New feature or functionality

There are many steps required to place a selection on a new layer. First you have to make the layer, you have to make a new layer, then you have to go to edit and copy selection, and then place, but when it is place on a new layer it just goes whe...

Title says it all. If layer styles are added in PS then one goes back to Painter we get an error message about unsupported effects or layers.

Ps introduced the new format .psb and only CSP seems to be able to open

Procreate has an amazing feature that records all your brush strokes so that you can easily make a timelapse video. Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_aLZ8-qgDw

Currently, I am unable to adjust opacity of layers or strokes with my WACOM Intuos without specifying a keypress for each Opacity Value (0-9). In addition (or replacing) current Opacity control of a keyboard number, I propose an Opacity Up and Dow...

Not only should it be a no-brainer, but Painter is prone to crashing...at least for me on Mac OS Ventura 13. If you don't remember to regularly save manually, you can lose hours-worth of work.

Custom Palettes are very useful to add brushes, painter commands, papers, Flow maps, even dabs, so you know how you created the image. But it would be helpful to add color swatches as well, because you can save the palette and remember the exact c...

When using Save as painter opens up the last opened folder rather than the folder associated with the file being saved. When using Save as, please could painter open the folder in which file is currently stored.

I think it would be great if Painter Essentials were made for Android phones. That way people with drawing/painting tablets can take the tablets anywhere and still be able to use Painter Essentials.

I think it would be nice to be able to use a list of dabs (ideally with customizable chance of each being used) instead of a single one. It would be especially useful for painterly brushes or brushes meant to fill in parts of the background rather...