Short: Pro-style layered image editor RTG/AGA Author: Darko Djordjevic Uploader: darko djordjevic hotmail com (Darko Djordjevic) Type: gfx/edit Version: 0.7.6 Requires: AmigaOS 3.1+, 68020+, lots of Fast RAM; RTG (Picasso96/CGX) recommended Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.1.0 a-graph - a professional image editor for the Amiga =================================================== a-graph is a raster image editor for AmigaOS 3.x, written from scratch in C. Its menus, panels, tools, dialogs, shortcuts and workflow follow today's industry-standard image editors as closely as the hardware allows - if you have used a modern professional image editor, you already know a-graph. It is still a real Amiga program: it respects the system, works with Workbench, and treats the Amiga's own formats as first-class citizens. ONE BINARY, TWO KINDS OF MACHINE -------------------------------- At startup a-graph picks its display path by itself: - RTG (Picasso96 / CyberGraphX, cybergraphics.library v41+): its own 24-bit truecolor screen. This is the main target. - AGA: without RTG it falls back to a 256-colour (8-bitplane) screen, so it also runs on a classic A1200/A4000 without a graphics card. - Workbench window: on a truecolor RTG Workbench it can also run in a window there (View > Screen Mode > Workbench Window). Two builds are included: a-graph 68020 or better, no FPU needed a-graph.060 optimised for the 68060 (with FPU) AMIGA FORMATS ------------- IFF ILBM - Loads 1-8 bitplane palette images, 24-bit ILBM, HAM6, HAM8 and EHB (the view mode from the CAMG chunk); the ACBM variant too. - PCHG palette changes per line (small and big changes, the Huffman compressed form too), so multi-palette pictures show as they do on the Amiga; SHAM/CTBL sliced HAM as well. - View > HAM8 Preview / HAM6 Preview: the picture on a native HAM screen of its own (HAM8 needs AGA), as the chipset will show it. - Saves IFF 24-bit, HAM8, HAM6, EHB, 256 colours and 16 colours, ByteRun1 (PackBits) compressed. IFF ANIM (DeluxePaint-compatible) - Saves FORM ANIM: a full ILBM first frame, then op-5 "byte vertical delta" frames (ANHD + DLTA), all frames on one median-cut 256-colour palette. - Loads ANIMs into the Timeline, or frame by frame into layers. - Modern Timeline: frame strip with thumbnails, per-frame delays, looping, Tween, Onion Skin, and layer animation (visibility, position, opacity per frame). Workbench icons (.info) - Reads PNG icons, OS3.5 colour icons (FORM ICON/IMAG), NewIcons and classic planar icons; normal and selected images open as two layers. - Saves a classic DiskObject plus an OS3.5 colour image (up to 256 colours, transparency). An edited icon keeps its Default Tool, tool types, stack, position and the rest. - Image Previews: every saved file can get an icon with a thumbnail. Clipboard (clipboard.device) - Copy/Cut publish IFF ILBM; Paste takes an ILBM from any program. Text travels as IFF FTXT. PART OF THE SYSTEM ------------------ - ARexx port. - AppWindow: drop file icons from Workbench into the window. - Amiga bitmap fonts for type layers, with previews in the font list. - Tablet pen pressure (size, opacity, flow) through the system's tablet events. - Droplets: a saved batch process as an icon to drop images on. - Settings, brushes, patterns, actions and the dictionary live in PROGDIR:. BRIDGES TO THE REST OF THE WORLD -------------------------------- - PSD: layers, masks, groups with blend modes, layer styles, editable type, adjustment layers, 8 and 16 bit. PSB (Large Document) is read too. - PNG (up to 16-bit, interlaced), JPEG, TIFF (LZW/ZIP, paths), GIF (animated too), WebP, BMP, TGA, PCX, PBM/PGM/PPM, Radiance HDR, OpenEXR, PDF and EPS. - Imports brushes (.abr), gradients (.grd), styles (.asl), custom shapes (.csh) and patterns (.pat); exports patterns (.pat). WHAT'S INSIDE, IN SHORT ----------------------- - Layers: groups with real blend modes, clipping masks, Smart Objects, Smart Filters with Blending Options. - Layer styles: Drop Shadow, Bevel & Emboss, Glows, Satin, Gradient and Pattern Overlay, Stroke. - Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, a Camera Raw-style window, Filter Gallery, Blur Gallery, Liquify and many more filters and adjustments. - Select and Mask, Color Range, Quick Mask, single-channel editing. - Brushes with dynamics, on-canvas HUD for brush size and colour, Vanishing Point with several planes, live gradients. - Actions (with Record Again), batch processing, Save for Web, Indexed Color (Perceptual / Selective palettes), Bitmap mode. NEW IN 0.7.6 ------------ - Free Transform (Edit > Transform) with a selection transforms the selected pixels only, as the reference: lifted out of the layer (a hole left), put back into it on Enter - one History step; Esc: as it was. - A User Brush Preset keeps a sampled tip too (New Brush Preset with a sampled tip; picking it brings the tip back at the preset's size). - Brush Settings > Texture Pattern, Brush Pose, Spacing: the texture's own pattern; Brush Pose's Override Pressure (a mouse paints as with a pen at that pressure); Spacing off (a dab at each pointer point). - Split Channels by the image's mode (Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Lab), the