Wishlist for PaintShop Pro X10

[vit123]

1. Image panning by clicking middle button and dragging (same as SPACE button + dragging)
2. changing opacity of a tool by pressing ALT + right click and dragging (analogy of size changing by pressing ALT + left click and dragging)

[Gold Acres]

Please either make the Vector NODES larger or give us a way to enlarge them, say in the Preferences. In the Beginner's Workshop for PaintShop Pro this is the biggest complaint we see. The nodes are so small (especially on the newer laptops) as to be almost invisible. Even make them a different color, like maybe bright red would help us find them and grab them. Enlarging the image being worked on does not solve this.

[Joelle]

It's a Registry hack.
Have no idea how to do that though, but LeviFiction might.

Joëlle

[LeviFiction]

I know of no registry hacks for vector nodes. The only registry hacks I've seen were posted by someone else and those dealt with colors of panels and such. I'm of no help there.

[Gold Acres]

We aren't looking for Hacks. We want the programmers to fix this problem in the next version they put out.

[tomkinsrichard]

Panorama
HDR
Focus Stacking
and, a more realistic price point.

Serif Affinity Software, released on Apple and now in Beta on Windows, sells for $49.99. Whew, that's a winning price point. Serif, Affinity Photo is 64 bit, does Focus Stacking and Panorama.

Looks like, those Europeans have just eaten your Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Desert too.

[Jean-Luc]

I want to create my own thumbnails for the binded scripts. Actually, the available icons don't represent the content of the script when placed in a toolbar. When I see 5 different stars with different colors, I don't remember where a particular script is placed (the yellow ? the blue ?).
The icon edit tool could be very simple : a square moved on an image in PSP, click to "cut out" the area selected, et voila, the special icon is created and placed in the list of available script icons.

[flagpole]

A fix tool for the windows preview thumbnails.

[psphufi]

PSP X10???

It is impossible that such a version will be offered with the name X10: X means 10; and X9 is 19!
So a new PSP must to be called XX - or simply 20.


My wishes:
- Working with collages and even with other projects PSP gets down from time to time; see screenshot. This is irksome! New works are lost between the savings.
- By working in greater projects (e.g. with guide lines) the psp imagefile is new constructing this image at every new click to somewhat! That takes many many time and makes me short-tempered...

[tomkinsrichard]

I see that Serif re-designed their entire product tree. They did an implementation for the Macintosh and now they are rolling things out on Windows.
Affinity Photo has some interesting features, and in the Beta version I did a quick trial of Focus Stacking. It works OK, having tried using the Helicon Focus product, it was not as sophisticated. A compromise for sure.
The Serif pricing is modest, and the product is entirely 64 bit, no clinging vestiges of 32 bit that no-one wants to redo.

Corel, if managemnet is listening, you need to do three things and do them well.

1. Fix this forum to use a more modern edit tool for postings.
2. Separate your interface from your functionality. One group that works on a standard Windows UI and the other group that implements requested functionality. In this way you can become consistent, standardizing the UI across all your software. Even your current product installs are a mixture of snippets from all over the past two decades.
3. Revise your products to be 64 bit. Focus on the current and future cause anyone running 32 bit OS is not a future purchaser, so in other words, connect your your active, current and future customer base and twilight those that are still using Windows NT.

[JoeB]

3. Revise your products to be 64 bit. Focus on the current and future cause anyone running 32 bit OS is not a future purchaser, so in other words, connect your your active, current and future customer base and twilight those that are still using Windows NT.

Many of us use many plugins that are 32bit only and will only run on the 32bit PSP. I would be upset if Corel discontinued also providing the 32bit version along with the 64bit for those who don't care about all of those plugins which the developers don't have any intentions of bringing out with 64bit versions.

[tomkinsrichard]

Many of us use many plugins that are 32bit only and will only run on the 32bit PSP

I contend that you are not really a future purchaser of product.

As it stands, Microsoft and Apple have mostly gone 64 bit. Code bloat is a fact. If you have a number of applications running at the same time, in 32 bit land, you're stuck with a memory size of about 3GB. This means that your OS, will start to swap applications in and out of memory to disk and back. This makes things slower. With 64 bit support, memory size is dramatically increased and given more physical memory in your system, this means more applications running and in memory before swapping starts to happen. Not so slow.

