NeoPaint 4.5 Update Released

NeoSoft Support · Post by **NeoSoft Support** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:39 pm

NeoSoft Corp. has released NeoPaint version 4.5. Registered version 4 users can download a free update patch from the web site below:

http://www.neosoftware.com/patch.html

This update contains the following:

- New Tools: Red-eye Removal, Burn/Dodge, Pencil and Texture Brush. Most of these tools can be found by double clicking on the Highlighter/Specialty Tools icon. The Pencil can be found by double clicking the Brush Icon. (The Texture Brush replaces the old Oil Paint Brush. However, Oil Paint is still available as one of the textures.)

- New Special Effects: Antialias, Brick, Plaster, Tissue Paper, Graphite Pencil, Colored Pencil, Dry Brush, Scratch Board, Water Color, Acrylic, Encaustic, Fresco, Crackle Glaze, Buttonize, Lighten, Darken, Split Light, Intensity Detect, Split Blur, Whirlpool, Wave, Image Tile and Trace Edges.

- Enhanced User Interface: The tool icons have been redesigned to take advantage of high color video modes. (You won't see the new high color icons unless you're running Windows in high color or true color modes.)

- Added a Hue/Saturation adjustment option to the Picture menu.

- Added a Show Full Screen option to the Picture menu.

- Added a Draw from Center option for the Selection, rectangle and ellipse tools.

- Added an Opacity option to the Selection tools. Adjust the opacity slider to draw the current selection transparently. 100% = solid, 0% = invisible.

- Added an Antialias option to the Line tool. When enabled, this option will smooth out the normally jagged edges of diagonal lines.

- Added Size and Antialias options to the Stamp tool.

- Added keyboard shortcuts for most often used tools.

- Improved compatibility with Windows XP.

- Improved scanner support.

- Improved support for switching between multiple printers.

- Added a sub format option to the Save As dialog to select between DOS or Windows format when saving 16 color PCX files.

- And dozens of other fixes and enhancements.

HPW · Post by **HPW** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 5:00 am

Hello neosoft,

Thanks for the nice upgrade!

Luiz Alfredo · Post by **Luiz Alfredo** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:48 am

Great Work. Congratulations.

Best Regards,

Luiz Alfredo G. Menezes
Brazil

Castor · Post by **Castor** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:37 am

Thank you for the new effort of the last update, this program deserves a little more care.

Go on and continue...

Regards, castor

Artie · Post by **Artie** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:21 am

Thanks for the upgrade, although, I wish the new "buttonize" function worked with round buttons also.

Artie

NeoSoft Support · Post by **NeoSoft Support** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:11 am

>>I wish the new "buttonize" function worked with round buttons also. <<

Good idea! I'll add that to our list of things to consider for a future update.

anonymuzzzzzzzz · Post by **anonymuzzzzzzzz** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:17 pm

g'd Moooooooorning NeoSoft

If possible, I'd like a "scissors" cut tool similar to the one in Corel Photo-Paint be included in the next upgrade; to make the great program even better

Post by **Neosoft Support** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:52 pm

Thank you for your suggestion.

NeoPaint already has several scissors type tools. I'm not familiar with Corel Photo Paint. How does the tool you're proposing differ from the scissors tools we currently have?

anonymuzzzzzzzz · Post by **anonymuzzzzzzzz** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:29 am

ummm... hard to xplain...

it's like a mixture of the "polygon" and the "magic wand" tool...

so in the beginning you click, where you want to start cutting...

after that, when you move the mouse cursor to a certain point of the picture, the computer tries to find a line (the separation line of different surfaces) (usually cuved) between that point and the starting location, making that line the edge of the cutout...

(I hope you got it, if not, you may ask again, but I would suggest trying out the trial version of any version of Corel Photo-Paint, it's very simple:)

What makes that tool good, is the simplicity of using it, and that it makes it a lot easier to cut out things containing a wide colour range (faces, cars, people, buildings etc.) from the background.

In such situations it would be impossible to use the magic wand because of the big colour range and using the "freehand" or the "polygon" tool would give a worse result...

I hope one can understand this message, if not, blame me

Hoping to be useful

anonymuzzzzzzzz

anonymuzzzzzzzz · Post by **anonymuzzzzzzzz** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:32 am

*I'm quite sure that the moderator has no problems understanding English, just that my explanation was a bit wicked

Post by **Neosoft Support** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:01 am

Thank you for the information. I will certainly add your suggestion to our list of things to look into for the next update.

anonymuzzzzzzzz · Post by **anonymuzzzzzzzz** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:49 am

thnx

my honour...