PhotoImpact 11 excellent program needs these tweaks

[texasfrank]

Hi, PI v11 is a great upgrade and I've been very pleased with it. I would like to mention some program tweaks that are needed. Some have perservered for several versions and hope an update will fix these. Please add to the list and hopefully a Ulead employee will forward them onto the developers.

• Even with a calibrated monitor, the color management isn't good. Open a duplicate copy of a file in Photoshop CS and the copy in PI and turn the same color management settings on and the files look quite different. I find it's more accurate to keep it turned off than to use it. If they'd fix it I'd like to see color management in Photo Explorer. Especially since you can adjust photos in photo explorer.
  
  It would be nice to have a resizable preview window of Browse in a similar way to Photo Explorer.
  
  Why is the global viewer glued to the bottom right corner. Why can't it be floating and dockable for less mouse movement?
  
  I wish I could have a longer time delay when adjusting a tool to when it previews. I hate having an 8 megapixel image redrawing constantly as I'm adjusting the Hue, let me move the slider, wait two second sand then redraw.
  
  The slide show transitions are too fast in the Album program and too slow in PhotoExplorer no matter how you move the slider.
  
  Instead of just having a preference for one color picker for all tools, I'd like to have different color pickers assigned to different tools
  
  Why can't Photoimpact 11 remember my tool settings from my last session? I almost always use the same Unsharp Mask settings and wish it would remember them without having to create an easypalette button.
  
  Many of the tools need to have the adjustment factor changed. For example the sharpen tool is too strong except when you set it at 1, anything higher than 10 is useless. The focus tool needs finer adjustment not just 1,2,3. The dodge and burn tools are also too strong. etc. etc.
  
  Most of the special effects that show a preview thumbnail presets are very inaccurate so I never use them. I always have to use the "smart" feature and adjust the controls.
  
  In the Print Multiple dialog the templates are hard to read. I wish I could just name them my own names like "Eight Wallets" or "Four 4x5" instead of the coded names which don't display fully unless you mouse over them.
  
  Why can't Photo Explorer support non-destructive image rotation like ACDSee? Just edit the metadata to display a photo vertically instead of resampling it. Actually if it read the data from my Canon camera it would display it vertically automatically.
  
  I wish PI displayed the f/stop and shutter speed on the bottom edge of the screen. It would be useful when I'm comparing the histograms of several shots to see which had the best exposure.
  
  I wish I could save my favorite help topics to the Help menu.
  
  I wish I had the option to have the old box for editing text like in version 5. Fancy text fonts are hard to accurately select and see when trying to spell words correctly.

Lets help make this great program even better!