Corel addresses usability and bugs in V10.02 Paint Shop Pro update

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Corel Paint Shop Pro 10.02 Release Notes

Please Note:
You must have 10.01 to install this update. To determine your version, go to Help > About Paint Shop Pro X and look in the upper left area of the splash screen. If you see 10.00, you must install the 10.01 patch first. Also, be sure that Paint Shop Pro is not running before installing the patch.


Support for additional Camera Raw formats:

Canon Kiss n
Nikon D50 and D70s
Konica-Minolta Maxxum7D/Dynax7D
Konica-Minolta Dynax5D

Browser Palette Improvements:

The Browser Palette will now mimic PSP9 behavior by minimizing after a file is opened (unless in PhotoStrip mode [Bob Crabtree adds – also seems to work fine in PhotoStrip mode here!]). The Browser Palette can be restored by pressing Ctrl + B, or by clicking the Browser Palette button in the Standard toolbar.

In the Browser Palette, you can now drag and drop thumbnails from the browser into folders in the file tree.

The Browser Palette now maintains sort order when Paint Shop Pro is closed and reopened.

Using Ctrl + A to select all thumbnails in the Browser Palette now works properly.

Custom brush tips now appear in the Browser palette.

General Improvements:

"Update Back to Animation Shop" is now available as an Unused Command that can be restored as a menu item using the Customize dialog.

Paint Shop Pro no longer freezes upon exiting when large amounts of data are on the clipboard.

After using the Spacebar to temporarily access the Pan Tool, Ctrl-key features (such as adding nodes with the Pen Tool) now work correctly.
Mask layers with partial opacity now work properly.

The Histogram Palette no longer has problems with layered 16-bit documents.

While using the Object Remover tool, the source location can now be rotated exactly 90 degrees.

Fixed a problem where double-clicking an image embedded in another application wasn't starting up Paint Shop Pro to let you edit the image.

The File > Export > Photo Sharing feature is now correctly linked for European users.

Text added several times to a path is now saved and displayed properly - previously, only the initially added text remained after the files was saved and reopened.

Using the Flip command no longer causes certain files to not be saved properly.

In Windows 2000 on German systems, the application no longer crashes whenever browsing images in a folder having a name that starts with "Past."

File Format Improvements:

Copyright data added in the Image Information dialog is now correctly saved in TIFF or JPEG files.

Saving files as TIFF will no longer result in loss of the image resolution value.

Problems reading 16-bit multi-page TIFF files have been fixed.

When opening a Camera Raw image by double-clicking the file icon in Windows, the auto-rotate and Smart Photo Fix options now work.

Problems saving photos that were previously accessed using Nikon browser software have been fixed.

Fixed problems rendering transparency in .eps and .ai files.

Fixed a problem where saving a 16-bit/channel image as BMP required changing the image to paletted (256-color) mode.

Paint Shop Pro now correctly opens Windows Cursor (.cur) files.

Problems loading certain TGA files have been fixed.

PNG files now correctly list resolution values as PPCM (pixels per cm) instead of PPI (pixels per inch) when metric units are used.

Color Management Improvements:

A problem using Paint Shop Pro with a flawed monitor profile has been fixed.

The Color Profile Mismatch warning no longer displays when it shouldn't.
Problems changing the location for Monitor Profiles using the File Locations dialog have been fixed.

Problems with a grayscale profile residing in the color profiles directory have been fixed.

The AdobeRGB profile has been added (with permission from Adobe Systems, Inc.).

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Posted by Funkstar - Mon 12 Dec 2005 12:57
sounds good. i really need to have a play with PSP 10, see if i can wean myself off PhotoShop
Posted by Atomic - Mon 12 Dec 2005 13:37
I've always used PSP, its been fine for the stuff I do.

Using Ctrl + A to select all thumbnails in the Browser Palette now works properly.
Wahay!
Posted by Bob Crabtree - Mon 12 Dec 2005 17:03
Truth is, there is no one perfect solution for all possible image tweaking tasks (ditto video or sound).

So, in an ideal world, you'd have a selection of apps available and use the one that best suits the task (and your ability to do that task).

I've used PSP on and off since V4 (maybe V3 even, I'm not sure) and Photoshop since V6 (I currently have 7.0.1) , and have tended to find that most things are easier to do in PSP - if, that is, you can do them.

With V10 of PSP, there were certain features I badly missed from earlier versions, and that has meant that it hasn't been uncommon for me to be running V7, V8 and V10 all at the same time (I never did get V9).

I'm kind of hoping that this latest update of V10 will mean that happens less often - the drag-to-folder feature was something I sorely missed, likewise the fact that the browser didn't get out of your face when you open an image.

However, I think that the way that V8 deals with the browser is more Windows-like and more natural - it simply opens the image on top of the browser window and you can have either on top. With V10, if you can see the browser, then it will be on top, unless you resize browser and image so that both share the screen.

And, with V8, unlike V10, you can switch between browser and image using the program's Window menu - and you can minimise the browser using its Windows-standard minimise button (missing completely in V10).

A couple of backwards steps, I'd judge, but without having had hands on with V9, I'm not sure whether this all happened in the move to V10 or was partly different in V9.

If V9 worked the same was as V8, there may be hope that Corel will take one further step backwards to restore V8's way of dealing with image browsing.

Mind you V7, V8 and V10 all offer far more natural and easy-to-use image-browsing (in my view) than does any version of Adobe Photoshop I've used (though Elements 4.0 isn't bad). I've not used the current or previous versions of Photoshop proper and don't know whether either has improved on this side of things.

That said, I think that those who have reason to make the major effort required to get the maximum from Photoshop do find that investment provides a good return.

And, if there are tools in Photoshop that you need and no other app offers, then you end up getting in and either making (or not making) the required investment to master more of what's on offer,

For a large number of casual users (and, indeed, some less-than-casual users) the effort is not easy to make and, so, a program such as PSP (or some of its many inferiors) is what gets used.
Posted by Bob Crabtree - Mon 12 Dec 2005 17:07
Atomic
“Using Ctrl + A to select all thumbnails in the Browser Palette now works properly”.

Wahay!

I'd never even noticed that it didn't because I didn't have any reason to use it once I realised I couldn't drag images from the browser into folders.

But, yes, that is a significant fix - and the Ctrl and Shift selections look to work normally, too (God, I am a sad, cynic).
Posted by divinemadness - Mon 12 Dec 2005 17:14
I use PS CS2 as I always found the interface far more intuitive, and the program itself much more powerful.

PSP was good, but not quite good enough to compete with CS/CS2.

I have also never found anything that PSP enabled me to do easier than CS2 does.

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