NickEJ

Hi-I don't know if this is a bug, but it seems to be a new phenomenon with the 1.9 releases. I'm using Affinity Photo to do paintovers and critique of the work of a pen and ink class. As such, I'm recording the sessions where I open the student work, talk about it, and draw in corrections. Then I close the files and open a new batch. After going through about three students, and about a dozen images, Photo starts to get laggy. Brushes taking full seconds to put down what I've drawn, multi-second lags between Alt-Selecting a color and being able to draw with it, etc. Often, after that, when I try to open a JPG or PNG file, I get a "you do not have permission to open that file" error. This can all be fixed by quitting Photo and restarting. I'm using 1.9.2 on Mac 11.2.3, so latest of both program and OS. It seems like a memory leak to me, but whether in the program or the OS I have no idea. N

That's it! Thank you! I knew there had to be a simple way. I was clicking on the box on the Brushes palette. Duh.

I'm pretty conversant with the Brush Editor, but I'm finding I can't actually access it for the brush I'm currently working with in it's current state. Example: To access the Brush Editor, I have to click on a specific brush in the window. If I customize that brush a bit, say, lowering opacity to 50%, then decide I need to add some scatter to it, I can't just call up the Brush Editor window. I have to go back to the Brushes panel, select the brush, and make the scatter edit. Doing so resets the opacity to the original setting, which can get frustrating. Is there a way to access the Brush Editor on the fly?

Actually, it's even cooler than that. Slide left/right to change size, up/down to change hardness.

I'm wondering whether it might be possible, either through a setting or some interface enhancement, to make the tabs in Affinity Photo a little clearer. I'm visually impaired and the super-low-contrast difference between tabs denoting open images is really, really hard to see. This means it's kind of a pain to switch between them. Of necessity, I've gotten a bit fluent on the hotkeys, but it would be sweet if there were a setting to make the tabs, say, different colors, if only at the top. I realize this is probably a pretty niche request, so no big. I love the entire line and have recommended it to many students who are just fed up with the Adobe Tax.