Fluxpunk

Please fix this Serif. Even if it is by design it is poor design. In the Brush Tool if I press Option + Command, the cursor does not change to a color picker or target icon. So there is no feedback letting me know the color picker is active and I cannot determine if I am over the correct pixel unless I shrink my brush. Please provide visual feedback when the Option + Command buttons are pressed (even better make it 1 hotkey by default). Otherwise you are just slowing digital artists down, and based on the amount of threads and comments on this, confusing many users. Thanks for your hard work Serif

Yes! This initially stumped me as well. Once the image is pasted off the grid it will remain off the grid when you drag it if moving only by whole pixels.

Thanks for the responses! This was confusing for me. I certainly had those settings selected and also tried the Pixel Work preset, however when pasted the pixels were not automatically aligned to the grid. This caused the blurring, which I assumed to be resampling of my pixels during the cop/paste process. Manually dragging the image until it snapped to the pixels fixed this for me. Thanks everyone! Maybe I can avoid suffering GIMP's interface after all.

I would like to verify this bug. I am working on a pixel art project and I've used many different raster art editing tools without ever seeing this issue. If you COPY pixels then PASTE them they become blurry, as if a filter is being added to them. In the example below I've copied a 64x64 block of pixels at 72dpi and pasted them into a 64x64 72dpi image and it has been blurred. This does not occur in other software, like the FREE editor GIMP. This makes Affinity Photo a horrible tool for artists, especially game artists as we need complete control over every pixel. This is frustrating as it looks like I should have stuck with GIMP rather than re-purchasing Affinity Photo for Mac. The response that the VECTOR tool Affinity Designer is the tool for RASTER PIXEL ART is disheartening. I own Photo and Designer on Windows and grudgingly re-purchased Photo for MAC, just to discover I should have downloaded the free tool GIMP instead.