Plug-ins update history PC + MAC OS X
Plug-in set 1 Updates to 1.5.5 July 2006 Abstract plugin
- Added bold to tabs
- Modified dialog element positions
- Added document view suite
- Added tracker suite
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for randomization of settings
- Added presets dropdown + presets
- Added curve and random curve feature
- Added document view (instead of document) bounds
- Added interpolation settings
- Added interactive drag (hold shift down) buttons
- Added layer suite + layering feature
Circled plugin
- Added bold to tabs
- Added document view suite
- Added tracker suite
- Added view / zoom
- Removed reset button, replaced with presets combo
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Updated dialog positioning
- Center of circle matches to document view, offset 100 pt
- Added drag buttons / interactive
- Set enable / interval options based on pass value
Duplication plugin
- Added bold to tabs
- Added document view suite
- Added tracker suite
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Added drag buttons / interactive
Duplicator plugin
- Added bold to tabs
- Added document view suite
- Added tracker suite
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Setup presets instead of reset button
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Re-size dialog and format
- Added drag buttons / interactive
- Reduced range of scale / re-size
RoundDuplication Plugin
- Added bold to tabs
- Added document view suite
- Added tracker suite
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Added drag buttons (hold shift down) for interactive settings
Plugin set 2 Update 2.5.5 August 2006
- Gridlock plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Modified panel buttons
- Added basic curve feature
- Added drag buttons for interactivity
- Lineup plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Modified panel positions
- Add drag button for interactivity
- Negative Colors Plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Added presets and shuffle button
- Add drag button for interactivity
- Set dropdown default to current color model of document
- Added additional options
- Random Colors Plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Modified panel positions
- Add drag button for interactivity
- Sharp Edge plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Added view / zoom
- Remove layer title
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Modified panel positions
- Start position based on document view
- Added sketch features and drop shadow
- Additional panel of settings added
- Add drag buttons for interactivity
- Spiral City plug-in:
- Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Added view / zoom
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Updated panel positions
- Start position now center of document view offset
- Add drag buttons for interactivity
- Added interpolation of points
Plugin set 3 Plug-in Update 3.2.5 August 2006
- Gradient Texture: Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Modified panel button positions
- Added view / zoom
- Presets added
- Tumble button added for experimentation
- Added drag buttons (hold shift) for interactive modification
- Added additional panel for dropdowns
- Added fill / overlay for texture
- Updated height / width
- Added overlay structure to gradient 1 2 (only created gradients)
- Added fade center (only to created gradients)
- Added tweak button for some minor variations
- Black added to CMYK except for apply modes
- Updated first and end stop coding
- Gradient Effects: Added tracker and document view suites
- Added bold to tabs
- Modified panel positions
- Added view / zoom
- Presets added
- Updated notifications within plugin
- Added tumble button for experimentation
- Added drag buttons for interactivity (hold shift down)
- Added fade feature - turn midpoint to black / white etc for lines
- Added additional average / jitter options
- Updated lines first and end stop for fade and midpoint and jitter
- Fixed checkbox positioning errors and replace channel errors
Plugin set 4
1.3.5 February 2008
- Added golden rectangle feature to duplicate plug-in
- Added additional gap modifier option to windmill plug-in
1.3.4 November 2007
- Added a limit to the dialog for the points, the distance between anchor and direction points (set to 1000 pts.. but the user can modify this if required)
It is an absolute volume so the distance can be -1000 to 1000
- Trail / trace feature added - a duplicate snapshot of the path is created
- Added layer suite to plug-in
- Added layer checkbox (for the insert of new layer in the duplication / trail)
- Added beneath box (for placing the new path above or beneath current paths.. beneath ignored if insert new layer)
- Added random change box, this randomizes the segment gap between p and in and out
- Added a randomization to the type dropdown, randomization of the setting based on path or for each individual point
- Added weight / width randomization for the stroke - 10pts and less randomization
- Added path style suite and swatches suite and blend to the routine
- Added fill and stroke and swatch randomizations
- Added process values to initialization - bug fix
- Added flip rotation options
- Changed the beneath box to beneath options.. to add a interleaving feature..
