• New behaviour of drawing and gradient tools : By default, LiveQuartz is not creating a new layer each time you use the tool anymore (if you like the old behaviour, you can get it by typing this in the “terminal” application : “defaults write com.rhapsoft.livequartz IMDrawingWithoutMerging YES”).
• LiveQuartz keeps the current selected tool after drawing.
• With “shift” key pressed, rectangle and oval tools keep proportions 1:1. And with “shift” key pressed, the line tool steps 45°.
• When choosing “Save as…” to a standard image file format, you can see a preview of final file size.
• A file opening bug has been fixed (when there are empty layers)
• A very old bug with display of “lasso” selection doing some pauses is fixed
• “RHIF” Spotlight plug-in bug fix
• 1.8.1 only for MacOS 10.5.3 because LQ has some hanging issues on PowerPC with 10.5.2

• From release 1.8, LiveQuartz is Leopard MACOS 10.5 only !
• LiveQuartz handles multi-touchs (with compatible trackpads) : swipe (tools choice and selected layer choice), rotation (layer rotation) and magnifying (magnification and layer zoom transformation)
• New free line drawing tool (click on the line tool sub-menu to choose it)
• New standard Leopard filter picker with bookmarks ("Collections")
• Background eraser's action can be restricted by a selection
• More logical merging of layers : Now, only selected layers are merged
• Global image resize is finally possible !
• New tool settings user interface (only tools available for the current tool are displayed)
• New line width setting for drawing tool
• PDFs, text and drawing layers are correctly rendered (as long as we do not alter their content or use filters on them)
• New "Take a picture" menu to use the standard picture taker of Leopard (snapshots from iSight camera)
• Lot's of bug fixes
• Memory usage optimisations
• Faster launch times
• Faster QuickLook plug-in (RHIF format)
• QuartzGL (Faster display system) is available in preferences but is not enabled by default because there are too many display issues yet

• Bug fix : when pasting graphics, there was a blur effect
• Bug fix : there was a bug on undo after opening a rhif document
• Enhancement : tools' undo is grouped now

Bug fix in "RHapsoft Image Format" save behaviour

- New setting in preferences for background grid color
- Bug fix in the RHapsoft Image Format QuickLook plug-in

• Bug fix : In earlier versions, when exporting text which has alpha and no filter, text became opaque
• New super easy to use background eraser tool (ONLY ON LEOPARD)
• QuickLook ready (ONLY ON LEOPARD)

Bug fixes for Leopard

- Leopard ready