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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

Make a Painter Essentials for Android

I think it would be great if Painter Essentials were made for Android phones. That way people with drawing/painting tablets can take the tablets anywhere and still be able to use Painter Essentials.
Guest 8 months ago in New feature or functionality 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

Ability to create straight lines & shapes such as circles/square by holding for a second at the end of the line/shape

In Procreate, you create straight & curved lines & clean shapes such as squares, circles etc by holding at the end of the line/shape for a second…it will automatically create a straight/curved line or shape closest to what you’ve drawn wit...
Michelle Webb over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

View font thumbnail

I would love to have a view of the font when using the text tool. I believe all graphics programs have this ability. It would be helpful if the last three fonts that was used were listed at the top so you could easily find them. Also maybe have a ...
Raquel Bigby about 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 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

Sample multiple colors on the canvas and reference

While working with brushes that can sample multiple colors with the mixer pad, I think it would be useful to be able to sample on the canvas and reference as well
Raquel Bigby over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Import and Export layout files

If I want to share a layout file I need to fiddle around trying to find it in AppData. Would be great if I could export and import it from Painter.
Roxane Lapa over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Have Brush Icon show Direction or Rotation of stroke like Enhanced Brush Ghost

I like to be able to use the brush icon but it doesn't show the the direction or rotation of the stroke. It would be a plus if it could be set to direction or rotation and follow the stroke as it paints
Dana Diamond over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0