- Added a number of different beneath options to overlap paths and multiple paths
- Increased size of dialog
- Added a different apply method to the windmill plug-in (use loop and then object instead of objects then loops) + scaledown tool
- Removed some of the scale limitations for scaledown
- Removed some of the scale limitations for windmill
- Added a number of negative as well as path alternate variants for apply modes for windmill tool
- Added a number of negative as well as path alternate variants for apply modes for scaledown tool, alternate paths are swapped in different ways
- Modified the limits for some of the tools
1.3.2 January 2007
- Updated checkerboard to match vertical and horizontal settings
- Updated duplication / row tool, adding checkerboard feature where items are removed, and added multiple variant checkerboard options
- Added apply / scaling options to the duplication / grid tool, allowing the option to vary vertically and horizontally
1.3.1 December 2006
- Added additional options to scale down - alternating / randomized / stops
- Scale down added turn value - accumulated angle
- Updated some dialog text
- Updated documentation
- Added scaling options to windmill plug-in
- Added line scaling / transformation options to global + different options
1.3 October 2006
- Duplication bounds defined (for use with patterns)
- Removed layer title - doesn't work in the same way in CS2
- Added swatch option to color drag down + swatch number box
- Reduced color dropdowns to one routine and reduced code
- Extend dialogs and added 'store' dialog position (for all)
- Added a global section i.e. layers and pr opacity etc are global and the others are specific to the tool
- Added more color modes to dropdown
- Put beneath as a global setting
- Put opacity as a global setting
- Put blend mode as a global setting as well as slowdown and the fill etc dropdown
- Added a stroke dropdown
- Added color/fill/stroke to other tools
- Modified dialog size and shortened some of the field names
- Enable or disable color swatch settings
- Added notifier suite
- Added stroke width to global
- Pattern feature to global - for tiling of designs based around document center as well as others
- Added reset button
- Added scale vertical and horizontal as well as fade opacity / fill to scale down tool
- Added fill and stroke process cutoff value to change the fade to white etc
- Removed flip feature in scale down
- Updated manual
Plugin set 5
5.4 Update July 30th 2007
- Add a new layer options (or beneath paths / above paths) - overrides the beneath box
- Added color dropdown for alternate paths in repeat - mainly for purposes of new brushes pack
- Added some more zigzags types - very basic ones but useful for creating brushes
- Added drop shadow box color features to stroke as well as the fill
- Combined beneath box and layer dropdown
- Added some new presets relating to weave / multi-mirror
5.3.5 Update January 2007
- Fixed error in repeat options
- Added panel for color / styles / patterns
- Added pattern / fill settings / stroke settings zigzag settings
- Added option to apply fill / stroke panel settings to mirror repeat generation - default off
- Removed defunct checkboxes including fill and stroke boxes
- Presets modified
- Added a separate zigzag elements fill / stroke option - default ON
- Added link types zigzag types default OFF
- Disabled zigzag2 if zigzag types are linked
- Add place below / above 'beneath' option to panel - for mirror and patterns
- Added pattern coding for shadow / path and mirror
- Added random reflect distance
- Presets added
- Documentation totally updated
- New symbols added
5.3 Update July 2006
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Added dialog position - to remember last dialog position
- Changed precision on float
- Added basic curve feature - modifying vertical and horizontal direction points
- Added randomization of curve feature
- Updated manual
Plugin set 6 1.3.1 December 2006
- Updated limits for fields / max and min
- Added 'final' frame size / adjacent to frame % - text/read only (doesn't take into account stroke width)
- Removed some of the restrictions on lines / frames + added code to validate options
- Increased size of dialog to display 'unit' sizes for the measurements i.e. inches / feet / cm etc
- Added more read-only 'measurement' displays
- Added a dropdown 'measurements' - inches / cm / feet
1.3 November 2006
- Added document view and tracker suites
- Removed layer title for CS2 purposes
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Added dialog position for current clicked panel
- Updated some of the factory default settings such as inner box
- Added another panel 'style' for fill etc
- Increased size of dialog + increased spaces between panels
- Added view / zoom
- Removed old fill / stroke approach
