Brush Ninja
Free Digital Creativity
1.4.0
- Added: Allow using your own images as backgrounds
- Added: Background color picker, no need to know how hex color codes work now!
- Added: A fullscreen app button (web only). Maximises the possible app space so that you can see as much as possible.
- Improve: Add a back button to overlay menus allowing simpler navigation, and opening up the possibility for lots of new features!
- Improve: Add some text to the frame rate setting to make it clearer how it works.
1.3.0
- Added: Hide the arrow cursor on desktop when using the pen and text tools and replace with a preview of the brush. This gives you a better idea of what will happen when you are drawing.
- Added: Image export. Export all the frames in a grid to create your own comics.
- Added: Change frame duration.
- Added: New move tool. Moves the entire current frame wrapping it when it reaches the edge of the canvas.
- Added: New rotate tool. Rotates the current frame around its center.
- Added: New scale tool. Scales the current frame from the middle.
- Fix: Colour palette quick selector had an issue with selecting the darkest shade of each colour.
- Fix: Tool selector was hidden behind the drawing canvas in Firefox.
- Improve: Animated gif exports are more resilient.
- Improve: Hide frame number when frame is hovered or selected.
- Improve: Speed up exports.
- Improve: Reduce likelihood of errors when using the faux command prompt.
- Improve: Reduce the likelihood of auto saves from disrupting your drawings.
1.2.0
- Added: new text tool. Add text in a variety of fonts and sizes. Great for presentations.
- Added: new toolbar to mobile view to reduce the scrolling and improve user experience on small devices (phones).
- Added: new tool quick selector (keyboard shortcut = l).
- Added: frame information to animation controls.
- Fix: Make exporting transparent gifs work correctly.
- Fix: Stop ‘opening a modal/ overlay window’ from resetting undos.
- Fix: Reset the opacity tool to default value when creating a new animation.
- Fix: Make sure the animation won’t play if there are no frames to play.
- Fix: Stop the timeline copy and delete buttons from being pressed by accident on touch screen devices.
- Improve: layout of the palette quick selector.
- Improve: Tweak settings layout on mobile to make it clearer that it’s an accordion.
- Improve: Small tweaks to make it clearer that the current tool is clickable.
- Improve: Distribute menu icons better on small devices to reduce mis-taps.
- Improve: Adjust app layout to reduce required space on smaller screens. Makes the app available to a wider range of phones.
- Improve: Hide ‘Export’ button when animation is playing.
- Improve: Hide colour palette when using the eraser.
1.1.0
- Added: Apple are adding dark mode so I have as well. Just for fun I also added red, blue, green, yellow and pink modes (and even more on the desktop app).
- Added: App only - New splash page that allows you to create your animation in different sizes.
- Added: App only - New palette button on touchbar for quick access to the Quick Select Palette (keyboard shortcut = p).
- Added: App only - More ink colours.
- Fix: Allow animation background colour to be transparent.
- Fix: Stop app users from having the brushninja hashtag added as the watermark by default.
- Fix: Improve overlay layout so that you can scroll more easily.
- Fix: Redesign the frame duplicate, and frame delete buttons so that they stay on the screen on smaller screen sizes.
- Fix: Ensure the canvas is resized appropriately when a new animation is created.
- Fix: Ensure new files reset the document path so that they don’t overwrite previously saved files.
- Fix: Stop keyboard shortcuts from running when a modal window is open so that shortcuts aren’t triggered when typing.
- Improve: add some small interaction signals to buttons to make it clearer that things are being interacted with.
1.0.0