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Preserve Alpha it is What does that do again ? (apart from completely undoing any effects I've just added)

I'm used to having to group Pixel layers before I can apply filters and stuff But this isn't a Pixel Layer Only letting me apply a blur if I add it to a group layer Why? THING.afdesign

Cheers Dan C I think it did it again yesterday so maybe it's an intermittent thing or something I'm doing I'll try and get to the bottom of it

Nice I saw the one in 1999 in Reims in France - highly recommend it

@Dan C What does Factory Reset do? I don't really want to click that and end up losing brushes palettes and stuff Anyway I just tried it again without Factory Reset and it seemed to default to black this time - I don't know why it wasn't before or sometimes doesn't - just seems like constant problems getting the pixel brush to lay something down but hopefully if I get into a method then it should start working better Got the Pixel Layer to add automatically again now though cheers

Me and tinkering under the hood of computers doesn't usually end well

So if I go into Pixel Mode and select a brush I'm brushing away there and as usual nothing is appearing on my screen Often this is because of something I've forgotten to set If it isn't then it's usually then because the software - even though the colour palette is set to a colour - defaults to Fill None until a colour is selected - even if it's the one already selected on the colour wheel I have to go in and re set it to the same colour ( usually white or black initially ) Can the software not just be set to default to whatever is selected on the Colour picker - and if I don't want that colour or Oops I forgot to change the colour then I can just go and change it - as I apparently have to do anyway before I can see what brush strokes are laying down - why would I choose a brush and then start putting down strokes with No Fill ??? can it not even just default to black or something instead of No Fill ? Can the devs please just fix this in the next update because I've been using this software for 3/4 years now and I still struggle with getting the pixel brush to work - I'd just like to be able to go in to Pixel mode and everything just works without having to bugger about nearly every time it seems A seamless experience with Affinity software is what I aspire to greatly but it just always seems to throw something at me It also used to add pixel layers automatically but now it doesn't and I can't remember where the setting is for that so if anyone could remind me thanks

I'm sure this won't be an issue again if I'm careful and try to work a bit tidier 58gb still seems a bit excessive though - I really don't know how it ended up that large

That all sounds like a lot of tinkering under the hood - I don't know what you mean by "supported configuration" but if it means I stand a better chance of recovering files after a crash then I could just keep in mind not to let that file get too bloated - the app has crashed a couple of times in the past few days but that may be me using some previous documents containing a ridiculous amount of enormous pixel layers Alternatively maybe I could just uninstall everything and reinstall all of it on my HDD - I guess this involves one of the two different installers I don't really understand ?

58gb of content? I have no idea which installer I used - I wish I could just install these application the V1 way

How do I set it so PersonaBackstore.dat is saved on my HDD - the main software can live on my C Drive

A restart seems to have got rid How do I set things to use my HDD for this?

Trying to get my head round how this has just caused 58GB of data to bloat up my C Drive? 58GB - since I last restarted the app?

I found the culprit - some file called PersonaBackstore.dat So what do I do with that - just delete it? How do I stop this happening again??? This is not good - asides from all the lag I'm getting (which may be my computer or maybe THIS could be what's causing issues on some game I also play?)

Having computer issues right now on account of my C Drive being maxxed out !!! I looked into this and there's about 60GB of something in some .affinity folder - 60GB of what? I have a measly 250GB SSD on this PC along with a 2GB HD which is where I store all my documents relating to Affinity - I can't be having this software dumping a load of unnecessary crap in there - anyone know what might be going on here and how to fix it? I've got all my games and stuff installed on my HD and only a few things on the SSD - I see the Affinity Suite is one of them - is there a reason why this has to be installed there? The main programs only takes a few GB so it's not a problem but if it's going to be taking up 60GB in the background then I'd rather it was on my HDD How do I install and use this V2 suite properly because it's been a bit of a mystery since I upgraded - I'd like some say in where things are going on my computer!

Cheers I'm still getting to grips with the brushes - been struggling to get good effects using the standard brushes or if I do it seems to take ages - it really does open up a lot of things designing own brushes Still in the early stages of forming my own sets of favourites

I see now - useful to know I can look back on pixel strokes and find out what brush it is while I'm still working on an open document which saves me having to necessarily type each one into the layer title If I click on each brush highlighted there though it doesn't take me to the brush in the brushes panel automatically though - is there a way to set it to do that ? that would be useful or even if the software could display the name of the brush too ? Another question: Is there an easy way to sync my brush categories between Windows and iPad?

Seems to be difficult for you to just explain what you mean by auto-scroll.. When I click on the brush or the eraser it doesn't highlight the brush unless I'm in the same category - I have until now made a point of writing the brush used in the title of the layer but sometimes I forget or I'm also moving from file to file also which probably further complicates things - maybe the key to using the brush/eraser tool is in this auto-scroll which you appear not to want to elucidate further upon - auto scroll what ? I don't even understand what this means in the context of brushes other than scrolling through layers or brushes ??? I have auto-scroll enabled I see but I still don't know What It Means

You could explain what auto-scroll is? The tool I choose will default to selecting the brush last used yes - but what if I'm in a different brush category and I've got a lot of categories ? How do I figure out what the brush is without looking through all the categories which for all I suspect will probably cause the selected brush to be unselected maybe too - I'm just looking for the brush which I matched to the brush icon on the layers panel and when I moved to the category it was in it wasn't selected - so I think this workaround there only works if you are still in the category where the brush you were using is

Again I don't think this is what I was asking - I don't know what auto-scrolling is or what you are trying to say here - all the video shows is you selecting the Brush Tool And what is this video showing and why isn't it embedded?

This isn't really what I asked I can see a brush symbol on the pixel layers which shows brushes used and I can figure it out from that now but it doesn't say which one was used as a brush and which as an eraser - I also tried looking into this brush symbol on my iPad I think before and it just didn't do anything - but now I click on it I can see what brushes have been used on that pixel layer ! Is that what you mean ? Not sure why some pixel layers show this and some don't though..

I just went to apply some eraser brush effects and it's set to the last brush I used on that - which created an interesting effect Only it isn't highlighting what brush it's set to anywhere that I can see and I can't figure out what it is ! I'd like to know what brush it is - how do I figure this out ?

I'm playing around with brushes and building up some brush sets from things I've already designed Should I make these from .png files the largest size I expect to use the brush for, ie. I've going along the principle that the largest brush width is about 4,000 pixels so I'm taking vector shapes and rasterising them on 2000px square canvasses with the image in the centre with around 1000px maximum width or height so if I use a smaller brush it's not scaling anything up Is that too much - ie. will it impact performance and slow things down if I make these too large?

When I change the brush width using the taskbar why does it only change the width of the main image and not any sub brushes I've added?

Also why does the rotation jitter add jitter only in one direction (clockwise) rather than by the same average rotation in both directions?