ArtOverflow Beta 6: Welcome window, Thumbnails & Open/Save UX!

Prerelease (English)
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ArtOverflow beta 6 is released! :blush: Special thanks to Katerina Gorinskaia for helping on testing and her feedback to refine the features of this beta.

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System requirements

  • macOS 10.14 or 10.15

Download

ArtOverflow.zip (9 MB)

What’s new?

Here are the features added compared to the previous beta:

Bugfixes

  • On some Macs, saving your document as JPEG, TIFF or PNG could result in a transparent image being saved, instead of your original artwork. The artwork is now always correctly saved.
  • On Macs with a discrete GPU, the previous beta introduced a speed regression causing important stutters while moving the layer contents through the Move Tool. It is now back to full speed :slightly_smiling_face:.

General

  • At app launch, a welcome window is displayed instead of automatically creating a new document. This welcome window displays your last opened artworks along with thumbnails for easy choice. Thumbnails require macOS 10.15, a generic file icon is shown on macOS 10.14.

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  • A new “Report a Bug…” menu is introduced in the Help menu. It allows running a diagnostic tool that will help us handle your report faster. If you use Apple Mail for sending e-mails, an e-mail will be automatically prepared for you.

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Thumbnails & Previews

Open & Save UX

  • We have worked on file open & save workflow to ensure that you don’t lose layer data without warning. More precisely, when opening a document that does not support layers, you’re proposed to convert it.

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  • Similarly, when saving a new document, you’re warned if you choose to save to a format that doesn’t support layers.

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Miscellaneous

  • Support for saving documents as GIF or BMP images has been dropped:
    • BMP is an uncompressed format and has no advantage over TIFF and PNG which provide lossless compression.
    • GIF is limited to 256 colors, and GIF encoding by macOS results in images losing a part of their content as soon as the 256 available colors have all been used.
  • GIF and BMP formats can still be opened in ArtOverflow but saving them will require choosing another format.