New features in this version
General
Isometric grids
- Transform objects directly onto isometric grid planes
- New Isometric Panel for easy grid creation, transforms and plane switching
- On-page draggable grid origin with grid axis scaling and angle adjustment
- Snap grid to objects and angles to reconstruct useful grids from finished artworks or sketches
- User-definable subdivisions for intermediate angles
- Presets for Grid and Axis Manager
- Cube mode for custom grids from transformable cube
Pen Tool drawing
Curve and shape editing
- New Appearance panel for multiple 'layered' stroke and fills per object
- Multi-node selection using polygon or freehand (lasso) drawing
- Align/distribute multi-node selections
- Transform multi-node selections using Selection Box
- Hide selection when dragging
- Selection box from curves—the box encompasses and includes all curves that extend outside the array of currently selected nodes
- Match current node's geometry to that of another curve's node geometry
- Construction snapping for finding angles and distances for positioning a node's control handles:
- control handle snap inline with adjacent node
- control handles snap to reflected/mirrored angles
- control handles snap in parallel
- control handles snap 90° to parallel
- control handle snap to logical triangle
- Match control handle lengths for perfect symmetry
Brushes
- Sub-brushes (combining brushes for a more interesting, less uniform brush stroke)
- Brush symmetry (up to 32-way) and optional brush mirroring (up to five-way reflections)
- Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have a choice of nozzle controllers/ramps for more varied nozzle presentation
- Wet edges and accumulation now on color brushes/brushes with HSL variance
- Nozzle rotation using left and right arrow keys (before and during stroke application)
- Paint straight strokes constrained to X or Y axis
Adjustments
- Improved Vibrance, Selective Color and White Balance adjustments
- Black and White Output Level settings for Levels adjustment
- Lightness setting for Recolor adjustment
- HSL adjustment now offers channel-specific color ranges and samples specific image colors using a Color Picker