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Clean up the code. Start-up time is glacial after adding papers and brushes

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 ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Quality 0

Multiple dabs for a single brush

I think it would be nice to be able to use a list of dabs (ideally with customizable chance of each being used) instead of a single one. It would be especially useful for painterly brushes or brushes meant to fill in parts of the background rather...
Athanasios Papageorgopoulos over 1 year 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 8 months ago in Quality 0

Promote Selection to Layer

There are many steps required to place a selection on a new layer. First you have to make the layer, you have to make a new layer, then you have to go to edit and copy selection, and then place, but when it is place on a new layer it just goes whe...
Dana Diamond almost 3 years ago in New feature or functionality 1

Make Text Layer from PS remain functional

Title says it all. If layer styles are added in PS then one goes back to Painter we get an error message about unsupported effects or layers.
Deborah Kolesar almost 3 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 9 months ago in Quality 0

Allow Opacity adjustment by Up/Down Key Combination

Currently, I am unable to adjust opacity of layers or strokes with my WACOM Intuos without specifying a keypress for each Opacity Value (0-9). In addition (or replacing) current Opacity control of a keyboard number, I propose an Opacity Up and Dow...
Scott Ott about 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Autosave! Earlier versions had it, why not 2023? It's crazy.

Not only should it be a no-brainer, but Painter is prone to crashing...at least for me on Mac OS Ventura 13. If you don't remember to regularly save manually, you can lose hours-worth of work.
Guest over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

Add color swatches to custom palettes

Custom Palettes are very useful to add brushes, painter commands, papers, Flow maps, even dabs, so you know how you created the image. But it would be helpful to add color swatches as well, because you can save the palette and remember the exact c...
Raquel Bigby over 2 years ago in New feature or functionality 0

need cleaning tool for Painter 2019 - and all subsequent versions

On my windows 10 PC I cannot run Painter 2019. After install, when trying to launch I get this error "the procedure entry point_svml_idiv4_mask_e9 could not be located... etc." I had installation problems with former versions before and will not g...
Guest over 2 years ago in Quality 0