https://paintie.com/ Paintie.com https://paintie.com/ Wed, 1 October 2025
Changes include:

• Added "Optimize for Web" option to PNG export dialogs, that does lossless size optimization.
• Added "Primitive" filter category with Circle, Rectangle, Ring, Oval, Triangle and Solid filters.
• Added "Apply Mask" option to Export Animation dialog.
• Added Import support for the JFIF image format (JPEG File Interchange Format).
• Added Export support for the AVIF file format (AV1 Image File Format).
• Added keyboard support for browsing files in Load Dialog and Gallery dialog.
• Added support for GUI HiDPI/Retina Mode in Settings: Off, 100%, 200%.
• Added GUI multiline editing support to textfields and text edit dialog for easier editing.
• Holding Shift when Ctrl-clicking on canvas will now mask-select the layer that is switched to.
• Pressing keys Ctrl-Shift-1 trough -9 on Desktop now centers and zooms 100%, 50%, 33%, 25% etc.
• Autosave now supports multiple simultaneous sessions, e.g., when having multiple tabs open.
• Maximum resolution now respects WebGL Max Texture Size.
• Added MinMax filter with Min, Max and Normalize parameters (PRO only).
• Added Red, Green and Blue options to Color Mask filter (PRO only).
• Added Type option (read/write) to Feedback filter to support multi-staged feedback (PRO only).
• Added Specular Color and Shininess to Lighten filter.
• Added Bloom option to Blur filter.
• Reworked Fov and z parameters in Perspective filter.
• Reworked Video Export Zipped PNG encoding to work faster and save to disk incrementally.
• Reworked Video Export for faster MP4 encoding using WebCodecs.
• Replaced JSZip with FFlate for faster async zip compression.
• Autosave now uses IndexedDB instead of Local Storage.
• Hiding GUI now fades background color to black.
• Alpha transparency is now respected in Gallery View when preview format is PNG.
• Retired Post and Comment functionality in Gallery View.
• Enabled Save Dialog's "To Disk..." option in non-PRO version.
• Holding Shift with L, M, R, or S now cycles through lasso, selection, blur, and shape sub-tools.
• Minor bugfixes.

T-Rex using AI Image Layer and Bloom filter. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Wed, 20 December 2023
Changes include:

• Added AI Image Layer, featuring Stable Diffusion XL v1.0 with style, resolution, steps, strength, and custom seed options. (PRO Only)
• Added PCX import (1/2/4/8/24-bit) and export (24-bit) support (ZSoft PiCture eXchange format).
• Added transparency option to BMP Export, to support both 32-bit and 24-bit export.
• Added support for native Desktop "SaveAs"-file-dialog. Only available in Chrome, Edge and Opera.
• Filename now changes to name of imported file when importing PSD or PIE file-formats.
• Added a "Remove Color"-button to Color Palette window.
• Added basic import support for the AVIF file format.
• Pressing keys Ctrl-1 trough -9 on Desktop now centers and zooms 100% to 900%.
• Moved Pixel Perfect checkbox from Settings Window to Pen tool's "Tool Properties".
• Added "Upgrade to Pro" Pro-Subscription Upgrade plans: Pro/Monthly and Pro/Yearly.
• Added Web App Manifest.
• Added MP4 Video Export.
• Deprecated Google and Facebook login options.
• WebAssembly now detects SIMD support.
• Minor bugfixes.

AI Art Generation using AI Image Layer. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Mon, 2 August 2021
Changes include:

