- Clipboard update and other bug fixes - 15 September 2026
Added- Added a copy button and a paste button to the palette toolbar, you can now copy a palette to the clipboard and paste it into another image palette.Changed- All palette editing now controlled by the palette lock. To make changes to the palette, other than sorting, first unlock it.Fixed- Clipboard functions are now greatly improved, previously you would sometimes have trouble pasting new content from the clipboard.- Rotating a selection of pixels 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise with a non-square selection would cause the last row of pixels to be lost.- When using the vertical or horizontal mirror, edits made on the right or lower sides of the mirror would incorrectly reflect the content off by 1 pixel on the other side.- Palette editing was buggy, particularly, in particular, adding a new colour to a palette was sometimes not possible.- Previous frame button in the animat…
- Photoshop PSD rework - 1 September 2025
Changed:- Font size limit increased from 80 to 300.- If current color alpha is 0 and you select a color from the palette, alpha is restored to 255. Fixed:- If mousewheel zoom during selection, marquee lines go out of view.- Photoshop PSD reworked to be more stable.- Importing PSD with a frame that is larger than the layer can cause application to crash.- Importing Photoshop layer opacity imported incorrectly.- Importing Photoshop import with indexed color not working.- Fixed crash that sometimes occurred when resizing an image to a smaller size.- Can't paint with the brush after using the flood fill tool.- New color replacer guide color does not always match color selection.- Right click during selection will allow erasing of content.- Image flip horizontal or vertical only flips the current layer.- Blend modes in Simplified Chinese locale are in English.
- Summer Update 1.2.0 - 13 August 2025
Fixed:- Whilst selecting with marquee tool, status bar shows selection size 1 pixel less than actual selection size.- Can't select a single 1 pixel wide line of pixels.- Changing the tool after typing text causes the text to disappear.- Exporting video with odd number height or width causes crash.- Exporting video to smaller frame size causes crash.- Selecting an area flipped the file modified flag to true.- Some labels for Simplified Chinese users are displayed in English.- Horizontal and Vertical mirror menu options missing from main menu.- Zoom out icon in toolbar had incorrect image.- Flood fill doesn't apply mirror setting.- Text tool click and release without sizing a text box led to 1 character per line, now creates a default text box size.- Remove shape definition box rectangle outline.- Grid size of 1 can cause app to hang when a large image is being edited.Updated:- Changed re…
- Bug fix to stop crashing when loading files - 17 July 2024
Fixed: - Sometimes Lightcube will crash when loading .art files. The files are not corrupt, the application is just incorrectly loading them, this is now fixed.
- Small bugfix - 12 July 2024
A small bug related to saving image files crept into the update that went yesterday, this release fixes that problem.
- July 2024 Update - 11 July 2024
Added: 1. Export animation to MP4 video 2. Export sprites to Godot Fixed: 1. Fixed free rotation, sometimes pixels selected for rotation would disappear when free rotated 2. Fixed the really annoying pixel coordinate issue where the selection click point is biased to the top left corner. 3. Photoshop files with unicode layer names caused Lightcube to crash 4. Large photoshop files caused Lightcube to crash 5. Photoshop animation frames not imported 6. PNG export did not work correctly with pixels that had alpha
- The next update: Bug fixes, video export, Godot export - 10 July 2024
The next update contains: Bug fixes for PNG export, free rotation, selection and more. There are also two new features: Exporting animations to MP4 video and export Sprites to Godot. The update is almost ready to go, some final testing and then it will be posted to Steam!
- Update to fix some bugs - 16 January 2024
Changed: Text added to the scene is now added as a floating selection, allowing you to move it with the selection tool before making the change permanent. Fixed: Text block creates memory leak in undo data. Move tool doesn't have an undo action. On restart, select Text tool, the preview shows the preview text Arial instead of the current selected font. While selecting content if you press Ctrl+X, it leaves a solid line rect and copies nothing. In the animation window if you copy a frame, it does not copy the frame duration. If you create new document, draw, click close application without saving, it prompts to save file. Enter filename, prompts again and if you ignore the 2nd prompt, nothing has been written out.
