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Black Ink 0.249.2089

The Version 0.249.2089 is now available





Dear Black Ink users,


We hope you had a wonderful summer and we’re happy to present you a new version of Black Ink!


This update includes a lot of features you asked for as well as new innovative tools:

We now have an autosave feature, resize and crop functions for your document, new drawing helpers with interactive straight lines and angle snap, a very useful new type of brushes and more.

Please have a look at this video to discover all these new features and please let us know what you think!



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List of changes :

  • New Straight Line Draw mode( Shortcut: K )
  • New Pressing the Shift key when drawing now displays a Snap Angle Wheel. The angles can be edited in the Straight Line Parameters
  • New Angle snap parameters on the main Toolbar




  • New Simple line default brush.
  • New Pencil default brush.
  • New Free Fill default brush.
  • New Polygonal Fill default brush.
  • New PondPlant Fill default brush.
  • New Angle line Fill default brush.
  • New Ruins default brush.
  • Felt pen default brush has been updated (It now uses the tilt and the pressure of the stylus to adjust opacity).





  • New Crop Tool (shortcut: Shift+C)





  • New Image - Resize Dialog
  • New Auto Recover - Auto recover option can be accessed throught the Preference Panel in the General Tab section
  • The New.. Dialog has been redesigned. It has default and user presets and the ability to define a starting background color.
  • The Fill layer tool is now directly accessible in the Main toolbar. It comes with these associated shortcuts:
    • G - Fill the current layer or selection with the current fill color
    • Ctrl-G - Fill the current layer alpha with the current fill color
    • Ctrl+Alt+G - Fill the empty areas of the current layer with the fill color.
    • Alt+G - Switch the Eyedropper between the current brush color and the fill color
  • Fixded The time parameter wasn’t reinitialised between strokes ( issue )
  • Fixded When cancelling the transform operation of a selection the selected area was erased ( issue )
  • Fixded Using the “Del” shortcut when using the transformation tool clears the canvas instead of the currently transformed object
  • Fixded Problem occurred when using the stylus button when drawing ( issue )
  • Fixded Grayscale JPG can now be opened
  • Fixded Random crashes
  • Better Image sampling after a transformation ( less blur after a simple Transform -> Move operation ).
  • The shortcut for Flip Vertical has been changed ( previously G, now Shift+F )
  • Be carefull if using the Tilt stroke parameter in controller because now return a value between 0 and Half PI ( previously 0 to 1 )