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I concur. The brush panel thumbnails are way too small. I use brushes quite a bit and I find in Affinity Photo that I generally have to individually click on each one to open it up and then reduce the spacing to see what it is. This wastes a great deal of time, not to mention being irritating. The Affinity brushes panel is not so great and needs some work.  

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

Gratulations to the first five years Team. Up the next 5.

I'am changed from wacom to XP-Pen 10x6 inch tablet. Now I can use most of the 2500 px brushes. 
So I think there is something in the drivers of wacom who give errors with big brushes.

I'am changed from wacom to XP-Pen 10x6 inch tablet. Now I can use most of the 2500 px brushes. 
So I think there is something in the drivers of wacom who give errors with big brushes.

I'am changed from wacom to XP-Pen 10x6 inch tablet. Now I can use most of the 2500 px brushes. 
So I think there is something in the drivers of wacom who give errors with big brushes.

I have installed the update yesterday and have no problems found in relation to Affinity

I have installed the update yesterday and have no problems found in relation to Affinity

I have installed the update yesterday and have no problems found in relation to Affinity

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@angier Hello!
You can clean your brush by pressing "C" 
If we are talking about brushes panel... It would be good to be able to set brush panel by order you make. Its frustrating that you cant put the most important brushes on top of the brush list. It should be more customizable.

Glad to be useful. 
Just for transparency sake: I have an XP Pen display tablet, specifically the 15.6 artist pro. The brush was acting weird without that tablet setting on even though its experimental at the moment. but with windows ink off, and no windows ink option on in my driver, it works as intended.
Hopefully this will help others who use affinity photo on windows with xp pen, and other brand tablets. I really wanted to digitally paint with affinity and now that the brush issue is fixed its just fantastic.
Hope that helps keep this program awesome for everyone. And happy to be able to give back. Thanks for this wonderful tool. haven't had it for very long yet, but its really impressive.
Edit: Just Updated to 1.7.2, and its pretty much the same as before. the tablet setting in affinity still works as intended, and I just need to make sure that Windows ink option in my driver is off and everything is fine.

This is stupid, but just group the raster (yes, only this one object) and the transparency tool will work.

Is there a ongoing up to date list of photohop plugins that work in Photo?

When I was  working on a visual and used some of my PS brushes and used them on own layers the layer handlers are not working!
I have made a small video of this. Oke not only the PS but all brushes the layer handles are not responding.
 
Update:
after restarting the programm the layer handlers are working again. 
oke nice, but very irritation if you are working on a project!
 

CaptureWiz001.wmv

I have not found any problems thru now. If this will behappen again I will ry to make a screenshot.
Thanks for responding

The current plan is to remove this experimental feature, as several customers have had issues with it. We will still provide a high precision input mechanism in the future, but only for users on Windows 8.1 or above.

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