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Photoline 18 53 – Professional Level Image Effects Processor

Photoline 18 53 – Professional Level Image Effects Processor Manual
Photoline 18 53 – Professional Level Image Effects Processor 10
PhotoLine is a powerful and cross-platform image processing application that provides a wide array of tools to modify your pictures. Streamlined and full-featured image editing utility that helps you process photos using a wide array of photo correction tools. Moreover, the PhotoLine utility. PhotoLine is available as 32 or 64 bit application. Imaging functions supported are Lab, CMYK, 16 bit channels, ICC profiles and raw data profiles for digital cameras. PhotoLine offers all the tools you need: Painting, cloning, filtering, blending and flood fill, special effects like squirl, shadow, glowing, distorb, morphing, 3d projection.
PhotoLine is a viable alternative to the traditional choice in image editing software, Photoshop. This application embeds almost all of the functionality features of Photoshop, but the price is a bit lower. In addition, users have noticed that PhotoLine provides them with a substantially higher flexibility. PhotoLine 20 is a powerful digital image processing software that offers all the essential features like painting, filtering, color gradients and more. It enables the user to modify a raster and vector graphics such as pictures in a quick and easy way. PhotoLine is a versatile all-purpose image and graphics editor. You can edit images or optimize them for the web, but you can also prepare print-ready PDF data. PhotoLine offers the creative professional sophisticated tools: CMYK and Lab color space, color management with ICC profiles, adjustment layers, recording actions and 16/32-bit color.
 It's been a while since the release of PhotoLine version 19.0. Now there is the new and in may details enhanced version 19.50 available. It is - as all '.5' versions - a free upgrade for all registered users of the version 19. 
New Function 'Align All' 'Align All' is a new function in the Window menu. It adjusts the visible area and zoom of all opened documents to the active one. This way you can compare similar images more easily. 
'Align To Pixels' The layer attribute for aligning layers to the pixel grid of the document has been enhanced. The following image shows an enlarged rounded rectangle without and with alignment: 
 Additionally there is now the menu command 'Layout > Alignment > Align To Pixels', too. 
New Browse function 'Filename to XMP' 'Filename to XMP' copies the filename of an image to its XMP data. This way you can save the original filename of a file before renaming it. 
PSD ImportSupport of recent PSD versions
Support of Smart Objects: PhotoLine will create a placeholder layer.
Better support of adjustment layers
PNG Import And ExportIf possible the PNG export is now creating a sRGB chunk instead of fully embedding the complete profile. This reduces the file size.
You can now import APNG files.
The PNG library has been updated.
EXIF Color Space PhotoLine uses now the color space information included in the EXIF data. 
 Some applications don't embed the correct ICC profile, but just adjust the EXIF data accordingly. Now PhotoLine handles this kind of information correctly, too. 
MiscellaneousThe WebP library has been updated.
The JPEG library has been updated.
PDF import and export: many enhancements
SVG import and export: many enhancements
Presets Some tools now have presets. You can create and apply them using the window menu of the tool settings. 
Lasso and Mask ToolsThe lasso outline is now more precise with higher zoom factors.
While transforming a lasso you can now see the outline of the lasso.
The tool 'Mask Brush' can now draw lines.
MiscellaneousThe airbrush and the flood fill tool are now offering a blend mode in the tool settings.
The painting tools are now working more precisely with low intensities. This affects mostly the airbrush tool.
The brighter and the darker tool now have the option 'Protect Tones'.
Aside from the outline soft brush are now also showing the inner radius inside the document.
Vector tools: You can now define the fill and line style of new vector layers in advance with vector tools, that allow creating new layers.
Placeholder LayersThe data of placeholder layer can now optionally be embedded in the document.
If a placeholder layer is edited with an external application, PhotoLine will - if possible - transfer the original data of the placeholder layer to the external application.
Dragging several files onto an empty placeholder layer will insert the remaining files to the following empty placeholder layers.
Layer ListThe layer list can now be optionally controlled with the keyboard. This can be activated in the settings dialog at 'Working > Special'.
Alt+double click on a thumbnail of an image turns transparency on or off.
Adding a layer to the selection is now optionally recorded as action.
Enhanced selection of layers
Document List The document list has been modified, so that it can now act as a tab bar. To do so, it has to be oriented horizontally - usually by docking it at the top or the bottom - and its height must be low. 
