RGS-Software: RGS-AvancePaint

Version 2.2.1


Bezier curves	Effects browser

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A complete paint program designed with a intuitive user interface that makes AvancePaint easy to learn and use.
It’s powerful enough to suit the advanced user and yet simple enough to please the beginner.

Open unlimited number photo's or pictures and unleash your artistic talents as you will discover the advanced and powerful but easy to use graphical options!
A complete set of more then 20 photo-realistic filters and more then 40 textures are included.

Uses only 3Mb of harddisk space!

Compatible with Windows 95/98/98se/Me/2k/3k/NT/XP and Vista!

Some of the features:

Compatible with all Windows versions
Easy to use yet powerful
All functions of MS-Paint
Lots of powerful photographical effects
Zoom in/out
Draw advanced Bezier curves and polygons!
Powerful color settings
Size image
Masks
Draw arrows in one click
Open JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, DIB, RLE and ICO files
Open as many photo's as your memory allows!
Cut/copy/paste between photo's
Darken, lighten, sharpen, soften, blur, replace colors, blend, transparent gif etc...
WYSWYG fonts
Multiple undo's
Borders
Textures
Import images from Twain compatible devices
Print preview
User definable rounded square corners
Many pencil style brushes
Rotate
Many symbols included
Uses only 2Mb diskspace

Graphics software Today's Highlight Paint like Photoshop

History

Version 2.2.1
-Bug fix: Image Resize gave sometimes Run-time Error 5
- Image Resize: prevent non-numeric values to be entered
- New: transparent font-typing (T symbol when choosing Text-option from the left toolbar)
- Text: added box line around text input fields to clearly show the boundaries
- Hovering mouse over the Textbox will change the cursor to show user it's an input-field
- Word 'Action:' in Text toolbar options replaced with 'Apply:'
- Warn user when closing Avancepaint if picture has changed (using Close of the titlebar controlbox [X])

Version 2.2
- New: Blend horizontal or vertical if Area selection is not moved
- New: open picture to blend - Blend any image onto your picture (or a selection of your picture) Image-menu -> Blend Image From...
- New: Last used filename is put in the File-menu (history) after closing AvancePaint
- New: Easy Mode (Beginner's mode) Removes all 'complex' features (Window menu)
- New: Open files/images in thumbnail view
- New Import RLE-format images
- New: open picture or create new picture maximizes the window: "Maximize window on open"
- New Pro-feature: "Fit big images on Open"
- New: Drag-drop active or edited foreground- or background color to user-color palette
- New: Drag-drop image-file onto AvancePaint's free workspace to open the dragged image
- New in Brightness and Contrast: 'Preview visible area only' to speed-up preview
Progress bar
- Bugs fixed:
When creating New image or 'Image/Resize dialogue' open and switching
to another application, and then back to Advance paint seemed to hang.
After applying effect at first run, no undo was enabled in menu.
Sometimes AvancePaint could not be closed using the titlebar close button.
Blend did not always work if the selection was not enabled.
Zoom > 100% (not using fixed zoom-levels) gave run-tim error 480 on large images.
Zooming < 100% showed strange visual effects when drawing or applying effects (no refresh).
In Pro-edition: maximize sometimes resulted in not redrawing gradient in sidebars (main screen).
When using Brightness/Contrast and switching between other applications the contrast/brightness sometimes return to default
and further minor bugs fixed
- Error 48, DLL not found when saving JPG's (thanks Ivan White)
- Color palette can be on top all the time and double-click on a color updates main-window's forecolor
- When selecting tool, the tool name is displayed next to the Icon for ease
- Zoom by step + or - 10% and fixed zoom values changed
- Cosmetic changes here and there...
- Mail error or suggestions
- Hovering over colors shows border
- New Pro-Effects: High-Q Contrast, Median Paintings, Rank Filters (downloadable on our website)

Version 2.1
- Main screen toolbar-icons updated
- Erase (white, black, background color) image did not work when using an opened picture
- Sharpen effect view enlarged
- Jagged effect did only a part of the screen, fixed
- Soften-, Smooth, Crease and Decolorize effects had a cyan line at the right edge, fixed
- UNDO when applying an effect inside a selection and pressing the X (undo effect) did not always undo the last applied effect, fixed
- with some external effects a line(s) at the edges of the image was shown: fixed
- Borders: selecting user border is now done with one click (no double click anymore)

