Interface

Hello Ariel,

X3 just wasn't "Corel" without the BALLOON

Now it's for REAL

GOTTA HAVE THE BALLOON to be Corel !

Ted

Edward Thurston said:

It's just one of the many options that we all go thru only once during the initinal setting up under Tools>Options.

I agree. Some want it this way, and others want it another way. I guess for newbies the auto-center setting can be the easiest. What if you put a bitmap into a power clip container without positioning it first? It will suddenly be invisible. With the auto-center setting you do at least see the bitmap inside the container.

 Well I was a beta tester too as well as an AC member, and all though I didnt get all I wished for, I still see this version X4 as a very good version, one of "the" versions. I have tested it and done a lot of actual illustration and graphic work with it, (being an illustrator as I am) and I can say that THIS version is a great one. If someone go from X3 they still get a lot of new stuff to use, but I think as always, that the user´s that get most are those going from two previous versions back. There is a lot the people at Corel coluld have done, but there is also a lot of things they DID do! And being a very visual person, I think the new icons and the interface as a whole is good, and it WAS important to do new things with the Interface. X3 interface I really liked, but this I like a lot too.

And no offence David: but you seem to see it strictly out of tech, and all though tech is what we Whant, yes!, I like to have it with BOTH tech and design. And any product out there, be it a handle to a door, a seat in a car, a toothbrush, a car battery, a bottle of vergine olive oil: package is extremly important.

For example a client I made illustrations too, a broschure, the CEO came in and said, -"well that cover why dont we just put some lines here and there, that would be okey for me".  One thing, that broschure wouldnt had been sold with joy, or might not even be seen kindly by people wanting the broshure.

Point is that Interface is always important. Interface is also a question about user friendlyness. Interface we could say is actually a very TECH and DESIGN oriented issue when you come down to it. If you have an interface that is not contemporary, fresh and user friendly, and easy to understand, you will loose a lot of new and old users. Consumers honestly like to have it "New" and "Fresh", "Apealing" and "Contemporary". Thats how things work.

Stefan

Hey Stefan, I fully agree with you, the interface is the most important aspect of the application, it is the first thing a person sees. If I open a new application and I don't like the interface within the first hour, I will never like it and I uninstall the program. That is the very reason why I don't use PS very often, although I have it installed I might use it once a year if I have to. I also agree with Lars, you can't win when it comes to software design, some like a feature and some don't, you cant please everyone! I have always felt that, ultimately it is the user who needs to use the application as designed and not the other way around. I have heard a story once, where a very knowledgeable fellow could not find a way out of a function one evening after working way to hard, so he asked for a button to be added to the software, after he got his button everyone else wanted their own button and so after adding all the buttons the user wanted, no one could use the software for what it was intended for and the company went belly up. And the moral of the story is "Be careful of what you ask for, because you might get it !"    :)) :)) LMAOROTF

Edward Thurston said:

Are "we" talking about a "Clear Crop Marquee" in Paint ?

Oh yes, ten lashes with the coffee filter is good, therefore I'll forgive you :) As for, ", or it's in Draw, why not in PP?", I agree with you, however I'll bet you your used coffee filters that it is a technical issue which is not easily solved. Draw and PP are completely different animals and I would assume that the code is as well, I feel that Corel has done a great job integrating the two. Many of the features we have asked for are not feasable for this reason and I would think if there would be an easy way to please the user, Corel would do it.