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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 3 months ago in Quality 0

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 10 months ago in Quality 0

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 10 months ago in Quality 0

Change reference image to grayscale

I find it very helpful if you can turn the reference image into grayscale. This can free up the artist in color choices. This can also help with getting the correct values in the image.
Raquel Bigby about 3 years ago in Quality 1

Brush tracking improvements

Add the ability to create unique brush tracking curves for size, opacity, and other important brush controls.
Product Operations about 3 years ago in Quality 0

Add a grid to the Reference palette

Many artists will use a gird on their reference as well as on the canvas making it easier to get the right proportions in quickly without cloning.
Raquel Bigby about 3 years ago in Quality 0

Hardware accelerated UI

Painter is essentially unusable at higher resolutions but especially at 4k. Implement hardware accleration throughout all of Painter. Rebelle and Photoshop are buttery smooth at 4k whereas doing anything like rotating, zooming and panning will hap...
Guest about 1 year ago in Quality 0

Modern Multi Monitor Support

Multiple monitors are a fact of life now, especially with Display tablets like Wacom's Cintiq Pro line. this means you are running into situations where the Pixels per inch of your drawing tablet display (mine is is in the 500 range) and your norm...
Guest about 1 year ago in Quality 0

AMD graphics card recognition

I was previously using a Nvidia GTX 1060 and recently updated to an AMD RX 6650 XT. Corel Painter 2023 is not recognizing the OpenCL on it and therefore will not use it to accelerate the brushes.
Guest about 1 year ago in Quality 0

Merge brush looks with brush variants

The texture and texture settings should be saved with the brush variant instead of having to create a separate brush look. Photoshop, Paintstorm Studio, etc all save the texture with the brush instead of having this extra step.
Roxane Lapa about 3 years ago in Quality 0