What's New in PaintLasso

Animate frame by frame, right in your browser. Each layer becomes a frame: scrub the timeline, play it back at any speed, and use onion skin to see the frames before and after. Export your animation as a looping GIF, a WebM video, or a PNG sequence.

Added professional-grade painting tools: layer masks for non-destructive editing, a clone stamp to copy areas, a smudge brush for blending, and liquify modes (push, twirl, pinch, expand). The canvas now starts zoomed in for better detail work.

Eliminated the stutter on long strokes by reusing the stroke buffer instead of redrawing everything each frame. Strokes now feel smooth and responsive, even in long painting sessions.

The whole interface now scales intelligently on phones and tablets based on screen size and orientation, keeping everything readable and usable without hiding essential controls.

When painting on a solid-color canvas (not transparent), the eraser now paints the background color back instead of erasing to nothing — matching traditional painting behavior.

Optimized rendering for phones and tablets with weaker GPUs and capped resolution scaling to keep things fast. Fixed tool menus to close properly on touch, and made brush controls visible everywhere.

Slider adjustments (hue, saturation, brightness, blur) now apply smoothly without stuttering — previews update once per frame instead of constantly recalculating.

Toggle between dark and light modes throughout the editor. Your choice is saved. Light mode uses a clean canvas background; dark keeps the moody blue aesthetic.

Added a blog with articles about free drawing apps and online painting, and improved search-engine visibility so PaintLasso ranks for painting-related searches.

A new marketing landing page with professional brand visuals, testimonials, and feature highlights. Visitors see the landing first, then launch the app — with dark and light themes.

Resized the whole interface to fit phones without hiding tools. The status bar, toolbar, and sidebar stay visible; the right panel docks on iPad-sized screens and slides in on phones.

Added flat brush, oil bristle, watercolor, marker, calligraphy, and spray paint, plus inline size and weight controls on the Brushes panel — 23 unique brushes in total.

New canvas size presets for social media (Instagram portrait, YouTube, Pinterest) and print formats (A5, photos, paintings), alongside HD and custom sizes.

PaintLasso is now live at paintlasso.com with full SSL. Both paintlasso.com and www.paintlasso.com work, and the brand identity is locked in.

Renamed from Sable to PaintLasso with a new identity: a lasso-brush logo, navy surfaces, royal-purple accents, an orange-to-purple gradient, and Poppins type. Lasso it. Paint it. Create freely.

Brand colors now run throughout the app: a navy backdrop with a subtle purple-pink glow behind the canvas, gradient buttons, active-tool highlighting, and navy panels — one cohesive product.

Rebuilt the editor into a professional studio layout: a top toolbar with zoom/undo/export, a left tool rail, a right tabbed panel for layers/brushes/colors, and a bottom status bar.

A visible ring cursor shows exactly where you'll paint, scaled to your brush size — essential for stylus drawing.

Pan with a right-mouse drag, space + drag, or a two-finger drag on touch — smooth, natural navigation around the canvas.

An eyedropper to sample colors from your artwork and a bucket fill to quickly fill areas, with a threshold control for fill.

Real-time adjustments: hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, gradient map with presets, gaussian blur, and invert — preview on the active layer, then apply with undo or cancel anytime.

Draw symmetrically with vertical, horizontal, quad, or radial mirrors (2–16 segments), with guide lines showing the axes and full undo support.

Paint only within a layer's existing pixels with alpha lock, or clip one layer to another so it only shows where the base has content — fully non-destructive.

Draw a stroke and hold at the end to snap it into a clean line, ellipse, or rectangle — instant geometry without extra steps.

A full suite of 25 blend modes — Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Color Burn/Dodge, Darken, Lighten, the HSL modes and more — with accurate, GPU-accelerated blending.

Rectangular, elliptical, and freehand selections, then move, scale, rotate, or flip the content — with an animated marching-ants outline and full undo.

Create custom brushes with a live preview — control texture, size, hardness, and grain — then save and load them; they persist across sessions.

The first full painting app: GPU-accelerated brushes, layers with blend modes, undo/redo, color palettes, a native .paintlasso save format, PNG/JPEG export, touch gestures, and offline support.