Welcome screen removal. I resent being advertised to.

[noose]

How do I hide this God awful welcome screen? I want the edit/workspace tab to be the first thing to open. It's called Paint shop pro, Not Sell to you or Photo organizer software. I used Jasc software PSP 7, paint shop photo x2 in past, Those were usable, You could change preferences to hide splash screen and updates. I did hide splash screen, but I can not figure out how to avoid that unnecessary Welcome/Home/Advertising screen. I read the remove thing here https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=65942 and knowledge base article and it was unhelpful.

[Kathy_9]

File - Preferences - General Program Preferences - Tabs - Choose your default.

[noose]

Thank You Kathy, that does NOT help. I'm using PSP 2020 22.2.0.8, I bought/donated it from humble bundle. It was SUPPOSED to be a full version just like retail.
I'm curious if Corel thought me obtaining it that way was a license to advertise with no way to disable. I've disabled messaging, unclicked everything and STILL I get pop-up ADs from corel. Disabling CUHelper didn't either.

Unrelated but may be related to this skimmed down version. I can NOT scale picture tubes, I need to be able to do so. I don't want to have to step back down to PSP x2 but I will.

[Kathy_9]

Okay, the instructions I gave you are for avoiding the Welcome Screen on startup as I thought that's what you were looking for.

As far as I know the Humble Bundle purchase is the same as the retail version but I have never purchased from Humble Bundle; only directly from Corel. I know others in this forum have purchased from Humble Bundle and they can advise.

We all get the ads and it has been discussed many times in the forum; so much so that there is a sticky topic discussing potential solutions. Hopefully you will find one there that works for you.

https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=65942

[noose]

Thanks. bit off topic but anyone know if new CEO Christa Quarles had experience with Paint Shop Pro in the past? Kind of secretly wishing she was a fan way back yonder to reconsider all the over the top promotional nags.

[Kathy_9]

Unrelated but may be related to this skimmed down version. I can NOT scale picture tubes, I need to be able to do so. I don't want to have to step back down to PSP x2 but I will.

Make sure you have "create as new raster layer" checked on the tools option toolbar and you will be able to scale.

[noose]

"Make sure you have "create as new raster layer" checked on the tools option toolbar and you will be able to scale."
I see tool option, If I bring up the scale palette I'm not seeing that either. When I created new layer, it said raster background checkedmarked

[Kathy_9]

Okay, there are two ways that I know of to scale a picture tube. One way is to use the pick tool on the tube; the reason I said to check the box for create as new raster layer and the other is to use the scale option on the tools option toolbar; not the scale option within the settings icon.

It might be easier to show you with a short video.

Video_2020-12-09_124032.zip

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[noose]

Thanks for the reply Kathy, I am a bit late. Problem is I don't have those settings there. only those when you click on the gear icon.

[noose]

I downloaded a trial of PSP 2021 and it works on that. How do I contact somebody to find out what was supposed to have been full working program was disabled?

[Kathy_9]

That is odd. Try doing a reset to see if that sets things right.

https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=67616

[Jean-Luc]