Quality

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.

Sub-groups will be maintained when saving or importing PSD files in Painter

Resizing a brush can be very slow especially with certain brushes and certain sizes. Would be great if all brushes can be resized faster.

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.

Add the ability to create unique brush tracking curves for size, opacity, and other important brush controls.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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 ...