Brush Ninja Changelog v2

2.6 - July 2022

Update emoji art maker to allow image sharing through the url.
Update the file format to make it a bit more flexible and faster to save and load.

Fix problem with saving images not working.
Stop the painting cursor from getting in the way when drawing.
Hide painting cursor on small brush sizes since it’s barely visible anyway 😉. Should be a bit quicker.

Add pipette for picking colours from the drawing. This includes backgrounds, so you can pick any image and get whatever colours you like.
Add colour hex value to colour palette choices.
Fix color picker display height.

Add emoji art to the gallery.
Add more stickers.
Fix comic book image generation that was drawing the pages at the wrong size.
Fix ensure a frame is selected when you undo a change.
Fix zoom when resizing window.
Fix text escaping in text input so that characters display properly.
Small improvement to undos to ensure a frame is always selected when you undo a deleted frame. Could do with further work but better than it was.
Update the website gallery to make it easier to add new content.

Add ‘notes’ panel to save notes per frame.
Add a ‘comic’ export type. This is similar to the image export but adds a smaller gap between the images, and a border around each image so they don’t blend into one.
Add new paper textures that can be used for background images.
Add a dark mode color scheme and improve colours in the app.
Change credits on image export so they only add once, and not on every frame.
Change the Eraser Brush so the line doesn’t get smoothed allowing for more accurate previews.
Change background settings window layout to allow for more things with less complexity.
Tweak button highlight & hover colours for clarity.
Simplify CSS styles.

Add an Eraser!!!
Add New File Dialog (with different size animations).
Optimize browser saving, which should reduce processing and generally speed up the application.
Fix webcam images not working properly.
Fix sticker outlines so that they are a consistent size.
Fix possible XSS problem.
Fix issue caused by changing export file names.

Add emojis to the text input when adding new text.
Add a short message explaining where files go when you download (save/ export) them.
Add a change button to the colour splat to make it clearer you can change the current colour.
Change drawing behaviour. If a fill colour is set then a shape will be filled once the drawing operation is completed.
Change tool colour (eg brush size) so it always uses the stroke colour, and not the fill colour, because the brush will never paint with the fill colour.
Tweak onion skinning to make it easier to see what is happening.
Fix bug to ensure background images get rendered for loaded & recovered animations.
Fix bug where the dotted lines might show up on scratch and marker brushes.
Fix selected colour not always being correct when reseting colour palette.
Fix issue with frame duration being ‘undefined’ which breaks exporting and playback.
Make the close and back button in the window overlays stick to the top of the page so they are always visible when you scroll.
Improve the tooltips on the tool selector.
Rejig html code to allow for simpler reuse in the future.

Add copy and paste buttons to the toolbar so that they can work on tablets.
Add ‘Flip H’ and ‘Flip V’ buttons for flipping objects horizontally and vertically.
Add Webcam background image.
Add new ‘Smooth’ paintbrush. This is the same as the regular brush but it smooths out the lines a lot more. Great for big shapes, but it will remove (smooth out) small details.
Separate Save and Export Options.
Simplify top menu by removing confusing icons.
Fix backgrounds not reloading.
Optimise the local browser saving so that it doesn’t get triggered by unrelated data render changes such as opening a menu.

Change all shapes to use SVG shapes, which reduces code, and standardizes usage.
Make some JS load ‘just in time’ which reduces download.