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Fix Dynamic Plugins

Dynamic Plugins have been with Painter for years and have always worked until Painter 2023. Two of the Plugins are no longer working as they should, Tear and burn. They leave a circle on the edge of the image.
Raquel Bigby about 3 years ago in Content 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 almost 4 years ago in New feature or functionality 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 about 4 years ago in New feature or functionality 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 about 2 years ago in Quality 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 about 4 years 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 3 years ago in Quality 0

Resize image dpi, width and length independantly

At present resizing in Painter is ineffective to those that wish to resize only resolution or width or length independently. For example. If I have an image 12" by 10" at 72 dpi and would like to make it 12" x 12" at 150 dpi I can not.
Dana Diamond about 4 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Layer Styles for Text

Would be great to be able to bevel/emboss text, add drop shadow (with ability to move and change opacity and color), add glow, etc. Would eliminate having to go into PS.
Guest about 4 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Integration of PSP and Painter

Currently users often have to call on PSP to supply the tools which are not available in Painter. Use of a call from Painter directly to PSP tp supply these tools would cut workflow time and stop the need for intermediate files and versions to be ...
Guest about 4 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 about 2 years ago in Quality 0