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Is the blob bug fixed? As expected it’s not. This app is a joke, incompetent development.

define how the pattern is repeated, adjust the tile size to the graphic, change the width and height of the pattern tile, define the overlapping of graphic elements, create a pattern swatch and apply it to outlines or vector shapes...

Feature request: Seamless pattern mode or studio for creating pattern swatches?

These are pixel only app as vectornator is a superior vector only app. But Serif try to sell Affinity Designer for iPad without usable pixel brushes, advertising:
With a single click, switch between full featured vector and raster workspaces. Just think about what that means… add raster brush texture to your illustrations, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to your crisp vectors, enclose and clip pixel layers. This is true creative freedom and the possibilities are endless. 
and blobs at every pixel brushstroke. Over two years now without any attempt to fix. Just think about what that means…
Maybe a script that detects and deletes the blobs?

That’s what I’m doing now. Vectornator, Fresco and Procreate.
I’m exited to see the new brush engine in Vectornator and the basic vector bezier tools in Adobe Fresco that will be released soon.

These are pixel only app as vectornator is a superior vector only app. But Serif try to sell Affinity Designer for iPad without usable pixel brushes, advertising:
With a single click, switch between full featured vector and raster workspaces. Just think about what that means… add raster brush texture to your illustrations, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to your crisp vectors, enclose and clip pixel layers. This is true creative freedom and the possibilities are endless. 
and blobs at every pixel brushstroke. Over two years now without any attempt to fix. Just think about what that means…
Maybe a script that detects and deletes the blobs?

Enough! This is not only an Affinity Photo issue but primarily  a Affinity Designer issue. When we bought Affinity Designer for iPad we thought buying an app that combines vector and pixel art. Many customers are disappointed. Since more than 2 years the pixel persona blob bug exists and the app is still sold in the App Store. Any confidence that this serious bug will ever be fixed is gone. We do not want to be fooled anymore. Fix the bug or remove the app from the App Store! Time for more publicity... 

Hi, Everyone. Here is a sad SOLUTION. 

I don't really understand why developer keep ignoring that issue. Affinity photo have so much for painting and then shooting itself in the leg by not fixing this little thing that makes painting simply IMPOSSIBLE \( * Д*)/

But anyway there is a solution to that issue that helped me. So problem is in some improper reading of pencil pressure in first quarter of sesitivity. That way to remove this issue we must CUT OUT one fourth of pen sensitivity in settings of affinity. That is pretty radical way but it do fix that issue unlike developers who ignore it for 2 years already 😕

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.4
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.4 (over the last release  Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Preparations to our iPad apps to ready them for the release of iOS 14 later in the year Support for Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad, including hover states for buttons, scrollable areas and cursors. Make Hand Tool available for accessibility purposes (from a Preference item). Fix for incorrect initial direction of curves drawn using Apple Pencil in vector mode. Fix for inability to select specific brushes. Improved font handling and support for custom user fonts. Fix for undesirable shapes being created when dragging the start/end nodes of a shape on top of each other to close the shape. Improved margin and bleed presets for documents. Fix for incorrect rendering of grids past certain zoom levels. Fix for EPS exporting with black bitmap areas. Speculative fix for occasional lockups in Pencil Tool. Document save performance improvements. Text performance improvements. Fix for 'Expand Strokes' failing to consider 'velocity' as a width controller. Allow certain documents created on Windows to open correctly (if the document contained a saved reference to exporting as Windows GDI formats). Localisation improvements. Assorted small bug fixes.  Earlier changes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features & improvements) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and this 1.8.2 update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen.
Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them.
If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.4
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.8.4 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Preparations to our iPad apps to ready them for the release of iOS 14 later in the year Trackpad support for new Magic Keyboard. Supported X3F RAW loading. Added ability to only render retina resolution. Improved performance on new 6GB devices. Custom user font support. Improvements to Canon EOS-1D Mk. III metadata import. PDF import performance improvements. Document save performance improvements. Detect edges improved on 32bit documents. Placing RAW files now produces Pixel layers, as opposed to Image layers. Text performance improvements. Provide localised history timestamp text. Improved support for .fff RAW files. “Save document with history” will now show up as a recorded macro step. Mask thumbnails now look more correct. Resetting the Voronoi filter now resets to the correct values. Improved selective viewing of LAB document channels in the Channels panel. Fixed EPS can export with black bitmap areas. Fixed reading of XP metadata under certain conditions. Fixed high pass filter when using LAB colour. Fixed issue where having Photo installed would stop Luma Fusion importing LUTs. [*] Fixed issue where selecting a brush from the brush could select the wrong brush. Fixed a crash when refining selection. Fixed an issue where the history page could get out of step in Develop. Fixed crash when inferring LUT. Fixed erroneous blend mode imports for PSD files. Fixed a crash in red-eye removal. Assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Earlier changes in 1.8 added since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and the  Affinity Photo 1.8.2 announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen.
Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them.
If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

Feature request: Seamless pattern mode or studio for creating pattern swatches?

