Wishlist for Paint Shop Pro 2019

[LeviFiction]

xD Yes I'm aware of our time differences. We're very used to a day or more between responses here. And that's just people living their lives. Forget the fact that many of us are in different countries. You could be in the same city and still take a few days to get back to us. We're not impatient. Take your time.

[Cody]

Alright, here is a workspace file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10KvZp ... qatHw_sP0f
Download and load that in see if it makes any difference for you.

Sadly, no difference. No customize.

Can you confirm a few things for us?
The version of PSP 2018? (20.2.0.1?)

Alright.

Were all of your computers using the German language in Windows? (I'm assuming yes but I want to make sure)

Alright. Most of them have also an english keyboard profile right down at the taskbar. But its nearly never used. Simply present by default windows installations.

Did you install any other languages with PSP or just German? And if so what were they?

No. Bought only german, installed only german. It makes no sense to me with an english PSP because too many technical terms (i must often be careful when i'm wrote here e.g. "Beschnittwerkzeug" means "Crop Tool" etc.). Can imagine me thats some readers here kidding about my weird english. But i hope its better than nothing because i had NEVER learned english in a school - it was the time of cold war and russian was state-of-the-art as foreign language.

I'm American, so my default PSP language and WIndows language is always US English. So no testing that i do will be one-hundred percent equivalent.

No problem. No one can choose in which country he is born

I am assuming that this is a configuration/localization problem. But why it's happening, no idea.

I think the same way. But the fact thats appeared since X3 absolutely reproducible in each version (okay, i can only talk about X3, X4 and 2018) and no other from germany or with regard to the other guy who has the same problem with the netherlands localization, i'm very surprised thats such an major problem was never discovered/criticised in nearly 8 years since X3 was released. I could imagine thats the root cause lies in the tabbed workspace switching introduced with X3. As i learned now, PSP does hide just these menu items when switching to the simple workspace. Could be possible thats here is an bug in relation with some windows-specific settings and when these present, PSP does faulty hide the customization menu items.

Currently i'm annoyed that not reported the problem 8 years ago. I thinked really it was willfully dismantled by Corel. It was fashionable at the time, thats software would be simplified (refer to Win 8 which was came w/o an start menu and so on). That's why it looked logical the customize options wasn't present.

Your best bet is to go talk to Corel directly. But in the meantime lets get some information down shall we?

What's the best way to do it? I didn't want to walk a marathon trough dozens of callcenter people and repeat my story a dozen times.

EDIT: And before i'm forget it: I tried the workspace restoration with holding SHIFT some times. A few of them PSP hungs while splash screen tells "Cache-Einstellungen werden aktualisiert" (refer to Deepl translate "Cache settings are updated") for minutes. On a Kaby Lake 7700K, 16 Gigs RAM and an Intel M.2 PCIe SSD !!

FURTHER EDIT: It seems there is more than one problem. When i try to change the toolbar icon size from small to large, hungs also for a couple of seconds and the task manager tells that PSP consumes 100% of one CPU core. And more peculiarities: When im go to File > Settings "Speicherorte" ("Save places" in english?) so i see TWO pathes for the workplace storing. The upper one links to a net share defined by a GPO:

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\\ourdomain.int\some\path\UserData\My Username\Eigene Dateien\Corel PaintShop Pro\2018\Arbeitsbereiche

This path is valid when i copied and pasted it into file explorer. I can found a Test.PspWorkspace file here, which i had created during my experiments yesterday.

The second path refers to the local programs folder:

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C:\Program Files\Corel\PaintShop Pro 2018\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\Languages\DE\Arbeitsbereiche

This path seems to be INVALID. The most right part of this path, the "Arbeitsbereiche" folder does not exist. All higher folders are correct.

3rd EDIT: The net share path above are valid and opens quickly in the file explorer. But when i click the "..." button in the "Speicherorte" ("Save places"?) window, the mouse cursor appears as hourglass for a couple of seconds before opens the select-a-folder-window. Can this a hot track to the root cause of the problems? An incompatibility in PSP with GPO-redirected user profile folders to a net share?