alpha and spot channels as documents too; the original then closes. - Merge Channels: Multichannel (2 - 4 spot channels over white), every channel picked by the image's name; the images merged then close. - Apply Image onto what is targeted: one colour channel (or those Shift+clicked), the alpha channel painted, Quick Mask, the layer mask. Its Channel also the Layer Mask and the saved channels, its Mask also the Selection and the layer's mask. - Calculations: each Source's Layer (Merged, a layer, another open image) and Channel (Transparency too); New Channel can be undone. - Color Picker: Up / Down in its number fields (Shift: by 10); its model and Only Web Colors remembered; Add to Swatches asks a name. - Gradient Editor: Left / Right move the stop picked (Shift: 10 %); its Presets show your own gradients too; its Name field (New keeps the gradient under it). - Timeline: Frame Delay Other... in seconds with decimals (0.15). - The Timeline's animation is kept in .djp documents (frames, delays, looping, the layers' states). - Onion skins in an animation of layers too. - Timeline: a frame dragged to another place moves there (Alt: a copy). - Timeline > Panel Options: Thumbnail Size Large. - Timeline: several frames selected (Shift / Ctrl+click) - delay, Delete. - Layers panel: a Unify row (position, visibility, opacity, Propagate Frame 1) while the layers are animated. - Healing Brush: the Clone Source's scale, angle, flip and overlay. - Patch, Content-Aware: Sample All Layers. - Crop Options: Auto Center Preview; Shield Color Match Canvas, Custom; the overlay Auto / Always / Never Show. - Crop: size presets; New / Delete Crop Preset (your own, kept). - Styles panel: Shift+click adds a style's effects; Alt+click deletes. - Histogram: the sampled-count warning (a click refreshes); Cache Level. - Status readout / Info panel: Efficiency. - Patterns panel: pattern groups (New / Rename / Delete, Move to Group). - Styles panel: style groups (New / Rename / Delete, Move to Group). - Patterns panel: Large Thumbnail; the tiles scroll with the wheel. - Content-Aware Move: Transform On Drop. - Photo Filter: all 20 filters (Warming / Cooling 81 / 82, Deep Red, Blue, Emerald, Yellow, Underwater). - Properties of an adjustment layer: View Previous State, Toggle layer visibility. - Exposure: Black / Gray / White eyedropper buttons. - Gradient Map: the gradient shown in the dialog, Edit Gradient... - Match Color: Save Statistics / Load Statistics. - Color Balance dialog: Shadows, Midtones and Highlights each kept, applied together. - Hue/Saturation dialog: Master and each colour range kept, applied together. - Selective Color dialog: each colour's values kept, applied together. - Replace Color: Add to / Subtract from Sample (Shift / Alt+click). - A tab's menu: Move to New Window, Reveal in Workbench. - Preferences > Interface: Large Tabs. - The toolbar in two columns (the double arrow at its top). - Vanishing Point: an image's planes kept for it (opened again: there). - Brush Settings: Shape Dynamics, Scattering, Color Dynamics, Transfer each Enabled on / off. - Edit > Toolbar: the tool groups in an order of your own (Position). - Layer Style: a sample of the style as set (under New Style...); Move Up / Down for an effect among its copies. - Bevel & Emboss: the edge Contour has its own Anti-aliased. - Brightness/Contrast: Auto sets Brightness and Contrast from the picture (dialog and the adjustment layer's Properties). - Hue/Saturation: the range's marks with their degrees; a click on the marks moves the nearest one (Range Shift, Width, Fall-off). - Shadows/Highlights: the two Amounts; Show More Options shows the rest. - Hue/Saturation, Exposure, Channel Mixer, Black & White, Selective Color: Load... / Save... a preset (.preset file). - Properties (right-click, an adjustment layer): Load / Save Adjustment Preset... - Artboards: background Other... (any colour); Artboard Options changes the background later. - Export Layers to Files: PNG-8 and JPEG Quality. - Artboards to Files: Export Selected Artboards Only, Artboard Content Only. - Data Sets as Files: one set or all; File Naming by number or by the set's name. - Batch File Naming: {NAME} {Name}, {serial1/2/4}, {serialA}, date tokens ({yyyymmdd} ...), {ext}. - Image Processor: PSD Maximize Compatibility, TIFF LZW Compression. - Shapes: stroke width and the Line's Weight up to 500 px. - Batch: GIF, BMP and WebP formats. - Contact Sheet II: Use the Open Documents too. - Save for Web: Preset list (GIF / JPEG / PNG presets). - Save for Web: dither Diffusion / Pattern / Noise / No Dither. - Save for Web: the Color Table (GIF / PNG-8) shown. - Free Transform: Bicubic Sharper / Smoother interpolation. - Perspective Warp: Layout / Warp mode buttons (the plane's corners editable in Layout). - Warp: Grid Custom... (rows and columns of your own). - Puppet Warp: up to 64 pins. - Export As and Quick Export: WebP. - Gamut Warning Color: Custom... (any colour). - Native Intuition Menus: the screen's own title bar (depth gadget) replaces a-graph's menu bar (after a restart). - Indexed Color: Forced Custom (your swatches). - Paste, Duplicate Layer and Layer Copy / Paste between documents