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Version: 4.5
A free tool for editing icons, cursors, and other pixel-based graphics.

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Version history (What's new?)

4.5

New: Support for AVIF (AV1 Image File Format), including multi-frame and metadata handling
New: Detect external file changes and prompt to reload
Improved: Warn when multiple tabs are editing the same file, with conflict resolution options
Fixed: Installer now ensures proper vcredist installation, fixing launch issues on some systems
Fixed: Resolved sporadic app freezes and improved Windows 7 compatibility

4.4

New: Generate Xcode App Icon Set
New: Align selection to image corners, edges, or center in the Transform dialog
Improved: UI: Scalable icons
Improved: More noticeable notifications
Improved: DPI adjusts correctly when moving the app windows between screens
Improved: Non-default tool settings are marked with a red asterisk or bold text
Improved: Higher-quality icons when converting SVG to ICO/CUR/ICNS in batch mode
Improved: UI language is now initialized based on the setup language
Improved: UI layout is adapted accordingly when a right-to-left language is selected
Improved: Last used cell grid is remembered for recent files

4.3

New: Support for Windows ARM64
New: Access keys for labels and buttons
Improved: Compatibility with less common PCX variants
Fixed: Installer sometimes froze during "Compiling shaders..."
Fixed: PCX images were saved as 24-bit even if actual color depth was lower

4.2

New: Windows Explorer integration: metadata and thumbnail providers for all known image file formats
New: Customize keyboard shortcuts
New: Allow pasting a dropped image file for Explorer and Firefox clipboard interoperability
Improved: Show UI in appropriate colors if Windows is set to high-contrast mode
Improved: Different versions of GFIE can be installed and coexist on the same computer
Improved: Nicer thumbnails for small images
Improved: Faster random number generator
Fixed: Exif datetime was sometimes displayed incorrectly if time zone information was missing
Fixed: Program sometimes crashed when bucket tool was used on very large (>8000x8000) images
Fixed: Load/save failed for some NE/PE resources

4.1

New: X11 Mouse Cursor (XCursor) support
New: Macintosh resource fork (.rsrc) support
New: View | Always on top
Improved: Blurring an image with a selected region will not blend unselected pixels into the result. This can be configured in the Blur dialog.
Improved: WebP: Exif metadata and animation support
Improved: UI: Larger mouse cursors on HDPI displays
Improved: Support for more ICNS formats
Fixed: Fall back to OpenGL if failed to create Direct3D context
Fixed: Paint Contour filter was missing

4.0

New: GPU-based rendering, much faster for large images
New: Support for multiple sizes in ANI cursors by separating the concept of pages and frames. Now documents have pages and pages have frames. See the Help for more.
New: Perspective transform of selection
New: Rich text formatting in text tool dialog
New: Exif metadata support
New: Anti-aliasing support for selection tools (ellipse, lasso)
New: Option for linear interpolation when upscaling the selection (on by default)
New: Adjustments can be made after using certain tools (e.g. crop, rect, ellipse, line, gradient)
New: Blend mode option for brush and gradient
New: Morphological filters (median, minimum, maximum, opening, closing)
New: Context help ("What's this?") in main window
New: GIF disposal method support
Improved: Much better file format compatibility, especially SVG and TIFF
Improved: Pop-up notifications instead of "OK" dialogs in most cases
Improved: High DPI-aware UI
Improved: Lots of bugfixes, thank you all for reporting them!
Improved: Language pack updates, many thanks to all contributors!

3.6

New: Linux support
New: Load/Save WebP
New: Load/Save Portable AnyMap
New: Load/Save TGA (Targa) files
New: Contrast adjustment in Exposure dialog
Improved: RGB Formulae (alpha adjustment, new operations)

3.5

Greatly improved the icon library editor
Fixed: GFIE did not start on XP because of GetTickCount64
Fixed some memory leaks

3.4

New: Create Android drawable, test 9-patch button
New: Import SVG
New: Load/Save TIFF (no layers yet)
New: Set DPI of document and pages
New: Test image as 3D texture
New: Pascal-based scripting
Faster, more responsive drawing
Faster GIF load/save
Fixed numerous bugs

3.31

Reintroduced Win32 support.

