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The scaling is definitely stored, but for whatever reason is not available to the user. Affinity is built for non-destructive workflow from the get go - if I scale down a pixel layer, its pixel are not in fact lost. That makes it even weirder that I can never restore a pixel layer to its native size, making it essentially a destructive workflow just because this one piece of information is inaccessible to me. Maybe I am 'supposed' to be linking to external bitmaps rather than creating them from within the app? I wish there were more start-to-finish tutorials so I could better understand what the process is supposed to be like. As it is, I am baffled that a low-hanging UX feature such as this is omitted.

+1 for adding brush names to the brushes panel, pretty please

Hello world, first post here. I am in the process of transitioning from PS to AP and opacity dynamics are integral to my painting process. Honestly I wasn't satisfied with the offered solutions, as the proposed brush settings yielded nothing like PS behaviour, but I managed to find a solution. All the buildup and flow tweaking still resulted in a situation like on the left half of attached image ("Like FLOW dynamics in Photoshop") - something like a semi-transparent tube sock where each brush stamp is drawn additively over the previous one, resulting in a very quick buildup. Notice the stroke overlap in the squiggly line and poor tonal range in the other one as I brush from very low to full pressure. The solution was to set Luminosity Jitter to Pressure. Even a very low value will do and you can play with the curve profile. The result is very similar to Opacity dyamics in Photoshop - no more sock tube and you get great tonal control. Now if you pick a colour and brush at half pressure over another, you easily get a mid-colour between the two, which I find is a very common situation in digital painting. Hope this is helpful to others, and do let me know if there is a simpler/better solution!