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Brush tracking improvements

Add the ability to create unique brush tracking curves for size, opacity, and other important brush controls.
Product Operations almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years ago in Quality 1

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 almost 2 years ago in Quality 0

Add Shortcut keys for every interaction

I should be able to do everything I want to interact with the program without clicks or tapping with my digital tablet. To this end, I should be able to assign a keyboard shortcut for every interaction, either a toggle, separate on-off keys, or up...
Scott Ott about 1 year ago in Quality 0

Merge brush looks into the actual brush settings

Creating brush looks so that it remembers what texture your brush has is a tedious extra step. All other painting programs allow you to save the texture as part of the variant, without this extra step.
Roxane Lapa 9 months ago in Quality 0

Clean up the code. Start-up time is glacial after adding papers and brushes

Out of the box, Painter 2023 will start within 30 seconds on my PC. After adding 8 paper packs and 15 brush packs, I can go make coffee and take a bathroom break before the welcome screen appears. Seriously, it takes 4 minutes and 10 seconds. The ...
Guest 10 months 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 almost 2 years ago in Quality 0

need cleaning tool for Painter 2019 - and all subsequent versions

On my windows 10 PC I cannot run Painter 2019. After install, when trying to launch I get this error "the procedure entry point_svml_idiv4_mask_e9 could not be located... etc." I had installation problems with former versions before and will not g...
Guest over 1 year ago in Quality 0