Changelog¶
Explore our latest software updates for an improved user experience, new features, and bug fixes based on your feedback. Let's dive in!
Legend
NEW - New features, bug fixes and various improvements
UPDATE - This is a new version of Black Ink that includes some important changes
FIXED - New version with bug fixes only
Black Ink 2023¶
In progress ➟ New version UI redesign, optimization, toolbar enhancements, new brush manager, magic, global color,...
Changes in motion2023.6¶
Commands Load, Restore, and Clear have been added to the GlobalColors Preset Menu.
Better operator property for the Tiling Operator
Better MagicWand & Paint Bucket performance when selecting an area.
You no longer need to click on a child window to bind the mouse wheel to it. Simply hovering over the window is enough.
The persistent Gizmos remain visible more consistently depending on the selected layer.
The Eyedropper shortcut (hold Alt) now works when the Paint Bucket Tool is active.
The Brush Smoothness tool can be toggled with the shortcut Z. You need to hold Z, as before, to adjust the smoothing amount.
Crash when creating a Symmetry or a DomainWrap operator from the Layer editor ToolBar Menu.
Random Crash when using the DomainWrap operator
When Erase with current brush is disabled in the Stylus Preferences, the user can’t retrieve the brush when using the stylus eraser button after flipping the pen.
Sometimes the Paint Bucket doesn't finish to fill the desired area
Bad pixel color on transparent part of an exported png image.
Export problem when many of the exported images contain voids. Black Ink may become unstable afterward and display a 'Failed to access all tiles' message.
Invalid blending alpha when the input of a layer stack uses a 'Pass Through' blending mode with more than 2 recursively nested layer stacks.
sometimes wrong rendering for Tiling Operator
the “persistent” gizmo of the Tiling Operator is working
Random crash when closing Black Ink after using ColorImage type for brushes.
Changes in motion2023.5¶
The Tiling Operator doesn’t create some transparent line if the content has no alpha blending on his edge. Moreover the Mirror in X & Y option has been added
Improved Automatic Vram Occupancy target when using a system with a large amount of VRam when starting Black Ink for the first time
the DLL d3dcompiler_47.dll is now distributed with Black Ink to ensure better compatibility with Proton and Wine.
The Eraser now has its own history. This allows it to maintain its size and settings during a session. However, they are not preserved when Black Ink is closed because the eraser is created based on the brush given at its first use.
Moving the Black Ink window on a screen with a different DPI can make it to crash
Default Keyboard shortcuts modified by the user won't be saved on disk
Crash occurs when using an Undo shortcut while the Directional Blur Tool is active.
Issue with Windows Ink sometimes when using the stylus on a Child window causing a position offset.
The Erase With the Current brush was broken and we didn't retrieve our selected brush after using the Eraser Tool.
Crash after dropping an image and creating a mask.
Crash when doing a Undo after trying to transform an empty layer
Sometimes, hiding/showing the Layer Editor introduced significant latency.
An annoying bug causing Black Ink to progressively slow down when frequently modifying brush settings. After a while, selecting a color could take several seconds.
When attempting to stack panels that are in a floating configuration, it may happen that some of them are no longer visible.
2023.4¶
Precision issue during lasso selection tracing.
Fixed crash when drawing outside the maximum size limits for a canvas.
Some popups were not rendered correctly when using multiple child windows.
When clicking on a selection in exclusive mode (with the Magic Wand & Color Select), you can drag the selection around without the need to press the T shortcut. more..
2023.3¶
StandAlone Only Bug in auto updater. You need to re-download Black ink installer and reinstall it to fix the issue.
Popups contained within windows that move behind child windows will still be displayed within the content of the child windows. more..
Some Random Crash
Crash when you do a Undo / Redo when the Eyedropper tool is activated
2023.2 - Hot Fix¶
StandAlone Only Bug in auto updater. You need to re-download Black ink installer and reinstall it to fix the issue.
Debug Section in Preferences. more..
Issue with the stylus when the overall UI scale wasn't set to 100%. see
2023.1 - Hot Fix¶
StandAlone Only A lot of Timeout when doing update. You need to re-download Black ink installer and reinstall it to fix the issue.
When dragging and dropping a simple image into the Main Canvas, Black Ink would open the document instead of directly importing the image into the current layer, as was the case in previous versions of Black Ink. more..
When dropping an image and not being on a layer, we remain in Black Ink's image import mode, and you need to restart the program for it to behave normally.
Crash when using the MagicWand or BucketFill
Changes in motion A completely new Brush Manager that will allow you to intuitively manage, find, and categorize your brushes. more.. You can manage it from the Brush manager with Drag&Drop into Favorites > Slot N or directly into the QuickParamBar.
