PaintShop Pro X4--Wishlist for Future Versions

[Ron P.]

It is available in PSP X4. Selecting your text and highlighting it, will allow you to scroll through the fonts, previewing what your text will look like.

[siptec]

It is available in PSP X4. Selecting your text and highlighting it, will allow you to scroll through the fonts, previewing what your text will look like.

When I'm in the edit mode and select the text using the text tool, as soon as I change the font, the focus of the application goes to the image and away from the font selection. If I use the mouse wheel, as soon as the font changes, focus goes to the image and the image zoom in or out. If I try the same with the UP/Down keys, font changes one time, application focus back to the image and the next arrow click takes to you the end of the text with nothing selected.

Am I missing something?

Unbelievable, I just figured it out. If I select the text then select the font pull down, I have to hold the "Alt" key then the arrow down key. I can now scroll through the fonts using the mouse wheel or arrow keys. I do have to do this every time I select new text or re-select text which kind of make this an inconvenience, but at least I can do it now.

It wasn't this way before.

[df]

Paint Shop Pro prior to version X3 would allow you to select font with the font tool in the PSP file and scroll through the available fonts on your system. Now you have to select the font and click back to the font selection to advance to the next font. It really slows down the process of getting the best font or if you are trying to match a font.

I would like to see this ability of selecting text with the text tool and then allowing the user to scroll through the fonts re-enabled.

In X4 it re-enabled for me. Works like previous to X3 versions.

[Cassel]

One feature that i wish PSP had, is the ability to wrap text within a certain shape. Whether i want the text within a standard rectangular box, or inside a round "box" or any other shape. I know there is a way around it. It can be done manually, and i made a script to do it almost automatically, but it would be so much easier. I think it is a feature that would be very very useful to many graphists.

[Radim]

Canvas Size to be able to import dimensions of current canvas.

a simple feature but it would make my life easier. I use image > Canvas Size.... quite a lot and one inevitably wants to do something that works around the current canvas size. increase it a little, shrink it a little etc. The current canvas size is displayed, so a little button that populated the original dimensions into the new dimensions would save me some time. and it would mess anything up because the default would still be last number entered.

small change i know.

You can do it with simple script & adding new icon to any toolbar.
Here I tried in PSP X2 - http://lab.php5.cz/pspX2-canvas-size/

But I can't solve this -- shown in video above -- when you cancel dialog there is one more dialog - something like "Script interrupt?" How to solve it?? Can someone help?

EDIT: First I recorded simple one command "Canvas size" then edited it - I deleted all lines - only 3 lines are keeped (the rest of parameters in dialog are not changed).

[siptec]

It is available in PSP X4. Selecting your text and highlighting it, will allow you to scroll through the fonts, previewing what your text will look like.

When I'm in the edit mode and select the text using the text tool, as soon as I change the font, the focus of the application goes to the image and away from the font selection. If I use the mouse wheel, as soon as the font changes, focus goes to the image and the image zoom in or out. If I try the same with the UP/Down keys, font changes one time, application focus back to the image and the next arrow click takes to you the end of the text with nothing selected.

Am I missing something?

Unbelievable, I just figured it out. If I select the text then select the font pull down, I have to hold the "Alt" key then the arrow down key. I can now scroll through the fonts using the mouse wheel or arrow keys. I do have to do this every time I select new text or re-select text which kind of make this an inconvenience, but at least I can do it now.

It wasn't this way before.

Could my issue with the font selection have anything to do with not uninstalling X3 prior to installing X4?

[df]

Could my issue with the font selection have anything to do with not uninstalling X3 prior to installing X4?

No it shouldn't. Different versions of PSP should be able to be installed without interfering with each other.

[MatsW]

Idea: introduce the possibility to define background texture for each brush separately. One should be able to save this brush and matching choice of background texture in the brush definition file. (I am primarily referring to the "digital" brushes)

This would create many more possibilities when designing brushes. For instance, I have found that I can get very attractive effects when using "chalk" on e.g. "asphalt". But if I change to another brush, then I sometimes don't want the asphalt texture anymore. I must then change the texture. It would be very practical if the texture goes with the brush definition. If no texture has been chosen for the brush, then the default texture is used (i.e., as it functions today).

Mats

[jmadara]

I'd like to second a few posts already submitted:
1. I think it would be easy to make color icons an option in preferences.

2. I'd like to see some vector support. The ability to open/import Adobe Illustrator files.

I'd also like to throw out there:
1. A way to use Adobe Actions and Styles in PSP. There are so many out there which are free. Since an action file is a list of commands I wonder if it could be easily converted to a PSP script.

2. I think there are two camps regarding Picture Tubes: Those who use them and those who don't. I fall into the latter. They just don't find a way into my workflow.

3. Sliders - I hate trying to adjust tiny sliders on my 1920x1024 screen. Photoshop has a feature when you click and hold a slider you can use the entire width of the screen for the slider where 1 would be on the left and 100 on the right. If there is a way to do this now, please let me know.

[Radim]

I'd also like to throw out there:
1. A way to use Adobe Actions and Styles in PSP. There are so many out there which are free. Since an action file is a list of commands I wonder if it could be easily converted to a PSP script.

2. I think there are two camps regarding Picture Tubes: Those who use them and those who don't. I fall into the latter. They just don't find a way into my workflow.

3. Sliders - I hate trying to adjust tiny sliders on my 1920x1024 screen. Photoshop has a feature when you click and hold a slider you can use the entire width of the screen for the slider where 1 would be on the left and 100 on the right. If there is a way to do this now, please let me know.

Yes, yes, it would be fine. But then do we need Ps anymore?

[Cassel]

1. A way to use Adobe Actions and Styles in PSP. There are so many out there which are free. Since an action file is a list of commands I wonder if it could be easily converted to a PSP script.

Since PSP and PS are coded using different languages (one is Python, one is Java i think) it would be like asking an Italian cook to follow a receipe written in Russian. However, most actions could be "copied" into scripts, exactly for that reason: they are just a series of commands. But beware: scripts CAN be much more powerful than most actions could ever be because of the coding used. Look at my store where i specialize in scripts: http://creationcassel.com/store . You will see some scripts that have no equivalent in actions (at least i never saw). Using Styles from PS, is a bit like using the Sculpture effect (not the same but close, so if i could find a way to "extract" the tile from the styles, it would work with that command easily).

[Kathy_9]

Also, keep in mind that PS Actions were written with PS processes and commands in mind. If the same function does not exist in PSP, the "action turned script' will bomb.

[LeviFiction]

Not just the same function, but the same options. I don't think an automatic conversion would be very useful because if it doesn't work then you're kind of at a loss. But if you know what the action is doing and want to make your own version of that then I could see the possibilities. If you're looking for an actions viewer (because the format is not plaint text) so you can see how certain actions are done...that might be possible.

[jmadara]

The ability to extract specific style would be great. I have several I use for text effects in PS.

I understand scripting can be more robust, but it would be a nice feature to import an Action file where PSP would take you step by step through the conversion process. It would be much easier than starting from scratch. If there was an incompatible command you would get a message and you could skip it or fix it and continue scripting. I surprised someone hasnt tried making a third party converter.

[Tim Morrison]

Since PSP and PS are coded using different languages (one is Python, one is Java i think) ...

Both are developed using C++.