Hi folks,
I've been experiencing a number of issues with this version- It could be any number of reasons, ranging from the OS (64-bit Win 7 Ultimate) to my hardware config to who knows what.
1) It starts up really slow... I double click the icon on my desktop, the window opens, then I get the "busy" mouse icon for at least a minute before things "settle down" and I can finally click "File > Open..."
I read that this could have something to do with the "Organizer"... My .jpgs and .pngs are organized the way I want them- what can I do to force PSPP X3 to
NOT start the Organzier by "default"? I really don't relish the idea of jumping to the Task Manager to kill a process that I should have the option to allow or not from within the program.
I mentioned having to click "File > Open..." in the toolbar... PSP X2 on my WinXP system was great- opened fast, I could drag and drop files from Explorer folders or the desktop to the "workspace" and they'd just open... I can't do that anymore- I try to drag a file from the desktop to the workspace, and I get the "Do Not Enter" mouse icon (circle with a line though it). It's frustrating as hell.
2) Saving images is even slower. When I save a file, the "busy" mouse icon (that rotating circle that Microsoft used to replace the hourglass) that lasts for well over 3 minutes... for the past week, when I save an image I usually go open a browser window to Armor Games and play some flash game while waiting.
3) Copy/paste selection does weird stuff. Let's say I have an image open and I want to cut or copy a selection from one location to another in the same layer I drag a box around or click with the magic wand and the selection is made... I click and drag the selection to where I want it to go, and it becomes a "floating selection" in the layer palette... I right-click somewhere in the image to "de-float" the selection, and
the bottom 1 or 2 lines of pixels disappear as if erased.
This is a simple example here- This is a black "dot" on a Raster Layer; checkered area is transparent/has no paint on it... Image is 100px x 100px, zoomed in to 200% to show detail (ALT+PRT SCR to make a screen cap then cropped). I drag a box around half the dot using the selection tool:

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I left-click and hold on the selected area (mouse becomes a "move" icon with four arrows) and shift it one pixel to the right; selection conforms to the "painted" area, and becomes it's own "floating selection" layer:

- moved.png (6.03 KiB) Viewed 17778 times
I then right-click outside the selected area to "de-float" the selection... and some of the selection just "disappears".

- missingpixels.png (9.29 KiB) Viewed 17778 times
I'm just at a loss with this-- An image manipulation program that
I'll post my system specs... I'm extremely reluctant to believe there's a hardware issue here- Corel Videostudio Pro X3 (the other part of the Corel Photo Studio Bundle X3) works just fine.
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 940
Motherboard: DFI Lanparty DK 790FXB-M2RSH
RAM: 8Gb OCZ Reaper Series DDR2-1066 (4x 2Gb OCZ2RPR10662GK)
Video: ATI Radeon 4870 X2
Video Capture: Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1600
Monitor Config/Desktop: 2x Monitors @ 1920 x 1080 (3840 x 1080 desktop resolution)
Storage: 2x 60Gb OCZ Apex Series SATA II 2.5" SSD RAID-0 (C:\ drive)
Storage: 2x 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EACS RAID-0 (D:\, E:\, F:\, and G:\ drives)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I do have an OS configuration that's different than most- In order to get the most "life" from my solid state drives, I reconfigured my \Users account folder to default to the D:\ drive, rather than reassigning the "Documents" folder (and other system folders) to a different drive or drives. I wonder how much PSPPX3 stores in the user's %AppData% (or other user-specific) folder... But I used to run PSPP
X2 on this same system easily without issues (Hardware config was the same, with \Users folder moved to the D:\ drive, but OS was Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit).
I've been a fan of Paint Shop since version 5, and have owned versions 7, 8, 9, 10, X2 and now X3... But X3 is almost not usable in this state.