Moreover, while holding the Favorite shortcut ( like Num 1, Num 2, .. ), you can now assign more than one brush by Slot and then select them quickly. . more.. New toolbar for standardized access like other drawing software. more.. This new bar appears when selecting a tool and provides quick access to its most commonly used settings. For example if a brush is selected: Here if it is the zoom: Now, with the global color choice as "foreground" or "background," the color selection becomes more generic. The global color complements the existing choices of solid color, gradient, or image-based color.
Additionally, it is now possible to define color presets for favorite colors or to have the color history as swatches. more.. A quick shortcut J when you draw to bring up the color palette. more.. With the magic wand, quickly select an area based on color, luminance, or alpha channel. more.. With the bucket fill tool, pick the area you want to paint, apply the replacement color, or modify it directly in its settings. more.. The tiling operator allows you to duplicate a drawing as a pattern and define a spacing between each repetition. more.. Pass-through color blending now available for layer stacks. Sub-layer stack blending effects will apply to upper layer stack for seamless and efficient color blending. With the tools parameter panel, you now have the freedom to position it wherever you want. more.. Layers, mask for the moment. Missing : FX, groups, etc.. The main menu has been redesigned for better integration. more.. Brushes can be viewed from the operating system's file explorer. more.. Highly recommended for better pressure dynamic. more.. Choose the cursors for your tools in the preferences. more.. Selection, transformation, or cropping – customize their display in the preference panel for a better experience. Credits
Kobe Sek
Paul
Geraldine RicartFirst Release¶
Brush manager
Brush Favorite revisited
Toolbar
Quick Settings
Global color panel
Color popup
Magic Wand
Paint Bucket
Tiling operator
Pass Through blending
Tool parameters
PSD import
Main menu
Brush Preview in the OS Explorer
Drag&Drop of brushes directly from the OS Explorer
Global Pressure Adjustment
Windows Ink API supported for the stylus / tablet management
Cursor preferences
Display of helpers
You can now edit the gradient color of brushes
Texture parameter for brushes
Eraser Favorite shortcut Num 6. This shortcut if hold display a gizmo which chooses from brushes tagged with Eraser from the Brush Manager.
the Brush shortcut B if hold can display an historic of previously selected brushes. Also if pressed a second time select the previously used brush.
When doing a File->Save As.. the name of the document is preserved if it’s not a BKD ( when doing an export ).
Improved overall rendering performance of Black Ink
The default shortcut for the command Duplicate as layer is now Ctrl+Alt+D in the Layer Editor ( instead of Ctrl+D which can cause confusion with the command Deselect ).
Crash when certain types of tooltips were to be shown.
Enabling the angle snap tool forces the straight line mode, but pressing it again does not disable it. The straight line tool neither enables nor disables the straight line mode.
Operators created in the Layer Editor have empty names.
Custom colors added in BSL are now correctly displayed in the Brush Parameters.
Brush Parameters now correctly reflect the data exposed by the BSL when modifying the BSL.
We can switch to the eraser with the E shortcut, but we can't switch back to the pen.
Troubles when we want to change the a shortcut setting ( often
Random crash when Black Ink compute some brushes preview
Random Crash when Autorecover process is running
Random Crash when transforming a selection part of a layer that is connected to another operator.
Crashes when using smudge brushes on big canvas
A lot of random crashes de to multithreading
Visual bug when the UI isn’t at 100% scale on some effect and controls.
Windows Flicks Gesture is now automatically disabled when using a Tablet.
Crash when opening a File Dialog in Black Ink on a computer with Google Drive Desktop installed.
Wacom Ctrl+Z shortcut doesn't work.
Crash when entering a big text in the crash report comment dialog
Black Ink 2020¶
In progress ➟ New version Nodel Layer editor, New Brushes, Bative 64bit, Blur operator, ..
2020.3 - HOTFIX¶
Black Ink doesn’t start with CPU that have more than 32 CORE detected
Crash at startup if the GPU provides several device
Crash when using the command/shortcut “Fill eyedropper”
When using the command “Duplicate as layer”, the content of this layer was still influenced by modifications made by its original operators.
Random crash after using the CropTool
Rendering problem with brushes: Canvas Fill, Free Fill and Polygonal Fill
Brush with dual primitive (like Charcoal) can miss the secondary texture when rendered
Crash when pasting in a Grayscale layer
When a RGBA image is dragged and dropped into a grayscale layer the layer is transformed into a RGBA layer.