- Added in / out segment value
- Added pattern feature for tiling of grids
- Added random opacity
- Added random create
- Random in / out segment value
- Drag buttons for improved interactivity
- Added tumble button for randomization
- Added interpolation of points for 'grid' distortion
- Added more presets
- Updated manual
Plugin set 7 1.2.5 February 2007
- Scaling tool: Added min and max setting for the application to scaling tool
- Scaling tool: Added range dropdown to vary the application of max and min
- Corner tool: Added option to use the percentage as an option or the point setting or set to entered + fixed a few settings bugs
- Added new mesh color tool .. if mesh nodes under brush etc then apply color settings to the current node or not
- Added point test / brush shape for point related tools
- Fixed some brush shape bugs
- Mesh tool - added pattern / apply four way pattern and other pattern variants
- Warp mesh tool added based on combo of mesh and point shift tool
- Warp mesh tool added pattern feature
- Updated documentation
1.2 October 2006
- Added duplication of path and layer features related to this (trail cursor)
- Updated all interfaces / standard size
- Updated manual
- Added fill / stroke checkboxes to channels and intensity and reducer
- Added new brush shape / applications to the standard section such as gradient and rim and graduated
- Space - hold down space bar to move position of wand without any processing applied or need to release mouse
Plugin set 8 Features in 8.2.5 / June 2006
- Added reflections feature based around document view (mirror options) - reflection about vertical + horizontal
- Added presets for the reflection / feature
- Added additional reflection/mirror settings such as four reflection, some variants, tiling and others
- Added reflection about starting point options
- Added reflection about last position
- Added weave reflection
- Minor bug fixes
- Updated manual
Features in 8.2 / June 2006
- Added panel position feature so the plugin knows the current panel (on re-appearance)
- Highlight current panel using 'bold' font
- Changed some panels to shorter form - bristles changed to edge (especially for mac extended length)
- Removed layer name.. for CS2 purposes
- Added frame brush to brush options
- Added double ring brush to brush options
- Added triple ring brush to brush options
- Modified dialog for new OK / cancel / presets position
- Random create - create symbol or not (leading to sparser applications of brush stroke / dabs / bristles)
- Pressure applied to shift / jitter of dab
- Added tumble button to randomize settings for possible tryout settings
- Added some additional presets such as scattered / dab fill document / dab fill random symbols etc
- Updated manual
- Added in document view settings
- Interpolation settings for re-shifting applied brush strokes
- Added feature if nothing is selected and nothing randomized or ordered, then the plugin will paint with the first symbol in the palette
- Minor bug fixes
Plugin set 9 9.3 June 2006 Update
- Added tumble button - use to tryout a huge range of settings
- Validate symbol addition added to avoid invalid symbol selection
- If no symbol selected or randomization/order set, then the first symbol in the symbol palette is picked
- Added document View suite + tracker suite to the plugin
- Added view / zoom setting - set initially at 100%, can zoom from 1% to 500% to show more or less of the document
- Added size (initial size) of the symbol, to re-size the symbol from the default saved size
- Changed precision settings to more realistic value
- Enabled texture/layer dropdown if layers is set to greater than 0 (as it has no meaning and perhaps confuses)
- Increased the width of the dialog
- Added drag buttons to some of the fields for increased interactivity (drag across document to modify values+ press shift to control)
- Presets added
- Manual updated
Plugin set 12 12.3 Update July 2006 Warp10:
- Added bold to tab names
- dialog position added to remember last entered tab
- Updated size of dialog and layout
- Additional presets added + preset bug fixed
- Changed extreme button to tumble button
- Precision modified
- Added documentview suite to plug-in
- Added view/zoom
- Added tumble feature - randomization of settings
- Added tracker suite to plug-in
- Added drag buttons for interactive setting (use shift and click drag button) - across document to set
- Updated manual
ShapeFX1:
- Added bold to tabs
- Modified size of dialog and changed layout
- Changed extreme button to tumble button
- Added documentview suite to plug-in
- Added view/zoom
- Initial position of shape offset against documentview center
- Added tumble feature - randomization of settings
- Added tracker suite to plug-in
