New stuff in the 0.3 release

Today's 0.3 release of Mojave Paint adds a couple of standard features: the Gradient tool and the Crop tool. They'll seem familiar and not terribly exciting. But there are a couple things in this release I am excited about.

Under the Crop tool slot is another tool I just call "Reframe". I never really liked the standard crop tool for artistically re-framing photos and it dawned on me that the way you crop an Instagram story photo is just easier and more intuitive. Rather than drawing out a cropping rectangle, the crop box is fixed at the outer edge and you pan and zoom within until you get the look you like. The cropped-out parts of the image are completely hidden this way so it's easier to visualize.

No support yet for altering or flipping the aspect ratio, let me know if that would be useful for you.

The other thing: The new tool icons for Crop and Gradient are in a retro pixel art style (which all the icons in the app will eventually be). I drew those icons in Mojave Paint which is the surest and quickest way to learn of any pain points. There's no vector shape support in Mojave Paint yet so building icons like this involves a lot of little layers that you move around and merge together. Not having "Autoselect" to move the layer under the cursor was painful and not have "Merge down" was just annoying, so I added those.

Give 0.3 a try. I'll get a public bug tracker set up soon but in the meantime feel free to just email me.