- New 9-Slice layer effect lets you dynamically resize assets with repeat, stretch, and extend modes while protecting your corners and borders. - Revamped scaling logic in the transform tool (opposite corner/edge) with new support for unconstrained freeform scaling. - Enhanced numerical fields - scroll your mouse wheel to increment/decrement values, and perform simple math calculations within any input field. - Added collapse buttons for layer effects so you can maximize your workspace in the side panel. - Added the current filename to the top of the application window. - Various bug fixes

- Added new Effects Presets menu (in both the File menu and the Add Effect button menu in the right panel) to let you easily load pre-made layer FX, including the ability to add and edit your own - Added New Window command (in the File menu) that lets you open multiple instances of Pixelmash to easily edit multiple documents at the same time - Greatly improved Auto Palette layer effect (renamed from Auto Limit Colors) to easily convert photos and other art into pixel art, including ability to force palette colors and adjust smoothing amount - Several speed improvements and bug fixes

- Added keyframe animation support for all layer effects - Greatly improved reliability of Auto Limit Colors effect - Various bug fixes and performance improvements

- Added right-click menu to effects panel to copy/paste individual effects - Added blend modes to Colorize layer effect - Added blend modes and amount slider to dither layer effect - Various bug fixes

- Made copy and paste work with area selection tools, including copying rendered pixels from vector layers - Added support for copy and paste to and from system clipboard, enabling easy multi-application workflows - Added ability to adjust grid alpha (under Grid Appearance in the View menu) - Various bug fixes, including file path issues with certain international characters

Area select tool for pixel layers, including: - Easily adjust colors of selected pixels - Select all pixels of the same color in the document or just the active layer (via right-click or double-click) - Cut/copy/paste pixel selections (via right-click) - Works on both multi-res and fixed-res layers Added duplicate frame in the animation timeline Added frame dragging and reordering in the animation timeline Various other optimizations and bug fixes

- Built-in time-lapse screen recording - Pressing up and down on your keyboard will now increment/decrement values in most numerical input fields - Custom grid line spacing setting in View menu - You can now pan in the preview window - Various bug fixes

- New keyboard shortcut editor for easily editing keyboard shortcuts! Located in the Edit Menu. - Added new options for pasting layer effects. There are now separate Paste (Replace) and Paste (Add) commands. - Powerful new Animation Timeline makes creating animations easier than ever before - Updated and reordered tool icons - More compact layer effects window - Various bug fixes (mostly related to animations) - Added support for video export with alpha channel

- Added native support for ARM processors on newer Macs, improves speed and responsiveness - Added new Ground Shadow layer effect - Added new options to the Gradient layer effect - Added support for negative Spacing values in the Repeat effect - Several bug fixes

Added Animate Transform layer effect! Use it to animate rotation, movement, and scaling of layers without keyframes, simply by entering speed values.

- Added Import Sprite Sheet for importing sprite animations

New in 2023.2: - Added animated gif import (imports as a single layer with image keyframes) - Added multi-color support to Remap Color layer effect (now called Remap Colors) - Made popup color chooser draggable - Added menu items/shortcuts to zoom to 200%, 400%, and 800%, and tweaked keyboard shortcuts for zoom levels - Moved shortcut for toggling reference layers to “.” key - Various bug fixes

- Added new Remap Color Palette layer effect to easily remap some or all of the colors in your document, including several handy matching modes (replaces Restrict Color Palette) - Improved color lists in all layer effects that use them - a menu button replaces the delete button (also accessible via right-click), and now allows you to import palettes from the document or a file, or to clear all colors - Added a prompt for whether to use a blank image or a copy of the previous keyframe image when setting an animation frame to be a new image keyframe - Made adding colors to the document palette add the new color at the end of the list instead of the beginning - Changed animation speed from seconds per frame to frames per second - Made SVG import use average gradient color for shapes that have a gradient fill/stroke color - Made SVG import update pivot of SVG parent layer to content - Fixed SVG layer import order bug - Fixed bug where SVG imported shapes could have transparent colors that could not be made opaque - Fixed bug where visibility keyframe wasn't working right when playing the animation in the preview window - Fixed bug where preview of active painting tools could mess up animation previews, exports, and undo/redo display - Fixed bug where layer editor could update incorrectly on undo

- Added new Color Adjustments layer effect (adjusts exposure, saturation, contrast, and hue shift) - Improved Mirror layer effect with new opacity slider and pixel offset amount - Changed layer-based mirroring to be based on content bounds rather than layer centers (document-based mirroring remains the same) - Made importing an image into a document scale the imported image to the pixel size of the document rather than the document bounds - When creating a new document from an image, document now starts at 1:1 pixel scale - Fixed bugs with selecting layers using the pointer and transform tools - Fixed bug where baking layers would sometimes include content outside the layer

- Added support for layer blend modes, including: “Standard”, “Screen”, “Overlay”, “Add”, “Multiply”, “Soft Light”, “Hard Light”, “Darken”, “Lighten”, and “Erase” - Snapping support for vector layers (hold Shift to snap nodes to pixel centers, and to snap noose handles to 15-degree increments) - Various bug fixes

New in v2022.2: - Full support for creating and editing non-destructive vector-based layers (including imported SVG files) - Tweening support for animation in vector-based layers - Innovative Curve Tool makes working with bezier curves intuitive and straightforward - Converted layer properties checkmarks into buttons for a more compact interface - Fixed crashing bug with onion skinning - Fixed bug where going to next/previous frame while previewing boomerang animation was unreliable

You can now export animations as video files (MOV, MP4, or M4V), including setting a custom animation repeat count

Now supports non-destructive dynamic vector layers via SVG file importing! Vector layers in Pixelmash can be infinitely transformed with full fidelity, maintaining smooth outlines and single-pixel line width for strokes regardless of scaling or rotation, and support all of Pixelmash’s adjustable layer effects.

- Added new Glow effect (with adjustable color, radius, shading divisions, opacity, falloff, and inner/outer style) - Added new Drop Shadow effect (with adjustable color, direction, distance, soft radius, shading divisions, opacity, and an option for shadow only) - Made preview window remember size/location - Made Control-click perform as right-mouse-click on Mac - Categorized Image Conversion effects in effects sub-menu for convenience and clarity - Added menu item for when a new version is available - Various other bug fixes

Added the Text layer effect. Use it to overlay text on any layer with control over font, color, alignment, opacity, and much more! Be sure to try it in combination with other layer effects to add gradients, borders, etc.

- Opacity control has been added to the Particles layer effect, including overall particle opacity, opacity change over time, and pre-delay, with randomization ranges per particle for even more natural-looking effects!

- Drawing tools now show active previews as you hover the mouse, including layer effects - Color picker redesigned so the main picker is only for drawing tools, while others show as popups - Layers now indicate when collapsed child layers are selected - Improved accuracy in line drawing tool - Various bug fixes

- Added new particle types (Burst, Stream, and Field) - Added new particle settings (lifetime, start time, emitter randomness, wobble, and flicker) - Added HSV color inputs to color chooser

New in v2021.0: - Pixelmash now features particle effects! Apply the Particles effect to any layer, and Pixelmash will randomly place many copies of that layer and animate their position, scale, and rotation over time according to values you can set in the editor. Perfect for creating rain, snow, falling leaves, rising steam, and much more!

New in v2020.2: - Added tabbing between RGB color picker fields - Added layer flip commands: Flip Layer Horizontal, Flip Layer Vertical - "Toggle Reference Images" shortcut changed to Shift+Tab - Bug fixes