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Can you check this for me on whatever current version of Paint you are using.
There are only 2 active means of softening a 16 bit file in PP.Bokeh Blur and Smart Blur. The file size I'm using isn't that big, 200mb tif or what would be a ~25mb png 8 bit. I don't think that is working at the extremes.
Only having 2 option is pretty bad. But in effect there is only one as when I use Smart Blur it crashes PP.This isn't some x.0 release but what should be a stable version of the software.
I'm doing a "real world" job. It's an 80yo photo for a book. It's not a photo I took. The fixes I need to apply are pretty normal things. At ever level I'm being screwed over by PP on the simplest of things.
3 outdoor photos with differences in color temperature (CT). It doesn't even have a basic tool for CT. The closest thing is color hue.
Some repairs using the healing tool to remove blond hair from a black jacket. The lag time on the tool makes it slow and real easy to screw up.
We all know I have attitude when it comes to PP. And I'm clearly avoiding the most obvious solution, pay for Photoshop. So as you know I'm messing with GIMP as an alternative but that has its own issues.
What I see in PP is an application that has been developed without really understanding what photo editing is about. It's got stuff in it that is there to make it look like it has Photoshop features but they are lacking completeness. Feel like it is hanging onto code that needs to be thrown in the junk pile.
I don't need 100 junk filters or things that only work in 8 bit. I could use an application with a 1/3 of the code and abilities, one that actually works.
I guess I'll download a trial of the most recent version just to be fair about what I'm saying but I'm guessing not enough has changed and I should expect more disappointment.
Which is all a bit said as in 2016 it looked like Corel was getting somewhere with removing bugs. This feels like in 2 years they managed to go backwards.
There are refresh issues in Draw where the whole document becomes a set of white pages. The only way to deal with it is to close the app and reopen it. And these are not complex documents.
I'll check it tomorrow, I know that 16 bit filter support was enhanced in 2020, many features are now working in 16 bit but my memory isn't what it should be right now. The opioid have flushed out but the antibiotics and antifungal mess still screw me up. Everything tastes like a dirty penny, nausea, lack of memory and attention span. I'll test in 2021.
Try a trial version of PaintShop Pro. I use PSP, Photo-PAINT, GIMP and AfterShot Pro 3. If find the combination of these 4 programs get me to where I need.
I got stuck doing 2 jobs quick and haven't had time to really work PP 2021, I can tell you that PP 2020 has about 1/3 of what you're looking for.
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I moved to the beta of GIMP 2.99.4 but none of the exports to jpg, png or tif work yet. I was hoping that would be fixed before I needed those things but not happening.
I'm really running out of reasons to not use Adobe stuff. I thought if I kept away long enough things would get better but it isn't happening.
Like Windows, I'd really like to junk that for Linux. Windows has become so unprofessional! I'm trying to sort out some errors here with Avira and just getting rid of it has meant manually editing all things Avira from the Registry. Then there is the help via More Information: Event Log Online Help MS just can't be bothered helping their own users.
CorelDraw on Linux and I'd be outa Windows forever!
What a bad idea, being a bug magnet and not using the most recent version that might get fixed! Smart blur fails but not the first time you use it. Then this really s### me. I don't know how this got past! When you flip between tools using the spacebar, something you do all the time to get from "hand" to current tool the damn ribbon bar fails to update. How the hell wasn't that picked up and fixed?
Above is not true! You just get the impression of that because the hand tool is the magnifier ribbon bar which you don't need to see for the hand.