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Development during this comeback phase will be limited. The developer will be available only one or two days per week (or every two weeks), and not for the full day. As a result, progress will be slower compared to the more active development period prior to archiving.

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This changelog is cumulative, meaning it includes every improvement, feature addition, and bug fix from earlier versions, along with the new changes introduced in this beta.
Reviewing the earlier notes will help you see the full progression of enhancements and provide better context for testing and feedback.

New features:

1. Colors effects

  • You can now change the color by applying a conversion effect.
  • You can invoke this in one of three ways: by clicking a color item and navigating to the tabs, by opening the color item’s context menu, or by pressing the Color Effects button in the Aspect form (this option changes all colors at once).
Color picker Context menu Effects for all colors
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  • List of initially implemented effects:
Name Effect Explanation
Change brightness Increases or decreases the overall lightness of the image or color.
Darken Lowers brightness to make the image or color appear darker.
Lighten Raises brightness to make the image or color appear lighter.
Rotate hue Shifts all hues around the color wheel while keeping saturation and brightness.
Desaturate Reduces color intensity, moving colors closer to gray.
Find closest color in image Replaces a color with the most visually similar color found elsewhere in an image you choose.
Invert Flips each color channel to its opposite (e.g., RGB → 255-value).
Reverse Swaps the order of color channels from ARGB to ABGR format.
Sepia Applies a warm brownish tone for a vintage photograph effect.
Web Safe Maps colors to the classic 216-color “web safe” palette for older browsers.
256 color Reduces the image to a standard 256-color palette for indexed-color formats.
Frutiger Aero Applies a bright, glossy gradient style reminiscent of mid-2000s “Frutiger Aero” UI.
Metro Uses flat, bold colors inspired by Microsoft’s Metro (Windows 8) design language.
macOS Semantic Adapts to macOS system semantic colors that change with light/dark mode and accents.
Android Material Applies Google Material Design’s baseline color system and tonal palette.
Android Material Expressive 3 Uses Material You’s expressive scheme 3 with dynamic hues.
Monochrome Converts all colors to variations of a single chosen hue.
Grayscale Converts the image to shades of gray, removing all color information.

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2. Windows Theme Aspect

  • Merged Windows Colors and Visual Styles into a new refreshed aspect called Windows Theme.
  • More organized and easier to navigate with tabs.
  • Rebranded and redesigned Windows logos (refreshed designs in various aspects).

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3. Windows 8 Support

  • Added full support for Windows 8 (Build 9200).
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4. Wallpaper Aspect

  • Simplified layout for quicker and easier usage.
  • Reduced memory usage in the Wallpaper Aspect preview, making it much faster than before.

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5. Cursors Studio Aspect

  • Redesigned layout with clearer separation of options into tabs (Background, Border, Busy Circles, Shadow).
  • New options: Border thickness and Animation speed.
  • Cursor size rendering above 32px now uses a new scaling method → avoids overlapping between loading circles and the cursor shape itself.
  • Added option to customize all cursors at once. image

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6. Command Prompt & PowerShell Aspect

  • Improved layout with a cleaner, modern design.
  • Added list box to Color Table group for syncing colors from Windows Terminal stable/preview color schemes.
  • Drag-and-drop from the table into track bars is now supported.
  • Fixed raster font rendering issues.
  • Added live preview of color changes directly in a real Command Prompt instance.

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7. Newly implemented context menu for colors:

  • It is now redesigned with a familiar layout to avoid ambiguity and includes effects for quick actions.
  • You can copy and paste colors into other applications—such as a HEX color in Paint.NET—from WinPaletter.
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2. Application Improvements:

  1. Added ability to delete Windows Terminal schemes/themes directly.
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  1. Removed SecureUxTheme installer wrapper (previously caused login-loop issues on Windows). Use the official SecureUxTheme installer instead #235.

  2. Split LogonUI configurations so each Windows version now maintains its own configuration.

    • Example: Windows 10 no longer shares LogonUI settings with Windows 11.

  3. Registry entries for Alarm and Ringtone sounds are no longer applied to unsupported systems (Windows 7 and below). Same applies to Windows XP’s NetMeeting and Speech Recognition (Vista and later only).

  4. Added a notice: In Windows Switcher, the Classic NT scheme may cause the switcher to become invisible in Windows 11 24H2+. This behavior is intentional and comes from Microsoft’s implementation.

  5. Improved Gaussian blur algorithm, resulting in better performance and lower memory usage.

  6. Enhanced bitmap processing in previews (blurring, HSL, etc.).

  7. Refined the layout of the palette extractor (Image + Color).

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  1. Minor improvements to the application’s light mode.
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  1. New colors formats (CSS, etc.).
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  1. Restored support for default Windows Terminal color schemes (e.g., Campbell, etc.).
  • These schemes are no longer shipped by default in the JSON but WinPaletter can still load them.
  • With addition of new schemes implemented by Microsoft.
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  1. Improved drag-and-drop functionality for color items—both between color items and between a color item and a tab—with an added label indicating the action that will occur when Ctrl, Alt, or Shift is held.

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  1. Dependencies
  • Removed: ImageProcessor and ColorThiefDotNet (Implemented new and better methods inside WinPaletter's core.)
  • Others are updated.

3. Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed: Colors not being applied to the password box on the lock screen. #236
  2. Fixed: Windows Terminal error when attempting to rename a scheme/theme.
  3. Fixed: Incorrect label color in Windows Switcher Classic NT preview.
  4. Fixed: Hover issue in Windows Edition change button (label text not visible in the main form).
  5. Fixed: Visual bug inside the Themes backup form.
  6. Fixed a visual bug where part of the extended titlebar was not synchronized with form focus loss when the titlebar accent was already enabled.
  7. Other behind-the-scenes fixes and optimizations that aren’t directly visible to users.
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