Credits
A huge thanks for all our beta testers, patrons and all artists with your drawings or pictures illustrating this update!2020.3¶
Blur Operator
Directional Blur Operator
Gradient Map Operator
Gradient editor (Only available in the Gradient Map operator for now )
Color Overlay Operator
Color Mode Channel Operator
Color Posterization Operator
Color Select Operator
Drag & Drop of Images in the Layer editor create multiple layer
Create Layer From Image.. Command in the layer editor
User Interface preference where you can Save / Load different UI Layout
Better performance when brushing with Black Ink
If you only save a PNG/JPG the document in Black Ink isn’t considered saved anymore. So you will not lose all your work if you try to close Black Ink by mistake.
No more glitch when brushing with texture on a zoomed canvas
The operator is now created at the same position as displayed by the preview
The eyedropper can now pick color anywhere in the Black Ink user interface & can pick into OS child windows
The Mask operator selects the alpha channel by default.
Layer operator isn’t expanded by default
Color wheel is now left aligned
Startup crash on some AMD GPU
Multithread random crash
Random crash sometimes when merging layers in the Layer editor
Random freeze sometimes when merging image layers
Big slowdown in Black Ink when auto-saving a document is triggered
Crash sometimes when selecting "Background default Image" in brush preview.
Crash when using invalid parameters in an array in BSL
Random Crash when previewing brush eraser
Crash when using a grayscale image as a brush preview background
Keyboard states sometimes are irrelevant when the focus of the main window of Black Ink changed
Sometimes the "erase with current brush" shortcut gets stuck on the eraser, the cursor will still be red and the brush will still erase even though it is not holding the shortcut for it.
Freeze when typing in the search box of the Log panel
Sometimes Eyedropper return null color ( alpha at 0 )
The "overlay" node is creating liserets with the edges in some case
Sometimes the “Center on selection” command in the Layer Editor doesn't work as expected
Shortcuts “Save”, “Open”, “Save As..” works only when a CanvasView has the focus
D. Alex. Nixon
Ahi
Cristina Cόrdova
Taran Fiddler
Claudine Ricart
Perceval Schopp
New version of Black Ink with several bug fixes and enhancements Credits
Special thanks for your drawings illustrating this update2020.2¶
Now Black Ink is operating in native 64-bit
Brightness/Contrast Operator in the layer editor
Windows Explorer .bkd file preview
Blending Type Multiply Preserve Alpha
Black Ink About
Set the Vram in the GPU Preferences options
Shortcut “FreezeReportDialog” (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F4) that will make Black Ink Crash. Useful if you think Black Ink is in a Frozen state when saving or loading.
Some random crashes
Crash when using other than D3D11 rendering API (Other D3D9,D3D10 and OpenDL API has been removed and aren’t supported anymore)
Crash when loading 16bits grayscale PNG
Duplicating layer stack with external reference create artifact in the duplicated stack
Sometimes when using the transform tool, the content disappears
After clicking on the rotate tool it’s impossible to disable it.
Mouse / Stylus problem when Zooming, Drawing, changing the brush size with gizmo ( like these links: Steam or Youtube)
Freeze at startup if a brush with multiple textures was created by the user.
Rendering problem with the brush “Watercolor pen”
Crash when clicking on the output of the first layer see
After a Windows Explorer drag and drop Black Ink windows has directly the keyboard focus
Now the crash report upload data directly on our server without the need of an Email client
No more destruction of operators embedded in Input of operators when dragging new operator on it. The old element is now placed near the input on the layer editor.
Adam Phillips
Ahi
Perceval Schopp
New version of Black Ink with several bug fixes and enhancements Merge Visible layers
Merge Layers / Merge Down2020.1¶
2 new commands in the Layer Editor
Crash sometimes when using the Straight line tool
Crash at startup when your tablet isn’t plugged in to your computer
Crash when searching in Preference Shortcut on a system using non latin character
Crash when double clicking on the Create Mask Icon of the Layer stack operator
The toggle Layer Editor button does nothing in the Main toolbar
Overlay, HardLight, SoftLight blending doesn’t behave like in Photoshop
Tooltip for the first 2 icons of the Layer stack has been added
Changes in motion : Off
For example you can keep a color palette or a model
On
You have only your final canvas
First Release¶
Layer editor panel
We replaced the previous fixed 8 layers with a nodal editor where you can truly compose your drawing
Important > You have the walkthrough
Layers number is now unlimited and they can go up to 64K pixels in size
Layer properties panel
You have all your node details and parameters on a dedicated panel
Search in preferences
Display Monitor color Management
Possibility to hide layer content outside of the current canvas ( Shortcut V )
“Handle eraser state of stylus” Option. Help Huion’s users to fix this problem
Brush - Calligraphy gel ink
Brush - Hair trail
Brush - Blurry Watercolor
Brush - Wet Watercolor
Brush - Watercolor
Brush - Watercolor pen
Brush - Dotted dissolve 24px
Brush - Stencil brush
Brush - Hair Dissolve 24 px
Brush - Pencil 2px
Rotation bug when using the Hold R shortcut in a Black Ink window with a scale different of 100%
randomly the Clear button in search box is visible but can’t be clicked
Halo with the Simple Round pen ( see )
Using brushes with readback on canvas view can generate weird colors on view borders
Sometimes it was difficult to Drop a Panel into a Docking pane header.
