I've upgraded from X6 and Tabs are driving me insane. I drag in any number of images to view and work on them side by side. What do I need? - auto-resizing, floating windows and all the real estate I can muster.
1) Sure, open images using Open or Open Recent... and if the Option is set to "Open documents in floating window" they will open in floating windows, but drag them in from Windows Explorer and they tab. Can we have consistency here? Better still, can we get rid of tabs?
2) Tabs should be optional. They take up real estate and get in the way of working with multiple images.
3) The snap feature which opens the image to full workspace should also be an option. Why should I have to use Ctrl just to dock windows across the top? Lunacy.
4) no auto-resize of the floating window? Seriously? I mean, seriously? Corel clearly wants me to use tabs, but seriously, no auto-resize of the windows? Really? How many lines of coding must that have saved?
Here's where I'm coming from. I use SolidEdge CAD and when they introduced a revolutionary non-history-based method of creating 3D objects they had the good sense to maintain the old history-based method for those who preferred it. Everybody was happy. Cannot the same be done here and allow floating windows exactly as they were in X6, just for those of us who prefer/need that way of working?
Hi Alissa,
I SECOND THE MOTION ! ! !
-- but I think that it's hopeless. --Corel lost the race with Adobe over Photopaint vs. Photoshop many years ago. They're not about to spend any money to keep trying to compete with Photoshop.
I solved the problem for myself by sticking with Photopaint X6.The only problem with that was that I could not use later versions of DRAW while Photopaint X6 was still on the computer. Clicking on Photopaint X6 opened up a later version of Photopaint. So now it's CDGS X6 all the way -- plus Photoshop CS5 for content aware fill, making sketches, Liquify, Plastic Wrap, .etc.
I use the .psd format as an exchange format.
Another very annoying habit of recent versions of Photopaint is to drop the minimize icon into the middle of the workspace.
Phil
Phil1923 said:Corel lost the race with Adobe over Photopaint vs. Photoshop many years ago. They're not about to spend any money to keep trying to compete with Photoshop.
Phil, from the point of view of Corel, since version 9.0 (on the Cowpland age) PhotoPaint is not the the competitor of photoshop, it's just the internal image editor of CorelDRAW. So, they focuses on the develop of Corel PaintShopPro, a standalone image editing program. Moreover, they stopped the develop of Corel Photoimpact, that was an evolution of Aldus Photostyler, the first big alternative for Photoshop. That's the consequence for having 3 programs doing similar jobs (and also, Corel Painter is an image editng software, although different concept)
Of course most CorelDRAW users want to use PhotoPaint, not PaintShop pro or another program, for different resons, but specially for the familiar interface. But some people still believes that PhotoPaint is the main image editor
Phil1923 said:Corel lost the race with Adobe over Photopaint vs. Photoshop many years ago.
I tried PS a few times, never got on with it. It's not an option for me. Besides, if PP lost out to PS years ago, all the more reason for Corel to keep it's existing users happy and not hemorrhage them with bonkers and unnecessary changes that drives them away.
Phil1923 said:They're not about to spend any money to keep trying to compete
Two points -
1) they spent money creating Tabs, right?
2) it'll cost next to nothing to re-introduce X6-style floating windows in PP - because the code is already there. Wake up, Corel!
Phil1923 said:I solved the problem for myself by sticking with Photopaint X6.
Me too. I can't use PP2018. Totally ruined a good workhorse.