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I am not seeing very much to interest me in paying for PSP 2021 here, and quite a few negatives.
Can anyone get specific about the benefits?

I recorded a script to apply an effect, then to reduce the saturation. When I run this on an open file, single step, it works fine, silently or interactively. But when I use the script in Batch Process my new files are created/saved without either action: no changes are applied. Windows 10, PSP X9 1...

No I don't think there was any erasing at all. And I very rarely use a square brush shape, or 100% hardness, for anything. I still have this image open, so I just clicked on a source that looks to be the part of image appearing in this test in piece of one if the "square" artifacts. I still have the...

I mis-spoke in the first message, re: cloning into the background layer. The Background layer was NOT the active layer, rather I was cloning into a transparent area of another layer, using the what I consider my picture's background as my source. I have some layers hidden, others visible in the firs...

So are you saying that a Clone brush uses textures from the Materials Palette? I am pretty sure that I did not have any Texture active. Or are you referring to the Brush Variance settings? These were all set to "Normal", as I have never learned to use anything else consistently :-( . I have sometime...

OK, with your help and reminders about the scripts to save & reload Preferences, I am back up & running in only five minutes: Fill Light/Clarity is working now! I will just have to deal with a file locations or move some saved pattern files. Thank you very much! Still don't understand why Corel does...

Windows version.jpg No I have not tried resetting to factory defaults. Fill Light / Clarity is not so very useful that I am willing to spend two hours reconstructing my environment & preferences! This is the primary reason I am reluctant to upgrade to the latest version. If Corel provided a way to ...

I am getting very odd behavior from the clone brush that I cannot reproduce "on command". This is over the past couple of weeks or so, with multiple files. I see strange artifacts: very square/rectangular patterns that start showing up out of nowhere... generally when I am using the clone brush repe...

Just recently I noticed the Fill Light/Clarity function, that I use quite frequently, is no longer working. When I select this option from the Adjust --> Brightness Contrast --> Fill Light/Clarity the preview & settings box opens, but the preview right pane is solid grey. I can modify the zoom setti...

OK, here is an example: I have an image that I want to separate into multiple layers to manipulate. So I want to select a section and promote it to a layer, but it is easiest to select the "background" area of the image, which may be my almost white scanner cover:-). So I magic wand select that, to ...

In PSP X9, undo is still broken for "invert selection" And simply repeating invert selection may or may not work. This really becomes a problem if the goal is "undo" multiple steps. NOTE that the invert selection shows as "undone" in the History: it is NOT flagged as something that cannot be "undone".

No fix that I am aware of: with lighten/darken and other brushes continuous does not work in X9: the effect doubles when you overlap on the same stroke. And the Emboss brush never overlays/doubles the effect during one stroke regardless of whether Continuous is checked. The "fix" of unchecking/reche...

Hmm, just tried turning Continuous off/on testing with the Emboss brush, and could not get any build up: no apparent effect with multiple tries, and the same with the basic paintbrush, and no build-up. Using PSP X9. Maybe the behavior changes with other settings on or off? Blend mode is normal, Dens...

Not sure about X8, but in X9 several brushes I tested with opacity set down (e.g. 45) behave as if "continuous" mode is turned on, even when this is NOT checked ... however the Lighten/Darken brush does not ... it builds up regardless of setting for Continuous mode. I think the continuous mode/setti...

Sad!