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2016-07-30

[New Features]

- Shortcuts for layer mask operations.

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Layer Mask] Apply button and Link button on layer list item do not work.

- [Canvas] The position of un-linked Layer mask is not moved when the canvas size
was changed.

- [Selection] Some square halls appears when dilate or erode the selection.

- [Transform] When transformed layers with selection, the floaters do not come to
be able to operate if the bottom floater is empty.

- [Text Tool] Access violation occurs when changed the scaling of user interface.

- [Brush Tools] Heavy delay for drawing occurs on some bristles.

- [Bucket Tool] Tile form artifacts appear when filling a region with a transparent
color.

- [Color Adjustment] Preview checkbox does not affect layers other than the top
layer in the multi selected layers.

[Changes]

- [Layer Mask] Changed to treat transparent color as white.

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2016-07-27

[New Features]

- Cut, Copy and Paste operation for linework layer and shape layer.

- Shortcuts for layer attributes.

- Shortcuts for view switching.

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Navigator] The scale track bar and the angle track bar does not work correctly.

- [Navigator] The position indicater does not update.

- [Layer] Access violation occurs when operate an empty layer folder on the bottom
of the layer list.
- [Layer Mask] Paint color has inconsistency if the layer mask is the invert mode.

- [Layer Merge] Access violation occurs when a clipping group includes an invisible
layer.

- [Layer Merge] When merge a clipping group, invisible layers stay after merging.

- [Linework Layer] Sometimes internal selection status of paths are kept after
deselection.

- [Linework Layer] After reverse or 90deg rotation, cannot operate paths.

- [Gaussian Blur] Does not apply blur correctly when pixel opacity is preserved.

- [Lasso Tool] Polygonal subtraction does not work if Alt key is not pressed when
finishing plot.

- [Bucket Tool] The regions that have same color as paint color are not excluded
from fill.

- [Pressure Tool] CCannot change the density pressures.

[Changes]

- [Layer Merge] The restriction about a clipping-group on multi selection is

removed.

- [Brush Tool] Changed the blending operation for size circle to same operation on
Ver.1.

And some other small changes and small bug fixes...

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2016-06-24

[New Features]

- Create Selection by Layer Folder

- Nudge for a transformation image by the arrow keys.

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Color Mixer] Cannot register color after picked up color from Color Mixer.

- [Navigator] The scale track bar and the angle track bar does not work correctly.

- [Canvas] Layer thumbnail breaks if the canvas size is larger than 256M pixels.

- [Canvas] Reverse Canvas and Rotate Canvas does not process layer mask.

- [Layer] Cannot transfer layer between canvases by drag and drop operation.

- [Layer] Cannot apply color adjustment filters for a layer folder.

- [Layer] Apply Layer Mask button is enabled for a layer other than normal layer.

- [Shape Layer] Cannot transform shapes.

- [Brush Tools] The sliders do not accept operation on the brush tool popup
window(Ctrl+Alt).

- [Brush Tools] The dot mouse cursor is not appears for Eraser, Binary Pen and Pen
tools.

[Changes]

- [Layer] Changed to be able to cut, copy and move images in a folder with
selection when a layer folder is selected.

- [Layer] Select and Move Layer feature is enabled even if a selection is existing.

- [Layer] Changed to be able to select a layer by click on the thumbnail space.

- [Panels] Changed to be able to open a layer property and a tool property by a

double click.

- [Fringe/Layer Paper] Adjusted the color effect.

- [Fringe/Layer Paper] "Deep" mode and "Multiply" mode added.

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2016-06-20

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Recent Files] SAI stops by error when the recent files list is empty.

- [Canvas Save/Load] Canvas background color is not handled correctly.

- [SAI Floamt] Layer mask is not loaded correctly.

- [JPEG Format] Error popups appears on the bottom-right of window when try to load
CMYK colored JPEG file.

- [Layer] Access violation occurs when a sole image layer is deleted.

- [History] SAI sometimes malfunctions when undo images outside Canvas.

[Changes]

- [SAI Format] Changed to display a notification when try to load *.sai file that
created by SAI of the beta test age.

