Allow me to introduce myself; I'm Geraldine, co-founder of Bleank, a small French company that I established in 2005 with David, my partner, and two friends as associates (Benoit and Bruno). We are the parents of two children, a 12-year-old girl, and a 9-year-old boy. Both of us have been working full-time on Black Ink for 12 years, with me as a graphic designer and David as a programmer.

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Fix - Issue with the stylus when the overall UI scale wasn't set to 100%.
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Black Ink First Steps Tutorial.
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Dear Black Ink Users,

We are thrilled to announce a major new release of Black Ink, bringing a lot of enhancement for the interface and introducing new tools such as the magic wand, paint bucket, and more. We invite you to visit our new website through this link to access tutorials, documentation and changelog.

Please note that this update is a paid release (after 10 years of free updates), enabling the continued development of Black Ink. As a gesture of gratitude for your loyalty, we're currently running a special promotion on Steam.

Thank you sincerely for your ongoing support.
Best regards,
The Bleank Team

- Fixed When dropping an image and not being on a layer, we remain in Black Ink's image import mode, and you need to restart the program for it to behave normally.

- Fixed Crash when using the MagicWand or BucketFill

Fixed the simple image ( JPG / PNG ) Drag&Drop into the main canvas.
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Fixed Crash when loading some “corrupted” BKD

BlueStoneFist has created a contest for its webtoon "Alice in the Wonderado". It's all the more remarkable that he only uses Black Ink to realize his work !!!!

So don't hesitate to participate"

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List of fixes :

• Black Ink doesn’t start with CPU that have more than 32 CORE detected
  
• Crash at startup if the GPU provides several device
  
• Crash when using the command/shortcut “Fill eyedropper”
  
• When using the command “Duplicate as layer”, the content of this layer was still influenced by modifications made by its original operators.
  
• Random crash after using the CropTool
  
• Rendering problem with brushes: Canvas Fill, Free Fill and Polygonal Fill
  
• Brush with dual primitive (like Charcoal) can miss the secondary texture when rendered
  
• Crash when pasting in a Grayscale layer
  
• When a RGBA image is dragged and dropped into a grayscale layer the layer is transformed into a RGBA layer.

List of changes :

New Blur Operator




New Directional Blur Operator


New Gradient Map Operator


New Gradient editor (Only available in the Gradient Map operator for now )


New Color Overlay Operator


New Color Mode Channel Operator


New Color Posterization Operator


New Color Select Operator


New Drag & Drop of Images in the Layer editor create multiple layer


New Create Layer From Image.. Command in the layer editor


New User Interface preference where you can Save / Load different UI Layout






Improvement Better performance when brushing with Black Ink
Improvement If you only save a PNG/JPG the document in Black Ink isn’t considered saved anymore. So you will not lose all your work if you try to close Black Ink by mistake.
Improvement No more glitch when brushing with texture on a zoomed canvas
Improvement The operator is now created at the same position as displayed by the preview
Improvement The eyedropper can now pick color anywhere in the Black Ink user interface & can pick into OS child windows

Improvement The Mask operator selects the alpha channel by default.
Improvement Layer operator isn’t expanded by default
Improvement Color wheel is now left aligned





Fixed Startup crash on some AMD GPU
Fixed Multithread random crash
Fixed Random crash sometimes when merging layers in the Layer editor
Fixed Random freeze sometimes when merging image layers
Fixed Big slowdown in Black Ink when auto-saving a document is triggered
Fixed Crash sometimes when selecting "Background default Image" in brush preview.
Fixed Crash when using invalid parameters in an array in BSL
Fixed Random Crash when previewing brush eraser
Fixed Crash when using a grayscale image as a brush preview background
Fixed Keyboard states sometimes are irrelevant when the focus of the main window of Black Ink changed
Fixed Sometimes the "erase with current brush" shortcut gets stuck on the eraser, the cursor will still be red and the brush will still erase even though it is not holding the shortcut for it.
Fixed Freeze when typing in the search box of the Log panel
Fixed Sometimes Eyedropper return null color ( alpha at 0 )
Fixed The "overlay" node is creating liserets with the edges in some case
Fixed Sometimes the “Center on selection” command in the Layer Editor doesn't work as expected
Fixed Shortcuts “Save”, “Open”, “Save As..” works only when a CanvasView has the focus


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Credits
A huge thanks for all our beta testers, patrons and all artists with your drawings or pictures illustrating this update!
D. Alex. Nixon: https://www.dalexnixon.art/
Ahi: https://twitter.com/aherowo?s=20
Cristina Cόrdova: https://www.cristinacordova.com/
Taran Fiddler: https://www.artstation.com/tfiddlerart
Claudine Ricart
Perceval Schopp