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Adding to this. If you're painting with a stylus the brush outline is super distracting. Having the option to turn the preview off is a good start though.

First off, congrats on the big release. Fantastic to see Affinity on the iPad (and just to see more serious tools on the iPad in general). Was flipping through WWDC news and saw the news and went "Wait, WHAT." Picked it up immediately. Great to see it at such a low price too (even without the introductory pricing). It's a really amazing package for $20. I use Procreate a lot for sketching and this is a great complement to that. Makes the overall illustration experience on the iPad feel a lot more complete. Some general thoughts after using it for a few days (apologies ahead of time if all of this has been said or I'm just missing something): - Performance is really impressive (12.9" iPad Pro). Zooming/panning, brush performance even with really large brushes, all super solid. Stability has also been great so far, no hard crashes to speak of yet. - Love the interface overall. I'm sure converting over the desktop interface to a tablet interface was no small trick, and I think you guys have nailed it. Few wrinkles here and there, but overall super slick. - Brushes, brushes, brushes. The brush system is great overall, but this has kind of been the big killer for me at the moment. You can't duplicate, move or update existing brushes near as I can tell, which makes it difficult to test and tweak new ones. Brush settings also aren't persistent, so if I'm switching between two different brushes I have to set the brush up every time I switch. I could set brushes up in Affinity on my Mac and import, but I like to futz with my brushes a lot, so that's not very practical. It would also be great if brushes had a small label in the overview list. - Having a dedicated Rotate tool seems odd when you can just zoom and pan at any time otherwise, but not rotate. I can rotate the iPad itself of course but it's not nearly as fast as doing it in software. Also that would be manual labor. - Lasso selection - this is kind of a personal style thing, but I tend to use lasso selections a lot. Right now I have to go through a lot of steps to get to the Selection persona, select the lasso tool, make my selection, go back to the Photo persona, paint in the selection, go back to to the Selection persona and deselect. A direct Lasso hotkey and Deselect hotkey would help a lot with that. - Eyedropper behavior is really inconsistent. I do love that you can hold to pull it up from the Brush tool while holding. I've had a bug a lot where it won't come up until I paint a stroke with my finger then try again. Also a fair amount of the time using the actual Eyedropper tool doesn't actually update the brush color. - Layers - love having good clipping masks. Would be great if layers were labeled with current blending mode. - Hotkeys - was a bit surprised hotkeys were in the first release at all, so that's awesome. Just keep adding more. Deselect hotkey. An official hotkey list would be great too (unless there is one and I've just missed it). I've been referencing the Mac hotkey list but they're definitely not one to one. - Export/file system - would be great to be able to open/save directly from Photos. Would also be nice if it remembered the last source I imported/exported from so I don't have to navigate to it every time. Airdrop support would be great. - Pencil support - would be great if different tools could be assigned to finger input vs. Pencil input. - Minor thing - if I unpin the Layer panel, then make a new layer, the panel closes and I have to open it again to move or adjust the layer. - Resizable interface elements would be cool. I want a color wheel big enough to sit my coffee mug in. Overall though, super impressive first release and really takes photo editing and illustration on the iPad up a massive notch. Really looking forward to where it goes in the coming months.