Details on PD Howler 2019

The latest version of the low-cost painting and VFX tool brings brush stroke preview, a rewritten text tool, a visual recently used documents list, and more.

The latest version of the low-cost painting and VFX tool brings brush stroke preview, a rewritten text tool, a visual recently used documents list, the ability to save frame sequences from Puppyray, and several GUI improvements like mipmap scaling and refinements. Let’s learn about it in detail. 

New features:

  • Brush stroke preview
  • Rewritten text tool
  • Visual Recently Used Documents list
  • Save frame sequences from Puppyray
  • GUI improvements, including mip map scaling and refinements
  • New stamp tool
  • New Digital Timer filter
  • Lots more on the way as the year progresses

Howler 11.4b and earlier:

  • Real-time preview of clone/rubthrough sources
  • Search and sort images by similarity
  • Create a new paper texture for a document
  • New media browsing on the sidebar
  • Most used brush bin on the sidebar
  • The histogram now lives on the sidebar
  • Added a GUI class, a histogram a class, the ability to access the last brush stroke, and improved error reporting for scripting

11.3, 11.2 and earlier changes:

  • Real-time preview of layer modes while you select them
  • Physically plausible global illumination in Puppy Rayraytracerr
  • Rewritten input stabilizer smooths out brush strokes
  • Improvements to post adjustment and the curve tool
  • 4-point perspective warp in the free transform tool
  • Improved curve and rotoscope tools
  • Enhanced timeline and font panel
  • Numeric entry throughout the program
  • Callouts and vector objects
  • Sprites in the Particle Modeler
  • Utilize up to 64 threads.  Rewritten for modern processors

You can get more details here

Published 15 November 2018
Arti Sergeev
Business Head