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2016-06-19
[New Features]

- File format support for JPEG, PNG and TGA

- File loading support for SAI Ver.1 format(*.sai)

- HSV/HSL Slider, Color Mixer, Swatches

　(Scratch Pad will be discontinued)

- Shortcuts for layer visibility

- Shortcuts for layer item selection on the layer list

- Shortcuts for syringe

- Merge Visible Layers, Flatten Image

- Dilate Selection 1px, Erode Selection 1px

- Filters
　+ Hue/Satulation
　+ Brightness/Contrast
　+ Gaussian Blur

- Visibility option for Brush Size Circle

- Dot Cursor for Brush Tools

- Painting Mode for Brush Tools

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Recent Files] Access violation occurs about long path name.

- [Brush Tools] Rotation and Reverse of view are not applied to the direction of
stylus.

- [Water Color] Blur effect does not work correctly when the brush size is smaller
than 15.

- [Marker] Marker does not work correctly when the density is not 100.

- [Linework Layer] Pressure CP creation option of Pen does not work.

- [Layer Move] Rotation and Reverse of view are not applied to Layer Nudge.

- [Perspective Ruler] Creation shortcut key does not work for Perspective Ruler and
Perspective Grid.

- [Marquee] Selection to top-left from bottom-right does not work.

- [Selection] Garbage appears around the bounding box of selection with dilation
and erosion.

- [Change Canvas Resolution] Resolution change sometimes fails.

- [Trim Canvas by Selection] Pixels outside canvas are not cut down.
[Changes]

- [Custom Tool Tray] Changed the behavior of item drag operations to same as Ver.1.

- [Error Detection] Changed to record errors into error log.

- [WinTab Control] Changed to ignore error about inquiry for the version
information.

- [Canvas] Added background color options.

- [View] Changed the maximum scale to 3200% from 1600%.

- [Layer Merge] Changed to insert a merged layer to the location that the current
layer was gone.

- [Fringe/Layer Paper] Improved the color effect to avoid somberness.

- [Fringe/Layer Paper] Added "Layer Effect Color" options in Canvas menu.

("Vivid Fringe" was moved into "Layer Effect Color" options, and the name was
changed as "Vivid")

- [Syringe] Added an option to pick up color while dragging.

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2016-03-19

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Marker Tool] Does not work correctly.

- [sai2.ini] "AlwaysUseTabletPcApi" is specified as "y" by mistake.

[Changes]

- [Tablet Input] Changed to never load WinTab API DLL when using TabletPC API.

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2016-03-17

[New Features]

- Binary Pen

- [Binary Color] effect

(This effect is added into [Layer Effect] settings.)

[Fixed Bugs]

- [New Canvas] [Preset] does not work correctly.

- [Layer] Grayed status of layer attribute controls for an invisible layer are
removed when selected an invisible layer.

- [Layer Mask] Creation of Selection with layer mask image does not work correctly.

- [Layer Mask] White(RGB(255,255,255)) is always used on "Fill Layer" function.

- [View] Access violation occurs when closed a view.

[Changes]

- [Brush Tools] Tuned the effect of "Amplify Density" parameter.

(If you set 100 in "Amplify Density", the drawn line will resemble Ver.1.)

- [Brush Tools] [Ver1 Prs Spec.] parameter added.

(If turn on this parameter, the calculation for brush density pressure is changed
to the specification of Ver.1)

- [Linework Layer] Disabled the rectangular selection for pressure control points
on other than pressure tool.

- [Linework Layer] Enabled the select and move function(Ctrl+Shift+Drag) on a

linework layer.

- [Panels] Changed to always show a scroll bar for the color and tool pane.

- [Gradation Tool] Improved the quality of gradation.

- [Image Transformation] Restricted the ringing artifacts about pixel transparency

for the bicubic and lanczos resampling.

- [Change Canvas Resolution] Changed to include the width of fringe and the scale
of layer paper.

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2016-01-24

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Change Canvas Resolution] The canvas size turns out as 0px x 0px when changed
the printing resolution if the size unit is %.

- [Layer] SAI freezes when the scrollbar of color and tool panels switched
visibility by layer change on edit.

- [Linework Layer] Pressure contol points break when connect strokes.

