PhotoLine 25

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PhotoLine is an image and graphics editor for any task. You can edit images or create them for the Internet, but also create documents for printing (PDF).

PhotoLine offers everything for professional results: CMYK and Lab color space, color management with ICC profiles, adjustment layers, actions and 16/32-bit color depth per channel. You can edit vector graphics and edit PDF files.

Some new features of version 25 are:

Text

Text Ruler

Text Ruler

If you double-click an element in the text ruler, the associated value is activated in the Tool Settings and you can change the value numerically directly.

Text Shortcuts

The replacement of text shortcuts is more intuitive. Whereas previously text shortcuts always had to be terminated with a space or a tab, this now depends on the text shortcut. Text shortcuts that end with a letter or a number are replaced by typing any other character, text shortcuts with special characters are replaced by any non-special character.

Font Styles

Font Styles

In the tool settings of the text tool, in addition to the bold and italic buttons, there is now also a list of the styles offered by the current font family.

Miscellaneous

Layout and Design

Curve Creation Tool

Layer Styles

If you use a gradient color for the layer styles “Outline outside”, “Outline inside”, “Glow outside” and “Glow inside”, the gradient can now also be bent around the object in addition to the previous planar display:

Layer Styles

(in the menu at “Effects > Layer Styles”)

Miscellaneous

User Interface Improvements

Groups for Color Lists, Brush List, ...

Groups for Color Lists, Brush List, ...

You can now group the elements in various lists. This makes it easier to keep an overview, especially if there are many entries.

Middle Mouse Button

Layer List

Miscellaneous

Page List

Improvements in Image Processing

Painting Tools with Preview

The painting tools now have a document preview. Previously, this was only the case with the copy brush. The preview allows you to see the effect of the tool as soon as you move the mouse over the image. This applies to all classic painting tools such as painting brushes and so on, but also to more complex tools such as the stamp, the filter brush or the color replacement pen.
The preview even works with layer masks and working layers.

You can configure the preview in the settings under “Working > Mouse”:

Painting Tools with Preview

Here you can also set whether and how the outline of the tool brush should be displayed and what the mouse pointer should look with painting tools.

You can also optionally change the small icon field of the image toolbar in the settings under “Usage > Toolbars > Image tools” to suit your requirements:

Toolbar

In this example, the icons for displaying the lasso and for respecting the mask have been removed and replaced by the icons for displaying the brush outline and the document preview.

Cryptomatte

Cryptomatte data is created by 3D render programs and is used to create masks for the individual objects in a scene. Cryptomatte data is usually contained in OpenEXR files.
PhotoLine supports Cryptomatte data and can create masks from it:

Cryptomatte

(in the Document Attributes (“View > Panels > Document Attributes”) with the entry “Cryptomatte”)

Gradient Tool

If the gradient tool was applied to an image, it was already possible to edit the gradient - even after reloading - but only if the gradient was completely opaque. The gradient was not allowed to have transparent colors and had to have full intensity and the “Normal” mode.

These restrictions no longer exist. The gradient can now be edited without restriction.

(in the Toolbox)

Gradients

Gradients

Miscellaneous

Curve Editor

File Import and Export

PSD

Miscellaneous

Scripting

Powershell

On Windows, the scripting connection to Powershell has been improved.

In addition, PowerShell scripts that are located in the “Automation” folder in the PhotoLine settings directory are listed in the menu under “Filter > Scripts”. This means that you can now also integrate PowerShell scripts directly into PhotoLine and assign them a keyboard shortcut, for example.

Layer Compositions

You can query the layer compositions of a document and activate a layer composition. This makes it possible, for example, to switch through all layer compositions using a script and then export each as a separate file.

Alert Command

You can use the Alert command to issue warning messages in a script if, for example, a document does not meet the requirements that the script needs.

Miscellaneous

Minor Enhancements

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