• Added "Tile" filter for pixel-perfect tiling of layer, for real-time editing of tileable textures and sprites.
• Added "Dest Over" blend mode, similar to "Normal" alpha-blend but where destination is on top.
• Added "Drop Shadow" filter with blur, intensity and x, y offset parameters. (PRO Only)
• Added "Distort" filter that does frosted-glass-style noisy pixelization effect. (PRO Only)
• Updated "Bokeh" filter to support tilt-shift and larger blur kernels. (PRO Only)
• Added lazy update to tool canvas, to reduce canvas draw-calls.
• Added simple math-expression-evaluation for width and height to Resize and New Image dialogs, e.g., so it is possible to type 32*2 instead of 64.
• Holding Shift key when clicking "New Filter" in Layers Window now adds filter as attachment layer.
• Holding Shift key on Ctrl-C / Copy action now triggers Copy-Merged.
• Ctrl-J shortcut key now Duplicates current layer (same keyboard shortcut as in Photoshop).
• Ctrl-L shortcut key now creates new standard layer.
• Ctrl-F shortcut key now creates new filter layer. Holding Shift as well adds filter as attachment layer.
• Alt and bracket-keys [ ] now change current layer index down and up. (same shortcut as in Photoshop).
• The Del shortcut key now deletes current layer if no mask selection is made. Otherwise it triggers a selection mask Cut.
• It's now possible to use the Import, Export and Print features without being logged in.
• Context loss is now handled gracefully, by forcing autosave and reloading layers if context is restored.
• Bugfix. The clipboard transparency issue in Chromium has now been fixed: Chromium bug 963079.
• Bugfix: Resize image to/from high-resolutions images could cause WebGL context loss. Fixed.
• Minor bugfixes.

Editing tiled dirt texture using the Tile Filter. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Tue, 24 November 2020
Changes include:

• Added "Orientation" option to Resize dialog that rotates canvas 90 degrees CW or CCW, 180 degrees, or flips it horizontal/vertically.
• Added "Pixel Perfect" option to Pen Tool, for 1x1 pixel pen sizes. Useful for Pixel-Art and on by default in Settings. Added more pen presets and made the fine-, 1x1-pixel-pen the initial default.
• Select/Lasso tool is now allowed on non-drawable Layers. Yet, only "Copy merged", "Crop" and similar actions are functional.
• Added Selection Mask Attachment Layer support with optional Opacity parameter + Get and Set buttons for getting/setting mask selection.
• Added Mobile Mode, so interface is more usable on mobile devices. Added option in Settings (On/Off/Auto).
• Added "Modify" to Select Tool to modify selection with either expand or contract operations (dilate/erode).
• Added folder support to Load-dialog. Makes it possible to create folders in the cloud and organize files.
• Added Load-dialog option to rename files and folders.
• Dragging layer in layer window now shows target location highlighted + Layer list now auto-scrolls when dragging outside view-area.
• Dragging group layers now shows all attached layers ghosted too + Improved drag code for attaching and detaching layers from groups.
• Added WebP image format with Quality Setting to Export Image dialog.
• Added "Export Audio" option to video encoder in Export Animation. Uses Media Recorder for audio transcoding while retaining full video quality.
• Added support for importing PAL (JASC) Color Palette files. Simply drag palette file onto canvas. A good selection of palettes can be found here.
• Improved performance of WebM video encoding / export.
• Added "Audio Only WAV" format to Export Animation. Exports just the audio as 16bit 44.1kHz .wav file.
• WebGL 2 is now used by default when available + Added support for WebGL2-only filters.
• ColorPicker: left mouse and drag in color preview, now lerps between color and backup color.
• ColorPicker: left mouse double click on color preview, now copies main color to backup color.
• The chosen filename on Export is now remembered on successive exports.
• Re-invoking an "Actual-pixels" or "Fit On Screen" zoom, now reverts to previous zoom/pan settings.
• Pressing Esc key on Desktop now closes Color Picker, Font Picker, Filter Picker etc.
• When importing as "New Image", filename is now changed to the imported file's name.
• Added "Fluid Paint" drawable filter that mimics fluid paint through real-time simulation of fluid dynamics. (PRO Only)
• Added collapsable "System Info" to About Dialog.
• Added multi-touch support to PointerEvent code path.
• Added support for filters with more passes than 2.
• Smaller 3rd party libraries are now bundled, to reduce http requests and loading time.
• Bugfix: Reworked Hue/Saturation filter for smoother hue shift and added alpha support.
• Bugfix: Fixed a Select tool rotate / scaling alpha clipping issue. (Thanks Bjorn!)
• Bugfix: Fixed Rotate + Scale attachment layer filter to correctly texture-fetch outside canvas size.
• Bugfix: Invert filter did not work correctly with alpha channel. Fixed.
• Bugfix: Fixed broken Facebook login and upgraded to latest Facebook SDK and graph version v2.4.
• Bugfix: Groups were assigned incorrectly when importing PSDs. Fixed. (Thanks Bjorn!)
• Bugfix: Selection Tool Undo was broken when performed on a layer different than the one the selection was made on. Fixed.
• Bugfix: Webgl2 temporarily disabled on iPad due to unknown Scissor-Rect problem on iOS.
• Bugfix: Added no-touch-action to html body to fix pen and touch issues on Microsoft Surface Studio.
• Known Bug: Copy to Windows clipboard in Chrome renders transparency black due to Chromium bug 963079.
• More minor bugfixes.

