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Improved custom palettes

The panels would show which brush is selected. Also, when I add commands that can be turned on and off such as 'pause diffusion', the buttons would update their status.
Product Operations over 2 years ago in Quality 1

.PSD file compatibility: Sub-groups

Sub-groups will be maintained when saving or importing PSD files in Painter
Product Operations over 2 years ago in Quality 1

Faster Brush resizing

Resizing a brush can be very slow especially with certain brushes and certain sizes. Would be great if all brushes can be resized faster.
Product Operations over 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 over 2 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 over 2 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 over 2 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in Quality 0