i played a bit with corel painter 2018, maybe for a hour and this is what i've found sofar:
pro:-didn't manage to crash the program to desktop by playing a minute with the selection lasso. painter 10 was very prone to that.-undo (control+z) finally seems to correctly update your image, in Painter 10 it occasionally undid your previous stroke but didn't update the canvas.con:-still unstable-color triangle lags behind cursor if a brush from the thick paint category is selected.-maximising painters window leaves a 1 pixel border on bottom and right side of the screen.-zooming sometimes leaves a horizontal line artifact behind when "area-averaging" is enabled. if you make a brush stroke thru the line it disappears in that location (similar asundone brush strokes would behave in painter 10 when the canvas didn't update). turning "area-averaging" off renders most zoom levels super jagged.-zoom tool doesn't update the current zoom % value until you reach 200% zoom. select zoom tool and enter a value, for example 25% and enter. next left click with the zoom tool on the canvasto zoom - notice you are zooming in but the value doesn't update until you zoomed 200% in, also if you type in a value then zoom in 1-2 times and retype the previous value it will not adjustthe zoom at all. can also occur while zooming out, only seems to update on 200 and 400 zoom.-the search feature doesn't find ANYTHING, not even if you type the exact name of your currently selected brush.-wet grainy brush starts lagging after a stroke is done. make a stroke and when you release left click or lift the tablet pen and move the cursor you can watch it lag and stutter quite drastically.the duration of the stutter seems dependent on the stroke length but even a short one will have 1-2 seconds of stutter.-experienced random twirls with a certain pallate knife if i change angle to rotation and use the wacom artpen.-advertisements for new overpriced brush packs tied into the program.
i didn't try hard to find bugs but they are very common in corel painter 2018 - or most likely any corel painter version.
ya the opacity variant was the only way to get transparent paint washes in painter for aeons before corel generously graced us with the laggy useless mess of the glazing brush subtype.
The random twirl is a new bug with the new thick paint palette knives, and as far as I can tell it's triggered when the art pen's internally-reported rotation angle crosses from 360 to 0 degrees and back. There must be something in the software code that isn't handling this crossover correctly, and it makes the stroke suddenly flip around like you've twisted the pen.
Corel, if you're listening... fix this please?
hah that search bar thing really irks me big time. its gotta be the most useless feature in the program
I find it hilarious that search is one of the few features that was thrown in solely to accommodate the user demand for it, and it got broken this fast #robust
Seems to work fine for me, although I confess that the only time I really use it is to test whether it works or not. :-)