- Added drag buttons for interactive setting (use shift and click drag button) - across document to set
- Added interpolation setting for inner and outer points
- Updated manual
Plugin set 13 13.4.1 December 10th 2006 Update
- Added new spiral structures - use gap instead of decay to create spirals
- Extended range of some items such as gap and number of spirals
- More presets added for the gap settings
- Updated documentation
13.4 October 5th 2006 Update
- Modified precision of settings
- Pattern feature added
- Added additional drag buttons
- Additional spiral structures
- Additional presets
13.3.5 July 20th 2006 Update
- Added point shift feature
- Removed dialogposition reset from presets
- Modified sensitivity of interactive buttons
- Added new decay option
- Added point shift dropdown for variants
- Updated tumble randomization
- Updated manual
13.3 June 2006 Release updates
- Added offset tab to the plugin
- Re-arranged the dialog to accomodate new tab
- Increased size of dialog
- Changed extreme button to tumble
- Added offsetx and offsety value to offset tab
- Bold applied to current tab
- Added documentView suite to the plug-in
- Added view / zoom feature
- Startpoint of spiral changed to document view center-100 pts horizontal + gap increased
- Added offset / per point to modify the offsetx and offsety value per point
- Added offset options dropdown - inc basic offset, random offsets, alternate offsets
- Added offset loop - to create multiple offsets using offset settings
- Added offset presets
- Added close path feature (more use for offset screen) - closes the spiral
- Added tumble functionality - extreme settings for randomization / tryout of plugin
- Added tracker suite to plug-in
- Added drag buttons for interactive setting (use shift and click drag button) - across document to set
- Updated manual
Plugin set 14 Features in 14.2 / May 2006
- Added sketch features
- Added drop shadow feature
- Updated interface
- Added interpolation settings
- Added tumble for randomized settings
- Added randomized distance inner and outer per point.. just for the of it
- Added buttons for quick drag
- Updated manual
- Minor bug fixes
Plugin set 15 15.4 September 2006
- Added additional panel 'settings'
- Updated dialog
- Added pattern feature
- Updated manual
15.3 Update July 2006
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Modified the size and position of some of the buttons / fields on panel
- Added dialogpos into the panel buttons - to remember previous panel position
- Changed extreme button to TUMBLE button
- Moved positions of some of checkboxes on settings panel
- Added documentview suite to the plugin
- Added view / zoom feature to the plugin
- Heart bottom is created 300 pts off-center of document view center / reset / presets likewise
- Added tumble code - not all features randomized but most
- Added tracker suite to plugin
- Added track button (hold shift down) for interactive settings of fields
- Updated manual
- Added more presets
Plugin set 16 New Features in 16.2.5
- Feature to swap node direction
- Factor applied to the horizontal node direction (create flames etc) / vertical direction for the color as well as jitter / shift
- Randomization of color combo
- Randomization of jitter combo
- More presets added
- Isolation feature added to apply mesh effect to a single node or an entire row or column
- Highlight panel position
- Added view / zoom document
- Drag buttons for increased interactive settings
- Tumble button for randomization of settings / tryout 100s of different meshes
Plugin set 17 17.3 Plug-in Update July 2006
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Updated dialog size and moved buttons
- Modified panel buttons
- Added dialog position - to remember the current dialog selected
- Added documentview suite to the plugin
- Added view / zoom feature to the plugin
- Added pattern number limit based on actual pattern swatches available
- Removed reset button
- Added presets dropdown with reset as the first item
- Presets added
- Added tumble button for randomizations of settings
- Add link scaling checkbox (only links setting scalev=h, not randomization)
- Add link pattern box (only links settting pat2=pat1 not randomization)
- Increased default height and width of patterns
- Added tracker suite to plugin
- Added drag buttons for some fields, drag across document + hold shift key to modify
- Removed delete of default fill - for use with randomization of 'top' fill and blending
- Added fillcombo - normal / multiply + randomized + 'no fill'
- Added additional patterns
- Updated manual
Plugin set 18
18. 3 February 2007
- Removed old color features - replaced with new color option
- Modified size of dialog
- Added pattern features + update plugin to handle parent / child / compounds better
- Line width modified by scaling of paths (ignores points inset...)
