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• New themes: flat dark, flat light, system
• UI font type and size in Preferences
• Support reading WebP files (without ImageMagick)
• New filters: Abstract Lights, Tile Seamless, Rose, Concentric Shapes, Border Mask
• Blinds, Checkerboard, Goo and Shapes Grid as separate transition filters
• Improved filters: Photo Collage, Spheres
• Snapping to pixel boundaries
• Layer isolation
• Crop to content
• Adjustment layers, layer groups (experimental)
• Color fill and gradient fill layers are no longer experimental
• Many smart object improvements (still experimental)
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

• Contributions by Anirudh Sharma:
  • New filters: Flow Field, Comic Book
  • Improved filters: Grid, Spiral, Color Wheel, Mirror
  • Area zooming in the Zoom Tool and in the Navigator
  • New UI for "Enlarge Canvas"
  • Tapering and Reverse Tapering strokes
  • Higher undo limit for lightweight changes
• The beginnings of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish translations (with contributions by Albano Battistella, Jonas Mohr, Heimen Stoffels)
• Pixelitor 4.3.0 requires Java 17 or higher
• The Windows installer includes the required Java, on Windows there's no need anymore to install Java first
• Support for the TGA and NetPBM file formats
• ImageMagick-based export/import for all the formats supported by ImageMagick 7
• SVG export in the Pen Tool and the Render/Shapes filters
• Erase blending mode
• Presets for filters, tools, and in other places
• Curved strokes and angle setting in Auto Paint
• New filters: Spider Web, Spiral, Grid, Truchet Tiles, Bump Map, Displacement Map
• Improved filters: Circle to Square, Checker Pattern, Four Color Gradient, Value Noise, Channel Mixer, Threshold, Waves, Marble, Polar Glass Tiles, Starburst, Spiral, Flashlight, Magnify
• Filter Search
• Show Last Filter
• Shape settings in the Shapes Tool
• Shift-drag creates equally sized shapes in Shapes Tool
• New options for zooming and panning (in Preferences)
• Printing
• Better tool icons on HiDPI screens
• Optional Operating System file choosers
• Experimental features:
  • Smart objects, smart filters
  • Color fill layers
  • Gradient fill layers
  • Shape layers
  • Operating System theme
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

Changes since 4.2.4 beta 3:

• Changed version numbering: next version will be 4.3.0
• Contributions by Anirudh Sharma:
  • Area zooming in the Zoom Tool
  • New UI for "Enlarge Canvas"
  • More options in the "Grid" and "Spiral" filters
• Image size is shown in the window title (#188)
• Curved strokes in Auto Paint
• Show Last Filter
• Java 16 is now required in order to run Pixelitor
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

Changes since beta 2:

• Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-C work in the filter dialog (issue #165 )
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

Changes since beta 1:

• The Windows installer includes the Java dependecy, there's no need to install Java first
• Presets for Curves/Levels
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

• Require Java 15+
• Filter search
• Presets can be saved for most filters and for text layers
• The beginnings of Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish translations
• Support for the TGA and NetPBM file formats
• ImageMagick-based export/import
• New options for zooming and panning in Preferences
• Shape settings in the Shapes Tool
• Shift-drag creates equally sized shapes in Shapes Tool
• New "Render Shape" filters: "Spider Web", "Spiral"
• New options for the filters "Circle to Square", "Checker Pattern", "Four Color Gradient", "Value Noise"
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

• Brush outline in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone Tools
• Create selection from the text of a text layer
• Move selection in the Move Tool
• Copy/paste for selections
• Selection crop can be nonrectangular (with generated layer masks)
• "Color randomness" option in the "Spray Shapes Brush"
• "Image Source" option and Hue/Saturation distances in the "Mask from Color Range"
• Add layer mask from transparency and from layer contents
• Chaos Game, Mandelbrot and Julia fractal renderers
• "Watermarking" option for the Render/Shapes filters
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

• Keyboard nudging for the Gradient, Pen, Shapes tools
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements

• Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
  • "Layer Auto Selection" checkbox in the Move Tool
  • Styles and colors for the guides (in the Preferences)
• Transform mode in the Pen Tool
• Rotating and resizing shapes in the Shapes Tool
• "Delete Cropped Pixels" checkbox in the Crop Tool
• In the Crop Tool, the initial Alt-dragging creates the rectangle from the center
• File/View Metadata (using the metadata-extractor library)
• Right-click popup menus on tabs
• Many bugfixes and UI improvements

• Contributions by Łukasz Kurzaj:
  • New "Curves" filter
  • New composition guides in the Crop Tool: golden spiral, triangles, grid
• Tabbed user interface (it's optional, the old internal windows are still available in the Preferences)
• New Pen Tool
• Handles in the Gradient Tool
• Image files can be drag-and-dropped on the layers area to be added as image layers
• New "Lazy Mouse" smoothing option in the Brush, Eraser, Smudge and Clone tools
• New "Spray" and "Connect" brushes in the Brush and Eraser tools. "Connect" is based on ideas from the harmony project
• Guides (in the View menu)
• More brushes have settings
• New filters: "Striped Halftone", "Concentric Halftone", "Render Grid", "Checker Pattern"
• New options for the "Channel Mixer", "Slice" filters
• Minor bugfixes and UI improvements