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.
Read first my reply to you David, if it not got reported and deleted again... It may also be something wrong with this forums "edit button" becasue I got each message (a small black floating window) that tell me that I got reported - just after I did select to edit something in my reply... But I didn't simply press wrong button, because the edit window did first open and it would not open, if I only did press the report button!
This forum is had to figure out some times.
I'm not sure what reply you're talking about but if it's the link to report bugs and features I'm almost positive they tried that many years ago and it was a fiasco.
Sorry for the confusion... I wrote the big reply to you David, that you hopefully can see above and them did I click the link "More" to edit a spelling mistake... But directly after I click the Edit (you see if you click More) did I get a small black message that my reply was reported and remeoved, which I naturally did appeal trough the little black message... Then did I also get an email, with a link to an appeal page that NOT work, because you can't write anything on that page!
But this was the fourth time my sincere replies got reported and removed (as spam) directly after I click that Edit link - so if it isn't someone who hate me and try to stop my replies (?!?) can it be that the Report link (that is located right above the Edit link) get activated, when I click edit???
But I am 100% sure I didn't just click the Report link by mistake - becasue the edit window open up, just before I get repeorted and that would naturally not happen, if I only did click Report by mistake!
My last guess, is that those links are placed so close together, that I may click both even if I aim at the Edit link??!!
My tablet has issue with this forum and its links. I se no big post from you.
Oups, I manage to find my BIG reply when I sort on newest... So they did not delete it again...
I did just write following sincere reply to you David - but it got directly flagged as spam and was removed, just as half of my replies before... So it look like someone here hate me and want to stop me from writing anything!!
Thank's for your advice, but other software seem to be even worse... I did first try one that many did recommend as a finer alternative to Adobes famous one, because it was faster and did offer the same functionality, to a dramatically lower one time price... But it did have very few tool icons, so I had to spend 4 times longer to open each tool, hunting them down in menues - instead of just clicking one icon... And the result is clearly worse than that I must adjust the photos windows, every time I change the zoom...
And a friend who had Adobes version, did confirm that that work exactly in the same horrible way... So he told me that I was actually lucky to have PP 2018 and yes, everything I tried (except the idiotic photo windows management) work excellent (for me) in PP 2018 - but I have not tried to optimize any gif movies yet, so there may I find another ugly surprise!?
Yes, about optimizing... I mainly "only" colour correct, fix pale or dim photos so they look max natural and remove any annoying objects that take focus from the motive... Plus fix other faults, when they occur - like cut the photo in a better way and tilt them, when needed... But I never distort any persons look or "clean up" skin, so it look plastic!