- Updated documentation
18.2 Update New Features
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Added documentview suite to the plugin
- Added view / zoom feature to the plugin
- Added tumble button for randomizations of settings
- Added tracker suite to plugin
- Increased size of dialog and moved buttons
- Moved link contour to lower half of first panel
- Added drag buttons for some fields, drag across document + hold shift key to modify
- Added new points contour setting + contour scaling settings (such as random pulse settings)
- Updated presets and added to presets selection
- Updated manual
Plugin set 19 19.2 Update August 2006
- Bloater: Minor bug in one of the color options - fixed
- Added tracker and documentview suite
- Added zoom level
- Added bold to tabs
- Added tumble button
- Added drag buttons for improved interactivity
- Presets added
- Initial center set to view center
- CornerPoint: Added tracker and documentview suite
- Added zoom level
- Bold added to tabs
- Added tumble button
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Added rotate option for path (for pattern designs)
- Added basic presets feature
- PieSlice: Added tracker and documentview suite
- Added zoom level
- Added bold to tabs
- Added tumble button for randomization
- Added random create for each 'slice set'
- Extended number of slices
- Added a test for points options and sgements to avoid a negative set of points
- Added direction point feature
- Added drag buttons for improved interactivity
- Changed compound path approach
- Add repeat feature (more useful with randomization at present)
- Split: Added tracker and documentview suite
- Added bold to tabs
- Added zoom level
- Added tumble button
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Added basic presets
- Added rotate options for split paths / alignment of paths to various centers
- Modified scaling setting
- Added rotation and scaling factor + updated factor approach + random anchor factor
- Added random create test
- Changed to jitter to shift, though offering the default option to be jitter
- Split shift to shift for point 1 and point 2
- Changed direction jitter to just direction, with jitter as the default option
- Added link shift to link randomization of all shift settings to the first row / column
- Added apply dragdown to vary point selection
- Added rotate per element
Plugin set 20 20.2 September 2006
- Background: Added tracker and documentview suites
- Added zoom / view level
- Added bold to tabs
- Added tumble button for randomization / experimention
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Removed layer title option
- Added link scale y to x (vertical to horizontal)
- Added shadow feature - for basic paths
- Option to limit the document range to document view instead of document (within limits)
- Added swatches fill
- Added swatches stroke
- Added random create option
- If scale/rotation set then use max settings
- Basic pattern (doesn't work with envelopes)
- Pyramid: Added tracker and documentview suites
- Added zoom / view level
- Added bold to tabs
- Added tumble button for randomization / experimention
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Added presets
- Add link interval (vertical to horizontal)
- Added swatches (fill and stroke)
- Added shadow feature - for basic paths
- Modified disposal of original path
- RambleShambles: Added tracker and document view suites and swatchlist and pathstyle suites
- Added zoom / view level
- Added tumble button for randomization / experimention
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Added presets
- Added fill / stroke / width / fill swatch / stroke swatch boxes
- Added scale factor (applied to each created item in turn)
- Added random direction (randomized after each apply) - uses abs jitter x to define range
- Added pattern (four way repeat feature)
- RandomClutter: Added documentView and Tracker suites
- Added zoom / view level
