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v0.0.7
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Sue Paint takes a big step toward Clip Studio Paint: comics with every kind of balloon and editable effect lines, text you type right on the canvas (even along a curve), posable 3D hands and heads, an exposure sheet for animators, Smart Shape, and pictures that finally show in their true colors.

Highlights

  • Comics like Clip Studio Paint. Rounded, cloud, flash, curve, polyline and hand-drawn balloons with tails and thought bubbles; polyline frames whose panels and corners the Object tool drags; Saturated and Speed Lines that stay editable; page numbers (folios) on every page and export; and Batch import, one picture a page.
  • Type on the canvas. Click with the Text tool and type where you clicked, with a caret, Enter for new lines and Esc to keep the words. Set the font, size, letter and line spacing and justification in Tool Property, and type along a curve with Text on Curve.
  • 3D hands and heads. Layer, New Layer, 3D Hand and 3D Head pose like the drawing figure, with presets from a fist to a peace sign and from a three-quarter view to an open mouth. Keep any pose as a pose material to use again. 3D layers can carry their light with the camera and fade into fog.
  • Smart Shape. Hold the pen still at the end of a stroke and it becomes a clean line, arc, ellipse or polygon.
  • Animation. An exposure sheet to read and change the timing (and save as CSV), and animated WebP and APNG export.
  • More from Clip Studio Paint. Layer comps, Glow, Inflate and Drop Shadow, tonal corrections on many layers at once, Export vectors (SVG), decorations and ribbons, and brushes from Clip Studio (.sut), Photoshop (.abr) and GIMP.
  • Fixes you will notice. Imported pictures no longer look too dark and contrasty, WebP and other pictures open, moving and transforming layers no longer leaves copies or cuts them off, pen strokes lose their stray dot, and Android updates install over the version you have.

What's new in 0.0.7

Added

  • Sue Paint's Balloon tool has Clip Studio Paint's balloons: rounded rectangle, cloud (thought) and flash (shout) balloons, the Balloon pen for a balloon in any outline, and the thought balloon tail's bubbles. The Text tool centers words in any of them.
  • Curve and polyline balloons and the Polyline frame, clicked out corner by corner as in Clip Studio Paint, and the Object tool drags a panel's corners or the whole panel.
  • Sue Paint's Figure tool draws Saturated Lines around the clear middle you drag, and Speed Lines along the way you drag, each on an effect line layer that stays editable: the Object tool moves their ends, and Tool Property changes how many lines, their width, their scatter and color.
  • Folios: Story, Change Story Information numbers the pages, at their outer corners or centered, on the canvas and in every export, and the first page can start alone or facing page 2 (also in the Page Manager).
  • File, Import, Batch import brings every picture in a folder in, one a page, in name order.
  • The Text tool's Text on Curve: draw a curve, then type along it.
  • The Text tool sets letter spacing, line spacing and justification.
  • Layer, New Layer, 3D Hand and 3D Head, posed like the drawing figure by dragging their joints or from their presets, as in Clip Studio Paint 5.0 and 5.1.
  • Register pose as material keeps any pose of a figure, hand or head in the Material palette's Poses, to use again.
  • 3D layers can carry their light with the camera and have fog rising from the foot, as in Clip Studio Paint 5.0 and 5.1.
  • Animation, Timeline, Exposure Sheet: the timing as a table to read and change, saved and read back as CSV (File, Export Animation and File, Import).
  • File, Export Animation, Animated WebP.
  • File, Export Animation, Animated sticker (APNG).
  • Smart Shape, as in Clip Studio Paint 5.0: hold the pen still at the end of a stroke and it becomes a clean line, arc, ellipse or polygon.
  • Add from downloads in Sue Paint's Tool Group brings in brushes you downloaded: Clip Studio Paint sub tools (.sut), Photoshop brushes (.abr), GIMP brushes (.gbr, .gih) and pictures. Their size, opacity, spacing, spray, ribbon and turn come along, colored tips keep their colors, and tips of several pictures take them in turn.
  • Ribbon decorations: Rope, Rickrack, Film strip, Checkered band, Stitched ribbon and Lace ribbon bend along the whole stroke, and any brush with a shape can be laid as a ribbon.
  • Sue Paint's Decoration tool, as in Clip Studio Paint: Stars, Hearts, Sparkles, Snow, Flowers and Bubbles scatter about the stroke; Leaves, Chain, Lace, Stitches, Dotted line and Dashed line run along it and turn with it. Any brush with a shape gets Turn along the line, Angle, Scatter, Size jitter and Turn jitter in Tool Settings.
  • Filter, Effect has Glow, Inflate and Drop Shadow, as in Clip Studio Paint 5.1.
  • Tonal corrections change every picked layer at once, as in Clip Studio Paint 5.0, and Layer, Change Selected Layer has Select All Layers and Deselect Layers.
  • Layer comps, as in Clip Studio Paint EX: named versions of which layers show, how strongly and how they blend, shown again in one step and exported each as its own picture.
  • File, Special Export, Export vectors saves vector layers as SVG.
  • The Object tool's Tool Property says what it does on each kind of layer instead of that it arrives later.
  • Release Notes in the update window opens the whole of what is new, inside Sue, on phones and computers.
  • On Windows and Linux, Sue draws its own window frame, as Clip Studio Paint does: a dark title bar with the title in the middle and minimize, maximize and close at the right, on the main window and on every dialog and floating palette. Drag it to move the window, double-click it to maximize, and drag any edge to resize.
  • Sue Paint's window title says what is open, as Clip Studio Paint's does: Illustration* (1600 x 1200px 72dpi 42.4%) - Sue Paint, with a * while it has changes not saved and the print profile while View, Color Profile, Preview is on.