 In addition, files and layers can be dragged on documents in the document list to insert them in that document. This enhances working with maximized documents or with documents in full screen mode. 
Histogram The histogram can now optionally show additional information. 
Modal Curve Editor The modal curve editor can now be resized. This allows more precise editing. 
Curve Editor You can now delete curve points by dragging them outside the curve editor. 
Layer EffectsLayer effects are now applied to all active layers.
The unsharpness of 'Shadow 3D' is now increasing in order to get a better 3D effect.
The edge of 'Outline outside' and 'Outline inside' is now antialiased and both effects are now supporting sub pixel widths.
Gradient EditorYou can now drag a gradient in the document window by Alt+click&drag the gradient line.
The size of the gradient handles has been adjusted. You can now edit them easier on 4K monitors.
Optical ImprovementsOn Windows collapsable lists are now using a triangle instead of a '+' sign.
The icons are now looking nicer on dark UIs,
Formula Fields The context menu of formula field are now offering the command 'Fix'. This replaces the formula by its numeric value. 
MiscellaneousPrecise Mouse Cursor
 The new precise mouse cursor is less visually distracting.
Full Preview in Dialogs
 You can now control the full preview in dialogs by assigning a shortcut to the menu command 'Layer > Display > Show Layer'.
Text Styles
 Text styles are now aplied to all active layers.
Several performance improvements
 PhotoLine is an all-purpose image and graphics editor. You can enhance photos, export pictures for web pages or create PDF files for printing. 
 And PhotoLine is offering everything, that is required for professional work: CMYK and lab color space, color management with ICC profiles, adjustment layers, and 16/32 bit depth per color channel. Aside from that you can import, edit and export vector graphics and PDF files. 
The most important new features of the new version 19 are:

new image functions like 'Dehaze' and 'Color To Transparency'
enhancements in the graphics and layout section: variable line styles, document color lists, placeholder layers, ..
Extended PDF export: spot colors, overprinting, PDF/X1a and PDF/X3
Aside from that there are numerous small enhancements and performance improvements. Microsoft office 365 2019 v16 29 1.
DehazeDehaze removes stray light in photos caused by fog, haze or smog. As a result, the colors in the image are stronger, and a slight color cast may be removed.
Dehaze doesn't modify the image, but creates an adjustment layer, so you can post process the result.
Wipe EffectsThe Wipe Effect is similar to the motion blur, but it blurs the image only in one direction and the original image data are unmodified.
For the wipe effect, you will need an image with transparency, and only the transparent areas will be changed.
The wipe effect can also be used as an adjustment layer.
Color To TransparencyColor To Transparency creates transparency based on a predefined color. It also removes this color from semi-transparent areas, so that the result can be better placed on a different background. There are two working modes:
a simple mode for images in front of a homogenous background
a more complex mode, which allows more customization
Color To Transparency can be used as an adjustment layer, too.
The Rotate View ToolThe Rotate View tool can rotate the display of the active document. The document itself is not changed.
You can rotate the document in two ways:
by clicking and dragging the mouse in the document
by entering a rotation angle in the Tool Settings
The Rotate ToolThe Rotate Tool allows you to rotate the active layer. In contrast to the Layer Tool, you can start the rotation process by clicking & dragging anywhere in the document.
By clicking with the mouse the pivot point is set. If you define no pivot point, the center of the layer will be used.
Vector LassoUsing the Vector Lasso you can create the lasso using curves and lines - similar to a vector layer.
The handling corresponds to the Curve Creation tool. By clicking and dragging new curve points are created, simple clicking creates line points.
Painting, Pencil, ..The Painting tool, the Pencil, .. are now supporting the blending modes like Darken, Multiply and so on.
Copy BrushThe Copy Brush can now scale and/or rotate the source data.
Additionally the source can now be the source layer, all layers until the active one and all visible layers.
Document Color ListIn the document color list, you can create colors and thus assign the active document. This color list is saved with the document and also reloaded. Each color in the document color list must have a unique name.
If you change an existing color in the document color list, all places where that color is used in the document, will be adjusted accordingly. It does not matter whether the color appears in a text layer, a gradient color or an effect.
Spot ColorsPhotoLine is now supporting spot colors. They are created in the Document Color List.