3.3

Open source: You can compile your own version for 32-bit, 64-bit, Linux, Mac, etc.
Official executables run only on Win64 from now on.
Added feature: Save a Copy
Updated translations

3.25

Updated links to the Greenfish Homepage

3.2

Fixed bug: some GIF files could not be opened
Fixed bug: removed loop count limitation (now maximum number of loops is 65535 instead of 100)

3.1

Fixed bug: batch conversion dialog misinterpreted file type
Fixed some minor bugs

3.0

Improved: GFIE will be cross-platform in the near future (will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
Rearranged user interface: tabs instead of MDI windows
Greatly improved: image processing speed
Added feature: loading/saving Apple ICNS files
Added feature: loading/saving JPEG 2000 files
Added feature: loading/saving 16-bit executables and icon libraries
Added feature: pressing Escape deselects all
Added feature: rotating selection by an arbitrary angle
Added feature: textboxes which expect numbers can now accept and calculate expressions, like 12*(128+10)
Added feature: Wand/Bucket can be switched to non-contiguous mode
Added feature: patterns for drawing
Added feature: new blend modes: Hue, Hue Shift and Saturation
Added feature: new menu items "Import pages" and "Export all pages"
Fixed bug: XPM export sometimes wrote unescaped backslash (\) characters into output

2.3

Added feature: Paste as New Document (Shift+Ctrl+D)
Added feature: pressing Ctrl+V pastes as new document when no documents are open
Added feature: selection antialiasing is now optional
Improved: speed of loading huge image files (which need to be cropped)
Improved: text antialiasing

2.2

Added feature: holding down Space activates a hand tool and allows the user to pan the editing screen
Added feature: some filters (Blur, Shadow, Glow, etc.) can now be used in torus mode (useful when editing textures or tiles)
Added feature: 24x24 size under Create icon from image...
Fixed bug: error messages were thrown when no desktop was active (e.g. when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del under Vista)
Fixed bug: removing the check from the Preview checkbox did not revert viewed image to original state

2.1

Added feature: antialiasing images when resizing
Fixed bug: the file association setters were sometimes disabled though GFIE was run in admin mode
Improved: the Tool Behavior dialog now shows only the relevant controls

2.0

Added feature: Layer support with lots of blend modes
Added feature: native GFIE file format
Added feature: when resizing a page, user can choose between cropping and stretching
Added feature: cell grid (for editing toolbars)
Fixed bug: an error occurred when trying to modify file associations without running GFIE as administrator
Improved: painting with a transparent color now erases

1.73

Fixed bug: the OK and Cancel buttons of the Text input dialog sometimes got hidden
Fixed bug: window state (maximized/normal) was not stored in configuration file
Added feature: loading/saving 32-bit BMP files
Added feature: loading/saving PCX files
Added feature: specifying page resizing action (stretch/crop)
Added feature: filter "RGB formulae" (channel combination following the entered mathematical formulae)

1.72

Added feature: allowing zoom ratios smaller than 1
Added feature: hiding/showing list of pages

1.71

Fixed some minor bugs
Added feature: setting max. image width and height separately

1.7

Added feature: opening, editing, saving executable/resource files, using an integrated Resource Editor
Added Russian help (can be downloaded from the Greenfish Homepage)
Changed: "Transform" dialog box: you don't have to set Units separately for Width and Height
Added language packs: Greek, Ukrainian

1.6

Fixed bug: when copying to clipboard, inverted parts were replaced with the transparent color
Added feature: GIF support
Added feature: assembling ICL (icon library) and RES (Win32 resource) files
Added feature: editing Metadata (ANI summary info, JPEG quality, GIF loop count)
Added feature: the canvas can also be enlarged using the Crop tool
Added feature: exporting individual pages
Added language packs: Chinese (traditional), Dutch, Russian

