what's underneath the mouse pointer.
•Tutorial extended.
•Manual extended.
•Quick Help extended.
New image editing features:
•New picture tool: "Spray".
•New picture effect: "Split".
•New mask tools: "Blur", "Spray".
•"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.
•The picture tool "Smear" has been improved.
Killed bugs:
•The mouse pointer didn't change to "busy mode", when switching the mask on/off.
•Changing 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:
•Quick Help extended.
New image editing features:
•New picture tool: "Saturation Pen".
•New picture operation: "Clone".
•A marker, showing exactly which pixel the mouse pointer is over, has been added to the "Realtime Zoom".
•The name of the picture is now shown in the "Picture Editor" and in the "Picture Viewer".
•You can now rename a picture by clicking on its name, and typing.
Killed bug:
•Repeated 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:
•Fullscreen mode for the windows ("Blow Up Window", its button looks like a small explosion and is situated on the right bar in every window).
•Hotkeys assigned to "Blow Up Window" ('F9') and "Rotate Contents" ('F10'). Both affect the last window you used that action on.
•Changing between the 3 studios can now be done using the keys 'F5', 'F6' and 'F7' .
•Tutorial added (accessible from the main menu, press 'Esc'). Manual and Quick Help extended.
•The mouse pointer changes to "busy", when performing operations etc on a picture.
•"Reset Zoom" (its button looks like a magnifying glass with a "=" on it).
•The mask operation "Bluescreen" and the layer operation "Copy" have been improved.
Killed bugs:
•Crashed when viewing more than 1 picture, in different windows, in low-memory situations.
•A general low-memory bug.
•The picture operation "Crop To Alpha" produced incorrect result on multiple layer pictures.
•When painting, holding down the mouse button in one window and releasing it in another, produced funny results.
•When 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.
•Sometimes, when starting Rainbow, a "false" picture was added to the portfolio, causing random problems.
•"Shrink Window" could, in some cases, make the window too small for its contents.
•The MacOS mouse pointer appeared over Rainbow's pointer in some rare cases.
•If 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.