Audio Visualizer using Audio Layer + Audio Wave- and Feedback Filter. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Thu, 12 September 2019
Changes include:

• Added support for Attachment Layers: Layers placed directly on Image Layers, and applied in-order but without blending.
• Added 16Bit Linear RGBA float layer format (HDR), with Exposure and Gamma parameters.
• Added "Optimize for Web" option to JPG export: A highly size optimized jpeg encoder utilizing MozJPEG & WebAssembly.
• Added OS Clipboard Cut & Paste support. This feature is now supported in Chrome. Local Storage is still used as fallback.
• Added Multi-Line support to Text tool.
• Added "Spacing", "Fixed Spacing" and "Align" parameters to Text tool.
• Added keyboard selection editing to Text tool input (select, cut, copy, paste & undo, redo).
• Added Custom cross-device Font install/uninstall option, by dragging in TrueType compatible Fonts.
• Added Guide Snap option to Move tool that snaps moved layers to border and center of canvas.
• Added "Panoramic" filter, which allows for 360 degree panoramic view of equirectangular images and videos. (PRO Only).
• Added "Audio Wave" attachment filter that draws an audio layer's waveform. (PRO Only).
• Added "Feedback" filter that feeds its output back into the input using the selected blendmode and linear transform (PRO Only).
• Added "Highpass" filter (PRO Only).
• Added "Gaussian Blur" filter with Opacity, Radius and Bloom parameters.
• Added "Downsample Blur" filter with Opacity, Radius and Bloom parameters.
• Added "Dream" Color adjustment filter.
• Added Little/Big Endian check for native 32 bit pixel processing.
• Added Alpha parameters to Gradient tool.
• Added "To Alpha" option to Color Mask, so result is copied to Alpha Channel (PRO Only).
• Added Red, Green and Blue options to Color Mask Filter (PRO Only).
• Added "Replace" blendmode, which blends source rgba with dest rgba.
• Added "Replace Color" blendmode, which blends source rgb into dest rgb, while keeping dest alpha.
• Added "Replace Alpha" blendmode, which blends source alpha into dest alpha, while keeping dest rgb.
• Added filtered search masking to Filter Picker. By holding down shift when selecting category, multiple categories can be selected or deselected.
• Added Video Layer with Rate and Loop options + Added Video import support with .mp4 format FPS detection.
• Added Audio Layer with Loop option + Added Audio import support for .wav and .mp3.
• Added Vector Layer with Scale and Rotate options + Added .svg import support.
• Added Radiance HDR .hdr import and export support.
• Added OpenEXR .exr import and export support.
• Added WebM video format encoding option to Export Animation.
• Internal clipboard in local storage is now cleared on fresh login and on logout.
• Bugfix: Ctrl-A now selects all text in dialog input textfields.
• Bugfix: Fullscreen option stopped working in latest Chrome. Fixed.
• Bugfix: Zooming and Panning during select tool now correctly updates only selection-end instead of moving selection-start.
• Bugfix: Ctrl+Mousewheel would zoom in Chrome 73 due to Googles changes to passive event handling. Fixed.
• Minor bugfixes.

