calligra 2.9 Beta 1 changelog

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 08 December 2014 Dec 17:30:17 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you can answer this email with a short list of what are the main 
> changes to your applications since 2.8.

Hm... A short list, that's a a tough proposition!

* Krita can now open multiple images in one window
* Thin line quality has been improved
* Anti-aliasing of the transform tool has been improved
* Perspective transform was added
* It's now much easier to create masks and convert between masks and layers
* Liquify transform has been added
* Cage transform has been added
* Vector object scaling and resolution has been fixed
* Selection-shaped gradients have been added
* The smudge brush has been made more correct
* Steps on the Undo history can now be merged
* The brush preset system has been improved to make it possible to temporarily lock changes to a preset during a session
* Several new filters have been added
* A HSV color selector has been added
* The G'Mic filter has been updated and there are previews now
* It's now possible to edit the alpha channel separately
* A new feature to split a layer into several layers by color was added


Missing in 2.9 are Photoshop layer styles and PSD layer masks: we're working hard on those, but they aren't done yet. We're working to have them ready by the end of January. The animation tool has been disabled for refactoring. In Beta 1, Sketch and Gemini have been disabled.


There's a lot more, but these are the highlights that I can remember. What else have I forgotten?


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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org