Sometimes the stroke shows invalid touches at the beginning or end of the stroke
Multiply Blending : Now when the alpha’s Backdrop is null the content of the foreground is preserved
JPG & PNG exported image doesn’t embedded an ICC color profile
Incorrect transparent color picking with eyedropper
If the user interface is resized,when using crop,transformation or selection tool there is a rendering offset in the preview area.
Incorrect mask zone of the crop in drawing viewport
Brush using Dual Primitive drawn with the “View Constant Brush Size” disabled was buggy
A lot of different crashes..
Zoom is now performed according to the location of the cursor
Better performance when using the quick transform tool
Better performance with undo and redo
Better performance when drawing and moving the canvas
Improved blending quality when using low opacity brushes
More compact UI for Child Floating Windows
Beta 4¶
In progress ➟ New version Brush shader language, readback, GPU perf...
The BETA 4 allows you to customize the shortcuts and change the interface size for more efficiency. But above all shaders can be created and modified to give effects to brushes such as smudge, patterns, material effects, 3D...
Native High DPI Screen display support, UI customizable size... Changes in motion also covering previous update
0.356.2642 - Release¶
Native High DPI Screen display support
Some shortcuts have been moved from the Global context to the Canvas View Context (Flip Vertical, Flip Horizontal and DrawsInCanvasView)
Better Eraser effect when using smudge brushes
You can now use the keyword “key” and “hold” in the Preference shortcut search bar.
When using the “Zoom in and out” command ( Hold Q ) the zoom is made from the cursor position instead of the centre of the View. Moreover when moving the cursor outside of the window the movement doesn’t stop.
Darker background for the BrushPreview editor to avoid confusion with the normal or secondary viewport
You can use Wheel to zoom on top of the rendering indicator.
BSL | it’s now possible to use input modifier for BSL function like in this example
BSL | the function matrix3FromRaw is now really available
Some crash when saving a BKD
Some crash/Freeze when loading a lot of textures when opening the Brush Manager
Some crash when Changing a Shortcut after moving the focus to another panel of control.
Sometimes Black Ink suffers a severe hang/freeze when opening the Brush Manager.
The Elastic Gizmo (visible with some smoothness is set) was not displayed.
Some layout problem when the Preference Keyboard Tab when stacked.
Can’t DragDrop color from the Brush Preview color selector into preference.
The command “Copy Merged” wrongly took invisible layers into the operation.
Shortcut customization, rendering indicator...0.345.2599 - Release¶
Shortcut Customization
![][Non]The user can now customize Black Ink shortcuts in the Preferences Panel > KeyboardDefault Brushes
A rendering indicator shows if the canvas isn't 100% accurate due to a background rendering process
Texture resources are automatically reloaded if modified on disk
The Step brush exposes now parameters to generate the position of a second primitive
BSL with custom blending can now be used as an Eraser when using the idatas.eraser parameter
Autorecover files are now deleted only after 2 weeks ( see issue )
Performance problems when using ReadBack brushes on big canvas
Black Ink window wasn't displayed on Windows 10 Creator Update ( see issue )
Crash when inverting the current selection
Crash when using the Merge All function
Crash when tried to crop with an active selection
Crash when trying to reload a corrupted BKD
ctrl+z(undo) doesn't respond immediately after selecting color, different brush
some crashes when editing the source code of a BSL
some crashes due to a RAM usage overflow
entering a hexadecimal value in the color picker displayed the wrong corresponding color
Saving in wrong path when the target path contained a '.'
Black Ink main or Child window sometimes doesn't resize/maximize correctly on multi-monitor system.