in different RGB spaces convert the colours. - A soft-edged (feathered, anti-aliased) Paste no longer gets a dark fringe. - Styles panel: Large Thumbnail view. - Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Tool keys...: the tools' letters your own. - Hue/Saturation, Black & White: drag on the image after the click - the range's Saturation (Ctrl: Hue) / that colour's slider follows. - The busy pointer whenever a-graph works (clicks, keys, Free Transform's preview and commit too), not only for menu commands. - Menus: the OS 2.0+ new look (the screen's / MagicMenu's colours). - Amiga+letter works as Ctrl+letter (Amiga+C copies, not the Crop tool); a lasso Copy pasted keeps its transparency on real Amigas with a clipboard tool. - Preferences > General > HUD Color Picker: Small, Medium or Large. - Preferences > Transparency & Gamut > Grid Colors: Custom (two colours picked). - Every Color Picker has its eyedropper (Gradient Editor stops, fills, Layer Style, channel and mask colours too). - Liquify: Undo inside it no longer loses the image it began with (Cancel, Restore All); Hand and Zoom keep it open; Mask Options with Shift (add), Alt (subtract) or both (intersect); freezing and thawing undone / redone with the strokes; its tools' keys (W R E C S B O F D, H, Z); View Options: Show Mask and its Mask Color. - Vanishing Point > Render Grids: the planes' grids drawn on a new layer; its Brush paints on the planes only (Alt-click: pick a colour); Stamp / Brush Opacity, the Stamp's Aligned. NEW IN 0.7.5 ------------ - Stroke Path with the stamps / retouching tools: one History step for the whole path. - Curvature Pen edits its points: drag a point (the curve follows), double-click it (smooth / corner), click a segment to add one. - Freeform Pen > Magnetic: its own Width, Contrast, Frequency and Pen Pressure on the options bar. - Pen / Curvature Pen: tool mode Path / Shape - in Shape mode a closed path becomes a Shape layer (a Color Fill with the path as its vector mask). - Path edits are History steps: Ctrl+Z takes back an anchor, a handle drag, a point added / deleted, the path moved. - Preferences > History Log: Save Log Items To Metadata / Text File / Both - the Metadata log goes into the file's XMP (JPEG, PSD, TIFF). - History panel: up to 32 snapshots (5 rows shown, scrolled with the arrows at their right). - Actions panel: drag an Action onto another (its place, its set) or onto a set's row (into that set). - Eraser in Pencil mode follows its Opacity; Block mode is a 16 x 16 screen pixel square at full strength; on a mask the Eraser paints black. - Pencil: Pen Opacity and Pen Size (a tablet's pressure) on its bar. - PSD: a layer's Fill is kept, and its name is written / read as Unicode too (accented letters show right in other programs); a Solid Color fill layer stays one. - Filters: Add Noise to 255, Ripple Amount -999..999, Wave Amplitude / Wavelength to 999 and up to 99 Generators; HSB/HSL also HSB to HSL and HSL to HSB; a Smart Surface Blur keeps its Radius over 8 in a project; Median and Dust & Scratches Radius to 100; Clouds / Difference Clouds run at once (Alt: stronger contrast). - Smart Filters: Blur, Blur More, Average, the Sharpens, Despeckle, Fragment, Facet, Find Edges, Solarize and NTSC Colors stay Smart Filters on a Smart Object; Last Filter repeats them. - Lens Blur: Radius up to 100 (with a Depth Map: up to 16). - Layers panel Kind filter: Shape layers under Shape, Fill layers under Adjustment, only real Smart Objects under Smart Object. - Properties: a Black & White layer's sliders (the six colours, Tint). - Layers panel filter: Effect / Mode / Attribute / Color open a list. - Properties: an adjustment layer's mask has its own page (Adj / Mask in the header): Density, Invert, Disable, Delete, Select and Mask. - Properties: Hue/Saturation's Colorize, Photo Filter's Preserve Luminosity, Brightness/Contrast's Use Legacy (a click switches them). - Properties > Transform: an angle row - a click turns the layer by the angle typed (to tenths). - A group's mask shows in its Layers panel row; Layer > Layer Mask makes one for a group too. - Properties: an adjustment's value can be typed (a click on its number). - Zoom from 3 % to 3200 % (5x and 10x too); a typed zoom goes to the nearest level; Fit on Screen also zooms a small image in. - A double-click on the rulers' corner puts their zero point back. - Edit Guide (a guide double-clicked): Orientation and Units as New Guide - a guide can be turned round. A guide only clicked stays put. - Each guide can have a colour of its own (New Guide / Edit Guide > Color); kept in .djp documents. - Free Transform: the V skew typed shows on the options bar (it read 0). - Content-Aware Scale's Amount below 100 % splits the change between the seams and a plain scale (no ghosted double picture). - Free Transform keys: Ctrl on a side handle moves that edge freely, Ctrl+Alt on it skews about the middle; Alt in Skew / Distort works about the middle; Perspective's side handles skew. - Edit > Transform > Again repeats a Warp too; Ctrl+Z inside a Warp undoes its last change (a point, a style, the Grid, a split). - Transform Selection: Alt scales about the middle; Shift follows Use Legacy