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2016-01-23

[Fixed Bugs]

- [SAI2 File] Loading of .sai2 file fails if the .sai file includes perspective
ruler or perspective grid.
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2016-01-22

[New Features]

- Create canvas by clipboard data

- Recent files

- Close canvas

- Copy layer on different canvases.

(Drag layer item to other view from the layer list)

- Reset position for view (Hand tool, Zoom tool)

- Reset angle for view (Rotate tool)

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Tool] The names is switched between Lasso tool and Magic Wand tool.

- [Layer] A layer item does not scrooll-in on the layer list by Select & Move
operation.

- [Layer] Access violation occurs when transfer a linework layer or a shape layer.

- [Selection] Erosion and Dilation bring an access violation.

- [PSD File] Access violation occurs on "Change Canvas Size" dialog and "Change
Canvas Size" dialog with misusing for size unit in PSD file.

- [Shorcut Key] The change for shortcut key not apply to the main menu while SAI is
running.

- [Gradation Tool] After creation of a gradation tool, an access violation occurs

when reverse the direction.

[Changes]

- [Gradation Tool] Improved the quality of gradation.

- [Gradation Tool] Always hit a nearest control point of the guide.

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2016-01-19

[New Features]

- [Canvas] Change Resolution

- [Canvas] Change Size

- [Canvas] Reverse Horizontal, Reverse Vertical, Rotate 90deg. CCW and Rotate
90deg. CW

- [Canvas] Trim with Bounding Box of Selection

- [Layer] Convert Luminance to Opacity

- [Layer] Transform

- [Layer] Reverse horizontal, Reverse vertical, Rotate 90deg. CCW and Rotate 90deg.
CW

- [Layer] Create Selection by Layer Image

Ctrl + Click on Layer Thumbnail ... Replace
Shift + Ctrl + Click on Layer Thumbnail ... Add
Alt + Ctrl + Click on Layer Thumbnail ... Delete
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + Click on Layer Thumbnail ... And

- [Ruler] 2VP and 3VP Perspective Grid

- [Tool] Gradation Tool

- [sai.ini] Add settings to avoid bugs on tablet drivers.

[Fixed Bugs]

- [Mouse] Mouse wheel does not work correctly with some devices.

- [Window] Does not preserve the window size of frame window.

- [Window] High DPI monitor breaks the layout of the current colors.

- [View] Some parts of selection border sometimes disappears.

- [View] Child view sometimes stops the window painting when switch to floating
view.

- [Layer] Access violation occurs when fill floating part.

- [Layer] "Select & Move Layer" includes invisible layer and hidden part.

- [Brush tools] Access violation occurs when read a bristle data includes elements
more than 64.

- ["Brush" and "Water Color"] The color blending involves irrelevant colors outside
brush pattern.

- [SelPen, SelErs] Ctrl+Alt(change of brush size) does not work.

- [Text Layer] Enter key does not work.

- [Text Layer] Text outside canvas sometimes disappear.

- [Perspective Ruler] Duplicated ruler does not work.

- [Ruler, Perspective Ruler] Ruler disappears when press space key.

- [Erosion, Dilation for Selection] Erosion and dilation freezes when a layer mask
is selecting.

- [PSD File] "Layer opacity" property on SAI is replaced by "Paint" property on

Photoshop.

[Changes]

- [Shortcut Key] Preserve shortcut key settings of unsupported functions.

- [Canvas] The canvas background color settings moved to menu from layer tray.

- [View] Restrict the break out of canvas from view when repeat zoom in and zoom
out.

- [Pen Tablet] Support tail switch.

- [Brush Tools] "Ignore ruler mode" and "Straight line mode" buttons added into the
quick bar.
The effect keyed operation for these functions are abolished.

- [Brush Tools] Restrict pressure gain for start of brush strokes.

- [Brush Tools] The settings for direction and randomize for bristle added.

- [Brush Tools] The settings for scratch for brush texture added.

- [Brush Tools] The settings for amplification for brush density added

- [Water Color] The feeling for blur improved.

- [Marker] The quality for downward sloped density improved.

- [SelPen, SelErs] The internal density of 100% is amplified. (Same to Ver.1)

- [Canvas] The file extension for temporary file on saving process is changed.