Shaders on brushes, Brush Shader Language editor, Large brush preview panel, brush manager, smudge, brush with texture, Float parameter, Brush vector 2 parameter, color wheel, autopicking color, raw color... Changes in motion :
List of changes :0.301.2448 - Release¶
Use shaders on brushes: You can now select a Shader effect for a Brush
BSL Editor
Brush Preview Panel
Brush Manager in an independent panel with search and filter options
Brush Float parameter has been redesigned
Brush Vector 2 parameter has been redesigned
Brush Color parameter has been redesigned :
Brush texture parameter
Brush gradient parameter
Some default controllers have been added
If an invalid stylus calibration is detected the error message will only be displayed one time per application launch.
The size of the drawing cursor is now clamped and can't exceed 96 pixels
The fade in/out of the cursor when drawing has been changed.
The trial time for the demo version is now 4 hours.
Pink flashes on the User Interface on Intel GPU ( see issue, issue, issue )
Image saving issue on AMD GPU ( see issue, issue )
Flickering in the Brush Preview windows when moving Brush Parameters
Crash when using the transform tool on tiny canvas resolution ( see issue )
Crash when tried to crop with an active selection
Popup on child window transparency issue ( see issue, issue )
If a crash occurs, the file is recovered with its original filename and directory ( see issue )
Incorrect Hue color in color picker ( see issue and issue )
Fill bug from the layer menu ( see issue )
Invalid Azimuth interpolation along a stroke
Beta 3¶
In progress ➟ New version LAYERS (basic version), Essential revisited tools (straight line, selection, crop…)
The BETA 3 integrates standard tools for drawing software, such as selection and straight lines and crop with a special touch to improve them.
Straight Line mode, Crop Tool, Snap angle, Auto-recover, Resize image, ... Changes in motion : List of changes :0.249.2089 - Update¶
Straight Line Draw mode / toggle K
Pressing the Shift key when drawing now displays a Snap Angle Wheel. The angles can be edited in the Straight Line Parameters
New default brushes
Angle snap parameters on the main Toolbar
Crop Tool / Shift+C
Image - Resize Dialog
Auto Recover - Autorecovery option can be accessed through the Preference Panel in the General Tab section
The New.. Dialog has been redesigned. It has default and user presets and the ability to define a starting background color.
The Fill layer tool is now directly accessible in the Main toolbar. It comes with these associated shortcuts:
Felt pen default brush has been updated (It now uses the tilt and the pressure of the stylus to adjust opacity).
Better Image sampling after a transformation ( less blur after a simple Transform -> Move operation ).
The shortcut for Flip Vertical has been changed, previously G, now Shift+F
Be careful if using the Tilt stroke parameter in controller because now return a value between 0 and Half PI (previously 0 to 1)
The time parameter was not reinitialized between strokes ( issue )
When cancelling the transform operation of a selection the selected area was erased ( issue )
Using the Del shortcut when using the transformation tool clears the canvas instead of the currently transformed object
Problem occurred when using the stylus button when drawing ( issue )
Grayscale JPG can now be opened
Random crashes
Activation now possible for email addresses with a '+' in the username.
Secondary Viewport, Flip view, preferences, log view panel... Changes in motion: List of changes :0.225.1990 - Update¶
Secondary Viewport
Preferences Panel can be accessed from > Main Menu > Edit or Main Menu > Window
Stylus section
GPU Section: User can choose a rendering API, a specific adapter and whether Black Ink should wait for the VSync of the monitor when rendering the user interface.
Log View panel displays logged information of Black Ink activity : I
Notification Bar: Warning and error messages are displayed on this bar if the Log panel isn't visible.
Color palette is now interpolated in gamma space instead of linear space for easier color picking.
The maximum zoom limit is now 6400% instead of 1600%
TestPanel 1 and TestPanel 2 have been removed.
Rendering artifacts on some brushes
Random crash when changing color after clicking the color button in parameter editor.
Crash when using the Transform tool on little canvas.
Crash when opening a grayscale JPEG image.
Using the second button on a stylus stops the stroke and the user can't draw until he uses another tool
An error in color mode blending equation.
The lasso informations are now in canvas space. This enables the user to transform the view while retaining all lasso data.
Tool icons and brush favorites overlaps after a Black Ink Window resize
Stroke smoothness, Panel layout... Change in motion List of changes :0.205.1923 - Release¶
DirectX11 renderer when available
Hold Z set the drawing smoothness
Panel layout customizable
New UI shortcuts
Ctrl+T transform current selection
Improved Framerate when drawing.
Black Ink window can be resized by the dragging the top border
In the transform tool, after clicking a command button (like "flip horizontally") the focus is not tied to this button anymore, so that pressing Enter validates the current transform.
You can now click on the brush and eraser icon in the top right part of Black Ink to directly select the last brush or the eraser (same as B and E shortcuts )
An option have been added in the Zoom tool to enable/disable zooming at more than 100%.