Free Transform as Free Transform's does. - Puppet Warp: up to 32 pins; Alt+drag beside a pin turns it. - Brush Settings: Texture modes Color Dodge and Linear Height; Scatter and Spacing up to 1000 %, Texture Scale 1 - 1000 %. - The brush picker's menu: Use Sample Size (a sampled tip at its own size again). - Brush Settings' preview also shows Texture, Wet Edges and Noise. - Channels panel buttons as the reference's: Load loads the channel targeted (a colour one too; the composite: its luminosity); New Channel at once (Alt: the dialog, Ctrl: a spot channel); Save Selection at once (Alt: the dialog); the bin asks first (Alt: not). - Merge Spot Channel merges the spot channel targeted (none: all). - A spot channel's ink can be any colour (New Spot Channel / Channel Options > Ink: Custom... opens the Color Picker). - New Channel, New Spot Channel, Duplicate Channel, Channel Options and Save Selection (as a channel) can be undone. - A double click on the Channels panel's Quick Mask row opens Quick Mask Options. - An alpha channel picked in the Channels panel shows alone, as greys; the composite's eye brings the picture back with it as a film. - Red, Green or Blue dragged onto New Channel makes "Red copy" (and so on); a channel dragged in the panel (moved, copied, deleted) can be undone. - View > Screen Mode > Workbench Window (and Screen Mode..., Help, System Info) can be picked on the start page, before an image is open. - Preferences > General > Use Legacy Free Transform is off as a-graph starts the first time (as the reference: the proportions kept, Shift frees them). - Navigator panel menu > Panel Options: the View Box's colour (eleven colours or Custom with the Color Picker). NEW IN 0.7.4 ------------ - Smart Guides snap: a dragged layer's edges or middle land on another layer's (or the document's) when within a few pixels (Shift / Ctrl: free). - Lighting Effects: a click on the image places light 1, Shift+click light 2. - Lens Correction: Show Grid (over the preview only). - Image > Mode > Bits/Channel works from the high-bit data: 32 to 16 / 8 asks how (HDR Toning: Exposure and Gamma, or Highlight Compression), 16 / 32 to 8 is dithered, 16 <-> 32 keeps the float data. - TIFF Options: Image Compression JPEG (8 bits; the quality JPEG Options last had); JPEG-compressed TIFFs open, also those other programs write. - Layer > Export As with several layers picked: one dialog, then each layer in its own file (named after it) in the same folder. - Selections: Color Range works inside a selection; Select and Mask opens with no selection; its Radius to 250, Smooth 100, Feather 1000, Shift Edge +/-100; Decontaminate Colors outputs to a new layer; Select > All Layers leaves the Background out; Feather to 1000 px. - Color Range: Load... / Save... its settings (.axt). - Load Selection names the layer ("Layer 1 Transparency") and lists the other open documents' layer transparency too. - Save Selection: Channel New Document - a new image with the selection as its Alpha 1 channel. - Transform Selection: Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal / Vertical and Rotate 180 / 90 CW / 90 CCW work on its box. - Select > Find Layers filters the Layers panel by name. - Type: accented letters (ISO Latin-1) can be typed; Shift+Ctrl+Q tracking 0, +X scale 100 % (Alt: vertical), Alt+Shift+Ctrl+A Auto Leading, +F Justify All; Ctrl+Alt+Left / Right kerning by 5. - All Caps / Small Caps capitalise accented letters too; a paragraph box too small for its text shows the overflow sign (+). - Image Size, Canvas Size, Crop, Trim, Image Rotation and Flip Canvas keep the layer masks (scaled / moved / turned with their layers), the alpha channels and the Quick Mask - they were baked in or dropped. - Image > Mode ticks the mode and the bits per channel, and greys as the reference: Bitmap / Duotone from Grayscale, Color Table in Indexed, Trap in CMYK; Canvas Size asks before clipping. - Image > Auto Tone / Auto Contrast / Auto Color use the Auto Color Correction defaults (clips, target colours) saved in Levels / Curves. - The Image menu ends in the reference's order (Calculations, Variables, Apply Data Set, Trap, Analysis); Brightness/Contrast's Auto enhances brightness and contrast together. - Edit > Stroke is anti-aliased and follows a feathered selection's middle. - Edit > Fill: a Custom Pattern list (Current, or any pattern). - Paste Into / Outside keeps all of a picture bigger than the canvas. - Edit > Transform > Again repeats the transform itself: a turn turns again by as much (it grew too, before). - Auto-Blend Layers takes the layers Auto-Align moved straight away. - Copy / Paste / Clear Layer Style carry the Blending Options too; Layer via Copy / Cut keeps the source's mode, opacity, fill and style; Flatten asks only about hidden layers; Delete Hidden Layers takes a hidden Background too; Merge Down says why when it can't. - Layer > Export As / Quick Export give the layer as it shows (mask, opacity, style), trimmed to its pixels; a group exports too. - Duplicate Layer (and a layer dropped on another tab) takes an adjustment layer to another open document too. - Save As embeds the colour profile in JPEG, TIFF and PSD too (the ICC Profile