Paintshop Pro X3 - Pls help a newbie

[azurian]

Hi. This is my first post to this board, so please be gentle with me!!

I have a couple of problems with my newly installed Paintshop Photo Pro X3.

1) It seems very 'buggy'. When I try to use certain tools such as 'Object Extractor', The mouse cursor stays as a pan hand and will not change to the pen tool. So, I cannot use the tool. Am I doing something stupid?

2) In Project Creator, I cannot load any photos from my hard drive. The C drive is shown in the drive tree, but nothing else. No other folders appear.


Any help would be gratefully received. I love the software, apart from these annoying little bugs.

[LeviFiction]

It is very buggy. If you haven't downloaded the patches, I suggest you do. If you have downloaded the patches then okay.

I've never used the project creator so I'll only attempt the first one.

1) If the cursor remains the pan tool hit the space bar. I don't know why but every now and again it acts like the space-bar is being held down (holding down the space-bar temporarily changes the cursor into the pan tool for quick function usage without switching tools) so hitting the space-bar tends, assuming this is the problem, to deactivate the pan tool and give you back the tool you need.

[pdxrjt]

Greetings, welcome to the user world of PSP. Lots of good info on these boards.

1) When you select your layer, then go to image/object extractor a new window opens up. My tools stays a hand when the pointer is outside of the picture (in the new window), but changes to a brush when I hover over the image I want to use. Make sure the layer you are working on is selected. For me, it works as advertised, so let us know and sharper minds than mine may be able to figure something out.

2) There is a fix (I think) for project creator....do a search on these forums. I think it has to do with deleting some file and then opening it. Many here think it is not a helpful piece of software so don't really use it. However, I think a fix is out there.
I got this: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... or#p200690 a quick search, but there may be something better.

Take care

Levi beat me to it......

[azurian]

Thank you very much for your swift replies.

I have applied both patches and the problem with the missing cursor seems to have been sorted out.

It seems that the issue with Creator is a known bug so I guess I'll just have to wait for a patch for that problem.

Thanks again for your help. I'm not too experienced with graphics work, so I'm sure I'll be back soon.