When using the Save command on a document which isn't a BKD, the program automatically transforms the command into a Save As.
Sometimes when doing Ctrl+A , Ctrl+C , Ctrl+V on big images, the copied content isn't polluted with some invalids squares anymore.
The Color Blending mode doesn't output blocky results when using dark color
Crash in trial version when saving when the trial time has expired ( issue )
Random crash after loading a BKD
Crash when importing a grayscale JPG
Several random crashes when using the program
If the Selection or Transform properties are opened in the sidebar panel, clicking the "Show Brush manager" has effect ( issue )
When hovering the Selection and Transform tools, the popups can disappear under the cursor, and you can only get them back by moving the cursor out of the panel and back into it. ( issue )
With multiple monitor, the Black Ink Window is moved to another monitor when activating the application.
Selection tools V2 ( polygonal lasso, freehand lasso, layer transparency + adjustment)... Change in motion :
List of changes :0.173.1770 - Update¶
Selection tools:
We can now zoom more than 100%
Some random crash when using a Tablet and when a wrong auto calibration is computed ( issue)
Crash when loading an image when the Select & Transform toolbar is collapsed.
Some brush Shape type was not affected by the current selection ( issue )
Fill Layer was not affected by the current selection.
Crash when loading a grayscale PNG ( issue )
Sometimes brush preview is incorrect ( displaying the preview of another brush )
Selection tools V1 (rectangle and ellipse) and Selected edition...
List of changes :0.168.1749 - Release¶
Selection tools:
Create ellipse primitive.
Adjust last selection
New Shortcuts
The brush cursor is thinner and uses an inverse color technique for better visualisation
Transformation Editor
Before
After
It's now possible to open .BKD directly from the windows explorer if you assign Black Ink to this file format.
Losing Dynamic Textures on the canvas when resizing the Black Ink window in Direct3D 9.
Edition of double slider sometimes buggy when a value is entered in a numeric box (watch this video).
The Eraser side of stylus didn't work.
Crash when saving with the transform tool active.
Wrong window size when windows taskbar is not positioned at the bottom of the screen (issue).
Overwrite message displayed in all situation when using the Save As command (issue).
Beta 2¶
In progress ➟ New version LAYERS (basic version), BLENDING, EXPORT PNG & JPG...
The Beta 2 includes standard tools for non-destructive creation such as layers and blending but also allows exporting and importing formats in png and jpg.
Layer tools, Import / export image, Jpeg, Transform editor (rotate, move, scale, flip, tile) ...
List of changes :0.161.1686 - Update¶
User can now use the .JPG image format in Black Ink for saving and loading
There are Commands Menu for each layer (in the upper left of the layer thumbnail)
You can Drop an image file from the Window Explorer to open it. If it's a .BKD it will open the document but if it's another file format( .JPG, .PNG ) it will import it in the current selected layer.
The Transform editor (invoked when user starts a Transform operation)
The General Shortcuts section added in the Toolbar.
Black Ink installer now support 32-bit Windows 8.1 x86
An Empty= Layer is created above the default white Background when the New command is invoked (request)
The Esc that sometimes close Black Ink has been removed.
The Eraser function of stylus is not recognised on new Intuos PRO ( issue )
Problem when resizing the application window with the controller panel opened ( issue )
Crash when using the stylus Eraser when brushing with the mouse.
Crash when switching to the stylus Eraser when editing some Controller parameter
Crash when selecting the Crepe Default Brush, editing the 2nd color and drag&dropping one of the color-markers away (to remove it)
Brush Preview flooding when Dragging out controller block from a slot without destroying it. A Preview was created each time the user start to draw while it was unnecessary.
Black Ink Window is correctly placed when Maximized with a Task bar pinned on the left, right or top of the desktop ( issue )
Scatter parameter, 2D vector operators for controllers...
List of changes :0.151.1634 - Update¶
Scatter parameter for brush parameters (even old default brushes have a scatter effect now)
2D vector operators for controllers
New default brushes
Black Ink try to recover now corrupted .BKD files at opening and not simply skip the loading of it.
When saving a .BKD Black Ink use now a temporary file and overwriting the current one after the creation is complete (issue)
Coma is now a valid decimal mark for numeric input (see)
Brush Default Stroke for preview has been updated to reflect new speed compute behavior.
All default brushes has been updated with a default Scatter behavior.