Changed

  • Sue Paint's Text tool types right on the canvas, as Clip Studio Paint does: click, type, Enter for a new line, Esc to keep the words. A click on the words puts the caret there, and Tool Property sets the font, size, direction and centering, also for the words being typed. Letters that are shortcuts no longer switch tools while you type.
  • Sue Paint's pens, pencils, brushes, airbrushes and erasers start as Clip Studio Paint's do: the same sizes, opacity, hardness, density, anti-aliasing, color mixing and stabilization, and its Starting and ending by speed, so a quick line tapers and a slow one keeps its size from the first point. The Brush tool has Clip Studio's brushes (Round and Flat watercolor brush, Gouache, Oil paint, Thick oil paint, Wet wash, Brush pen, Dry ink, Watery ink, Pointillism), the Airbrush its Spray and Droplet, and the Eraser its Kneaded eraser.
  • Quitting asks about each picture with changes not saved, as Clip Studio Paint does: "Illustration has been changed. Do you want to save it?" with Save, Do Not Save and Cancel. "Quit Sue?" is no longer asked unless you turn it on (Settings, Confirm on exit).
  • Under Sue Paint's color wheel the main and sub colors are the same overlapping circles as in the tool strip, with the transparent pill.
  • On phones the Hub lists studios and tools as rows across the screen, easy to reach with a thumb, and menus have taller rows without keyboard shortcuts.
  • On phones the update window is a sheet across the bottom of the screen.
  • Sue Paint's side palettes fold and close as in Clip Studio Paint, on both sides: the single arrow at the top folds the side's palette columns into icons (the tools stay) and opens them again, and the double arrow closes the whole side to a thin bar whose arrows bring it back. Both are kept with the workspace.
  • Sue Paint's color wheel is Sue's own, the one every color control shares, and its transparent color is a rounded checkered pill as in Clip Studio Paint. Clear looks the same checkerboard everywhere.
  • Sue Paint's Tool Sliders look like Clip Studio Paint's: the size and opacity in round badges, the size slider lit from the bottom up to its knob, and the opacity slider solid black at the top fading to clear.

Fixed

  • Pictures in Sue Paint show in their own colors instead of too dark and too contrasty.
  • WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF and ICO pictures open, in Sue Paint and from anywhere in Sue, instead of showing their raw bytes.
  • Moving a layer with the Move tool redraws it where it goes, leaving no copies behind.
  • A layer scaled or moved past the canvas edge with Scale/Rotate keeps the part outside, so moving it back shows the whole picture.
  • Pinch vector line bends a line drawn quickly, whose points lie far apart, instead of leaving it as it was.
  • A dot no longer appears at the start or end of pen strokes: a pen bouncing on the tablet as it lands or lifts touched it for a few thousandths of a second, which Sue Paint took for a tap. A real tap still leaves its dot.
  • Sue on Android can check for updates and download them: it could not reach the internet at all. The update installs from inside Sue, asking once to be allowed to install apps, and says plainly when it could not.
  • Android updates install over the version you have instead of failing with "conflicting package": every release is now signed with the same key. Versions up to 0.0.6 were signed differently, so going from one of them takes uninstalling Sue once.
  • The small launcher buttons in Sue Paint (under a selection, a transform, text and a layer's drawing) work: a click on one used to start a new selection or stroke under it and close the launcher.

Installing

Windows: Sue-0.0.7-windows-x64-setup.exe is the easiest (x86 for 32-bit PCs, arm64 for ARM ones). The .msi is the same installer for managed PCs, and the -portable.zip runs from any folder. Or install with Scoop:

scoop install https://github.com/MagiGun/sue/releases/latest/download/sue.json

Sue is not code-signed yet, so Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" or "Unknown publisher". Choose More info, then Run anyway. Before extracting the portable zip, right-click it, choose Properties and tick Unblock, or Windows asks again for every program inside. Scoop installs without the warning.

macOS: the .dmg. Linux: the AppImage runs almost anywhere; there are also a Flatpak, .deb, .rpm, an Arch package and a tarball. Android: the .apk. FreeBSD and iPhone and iPad (to sign with your own Apple account) have packages too. More at https://magigun.github.io/sue/.

Full Changelog: v0.0.6...v0.0.7

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