Photo-PAINT fails to correctly determine the mouse pointer position.
No matter what you do, no matter which magnification level you're working in... any rectangle drawn is never put exactly where the mouse button was clicked or lifted.
Please fix.
Regards,Axel
Here are two examples demonstrating the problem:
(1) I've selected the image's edges while drawing a cropping rectangle. See the resulting cropping rectangle miss my selection for more than 3 pixels:
(2) I have selected the lower edges of the gray horizontal rules while drawing a cropping rectangle. See the resulting cropping rectangle miss my selection for more than 3 pixels again:
I tried to simulate crop problem you have. On my machine every time its accurate with selection I made.
My steps:
1. I made printscreen from forum screen.
1. I selected crop area
2. Pressed enter
I'd like to continue on this thread because the behaviour is rather annoying.
Here's a short movie clip demonstrating how Corel Photo-PAINT X6 behaves when trying to create a cropping area:
Have you changed the mouse pointer?
The video is showing crosshairs instead of the special "crop box" pointer which mine shows.
That's particularly interesting because you mention your cropping being out by 3 pixels. Well, the "normal " mouse cursor for cropping in photopaint is a box that's 6 pixels wide, with cropmarks on their corner:
The active point is the top left corner of that box -- and though that sounds slightly odd, it actually feels right when you use it -- assuming, that is, you have the proper cursor and start marking at the top left corner and drag to the bottom right corner.
But ... if you decide to create your own cursor in place of the standard one, then you need to ensure that your visual reference point is the same as Corel's -- ie, 3 pixels up and to the left of centre.
I think maybe Corel ought to warn people of that in the cursor editor screen because it's not really obvious which part of the bitmap is the active point.
Hi Harry!
Good observation. Indeed, I have changed the cursor type to be always Crosshair, so I can be more precise and don't have to calculate arbitrary cursor shapes into my "calculations".
You can set this cursor type in Photo-PAINT's options:
So it's the default standard cursor I'm using. Nothing to change for me here, I'm afraid...
Cheers,Axel
That's interesting ... because when I select the crosshair cursor here, using the same method, I do get the crop corner positioned in the centre of the crosshairs. So, it looks like there is something else going on.
But I can't think of any other clues at the moment.