Procedural Sci-fi artwork by Spaceman (original artwork). ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sat, 13 January 2018
Changes include:

• Clicking on backup color in color picker, now reverts current color.
• Added option to disable Auto-Resize-To-Canvas-Size in Image Layers Settings. Auto-Resize is on by default.
• Added "Move To Group" item to Layers window's context menu.
• Added ability to customize/save and reset the current Windows layout in Settings menu.
• Added support for changing overall GUI opacity in Settings.
• Dragging a layer onto the Layer window's icon buttons, will now Duplicate, Delete, Group, Add Filter Modifier or open Settings on the dragged layer.
• Added "ColorMask" filter that returns a mapped greyscale mask of either Hue, Saturation, Brightness or Luminosity. (PRO only).
• Alt-Ctrl clicking on a layer, now selects and pans layer selection into view.
• Enabled deblend with a 5 pixel radius for antialiased fill.
• Reordered gallery views comment section, so comment input field is at the top of the screen, and comments sorted from top to bottom.
• Added left and right image flick arrows to Gallery View.
• Undo/Redo Region copy performance improvements.
• GUI performance and overall battery-life improvements. Better pruning of dirty-rects.
• Staggered shader linking and preview generation in Filter Picker for faster GUI response time.
• Bugfix: Dual Touch now does not zoom if canvas and UI is touched at the same time.
• Bugfix: Touch in undo/redo history now doesn't trigger undo/redo when scrolling using gesture.
• Bugfix: Fixed issue with missing undo item for move tool override when loosing focus or pressing keyboard.
• Minor bugfixes.

Ink Filter on photograph. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Fri, 8 September 2017
Changes include:

• Added more blend modes: Hard Light, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Linear Light, Vivid Light and Pin Light.
• Added support for coalesced input events, for high frequency / non-laggy pen, mouse and touch input.
• Added "To Disk..." store option to Save Dialog, to save Paintie's own image format directly to local disk (PRO Only).
• Removed Local Storage save option. Local storage is now reserved for autosave only.
• Current filename is now displayed in browser-tabs title.
• Improved local storage out-of-disk-space handler.
• Shader compilation is now done asynchronously for faster loading and linking of core shaders and filters.
• Improved server caching for faster (re)load time.
• Added basic Google+ and Facebook OAUTH Login / Sign-up options, with support for custom username.
• Added initial WebAssembly (WASM) support.
• Mozilla Firefox mouse out event fixes.
• Added "Move To Front" and "Move To Back" layer options to layer stacks right click menu.
• Added angle measurement info to line tool.
• Added alpha channel support to BMP import and export.
• Added Rotate selection tool.
• Added mousewheel/touch pane scrolling, when docked windows are outside the visible area.
• Minor bugfixes.

Pixelart froggy (original artwork). ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sun, 12 February 2017
Changes include:

• Added "Apply Mask" option to Export dialog to only export selected mask region.
• Added "Flip Horizontal" and "Flip Vertical" options to scale mode.
• Palette and Grid data is now stored as metadata in internal file format, and hence stored/restored when saving and loading.
• Ctrl now toggles Move tool.
• Ctrl clicking on a pixel with Move tool, will now switch to the first layer in the stack that has non-zero alpha.
• Added "Delete" and "Crop" options to Select tool.
• Added "Copy Merged" copy option to Select/Lasso and Wand tools.
• Paste outside canvas region now snaps clipboard image to border. Also Paste does not center clipboard image anymore.
• Added opacity/blending to Hue+Saturation filter.
• Added "Edit Color" option to Palette window, to directly edit palette color using Color Picker.
• Hotkeys "[" and "]" now changes color palette index (Deluxe Paint style!)
• Added "Duplicate Row" and "Delete Row" options to Palette window.
• Added Animation support, with adjustable framerate + single frame step, controlled through the Animation window and through hotkeys ",", "." and "/". (PRO)
• Added "Flipbook Layer" support, for frame based flipbook-like animation. (PRO)
• Added Animation Layer Modifier for animating parameters using custom spline curves. (PRO)
• Added Animation export, either custom animation or history timelapse, with PNG flipbook, animated GIF, and single frames compressed as ZIP support. (PRO)
• Repeatedly changing the layer visible property now modifies existing undo item when applicable.
• Added animated visual feedback to drop, wand and fill tools.
• Added none, bilinear and bicubic filter options to scale tool.
• Re-enabled error handler and added stack-trace support.
• Minor bugfixes.