tick), not only in PNG. - A PNG's own gamma (gAMA, with no colour profile in it) is respected when it is opened. - Save As: the Layers tick works for TIFF too. - Closing the last document no longer quits: the Home screen comes up (File > Exit quits). - The Eraser paints the Background colour on the Background layer; the Magic Eraser and Background Eraser make the Background a layer first. - Magic Eraser, Background Eraser and Color Replacement each keep their own Tolerance (32 / 50 % / 30 %), the Magic Eraser its own Opacity. - Art History Brush: all ten Styles (Tight / Loose, Short to Long, Dab, the Curls). - Red Eye finds the pupil: a click takes the red around it; Pupil Size is a % of what it found. - Actions: New Action asks Name, Set, Function Key and Color at once; Ctrl+double-click plays one step; Reset Actions can Append. Save Actions writes the picked set. - Actions panel menu: Duplicate Set. - History: each snapshot shows a small picture of the image as it was. - Pen: Enter / Esc end the open path (it is kept), Ctrl+Enter makes it the selection; a click on an ended open path's end draws on from there. - Paths panel: a click on its empty part deselects the path; a click on a path keeps the tool. - Paths in PSD and TIFF files are read back (the saved paths, the Work Path, the Clipping Path); a path's parts keep their operation. - Export > Paths to Illustrator / SVG: Write asks for Document Bounds, the Work Path, All Paths or one saved path. - Stroke Path: Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Art History Brush, Background Eraser, Color Replacement and Mixer Brush too. - Direct Selection dragged on a segment reshapes it (a straight one moves with both its anchors). NEW IN 0.7.3 ------------ - Right-click on the pasteboard: its colour (Custom... too); Paint Bucket Shift+click on it: the Foreground. - Guides / Grid / Smart Guides / Slices colours: Custom... (Color Picker). - Layer > New > Frame from Layers. - Layer > Vector Mask > Reveal All / Hide All: live vector masks. - File > Export > Render Video...: the frames as an image sequence. - Eraser: Angle on its bar; brush picker menu: Reset All Locked Settings. - Type > Hyphenation...: Hyphenation Zone. - Hold Alt in a dialog and Cancel becomes Reset: every filter / option dialog, Image Size, Canvas Size, Levels, Curves, Color Range, Layer Style, Gradient Editor. Color Range: hold Ctrl to see the other preview (Selection / Image). - Keys: F2 / F3 / F4 Cut / Copy / Paste, Shift+Ctrl+M Record Measurements, Alt+Shift+Ctrl+O Open As. - Tween With: First Frame / Last Frame (closes an animation's loop). - Measurement Log: Shift / Ctrl+click picks several rows; Delete and Export work on the picked ones. - Image Size > Fit To > Auto Resolution (Screen lpi, Draft / Good / Best). Image Size / Canvas Size: Up / Down in a number field (Shift: by 10). - Levels / Curves: hold Alt while dragging the black / white point to see what clips. - Count and Note markers can be dragged to a new place. - Ruler > Straighten Layer crops away the empty corners (Alt+click: no crop). - Crop: W x H x Resolution has a Resolution field. - Timeline: a frame's delay and Looping open a menu right there. - Image Size, Canvas Size, Crop (menu, Crop tool, Perspective Crop), Trim, Reveal All, Image Rotation / Flip and Fit Image can be undone: one step in History instead of History starting over (an animation still starts it over). - Brush Settings: a stroke preview strip under the settings. - Delete / Backspace on the Background or a layer with locked transparency fill with the Background colour; Del on the Background opens Fill. - Paragraph text: its box shows while you type, with eight handles to size it (the text wraps again). - Painting past the edge of the view scrolls it. - Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp, History Brush: the airbrush button (held still, it keeps painting). - Layers: right-click a thumbnail for the thumbnail sizes and Clip to Layer / Document Bounds. - Dialog number fields take sums: 100*2, 50+25, +10 (from the value). - Preferences > Interface > Use Legacy Channel Shortcuts (Ctrl+1/2/3 R/G/B, Ctrl+~ composite, Ctrl+Alt+0 100 %). - Preferences > Tools > Animated Zoom: hold the Zoom tool still and it keeps zooming (off by default - slow on a 68020). - Image Processor: Use Open Images (as they are now, unsaved changes too) - the results go to a folder you pick. - Selection changes are History steps: Ctrl+Z brings the selection before back (Select All, Deselect, a marquee, the Magic Wand ...). - Typing text: Ctrl+C / X / V copy, cut and paste the letters picked, Ctrl+Z / Shift+Ctrl+Z undo and redo the typing. - Free Transform works on several layers at once (picked in the Layers panel or linked). - The Type tool clicked on a path's line types along the path, starting where you clicked. - Shift keeps the Pen and the Ruler at 0, 45 and 90 degrees. - Open lists answer the keys: Up / Down, Enter, the first letter. - Dragged off the picture, the Eyedropper takes the colour under the pointer anywhere on the screen (RTG screens). - A sampled brush tip shows its own outline as the cursor. - Image Size: the preview shows the result at 100 %; drag it, - / + zoom. - Your