What's New in Logoist 4 & Logoist 4.2?

All New Features in Logoist 4

New rendering pipeline based on Apple Metal

• Smooth, realtime zoom up to 1000%
• Scroll, zoom and edit in 60 frames per second
• Dramatically reduced memory footprint
• Optimized for the new M1-based Macs

Performance

• Create designs with thousands of objects or paths without slowdowns
• Much faster previews in the objects list
• Performance of the object list drastically improved, even with thousands of objects
• Improved performance duplicating, grouping or ungrouping objects
• Much improved speed switching between full drawing mode, x-ray mode and pixel mode

Focus Mode

• Focus on a specific set of objects while editing elaborate designs
• Automatically hides all other objects
• Add and reorder objects in Focus Mode – Logoist 4 makes sure they will be inserted in the correct place in the final design
• Only displays the colors in the inspector that are relevant for the current objects used in focus mode
• Restores zoom and scroll position when exiting focus mode

Blend Modes

• Specify different blend modes for each object or group – Screen, Add, Multiply, Overlay, Hard Light, Soft Light and Color are supported
• Order-correct blending for overlapping objects in groups
• Exportable in all file formats (PDF, SVG, PNG and more)
• All glow effects may now be used with additive blending
• Shadow effects can be used with multiply blending

Artboards

• Multiple drafts or final designs in the same document
• Artboards can be locked or duplicated
• Multiple Artboards can be saved as a single PDF
• Artboards in a document can be configured individually: Specify different sizes, grids or labels for each Artboard
• Drag & Drop objects between Artboards
• Perfect integration with Color Suggestions: New Color Suggestions can either be applied to the current Artboard or added as a new Artboard

Vectorizer

• Creates vector/path-based graphics from bitmap images
• Can be used with clipart bitmap images, complex vector images or (suitable) fotos
• Leverages CoreML/Machine Learning to enhance the source imagery
• Even recognizes gradients in source imagery
• Optionally analyzes and recreates the hierarchy of objects from the source image

Enhance Images

• Scales source images by a factor of 2 using CoreML/Machine Learning
• Removes noise and compression artifacts

Multipoint Gradients

• Use innovative new gradients by specifying color points, lines and Bézier curves
• May be used with all objects and paths
• Ideal for deep and realistic gradients

User Interface

• Automatically adjusts to the specified system accent color
• Improved Dark Mode
• More shortcuts added for commonly used functions

Lens Flares

• Multiple drafts or final designs in the same document
• Fully configurable in every aspect
• Multiple streak/glow layers per Lens Flare object
• Many included Lens Flare presets

Printing

• Multiple Artboards can be printed at the same time – even multiple Artboards on one page
• Easily specify which Artboards should be printed
• More page layout configuration options added

Align Text on Path

• Configurable distance between letters and the spacing between letters and the path
• Align text on any path or group of paths – even very complex paths can be used for alignment

Improved X-Ray

• Better visualization of the object hierarchy
• Greatly improved performance
• Improved visualization of hidden or removed path geometry
• The fill coloring of objects is now shown as light pastel colours when using X-Ray mode

Filters

• New Color Mesh Filter
• New Edge Dots/Rects Filter
• New Edge Smear Filter
• New Border Dots Filter
• New See-Through Shadow Filter
• New Inner Dots Filter
• Greatly improved HDR Filter
• Improved Bottom Shadow Filter – better quality and more settings added

Quick Color Adjustments

• Simply select objects on the canvas and adjust hue, brightness and contrast using the Color Adjust feature from the toolbar
• Very handy when adjusting the colors of complex objects with many effects – When adjusting colors, single colors from the selected objects may be adjusted directly on the color wheel
• Also, selecting and adjusting multiple colors on the color wheel simultaneously is possible

Crop/Mask Images

• Greatly improved precision
• Assisted by CoreML/Machine Learning
• Vastly better performance thanks to Metal

Improved Rulers & Snapping

• Improved visualization of object positions on the rulers
• Object markers are now displayed in the label color
• Better visualization of snapped objects while editing

Paths

• New feature: Mirror & merge paths
• Improved simplify function
• Greatly improved performance editing paths – even complex paths can be edited with full speed
• Improved path edit user interface

More…

• Specify dark or light mode independent of the corresponding macOS setting
• Keyboard shortcuts for reordering objects
• Improved font rendering for complex fonts
• New user manual system featuring search and a table of contents
• Imported images can be exported unaltered
• New canvas zoom slider
• New anti aliasing groups to improve export quality
• Improved selection behavior when deleting objects
• Anti aliasing can be optionally deactivated when exporting images as PNG, JPEG or HEIF