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?
I've been using PhotoPaint since it was ZPaint, before Corel bought it. I've been using X7 for a couple years now, and I still absolutely hate the windows snapping to tabs. I usually have three to six image windows open, and I don't always have a hand free to hold the ctrl button when moving a window. Every time it snaps to a tab I curse the engineers who forced this upon us. Fine, I understand it's a Win10 default, and I've disabled it in Windows (under mouse settings, accessibility, multitasking and the registry - I hate it that much). But PhotoPaint overrides all that and forces it. Give us a choice, let us control our workspace!Despite the improvements, I regret being forced to leave v.12 behind- it is completely unstable in Win10. It would almost be worth it to network in an XP box with v.12 and use a swivel chair to move back and forth, just to use PP without tabs.If I learn a new version of PP has a way to disable this, I'll upgrade. Otherwise, X7 will be the end of a long, long line for me. I regret that, because I know the menu structure and shortcuts so well that I can zip through actions way faster than I could in PS. (and I also have PSP, don't like the interface, it only serves one purpose for me- PP no longer supports the old Kodak PhotoCD .PCD format. PSP 32 bit opens them, 64 bit does not. If PP still had that file support I'd uninstall PSP).</rant off>
I've been using Photo-PAINT since 1992 not sure it was ever bought as another application. It always amazes me the things that drive people crazy.
It drives me crazy because I get my images arranged to work with them, I'm cutting and pasting back and forth between them so I need to see multiple images at once. I move one a little, or try to resize the window, it pops to a tab and then I have to stop my work flow, move it back, rearrange it while trying to keep it from popping back to a tab again. Huge waste of time and concentration interrupter. Corel bought the program around 1991 or 1992, prior to that it was ZPaint. I don't recall if it got past version 1.0 as ZPaint before they took over.
Exactly Gargoyle and the ULTRA IRRITATING snap function even make my Photo-Paint crash sometimes... But the worst is that I have to resize the window frames EVERY TIME i change the zoom level, forcing me to spend extra hours every day when I work with photos - because I use to work with and compare 4 to 12 photos, at the same time!! And that did work perfect in Photo-Paint X4 with Window 10