chap_harrison

Did you have Accessibility>Cursor Size cranked up at all? I was showing what the Preview > Screen Shot captured when I had Cursor Size set to max magnification (I was only seeing the magnified version - Preview seems to have "added" the actual-sized version in its capture.)

retrograde - thanks for the tip. For some reason, though, the screen shot shows the circle, arrow, and hand at their actual, unmagnified sizes. The pen tool, however, is captured at its magnified size, along with its actual-size representation superimposed. I'd be interested to know if you get the same results. (I've set cursor magnification to the max here.) .

It's odd, though - when I increase cursor size in the System Prefs, certain cursor shapes, like the arrow and the hand, scale up cleanly in AP, whereas others, like the brush circles and the pen tool, become pixellated. Ideally, the circle wouldn't scale up at all, since as you point out, it no longer represents the actual extent of the tool. But that may be out of Affinity's hands. I'm glad you explained why my disclosure triangles were so dim, too. Nice if it could be fixed, but easy enough to work around. (One of the primary reasons I'm dumping Pixelmator is its insistence on using a dark, low-contrast UI.)

I think I answered my own question: I have System Preferences>Accessibility>Display>Cursor Size bumped up by 20%.

I just downloaded the trial version of Affinity Photo v 1.4, and it's absolutely spectacular. Just one aesthetic point - the circle cursor that appears when I select a brush tool is pixellated and fuzzy, the way some apps that don't work with the Retina display look. I'd attach a screen shot, but it doesn't seem to capture the cursor. I have an early-2013 MBP 15" w/retina display, running OSX 10.11.4. Does anyone else see this?