Our beloved Flame Painter fans!
When we were thinking about new features for Flame Painter 3, we didn’t have to think too much, because we are receiving tons of emails with your invaluable feedback, ideas and wishes. We are extremely thankful for all your support and efforts. We have been working hard for months, spending long days and long nights developing, drinking loads of coffee and strong green tea from Sri Lanka. So it is also thanks to you guys that in few days we are releasing a new Flame Painter 3 with many great features and improvements. From today until the release date - April 29, we would like to introduce the most remarkable features of version 3.
In today’s blog post we are going to explore a few of the most crucial and beneficial features, especially with regards to the Professional edition. Many of you, Flame Painter users, have been suggesting these features for a while and now they are finally becoming a reality.
Photoshop plug-in
Believe us when we say, we were thinking a lot about making Flame Painter as a Photoshop plug-in. The problem we were facing was that Photoshop does not support organic brushes which Flame Painter natively uses. The great news is that we managed to find a solution which is even better than we thought it could possibly be. As a matter of fact, we created a very unique Flame Painter Connect, a Photoshop plug-in for CS5, CS6 and the latest Photoshop CC, which runs in the background as a communication channel between two applications. You will not have to save your work every time when you need to exchange layers between applications, because the plug-in works “behind the scene” and communicates between Flame Painter 3 Pro and Photoshop making your creative process seamless and easy.
PSD file format
Another great news is that with Flame Painter 3 Pro you will be able to open and save layered PSD files for Photoshop, Gimp or other bitmap programs supporting PSD file format - with all layer settings, blending modes and opacity.
SVG file format
Another fantastic Pro feature is SVG vector format file. In other words, Flame Painter 3 will allow you to export vector layers to Illustrator or other vector graphics editors, where you can continuously edit your flame picture in vectors.
New blending modes
In both Personal and Pro edition you can use these 22 Photoshop blending modes: Normal, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity and our classic Subtract mode.
That is all for today. We hope these features made your waiting for the version 3 more unbearable :-) Just kidding guys, we’re just hoping these upcoming features cheered you up no matter if you are a professional user or just a digital art addict. We will introduce other key features of Flame Painter 3 in the next week’s blog post and newsletter. Check the blog and your Inbox/Spam folder :-) for the news from Escape Motions world on April 15, 2014!
Have a cool week!
Your Escape Motions Team
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Bad deal for us that supported the developer. Charging for upgrades sucks. i'll skip the next few paid versions to make up. Or i may just give it up altogether. Some guy will pay less than i did simply because he/she never supported the developers.
I think it's a really good step forward, integrating these two beautiful tools!
But paying for it again?
I know the major brands are doing this. But is it really the right way?
You have only happy customers to gain from handing the upgrade out for free for those who have already bought a copy of your software.
Perhaps you should adjust the initial pricing slightly instead of charging for each bigger feature upgrade?
damn man, i just buy flame painter, on march.. and now i need spend more money for de version 3..isnt fair.
Ducasse, don't be afraid, you will not need to spend more money for version 3, than if you would buy it next month. :)
cool bro..when u cometo mexicoi will invite the beers. your software is really awesome!,
PSD format is fine, but it would still be cool to be GIMP friendly too (am I asking or to mucheth? lol). I can still open SVG files in GIMP though and scale as need too. Maybe it can be coaxed to work with shellout (a GIMP python plugin that allows export of a layer into another aplication then the result auto-feeds back into the layer that it was called on). :)
It is possible to open and save PSD file for Gimp as well, I forgot to mention it in the blog, but it is fixed now. Thank you for you suggestion.
True; just jealous a bit that there's no cool plugin for direct interface. lol
I do have CS5 too though; just don't open it very much. :)
We made plugin only for Photoshop, but for Gimp it is very easy (if not easier ), we made universal Copy-Paste system, so you just copy picture from Flame and paste it to Gimp and vice versa. It greatly works with Alpha channel too. PS does not support Copy-Paste of alpha channel between applications, so we had to make a plugin.
Can one now move the image around to work on a particular area when it is zoomed? That would be worth upgrading for. I don't own Photoshop so that's sort of irrelevant to me.
Next week we will reveal more features, but I believe you'll find what you are looking for :)
Whoohoo! :-)
Feature I'd like to see added: ability to enter text and have it laid on top of a picture.
Received email about FP3 ... mentioning whether or not it's a free upgrade would have been more than appropriate :)
It will be a paid upgrade with a discount for all users. :)
thanks for the info!
Sounds exciting and here comes the BUT.......How much will this cost existing users?? Would be awesome to be able to save images as objects directly into PS
We will publish the pricing in one of the next blog posts. You can exchange layers between FP and PS, or you can save all layers as PSD file and open it in FP or PS.
Will this be something 2.0 owners will have to purchase...or is it a upgrade for us ? I only got Flame Painter 2.0 Pro a few months ago.
The upgrade is paid, but with a special discount for all existing users.
I just registered, and now have little to say. I'm licensed for 1 dot something. I respect the program, and have seen impressive results from it. The Photoshop plugin sounds great. The PSD format capability is a big asset. But I haven't used Flame Painter often, because my clients by and large are not hankering for its effects. Blame my clients, or blame me for insufficient imagination. I was going to ask the upgrade price from version 1. Or the student pricing. But I think I should just keep an eye out for one of those "80% Off" types of deals that happen now and then.
We will have discounts also for 1.x users, so if you find it interesting you can buy it in a few weeks.
Have 2x now; any hint on the price for the upgrade. Very interested in the svg export feature. :)
We will publish the pricing in one of the next blog posts, but I can say that it will have big discounts for all dedicated users. You will not loose your money even if you but Flame Painter 2 today. :)
Thanks for the reply Peter. :)