Glitch & Artefacts on AMD HD video of class 68xx, 79xx (issue)
Stylus position, stroke improvement... List of changes :0.144.1161 - Hot fix¶
Main Menu > Edit > Disable Precise Stylus position. This option is useful If you still encounter stroke offsets after using Reset Stylus Calibration. This will read position from the mouse pointer and only take the pressure from the tablet's pen.
Crash when press on the Num 9 ( more infos )
Precision issue when sketching. Now Black Ink is more accurate with the stroke input and should fidelity follow what you do with your tablet (if you have not Disabled Precise Stylus position see above). ( more infos )
The way the Speed is computed from stroking has changed. It's now more accurate and reflect better the dynamic. Warning if you have created some of which use speed, their look could have changed.
The way are handled Mouse positions has been changed : a smoothing is applied which induce a little latency but a smoother stroke result and a better Pressure simulation.
The old Menu in front of the current brush name has been removed ( it will be replaced by a new one in a future version ).
The skin of the Black Ink installer has been updated. The packages doesn't include anymore DirectX & Visual Studio redist and rely on network download if not present on the installed computer. The Installer EXE size has been reduced to 13Mb instead of 19Mb.
Straight line drawing constraint...
List of changes :0.140.1596 - Update¶
Straight Line constraint through 2 directions. Hold Shift Key while drawing to activate the Straight Line drawing constraint.
The default tracking cursor is more opaque.
Hold Shift+R while rotating the Canvas active the snapping.
Random Crash ( occurred frequently when saving a PNG ).
The preview of Image reference wasn't updated correctly when panning & zooming in the control.
Crash when resizing the Black Ink window ( crash occurred when there was no more area for the Canvas ).
Crash when Black Ink open an invalid .png file
Crash when Black Ink open an corrupted .bkd file
Ctrl+O shortcut now works
Trial version (unlimited during 2h), brush shortcuts...
List of changes : Hold S to set the size of the current brush Hold D to set the opacity of the current brush Hold E the current Brush is transformed temporarily into an Eraser E Switch between the Eraser and the previous Brush0.135.1579 - Update¶
Trial system now offer 2 hours of Black Ink without any limitations. You can test Black Ink ( or future update of Black Ink ) during 2 hours without any restrictions or limitations. After the 2 Hours of effective use of Black Ink will regress into the previous limited Trial system.
New drawing shortcuts
Improved framerate when Stroking large brush on big canvas ( fixed the problem discussed here )
List of changes : Note Due to the difference between Black Ink’s linear color space and Photoshop’s gamma color space, differences in transparency display can be seen at places where a layer with a transparent stroke covers another layer with varying opacities. In this case, try to import layers separately for better results.0.128.1572 - Hot fix¶
The canvas display a checker background instead of the default color if there’s NULL alpha.
There’s no more default background color when saving in PNG.
Layers, 12 different layer blendings, more undo/redo... List of changes :
Additional brushes ➟ Hay,Simple flat pen,Ruffle, Updated brushes ➟ Dotted Line,Paintbrush,Tail,Sticks Brushes removed ➟ Felt Pen 2,Calligraphic Pen 20.119.1563 - Release¶
Layers !!! ( better late than never )
- Up to 8 layers in a document for best GPU compatibility
- Preserve transparency option
- 12 different layers blending modes with real time preview
Brush cursor when drawing on the canvas now displays the size of the brush (instead of the previous default windows mouse pointer)
Ctrl+R to reset the canvas rotation
Drastically Improved Rendering performance on mid range GPU( like Intel HD4000 )
The behavior of the Ctrl+1 has been improved, the zoom animation is less chunky and if you trigger this shortcut twice you will return to your previous Zoom position.
The number of Undo is now setted to 50 (you must edit the C:\Users\"UserName"\AppData\Roaming\Bleank\BlackInk\AppParams.xml if you want to modify this parameter).
Default Brushes have been updated:
Crash when loading a PNG without alpha channel.
Crash when loading a 16bit png as an Image-based color
Random crash when using the Crepe Brush
Color shifting not working
Canvas Rendering problem on intel HD4000
Alpha¶
In progress ➟ New version Black ink conceptualisation
The alpha version makes it possible to lay the foundations of Black Ink and test its concepts concretely
Some improvements and patches before the next release0.81.1290 - Update¶
More tooltips infos has been added
Double Click on tool icon in the ToolBar reset the default value
The free rotation tool is smoother when moving at the center of the canvas
Click effect has been added when selecting a brush in the historic
Some parameter icons has been added
The Buy popup is displayed less frequently in trial version
Crash when opening the New.. dialog.
Crash when opening the Activate dialog.
Licence agreement not visibile in the installer in some region.
