Watermarks that read anywhere, and a smoother studio on phones
Watermarks that read on any backdrop
A new Contrast slider puts a soft shade behind your watermark, dark behind a light mark and light behind a dark one, fading out so there's no box. It keeps the mark readable on busy backdrops like Liquid.
The watermark text's font, size and colour now sit right under the Text box, so on a phone you no longer scroll to find them.
Try it in the studioLiquid backdrops keep up on phones
Recolouring a Liquid backdrop now paints at once, and dragging Size or Line weight on Maze, Coral or Spots follows as soon as you stop, even at the smallest size. The canvas is bigger on phones too: fingers turn and zoom, so the sliders are gone.
Callout words can't disappear any more
Every callout now has a second colour, set to Auto: a white badge gets dark words, white words on a note get a dark card, all by themselves. Pick your own if you like; the panel warns you if the two are too close. Long words in a badge shrink to fit instead of blowing it up into a blob.
Several devices, now in Device
Adding a laptop next to your phone now happens where you pick devices: switch Device to Several, then step through them with the arrows (handy when one hides behind another), add or remove them, or start from a set. Layout is just for arranging them.
Start a new project, or carry on
A New button in the top bar gives you a clean canvas in one click; your plan, watermark and settings stay, and Undo brings the last project back. Come back after a break and the studio asks whether to carry on with what you had open or start fresh.
What's new and Next up
This page, and a roadmap: what's being built now, what comes after, and the ideas still on the wall.
See what's next16 smaller changes
- Card and the other framed edges follow Round properly: the shot's corners curve with the card's, even at big roundness.
- Weight now changes Card, Frosted, Smoked, Gloss and Pressed (how wide the frame shows), not just the shadow.
- A colour you pick with + stays shown, selected, next to the swatches (Edge, Backdrop, Surface paint, Callouts).
- The Export button on phones shows its icon at full size again.
- Sets: dropping a shot from the filmstrip onto any device now puts it there (only the picked-up device used to take it).
- Sets: devices of the same kind share one screenshot (three watches no longer show three different shots), and the Cascade of four is evenly spaced.
- A screenshot a little wider than a phone's screen is fitted to its width instead of losing words off both sides.
- Layout: every set group (including Wearables and Browsers) now fits in the panel.
- Product news by email, only if you tick the box on sign-up or turn on Emails in your account.
- Your account page shows when Pro renews and the price, and tells you if a payment failed.
- Every colour tile opens our own colour picker, which slides up from the bottom on phones.
- "More colour options" shows a few of its sets, drawn in your current style, before you open it.
- A clearer message when a site can't be captured, with a nudge to upload a screenshot instead.
- Cancelling Pro asks why, so we can do better.
- No "Pro has ended" email after you delete your account.
- Support email is hello@dudeshots.com everywhere.