- A small update: bug fixes - 6 January 2024
Switching from Text tool to another tool can lead to shift, alt and ctrl not being detected. Making changes to the font size using the keyboard can cause unexpected changes to the text content. Animation onion skin is not working after the layer blending mode update. When you make a duplicate of a tab and then click save, instead of prompting for a filename it just overwrites the original file.
- New Years Update: Layer blend modes and a new toolbar - 4 January 2024
Happy New Year! This update adds blend modes to layers, including multiply, linear burn, darken, lighten, color dodge and more. A new toolbar has been added to the top of the canvas window giving you quick one click access to Undo, Rotate, Flip, Cut, Copy, Paste, Grid and Zoom. Also included in the update is a list of bug fixes detailed below. Added: Layer blend modes including multiply, linear burn, darken, lighten and more. Toolbar with Undo, Rotate, Flip, Cut, Copy, Paste, Grid and Zoom buttons. Fixed: Drawing a shape with the option to fill the shape crashes the application. Drawing with a lower alpha level on a blank canvas led to incorrect blending. Pressing tab whilst in dialog window causes main UI to expand or collapse. Erase tool required mouse move before erasing pixel under the click point. Erase tool strength setting was being ignored. Floating pixel selection is moved by a…
- The next update: Layer blend modes - 27 December 2023
The next update is in progress and will contain layer blending modes such as darken, lighten, multiply, color burn, linear burn etc. plus a number of bug fixes including the rather annoying UI bugs, eraser bug and issues with the alt, shift and ctrl keys.
- Lightcube now has a text tool - 14 December 2023
Added: - Text tool with font selection, size, bold etc. - More brush shapes including 24px patterns, 24px landscape, 32px windows and doors and hex shapes. Changed: - Application window title used to show filename, now shows full filename and path Fixed: - Improved pen tablet drawing support, fixed random lines being drawn - On pen tablets, undo stores same action twice, so you have to hit ctrl+z twice to undo drawing - Move tool doesn't store undo action - Grab action didn't change cursor to show grab icon - Removed old menu item in Simplified Chinese langauge - Grab action doesn't show pan cursor (hand) - Tab incorrectly toggles window pane visibility, should only toggle windows that were visible - Selection mode allowed invalid mode to be selected, could not move selection with cursor - Sometimes window would not regain focus after editing tile settings, after than shift and del woul…
- Dev log 21/11 - Text tool incoming - 21 November 2023
The upcoming update for Lightcube includes the following: 1. A text tool that enables you to place a text cursor on the current layer and type text that is formatted according to the tool settings which include font face, size, bold italic, spacing etc. The onscreen caret provides standard text editing functions similar to Photoshop, MS Paint and other image editing tools. 2. Several bug fixes to exporting, selection and more. 3. Additional brush shapes of different sizes. Most of the work on this update is done and I'm hoping to release before December rolls around.
- Update to version 1.0.7 - 30 October 2023
Added: - Tool option to let tablet pressure affect pen size - Tool option to let tablet pressure affect eraser size Fixed: - Tablet compatibility, works correctly now with tablet pen and with surface pro - Fixed Brush tool blank spots - Removed grayed-out menu option for animation window - Fixed PSD import for an image with only a background color, was coming up blank - Pressing delete in an edit control of the tile window caused the canvas to be cleared - Small palette window scroll position taken into account when clicking, correct color is chosen - Small palette window now scrolls vertically with mouse wheel - Gradient fill in a selected area didn't always work, just got no fill whatsoever - Clicking on the Tiled tab when the window pane is collapsed incorrectly opens the animation tab - Magic wand selection bug fixed - Fixed onion skin, was enabled always and ignored user setting. O…
