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Tooltip Options

While tooltips can obviously be very helpful, it would be nice to have more options. Some ideas would be: 1) Ability to adjust the amount of delay time before the tooltip appears while hovering with the mouse or stylus. 2) Ability to adjust the am...
Ron Longtin about 4 years ago in New feature or functionality

The Canvas - Flip Horizontal tool is uncomfortable to use

The horizontal flip tool currently mirrors the entire canvas, which disrupts the workflow by shifting the focal point away from the active sketch area. Request: Implement a 'Flip View on Cursor' or 'flip in the active area of the screen' option to...
Guest 5 months ago in New feature or functionality

Menus, Selectors and Toolbar size adjustment.

I am older with eye sight deteriorating. I have noticed when working on images that the menus panels and palettes have become more difficult to see and require poking my head much closer to the monitor. Most important the tool bar for adjusting br...
Stephen LoPiano about 1 year ago in New feature or functionality

Tool Palette/Text Size

I'm filing this as "Quality" because it's a Quality of User Experience issue. For those of us with aging or deteriorating eyesight, or for those of us using screens that are modern-size (my Apple Studio Display is 5120x2880), the current tools app...
Guest about 1 year ago in Quality

Brush optimization tool stopped working

On a new laptop with hybrid graphic solution (Asus Proart PX13) evaluation of Painter 2023 stopped working correctly. After startup, the GPU acceleration options would not show as accessible in the preferences window, as if no GPU was present in t...
Guest over 1 year ago in Crashes

Linux version

Please provide a Linux version of Painter.
Guest over 1 year ago in New feature or functionality

Add "Linear Dodge (Add)" Composite Method

Most modes available in Photoshop are also available in Painter, except the Linear Dodge (Add), which is very useful when painting light on a separate layer. Please implement this mode.
Martin Vrkljan almost 2 years ago in New feature or functionality

Allow user control of Tool Tips

Please allow the user to turn off the tool tips while working. It is super annoying to have that window obsuring a painting while the artist is working. There seems to be no way to turn one of those OFF while working.There is also no real contro t...
Guest almost 3 years ago in New feature or functionality

Painter 2023 Navigator should be capable of saving a specific Zoom percentage other than the standard plus and minus increments.

Years ago I discovered that I could view my large paintings ( 38 x 57 inches 160 ppi) progress by entering a zoom factor of 67.5%. I must enter that information every time I frequently view my painting's progress. An easily accessed display of my ...
Guest about 3 years ago in New feature or functionality