Wish List for PaintShop Pro version X9

[Ravelli]

@JoeB: just briefly... The spam appears also in the Camera-Raw-Editor, which comes up when you open a RAW-file. It offers AfterShot Pro. No need to click on it, just hover it accidentally with your mouse, so a big window with a more precise offer opens. Corel knows where they have implemented this. Not need that we have to discuss that en detail.
PSP's original strength has been - and still is - that it offers a combination of pixel and vector editor, which makes it the perfect tool for web graphics and 3d textures (PS came up with it some years later). I used Corel Draw myself in the past, i even owned the entire suite, and recently i tested the current version. But it doesn't offer what i need.
Friendly Greetings,
Ravelli

[ranunculus]

color saturation tool malfunction

The vibrancy-tool in PSP X6 works wrong ! It should strenthen the saturation of parts which have a low color saturation (without altering already high saturated parts). but what happens: the highly saturated parts become more saturated !
This should be corrected in the next version.
all the best
ranunculus
Try this example:

[Juangg]

I also would like to add more lens profile for correction in raw importing. And also in Aftershot.

[canar]

(A) The ability to rotate only the selection within the image but keep the separate ability to rotate the entire image too. Currently I have to make a copy of the selection as a new image, rotate the new image and copy and paste it back into the original as a new selection.
(B) Easier colourization of black and white photos. At the moment it is much to time consuming to bother doing it.
(C) Make the colour wheel the default rather than the slider when selecting new colours
(D) Accept more colour palettes formats. It seems difficult to add palettes found on the Net but maybe it my lack of knowing an easy way. I want to be able to quickly access for example a human body colour palette and choosing skin tones , eye colour and such for different races or a palette of green and browns for a forest image.

[JoeB]

(A) The ability to rotate only the selection within the image but keep the separate ability to rotate the entire image too. Currently I have to make a copy of the selection as a new image, rotate the new image and copy and paste it back into the original as a new selection.

When you make your selection you could promote it to a layer and do your rotate using Free Rotate with Rotate All Layers Unchecked. This will rotate the upper (selection) layer within the image with the selection marquee intact around it. Or, once you have promoted the selection to a layer you can rotate manually using the Edit Selection option and dragging the handle. You can also use the pick tool to rotate but you'll lose your selection marquee.

[GraphicsDON]

• CorelDRAW (.cdr) Import/Export just like Adobe Illustrator
• Better text tools and layout engine
• Export PDF
• SVG Support
• Support for Photoshop Actions

[rzozaya1969]

From the Manage tab:
1. Add file and folder management.
1.1 Let me move a folder from one folder to another.
1.2 Rename folder
2. Split files per date, so if I have in folder "MyAdventures" pics from day 1, 2 and 3, I could end up with "MyAdventures2016-01-01" "MyAdventures2016-01-02" etc..

From Adjustment tab:
1. Display a history tab on the actions that have been applied to an image.
2. Option to build a script based on them.
3. Option to see the image information (exif, etc.), this is the only tab where we can't see that information.
4. Add HSL adjustments.
5. Add exposure compensation.
6. Have a setting if the user prefer to save a copy if they modify the picture instead of using save as or replacing the file.

From Edit tab:
1. On the filters screen, where there is a Preview screens for before/after, being able to zoom in or out with the wheel of the mouse.

[magnoliasouth]

Off the top of my head, there are three.

1. Import/export SVG
2. Import/export ICO
3. Remove color cast (that was an option way back I think when Jasc still owned it, it was a simple color fix that disappeared into a number of complicated color fixing options, simple is sometimes best)

[magnoliasouth]

- make 'creating' the main focus of PSP, not 'photo editing'

If "creating" and not "photo editing" is what you want then you should not have chosen PSP.

I see no reason for that tone, Joe. We former Jasc users remember the day when it wasn't a photo editing piece of software, hence the name "paint shop". It was originally designed for graphics. In fact, it used to come with a nifty little addon called Animation something... Station maybe?

When Corel bought it, they changed their focus to photography. This is why the user is asking to switch it back. The thread is a Wish List and I don't see why users cannot ask here for something that they want.

Besides, Corel kind of closed the door on Jasc users when they bought it. Okay, not kind of. They just did.

[magnoliasouth]

Store preferences in an external file, so that these settings can be restored

+1 on that.

[JoeB]

- make 'creating' the main focus of PSP, not 'photo editing'

If "creating" and not "photo editing" is what you want then you should not have chosen PSP.

I see no reason for that tone, Joe. We former Jasc users remember the day when it wasn't a photo editing piece of software, hence the name "paint shop". It was originally designed for graphics.

When Corel bought it, they changed their focus to photography. This is why the user is asking to switch it back.

