Limner v0.8.3: Familiar menus, smarter tools
Limner's menu bar now files everything the way Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint
do, so your hands already know where things are. The tool strip gains brush
families with their own memory, every tool gets its own icon, and a round of
desktop comforts lands: borderless fullscreen, one-key 100% zoom, and layer
masks straight from the Layers panel. Painting, Vector, Animation, and Book
all behave as before, and existing files open unchanged.
New
- Brush families. Pen, Pencil, and Airbrush now sit on the tool strip as
their own keys beside Brush, each driving the full brush engine, and each
remembers the last brush you picked in it, even across restarts. Hop from a
sketching pencil to an inking pen and back with single clicks, no re-picking
in the brush list. - Borderless fullscreen. F11 (or View ▸ Fullscreen) gives the canvas your
whole screen; F11 again brings the window back. Rebindable like every
shortcut (Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts). - Fit and 100% in one click. Two view buttons snap the canvas to fit the
window or to true pixel-for-pixel, and Ctrl+1 jumps to 100% from the
keyboard. 100% now really means one document pixel per screen pixel. - Layer masks from the panel. A mask button on the Layers action bar adds
a reveal-all mask to the active layer, or opens a small menu to target,
enable, apply, or delete the one it has. - Pick your status readout. The status bar's info slot is now yours:
canvas dimensions, the active layer's name, or nothing. Your choice is
remembered. - Animation exports in the File menu. While the Animation workspace is
active, File carries the GIF, MP4, and PNG-sequence exports, alongside the
timeline's own export button. - Close and Exit. File gains Close for the current document and Exit for
the app, both with the usual unsaved-changes prompts.
Improved
- Menus, refiled the standard way. Adjustments (Brightness/Contrast,
Levels, Curves, HSL, Color Balance, Invert, Posterize, Binarize, Gradient
Map) moved from Filter to Image ▸ Adjustments; Filter keeps the true filters
(Gaussian Blur, Sharpen, Repeat Last Filter). Delete Inside, Delete Outside,
and Free Transform moved from Select to Edit. Expand / Contract / Border /
Feather nest under Select ▸ Modify. Theme, Pen Pressure, Keyboard Shortcuts,
and auto-update settings gather under Edit ▸ Preferences. Every action
itself is unchanged; only its filing moved. - One icon per tool. Nine tools shared a glyph with a neighbour; every
tool now has its own. The Airbrush wears a hand-drawn spray can. - Tool groups select first, flyout second. Clicking a grouped tool key now
selects the tool shown on it; a second click (or a double-click) opens the
flyout to swap. Quick tool changes stop opening surprise menus. - The View menu covers the view. 100% joins the zoom entries and view
rotation (left / right / reset) gets its own rows, so every view move has a
menu home and can be rebound. - Active-layer toggles in one strip. Lock, transparency lock, clip, and
reference for the active layer live in the always-visible strip at the top
of the Layers panel, wrapping to fit narrow docks; layer rows keep quiet
badges for anything engaged.
Notes
- Your keyboard shortcuts, brushes, and files are untouched; documents open
exactly as they did in 0.8.2. - Limner will soon be signed by Limner LLC, the business behind Limner. This
update already trusts both the current and the future signature, so
auto-updates keep working straight through the change. - Windows, signed installer. Update from the in-app prompt or under the Help
menu.