BePhotoMagic 0.54 Alpha

Thank you for downloading BePhotoMagic! We've worked on this project with excitement - things are still relatively simple, but quite a few bugs have been fixed, so more time can be devoted to making new stuff.

New Features 
Flood Fill tool, as promised, works. Rather slow and still needs work, but for general purposes, it'll get the job done.
ImageManip plugins are now useful.
Popup help for a lot of different things
Took out Selected Shape tools - drawing tools can modify the selection in Mask mode
Various GIMP brushes have been added to brushes directory
Image|Crop works
Value labels to brush designer
Save-changes prompting now works
Added Pick Brush from Image tool
Flip Vertical
Copy/Paste
Clipboard Purge

Bugs fixed 
Opening OptionWindow no longer sets transparency to 0% 
Tweaked BubbleHelper to reflect actual shortcut key case 
Redraw at zoomed levels works 
Resizing color picker doesn't also pick a color 
Undoing selection changes no longer causes a crash 
No more complaints about missing preferences 
Couple of minor brush designer label bugs squashed 
Ellipse tool now draws properly when dragged along any diagonal vector 
Pick Brush from image enabled 
A missing brushes directory no longer hangs the app 
Some internal reorganization 
Brush designer now remembers brush settings every time it's opened 
Layer Window crasher has been temporarily hacked into submission 
Line/Rect/Ellipse previews reflect size of brush 
Can now undo the first edit to an image 
Horizontal Flip pretty much works now 
Create Window no longer requires you to tab out of a number box before hitting OK 
Fixed display bugs in Select All/Select None

Development RoadMap 
These are some of the features which will eventually be implemented in future releases:

Plugin previews: a faster way than what is done in Productive and Eden. Wait and see. :^) 
Individualized Tool Options views
Allow usage of filters on the selection
MouseCam
Fill tolerance for each color channel
Transparency display & use in layers (make use of Alpha Channel in image data)
More File Operations - Save a Copy, Export, Open as Layer, Open/Save as PSD (non-translator version to support layers)
Clipboard operations - Cut, Paste Into, Paste Behind
Application scripting
Spline Tool
Brush presets and brush aspect lock
Unfinished menu commands - Resize Canvas, Resize Image, etc.
Unfinished Layer commands - Flatten Image, Merge, New from Selection, etc.
Activate paper usage 
Implement an decent Preferences system 
Make/port some new plugins 
Gradients 
More drawing tools
Blur/Sharpen
More Transparency modes
Erase to Background, Foreground, or transparent
Burn/Dodge/Saturate/DeSaturate tools
Extend the Text tool's capabilities 
Make sure language localization is used in all UI strings except plugin views 

Known Issues (read: Bugs): 
The expectation with alpha software is that there are going to be bugs. There still are quite a few bugs in the project, and we keep finding new ones, much to our chagrin. Luckily, we keep squashing them, too. If you find one not in the list, please let us know so that it can be addressed.

Crashers 
Opening a file which has no translator. Some progress has been made on it, but this one's been stubbon. :^(

Opening certain GIMP .PAT files. This is an issue with the coding of the actual translator AFAIK - Productive crashes on some files, too.

Calling the Carpet filter. This is actually an issue with the filter itself - it'll crash Gobe Productive, too, if you check the Preview option. This is an issue with both the GP 2.0 and 2.0.1 versions. As long as you don't try to get a preview, you're ok. Also, it seems that calling the Carpet filter without a preview also creates some memory problems which cause a crash. Right now it's pretty random, but we're working on figuring out the exact conditions under which it happens. This will remain unresolved until either (1)Gobe fixes it, (2) I find time to fix it, or (3) some good samaritan fixes it. Considering that I'm still learning how to create simple plugins, it looks like #3 is going to be choice #3 at least for quite a while.  Any takers?

Minor Problems: 
Bucket tool doesn't handle transparency 
Vertical/Horizontal Flip leaves a 1-pixel-wide white line on right side of image 

Annoyances: 
Bucket tool is very slow.
Layer Window will close, if open, upon closing the last image open - a quick hack to work around a crasher. 
Using the color shortcut keys (d, x) updates colors, but not cursors in the picker windows if open. 

Special Thanks To: 
David Sowsy, for support, code, and showing me what a coder oughta be.

For their coding contributions: 
	Edmund Vermeulen 
	Dirk Olbertz 
	Bjorn Tornqvist 
	Marco Nelissen 
	Guillame Maillard 

For translations: 
	Ted Leeuwesteijn 
	Michael Pfeiffer 
	Andrea Mueller 
	Inujini 

Contacting the BPM dev team: 
We really value the feedback users give us, and it has a direct effect on the direction the project takes. As long as you don't ask for warez or something you'll get a rather prompt reply, too. Feel free to contact us at bpmagic@columbus.rr.com
