Fog Panther is a professional image editor for people who take their craft seriously. Whether you are painting digital art, retouching photographs, designing graphics, or preparing artwork for print, it puts real, professional-grade power in a fast, focused application that stays out of your way.
Create without limits. Non-destructive layers keep your options open, precise selection and masking give you control over every detail, and a deep toolkit of brushes, filters, and adjustments is always within reach. Built to stay responsive on large, demanding images, Fog Panther helps you do your best work — and do it faster.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 0.8.2 | 27 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
0.8.225 Sept 2026
A new brush engine with a Brush Settings panel, brush presets and Photoshop .abr import, bringing texture, dual brush, wet edges, color dynamics, airbrush build-up and smoothing to every paint tool. A new Photo Editor window, Properties, Color and Swatches panels, a Color Table dialog, Color Settings with bundled Adobe ICC profiles, and a new Export As dialog with side-by-side preview and file size estimate. Layer effects in PSD files render much more faithfully, including Bevel & Emboss contours, multiple drop shadows and choke, and masks gain Density and Feather. Free Transform, more faithful PSD text and previews in the file browser; in the native and AppImage packages, the browser also lists network locations and saves reliably to network shares. Fog Panther is now free to use without a time limit for work saved as .fog; a license unlocks the other formats, Export and Print.
0.8.116 Jul 2026
Faithful Photoshop text import and export, live layer effects while editing text, and a smoother text tool. Documents now open asynchronously with a progress card and fit to the window instantly. Convert to and Assign Profile now work across the whole document with a color-managed canvas, a new CMYK Channel Mixer, physical dimension units with undoable resolution changes, and multi-stop gradient overlays. Smoother layer dragging on large documents, faster zooming, and many rendering and stability fixes.
0.8.014 Jun 2026
Layer groups, a multichannel color mode with spot channels, true CMYK channel views, a command palette for quick access to any tool, recordable actions with batch processing, a new Warp transform tool, a dedicated Hand tool with flick panning, switchable ruler units, and high-dynamic-range image support.
0.7.423 Apr 2026
Editable tone curve and color grading wheels in the Photography panel, more photographic adjustments available as adjustment layers, refined paste behavior, and additional memory and GPU stability fixes.