4th EDIT: And more per-PSP-setup defined pathes are invalid:

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C:\Program Files\Corel\PaintShop Pro 2018\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\Content\Scripts-Restricted
C:\Program Files\Corel\PaintShop Pro 2018\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (64-bit)\Content\Scripts-Trusted

In these cases the TWO right parts of the path (the "Content" folder) does not exist in the local file system.

[LeviFiction]

Unfortunately although the problem for you has transcended several versions it's not as simple as a bug report. You'll have to do some active troubleshooting for Corel. So you'll either need to be on the phone or start an email ticket.

http://www.corel.com/en/contact-us/

Another user had also pointed out some incorrect paths. As far as I know that's a 2018 issue. Unsure if it relates to the long startup times but if you've been experiencing this particular issue since x3 I doubt it's directly related what you're experiencing. Though that will be for the experts to decide.

[Cody]

@LeviFiction Thanks at this point. I had opened a ticket. We will see whats happen.

[Cody]

Another ridiculous was happen now. I've tried how PSP works with Wacom Intuos Tablet. Installed the drivers, rebooted the system, restartet PSP. Played a while with the pressure-sensitive tools and so on. Rather accidental opened the toolbar context menu. I couldn't believe what I saw there: An "Anpassen"/"Customize" menu item!!! But NOT in the "Ansicht"/"View" main menu. Its completely ridiculous: If i shut down PSP, disconnect the wacom and restart PSP, the customize is hidden again. For clarification: This wacom tablet is fabric-new and was never in conjunction with any PSP installation before. Its generally the very first time that i use an graphics tablet.

[ehume]

I would like to be able to choose which PSP (eg.--x9 32-bit, x9 64-bit, 2018 32-bit, 2018 64-bit) to show on the main context menu in Windows Explorer. As it is, PSP shows only in the "Open with . . ." submenu, and all of the PSP's show. I cannot have any other PSP installed if I only want "Open with PSP 2018 64-bit" to show.

Had to leave. Now I'm back.

I began with PS shareware v3, transitioned to PSP 1, moved up through the numbers, the x numbers and now the year numbers. As expected, this has gone from a paint program to a photo program. I use it because I'm familiar with it. It is "my" program. That said, a few things:

1. As above. Customization of Windows Explorer context menus is long overdue.

2. Most commands have large sliders. See the Brightness/Contrast command, for example. But not all have large sliders. The Highlight/Midtone/Shadow and the Adjust Red/Green/Blue commands have the old rolling number with hard-to-grip percentage indicators, which function as sliders, but badly. I wish Corel would update those, improving usability. Retain the numbers -- we sometimes need that precision.

3. Tool parameter toolbars should be customizable. I mostly publish my photos on the web. I rarely print to paper. I don't need "Print Size" in the Crop Tool parameters. Back when I used a more limited screen this made a difference. I have a lot of horizontal space now but I didn't then. I understand you don't want me to delete those parameters (where is the repository for them?) but I would like the opportunity to move them out of the way. Do this for all the Tool parameter toolbars.

4. Sometimes I have a blown-out sky that I want to replace with something else. There are usually trees and leaves in the way. I would like to select the sky but not the tree branches and leaves.

5. Zoner has a Polarize feature. Looks good. Wish I had it in PSP.

[Cassel]

I'm not sure if this is a wish list item for PSP or a new tool.
Picassa used to have a utility to make a collage that could cope with several hundred pictures. It used to be great to make a large poster print of the years best shots. Unfortunately it has been withdrawn.

I have looked at the shatter templates (based on layers) and also the print with layout but these dont really fit the bill. The layer based approach is good for a few pictures but not manageable for several hundred.

I guess I could write a program to generate a print template, but this would still lack the auto arrange capabilities Picassa had and Im not sure if Print Template can generate a JPG. I really need something that will deal with about a hundred pictures and arrange them in some form of mosaic where I can then rearrange via drag and drop. Output would need to be to JPG rather than printer so that I can send it to Photobox or similar.

Have you looked at the script in the Discovery Center? Check out here, and see if it might be what you need?
https://shop.learn.corel.com/collection ... saic-maker

[hartpaul]

ehume : 1. As above. Customization of Windows Explorer context menus is long overdue.

This is a windows feature rather than something that should be added to PSP.

