[Affinity photo's equivalent of Krita's Blender blur?]

After further consideration I decided to return my copy. Thanks for the replies everyone. After doing a lot of searching and through here I understand that AP is too lacking for digital painting at the moment. I do hope they add more digital painting features soon.

[Affinity photo's equivalent of Krita's Blender blur?]

Hi Everyone! I'm new to affinity photo and I was looking to use it as my primary digital painting software, except that at the moment I don't want to because of its lack of its Krita's equivalent of the Blender blur brush (see attached video for what it does), which I use for painting ambient occlusion and soft reflected light.

I tried using the smudge tool and I don't like the result. Sometimes it pulls out a random shade of color out of nowhere and when it does work properly, I don't quite like the result because it messes with the shape of the shadow or light I'm painting. A zero hardness brush doesn't quite do it because it's still a bit too hard edged for my liking and I'm not comfortable with using pen pressure-controlled opacity yet, and the paint mixer has a very limited use case in my workflow where it creates a satisfactory result.

But if you guys have a different workflow that achieves the same effect then I'll be glad to take them. I really wanna make the most out of Affinity photo because besides digital painting, I have limited use cases for raster editing software. Wouldn't wanna waste this great piece of software.

[Photo isn't very responsive with a graphic tab on Windows, possibly a hardware issue?]

Hi everyone!

I'm new to Affinity photo and I was hoping to use it as my primary digital painting software, until I found today that it does not feel responsive to use. Switching between different tools takes a while before the tool starts working (e.g. switching from eraser to brush takes at least a second or two before the brush starts painting on the canvas).

Could this be a hardware issue? I'm using a Genius Pen Tab i608x, which I know isn't really the best for digital painting (this was just given to me as a gift) and I'm hoping that any Huion or Wacom users aren't experiencing this because I'm planning to buy a graphic tab from either of those brands.