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For anyone still struggeling with this issue. I'm used to having my WACOM pen set to mouse mode. I haven't used my tablet in a while and since then switched to 1.8. No pressure detection. When I switched to Pen mode in the mapping tab of the Wacom Tablet Properties pressure was working again (it's also where the "Use Windows Ink" option is hidden). It's slightly different than pen mode, since I used a small tablet, but it works for now. Please Affinity devs; Mouse mode worked before. Can we get it back?

So, I'm going to partially answer my own question, as I found an earlier topic from 2017 with basically the same question: and The Affinity Photo Pixel Tool is (more or less) the equivalent of the PS Pencil mode. When selected, the AP Pixel Tool has an "Alternate" option on the Context toolbar. Set that to "Erase" (or "Background Color"). This changes the effect of the tool when the 'alternate' key is held down. A bit confusingly, on a Mac the 'alternate' key is not alt/option but CMD. However, the Status bar at the bottom of the window should tell users which key invokes the 'alternate' action, so it is not too bad if you refer to that. Anyway, with appropriate Opacity, Flow, Blend mode, Alternate mode, etc. set in the Context toolbar, the Pixel Tool with the appropriate keyboard key held down should produce hard-edged, aliased erasures. Source topic So with some digging around I found the answer, though as a piece of feedback for the devs: I did not find it entirely intuitive to find this under the pixel tool. I might be because I'm just getting accustomed to a new workflow, but I don't think it would be entirely intuitive for complete newcomers either. I think adding a reference in the erasing section of the help would at lease give a hint that the pixel tool also has erasing features? In the image below the desired effect (you activate alt mode by holding ctrl)

Hi, I've been looking for a way to increase the hardness of the eraser tool so there is no feather at all (so I can remove individual pixels without affecting surround ones), but I'm currently at a loss how to get it done (I've gone through the built in help). I attached an image showing the tool together with the hardness at a 100% and it's still showing some feathering. I have a feeling I'm overlooking an option or a toggle, but so far it hasn't been entirely intuitive? Coming from PS I would expect 100% hardness to do it, or have a separate pencil eraser tool, that only works on pixel basis and doesn't do anything to the surrounding pixels. Or is it behaviour of the underlying image itself, considering it adds feathering after rasterizing the shape? Can somebody help out and correct my possible incompetence?