ArtOverflow beta 7 is out, coming with tons of new features! 
Again special thanks to Katerina Gorinskaia for helping on testing and giving feedback.
System requirements
- macOS 10.14 or 10.15
Download
ArtOverflow.zip (9 MB)
Whatâs new?
Here are the features added compared to the previous beta:
Stabilizer
- ArtOverflow now features a stabilizer! It smoothes your stylus path as well as pressure, allowing you to draw perfect lineart. Stabilizer is enabled through a new brush setting slider, and is also enabled by default in some of the provided brush presets.
- In order to welcome the new slider without needing more space, the Brush Tool Settings panel has become more compact.
- This stabilizer is the result of studying other competitors and should be close to the one found in Clip Studio Paint and Paint Tool SAI. More precisely:
- It will smooth the stroke pressure for nice thin stroke ends.
- When you stop, the stabilizer catches up with your stylus, allowing you to force your stroke to go through a specific point, or to have a specific pressure in some parts of the stroke.
- Upon release, the stabilizer will finish the stroke up to where you stopped.
- The stabilizer is based on OpenToonz open-source implementation and has also been made open-source, including the improvements done for ArtOverflow.
New Brush Presets
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Brush file format has evolved. Previously created brush presets are not usable in this new beta. Additionally, if you want to get the new brushes but have already used a previous version of ArtOverflow, you should delete the directory at â~/Library/Containers/com.yalir.ArtOverflow/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Brushesâ and restart ArtOverflow. On next start, ArtOverflow will install the new brushes in this directory. - With the arrival of the stabilizer, brush presets have been refined while new ones are added:
- Refinements on existing brush presets consist in size adjustment for the Airbrush presets, and lower hardness on the Hard Brush for better antialiasing.
Versions Browser
- ArtOverflow now officially supports the Versions technology built into macOS. It works similarly to Time Machine but at the scale of a single document. It allows you to get your artwork back at the state of a previous save or autosave, even after having quit ArtOverflow or even restarted your Mac.
- Versions was already present in ArtOverflow since the beginning, but was hardly usable: it would bloat your Mac memory as more versions were displayed, would make utility panels disappear and would display documents at 100% zoom, making them hard to compare.
Miscellaneous
- Saving artworks, especially big ones with lots of layers, is now a lot faster. For example, saving a big artwork with 100 layers is now up to 100 times faster.
- Artworks now open in zoom to fit instead of zoom 100% by default. A new entry in the View menu allows switching between Fit and 100% zoom levels:
- In the welcome window, a new button allows showing your recent files in Finder
- About panel is updated to properly give credits to all the third-party technologies used by ArtOverflow. Note that some components developed for ArtOverflow are also open-source!
- Maximum artwork dimension is reduced from 16000x16000 to 8000x8000 pixels. Such huge artworks could cause ArtOverflow to crash depending on the hardware configuration of your Mac.
Bugfixes
- Switching to the Move tool and using the eraser end of your stylus would erase instead of moving the layer contents. Not anymore!