Spot colors are important in combination with the PDF export.
Tint ColorsTint colors are derived from a base color. The base color can be a normal color or a spot color. They are always a mix of the base color and white.
Tint colors are created in the Color Editor.
Color FieldsColor fields are now showing the color model coded using the corners:
RGB: all corners are there
Gray: missing lower-left corner
CMYK: missing lower-right corner
Lab: missing upper-right corner
A small point in the respective corner signals a spot color.
GradientsGradients now have a control to change the gradient of the brightness.
Enhanced Line StylesLine styles can now have a variable width. The Vector Drawing tool converts the pressure of a graphics tablet pen directly in a line style.
Line styles can now be inside, outside or on a vector path.
The line style editor has been extended accordingly. It can now create and edit line styles with variable width.
The line style editor can now be displayed permanently on the screen.
The line style editor is now accessible via the popup list of line style fields, too.
Placeholder LayersPlaceholder layers have no own content, but show the content of an external file.
Placeholder layers can be created using the corresponding tool or by dragging a file to document while holding Alt (Windows) or Command+Alt (OS X).
Vector OutlineYou can now convert a vector outline to the corresponding filled vector layer. This way you can use the outline for clipping or manually edit it.
Move Layer(s) To Left Border and Move Layer(s) To Top BorderYou can now move the marked layers next to each other on the left side and on the upper side of the active layer.
Enhanced GuidesGuides can now be defined using formulas. In the formulas you can use 'w' for the document width and 'h' for the document height. This way you can create guides, that are self-adapting to the size of the document.
With a new helper dialog you can automatically lay out guides creating lines and columns.
Using the Layer Attributes you can lay down, that a given layer is no longer used for automatic guides. This can reduce excessive flickering of automatic guides.
OverprintOverprinting is a property for printing documents in print shops.
With overprinting a layer replaces only the color channels of the background, which are used by the layer. Overprinting can be activated in the Layer Attributes.
Overprint is important in combination with the PDF export.
PDF Export: Support Of PDF/X1a And PDF/X3In the preferences/options under 'File > PDF' you can now activate the creation of PDF/X1a and PDF/X3 compatible files. Additionally you can control the bleeding
Assigning Colors To Gray ImagesIf an image layer has the kind 8 bit gray, you can assign a color to it using the Layer Attributes. The image will be displayed using a gradient from white to that color.
Layer ListOptionally it doesn't automatically make the active layer visible.
Marked layers are now optionally shown with a lighter selection color.
If the layer settings are different to the standard values, the Layer List will show the layer intensity and the display mode.
You can define shortcuts for switching to next next/previous display mode.
MiscellaneousCommand line support on OS X
 On OS X PhotoLine is now supporting command line commandos, too.
DDS import
 Cube textures are now imported on different pages.
JPEG 2000
 Now with ICC profile support
JPEG export
 Simple images with a vector clipping path or a vector layer mask are now saved as JPEG with clipping path.
Edit Vector Points tool
 You can now copy and cut selected points.
Edit Vector Points tool
 You can now paste vector data as subpath.
Stamp tool
 Reset button for resetting the stamp size
Quick Mask tool
 Now with option to remove speckles
Hue Editor
 Now with Lab mode
Gradient tool
 Optionally creates a vector layer
Liquify tool
 The liquify image can be copied, pasted, loaded and saved now.
ICC Profiles
 ICC profiles are now loaded from the 'ICCProfiles' folder inside the settings folder, too.
Simple Browse
 Now with sort order
Color management
 Optionally used Little CMS
Custom Icons
 If there, PhotoLine is loading the file PicturesUser.pld from the 'Help' folder inside the settings folder.
Photoline 18 53 – Professional Level Image Effects Processor ManualNew Tablet support improved  now works without WinTab (Windows 10)
 Tilt support: Can be enabled in the tool settings of the respective tool (e.g. brush) on the right of the presets.
 Text layer size: Adjust to content size by double-clicking on frame handle

Improvements Lens correction:  Windows: Typing in lens list preselects items
 Placeholder: If a lens correction is applied to a placeholder as a dynamic filter, the correct EXIF data is now used.
 Lensfun: Optional only the lenses matching the camera are displayed.