There are ways of editing the context menu through regedit or free third party software.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows ... text-menu/

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/remove-cl ... ms-editors
Perhaps ehume could test these out and see which were most effective and report back here.

[JoeB]

4. Sometimes I have a blown-out sky that I want to replace with something else. There are usually trees and leaves in the way. I would like to select the sky but not the tree branches and leaves.

People have been doing that for years. One way is to use the Magic Wand in Add mode to make your selections of the sky. It takes some fine tuning of the settings but it's not usually that difficult, particularly of you first do a rough selection with the point-to-point option to isolate the sky and include just a small part of the trees, etc., that intrude into the sky and promote that selection to it's own layer before going to the Magic Wand. That makes it easier to ensure that colors in other parts of the image that are a close match to the blown out sky don't get selected. The trees, etc., that you mentioned are usually quite a bit darker than the sky if, as you say, it's blown out.

[Footloose1949]

I would like to see the controls for setting the level of compression, when using the 'Save' and 'Save As functions, at least twice the size they currently are ad a bigger gap between these and the bar below. I often go to increase decrease the level of compression, (in Meg/Kb) only to find either the mouse cursor has selected the one I don't want, or activated the bar below so that the level of compression is radically different to what I want, so I then have to mess around putting the level of compression where I want it to be. On the other hand, providing an additional option that allows you to set the Kb level you want, which can then be locked, so that on other images you are also saving at say 100kb, you don't have to keep changing the level of compression so it fits to the size that many websites prefer your images to be no bigger than. Would implementing that, actually be too difficult to do, or can't Corel be bothered to offer a useful option like this?

[MarkZ]

I would like to see the controls for setting the level of compression, when using the 'Save' and 'Save As functions, . . . . Would implementing that, actually be too difficult to do, or can't Corel be bothered to offer a useful option like this?

We've been BEGGING for this for many years but the development manager seems to be totally deaf, set in his ways or just plain obstinate.

[LeviFiction]

I must be misunderstanding what you're asking for, as we can see those controls both when using Save and Save As. In Save As, at least for JPEG, there is a compression/quality slider at the bottom of the dialog. When you use Save for the first time on an image it opens the Save As dialog asking for the compression. In previous versions this dialog popped up once per image, now in 2018 due to backlash over that it opens once per session and uses that setting for all subsequent saves. Seriously people were up in arms because the Save AS dialog with compression settings kept popping up every time they saved an image.

The request that has been made but ignored is to put the default compression in the Preferences dialog and using that for Save. Or re-linking the Save and Save As values like it used to be before they broke it. But as it stands right now we get that compression slider in the Save As dialog. And the first time we Save an image in PSP.

[MarkZ]

. . , now in 2018 due to backlash over that it opens once per session and uses that setting for all subsequent saves. Seriously people were up in arms because the Save AS dialog with compression settings kept popping up every time they saved an image.

The request that has been made but ignored is to put the default compression in the Preferences dialog and using that for Save. Or re-linking the Save and Save As values like it used to be before they broke it. But as it stands right now we get that compression slider in the Save As dialog. And the first time we Save an image in PSP.

In my previous response I did not address the request directly but came from the frustration of (in my opinion) the lame implementation of the Save function. Yes, there have been tweaks back and forth because of the outcries and the fact that the dialog popped up each time. But we still don't have the control on compression when saving that we should have.

You say "and uses that setting for all subsequent saves". This can be misleading; it is only true for the image that is still open after using Save As. If you have a number of images open, set the compression when saving one, then go on to the other images, when you use Save (not Save As) for those images the compression used is the default, in my case somewhere around 15. So if I want to be able to save all my images with compression 10, I need to use Save As each time. I would prefer to be able to set the compression on the first save and have it hold until the session ends. We almost had this implemented but then it fizzled out.

[EpiEndless]

Something I've been asking for forever:
Change canvas size as a percentage.

[AlanLaughton]

Make sure that all dialog windows accept the Enter key for the highlighted choice.
Adjust > Brightness and Contrast >Threshold

I also need this fixed, been like that for sometime.

Also, just upgraded to a 4K 28" screen. I have Windows Display Settings - Scale set to 200%. All the PSP 2018 options I open their windows scale correctly except Threshold window. This needs to be fixed urgently.

Alan