I’m really pleased today to announce the release 2 of Gertrudis Graphics flagship product: GMX-PhotoPainter.
GMX-PhotoPainter II for PC is completely new development, in fact it was developed from scratch. Since the introduction of GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac, a new series of the product started: GMX-PhotoPainter II for PC and Mac, both versions shares the same common base, which includes internal painting structures, rendering algorithms, and even some parts of the user interface.
Martin Düerr an Artist and my friend helped me a lot with suggestions and beta testing, he was the first to use it, and here are some of his first sketches, which he created with the new freehand tool.
GMX-PhotoPainter II intitial screen
Since the release of GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac, I’ve been working hard in order to create the PC version using the same painting engine.
Here is a screenshot about how it looks:
If you are interested in download a beta, just contact me using the Contact Form.
What’s new in GMX-PhotoPainter II
Everything is new in GMX-PhotoPainter II. It has been rebuild again from scratch.
Unified Kernel
With the introducction of GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac, a new series of the product started: GMX-PhotoPainter II for PC and Mac, both shares the same common base: this includes, the internal painting structures, rendering algorithms, and even some parts of the user interface.
So, what’s new?
While the same ideas and concepts remain, every aspect of GMX-PhotoPainter II is new, however here is some key differences:
- Everything lies in one window: In the previous version the left panel showed the original image, and right one the result.
Current version shows everything in the same window, but you can mix how much you see of the original image.
See also: Main Window .
- Draw Freely!: As always, GMX-PhotoPainter II let you convert the original image into a painting by automatically choosing color and direction of the brushstroke for you, now it also add the capability to to paint freely, thus, you can paint stroke by stroke and choose the color manually.
- New User Interface: The user interface has been completely
redesigned, it’s simpler and provides an easy access to the most common tools and
settings.
Also To ensure better user experience, the user interface of each version:
PC & Mac was written using theirs native toolkits.
- Refined Painting Algorithms: :The algorithms have been
tunned to render high quality paintings, Bristle Brushes and Paint and Ink now
include more options
- Much Faster than before: Because its kernel was written in C++
optimized for multicore processors, the painting operations respond naturally to
hand movements.
The Tutorial is published in PenScappers. A place for serious scrapbooking inspiration
Watercolor Painting with GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac
The last year and a half has been very interesting and intense. I learned a lot of new things(*). And here is the result: GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac!.
This is by no means the end, this is just the beginning. There will be a lot of enhancements. Furthermore, because the kernel of GMX-PhotoPainter was rewritten from scratch in C++, I have a portable code which will let me start publishing beta versions for PC very soon based on the new Kernel. In fact I have versions running on PC, but they are not ready to be used even as a beta.
I would like to give special thanks to the following people (in no particular order):
- Martin Düerr: He has been helping me just from the beggining of Gertrudis Project.
- Jean-Jacques Boutaud: He gave me a lot of wise comments and tips to make GMX-PhotoPainter better.
- Anthony Bouttell: He has been helping me with GMX-PhotoPainter for several years now. Both for PC and Mac.
Also I’d like to thank to the people in the cppba group for sharing their expertise. They share their knowledge for nothing in return.
(*) What I’ve learned?:
- Enhanced my C++
- Cocoa Framework
- Objective C
- Mac OS X
- QT from Trolltech
- Wordpress
Hi! there,
Beta 6 of GMX-PhotoPainter is available for download.
Download the new beta from:
http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/download (Select Mac Version!)
It fixes the following bugs:
- The Shortcut to Show/Hide Tools pane doesn’t work. The label of this menu item remains the same if the pane is hidden or displayed but should be “Hide” to hide pane or “Show” to show pane.
- In large monitors (20″ or larger) Each time PhotoPainter is launched, the main document window is located somewhere near the bottom and right sides of the screen with the Tools pane over it.
So, each time, the first thing to do was to move the document window (near the left and top sides of the screen) and slightly move the Tools pane to the right.
- There behavior of the tool window was incorrect when it was resized
- The “Preferences” item is greyed out. If there are no preferences whatsoever, it just shouldn’t be there.
- The “Show / hide tools” item in the “Windows” menu always has a checkmark, whether the tools are shown or not.
- If you try to quit and have unsaved changes, the dialog should read “Do you want to save the changes you made in the document “Name”?” with a subcaption reading “Your changes will be lost if you don’t save them” and the default buttons should be “Save…” “Cancel” and “Don’t Save”. Slightly different wording is OK, but different buttons will confuse the user.
It corrects the following bugs:
- Sometimes GMX-PhotoPainter refused to start, indicating that it was running under the mounted image. Even though if it was running under the Applications folder.
- Slow Undo
- Freehand tool crashed the application with any brush if it is used rapidly
- Black vertical lines started to appear on the screen when using any style of any brush at zoom levels of 25% and 75%.
- The “Save as” function under “File” did not work
- The “Save” function did appears to act as “Save as”
Download the new beta from:
http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/download (Select Mac Version!)
Hi there!
The latest months I’ve been working hard to create a new beta.
In fixes some minors bugs, and includes:
Download the beta
GMX-PhotoPainter Beta 4
GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac Settings Page 1
GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac Settings Page 2
GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac Preview Settings
GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac Settings Page 2
The last year I’ve been working hard rewriting GMX-PhotoPainter.
I rewrote the core of it in C++, and now the Mac version, starts to be usable, there are a lot of things to do yet, but I hope in a few weeks the first beta version will be available.
If you are interested in testing the first beta versions, just write me:
Use the subject “Mac Version”
This is the screenshot:
Now GMX-PhotoPainter Version 1.1 let you access an On-Line Repository of Styles, you will be able to share your styles and download styles.
Read More about GMX-PhotoPainter 1.1
FREE UPGRADE TO GMX-PhotoPainter 1.0
Free upgrade for registered users of GMX-PhotoPainter 1.0.
Gertrudis Pro, PS and Dogwaffle can upgrade with a 30% discount.
To access the upgrade contact us.
The first time you access the control panel, use the ‘Forgot Password’ option, using the email you used to purchase your product, and follow the instructions which will be emailed to you.
Now you can download GMX-PhotoPainter manual in PDF.
Download it from here:
GMX-PhotoPainter Manual