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2015-10-19

[New Features]

- Magic Wand and Bucket

(Please create Bucket tool from the context menu of the custom tools tray if you
have executed a older version of SAI2.)

- Lasso

- Cut, Copy and Paste for image

- Rasterization for linework layer, text layer and shape layer

- Dilation and Erosion for selection region.

[Fixed Bugs]
- "Merge Layer" obtains malfunction with layer that moved to outside canvas.

- "SelPen" and "SelErs" obtains malfunction on the right edges and the bottom edges
of canvas.

- Selection region sometimes does not appear correctly when the selection display
mode was changed.

- Initialization of WinTab-API fails on some tablet drivers other than Wacom.

- Enter key and Esc key do not work for Curve and Line tool after the using of
Shortcut Keys dialog.

- The following layer operations do not work correctly on a canvas that loaded from
*.sai2 file.
- Open and Close for layer folder
- Multi layers selection
- Change for layer protections

- The context menu for shape layer tools does not include functions to create shape
layer tools.

- Undo and Redo for text layer do not work if the history data was purged into
storage device.

[Changes]

- Improved the behavior of Merge Layer.

- It came to work for multiple selected layers
- It came to merge a clipping group independently.

- It came to handle the opacity of the following blend modes as "Fill" on PSD file.
- Shade
- Shine
- Shade/Shine
- Burn
- Dodge
- Burn/Dodge

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2015-07-18

[Fixed Bugs]

- "Save" for any format obtain an internal error if the pixel width of the canvas
is an odd number and the background color is transparent.

- "Save" for .sai2 format obtain an internal error if the canvas has layer folder.

- "Save" for .bmp format output incorrect information for the existing of the
transparency.

- Undo and Redo obtain malfunction after painted layer was moved to outside canvas.

- After a layer folder integrated as a layer, "Layer Paper" of the layer

disappears.
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2015-07-10

[New Features]

- Syringe for merged image.

- Syringe for deactived view.

- Select and move layer. (Ctrl + Shift + Drag)

- Nudge for layer (Ctrl + Arrow Keys(Cut and move), Alt + Arrow Keys(Only
selection), Shift key increases the stride)

[Fixed Bugs]

- The brush settings popup of Ctrl + Alt is always displaying on the view created
first.

- "Open" for any format sometimes obtain a reading error.

- [Memory Usage] does not work.

- Combination of layer moves do not update the modifying state from the second
moving.

- Memory starvation brings crash immediately.

[Changes]

- Renewed completely the history management for painting.

- Sped up "Open" and "Save" for *.sai2 format with the malti-core programming.

- Improved the quality of bristles instead of the speed.

- Added [Drive Space] information into the status bar.

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2015-04-25

[Fixed Bugs]

- Create PSD file that is not able to read by Photoshop if an empty layer is placed
under a painted layer.

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2015-04-24

[Fixed Bugs]
- Protection of pixel's opacity does not work.

- Can not save and load layer masks correctly in PSD format.

- RGB values of merged image of PSD file are incorrect.

- Quick combination of "MoveLayer -> Paint -> MoveLayer" bring some malfunctions.

- Deselect region sometimes does not erase selection border.

- Undo and Redo for layer name does not work correctly.

[Changes]

- Preserve newer version's settings even if older versions is launched.

(The path of settings file was changed. Sorry, please make your settings again.)

- Added settings to show the system menu by Alt + Space.

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2015-04-22

[Fixed Bugs]

- Create PSD file that is not able to read by Photoshop

- Can not undo Bezier handles in change of path type.

- "Transfer Painting into Next Layer" function does not erase control points of
paths.

- Space + EffectKey + Drag does not work when control points is displayed.

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2015-04-21b

[Fixed Bugs]

- Access violation occurs when a menu is opened.

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2015-04-21a

[Fixed Bugs]

- The save canvas function for PSD/PSB format obtains access violations.

[Changes]

- Added new modified statuses for a canvas.

 (The statuses will appear in title bar as the following.
* ... The canvas is not saved.
! ... The canvas was saved as a format other than sai2, but some SAI specific
information are not saved.
- ... Some information not recorded into History are not saved.(e.g. Layer
visibility))

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2015-04-21

[Fixed Bugs]

- Curve tool and Line tool obtain an access violation from first click.

