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Might be cheeky to add this here but I would like magnifying lenses to be added to the ends of the straighten tool. Handy for precision work on straightening a wide horizon without lots of zooming about.

Update: Switched off completely and ran diagnostics. No issues detected but when I restarted the issue does seem to be resolved. Thanks for your assistance. Much appreciated.

Alas, just tried turning off each of them and just using the one. Same result.

Clean download from a fresh purchase on the Affinity website straight after first setting up the new machine. Uninstalled and re-downloaded several times to try to sort the issue. Even tried the Beta this afternoon which made no difference. Apps all in the Application folder. New Apple mouse 2 and a Trackpad 2 as well. Both have the same effect. Bit of a headscratcher.

Hopefully the video shows the issue.

A quick screen recording of the issue. I'm new to Macs so I don't know if I have some wayward setting. I'm confident that Affinity should not be behaving like this though. 1551709575_ScreenRecording2021-07-10at21_21_22.mov

Hi - I've tried a range of docs. I'm opening Canon CR2s from my 7D - about 12MB - 4368px 2912. Nothing I haven't opened hundreds of times without issue in Windows 10. Basic brush; even just adding basic colour to a pixel layer. Working below 200px brush size works a treat. Anything much larger, then the preview circle freezes and sticks to the tool interface while the actual brush does eventually go to work on the canvas. Not very smooth though - jerky and unpredictable.

Update - I now discover that the same things happen in Designer but with a brush size of 166 px. No idea what could be causing a performance lag - this is a new, clean machine.

Hello, I've moved to a brand new 16GB iMac 2021 (having been a long term windows user). I'm having problems with 1.9.3. Brushes larger than 213 px work extremely slowly so that the preview is unusable. Indeed brushes 214 px or larger are very difficult to get onto the canvas let alone the image. They sort of cling to the toolbar interface. With vigorous use of the mouse the cursor jumps across the canvas to the other toolbar. Even if the Welcome window is displayed in the middle of the screen the cursor clings to that. Very odd. I've incrementally increased the brush side and found 213px is the threshold. I've tried turning off the preview and crosshair preferences to no avail. I've also tried turning off the Metal acceleration. Again this made no difference. This is the same in photo persona or develop persona. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times and it has made no difference. Any ideas?

Alfred - thanks - that has sorted it - the problem was the blend mode on the context toolbar that had been set to lighten. I had been looking at the blend mode in the layer panel. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the tip. I will remember to keep this in mind. Sadly it is not the case this time.

How odd. Thanks. It was working just fine a few days ago. Might try a reinstall.

I am running 1.9.1.979 on Windows 10. I am unable to paint black on any mask, adjustments or pixels; painting white is fine on a mask or an inverted mask. Painting black has no effect. mask_problem.afphoto