new layer features, selection lasso actions, and input .ABR

[voneyezine]

hello paintstorm peoples.. I wish to point out a few issues with the new build 2.32
layers panels
A highlighted border that comes up when you click quickly disappears, why? it should stay highlighted that way because depending on how your ui is colored it may be difficult to determine what is actually selected and what is not. especially when selecting layers to add in folders. However once layers are moved into a folder the contents are blocked from anything outside the folder. folders need options like a PASSTHROUGH toggle. My process utilizes grouping color flats for a subject matter, you should be able to clip a layer to a grouped folder and assign effects only effecting that folder. I dont want make seperate clipping layers for each individual thing. But the folder itself is a static nonlayer, so it doesnt work. I think you guys broke the system when you added new features. Also, I had a crash when moving selected layers to an allready created folder. Then I realized you supposed select the layers and create a folder, which is kinda

selection lasso
the NEXT ACTION option is a fantastic tool to fill all, or gradient fill or delete. This needs to include blend modes or even filter effects. OR just have a completely separate lasso "brush tool" like clipstudio , medibang paint and infinity painter has. because if a cntr click the layer with color flats and now that shape has a selection markee, if i change next action to fill and draw withing that selection it automatically fills the whole selectiong, when I used to be able to cut in on that selection with color. also 2.32 changelog says you can assign blend modes for multiple layers, but HOW?

Importing Photoshop .ABR brushes is one of the feature i bought paintstorm for in the first place, and yet its not what you advertise, An .abr file can have multiple brushes in the file with entirely different characteristics for each one. the current system exstracts only the TIP SHAPEs and assigns the the last brush you had selected as the effects for these imported brushes. So, if you have a pencil selected and you import an .abr with multiple brushes, is going to assign pencil settings to all those brushes. THATS NOT THE WAY IT SHOULD WORK! You guys need to figure out how to translate the code better to get this feature to translate the intended settings as they work in photoshop to so as to truely work in paintstorm.

[support]

This needs to include blend modes or even filter effects.

selection auto fill gets blend mode from Gradient tool (but don't get from bucket I am saving this as a suggestion)

also 2.32 changelog says you can assign blend modes for multiple layers, but HOW?

just select several layers with shift or ctrl and change the blend mode

[voneyezine]

thanks for prompt reply.
reverting 2 gradient setting, yes i was doing that. but no way to control the opacity Or the direction of the gradient, that leads me 2 another thing that, maybe there needs 2 b a graphic direction dial to control that, and it work 4 all the brushes, becuase point being, alot of non wacom tablets do not support angle and rotation on the stylus, and quite frankly the degrees bar for brushes in the setting, is difficult 2 manage and there are 4 different bars in the custom setting which is confusing, why not just have a crank wheel that you can manually change direction of the brush, or have it hot keyed 2 that mouse scroll wheel er something.

also thrilled 2 death that you guys got panels 2 work off the main screen, but the brush setting panel in particular if off main screen and you have 2 many individual panels locked in it, and when you have a couple options boxes open, the cursor highlight position becomes offset from the mouse cursor position by an equal distance as you have drop down windows open. Bad glitch! as well as other drop down windows drop down below the screen and gets actually stuck because the panel is beyond controllable space in the UI. because in 2019 we all have widescreen layouts it may be more intuitive to have panel info and option screens be quick tap BUTTONS that float outs to the upper side instead of straight down from the icons position( witch also running off screen). Another option would be 2 make these packed up panels more squarish instead of a long listed bar of stuff running straight down in a narrow cramped space, that even the global scaling has trouble apportioning it in the right fashion?

thank you guyz so much for trying 2 make paintstorm a better place 2 work!

but do get me started on MESH transform fabric tool needed badly , as your liquify is a glorified smear brush? pixes should move not smear and looze definition.

oh and seamless mode, almost forgot when using kaleidoscope shows cloned patterns around the main frame but when you select or save the pattern it only saves the frame. whats the point of all those effects stamped on the outside if you cant capture that? and i tried scaling the pattern 2b within the main frame using the anchor but it doesnt work.

[voneyezine]

hey, I posted an Indepth reply on alot of stuff in this thread, if yer not wanting it 2 be seen by others,or dont feel compfortable about the things I brought up, you should at least just say so. I put alot of time into wanting this paintstorm program 2 work and reporting thoz issues 2u, and you guys just dont wanna put extra effort in 2 make this a real photoshop killer i guess, i dont know. somewhere you guys just dont wanna go there. its like do a few things and you stop.
.... but fer reals tho it could be good. id be happy 2 join the development team, oh wait yer on the other side of the planet.

[support]

alot of non wacom tablets do not support angle and rotation on the stylus,

you can bind any hotkeys to -/+ of the Angle slider (To do it right-click on the slider)