# ArtOverflow Beta 3: Airbrush & Brush Presets!

**URL:** <https://feedback.artoverflow.io/t/artoverflow-beta-3-airbrush-brush-presets/21>\
**Category:** Prerelease (English)\
**Created:** [September 21, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/t/artoverflow-beta-3-airbrush-brush-presets/21 "2019-09-21T14:22:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Ceylo](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Ceylo](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/u/Ceylo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/t/artoverflow-beta-3-airbrush-brush-presets/21/1 "2019-09-21T14:22:36Z")

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ArtOverflow beta 3 has arrived! 🎉

 ![screenshot%20beta%20%233](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/uploads/default/original/1X/d53e192e68355971f7d9553050cfbdecf60c702d.jpeg)

## System requirements

- macOS 10.14 and later

## Download

[ArtOverflow.app.zip](https://artoverflow.io/downloads/beta3/ArtOverflow.app.zip) (5 MB)

## What’s new?

Here are the features added compared to the [previous beta](https://feedback.artoverflow.io/t/artoverflow-beta-2-release-notes-download-link/20):

### ⚠ Breaking changes

- The “.artoverflow” document format has evolved. Previously saved “.artoverflow” documents are not compatible with ArtOverflow Beta 3. Either continue editing them with ArtOverflow Beta 2 or save them in another format such as TIFF (in such case layers won’t be preserved) then open them in ArtOverflow Beta 3.

### Bugfixes

- A bug causing strokes to occasionally appear unexpectedly between the end of the previous stroke and the beginning of a new stroke has been fixed.

### General

- Memory usage when adding tons of layers is up to 10 times lower. This means much less freezes/stutters when running low on RAM or video memory.

### Undo

- Addition and removal of layers can be undone. This means you can now almost\* fully undo your drawing back to a white canvas and rebuild it completely, a bit like a timelapse! Note that closing the document still discards this undo history.
  - \*Name changes on layers are still not part of the undo history.

- Keeping Cmd+Z pressed will now display all the undo steps live, instead of waiting for you to release Cmd+Z.

### Layers

- Layers now have an opacity setting. It can be changed by dragging horizontally on the displayed opacity value.
- Reordering layers with drag & drop is now much easier when dragging with a stylus. Previously the list of layers would scroll way too fast to be usable without a mouse or trackpad.

### Brush Settings

- More brush settings are available: hardness, opacity and spacing. Additionally, the effect of stylus pressure on the brush size & opacity can be customized.
- Maximum brush size is increased from 100px to 1000px. Additionally, the brush size slider isn’t linear anymore. The slider is divided in 3 equal parts: from 1 to 10, from 10 to 100 and from 100 to 1000.
- Thanks to the new brush settings, it is now possible to customize the brush settings to get an **airbrush** rendering as well as **felt pen**.
- Brush settings are now per tool. The currently existing tools are Brush and Eraser. Switching between these tools will restore the brush settings you had set for said tool.

### Brush Presets

- A new Brush Presets panel is added: it contains presaved brush settings to allow you to switch much faster to your favorite settings. You can create your own Brush Preset by customizing the brush settings then using the “+” button of the Brush Presets panel.
- Brush Presets are persistent between app relaunches. Active tool is restored when relaunching ArtOverflow. The Brush Preset that was selected when exiting ArtOverflow is also restored at relaunch time.

### Currently known limitations

- Small occasional stutters can happen while drawing with more than 15 layers. This is not related to high memory usage and will be improved in a later version.
- Layers renaming cannot be cancelled

## What’s next?

- Bugfixes and other improvements depending on your feedback

- Fix for the above limitations
- Be able to move all the contents of a layer
- Be able to import images in the current document as a new layer

Please post your feedback about this beta below! 🙂