Corel PaintShop Pro X8 Service Pack 2

[Radim]

Today Corel released new SP.

Download: http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/support/updates/

Version:
- with SP2 is: 18.2.0.61

[Joelle]

Got it, thanks Radim

Joëlle

[Ken Berry]

Hmmm.... I wonder if one of the "Fixes applied in other areas" includes the Save/Save As kerfuffle...?

EDIT: Answering my own question, now that I have installed SP2 -- no, clicking Save still initiates the Save As routine.

[GMack]

Color management is still broken in PSP X8 SP2. Changes from a hardware calibrated screen profile to its own program color on opening.

Just watched a Notepad "white" text screen go bluish when PSP X8 launched. Also, Windows Color Management reports same default profile, but it isn't with PSP X8 SP2 running.

Fwiw.

Mack

[brucet]

GMack your going to be an old person before Corel figure out what colour management is let alone fix it.

My guess is that colour management code is buried deep within the coding and a no go zone.

regards

[JoeB]

GMack your going to be an old person before Corel figure out what colour management is let alone fix it.

My guess is that colour management code is buried deep within the coding and a no go zone.

regards

I'll second that opinion.

[GMack]

GMack your going to be an old person before Corel figure out what colour management is let alone fix it.

My guess is that colour management code is buried deep within the coding and a no go zone.

regards

Yeah, you're probably right.

I don't get why they just leave a hardware calibrated screen alone and not mess with it like they do.

After all, they manage to leave it alone with their After Shot 2, but starting up PSP X8 throws it all out the window with it's own idea of what color the screen should be and then sets it as some default until I reboot and allow the hardware calibrated screen to resume. Bad enough other software complains and tattles about PSP X8 messing things up in gamma, color, etc. when it launches. Should be easy to just disable the dumb startup color management takeover thing it does at launching.

Oh well. Maybe by PSP XX.

GMack

[flagpole]

Anyone know if this addresses the weird problem with SP1?

Or should i avoid it?

[MarkZ]

Anyone know if this addresses the weird problem with SP1?

Or should i avoid it?

Which weird problem? I've installed SP2.

[flagpole]

Anyone know if this addresses the weird problem with SP1?

Or should i avoid it?

Which weird problem? I've installed SP2.

this one

I presume if you didn't have any issues with SP1 you wouldn't with SP2. But those of us that did I wondered if we knew if it had been fixed?

[JoeB]

Anyone know if this addresses the weird problem with SP1?

Or should i avoid it?

According to the Release Notes, "•UI truncation issues resolved". And as this thread has had 461 views as I post this I would assume many of those viewers have installed the patch, and so far there seem to be no complaints. At the very least you wouldn't be worse off by installing it and checking for yourself.

[csh2000]

Color management is still broken in PSP X8 SP2. Changes from a hardware calibrated screen profile to its own program color on opening.

Just watched a Notepad "white" text screen go bluish when PSP X8 launched. Also, Windows Color Management reports same default profile, but it isn't with PSP X8 SP2 running.

Fwiw.

Mack

I'm puzzled by this discussion as I have not experienced this issue. I am running SP2 and a after I calibrate my screen, I update PSP with the new profile name and everything matches up. Images look the same side by side in PSP as they do in Aftershot Pro and ViewNX. I've also sent pictures to the printer and they appear spot on. Granted, I'm not a professional and may not have the discerning eyes that others have. I do wish that I could just tell PSP to use the hardware calibrated screen, so I don't have to update everytime I calibrate though..

[GMack]

Color management is still broken in PSP X8 SP2. Changes from a hardware calibrated screen profile to its own program color on opening.

Just watched a Notepad "white" text screen go bluish when PSP X8 launched. Also, Windows Color Management reports same default profile, but it isn't with PSP X8 SP2 running.

Fwiw.

Mack

I'm puzzled by this discussion as I have not experienced this issue.......
I do wish that I could just tell PSP to use the hardware calibrated screen, so I don't have to update every time I calibrate though..

Sort of confused by your post, but it sounds like you are also having an issue with a hardware calibrated screen that PSP then takes over and sets as the system default once launched. Then you need to reboot to get back to your hardware calibrated screen?

Much the same problem here too. It shouldn't mess with a hardware calibrated screen at all, but it does. Better RGB capable monitors that have the ability to self-calibrate (Eizo CG-series running Color Navigator 6) will notify that the "Default gamma and color has changed" when PSP opens. Sometimes PSP will randomly set something else in its Color Management pane within the program too which is more maddening. Their After Shot 2 doesn't do this nor do most other programs. It's a unique bug to PSP as an editor that seems to been around for some time now.

If one goes from videos and web stuff at D65 or D70, D75, etc., and then on to printing at D50 and setting the hardware screen calibration to D50 which has been calibrated/sync'd for your printer with hardware, PSP should recognize that and leave it alone!

Time for Corel to fix this so it can be used as an accurate color rendition editor that also works with a hardware calibrated screen. Leave the calibrated default alone when launching!

Mack

[csh2000]

Sort of confused by your post, but it sounds like you are also having an issue with a hardware calibrated screen that PSP then takes over and sets as the system default once launched. Then you need to reboot to get back to your hardware calibrated screen?
Mack

I am not experiencing the same problem as you. My colors on my hardware calibrated screens do not change when starting PSP. My work around was to tell PSP which profile to use. When PSP exits everything is the same, no reboot needed.

Chip

[brucet]

I also tell PSP which profile to use. Yet regardless of that PSP always changed the colours.

This is not a one off problem. There are many folks with the same problem. The only way I got around it was to leave PSP in default mode. Or use other software. I now use PL and have no issues at all.

regards