1.51

Fixed bug: a few virus scanners reported .ANI files created by GFIE as "Suspicious", now GFIE creates .ANI files considered "Clean" by them
Fixed bug: opening odd (uneven)-sized icons with GFIE, the transparency became a mess
Added feature: menu item for cropping transparent parts
Added feature: using custom background images in the Test dialog box
Added feature: using the + - * / shortcuts for zooming
Added feature: the mouse wheel can be set for scrolling or zooming under Help|Preferences
Added feature: specifying a target folder for batch converted files
Added language packs: Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Serbian (Latin)

1.5

Moved Preferences... menu item to Help menu and added a separate Language... menu item
Fixed bug: viewport position was always reset to image center when setting the zoom in a document window
Fixed bug: some PNG files were not able to be opened
Fixed bug: opening a lot of (~30) files and using the hot spot tool greatly decreased performance
Fixed bug: selecting a format at the bottom of the list sometimes caused it to be moved
Fixed bug: pressing the right mouse button while drawing with the left caused strange results
Optimized: now creating better compressed PNG files
Added feature: working with images up to 1024x1024 (upper limit can be increased at your own risk)
Added feature: editing and testing animations, saving them in ANI (animated cursor) files
Added feature: customizing grid and center line colors
Added language packs: Korean, Polish, Spanish

1.4

Fixed bug: compatibility issues: created icons were recognized by Windows, but not always by other graphics programs
Fixed bug: when changing language pack at Preferences, dialog view mode changed to erroneous value -1
Fixed bug: associated files were sometimes opened twice
Fixed bug: Bevel filter generated too crisp results at big radiuses
Fixed bug: custom colors set in windows color dialogs were lost between sessions
Added feature: batch converting image files
Added feature: Tool Behavior/Color Picker windows can be switched to Compact mode
Added feature: showing center lines of images
Added feature: pasting 32-bit images from graphics apps which know the image/png clipboard format, e.g. from GIMP
Added language packs: French, Chinese (simplified)
Minor corrections to other language packs

1.31

Fixed bug: default file extension was not appended when using File|Save as
Added language pack: Italian
Minor corrections to other language packs

1.3

Added feature: multilanguage support
Added feature: using Arrow keys to move view/selection
Added feature: greater values than 100 are also accepted at Filters|Opacity
Added feature: workspace layout (i.e. window positions) is autosaved
"Preferences" dialog was rearranged, new option for setting view mode in Open/Save dialog boxes

1.2

Added feature: drawing gradients in color/transparency mode (for creating fadeouts)
Added feature: startup screen
Minor GUI modifications

1.1

Rearranged the "Tool Behavior" dialog box
Fixed bug: fake tool button at the bottom of the toolbar window
Added feature: file drag and drop support
Added feature: new brush shapes (horizontal, vertical, spray)
Added feature: now the strength of the Eraser tool can be adjusted from 1% to 100%
Added feature: using "Thumbnails" mode also when opening selections/exe files

1.0

Fixed bug: Glow filter sometimes generated the inverted color when choosing white glow color
Fixed listbox flicker, now double-buffered
Fixed bug: a </script> tag was missing from contents.html, this made the Help unusable under IE.
Added feature: Bevel filter
Added feature: "Save all" menu item
Added feature: Open and Save dialog boxes now start in "Thumbnails" view mode
Added feature: tutorials

0.3

Fixed bug: saving extracted cursors in invalid format
Fixed bug: saving .cur files with idType = ID_ICO
Added feature: Glow, Sharpen, Unsharp mask filters
Added feature: new retouch modes: Sharpen, Sponge
Added feature: Preferences dialog box (UsePNG, hatch colors, Import folder, file associations)
Added feature: "Close all" menu item and list of open files in View menu
Added feature: opening files in parameters & using DDE
Optimized: speeded up loading XPM files
Optimized: saving in BMP format now produces files as small as possible

0.2: first release