JulianB

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I appreciate Affinity bringing alt click over to Photo to mantain brush size when switching between brushes, but really I'd just like an option to select a tick box in the context toolbar to always use the last equipped brush size.

The paint mixer brush smudges, it doesn't just paint, regardless of whether or not I have a color or transparent color selected. Erasing would not give the desired effect and neither would the smudge brush. The last 3 strokes provided in my example above fail to be a productive use of the tool.

Exactly! So if there's no color underneath it should take that into account and apply the negative in the direction of my strokes.

Say you are working on a transparent layer that contains brush strokes. Switching to the paint mixer brush with an empty "color," you can blend those existing brush strokes outward. If you attempt to blend inward, back towards your existing brush strokes, it doesn't reverse the effect, it retains it's shape like a mask. If the brush works like the smudge tool one way, it should do the same in reverse. Please do not suggest switching between the paint mixer brush and the smudge tool. I included a video example of the description above. 0001-0250.mp4

This is helpful to know, thank you, but I'll have to disagree with @Granddaddy, I still find navigation between values to be far far too large, and I'll stick to an external add-on to better control Affinity's scrolling. If anyone can clarify why scrolling is functioning so differently between Mac and Windows, it would be appreciated. Seems @R C-R, @MikeTO, and myself have small increments on Mac, while @walt.farrell and others on Windows have the relative 25% increments as described above.

I don't know why it wouldn't be standard. A program should recognize scroll acceleration. If I scroll quick, it zooms quick, if I'm slow, it's precise. Anything other than increments of 1 is odd, which is why I thought something was off with my installation of V2 in the first place. Alternatively, I don't know why you'd want to zoom in increments of whatever this is. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 21, 26, 33, 41, 51, 64, 80, 100, 125, 156, 195, 244, 304, 381, 476, 595, 743, 929, 1161 Example3.mov

Here's an example of scrolling with the wheel in V1 of Affinity, though I should preface by saying I own this version on Mac not Windows. Like I said it zooms in increments of 1% in V1. I originally included the example of me scrolling on the layers panel as well because I was afraid the first response to my post would be that I should adjust the scrolling integer in my system settings, which I already checked is 1. Debra helpfully debunked that it doesn't have an affect on Affinity regardless of that setting. Example2.mov

Thank you Debra. It helps to know at least that this seems to be Affinity's standard function. The scroll steps are bizarre, so I guess for now I'll opt for an external scrolling add-on to more precisely control Affinity's canvas to my needs.

In the video it jumped from 100% to 125% to 156% to 195%, as opposed to what I want, 100% to 101% to 102% etc. The same functionality I experienced in V1 of Affinity.

Thank you for the tip, but those jumps are far too large. I was able to scroll by a percentage in Affinity V1 and expect the same for V2. Can you or anyone confirm if this is typical behavior on scroll?

Using the scroll wheel, Instead of zooming 1% at a time, the program jumps between large values and without much consistency. Is it supposed to be like this or have I overlooked a setting? I know it's not a conflicting behavior with my computer's system settings as the layers panel still scrolls 1 layer at a time. Also, hovering and scrolling over either the navigator or zoom tool percentage ui will zoom the canvas in increments of 1%. Example.mp4

New version, still the same blurry merge down. Here's to another 5 years everybody💀

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Was working on line work for an illustration, and I didn't realize how merging my layers was blurring my work until it was too late. Looked around and I cannot believe topics have been made years prior and this is still a thing.