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Slightly move an image, can't deselect with mouse click in empty space
In paint if you slightly move a image, and want to deselect it you have to press ESCAPE before you can select/do other things.
I made a video to show what I mean.
Best I can describe it, you want to move part of a screen shot because you don't want say, the browser tabs, and then you click the bottom white part to deselect it and do other things, but you can't. And what's more it re sizes the image you moved. But if you move it a lot it will act normally...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuv2wdYwwA
Carefully watch to see the RED dots, that's the mouse click.
If you see the picture, it works actually without selecting all, and just selecting a little bit of the picture and selecting just under it
Remove the "Radius grab"
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Discussion (3 comments)
Yeah I have a lot of complaints about the new paint tool. As my friend described it, "Paint was the tool you used when you didn't want anti-aliasing. It's much trickier to do in say, Photoshop, some of the simple things that were nice and simple to do in paint. "
Now of course, they've tried to make it fancier, and some of the lines in paint are anti-aliased (for example, if you want a thick brush stroke, the pencil tool will let you down, and the brush tool will be anti-aliased). My sister liked paint because "It was so easy to just draw one line after another," but now that's made impossible too, because when a line is drawn, it is selected, and so attempting to draw the next line in a sequence will instead result in moving the line you've just drawn. Even better, hitting undo, rather than undoing this perpetual mistaken move, deletes the line just drawn, because this move/edit line step was skipped in the undo/redo record. Sure there is still the polygon tool, but this tool is even less "safe" since there is no undo option at all while the shape is being drawn.
On the bright side, it's now possible to type in text regardless of the zoom (yes, this was a limitation of previous versions of paint), and the overall ease of zooming in and out has improved. The different brush strokes are a fun if somewhat out-of-place addition, since it still lacks most of the features it would need to be a serious graphics program. The stars and various triangle shapes are a gimmicky call-out to programs like PowerPoint and Word, a flailing, failing, useless hybrid of vector and raster graphics (though a good implementation will be revolutionary and wonderful for the world of 2D graphics).
Overall, I think they've succeeded in making something that was sweet and simple into something that values gimmicky features over the ease of completing simple tasks.
I wish they had added transparency instead.
agreeing with utterdmnonsense's first comment as i think the thread's suggestion is good but too specific.. paint is no longer easy to use. you can reselect a line you just drew (which would be easilly undone with control z if you messed it up the first time) but bringing a picture in to paint is a huge PITA. it will enter the frame giant sized and in addition to not being ableto scale it down (maintain aspect ratio while resizing?) if you click off of the picture there is no way to reselect it as a whole.. if it is on top of something else you've already drawn, you have to undo until it's off the page and start over. same with text.. the box can be moved around but it's kind of clumsy and once it's deselected it's stuck there. the one thing i like about photoshop is these things are always in another layer so can always be edited easily, though it's more complicated to save and finish your work. i would like to see these treated as seperate objects (at least for clicking and dragging) as there would be no disadvantage to this fix from the user's point of view
Nikox wrote on February 3, 2010, 10:26pm
Changed problem description.