April 27, 2022: What's New in AliveColors 5.0
build 5.0.2941
AliveColors 5.0 offers significant changes in terms of licensing and functionality. Many features are now unlocked and available for all types of licenses. Also, the update offers the new Vibrance adjustment and a series of improvements and fixes. Download AliveColors 5.0!
Changes in Licenses
Free and Home users get more features, Pro license transforms into Business!
The Free version now includes much more features! You can use almost all tools and filters. Even the unavailable effects can be applied but with a watermark sign. This license is for non-commercial, personal use only.
The Home license now offers full functionality, includes all features! Enjoy the full-featured graphics editor! Remember that the Home version can only be used for personal purposes. Commercial use is prohibited.
The Business (ex Pro) license also includes full functionality. The license allows commercial use of the software. It's intended for organizations, institutions, and individuals that derive a profit from the usage of the software.
Compare Free, Home, Business licenses.
Read how to update to version 5.0 for free or for a small fee and get all the features!
Also, in Version 5.0:
New Vibrance Adjustment
The new Vibrance adjustment allows you to gently change the color saturation of an image. It's useful when you need to increase the intensity of muted colors in a photo and leave the already well-saturated colors. This feature helps to improve photos without an over-saturated effect.
Many Improvements
The new version contains many optimizations and improvements.
- Updated the NatureArt built-in plugin.
- Added a duplication of layers/objects by the Move tool.
- Added activation of layers with the Move, Text, Fit Text to Path, and Edit Shape tools when recording actions. Added a delete entry when the Move tool is active.
- Added alignment of guidelines to pixel edges.
- Added scrolling of the Tool Options panel in the small program window.
- Added highlighting of the parameter in focus.
- Improved the user interface.
- Added a splash screen that appears when starting the program.
Bug Fixes
Also, the update provides better stability and bug fixes.
- Fixed an error of the AirBrush, Enhancer, Neon, and Points built-in plug-ins when processing an image after cropping in the Hide External Area mode.
- Fixed an error that caused the Points built-in plugin to crash when launched by Ctrl+F.
- Fixed a preview calculation error in Enhancer -> Tone Correction/Prepress Processing when re-selecting the same preset.
- Fixed an error when moving the layer mask with the Move tool.
- Fixed error saving an image resolution (dpi) in the AKVIS format.
- Fixed an error in image rendering after a transformation that does not affect the upper left corner.
- Fixed a loading issue of non-latin texts from PSD files.
Update Information:
If you use AliveColors Free, download the latest version of the program, your license will work.
For owners of AliveColors Home/Pro:
- If you purchased or upgraded AliveColors during the last 12 months, you can use the new version for free.
Download version 5.0. If necessary, re-activate it using your key.
The Pro-version owners are recommended to reactivate the program so that it is registered as a Business. - If your license is older and is not valid for the current version, you can buy updates for $ 20.
When ordering, please enter your key (serial number) of the program. After the payment is completed, your license becomes valid for the new version and all subsequent updates within a year.
Re-activate the latest version using your key.
Attention Windows users: To use GPU power for AI, you need an NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5+ and the latest version of a driver for the graphics card. Otherwise, the processing will be performed by the CPU which will take much longer.
Attention Mac users: You need at least macOS 10.12 (or later) to use neural filters.
