Feature proposal for Painter

[starkid]

I think it would be great if one could use some kind of brush snapping to vector-based curves. It would work as templates, sweeps or ship curves do, when drawing by hand.

This feature exist already in the Sketching section of Alias AutoStudio which is a fairly expensive program compared to Painter. :wink:

I find it quite useful to be able to guide the brush with a curve or a line, but pressure control the line quality with the stylus. It gives very good control of the line quality and would save some erasing, for me anyway.


What do you think about this feature? Is it something that would be useful for you?

[Dan.v.D.]

http://www.corel.com/painterix/comingsoon/page05.html

[starkid]

Great, I'm happy!

[koro]

Actually,
I keep dreaming to myself that the good folks at Corel would carbonize an exact duplicate of Painter 6.1 for OSX. Yes, not so much a feature..But going back to that fundamental source and trying to improve again all that I still like (depend on) in Painter 6 (even if it was a separate painter line, like a "Painter Legacy"). I should only hope that Painter IX's DWC is even MORE like P6's Simple water color. But just as important, I hope that many problems in the interpolation of line art when zooming out is nice and smooth for me as is with Painter 6.

-As for something practicle to the painter versions of the now,
I guess it would be great if some of the inking tools were worked on.
Maybe something like a raster and vector pentool (vector while inking, untill you set the layer to a raster). Set with smoothing settings and perhaps a dialog box to make a pen work more like actual knibs.

Also if it had a screentoning tool that was able to provide vector/raster bitmap catalogs of customizable shades. Dot, sponge, stipple, gradation, line, and flash burst efx like you have in many Japanese manga.

Lastly, and i hope this has improved in the upcoming painter, is more color management like that of Adobe. One of the biggest problems I've had in between all of the painters from 6~8 is the color outcome when flipping over to Photoshop. As old as something like Painter 6 is, there isn't an evident way to insure that the calibration of color that you see in painter is what you will get when back in PS, and vice versa.

-I dunno, any thoughts?

Ah! Forgot one small feature I would love.
In OSX, there are many apps that when the international control panel language of the OS is changed, the apps when opened will display in that language. This works in such cases as when I switch to Japanese, and use mail, Final Cut pro, or other software that can display other languages.
It would be great if Painter was able to use both languages, either or as set.