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?
Yes, it drives me crazy too... I had X4 and I got very unhappy when I found this windows mess... I use to have 4 to 8 windows open, plus one reference photo for skin colours and I also change the view size very often, which make this tab mess almost hopeless...
The totally useless tab (when you have one photo in one window) steal also valuable space at the top of each window, making every window bigger than it have to be!!
Sorry to hear this issue is still causing grief to faithful Paint users. I've given up on Paint in so much that I won't be upgrading from X6 unless this issue is fully resolved.
Then you will never be updating. What version of Windows do you use?
W10. Why the question, David? And why the absolute negative? That smacks of a blindfolded, arrogant attitude of a corporation that tells its user base what it'll get rather than listening to what they want. What's the explanation for ignoring its users in this particular respect? After four years, we still haven't had one.
Windows 10 compliance I believe is why it's the way it is. Corel won't change it because of compliance and very few users complain.
I do thousands of images yearly, high end architectural imaging for global publications and now my own photography. Photo-PAINT 2021 has a new light tool that just is awesome. It acts like a fully adjustable clarity filter. It also has a new white balance tool,which is very useful.
I use AftetShot Pro 3, PaintShop Pro 2022 and my main editor Photo-PAINT 2021 and like you was forced to deal with the changes. Such is life!
I know your background very well, you've explained it before and as before, your view smacks of 'I'm OK Jack'. How would you feel if your new toys, the light tool and the white balance tool, were taken away in the next revision. I'd say, David Milisock can moan all he likes, I really don't care, I don't use it. Few people are complaining anyway.Such is life !
Then I'd use the old version or buy a different software.
Just like when they introduced the CFM, 1 client of mine dropped Draw and bought 12 licenses of Adobe because Corel stopped providing a product they were willing to pay for.
When they made keep desktop objects on layer the default my sign company dropped 4 licenses. I voted with my wallet.
I simply told you the truth, Corel most likely will never change the feature and I gave you two reasons for that.
Such is life!
First of all, the lack of respect amazes me, you are talking about one of the most prestigious users worldwide. If you really want Corel to pay attention to your request, you are not on the right track.Second, if it is a compatibility issue, it is highly unlikely that Corel will go back to a version as old as X4. You have to look ahead, towards the future and towards Windows 11. In that case, you must clearly detail how you want the windows and dockers to behave, and why, that is, what advantage or importance it has. That is, you have to convince the company to put their programmers to work on that, leaving aside other tasks, therefore a good explanation is needed. If you can come up with that, I personally promise to hand it over to the Corel development team, though of course I can't promise they'll accept it.
Ariel said:the lack of respect amazes me
That cuts two ways. The "hey it doesn't bother me" attitude is neither helpful nor wanted.
Ariel said:it is highly unlikely that Corel will go back to a version as old as X4
Possibly true, but we are talking about X6
Ariel said:you must clearly detail how you want the windows and dockers to behave
We have. It's all detailed above but nobody is listening. Ultimately, David is right, we'll just have to buy other software or hang onto X6 for as long as Mr Gates allows us. I guess that'll be W12. W11 appears to be mostly cosmetic, FWICS.
Ariel said:I personally promise to hand it over to the Corel development team
That's a big statement and we'll hold you to it. All the info you need is in this thread. But why has it taken so long for somebody like yourself to come forward? This thread is over four years old. It tells you something about how sore some of us feel about this.
First you have an illusionary thought process. I never said "hey it doesn't bother me". You made that up and BS carries zero weight, you have no concept of what it takes to get a program changed.
It took me and others from version 7 to X5 to get color management addressed. That took hundreds of documented files and thousands of hours of my time alone. It took from X3 to 2019 to get complex fills and transparency processed properly for PDF files. Again hundreds of files and thousands of hours.
What I told you was the truth based on 30 years of Corel experience and 46 years of graphic experience.
Ariel is a honorable person give him what he asks for and he'll follow through. If you do that I'll help him. What is provided in this thread is essentially a bit more than zero.
Make some demonstration videos, show how the work flow was negatively affected. Provide files, documentation and what ever is ask for, respect is earned.