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Beta 5 Key Improvements

• Improved copying of selections to the clipboard so that the copied images include their layers.
• Fixed the issue where image scaling did not maintain its aspect ratio.
• Ensured that the pasted image’s position remains within the screen.
• Enhanced deletion and cutting of selections to allow for selective transparency.
• Fixed the issue that caused clipboard images to become distorted when pasted into external applications.
• Resolved the problem where the default text color was initialized as transparent.
• Fixed a bug that caused the canvas resizer to disappear after merging layers.
• Corrected the malfunction in the free-angle image rotation feature.
• Improved selection and shape-drawing tools to support mouse wheel scrolling and auto-scroll.

General Feature Improvements

• Added support for 64-bit architecture.
• Support for saving and editing transparent PNGs
• Introduced a new file format for PicPick, allowing shapes and layers to be saved and re-edited.
• Added a feature for free-angle image rotation.
• Enhancement to remember separate colors for the last used drawing, text, and shape tools

Drawing and Retouching Feature Enhancements

• Added various drawing modes: soft brush, calligraphy, and airbrush.
• Introduced new retouching features: finger (smudge), mosaic, twist, blur, and sharpen effects.
• Added transparent eraser and transparent fill tools.
• Improvement to allow setting a tolerance level for fill and magic wand tools

Selection Area Feature Enhancements

• Added new selection tools: Elliptical selection, freehand selection, and magic wand selection.
• Included an option to invert the selection.
• Improved functionality to convert selections into layers for applying independent effects.
• Added a feature to reset effects on independent layers.

Enhanced Text Insertion Functionality

• Ability to insert WordArt-style gradient text
• Quick menu for rapidly changing text styles

Improved Shape Insertion Features

• Inclusion of over 20 diverse shapes and arrows
• Enhancement to allow inserting gradients into shape backgrounds
• Feature to align multiple shapes and layers precisely
• Improved shadow effects for shapes

Other Image Editing Tool Enhancements

• Added a feature to change the ruler units in the image editing tools.
• Introduced a new tab paste function (Ctrl+Shift+V).
• Modified the interface so that the thumbnail view button is always displayed on the tab.