Glenn

iPad Pro 2017 12.9 64GB iOS 11.2 beta 1.6.7.69 I'm finding: Only very slight delay in beginning brush stroke brings up the ColourPicker. (Making brushstroke impossible). Before, it needed a sustained press to bring up ColourPicker.

Apparently, the Auto-Apply on the ColourPicker's context-toolbar relates only to any selected object/s. Not to the active tool (eg brush, bucket) nor to a selection(mask), but only a selected object... And, to colour-pick while the brush is active, a long-press of finger or pencil brings out the selector zone. (This not - that I could find - mentioned in Help file).

I'd suggest trying FileBrowser app. Images and files can be moved around both between and within devices (and cloud) - and (importantly) thumbs, file-types, file sizes, date and time are all clearly visible. Using FileBrowser, RAW's can be accessed at their location (even if not on iPad) and opened directly into AffinPhoto. (Bypassing the limited Import options of AP). FileBrowser Lite is free, and (apart from Cloud sharing) has most of the full version capabilities.

My thanks to you both. And apologies too: it was indeed the Alpha Lock, and I should have learned about that (and other basics!) before I started! Wrong place to mention this, anyway, since it's a Help issue, not an beta problem.

As seen in attached screenshot of a test file, I have found this extra bounding box around a selected element. There is no other hidden content that might explain it. It has happened more than once (though I can't remember specific steps leading to it). Is there an explanation I'm not aware of perhaps?

For no apparent reason, suddenly no brush will now paint on a new pixel Layer. The same brush will/can paint on a pixel layer where there is content. I've tried with many brushes - including several unchanged defaults. This happens with existing and new files. Closing, re-opening the File and then the App has no effect. It is almost as if there were a universal 'protect transparency' mode applied. (Yet I can bucket fill a selection area). Struggling to find a way into this App, it's possible I have inadvertently changed some setting, yet I can't think what or where or how... I'll attach a screen-recording here. (Where you see empty pixel layer made active that'll be where the brush is being applied but making no mark). ScreenRecording_11-27-2017 16_52.mp4 2017 Pro 12.9 AP beta 1.6.7.68 iOS 11.1

Rotate Canvas really useful but, when Canvas rotated, Selection Outline (Marching Ants) is not visible. iPad Air 2; 2017 Pro 12.9 AP beta 1.6.7.68 iOS 11.1

I've been TestFlight beta testing the iPad Photo app for a while now and just received an email, and iOS notification, from TestFlight saying "Affinity Photo 1.6.5 (1.6.5.60) for iOS is now available to test" and "To test this app, open TestFlight on iPad using iOS 10.3 or later and install the update". But 1.6.5 (1.6.5.60) is the version I already have installed and is the only version ever been offered as available. In TestFlight it merely says "Open" (as usual), not 'Update'. Is there a new version for testing? Why else would this notification be made? I'm particularly interested because I'm dearly wanting to see if a further beta version might address any of those things I so far find to be a total barrier to buying Photo.

fMotta - rather late perhaps, but... I would like to suggest an iPad app called FileBrowser, which I cannot recommend highly enough. It is wireless network based and with it you can: transfer directly any file between iPad and iPad, iPad and iPhone, iPad and laptop or desktop, even desktop and laptop - and vice versa for all of these; none of which pass through the Cloud There is a free version which has most functions fully available. (With the paid-for version - only £6 - you have for example access also to most Cloud services). Also... Agreeing totally about iTunes, an excellent alternative is a Mac or Windows app - iMazing. (Has a limited trial available). Finally, though it can be temperamental, for directly copy-pasting between clipboards of devices, there is PastEasy. If only one of these I'd definitely propose FileBrowser. Quite new to the iPad myself, and frustrated by the restrictions of iOS, being introduced to this has made all the difference. Hope this helps. EDIT... with some apps/files you need to go first from App to the new inbuilt iOS Files app, and from there 'out' via FileBrowser.

Related to this, is there a way to simply hide the selection ‘marching ants’, please?

Sorry Affinity, but I totally agree (as a newcomer to Photo, coming from long experience with both desktop and iPad apps)… I think Teelar’s idea of second, third finger press for main modifiers, which could be applied across the board, is a true solution. The provision of some modifiers is really useful, just the implementation seems really un-necessarily cumbersome. Hate to say, but my impression is it’s almost like Affinity are determined to be different, but (as well as being truly, thankfully inventive in so many ways) often ending up over-complex and non-intuitive on the way. The tutorial on Modifiers I think just demonstrates this. How can two taps to get to the Color Picker for example be any simpler (on the fly, as it says) than using the one found in the Color palette? Particularly as it means hiding the brush options, involving a third tap to get back to them. Ditto with the other tools: their modifiers being two taps away and hidden in the process…. On top of this, in that tutorial, the clumsy-looking two-finger gradient control (that even the tutor seemed - to me - to find not easy)? Sorry again for seeming so negative - (I’m sure there’s others who’ll completely disagree with all this) - but honestly wishing to be constructive, and thought a newcomer’s fresh pair of eyes on an app brilliant in so many other ways, might be of interest.

(Sorry, I posted before on this topic, but in wrong Forum section - don’t know how, but somehow totally overlooked ‘Suggestions’) Totally agree with this. Impossible to use Brushes if they revert to default settings every time you put one down. It’s not just the size, but any of the variables: if I tweak the size, or wetness, or spacing of Brush A, make some marks, paint a bit with another brush and pick up (select) brush A again, I want it to be as it was when I put it down - not as a fresh one straight from its box, needing to have all the (maybe intricate) tweaks made again, time after time. And the idea of creating a duplicate of each and every sometimes slight, transitional, variation is simply unworkable. Literally a deal-breaker for me. Just cannot see any logic to it. So sad, such a looking-great app....

Thank you, MEB, for that quick and useful response. I have also since noticed that modifying a gradient is also possible when it’s been applied to a curve object. Your answer makes me wish even more strongly that the Help Files were available outside of the app itself. With Photo as a totally new app to me I’m finding I just can’t rely on my usual experience/intuition and am often needing to leave the Canvas, open and search in Help and return, maybe only to repeat the procedure two minutes later for further information. I know the tutorials are available online but there’s such a lot they don’t refer to. Having the Help files there as a separate resource would be so useful.

As a new user (using Beta before purchase) I'm not sure how much user-ignorance is involved here, but... a) moving mid-point(s) has no effect on gradient (see attached png) b) To re-visit Gradient for editing, