thomasmoulson

Can someone please enlighten me how to turn off this stupid grid please? Yes, maybe I’m the stupid one but I can’t seem to see any obvious option to get rid of it!!

The only app that does what I am writing to complain about is 'Artsudio Pro.' The ability to show the pen curser on the screen you are projecting your canvas to. It's really essential if you are to paint whilst looking at a (preferably larger) screen, otherwise you lose where you are as soon as you lift your pen off. The iPad M2 has had the hover feature for over a year now and Adobe Fresco, Procreate, and to a lesser degree Affinity photo still have not implemented this feature like Artsudio Pro did from the go. Do these companies not have artists testing and using their programs or something!? Is presumably a simple fix but they neglect to implement such a vital feature that would seriously upgrade their programs and make painting on them so much more expansive and not contained to a relatively small iPad sized screen! Any advice whether Affinity are even aware of this issue and are planning on fixing it anytime soon? They are ahead of Procreate and Fresco in that some brush cursors do show up on the mirror screen, not as a circle, which would probably be best, bust as a preview of the brush.. however many brushes seem to faint or something, and thus are not visible at all. Frustrating!

Can anyone help me with what the link symbol means next to some (most) brush categories? I'm organising and creating my own categories but new categories don't have the link symbol.. does it matter? Thanks

Yep, same issue here on Mac in beta 2.1.0, option and command I think it was, doesn't change the brush size whilst dragging the pen 😭

I was thinking this was never going to come. I can say as someone who predominantly uses Affinity programs to draw/paint, the fix of not making the curser around your selected brush, and also the ability to see the name of the brushes at all times, is an absolute god send. On a slightly more negative note, God knows why this wasn't implemented from day 1! It's going to make learning your way around the brushes, and just generally using them day to day.. So much easier. Well done 👏

I’m not bothered now, main thing is they’ve finally done the right thing and seen sense 🙏

Wow, brilliant! I had another email exchange with them complaining about this again just recently, they didn’t tell me anything about an upcoming update.. so glad it is though. For me, it’s really going to propel Affinity to new heights 👏

Anyone know how to resize objects proportionately? Can’t seem to figure out how to on AD V2 on the iPad

I've switched to photoshop now.. never thought I'd even bother trying it but sooo much better because it a) shows brush names, and b) highlights what brush you have selected, changes from blue to a red border around selected brush when you alter the size.. Not hard to implement this in Affinity you'd have thought but I'm all in photoshop now because of this simple thing.. can't see myself going back anytime soon as the autosave is a good plus too..

It really is pathetic they don’t make Affinity photo brush selection user friendly - Feels like a complete neglect for the digital artists who use it 😞

I'm looking for a solution to this too.. Nothing wrong with the magic mouse just need Affinity to program a zoom functionality with it.. that's if it doesn't already exist..!??

Yep - reckon they’ll get there eventually 👍 Hope sooner then later. I’ve just started using Affinity photo on my iPad with a secondary display - works great.. might just do most of my art that way from now on and use the desktop for tweaking things afterwards

I think you need to turn off extend to external monitor or something, from what I’ve read on other posts here. Seems back to front but seems that works

Currently the Affinity brush interaction system forces artists to be a bit random, unless you happen to have some neurological photographical memory. It can be kind of interesting but would like to see an improvement in brush usability for sure ✍️ Basically just keep the blue outline on selected brush always.. I can’t see why anyone would complain if it remained on the brush selected.. I see comments that it is not the same brush anymore if you change the size (or other variables) as besides the point - I mean just changing the size, it’s still the same brush really.. when I work on large scale documents most brushes all look the same small thin line until I increase the size significantly.

Awful was an unfortunate expression sorry. But I stand by that it is inadequate for proper use.. I use a Wacom drawing tablet (without a screen) but would sometimes like to use my iPad as you can’t be as accurate as when you’re drawing directly on a screen. However, practically every brush has weak pressure sensitivity whilst using sidecar.. comparing it side by side with the Wacom, the Wacom can produce nice thick marks and go back to nice thin lines whilst the iPad you have to press really hard to get the thicker lines, but even then it is not possible to produce nearly as think lines/marks as with the Wacom. So it’s all about a pressure sensitivity problem as far as I can tell.. needs recalibrating? Hope that makes sense! Thanks 🙏

Yes! Really backwards on their brush selection.. really annoying how the blue outline around the current brush selected disappears when you simply change the size too! Can easily forget which one you have been using.. my current plan is to move all the brushes to the top in a kind of hierarchical system.. that way I can easierly try and remember them rather then scrolling down very similar ones, that look the same.. even the ones that are actually quite different 👎

The pencil pressure of my Apple Pencil (series 1) with my iPad via the sidecar feature with photo on desktop is awful. Any info when this issue might be fixed?

Apple sidecar works really well on Designer, Apart from when it comes to raster brush tool.. you need to press Really hard compared to a wacom pens responsiveness - just wonder if this is also the case on photo? I’m hoping and wishing it’s not and that it maybe works well 🙏

I’m having this exact same problem - seems silly, it should be default if anything that it uses your last preference of stroke size etc, not the other way round and keep reverting to default.. anyhow, synchronise defaults from selection is not working for me.. I want a certain brush stroke and a certain width but each new pencil stroke is reverting to default.. unusable!

I was working on a drawing originally on designer desktop on MacBook then continued it on iPad designer app. After going back to it on my MacBook every brushstroke would not show, even though it was creating a history.. as if it was invisible. Same thing on iPad app later too. Other documents worked as normal regarding this issue - I’ve ended up copying layers into a new document and all works as normal.. any ideas what happened there!? Is quite annoying

Thanks. Personally I’d like to see them copy Procreates intuitive and simple design. It’s good to have all the extras that designer and photo have but if it wasn’t for wanting to work on a desktop, as an artist I’d just use Procreate I reckon.. hi yo, I’ll have to learn all the ways of Affinity, it is a good software 🙌

When I change the size of my selected brush the blue outline showing which brush I have selected disappears.. anyone know if I can stop this happening? Makes it hard to learn about which brush is which, especially when you're new to it all. Thanks