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@SethRobinson SethRobinson released this 19 Oct 06:06
v1.14
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What's new in 1.14 - October 19, 2026

  • Artboards and PDF: artboards you can create, paint, paste into, crop and export, and that open from and save to PSD (issue 19); PDF pages import as folders on a white background, with Mode, Bit Depth and Reverse Order options and a clearer resolution field, multi-page import works with editable shapes and text, and imported text edits with a normal cursor (issue 147, issue 152, issue 153, issue 154, issue 155); PDF and other flat saves write in the background
  • Move tool: Auto-Select picks a Layer or its Group (issue 168), the Distribute commands are buttons on the bar (issue 172), and the layers a selection rectangle will pick are outlined while you drag (issue 171), with outlines that stay visible at every zoom
  • Text and fonts: a Missing Fonts dialog on open and from Type > Resolve Missing Fonts... (issue 169); text with a missing font asks before it is edited or transformed, and the warning icon, tooltip and new-text font behave (issue 177, issue 178, issue 180, issue 184, issue 185); the "Type" placeholder stays replaceable after any options-bar change (issue 175); an optional "Use Esc to commit text" (issue 173)
  • Status bar: the document's size, resolution, color mode and bit depth, with the profile and memory in its tooltip (issue 202, issue 206); the zoom box steps with the wheel and arrow keys, scrubs sideways and offers presets from a chevron (issue 159)
  • Panels: the right-hand panels reorder by dragging their titles, keep their layout between sessions, and Window > Reset Panels restores the first-launch layout (issue 166); the Window menu lists every panel (issue 163); the Layers panel rearranges so its column can be about 268 px wide (issue 199); saves keep each group's open or closed state (issue 179), and a group's context menu says Group (issue 203)
  • Note: Side panels can no longer be dragged out to be 'floating', this might come back later but for now it's disabled due to some UI qt-weirdness with linux
  • Speed: Warp stays responsive on large images (issue 200), and fast brush strokes on big images follow the pointer instead of painting straight segments (issue 165)
  • Editing: Paste puts copied pixels back where they came from (issue 193); Fixed Ratio uses its own ratio fields (issue 201); a dragged guide lands on a whole pixel (issue 197); selection tools name their Shift and Alt combinations in the status bar (issue 192); Blending Options gains Knockout and Vector Mask Hides Effects (issue 191), and the Layer Style dialog fits small screens (issue 190); Image and Layer menus get a Rotate & Flip submenu
  • Eyedropper: sets the foreground or background color, with Sample Size and current-layer or all-layers sampling (issue 151), and a new Pick icon (issue 195)
  • Interface: New Document opens on a Last Used card; Esc in an options-bar field puts the old value back (issue 186); a cancelled Open remembers its folder (issue 183); a Daily update check (issue 189); recent files can be removed one at a time (issue 157); Home screen menus disable commands that need a document (issue 162); plus menu alignment, options-bar checkboxes, the Line, Free Transform and Feather fields, greyed-out fields and the Duplicate Layer to Document dialog (issue 131, issue 167, issue 174, issue 181, issue 160, issue 194, issue 209, issue 196)
  • Linux: the system title bar is the default where a global menu bar takes the menus (issue 161); the AppImage uses the desktop's own file dialogs (issue 156) and passes the AppImage catalog's checks (issue 208); the README lists more ways to install and manage the AppImage (@philipzae)

Downloads

Platform File
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) installer PatchyWindowsInstaller.exe
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) portable zip PatchyWindowsNoInstaller.zip
macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon) PatchyMacOS.dmg
Linux Flatpak bundle PatchyLinux.flatpak
Linux AppImage (Ubuntu 22.04 or newer) PatchyLinux.AppImage

Windows builds are code signed; the macOS app is signed and notarized. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt. The same files are mirrored at rtsoft.com, and the browser version runs at patchyimageeditor.com.

Linux

AppImage (one file, updates itself; keep it in a folder you can write to):

mkdir -p ~/Applications && cd ~/Applications
wget -O PatchyLinux.AppImage https://github.com/SethRobinson/Patchy/releases/download/v1.14/PatchyLinux.AppImage
chmod +x PatchyLinux.AppImage
./PatchyLinux.AppImage

If it cannot mount itself, install FUSE 3 (sudo apt install fuse3, sudo dnf install fuse3, sudo pacman -S fuse3) or run it with --appimage-extract-and-run. Menu entry and other distros: README, AppImage.

Flatpak (updates with flatpak update):

flatpak install --user -y https://rtsoft.com/flatpak/com.rtsoft.patchy.flatpakref
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