Yes, today, 32 bit applications will run on the 64 bit OS. However, they are still stuck in that 3GB wasteland down at the bottom of memory. I just looked and there are over 150 different processes running as part of my OS (Windows 10) and I also have seven principle applications running as well, two different mail clients (64 bit), two different browsers (64 bit), PaintShop Pro(64 bit), Nikon View(64 bit), Word (64 bit) and Visio (64 bit). This is all working out OK in 8GB of memory and swapping has not yet started.

I contend that Corel should go where the money is and that means dropping support for 32 bit. Plugin developers should upgrade their 32 bit stuff to 64 bit, that will future proof their revenue stream.

Given that most of Corels product set is long in the tooth, both in UI design and in architecture, it's time they modernized it all. Why, well, Microsoft has started to retire older frameworks that had been used in product development by Corel. Microsoft will close off those products, like a lead balloon and that will leave Corel scrambling to catch up. The sad thing is, by hanging on to older technology frameworks, design, and architecture, Corel is not properly serving their customer base, as the product they use becomes less capable in comparison to more modern development.

Corel has messed up twice in the past hanging on to older technology and in both cases they went bankrupt. Winning back your customer base from bankruptcy is an expensive proposition, so why do it if you just run your business properly. The first time they messed up was hanging on to all that UNIX workstation stuff. Too much effort, no payback. Should have all been dropped and told the customer base to upgrade to PC hardware. Cheap commodity COTS hardware and OS and they could have dropped the prices and sold substantially more unit quantities to fulfill the new reality. The second time they messed up was the Microsoft war. Some idiot thought they would compete. What killed them in this are was a non-standard UI across all their products, old technology again (WordPerfect fell out of UNIX land), they had the foundation of a great Page layout package, they killed it instead, hanging on to old products like Winzip, I use 7-zip, substantially faster and multi-threaded so I can have many different zip files extracting or zipping at the same time, and 64 bit too. One of the biggest stupid ideas that Corel does in Product Stratification. Too much support cost, too much packaging cost, too much marketing cost. In fact, the Corel budget for PaintShop is probably four times what Adobe puts into Photoshop, and you could argue that Photoshop is a better product too.

Sure wish I was running product management at Corel, I'd make them the powerhouse to beat without doing a Microsoft, Adobe or Serif war.

[photodrawken]

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Yes, today, 32 bit applications will run on the 64 bit OS. However, they are still stuck in that 3GB wasteland down at the bottom of memory. (...)

There's no such thing anymore about being "at the bottom of memory". That is an ancient concept from the days of Windows 3.x.

Modern Windows versions (7, 8, and 10) use a very aggressive memory management process. The Microsoft concept is that "Unused RAM is wasted RAM." This means that the OS is constantly using both physical RAM and the SSD (or HDD) to constantly provide the maximum amount of memory that running programs need or might need. This is true whether the programs or the OS itself is 32-bit or 64-bit.

In short, forget about the old-fashioned concerns about the "horrors" of "swapping". Just relax, and let the modern Windows OS manage things.

I contend that Corel should go where the money is and that means dropping support for 32 bit. Plugin developers should upgrade their 32 bit stuff to 64 bit, that will future proof their revenue stream.

Absolutely not. As JoeB pointed out, there are very useful 32-bit plugins (such as the KPT Collection) that require the 32-bit version of the image editor. Corel long ago stopped development of the KPT Collection, so those plugins will never be converted to 64-bit. Similarly, there remain useful 32-bit plugins from third-party developers that will probably never be converted to 64-bit, either. That doesn't make those plugins any less useful; and those developers long ago forgot about their "revenue stream" from those plugins.

[JudyB]

I apologize if this is already on the list - but the toolbars are getting very tiny. I do wear glasses, and have recently gotten new ones - and it's still almost impossible for me to read things like Pixel Dimensions or Print Size in the Crop menu, or tell 60% from 80% in Zoom. The numbers are only a little bit smaller than they were in the version I was using before - but it's enough that I'm coming away with a headache from trying to read the menus and especially fine-tune the numbers, and I'm sure that's really not an intended outcome. Thanks for your consideration!

[Radim]

Please take a look & inspiration from Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer
- https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/windows/
- https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/

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A few snap shots of Affinity Photo *Beta* - http://paintshop.php5.sk/affinity-photo/