Hi, this seems to be very problematic case.
So I tried to my best to tell and demonstrate what I mean with this Pressure Blob problem.
I really hope that this get better and fixed.
I have drawn a lot with iPads and really liked Affinity Designer feel (wet edges custom is awesome and you can get very traditional pencil drawings).
Problem is that I have used only Pen Tilt to vary Brush size and it was worked quite well, so no problems.
But I have get a bit frustrated when I have tried to do paintings with Affinity Designer, because then I tend to vary brush size and opacity with pressure.
and I detail something there is a annoying big blob when pencil tip touches the screen.
Also inking is very hard and it is almost impossible to me produce clean high brush size dynamic lines with Affinity Photo or Designer IOS.
You must work a quite hard with Affinity Photo or Designer to hide that problematic Pressure Spit Blob problem, it is not always even possible.
One problem is that brushes settings Pressure Curve do not work as expected, 
you must also use Global pressure curve to hide that initial touch pressure blob.
It is not ideal solution and it is not still work if you use big varied brush size.
I suggest to @Paul Mudditt @AffinityMakesMeSmile try do dynamic ink lines as shown on video.
I used to Procreate which uses same kind of pressure curves and brush without any tricks.
IMPORTANT! There is no any problem with MacOS or Windows Affinity products even with over 1000px brushes with Wacom pens,
so you can draw thin 1px lines with 1000px size brush without any problematic inital Pressure blobs.
Of course Apple Pencil and IOS pen tech is different and way more problematic to handle.
Thanks to all!
Affinity_IOS_Initial_Pressure_Spit_Blob_Problem.mov Procreate_Dynamic_Ink_demo.mov

Hi, all and please hope that this solves now.
Please try that:
take Inks Category brush (Comics Ink Pen or Brush Pen) and remember Reset brush to its default settings. set Brush Width to 240 px.... or even more. (IMPORTANT! to show clearly that problem) place pen tip lightly to the screen and try to draw slowly nice clean dynamic lines. I am quite sure that most of you see a bigger blop mark at the start of your lines.
That happen when your pencil tip first time touches or registering the screen.
Other IOS programs (Procreate, ClipStudioPaint, SketchBook, ArtRage eg.)
do not spit pen pressure at the start of the line or so when pen tip is the first time placed and registered on the screen.
Tested this with latest Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo 1.8.3 with iPad Air 3, iPad mini 5, iPad Pro 12.9" (1st gen), iPad 2018 (6th gen) and all behave same.
BTW. This problem is same as desktop versions in the past, but they got it fixed while ago.
Thanks all!

Hi,
I can confirm that this serious Pressure Blob Bug problem only happen on iPads IOS and exists in both Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer.
I attached a small video, which show how annoying it is and makes impossible to make clean dynamic lines.
Brush Blob problem is not so obvious if you only paint or not use large scale brush size dynamics.
I think that this same Pressure Blob problems is already squashed in Desktops versions of Affinity Products, but not IOS yet.
BTW. There is a still canvas rotation problem when using flat shaped brush tip - Flat brush tip follows canvas rotation :(
This makes canvas rotation useless when using anything other than perfectly round brushes. 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/92429-canvas-rotation-and-brush-nozzle-rotation-with-dynamics-angle-tilt-control-bug/
Reported this along long.. time ago. 
I really hope that these bugs get solved because these affects greatly to drawing experience.
Sorry_But_Whats_About_The_Blob_Issue.mov

Hi, here is another video clip about the Affinity's Brush engine Pressure Blob problem. (very slow video, sorry)
There is also Clip Studio Paint demo with very same pressure dynamic profile.
@AffinityMakesMeSmile - Please try to use more pressure dynamics with brushes and more global brush size.
Because with some settings this problem is not so obvious, but it is still there hiding.
I have tested this with latest Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo 1.8.3 with iPad Air 3, iPad mini 5, iPad Pro 12.9" (1st gen), iPad 2018 (6th gen) and all behave same.
Thanks, and hopely this get fixed.... ..... soon.
Sorry_But_Whats_About_The_Blob_Issue_2.mov

Same iPad Pro, same Apple Pencil 2, no blobs:
 

Sure this occurs with all brushes using Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity. Other apps on iPad using Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity like Photoshop, Fresco, Sketch, Concepts, Procreate, Sketch Book, Artstudio Pro, Art Set don’t have this blob issue. So it isn’t Apples fault.

The blobs at every stroke make Affinity’s pixel brushes useless. Did you ever draw in Affinity Photo? No customer will accept blobs.

Great, because there is still room for enhancement and illustrator for iPad is around the corner.

Great, because there is still room for enhancement and illustrator for iPad is around the corner.

Solved! Thank you very much! I really need more sleep 🙂

Look at Illustrator before and after CS6

Feature request: Seamless pattern mode or studio for creating pattern swatches?

define how the pattern is repeated, adjust the tile size to the graphic, change the width and height of the pattern tile, define the overlapping of graphic elements, create a pattern swatch and apply it to outlines or vector shapes...