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Black Ink 2020.3 is out

The Version Black Ink 2020.3 is out




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List of changes :

New Blur Operator


New Directional Blur Operator


New Gradient Map Operator


New Gradient editor (Only available in the Gradient Map operator for now )


New Color Overlay Operator


New Color Mode Channel Operator


New Color Posterization Operator


New Color Select Operator


New Drag & Drop of Images in the Layer editor create multiple layer

New Create Layer From Image.. Command in the layer editor


New User Interface preference where you can Save / Load different UI Layout






Improvement Better performance when brushing with Black Ink
Improvement If you only save a PNG/JPG the document in Black Ink isn’t considered saved anymore. So you will not lose all your work if you try to close Black Ink by mistake.
Improvement No more glitch when brushing with texture on a zoomed canvas
Improvement The operator is now created at the same position as displayed by the preview
Improvement The eyedropper can now pick color anywhere in the Black Ink user interface & can pick into OS child windows
Improvement The Mask operator selects the alpha channel by default.
Improvement Layer operator isn’t expanded by default
Improvement Color wheel is now left aligned





Fixed Startup crash on some AMD GPU
Fixed Multithread random crash
Fixed Random crash sometimes when merging layers in the Layer editor
Fixed Random freeze sometimes when merging image layers
Fixed Big slowdown in Black Ink when auto-saving a document is triggered
Fixed Crash sometimes when selecting "Background default Image" in brush preview.
Fixed Crash when using invalid parameters in an array in BSL
Fixed Random Crash when previewing brush eraser
Fixed Crash when using a grayscale image as a brush preview background
Fixed Keyboard states sometimes are irrelevant when the focus of the main window of Black Ink changed
Fixed Sometimes the "erase with current brush" shortcut gets stuck on the eraser, the cursor will still be red and the brush will still erase even though it is not holding the shortcut for it.
Fixed Freeze when typing in the search box of the Log panel
Fixed Sometimes Eyedropper return null color ( alpha at 0 )
Fixed The "overlay" node is creating liserets with the edges in some case
Fixed Sometimes the “Center on selection” command in the Layer Editor doesn't work as expected
Fixed Shortcuts “Save”, “Open”, “Save As..” works only when a CanvasView has the focus


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Credits
A huge thanks for all our beta testers, patrons and all artists with your drawings or pictures illustrating this update!
D. Alex. Nixon: https://www.dalexnixon.art/
Ahi: https://twitter.com/aherowo?s=20
Cristina Cόrdova: https://www.cristinacordova.com/
Taran Fiddler: https://www.artstation.com/tfiddlerart
Claudine Ricart
Perceval Schopp

Black Ink 2020.2 nonAVX

Dear Black Ink user,

Some users have reported instant crashes with the introduction of Black Ink version 2020.2.
This is due to the use of AVX instructions in the Black Ink code.
These instructions are available for most CPUs released from 2011 onwards. However some older CPUs do not support these instructions.
That's why the non AVX version of Black Ink is available under Steam as follows:

Launch Steam, go to your library and choose Black Ink in your softwares.
In the left column, right click on Black Ink to open its contextual menu and select "properties".

In the properties page select the Betas tab
Then select the "nonavx" version from the dropdown menu just above.



Please note that this version may be the last one to be non AVX and that we advise you, if you can, to change your CPU to a more recent one in order to continue to enjoy the next updates.


Thank you for your understanding

Black Ink 2020.2 is available

The Version Black Ink 2020.2 is available




Changes in motion :
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New version of Black Ink with several bug fixes and enhancements

List of changes :

New Now Black Ink is operating in native 64-bit New Brightness/Contrast Operator in the layer editor
New Windows Explorer .bkd file preview New Blending Type Multiply Preserve Alpha New Black Ink About New Set the Vram in the GPU Preferences options
New Shortcut “FreezeReportDialog” (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F4) that will make Black Ink Crash.Useful if you think Black Ink is in a Frozen state when saving or loading.





Fixed Some random crashes
Fixed Crash when using other than D3D11 rendering API (Other D3D9,D3D10 and OpenDL API has been removed and aren’t supported anymore)
Fixed Crash when loading 16bits grayscale PNG
Fixed Duplicating layer stack with external reference create artifact in the duplicated stack
Fixed Sometimes when using the transform tool, the content disappears
Fixed After clicking on the rotate tool it’s impossible to disable it.
Fixed Mouse / Stylus problem when Zooming, Drawing, changing the brush size with gizmo ( like these links: Steam or Youtube)
Fixed Freeze at startup if a brush with multiple textures was created by the user.
Fixed Rendering problem with the brush “Watercolor pen”
Fixed Crash when clicking on the output of the first layer (see)




Improvement After a Windows Explorer drag and drop Black Ink windows has directly the keyboard focus
Improvement Now the crash report upload data directly on our server without the need of an Email client
Improvement No more destruction of operators embedded in Input of operators when dragging new operator on it. The old element is now placed near the input on the layer editor.


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Special thanks for your drawings illustrating our update
Adam Phillips (The aquatic cat)
Ahi (the desert)
Perceval Schopp (The coast)

Support Black Ink with Patreon

Dear Black Ink Users,

We are launching a Patreon campaign to enable people to support the development of Black Ink while keeping the software affordable.

So if you want to support this development because you like it or use it in your professional workflow,
If you want it to continue evolving significantly,
If you’d like us to listen closer to your proposals and ideas,
And if you want to help us maintaining our fair and affordable licensing plan without subscription or paid updates,

Please consider joining us on Patreon and become a patron!



Every little contribution is important because all together you will become a huge help in our development effort and will give us the means to take Black Ink to the next level!

Thank you very much for your support!

Black Ink 2020.1 is available

The Version Black Ink 2020.1 is available


New version of Black Ink with several bug fixes and enhancements

List of changes :

New 2 new commands in the Layer Editor
Merge Visible layers
Merge Layers / Merge Down



Fixed Crash sometimes when using the Straight line tool
Fixed Crash at startup when your tablet isn’t plugged in to your computer
Fixed Crash when searching in Preference Shortcut on a system using non latin character
Fixed Crash when double clicking on the Create Mask Icon of the Layer stack operator
Fixed The toggle Layer Editor button does nothing in the Main toolbar
Fixed Overlay, HardLight, SoftLight blending doesn’t behave like in Photoshop



Improvement Tooltip for the first 2 icons of the Layer stack has been added