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Natural Color Mixing

Enable RYB mode so that blending two or more colors, results in more natural looking colors. It would be nice to be able to mix Yellow and Blue and get green or Blue and Red for a purple.
Product Operations 10 months ago in New feature or functionality 0

Improved Brush Ghost

The brush ghost should shows the exact shape of the brush dab and at what angle the dab is facing. With non-round brushes, this helps us determine where the edge of the stroke is going to be before we commence the stroke.
Product Operations 10 months ago in Quality 0

Merge layers and canvas into a new layer

It would be useful to have the possibility to merge the canvas with all the visible layers above it, into a new layer which should appear on top of them.
Product Operations 10 months ago in New feature or functionality 0

Reset paper settings

I'd like to be able to reset paper settings like angle/scale/brightness and contrast in one easy step.
Product Operations 10 months ago in Quality 0

Keyboard shortcut to make straight brush strokes

It would be helpful to have a shortcut key that will temporarily constrain the brush strokes to be perfectly straight when using the Brush Tool. Even though we have the Straight Line Strokes option in Painter property bar you have to click on this...
Product Operations 10 months ago in New feature or functionality 1

Flip the document

Ability to flip the quickly flip the document horizontally / vertically to check for mistakes and fine tune.
Product Operations 10 months ago in New feature or functionality 1

Improvements to type handling

When sketching ideas/concepts, it would be It would be helpful to have improved handling of typography in Painter. Here are some examples: Independently adjust spacing between individual characters. Use different sizes in one block of text, for in...
Cher Pendarvis 10 months ago in Quality 0

Merge with underneath layer

It would be great to right click and just merge the layer you're working on with the layer underneath it. This way you can add details to an image then quickly merge it to keep layer count manageable without having to group all layers or drop to t...
David Dace 10 months ago in New feature or functionality 1

Improvements to the eyedropper tool

I'd like to see a color swatch that previews the color I'm about to select. I'd also like an option to see the numerical HSV / RGB value.
Product Operations 10 months ago in Quality 1

updating painter and brushes

I sent this to support and they said I must post this on this site. I have just upgraded to 2023 but I just feel so sad to see a product that I have used for over 30 years become all about making money from the basic brushes. I am just lucky I sti...
Guest 4 months ago in Content 1