Animated GIF, exported with History Timelapse. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Thu, 22 September 2016
Changes include:

• Added "Select Layer" and "Select Flattended" options to layer context menu.
• Added "Settings..." to layer context menu (replaces "Rename..." dialog).
• Added "Flip" Filter, with Horizontal, Vertical mode.
• Renamed "Zoom" filter to "Radial Blur".
• Added "Chroma" parameter to "Bloom" filter to reduce or boost intensity based on color.
• Added "Print" button to main menu.
• Added extra Desktop keyboard shortcuts.
• Duplicate layer now also duplicates group layers.
• Undo/Redo progress is now animated.
• Added (optional) AutoSave functionality (PRO).
• Added Grid tool window with customizable size/offset, snap and crosshair support (PRO).
• Improved "Perspective" filter.
• Added "All Layers", "Current Layer" and "Canvas Only" options to Crop tool.
• For faster page loading, some images and scripts are now loaded deferred after start-up.
• Internal clipboard is now persistent across tabs, so you can cut/copy/paste between different sessions.
• Added TGA image importer.
• Added GIF and animated GIF image importer.
• Added PSD image importer. Only subset of blend modes supported. Nested groups are not supported. Layer effects are not supported. Text layers are only imported rendered. Non-image layers (adjustment,vector,etc.) are not supported.
• Minor bugfixes.

Apple quick sketch (original artwork). ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sun, 27 March 2016
Changes include:

• Added pressure sensitive Scale, Orient, and Orient+Scale brush modes to Brush tool.
• Improved support for Apple Pencil and iPad Pro.
• Improved support for touch inertia-scrolling in scroll views.
• Improved touch zoom support.
• Setting stamp tool position on touch device is now done using long touch.
• Touch zooming 1 second into a tool action, now undos the tool action, to allow zoom to take precedence.
• Tab key or click/tap on top-left Paintie logo now hides tool panes and header.
• Detached windows are now left unhidden when tool panes are hidden.
• Image previews in loading dialog are now loaded progressively, on-demand.
• To drag a layer in the layer window on touch devices, touch is now restricted to the layers preview image.
• Made it possible for browsers to remember the login password.
• Added color cursor to the color palette window.
• Fixed bug in login system causing infinite login hang + added progress indicator to login and registration dialogs.
• Move tool is now selected automatically when creating/editing filter layers with x/y parameters.
• Minor bugfixes.

Procedural Sci-fi artwork by Spaceman (original artwork). ]]> https://paintie.com/ Tue, 22 Dec 2015
Changes include:

• Added button shortcuts to Zoom, Pan and all Select tools.
• Added Opacity and Max Opacity modes to Pen and Brush tool.
• Floating point render targets now support both 32 bit (default) and 16 bit precision.
• General improved support for touch devices, Apple iPad and iPad Pro.
• Added touch zoom and pan support.
• Added pressure support for Apple Pencil.
• Added pressure support for MacBook trackpad.
• Context menu now appears on long touch on touch devices.
• Virtual keyboard now appears for text tool input on touch devices.
• Upgraded backend to MySQLi.
• Minor bugfixes.

Merry X-mas! (original artwork) ]]> https://paintie.com/ Thu, 1 Oct 2015
Changes include:

• Added Color Palette color selector / editor and Color Palette Picker.
• Added canvas resize option to resize dialog.
• Added Brushed Metal filter.
• Added Levels filter.
• Added Rect and Oval modes to select tool.
• Updated User-Profile info and dialog.
• Added support for touch devices.
• Added Image, Current Layer and Current + Below sampling options to drop tool.
• Added Clone / Stamp tool.
• Updated Help section with a Filters Overview, a Hotkey Overview, and Context Menu section.
• Minor bugfixes.

Procedural Sci-fi artwork by Spaceman (original artwork). ]]> https://paintie.com/ Mon, 28 Jul 2015 first public beta release! Current beta testing focuses on latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. So, if you are using a different browser, please beware, chances are things won't work or look correctly.