- Can not redo the duplication of paths.

- 'Select All' obtains access violations on some canvas sizes.

- History combining is not applied for moving of selection region.

- Pressure tool for densities does not work.

[Changes]

- Changed custom tool set of layer folder, text layer and perspective ruler to the
set of normal layer.

- Added the prohibition cursor for unpaintable layer.

- Added specific mouse cursors for Eraser, Mask Pen and Mask Eraser.

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2015-04-20

[New Features]

- File format support for PSD and PSB

- New layer blending mode.

- Layer mask

- Background color setting for canvas

- Shortcut key for brush tools (about size, density)

[Fixed Bugs]

- Zoom and angle track bar of the navigator drop the display result when operated
quickly.

- Can not create canvas when the horizontal width is less than 32px.
- Bristle brush brings broken painting. (32bit version only)

- Some unrelated closed folders are opened when using Undo and Redo.

- The visibility settings of a 'Pass' mode layer folder does not work correctly.

- Merge for a layer folder does not work.

- System ID is sometimes changed after rebooted computer.

- Brush form and texture settings is not saved if the name included other than
ascii characters.

- Combination of 'Overlay' mode and paper texture brings a broken blending result.

- Can not start program if the path of 'My Documents' was changed into a root
directory.

- Canvas is closed without the confirmation dialog if it undid all operations.

- Tooltip is displayed outside of screen.

[Changes]

- Suppressed the delay of the stroke starting. (Windows 8/8.1)

- Added the settings for force using of TabletPC API.

- Changed the tool toggle function to a clear behavior.

And, adjusted some features.

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2015-01-20

[Fixed Bugs]

- Loading of .sai2 file is failed in some cases.

- Can not remove shortcut key from tool property.

- Default shortcut keys are not appeared.

(Please press [Reset to Defaults] in [Shortcut Key Assignments] dialog if you
have executed a older version of SAI2.)

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2015-01-19

[New Features]

- Marker tool
(Please create Marker tool from the context menu of the custom tools tray if you
have executed a older version of SAI2.)
- Navigator

- Shortcut Key Assignment dialog

- Options dialog (Minimum features)

[Fixed Bugs]

- Eraser tool does not detect an intersection of horizontal stroke and vertical
stroke.

- Access violation occurs when Syringe is used in Layer Folder.

- Brush tool and Water Color tool does not blend the current color if "Dilution" is
larger or equal 1.

- The program does not draw anything of the maximized normal view if Floating View
is existing.

- The program does not switch control mode correctly to the mouse operation from
the pen tablet operation.

- The program does not draw selection borders correctly.

- Brush tool and Water Color tool include outer pixels of the canvas for blending.

- The maximum width and height of texture 'less than 1024x1024' not 'less or equal
1024x1024'.

- The program does not detect correctly the release of multiple keys.

- The program destroys history data file in some cases.

[Changes]

- The program display a detailed error in initialization of data folders.

- Changed order of buttons in the confirmation dialog of the canvas closing to same
as Ver.1.

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2015-01-02

- A first English preview version is released

[Fixed Bugs]

- The program does not detect the correct vanishing point of the stroke for
perspective rulers.

- Access violation occurs when layers that is larger than the canvas are merged.

- The program hang up when particular keys are pressed.

[Changes]

- The execution filename changed to "sai2.exe" from "sai.exe".

(This change will avoid a malfunction of Wacom tablet driver.)

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2015-01-01

[Fixed Bugs]

- The program used uninitialized pressure data to blend for Brush tool and Water
Color tool.

- Access violation occurs when a second instance of the program is started.

- Bristle definition bitmaps are lacked from the distribution package.

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2014-12-31

[New Features]

- Linework layer
+ Imploved the curve algorythm.
+ Implemented the bezier curve mode.
+ Implemented erasing to intersection (Eraser tool).
etc...

- Shape layer(Included minimum features)

- Save and Load functions for the private format(.sai2) and Bitmap(.bmp)

[Etc.]

- Many features is added into the base of the program from 2013-12-10 version.

- Many problems is fixed from 2013-12-10 version.

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2013-12-10

- A preview version is released.

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2011-10

- The development of Ver.2 is started.