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chasys_draw_ies_4_31_02 behaves strange when I want to save my work.

It asks me instead, whether I want to restore saved images.
Independent from yes or no DrawIes crashes afterwards. No work is saved.

As a consequence I have reinstalled chasys_draw_ies_4_30_01 on my 64bit Win7 system, this works as normal.

Could it be that chasys_draw_ies_4_31_02 does not allow any more the 8BF plugins to be installed in C:\Program Files (x86)? To where do I have to put those plugins in future?

Thank you for taking care on DrawIes.

@Regarding Wish #282:

Thank you very much for your answer! :)
I´ll will try what you said and maybe, if necessary, get back to you at the support email adress you mentioned.

Unfortunately, the Chasys Draw program is totally not working on my computer (XP, 1.8 GHz, 1GB RAM).

I tried to crop a picture acoording to my selection, but nothing happened.
And I tried to select pixels via magic wand and delete them, but when I selected the delete command from the menu, also nothing happened. Fillig the space with white colour via paint bucket didn´t work either..

And when I press "save", instead of just saving under the same name and location, a dialog box appears, where I have to choose a location.

Can anyone help me?

I found twice a week the following nonreproducible Error in the event-log: Event ID 59 SideBySide
Error in manifest or policy file "c:\program files (x86)\john paul chacha's lab\chasys draw
ies\Plugins\flt_ABR.dll" in line 10. Invalid XML-Syntax.

Occures since chasys_draw_ies_4_29_01 and still with chasys_draw_ies_4_30_01
on my 64bit Win7 System, however Draw-IES always works fine, may be i am not using flt_ABR.dll.

No such errors with any other program. Thanks for your Chasys Draw IES.

Dutch language

For resampling I am always using Advanced resampling in combination with 5-Windows Sinc (Best)  and 9-Lancos Window.
DrawIES only remembers "Advanced Resampling". Would make sense to me that DrawIES remembers the complete parameter combination. Thank you so much.

chasys draw ies - sorely miss grid lines (ie gimp, filters, render, pattern grid). used for freehand drawing!

Slovak

insert gridlines (like in gimp "filters, render, pattern, grid"). Or am I missing something?

many thanks for a great prog!

gerald cubitt

error correction:
save as .gif not working
smart resize does not work
.gif animation is not preserved
when used in any program language file is not working window resizing an image,install to USB, setting a graphic tablet and Autosave window when the program starts after the accident
Chasys Draw IES 4.28.05 windows 8.1 64bit

The only issue I have with your outstanding product(which I use all the time), is it automatically opens with drawing tool tips and complex pointer turned on.  Im forced to turn them off every time.  Saving my settings from my last use would be nice. Thanks for a great app!

docking the windows, and possibly fixing the left click after a single right click in the image (if you click with the right button in the image, and then to *hide* the menu using the left click anywhere, the menu re-appears)

hi, just to let you know that this works in Linux, via WINE (https://www.winehq.org) version: wine-1.7.2

The liquify effect is only somewhat what I was asking for, though it could be easily expanded to a very useful tool and not just an effect. The liquify effect is a warping tool, but it is not precise.

With the ability to grab and drag grid points to control the warping effect, I can level objects within layers in relation to each other, specially shape images such as text, or provide realistic spatial effects in image editing or combining. These powerful effects are almost impossible using a brush, or even region type point systems.

For example, say I wish to add text to a photo with a flat top and a perfectly curved bottom. I can use the circle text function to create the arc, but it may be too circular for my needs, and controlling the warp of the top to flatten the text has to be extremely precise to prevent the text from looking amateur and cartoonish. With the grid, I would use snap to grid and drag the corresponding points straight up until all of the letters were on a flat plain. I could then turn off the snap to grid feature and carefully adjust the bottom grid points to get the exact curve necessary.

I think too many people underestimate the usefulness and power of the warp tool and tend to think of it as more of a toy, when it is actually a powerful drawing and editing tool for someone that knows how to use it. I thought of trying to make such a warping tool as an 8bf plugin. However, a person needs to see more than the affected layer when applying the warp, in most cases, to get the desired effect right, so sending the handle to a single layer would be ineffective.

What would be great is a specific distortion tool, a grid-based digital image warping tool that creates a point based grid structure for a layer, and dragging a point on the grid pulls or pushes the pixels an equal amount. This type of tool allows for the creation of caricatures from a photo, or even extremely useful photo manipulation to get almost impossible to achieve localized effects otherwise.

If you want to know more about what I am talking about, the codeproject has an article and some c++ source-code for a rendering engine.  Just Google "grid-based digital image warping", and the second result should be the codeproject article.

sharpen edges filter in sharpen catagory

chasysDraw : drawing and painting tools are already good, now its time to expand animation features. I ask for [Xsheet] and [timeline]A feature / interface, both are for animation.

I like your programs but will you be incorporating 3D file viewing support in the future. I have a massive library of 3D content and a viewer program sounds a lot less memory intensive than a full blown application for this task.

Panorama stiching

I would love it if ChasysDraw could open and work with my A0 300dpi images. At the moment it can't.