At last, we now can set the color/contrast of the desktop and not be so blinded by the abundance of white.....
Thank you, Corel, for this nice gift.
Pretty damn cute.
MikeWe said: Pretty damn cute.
Not.
Do I even want to install this update?
If I were not already a Premium member I too would be VERY upset. It should be a standard feature. The super light background in Photo-Paint X7 is just unacceptable. I reverted to using PPX6 because of it.
But since I am a Premie, I am going to enjoy not having to wear sunglasses!
Patti
pranderson said:...But since I am a Premie, I am going to enjoy not having to wear sunglasses! Patti
Same registry hack applies to PhotoPaint, just a slightly different location.
Do note on either location (for either application), the key is not present until such time as one tries to use the premie feature. Then CD or PP adds the key, which can then be modified.
The short of it? I'm not wearing sunglasses anymore in CD or PP, either.
Right when Adobe went with subscription only model, people started saying that Corel was different. I said Corel must be dying to follow that same model. It's just business after all. Now we get to see the truth of my words. Corel can't force it on you like Adobe, so it's trying to influence you to subscribe. In this case, it's just pathetic how they chose to do it. They picked a couple of features that are extremely old news on competing products, and made them only available to subscription users. I don't think consumers view the subscription in the same way that Corel imagines they do. The more Corel does nonsense like this, the more even it's fans will dislike and distrust. It's really unfortunate. People were begging for the ability to change the brightness of the interface. Corel responds by dangling it like a carrot on a string.
I am not really upset about the whole premie scheme that Corel uses. Why? Because they have people willing to lay out $100 bucks a year to be beta testers. It's brilliant, really. By the time we mere mortals get the changes, maybe the bugs in those features get worked out.
Under the former scheme, I wouldn't see those features until a new release anyway.
While it would be classified as still playing catch-up, why don't they actually give premie users something of value like real paragraph and character styles? PDF/X-4 output? I could list a few dozen things under the "catch-up" category, let alone some actual new things. These things would at least provide a value-added deal for those willing to spend the extra money. Better than putting lipstick on a pig, so to speak, and then calling it a premium feature.
Actually this thing is annoying.
I use to draw 2D and 3D Rhinoceros 5.0, where you can customize all kinds of things.
The background workspace colorable with gradients, toolbars, written in the command line.
I do not understand why that Corel had started well with the personalization of the work has made this choice that castrates the user's choice.
Sorry for the outburst