• Introduce anti-aliasing and better processing in rotation of destination.
• Now can load a gif image file.
• Contort can act as a plugin to visual visions easy-web-editor.
• Introduced Start up tips.
• Introduced an option to save part of the destination image to file.
• Introduced buttons for next and previous image file load in the current directory.

• Fixed bug where resizing a source after a change to the destination causes the destination image to be in the wrong scroll position when source scrolling or rescaling.
• Introduction of anti-aliasing software to improve 'contort' functions.
• Small modifications to the special effect options.
• Addition of a vertical flip button to the destination toolbar.

• Now can align source images from within the destination window.
• Able to scale either source image from options in the edit menu.
• Destination toolbar is split into two toolbars, one of them can float.
• Status bar shows width and height of destination image.
• Embedded homepage URL and email address have been updated.
• Some aspects of the help system have been improved.
• Some extra warnings have been added.
• Removed bug where the merge-align window displayed incorrectly under certain conditions with lock on.
• Removed bug where the merge dialog allowed 'outside' actions after setting the reference color within it.
• Introduced a warning when scrolling a source within the merge-align window could destroy changes to the destination.
• Couple of silly bugs removed.

Bug report in V1.9
The destination image can be displayed in the wrong position relative to a single source image after the following sequence of events:

• Make a change to the destination image.
• Resize the source image. (Contort warns of the change; you accept the oncoming change/overwrite to the destination.)
• Srcoll or resize the source image.

• Introduced an option to replace source 1 or 2 if maximum of two sources are already present.
• Now can change the reference color while Merge dialog box is opened..
• Now able to handle monochrome bitmaps and 16 bit bitmaps.
• Most of the contort buttons now autorepeat if held down.
• File load and save is easier as last directory is remembered.
• Some minor bugs cleared up

• Now can email destination image.
• Some warning messages appear if a source window is changed after the destination image has been modified.
• Improved context sensitive help in the destination window.
• Improved start up tip.
• Some minor bugs cleared up