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What's new on Layer

Product updates, new models, improvements, and fixes — shipped continuously.

Local forge history, button improvements, and fixes

Local forge history, button improvements, and fixes

New Features

  • Added a feature that saves the last 20 forges for the user on their device for quicker re-forges.
  • Improved affordance of buttons on the error page.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where users who no longer were part of a company domain were able to login with their previous email to their personal workspace.
  • Fixed a source of many connectivity issues that resulted in application errors.
  • Fixed an issue where default style used wrong options for forging.
  • Fixed an issue where a reference image resulted in wrong image size being used for Forges after re-selecting a style.
  • Fixed a bug where pinned styles were not showing up on the homepage.
  • Fixed an issue where style reference and face reference features were not working properly.
New models1

More stable forging, client-side monitoring, and fixes

More stable forging, client-side monitoring, and fixes

  • Fixed various client-side errors in the application to enhance stability.
  • Implemented quality and reliability improvements, reducing errors across the application.
  • Added release notes visibility to the main application's side navigation.
  • Enhanced visibility of key links on our error page for better user experience.
  • Added monitoring for client-side network errors to identify and diagnose sporadic errors.
  • Fixed a label in style details page for better clarity.
  • Fixed an issue with the brush tool leaving empty spots when moving the mouse quickly.
New models1

Forge history search, transparent generation, and fixes

Forge history search, transparent generation, and fixes

  • Added search and infinite paging on forge history page.
  • Added support for showing more than 100 results.
  • Added support for transparent image generation with custom trained LORAs.
  • Fixed an issue where users could not forge with a style reference.
  • Fixed an issue with a brush tool that resulted in unnecessary lags.

Remove Anything tool, better error messaging, and tutorials

Remove Anything tool, better error messaging, and tutorials

New Features

  • Introduced support for the "Remove Anything" tool, allowing users to easily erase unwanted elements from images.
  • Included IP Adapter Face Plus (Face references) as a selectable option.
  • Enhanced error messaging for login failures caused by domain enforcement or incorrect credentials.
  • Implemented onboarding processes specifically designed for first-time users.
  • Released a tutorial video demonstrating the functionality of the "Remove Anything" tool.
Bug Fixes
  • Resolved an issue with workspace notice formatting.
  • Fixed a bug where erasing selections caused image shifting.
  • Addressed a regression in the style dropdown link.
  • Rectified a regression that caused styles to disappear from the history page.
  • Fixed an issue preventing users from selecting bw or color sketch after certain style selections.
  • Corrected an issue related to object selection.
  • Resolved a crash occurring when rapidly changing layer visibility.
  • Fixed an issue where forges occasionally produced black images due to overly aggressive adult content filtering.

Asset caption support and filename optimizations

Asset caption support and filename optimizations

  • Added support for better and more concise captioning of assets
  • Added support for more intuitive filenames for forged assets
  • Fixed an issue where cropping multiple images removed images from style creation
  • Fixed an error related to removing a workspace
  • Fixed issues with Unity Plugin and released 1.2.0

Live mode support on Canvas and workspace updates

Live mode support on Canvas and workspace updates

  • Added support for live mode on canvas, allowing for faster iteration when concepting
  • Added a feature to ensure that workspaces with a domain set will only allow members with an email with that domain
  • Added support for filtering inactive workspace members
  • Fixed an issue where members could not be removed from a workspace
  • Fixed issues with Unity plugin
  • Removed light theme as an option due to low usage and maintenance overhead

SDXL sketch support, prompt length changes, and better forging

SDXL sketch support, prompt length changes, and better forging

  • Added support for sdxl sketch.
  • Added validation for prompt lengths in style creator.
  • Added more human readable errors to the application.
  • Improved quality of forges by auto-increasing density when selected area is considerably smaller than the wider canvas.
  • Fixed an issue with redo shortcut (ctrl+shift+z)
  • Fixed issues with dark theme blending in with light theme.
  • Fixed an issue with the styles page not showing posted images correctly.
  • Fixed an issue when training prompts could not be easily read or modified.

Streamlined creator wizard, better editing, and Canvas improvements

Streamlined creator wizard, better editing, and Canvas improvements

What's New

  • Mobile Viewport Banner: A notification has been added to inform users that Layer does not yet support mobile viewports, with plans to optimize in the future.
  • Streamlined Style Creator Wizard: The style creator wizard workflow has been simplified with fewer steps, enabling faster style creation.
  • Enhanced Cropping Experience: The cropping tool within the style creator wizard has been made more intuitive and user-friendly.
  • Canvas Improvements: The canvas now displays asset properties including similarity and density metrics.
Bug Fixes
  • Resolved unexpected results from existing styles
  • Fixed free plan users' inability to add featured styles to workspaces
  • Addressed non-functioning Manga and Kawaii styles
  • Corrected layout regressions on the explore styles page
  • Solved asset deletion issues in the style creator wizard
  • Fixed interface bug hiding the Accept button behind the toolbar during asset forging
  • Eliminated errors when forging with certain styles
  • Made refill options available for previously unsupported styles

New featured styles, display options, and training

New featured styles, display options, and training

  • Added 40+ featured styles for all users to use for forging.
  • Added display option for Layer's main website to better show Layer's capabilities across different art styles.
  • Added a new prompt box to the Layer home page.
  • Added a new default when no style is selected in the prompt box.
  • Added training of high-resolution styles for pro users and limited the number of styles to 5 per plan.
  • Added training resolution on public styles page.
  • Improved the look and feel of the main navigation for Layer app.
  • Improved image previews throughout the Layer app.
  • Improved stability of image uploads on style creator.
  • Fixed UX regressions in style creator.
  • Fixed a regression in the workspace menu.
  • Fixed a stylistic regression on the upscale button in canvas.
New models2

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