- Effects browser update (v1.6)
- Autozoom when larger pictures was to small format: fixed
- Centre smaller images in the viewport
- Emboss, Engrave, Relief gave sometimes a line on the side: fixed
- Colorpicker position better placed

- Right-click Fill tool opened Texture fill -> removed in v2.1 but now placed in the Fill toolbar
- Freehand dots/donuts as new pencil
- Some general debugging and minor changes

Version 2.0
- New: Draw advanced Polygons - move points, color, thickness etc...
- New: Draw Advanced Bezier curves - move points, color, thickness etc...
- New: Twain compatible! (Eztw32.dll)
- import images/pictures from your scanner, cam etc. any twain compatible device!
- New: Pencil now also acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
- New: 5 new pencil color mixes (user selected color, grayscales, pastel pink, blue, yellow)

- New Effects browser v1.5:
- Total new look for easier use
- Several bugs concerning closing the application after an effect: fixed
- Render gave wrong displacement : fixed
- Zoom gave wrong displacement: fixed
- Color picker enhanced with RGB color pallet picker
- New: Spot light aperture size
- Default effect settings improved
- New: mirror image horizontal
- New: mirror image vertical
- Color selector always on top
- User selected color (in Avancepaint) now default in color-selector
- New Pro Edition effect: Anti Aliasing!
- transparency color for zoom, rotate and rendering
- Render picture displacement
- Bug fix: zoom, render and rotate centering image not always correct: fixed
- general debugging
- Spot light now updates automatically after moving image
- New Text functions (Pro Edition)
- font, bold, italic, underline
- 3D shadow text
- all fonts added
- text entry now logically placed
- Text updates automatically after moving (Tip: After apply use it to create 3D)

- AvancePaint Brightness/Contrast:
- preview enlarged
- centre image
- flickering when moving image: fixed
- more speed
- Reset back to original image

- Pencil -> acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
- Right click when using Color Picker Tool sets now the background color
- double click html color code -> clipboard
- Right-click Circle icon -> allows drawing Bezier curves

- 3D borders (Pro Edition) enhanced:
- thickness between 1 and 20 points
- New: extra 3D border "etched"

- Borders improved with:
- now a pallet of 50 colors (instead of 18)
- size adjusted according to selected border
- resize border allowing background color change in solid colors (dual color borders)
- general debugging

- New effect: Interlacing, Crease and Moody (replacing blur, brighten, darken, emboss as it is already available in AvancePaint itself)
- All effects debugged and enhanced
- Effects enabled in Free Edition: Crease, Diffuse, Interlacing!
- Major effect updates of: Sharpen (5 styles: Pro), Psychedelic (now 5 extra effects: Pro), Emboss, Black & white, Jagged (Pro), Striped (user color, step size: Pro), Moody (Pro)
- Free Edition effects available for download: Emboss, Blur, Grayscale, Brighten, Darken - New Statue effect!
- Pro effects available for download: Lighting Blur (and many more will follow)!
- Add Free Edition effects up to 4 extra free downloadable effects
- Speedup some effects: grayscales, color scales, bright/contrast

- Convert single Color Scale New -> black & white, yellow, purple, cyan
- New: Cyan color pallet added to the main color pallet
- New in Draw Text : Center text , left justify, Font
- Copy/Paste bug fixed - After paste user needed to click the selection to allow moving the pasted image, now automatic
- Bug: Blend and transparency during Selection did not work: fixed!
- 8 new textures!
- 4 user selected Textures stored for next use
- Bug fix: Transparency fixed with Paste and with inserting Symbols
- New: ESC during effect stops the current running effect (to stop effect press ESC-key)
- 28 new symbols!
- Associate JPG, BMP or GIF with AvancePaint to open these files from within the Explorer
- Several cosmetic changes

- and much more!

DOWNLOAD

Plug-in Effects
Unzip the files in your AvancePaint \Effects folder

Free- and Pro Edition	Pro Edition only
Statue	Median Paintings High-Q Contrast Rank Filters Blur Lighting

Effects...More coming soon...Yours perhaps?
Please feel free to send us your effects. We'll gladly put them online here and you'll get a free registration key for it! Just mail

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