[Mon]

In the general preferences you can click at a little thing that says "draw zoomed-out views using area-averaging"

it doesn't do anything as far as I can tell. has anyone got it to work? sure would make my life easier

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[Pat]

Area averaging isn't enabled the same way as it is in Photoshop. The function is pretty misleading since it only works on images that are viewed at under 100%. Additionally, the algorithm appears bilinear, not bicubic, so the visual quality can get a little "band-y", if that makes sense. Sadly, there's no work-around for this issue other than finding the mathmatically friendly magnification levels where the pixels jive with the code and you get a reasonable anti-aliased display. If this is real important to your workflow, you can try and set your mangnification increments to match those levels a little better, Also, don't forget that double-clicking the magnifying glass icon in the toolbox will set the image to 100%, which should be perfectly anti-aliased on any screen.

-Pat

[Mon]

um.. are you sure about that? i saw a comparison made by a japanese guy where he had screenshots of the same image in painter 6 and painter 7, both with area averaging. The one in painter 6 looked smooth and great, the version 7 looked like crap.

he had listed it as a bug in painter 7. There are also references to this in chineese websites but I don't understand a word of it.

wtf getting this feature to work will save me money! then i won't need that 20' flat screen @ 1600x1200!

thanks pat!
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[Pat]

Yeah, I saw the same website. However, it's not a bug, it's simply a code change. The same code is still in Painter 8, so upgrading will not correct the issue. Starting in version 7 the function changed, I'm guessing to increase the program's speed. Version 7 was, in fact, a very large overhaul, which is why many users still prefer 6.

-Pat