Changes include:

• Added HTML5 PointerEvent pen support. Retired Wacom NPAPI plugin support.
• Moved undo/redo framecopy from draw-begin to draw-end for reduced stroke lag.
• Throttled info output when using tools.
• Increased size of layer LED button to make clicking easier with pen pointing devices.
• Changed startup tool to brush.
• Paste now centers internal clipboard image at mouse location.
• Added gallery view image filtering option to Settings.
• Added Bicubic filtering option to Resize.
• Added error handler and optional error report.
• Added simple offline detection and handler.
• Added new, slightly brighter, default skin.
• Minor bugfixes.

Mirror- and Ink Filter on photograph. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sun, 19 Apr 2015

• Added Histogram filter.
• Added Color Curves filter.
• Holding shift while drawing or moving now snaps mouse movement horizontally or vertically.
• Thumbnail previews are now in JPG format instead of PNG.
• JPG full size image now generated on server for faster image loading in gallery.
• Added "Gallery Image Format" option to settings. JPG set as default.
• Minor speed improvements (v8 optimizations).
• Improved shader compiler caching for faster filter loading.
• Kuwahara filter bugfixed and updated to support changes in radius.
• An "Apply Filter Changes" message box now pops up when navigating away from a filter picker edit.
• Added error handling when saving/loading fails.
• Added Directional/Spot option to Lighten filter.
• Reworked Publish dialog and added Download option.
• Added Download button to gallery image view. Download format is always PNG.
• Minor skin improvements.
• Drop tool now samples composite image color by default. Holding Alt key or Shift key will sample image layer color instead.
• Improved font loading and rendering + Added more fonts.
• Code moved to local namespace.
• Minor bugfixes.

HULK Fan Art Sketch with added Radial Blur effect. (original artwork) ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sun, 22 Mar 2015

• Added skin support. 3 skins added.
• Added (optional) Component and Parameter Tooltips.
• User settings can now be saved. Enabled by default.
• Added more filters: Bloom, Bokeh, Fractal, Mirror, Pinch, Lens, Rotate + Scale and Sepia.
• Added more noise filter types: Voronoi and FBM.
• Added quality slider option to .jpg and .gif export.
• Added login lightbox transition effect.
• Image filename is now displayed in info window.
• A * next to filename now indicates that file has been changed.
• Ctrl click on parameter now resets it to default.
• Shift-drag on a slider now fine-adjusts the parameter relatively.
• Ctrl-S now opens Save Image dialog.
• When saving under a different name, save image now checks if file already exists, and confirms overwrite.
• Local save/load now writes/reads to/from local storage (base64 encoded).
• Added Softness parameter to Lighten filter.
• Added filename and storage type search filtering to load dialog.
• Improved image caching in load dialog.
• Added favicon.
• Minor bugfixes.

Procedural Fractal Filter. ]]> https://paintie.com/ Sun, 8 Mar 2015

• Automatic spritesheet generation to reduce HTTP-requests.
• Added lazy filter compiling for faster loading.
• When not signed in, first time page load now redirects to landing webpage.
• Added HTTPS/SSL protocol.
• Added lightbox effect to login menus.
• Added Colorize option to Hue/Saturation filter.
• Added Filmic and Color Tone filters.
• Enforced file storage limitations.
• More stuff added to Help section.
• Minor bugfixes.

]]> https://paintie.com/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015

• Improved mouse responsiveness.
• Spacebar now toggles pan mode.
• Tab key now hides GUI.
• Double click in polygon Lasso tool now closes loop.
• Alt key now subtracts on selection tools.
• Ctrl-D now deselects when using selection tool.
• Scrollwheel zoom now zooms towards mouse position.
• Added (optional) spline based smoothing of brush and pen strokes.
• X key now toggles front and back colors.
• Shift key now locks aspect when selecting / cropping.
• Select All now selects the entire layer even if it is larger than the canvas.
• Added Desaturate filter.
• Channels mask is now added to the undo stack.
• Added welcome message.
• Mergedown now keeps blend mode if they are alike.
• Added opacity option to many filters.
• Undo/redo stack auto scroll improved.
• Blur tool fixes.
• Switching sub-tool now changes tool icon in main tool menu.

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