brush presets and sampled tips can be dragged to a new place in the Brush Preset picker. - Too many documents for the tab strip: a >> button lists them all. - Open PDF: the largest picture in it (JPEG or Flate images, with their alpha). Pages themselves are not drawn. - Clouds, Difference Clouds and Fibers use the Foreground and Background colours; Clouds' Stronger Contrast (on when chosen with Alt). - Histogram: drag across the graph for a range's Level, Count and Percentile. - Actions: a step's values show after its name; double-click a step to record it again. The Default Actions set has ready-made Actions (Vignette, Sepia Toning, Gradient Map, Make Clip Path, Water Reflection, ...); Reset Actions brings them back. - Channels: Load Channel as Selection takes the channel picked (Shift adds, Alt subtracts, both intersect); Delete Channel deletes the one picked and can be undone; a Quick Mask / layer mask row (its eye: the mask as a film, a click: the mask alone); Ctrl+6..9 shown. - Paths: a live Shape layer's Shape Path row (Ctrl+click: its outline as the selection); the Clipping Path's name in bold; EPS keeps the Clipping Path. - Lens Blur: Depth Map from a saved channel (Alpha 1..4); click the preview to set the Blur Focal Distance there. - Color panel: the out-of-gamut and not-web-safe warnings (click: the colour corrected). - Image > Trap: Width in Pixels, Points or Millimeters. - Edit > Purge > Undo. - Lasso: let go with Alt held for straight segments (Alt let go: closed). Polygonal and Magnetic Lasso close on a double-click or Enter; Backspace takes back the Magnetic Lasso's last stretch; [ ] change the Magnetic Lasso's Width. - Clone Stamp / Healing Brush: Alt+click sets the source (Ctrl+click too). - Painting tools: Alt held and dragged keeps sampling colours. - Liquify: Alt for the opposite (Twirl the other way, Pucker / Bloat, push right). - Move with Auto-Select: Shift+click adds the layer under the pointer. - Marquee begun with Shift (Add): Shift pressed again makes a square. - Shape tools on a Shape layer: Shift / Alt / Shift+Alt as the drag starts Combine / Subtract / Intersect. - Red Eye: drag a box round the eye. - Direct Selection: Shift+click and a dragged box pick several anchors; they move, nudge and delete together. - Convert Point: drag from an anchor to pull out its handles. - Zoom / Hand with Shift: all the windows (Window > Arrange). - File > Open Recent lists as many files as the preference says (up to 20). - Layer Comps: Apply to Selected Layers; a comp naming deleted layers shows a warning (Clear Layer Comp Warning / Clear All). - Place Embedded / Linked: several files at once. - The right button on the Channels, Paths, Swatches, Gradients, Patterns, History, Styles, Layer Comps and Actions panels opens their menu; on a layer's fx badge, the Layer Style menu (Disable / Enable Layer Style ...). - Layers: the fifth lock - Prevent auto-nesting in / out of Artboards. - Character Styles keep the scales and the baseline shift; Paragraph Styles the whole paragraph (indents, spacing, justification, hyphenation). - Apply Image: Transparency as a source channel, Invert Mask, Preserve Transparency, Scale and Offset for Add / Subtract. - Calculations: every blending mode, Scale / Offset, Invert Mask. - Variations: Show Clipping. - Image > Mode > Bitmap: an Output resolution. - BMP: 1-bit and 4-bit too. - Indexed Color: Master (one palette for all open images) and Custom... (a Color Table .act file) palettes. - Edit > Fade also after a painting stroke and after Fill / Stroke. - GIF Options: Palette (Local (Adaptive), Exact, Web), Colors, Dither, Transparency; an Indexed image keeps its own colours. - Fade shows its Mode and Opacity on the image as they change. - Blur Gallery (Field / Iris / Tilt-Shift): blur up to 250 px. Motion Blur up to 2000 px; Lens Flare Brightness 10..300 %. - Pointillize fills the gaps with the Background colour. - Oil Paint: Scale (the strokes' size). - Content-Aware Scale: a Reference Point. - Puppet Warp: Alt+click removes a pin; Remove All Pins. - Number fields take units: 2 in, 2.5cm, 30mm, 12pt, 1pc, 50% (of the value there) - pixels by the document's resolution. - Guide changes are History steps (Undo brings the guides back). - The status bar's Document Profile names the profile, mode and depth. - Info shows W / H while a marquee, crop box or shape is dragged. - The guide pointer over a guide; Shift+Ctrl+' Snap To Grid; a double-click on a ruler opens Units & Rulers. - Edit > Show All Menu Items. - Edit > Preferences: Plug-ins... and Scratch Disks... entries. - Navigator: its zoom slider can be dragged; the red view box keeps the point it was grabbed by. - New Guide Layout: Margin Top, Left & Right, Bottom each its own (-1: as the Top). - The grid and New Guide's Position count from the rulers' zero point. - Info Panel Options: Layer Count, Timing and Smart Objects too. - View > Snap To works for Crop, Perspective Crop, Slice, Polygon, Triangle, Custom Shape, Artboard, the row / column marquees, the Ruler and the Pen tools too. - Menus grey what cannot run now (Fade, Transform Again, Last Filter, Reselect, Paste Into, the mask commands, Background items) and name toggles as