Software : : Cameleon 1.0 — the first stable release of the MorphOS paint program
Posted By: stefkos. on 2026/9/7 9:01:04
Cameleon 1.0 is here — the first stable release of the native MorphOS image editor. The program has graduated from its development phase to a full 1.0.

What's new in 1.0:

Parametric pen generator (a Photoshop‑style brush engine): a pen is defined by a set of parameters and generated on the fly, with a new pen editor and a live stroke preview — tip shape, shape dynamics, scattering, texture, transfer, colour dynamics, dual brush and smudge. A pen picker lists pens as live previews grouped by category; save your own as small .cpen files.
16 new point & colour effect plugins: Contrast, Gamma, Saturation, Hue, Temperature, Tint, Exposure, Vibrance, Posterize, Solarize, Sepia, Vignette, Scanlines, Noise, Colorize and Black & White — each with sliders, previewed live on the canvas, confined to the selection and fully undoable.
Working per‑channel A/R/G/B edit masks.
Layers with blending and opacity, non‑destructive layer masks, and drag & drop of Workbench images straight onto the Layers window.
A redrawn, unified line‑art toolbar (with an eraser), selections (rectangle, ellipse, magic wand, lasso; feather/grow/shrink/invert), text, gradients, curves & colours, scaling & transforms.
Save and reload editable Cameleon projects (layers, blending, opacity, masks) and export to PNG/JPEG/BMP and more.
Native MorphOS, 32‑bit RGBA with a full alpha channel, AltiVec‑accelerated; a localisable interface.

Download: grab cameleon.lha from the program's page → www.rorbit.pl/pages/cameleon (a recent MorphOS is required).
 
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Wow, this looks great!
    I will test it on my Mirari later.
    Is there any chance to provide a public c plugin interface for effects?
    regards
    eliot
  • »2026/9/8 4:31
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    It shares same as Sketch/Scandal. Should be available, if not please write to me.
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    In fact, my plan is to rewrite these plugins to Reggae filters.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Ok, I will have a look to the Sketch/Scandal interfaces.
    Reggae sounds great, if the interfaces to match!

    I played a little bit with Cameleon, here are some thoughts:

    1. I had some rondam freezes on my Mirari (I need reproduce this)
    2. Layer Window: What does that mean in Layers listing? What does Check-Mate do? Enable/Disable layer?
    Listings always says "On". Mode and Opacity are on the top, "Check-Mate" on the bottom. Maybe put them into same
    row?
    3. Tooltip for all the icons might be helpful. As an alternative: Status bar with text information.
    4. Pen editor: Do we really need a "Apply" button? all other stuff works wihtout it.
    5. Spacing does not work with free hand draw tool.
    6. Pen editor: could not load any of the delivered pngs (this is not a pen settings file).
    7. Brush/Pen? Any difference? Maybe I should have a look into documentation.
    8. Toolbox menu opens brush window?!
    9. Enabling grid leads to some ugly rendering artefacts in paint area when just moving around with pointer without drawing.
    10. Does it trash system memory? System gets realy unstable when using Cameleon?!

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/9 7:57 ]
    regards
    eliot
  • »2026/9/9 7:54
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    Quote:

    Ok, I will have a look to the Sketch/Scandal interfaces.
    Reggae sounds great, if the interfaces to match!

    I played a little bit with Cameleon, here are some thoughts:

    1. I had some rondam freezes on my Mirari (I need reproduce this)

    Please send me log

    2. Layer Window: What does that mean in Layers listing? What does Check-Mate do? Enable/Disable layer?
    Listings always says "On". Mode and Opacity are on the top, "Check-Mate" on the bottom. Maybe put them into same
    row?

    Layer is layer, you can create many layers, draw on one without touching others.
    Check-mate is - do you want to see background color or "transparency"

    3. Tooltip for all the icons might be helpful. As an alternative: Status bar with text information.

    Was sure they are there, please check again.

    4. Pen editor: Do we really need a "Apply" button? all other stuff works wihtout it.

    If all other does will change this:)

    5. Spacing does not work with free hand draw tool.

    Will look

    6. Pen editor: could not load any of the delivered pngs (this is not a pen settings file).

    Well, It changed a bit. Pen's as PNG do not contain all information so...format was changed.
    Or we are talking about different thing?

    7. Brush/Pen? Any difference? Maybe I should have a look into documentation.

    Brush for me is a copy of image which you can put in other place. But can be one, whats your opinion?

    8. Toolbox menu opens brush window?!

    Bug :) Thanks

    9. Enabling grid leads to some ugly rendering artefacts in paint area when just moving around with pointer without drawing.

    Will look into that.

    10. Does it trash system memory? System gets realy unstable when using Cameleon?!

    It should not, added many tests + played with it a lot.

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/9 7:57 ]
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    wait for update....

    please try: https://www.rorbit.pl/pages/cameleon/cameleon_beta.lha

    [ Edited by stefkos On 2026/9/10 11:57 ]
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    Thanks for the update.
    Nice, Spacing now also works with free hand drawing tool.
    Also the missing "Apply" in pen editor feels much better.
    Color selecting is now also possible with just one click.

    Layer Window: Maybe rename "Check-Mate" to something more
    meaningful like "Alpha"? Also I would move it to the top,
    where the other modifiers are.
    The elements "Mode", Opacity and "Checkmate" don't changge
    if I select another layer.
    Mode even reflects wrong state (random) of the selected layer in list.
    regards
    eliot
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    Thanks for the update.

    Pen window without "Apply" feels much better and color changing
    without double click feels also better.
    Spacing with freehand tool now works.

    Layers window is broken:
    1. Creating a layer without having a picture will trash the layer list.
    Maybe this should not be possible?!
    2. Layer modifiers Mode, Opacity and "Check-Mate" don't reflect the state of the selected
    layer.
    3. Rename "Check-Mate" to something more meaningful (Alpha)?
    4. Move "Check-Mate" to the other modifiers on top of the Window?
    5. How can use the background color? Draw with richt mouse button does not work.
    6. Some Windows like "Pen editor" have a name, other don't have name.
    Decide what you want. I vote for "give them a name"!

    regards
    eliot

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/10 14:18 ]

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/10 14:20 ]
    regards
    eliot
  • »2026/9/10 14:17
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    Quote:

    Thanks for the update.

    Pen window without "Apply" feels much better and color changing
    without double click feels also better.
    Spacing with freehand tool now works.

    Layers window is broken:
    1. Creating a layer without having a picture will trash the layer list.
    Maybe this should not be possible?!
    2. Layer modifiers Mode, Opacity and "Check-Mate" don't reflect the state of the selected
    layer.
    3. Rename "Check-Mate" to something more meaningful (Alpha)?
    4. Move "Check-Mate" to the other modifiers on top of the Window?
    5. How can use the background color? Draw with richt mouse button does not work.
    6. Some Windows like "Pen editor" have a name, other don't have name.
    Decide what you want. I vote for "give them a name"!

    regards
    eliot

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/10 14:18 ]

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/10 14:20 ]


    In progress....
    Btw was thinking about all in one window, but need more time.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Yes, your other are also in one window.
    I did not dare to ask

    BTW, I got again some freezes.

    How do I draw a filled circle?

    There some strange flickering in the picture when
    I am changing color in color wheel.

    [ Edited by eliot On 2026/9/10 15:57 ]
    regards
    eliot
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