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The Canvas - Flip Horizontal tool is uncomfortable to use

The horizontal flip tool currently mirrors the entire canvas, which disrupts the workflow by shifting the focal point away from the active sketch area. Request: Implement a 'Flip View on Cursor' or 'flip in the active area of the screen' option to...
Guest about 1 month ago in New feature or functionality

Menus, Selectors and Toolbar size adjustment.

I am older with eye sight deteriorating. I have noticed when working on images that the menus panels and palettes have become more difficult to see and require poking my head much closer to the monitor. Most important the tool bar for adjusting br...
Stephen LoPiano 9 months ago in New feature or functionality

Tool Palette/Text Size

I'm filing this as "Quality" because it's a Quality of User Experience issue. For those of us with aging or deteriorating eyesight, or for those of us using screens that are modern-size (my Apple Studio Display is 5120x2880), the current tools app...
Guest 11 months ago in Quality

Brush optimization tool stopped working

On a new laptop with hybrid graphic solution (Asus Proart PX13) evaluation of Painter 2023 stopped working correctly. After startup, the GPU acceleration options would not show as accessible in the preferences window, as if no GPU was present in t...
Guest about 1 year ago in Crashes

Linux version

Please provide a Linux version of Painter.
Guest about 1 year ago in New feature or functionality

Why is 'Bevel World' so hidden?

Why are some of the best Painter tools hidden deep in the Layers panel? I just don't understand it. I love Bevel World. The settings are a bit confusing, but the results are great. And why does it take an absolute age to open, and when open, anoit...
Del Normanton over 1 year ago in Quality

Export/Save As

One of the things I dislike about Corel Painter is the Export/Save As. Why can I only Export as Adobe Illustrator? Why, after all these years of using Painter since version 5, can I still not export to file types such as .png or .jpg? Why must I S...
Del Normanton over 1 year ago in Quality

Corel Painter Interface Update

I would like to see the Corel Painter interface updated considerably. I have used Painter since version 5 (long before Corel purchased it) and I LOVE Painter so much. I also use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, ...
Del Normanton over 1 year ago in Quality

Add "Linear Dodge (Add)" Composite Method

Most modes available in Photoshop are also available in Painter, except the Linear Dodge (Add), which is very useful when painting light on a separate layer. Please implement this mode.
Martin Vrkljan over 1 year ago in New feature or functionality

french curves, strighline rulers and stencils

add french curves, straight line rulers, and stencils just like real drawing or airbrushing techniques use to create tighter curves instead of shape creation then using nodes to create curve, because then you have to reshade or color plus among ot...
Guest over 1 year ago in Content