 Handling without suitable lens improved
 Lensfun support, Sony: Better support for Sony lenses
 PDF import  New faster with many layers
 Unnecessary rectangular clipping layers are removed
 Text is combined to lines
 JPEG export, clipping path: Can now also export documents consisting of a group and a clipping path as JPEG with clipping path
 EXR import: XYZ-layers are combined to groups, even if one of them doesn't have a letter
 PNG export: With 'Optimize Size' switch
 File > Import > GS-Import, macOS: now starts Ghostscript optionally from /usr/local/bin/gs
 Scripting:  Scripts can now perform actions as operations
 AppleScript 'save' with filename and VBScript 'saveAs' now saves an additional PLD version if required
 Binary data can now also be passed as hex string or Base64
 Barcodes can be generated
 new operation 'Resize'
 Under Windows there is IPLDocument.Merge, under macOS there is the 'merge' command
 Windows: New command 'SaveDialog': path = doc.SaveDialog(String dialogTitle = ', String defaultPath = ')
 New operations: MakeSelection, InvertSelection, ClearSelection, FillSelection.
 Actions now with 'ShowDialog' parameter
 Copy/paste support
 Input: Under Windows now with IApplication.InputBox, under macOS with 'input box'
 'Save as' as action: If the file name is the default untitled name, it is replaced by the document path and name.
 Variable Blur, Dynamic Filter: The variable Blur is now available as Dynamic Filter. The placeholder file must have a mask.
 Browse, Search: Now with presets
 Clipboard, Windows: More data types are now placed on the clipboard: PDF, SVG, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
 Filter > Quality > Exposure: now works directly, for float images therefore now without clipping
 Automask: with merged reading
 Lasso tool, aspect ratio: the ratio was only applied if proportional was on.
 Measuring tool uses the dpi of the document
 'Edit vector points' tool: Points created by double-click are selected and can be moved directly.
 Vector paths: curve point handles are now round
 Vector layer, assign pattern: Transformation is retained when Alt key is held down
 Selection tools available for virtual copies
 Drag file to document, placeholder: pressing Shift does not drag file to placeholder
 Virtual copies, path effects: Virtual copies can now have path effects (important for virtual copies in placeholders that have an outline distortion applied to them)
 Text layers:  Editing: Ctrl+Delete/Backspace deletes word by word (Alt on macOS)
 Spelling checking: The spelling checking is only displayed in the text tool for the active layer.
 Spell checker: The spell checker is now displayed in color in documents with gray profile.
 Shape flow: Flow distance can now be changed for several layers simultaneously
 Register accuracy, shape flow: The first line of a text frame could be out of register.
 Layer list  Mask by clicking on thumbnail: Revised
 Mask by clicking on thumbnail: Both intensity and transparency can be added and subtracted now
 Label color: If child layers do not have their own label color, they inherit the color of their group.
 Color lists from QuarkXPress can be read
 Plug-in interface updated
 Mosaic: The relative flattening of the highlighting now refers to the cell size
 Group many levels: Accelerated
 Delete many layers: Accelerated
 Setting the ruler origin: The dialog now displays the appropriate help.
 Ruler: now has references to help
 Drag a guide line from the ruler: Displays position
 Convert layer to lasso: Vectors without an outline now always use the path
 Shortcuts, Windows: Simple shortcuts without Ctrl now ignore the Caps Lock key
 Drop-down lists, Windows: Improved keyboard control (arrow keys, selection by typing)
 16-bit display in the Picture Info
 Adjustment layers, modal dialog, Undo: Several modal adjustment layer changes are no longer combined.
 Grain Filter: With presets
 Window maximization, macOS: Just as the Windows version, the macOS version now remembers whether the last document window was maximized.
 Used libraries updated

Bug fixesPhotoline 18 53 – Professional Level Image Effects Processor 10 Text register: sometimes did not draw a line
 Text register: Text register was not used when copying pages/pasting text layers from other documents.
 Text wrap: strange spikes with shape flow around transparent image fixed
 Text flow with layer effect: Background effects (e.g. 'shadow outside') did not output the text flow correctly during export.
 Text layer, assign paragraph style, retain manual formatting: If a new paragraph style was assigned while holding down the Shift key, the text formatting did not change.