Tooltip displayed from the Fit on screen command
Tooltips in action0.80.1284 - Update¶
Tooltip system added. buttons now display their meaning. Another usefull use is the possibility to view a big version of each brush preview.
Navigation tools, Smooth canvas transformation... New Navigation tool bar in action0.78.1279 - Update¶
Navigation Tools to transform the view of the Canvas
Smooth Canvas transformation
H shortcut to hide the UI
The Main ToolBar has been redesigned
All Brush preview has a default Grey background
Brush Preview has wrong background color
Eyedropper picking old canvas color
Navigation shortcut are now working even if the mouse is outside of Black ink Window
Rendering glitches when Dialog box Appear/Disappear under Windows 7
Rendering glitches when changing Brush Parameters in the BrushPreview
Removed the black Borders of BlackInk if the window is maximized under Windows 7
Crash when DblClick on Gradient stops
Brush parameters blending type, shape type, boolean, system menu List of changes:0.77.1274 - Update¶
New Brush parameters:
System menu for Black Ink ( Right Button on the TaskBar )
Brush Parameters design has been updated
Invalid BlackInk window positioning if the desktop has changed monitors position
Invalid BlackInk window maximizing in multi monitor configuration
Image Reference rotation bug more infos
Invalid Clipping region for expanded parameters of the Gradient Editor & the Image Reference editor
Show / hide entire UI...0.76.1267 - Update¶
Auto selection of the Eraser when flipping the stylus
You can now hide the entire UI when drawing
Main Menu has been re-designed
Now Shaders are pre-compiled and delivered in the installation package ➟ Loading time of BlackInk significantly decreased after re-installation/update.
The default canvas size after a first installation is greater ( 5Kx3K pixels )
0.73.1264 - Hot fix¶
Application DeadLocked when using the Crepe Brush
Rendering bug around the Eraser preview
Random crash report when closing the application
No UI element animation in random case
Special latin character bug for image Favorite
0.72.1262 - Update¶
You can load now JPG file for the ImageBased color
Brush 1 ... 5 ) and Eraser E keyboard shortcuts
Improved performance of the application when modifying Brush Parameters
The rendering of Brush Thumbnail was sometimes not correct
0.71.1257 - Update¶
Eraser Brush is now available
Trial Borders are more restrictive now only a safe zone of 1024x768 is available
Tablet detection bug when multitple ones are installed on a computer.
0.69.1254 - Update¶
Debug session accessibility by password
Better main canvas rendering after Undo/Redo
Documentation is in .chm and now reflect last change of BlackInk
The Opacity parameter is now always visible in the Shape section of the brush
Some crash related to gradient editor
0.67.1248 - Update¶
Canvas rendering has been greatly revisited. This management now can handle efficiently Brush which need a lot of rendering power and still give feedback to user with progressive adaptation of the rendering. This feature then Fixed the crash of the Volute brush on some PC.
Unfortunately we need to fix some rendering glitches on the canvas when we do Undo/Redo actions.
Veil Brush has been renamed to Volute
0.65.1227 - Hot fix¶
A lot of improvement in this area, so try it as you like but keep in mind that controllers are not accessible for now (all parameters are initialized with some default controllers not visible for the moment)
All float number parameters for each brush are back!!
Regression - Controller of parameters not available Regression - Size parameters not available0.64.1222 - Update¶
Color picker has now a Eye Dropper functionnality
Color favorites
Color Parameters controls fully redesigned for better usability
Brush Parameters bar redesigned
0.58.1167 - Hot Fix¶
In Trial Version you can only save a 640x480 pictures with a little Black Ink Watermark
Updated the design of the Border of the application
Window obscuring the TaskBar when the application is Maximized
0.56.1164 - Update¶
Funky Splashscreen
Borderless window for the application for Windows Vista / 7 or later
0.50.1153 - Update¶
The Trial Version Runtime watermark has been redesigned
Use the Keyboard shortcut Space instead of Shift for Canvas panning
Crash when manipulation Controller
0.46.1148 - Hot fix¶
False positive Malicious Detection on Chrome
Rendering bug on DirectX9 hardware for the main canvas & the preview
Freeze in the Image Reference control
Crash on startup or when loading the Activate window
Crash on loading image for Image Reference
0.44.1142 - Update¶
Documentation accessible in Main Menu > Help > BlackInk Documentation
Crash after saving in trial mode
0.39.1126 - Hot fix¶
The Image used by the current Color image is displayed on the canvas by default
Incorrect Brush Preview for Color image
Behavior of the current Brush historic
Correct support of the pressure on the main canvas
0.09.8340 - Release¶
First uploaded version!