Sorry if the sentence came across as abrupt. It was not meant to convey a tone but simply stating what I see to be a fact.

I started with Jasc Paint Shop Pro v.4, and to my recollection even back then the majority of the tools were geared toward image editing. Actual painting tools were relatively rudimentary compared to programs actually dedicated to painting at that time, and graphic tools (e.g., vector tools which are kind of vital for doing graphics) were also more rudimentary than those available in PSP today. And by the time Jasc had released PSP v.9.04 (and I used all versions in between) there was even more emphasis on image editing tools rather than graphic creation. And it was at that stage - i.e., when Jasc was already focusing more and more on image editing - that Corel purchased Jasc. And they continued the trend already evident by Jasc.

Even given that, the point was that Corel is, in fact, the company that owns Paintshop Pro as we speak. They also own Corel Draw Suite, which includes Photo Paint. And as I said, I don't see an upside for Corel to give Paintshop Pro the same graphic abilities as Corel Draw because then people would have little reason to purchase Corel Draw, making it redundant. And with Corel Draw retailing at $549.00 CDN and Paintshop Pro retailing at $79.99 CDN, making Corel Draw redundant wouldn't be the best business decision in the world.

And I don't see the upside for consumers either. If Corel Draw, with its plethora of graphic tools, presently retails for almost 7 times the retail price of Paintshop Pro, then it seems to me that the retail price of Paintshop Pro would have to go up considerably if it were to incorporate much more advanced graphic capabilities. That would put it well outside of the price point of its present target market (including me! ) So my other point was that customers whose needs are fulfilled by Paintshop Pro would end up having to pay more for a product with capabilities they don't actually need. And those capabilities are not denied those who actually need them because Corel already offers a product that provides those capabilities.

The thread is a Wish List and I don't see why users cannot ask here for something that they want.

It depends on what "Wish List" means as the purpose of this thread. I have always taken it to mean making suggestions that were practical given the product focus of this forum, which is a photo editing product and marketed as such. By that I mean suggestions that either continue to improve the usability of existing tools or suggestions to add other tools that further the process of photo editing. So, while it's just my humble opinion, using it to wish that Paintshop Pro would become a serious graphic editor like Corel Draw is on the same level as wishing it would also become a good video editor like Corel Video Studio. JMHO, of course.

[LeviFiction]

Start by saying I agree with most of what you said. What I disagree with is the comparison to CorelDraw.

They wouldn't have to give PSP the same abilities as Corel Draw just make the current tools better than they are. Fact is in order to continue to justify the price the package as a whole must be superior to other systems offered and they eventually have to constantly update or hit a ceiling. I may not agree with them on the idea of making graphics the central point of the software, but they can easily make the current tools more robust without raising the price or competing directly with CorelDraw. Nothing annoys me more than someone saying "if you want vectors go to CorelDraw" because it's not budget friendly. There are many budget based softwares that you could look to for graphics centric or at least graphics infused editors that don't over-shadow software as big as CorelDraw.. If the only reason CorelDraw is $549 is because it can arrange items on a paged document then it's already far too overpriced as is and they should look at replacing it with something more budget oriented. But it's professional grade in a way PSP never will be.

[JoeB]

Start by saying I agree with most of what you said. What I disagree with is the comparison to CorelDraw.

They wouldn't have to give PSP the same abilities as Corel Draw just make the current tools better than they are.
[SNIPPED] ... but they can easily make the current tools more robust without raising the price or competing directly with CorelDraw.

I won't argue with that, Levi. Or at least they could make the current graphic/vector tools more robust without either competing directly with CorelDraw and at least with only a nominal price increase if they desired (say $5.00) in the price of PSP.

My original reply to @Ravelli was because of what he appeared to be asking for, as below:

"- make 'creating' the main focus of PSP, not 'photo editing'
- better and more vector tools"

In other words, he specifically asked that the focus of PSP change from what it is marketed as (i.e., photo editing) to something it is not designed to be focused on (i.e. graphics creation). And given that PSP is a photo editor as its focus then that just doesn't make sense to me, nor would it to Corel if I'm any judge of marketing. And he didn't just ask for more robust existing tools. He asked for More vector tools.

What you suggest is entirely reasonable. What he suggested, IMHO, is not because he was asking that the focus of a photo editing program be changed to focus on something completely different.

[ADonahoo]

I want the link/unlink added back to the Layers palette, or at least put back in "Unused Commands" so I can add it myself. It is gone from X8 completely.

[LeviFiction]

ADonahoo I have the link unlink button in X8. Try resetting your layers palette toolbar.

View -> Customize

Select the Toolbars tab

Then select the Layers Palette Toolbar and click the "Reset" button.