they act: Release Clipping Mask, Show Layers, Unlink Layers, Enable / Link mask, Show All Effects. - History names the Layers panel's steps: Opacity Change, Hide Layer, Blending Change, Layer Order, Release Clipping Mask... - F1 / Help opens the manual; Ctrl+J with no selection copies the layer at once; Del with no selection deletes the layer (asked); Esc keeps the selection (Ctrl+D deselects). - A filter or adjustment on a Type, Fill or Shape layer asks to rasterize it first. - The Layer menu has one Merge entry: Merge Layers (several picked), Merge Down, Merge Group or Merge Clipping Mask. - Surface Blur: Radius up to 100 px. - Lens Correction: Straighten - click two points on the preview along what should be level (or upright) and the Angle is set. NEW IN 0.7.2 ------------ - Clone Stamp / Healing Brush: Alt+Shift+< > turns the clone source, Alt+Shift+[ ] scales it. - Type: Ctrl+Left / Right by words, Shift+Alt+Up / Down Baseline Shift, Ctrl+Shift+X Horizontal Scale 100% (+Alt: Vertical), Ctrl+Alt+Q Tracking 0. - Path tools: Direct Selection keeps the anchor clicked selected - the arrows move it, Delete removes it; Path Selection: the arrows move the path, Delete deletes it. - The airbrush on: the digits set the Flow, Shift+digits the Opacity. - Alt+click deletes your own swatches and gradients (as the reference). - Color panel sliders: Foreground / Background chips - the sliders set the one picked. - Layers: Alt+drag a layer copies it to where it is dropped. - Move tool: a layer dragged onto another document's tab is copied there. - Layers: Alt+click a group's triangle opens / closes the groups inside it too; Alt+click an fx badge: every layer's effects. - Layers: several picked layers dragged together. - Merge Clipping Mask (Ctrl+E on a clipping group's base). - Layer names: Tab / Shift+Tab goes on to the next / previous layer's name; accented letters can be typed. - Rulers: the pointer's place marked on both. - Right-click on the pasteboard: its colour. - Select > Modify > Smooth: Sample Radius up to 500 px, Apply effect at canvas bounds; soft edges kept. - Paths panel: rows dragged - reordered, onto New (a copy), onto the bin. - History: a state dragged onto New Document, the snapshot button or the bin. - Move tool: the layer's edges and middle snap (not the pointer). - Curves: Alt+2..5 channel, Ctrl+Tab points, arrows move a point, Ctrl+D; Levels: Alt+2..5 channel. - Right-click menus for the Slice tools and the Note tool. - Swatches: your own reordered by dragging. - Smart Guides: the gap to the nearest layers shown in px while moving. - Shadows/Highlights: Radius up to 2500 px, clips up to 50 %. - Batch: Source Opened Files. - Gradient Map: your own gradients in its list. - Gradient Editor: Import... / Export... buttons. - New Style: Include Layer Effects / Include Layer Blending Options. - Replace Color: the preview switches between Selection and Image. - Layer Style dialog: Styles picks a style into the dialog. - Contact Sheet II: the captions' Font Size. - Last Filter / Fade show the filter's name; / locks transparent pixels; Shift+F: the screen modes backwards. - Info: Proof Color readout; "!" on CMYK out of gamut. - Layers: right-click on an eye - hide / show this, the others, all. - Info: W% / H% / angle in Free Transform, DX / DY while moving. - Brush presets: , . < > step through them. - View > HAM8 / HAM6 Preview opens the picture (saved as HAM in T:) in an external viewer: SYS:Utilities/MultiView by default (it must be installed), another one set in Preferences > File Handling. - Fixed: saving IFF (HAM8 especially) could crash (packing buffer). - Menus: selection commands grey with no selection, Merge Down on the bottom layer. NEW IN 0.7.1 ------------ - ARexx: DO "" [values] and PLAY "" on the A-GRAPH port; Actions panel menu > Save Action as ARexx... writes an Action as a script. - Preferences > Interface: Native Intuition Menus (right mouse button over the menu bar) and Tools with Names (the tool names beside the icons). - Brush and Tool presets keep the whole Brush Settings (Tool presets: the colour too with Include Color); Brush Settings sections can be locked. - Properties: Preset lists, Auto and Black / Gray / White eyedroppers for Levels and Curves adjustment layers; Document Properties lines clickable. - Layer Style: drag in the image to move a shadow, Satin or a Pattern Overlay; Pattern Overlay Link with Layer and Snap to Origin. - The busy pointer while a command works, and a progress bar in the status bar for long filters - Esc stops one (the picture as before). - Batch / Droplet: Suppress File Open Options Dialogs and Suppress Color Profile Warnings. - Swatches: groups of your own (New / Rename / Delete Swatch Group). - Actions: Insert Path (a Set Work Path step that brings the path back). - Live vector masks: Vector Mask > Current Path keeps the path with the layer - its row in the Paths panel edits it, the mask follows; kept in projects, moved with the layer. - Paragraph: Hyphenate (long words broken with a hyphen at the box edge). - Free Transform carries a layer's linked mask (and its vector mask) along; PSD files keep vector masks (vmsk) both ways. - Edit > Transform Rotate / Flip turns