Painter 8.1 free update is out soon! So says Da Painter Boss at Corel, Rick Champagne - he's posted on this publicly.

It will, among other things, fix precisely those two things I griped most about in my big Painter 8.0 review at www.graphics.com: add keyboard-nudgable numerical sliders and fix that horrible 100% CPU usage bug! Who says Corel doesn't listen to constructive criticism? Surely not I!

K
www.klausnordby.com/xara (big how-to article)
www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/kn/ (I was the first-ever featured artist in the Xone)
www.graphics.com (columnist, "The I of The Perceiver")