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Hi everyone I realized a somewhat weird workaround today which I wanted to share and ask why this works. I wanted to set the stroke of a path made with the pen tool (and an ellipse) to look like a brush. Easy in designer, create the path, select the brush, nice. But this does not work in Photo, BUT if you copy and paste that layer from designer back to photo it keeps the brush stroke settings?! The brush does not even need to be in photo. You can still change stroke width and color etc., just not the brush. After searching the forums I could not figure out any way to do this in photo (just some threads saying it isn't possible). Therefore I am wondering is this just a missing piece of UI if it's technically working? Or is there a expected way achieve this which I am not seeing? Copy in designer and then Edit > Paste Style in Photo works too in order to change the brush. (I am absolutely aware that vector stuff is not the intended purpose of photo but every once in a while it really helps to just draw a quick path right onto the image)

I created this account just to say thank you to NotMyFault. The lack of (knowing how to) pack textures including the alpha channel without messing with the information stored in RGB has been the only thing I disliked about using affinity photo for ... years probably. This is the most helpful post for me I have come across so far. 💖