a layer's linked mask too; Image Size, Canvas Size, Crop, Trim, Reveal All and Image Rotation (also Arbitrary) move the paths and vector masks with the image. - Paths also follow History snapshots and Perspective Crop. - Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush, Color Replacement and Background Eraser: Pen Size (a tablet's pressure for the size). - Preferences > File Handling: Save As to Original Folder. - Histogram: Source Adjustment Composite. - Pattern Fill layers: drag the pattern in the image while its dialog is open; Link with Layer and Snap to Origin. - Free Transform: Use Relative Positioning (the triangle between X and Y). - Color Balance adjustment layers keep Shadows, Midtones and Highlights at once (the Tone picks the sliders shown); PSD files keep all three. - Adjustment layers: Save Preset / Load Preset in Properties' Preset list for Levels (.alv), Hue/Saturation (.ahu), Exposure (.ahe) and Selective Color (.asv) - the reference's own preset files. - JPEG Options: File Size (the file's size at the settings shown). - Color Picker: Color Libraries - a color book (.acb) read, its colours by name; typed letters or numbers find one. - A manual: a-graph.guide (AmigaGuide) - Help > a-graph Help opens it. It has an ARexx chapter (every command, return codes, an example) and a chapter on what works only with RTG and what only with AGA. - The start page (no picture yet) runs Screen Mode, Workbench Window, a-graph Help, About Plug-ins and System Info too. - Select and Mask: Preset (Default, your own presets, Save / Delete). - Type > Hyphenation...: Words Longer Than, After First, Before Last, Hyphen Limit, Hyphenate Capitalized Words (kept with each Type layer). - Character: Kerning Optical (each pair of letters spaced by their shapes). - Channel Mixer layers kept live in PSD files; its presets (.cha) too. - Actions panel: a step picked, dragged to move it, deleted or duplicated; Play from it (Ctrl+Play: that step only); new steps go after it. The steps scroll; Action Options has a Color (Button Mode shows it); Insert Stop has Allow Continue (off: the Action halts, Play goes on). - Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift: Distortion and Symmetric Distortion. - Blur Gallery (Iris, Tilt-Shift): Save Mask to Channels. - Path Blur: Start / End Point Speed, Taper, Strobe Strength and Flashes. - Spin Blur: Strobe Strength and Strobe Flashes. - Character > Selected Characters: Ordinals and Fractions. - Blur Gallery (Field, Iris, Tilt-Shift): Noise Amount (grain back in the blurred parts). - Keys and mouse as the reference: Alt subtracts / Shift+Alt intersects a selection; Shift while painting keeps the stroke straight; Eyedropper Alt+click = Background, Shift+click = colour sampler; samplers dragged. - File requesters open where the last one was left (kept between starts). - Help > Check for Updates... (needs a running TCP/IP stack: Roadshow, AmiTCP, Miami): a newer version on Aminet is reported, with its page; Preferences > General > Check for Updates at Start (off by default). - Move tool: Alt+arrow copies the layer and nudges the copy. History: Alt+click a state duplicates it; Alt+click the snapshot button asks. - Auto-Align Layers and Photomerge: Vignette Removal. - Color Lookup reads ICC abstract and device link profiles too. - Help: closing the guide brings a-graph's screen back to the front. - Full Screen Mode: Esc returns to Standard Screen Mode. NEW IN 0.7 ---------- - Workbench window mode (a real, resizable window on an RTG Workbench). - Many more mouse and key modifiers as in the reference: Ctrl = Move for one drag, Ctrl/Alt+Space = Zoom, Alt = a tool's opposite, arrow keys on Free Transform / crop box / selection outline, Ctrl+Z inside Free Transform, double-click to commit a transform, and more. - Channels: an eye per channel, Shift+click to target several, drag to reorder; Paths: thumbnails and all seven buttons; History: Delete. - Group / Layer from Background dialogs, Global Light Altitude, Blending Options' General Blending, Black & White and Gradient Map adjustment layer settings, Adjustment Presets, EPS and PDF (ZIP) options, PNG 8-bit in Export As, a canvas Border preference. FIXED FROM USER REPORTS ----------------------- - The drop-down menus open and follow the pointer much faster on a 68030 and on MorphOS. - The Hand (Space held) can no longer stay stuck on. - A layer lock can always be removed: click the lock badge on the layer's row, or use Lock Layer (context menu, Ctrl+/) again. - Free Transform works on big layers (the limit is free memory), on the Background (it becomes a layer) and fits the box to the layer's content; the Move tool's transform handles start it. INSTALLATION ------------ Unpack the archive anywhere and double-click a-graph (or a-graph.060 on a 68060). The program keeps its settings and presets in its own drawer (PROGDIR:), so give it a drawer you can write to. Optional: put a word list (one word a line) in PROGDIR:a-graph.dic for the spelling checker. TESTING ------- a-graph is under active development and is constantly checked by automated tests, on a PC under WinUAE and on real Amiga hardware. Please report bugs and ideas to the e-mail address above.