racerwhiteside

Program completely crashes whenever I select the smudge tool and then click within the project to use it. Awesome, right in the middle of a big project. That Adobe subscription is looking better and better.

Okay fair enough but this is a pretty significant usability issue. Usually when something so fundamental breaks with an update, it's appropriate to issue a quick fix instead of just leaning back on "oh well this is how Microsoft does updates so maybe we'll see it change in 6 months". I know I'm not the only person who misses the days when you spent money on a product and it just WORKED. I didn't ever have an issue like this with, say, Photoshop 7 for example. Of course the companies making the software will continue to release shoddy half-baked products - and charge good money for them! - as long as there are forums full of people apologizing on their behalf.

I can understand update schedules but honestly this just feels a bit irresponsible from a software engineering perspective - some might even argue that, in terms of software interface usability, not having something as foundational as the brush size indication in an art program is an "emergency" and worthy of a quick patch just to bring your program up to world-class standards. I personally wouldn't be disappointed if an update came out today for "2.2.2" and the only thing it fixed was the brush size indication. Maybe that's just me?

Maybe I'm unfamiliar with how this works, but I just downloaded an update this morning (2.2.1) and I'm confused why such a basic thing wouldn't be fixed immediately? Why should I have to download a separate beta just to see what size my brushes are in the version I paid for?

Maybe it's just me, but there isn't any indication of the pixel size of the brush in the "Brush - Editing" window. Every other parameter has a box next to its respective slider, allowing you to see and compare changes you're making. Why not have a display for maybe the most important adjustment...? I'm not sure if it's always been this way or if this changed after an update, but either way it's pretty frustrating while working on a project and trying to maintain consistency between brushes.