- Added bold to tabs
- Fixed RGB color overflow issue
- Added tumble button for randomization / experimention
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Removed layer title
- Disable rotate centre settings if checkbox
- Added swatch stroke feature
- Added drop shadow
- Added tiling/ basic pattern (includes shadow)
- Added link size
- Center point for rotate - document view center
- RandomType: Added documentview and tracker suites
- Added zoom / view level
- Added bold to tabs
- Fixed RGB overflow issue
- Added tumble button for randomization / experimention
- Added drag buttons to improve interactivity
- Added presets
- Modified color approach - removed color model dropdown
- Added random swatches to fill / stroke
Plugin set 21 21.4 September 2006
- Added tracker and documentview suites to plugin
- Added view / zoom
- Extend size of the dialog
- Added drag buttons for improved interactivity
- Combined layerscale and layertranslate and layerrotate into one plug-in set
- Add interpolation factor.. the factor will reduce or increase the interpolation between original and defined
- Added many interpolation modes such as inverse, red channel etc
- Added place above / or below option
- Updated tumble button for rotate / scale / translate features
- Changed dialog setup
Plugin set 22 Plug-in 22.3 Update January 23rd 2007
- Added some more burst types for thinner star designs
- Added pattern and fill and stroke options (fill and stroke only if unique elements set to ON)
- Added panel for 'styles' - fill / etc
- Removed previous fillbox etc
- Added apply fill unique elements / stars
- Added in a number of pattern options - added pattern to sketch / shadow and path
- Added scaling options (only valid for unique elements option)
Plug-in 22.2.5 Update October 2006
- Updated button positions to avoid overlap on mac
- Re-sized dialog panel buttons
- Updated manual
- Added presets
- Added additional panel
- Added pattern feature
- Changed start position related to document view
- Added startpoint
- Shadow features + sketch features
- Additional pulse feature
- Uniquebox option - so the randomization relates to each element instead of just to the primary
- Added factor per element (requires uniquebox to be set to true to be effective)
Plug-in 22.2 Update June 2006
- Added bold to panel buttons
- Added documentview suite to the plugin
- Added view / zoom feature to the plugin
- Added tumble button for randomizations of settings
- Added tracker suite to plugin
- Increased size of dialog and moved buttons
- Added drag buttons for some fields, drag across document + hold shift key to modify
- Center of starburst shifted to the left of plug-in dialog center
- Updated manual
Plugin set 23 1.1 May 31st 2007
- Shift Center - Repeats / shifts subsequent zoom sets for interference etc designs
1.0.5 - New interactive / drag buttons for length / lines / center / distance.
- Tumble button to randomize the settings, great for trying out and then tweaking a huge range of different focus lines
- New zoomline types such as 'dip' 'plateau'
- Midpoint factors added to modify the size / width / distance of zoomlines based on the distance from the user defined midpoint and actual zoomline center, use to create subtle or extreme variations of lines
- Create-linked midpoint feature to create controlled variation of density of lines
Layers set 1.2.4 October 2006 Update
- Added layers update (vol 21)
- Heart plugin update (vol 15)
- Starburst plugin update (vol 22)
- Spiral (vol 13) update
- VectorWand (vol 7) update
1.2.3 September 2006 Update - Added a number of new updates to volume 19, 20, 2, and others.
- Removed Illustrator 8 and 9 sets (to avoid any confusion with later sets)
- Updated manual
1.2.2 July 2006 Update - Added a number of new updates to the package such as vol 15, vol 5, vol 13, vol 12 and 1
Note: 31st May 2007 all the mac OS X plugins were updated to CS3 Intel / PPC |