 Text layers, text register: Has also been applied to rotated layers
 PDF import: Strange PDFs with an empty Cross Reference Table at the end are read correctly
 PDF import: FlateDecode with Predictor 3 decoded the first pixel incorrectly
 PDF import: Process colors are no longer turned into spot colors
 PDF export: Virtual copies with adjustment layers/iamge clipping were not exported correctly
 PDF export: Problem with exporting strange characters fixed
 PDF export: Layers that need to be rendered now take the background color of the document into account for merge modes
 PDF export, 1-bit images, unregistered version: there was a saving error
 SVG and PDF export, placeholders, dynamic filters with replace mode: dynamic filters with replace mode were not exported correctly (with PDF 1.4 only)
 PSD export: When saving vector paths, the export could be aborted
 Raw import: memory leak when opening raw files
 Conversion of multiple layers: It always change both the image type and color depth.
 Select colors: 32-bit with alpha the preview showed stripes
 Plug ins: Mask was no longer used
 Drag&drop layer, placeholder: If a layer was dragged to a placeholder layer, the placeholder layer was replaced.
 Copy/paste, lasso, vector layers: The size of the pasted layer was often not correct
 Adaptive sharpener: sometimes wrong transparency was created with 32-bit and transparency
 Docked dialogs, Windows: Tab changed focus to other docked dialogs
 Browse: Focus is set to file list after opening
 Toolbar, 2 rows, vector, large icons: The vector settings were not adjusted to the toolbar width.
 'Edit vector points' tool, edit pattern transformation in document: Colors that were relative to one of their groups showed the wrong transformation rectangle
 Ruler tool: didn't work correctly
 Line tool: 'In active layer' did not work with images
 Copy brush: The document preview used the wrong intensity until it was changed for the first time.
 Painting tool: Didn't remember settings
 Painting tools, copy brush, channel list: If the editing was restricted to one channel in the channel list and then switched to the painting tools/copying pencil, the restriction was not active.
 Distortion tool: crash occurred when deleting nodes
 'Curve creation' tool: If the mouse pointer was over a path, the wrong help text was displayed in the status bar.
 Scripting, gradients: only linear gradients were possible
 Scripting, Windows: IPLLayer.Origin did not work with the background layer
 Scripting: Save/SaveAs (Windows), and save (macOS) now support 'ShowDialog' and 'Title'.
 Scripting, Windows, arrays as parameters: Arrays passed as reference were not supported.
 Scripting, Windows: Error messages are no longer truncated
 Scripting, Windows: IPLMatrix.TransformPoints/Sizes/Rectangles did not work with VBScript
 Patterns, spot colors: Patterns did not delete the spot channels
 Layer list, search function: Alt+click on marker now works even if not all layers are displayed
 Page list: Moving several complete pages forward did not work properly
 Layer attributes, clipping: When changing the width, clipping was always activated for adjustment layers.
 Browse, EXIF data, Mac: may have been displayed without scroll bar
 Convert layer type: System images (which were created somehow, how is not clear) can now be converted to RGB
 Change document size, picture mode: another layer may have been activated afterwards
 Curves, transparency, 16-bit and 32-bit images: Curves didn't change the transparency properly
 Save layer: Path text and shape flow are retained during saving
 Lens correction: Possible crash due to last used lenses fixed
 1-bit images: Support for blend modes
 1-bit images: rotated images with alpha and a width of more than 8192 pixels are output correctly
 Histogram, extended display: median adjusted to Ps
 Color Editor, Windows, color picker, document window: Under Windows, the color picker of the Color Editor did not use the color profile of a document window.
 Edit > Cut, Vector, Lasso: Cutting to a vector layer with a lasso caused a crash
 Layout > Page > Load page(s): if the selected document was an image, there could be a crash
 Filter > Quality > Pixelize: Now also edits the transparency
 Vector layer, pixel alignment: It is now aligned even if smoothing is switched off.
 'Save as' as action: Crash when editing the action step without document
 Convert layer type, path text to vector: path text could not be converted to vector
 Fixed problem with Document Information on images without any data
 Spelling checker, Windows: Problems with language switching fixed
 Lines, non-antialiased, macOS: the non-antialiased output of the operating system looked terrible, we now use our own
 Roughen filter: If Alpha was switched off, the horizontal scaling of the Rough pattern changed.
 'Adjustment Layer' dialog, histogram: The histogram was not updated when a script changed another layer than the active one.