Since photoshop does not have here are 2 suggestions to put into the program.

1 close up window To have a second window which tracks where the mouse is to see with pixel perfect accuracy where you position your curser to edit the picture in pixel perfection quickest. The standard way is to select where you want to edit, then zoom in, move the curser to edit with pixel precision, then zoom out. Which may seem like 3 steps but you have to also move and select the options which can make you loose time and your location. So anywhere the mouse goes the other window has at the center the mouse pointer fixed on it so that you see the big picture zoomed out on the main screen while the other window tracks close up where the mouse it.

2 square feet The other suggestion is to to able read the square foot of a blueprint since every software on the market is slow expensive and they do not work well, fast, and not user friendly. Just trace the area which can be 100 pixies by 100 pixies to be 10,000 pixies and have the ability to convert it to square feet which is not hard which many programs do it but they do not do it all at one time despite they are both simple options. The other is to use the flood tool to cover an area to get the pixel area to be converted to square feet. Have it that each color that floods the area can be summed up since if 3 rooms on a blueprint are flooded with the color blue, it states the pixies area which converted to square feet tells you how much flooring type is needed. What would take seconds to do on this can take hours for other programs to do not including the long tutorials they suggest and the $1000 price some ask for.
The same with length to know how long something is if its 360 pixels long its one foot.

Rant
So many programs suck in the market and are over priced which can not do the job which makes me wonder if they ever used other programs to understand basic user inferfances. bad enough 3d architect programs are too basic and clunky or the ones that you can do anything area over complicated that would need years to remember and master to just do a simple design which other programs do. Googles sketchup can also do a lot but also falls short on many aspects. There is a way to make 3D images and blueprints easily and very fast, but everyone seems stuck in the standard to copy the bad methods which they are slowly getting better which in that speed wait another 20 years for them to implement basic things. Sometimes one program can do what another can not and falls short while another that can do can not do what another basic programs use. Having to learn multiple programs at ones makes you realize time and time again that collaboration and getting inspiration from others is something companies do not do which almost sets themselves up for failure in the long run.

xwarsongx

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