General Questions

[Linda Lou]

I've noticed that there was a patch for PSP2018 in October 2017. My PSP2018 is new, but I'd like to be able to see if I need the patch. I have version 20.2.0.1x64 (20.2.0.1 for the 32-bit). Is that a patched version?

Somewhere I read that Corel has monthly free downloads -- clipart, etc. Now I can't find that page. Does anyone have the link so I can bookmark it?

I disabled Corel notifications because I was getting ads within PSP. Are notifications of updates/patches posted on this forum when they are issued? (I'd like to see a re-do on that crop tool in the next patch!)

[Cassel]

Yes, the 20.2.0.1 is the correct version with the correct patch.

For the freebies, you can find them here:
http://learn.corel.com/freebies/

There is typically a new one every week, and after the end of the month, they are all removed to be replaced by new ones, one at the time.

For patches, sometimes, someone will post in here. However, they are not very numerous.

As for the crop tool behavior, well, it is not a bug, although it is bugging a lot of people, so chances are limited that it will change. But, who knows? Maybe with enough complaints, they might look into it.

[JoeB]

As for the crop tool behavior, well, it is not a bug, although it is bugging a lot of people, so chances are limited that it will change. But, who knows? Maybe with enough complaints, they might look into it.

If Corel insists on keeping the current Crop tool behaviour I could live with that as long as they provide an option to allow users to revert back to the previous behaviour.

[Linda Lou]

Thank you for the info. I'll bookmark the Corel URL.
Yes, I know the crop tool situation is not a bug, but it certainly is more "tedious" to use than earlier versions. I'm better with it after a couple of months of using 2018, but I wish they hadn't changed it. I've cheated a bit and used the Selection Tool to cut whatever I want to crop and save it as a new image. I agree: It would be nice if there is an option, but I'm not going to buy a new version just to get that. Let's hope 2018 gets updated.

[hartpaul]

Just downloaded the Green Selective Color Script Freebie (Selective Color Green.PspScript) and it has a bug - does not do the advertised green on Black and white. The Selective Color Red.PspScript does work.

After some testing using wordpad to edit the file I found that in the file from Corel
the values:
'Red': (0,0,0,315,345,15,45),
'Green': (0,80,0,75,105,135,165),
'Blue': (0,0,0,195,225,255,285),
'Cyan': (0,0,0,135,165,195,225),
'Magenta': (0,0,0,255,285,315,345),
'Yellow': (0,0,0,15,45,75,105)

Needed to be replaced with :

'Red': (0,0,0,315,345,15,45),
'Green': (0,100,0,75,105,135,165),
'Blue': (0,0,0,195,225,255,285),
'Cyan': (0,-13,0,135,165,195,225),
'Magenta': (0,0,0,255,285,315,345),
'Yellow': (0,8,-6,49,79,109,139)

[JoeB]

Thank you for the info. I'll bookmark the Corel URL.
Yes, I know the crop tool situation is not a bug, but it certainly is more "tedious" to use than earlier versions. I'm better with it after a couple of months of using 2018, but I wish they hadn't changed it. I've cheated a bit and used the Selection Tool to cut whatever I want to crop and save it as a new image.

If you use the Edit Selection_2 script I posted in the scripting sub-group that - once you have made a selection - automatically calls up the Edit Selection option as well as the Pick tool so that you can move and/or resize your selection to taste, then you can edit the script so that, once you have your selection sized and positioned as you want it, it will also copy that selection and paste it as a new image. Just suggesting in case it would save you some steps. That would make using Selection to get the crop and new image from it that you want look and work much more similar to the crop tool but without that extra added canvas space and allow you to rotate the box instead of the image when using the rotation handle.

That solution works if your intention is to copy and paste as new image. If you need to do an actual crop because you are cropping a layered image and want to retain the layers then the script would need to do Crop to Selection rather than Copy and Paste as New Image. However, careful consideration now leads me to believe that this wouldn't work the same as the Crop tool does.