About This Software

PD Howler is back with its most powerful version yet. PD Howler 2023 introduces a slew of new features and improvements.

PD Howler is a fast digital painting and animation program, i.e. creative software for your PC.

It is best used on Windows 10, 7 or 8.1, preferably on 64-bit versions of Windows with lots of RAM, although it still is a 32-bit (x86) application, but some modules run in there own address space so you can take advantage of the extra memory that you might not have in 32-bit systems.

We have with GPU-accelerated 3D landscape generation tools, rendering with path tracing, video-on-video painting, motion tracking, image stabilization, rotoscoping, artist guides, photo editing, realistic media painting with dryout, translucency and pigment lifting, tools for post work and special effects filters, time stretching with motion estimated interpolation, particle brushes, foliage brushes, bristle brushes, orbicle brushes, user-defined custom animated brushes, video brushes, an exposure sheet for lip-synched cartooning, animated frame painting, loopable and seamless video creation tools, awesome lens flares and many more amazing tools and gadgets.

What's new in PD Howler 2023

• New 1-3 point perspective guides
  
• New undo browser
  
• New sky rendering filter with volume clouds
  
• Select your preferred accelerator card
  
• New noise tool and open simplex noise
  
• New Mandelbrot and Julia set exploration features
  
• Improved floating color picker
  
• GUI improvements. New combo box control
  
• New print panel, settings panel
  
• Updated Europa filter, Lorenz attractors
  
• Analytical Upscale Superresolution
  
• Rewritten warp mesh filter
  
• New advanced noise removal tool Non-Local-Means
  
• Rewritten floating color picker
  
• The r,g,b,h,s,v labels in the color picker are now editable
  
• You can now enter hex "web" color notation on the color picker
  
• Pick any color from any monitor via the color picker
  
• New Adaptive Threshold filter
  
• Feather the alpha channel
  
• New Distance Transform filter
  
• Paper texture layers creatable on the size panel let you work with paper on a separate layer
  
• New tone-mapping setting on the light diffusion filter to adjust the bloom effect in add mode
  
• You can now break the tangent line in the warp mesh filter by holding down the shift key
  
• The Local Contrast filter is replaced with a more advanced, halo-free tone mapping tool.
  
• Centrepital and Chord Length curve types for the curve tool
  
• The AA pen now can use the all drawing modes
  
• Added "Make indelible", "copy to clipboard", and "save as" to the Stored Image dock.
  
• Images in the dock now survive a program crash
  
• Brush keying now has the option to key an entire animated brush
  
• The Most Recent Media list on the Media Manager is now remembered between instances
  
• Performance and feature improvements to the media
  
• Save brush shape using either the current brush image or its alpha
  
• Show all brush sets on the brush shapes panel at the same time
  
• Save and Delete new shapes directly on the shape panel
  
• Save a color swatch directly from the swatch arranger
  
• Improved histogram
  
• The woodgrain filter now has a frequency setting
  
• Many filter improvements and new parameters
  
• Lots of refinements and fixes