wished on Thu, 29^th Jun 2017 at 10:00:58 UTC

tools for dotted lines would be a great improvement

wished on Mon, 5^th Dec 2016 at 06:02:15 UTC

Disregard the proposed solution to wish #309, as I had a better (and much simpler) idea of how to accomplish the task, each only requiring two special brushes. Brush 1 will adopt part of selection from one layer (grass from the background layer) and apply it on colored sections of the next layer, but with no painting on transparent pixels. Brush two would do the same thing, but only paint on transparent pixels.
  
Grass could be painted on the forward section of the lions paws, and the other brush could paint the grass directly behind the paws at the right height, allowing the frames to be then positioned and merged like normal to look natural.
  
This should actually be somewhat simple and quite a powerful toolset.

wished on Mon, 5^th Dec 2016 at 05:49:35 UTC

The ability to insert a frame partially into another frame would be nice. Let me explain; Imagine having a background photo of a home with a large yard on frame 1. You load a picture of a lion in the zoo in frame 2 and cut out the lion. You want to insert the lion into the picture of the yard.  
  
PROMBLEM: If you simply merge the two photos, then with any inspection, the lion will appear to be floating on the tips of the grass in the yard.  
  
SOLUTION: Resize layer 2 to fit the picture of the lion. Put 'slits' in Layer one and then slide layer two to where the lions four feet can go behind the grass a little, then merge the two layers.
  
I guess this involves two separate things: 1. Being able to make slits in a layer -- 2. Having a function that will resize and reshape a layer to fit a complex image. It could also be done with a selected image, but it would be impossible to tell where to put the slits without being able to move the layer over the background layer and marking the background first, before applying the slits.
  
I know it is probably asking a lot.

wished on Tue, 31^st May 2016 at 17:07:09 UTC

Chasys Draw, latest version; Windows 7 64-bit.
  
How about an installer/program that actually works under 64-bit Windows 7? I have tried to install the program under Win7/64, no luck. I then installed the program in a 32-bit VirtualBox Windows VM and back-copied the portable version to my main machine. However, it is impossible to get this to run.

wished on Mon, 25^th Apr 2016 at 11:31:10 UTC

Hi Paul,
                                
My operating System is Win7 64 Bit 8 GB RAM, Internet Explorer 11.
  
Thanks for Draw Ies Artist ver. 4.38.04 .  
  
I have also installed the latest German language file  
  
31 March 2016
   ver. 4.38.04
Markus Hauser  
  
Markus is doing a very good job and I am very much in favour with his translation.
  
  
But I do not get rid of this message box popping up each time I start Chasys Draw IES.
  
You may select English or German language ... it pops up.
  
The only way I found to avoid this box, is to disconnect from the Internet, while using Draw IES.
  
Thank you for your help in advance
  
Klaus

wished on Wed, 23^rd Mar 2016 at 14:43:56 UTC

Website: Please make your text frames a percentage of the available screen instead of fixed width. It is very difficult to read because the fixed frame width causes a horizontal scroll bar to come up at the bottom of frames in order to read the full width. this scroll bar is often well below the bottom of the screen. Not all of us have the pixel width needed for your site. This makes the site mobile functional as well. This is the same on Edge, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

wished on Tue, 22^nd Mar 2016 at 02:00:56 UTC

A native 64-bit app would be amazing!

wished on Thu, 18^th Feb 2016 at 09:03:54 UTC

Bonjour Jean Paul,
  
It would be very lovely, if your program could open PDF files.
  
Best wishes  
Hannah

wished on Fri, 12^th Feb 2016 at 06:30:30 UTC

Wishes for Artist
- Save in PSD and XCF with layers
- Single window

wished on Thu, 4^th Feb 2016 at 14:56:04 UTC

With the explosion of interest in adult coloring books, how about including a way to convert photos into coloring book pages

wished on Mon, 1^st Feb 2016 at 08:09:09 UTC

Hi there! Great program and I'd ask if in Transforms may be added feature for (seamless) pattern creation?
  
Best regards:
Veselina

wished on Sun, 6^th Dec 2015 at 03:12:09 UTC

Hello John Paul,
  
I also have a wish: How about, if the measuring tool would also have the option of showing mm oder cm, instead of only pixels?
I, for one, would find that very useful.
  
Best regards
Hannah

wished on Mon, 30^th Nov 2015 at 06:09:25 UTC

Another thought that would make photographers happy... Automated (scripted) watermark and/or copyright text that's also capable in batch. So if you have 60 photos you select where you want your watermark/text (bottom left/right etc) and the system will process it in batch for each photo that's open in Chasys.

wished on Sun, 15^th Nov 2015 at 22:57:42 UTC

Hi, I LOVE chasys draw! It's my favorite program to use and I'm really impressed with all the features. There may be an option for symmetry already but if so I can't locate it. I have an application on my kindle that allows you to draw anything around a horizontal or vertical symmetrical line and reproduces it. I'd love to see that on chasys. Thank you for a great program!

wished on Sun, 15^th Nov 2015 at 09:30:05 UTC

Hey, I just downloaded the new version and it seems the program has improved loads since the last time I used it.
Some versions before, there were many things not working (at least on my computer - XP, 1.8 GHz, 1GB RAM - as mentioned in another comment below).
But the latest version seems to work very nicely for me. It now has a status, that I will proably make Chasys Draw my default drawing software.  
Nice work!
  
Just two things: I still can´t fill spaces in my picture with colour (I will send you an email with the image I used) and I´d like to know:
Is there a way, that I can make a text field larger? Because I entered some text into the "Composition for print" -> "Enter text here"-field and the text was so long that it exceeded the field space.
I tried to figure out how to change the size of the text field according to the text length, but failed.
  
And a wish: Could you maybe put some tooltips into the text-editing window? That would be a great help.
  
Kind regards  
Hannah Czerny

wished on Tue, 25^th Aug 2015 at 11:58:46 UTC

Hi Paul!
  
I have encountered some litte errors while updating the german language file for version 4.32.01. Thank you very much for your really good work with Chasys Draw IES!
  
Here are my findings:
  
Main Workspace:
   - Tool Box on the right where it says "width" and "level": Click then drag, use mouse-wheel; and Click then drag, use mouse-wheel, -> When you mouse over the texts have ; and ,
  
Menu:
   - Image -> Properties... won't translate into german
   - Auto Update Failed (when there is no internet connection) -> won't translate into german (Translations are already in new German language file)
  
All the best,
Markus

wished on Wed, 12^th Aug 2015 at 07:40:34 UTC

mode symmetry for brush
whatever. Your software very good
rate: 7/10

wished on Sat, 18^th Jul 2015 at 11:05:49 UTC

is it possible to make stacked photography as in astrophotography is used - making some macro that will enable automaic processing of stacked files (not just a few, but as in astrophotography - a tousend of them).  
Jadranko
PS. Your softwer is awsome!

wished on Wed, 15^th Jul 2015 at 20:56:17 UTC

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.

wished on Mon, 8^th Jun 2015 at 11:24:09 UTC

@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.

wished on Sat, 6^th Jun 2015 at 19:02:11 UTC

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?

wished on Mon, 25^th May 2015 at 11:20:42 UTC

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.
  

wished on Tue, 19^th May 2015 at 13:16:35 UTC

Dutch language

wished on Thu, 23^rd Apr 2015 at 14:33:27 UTC

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.

wished on Fri, 10^th Apr 2015 at 05:27:22 UTC

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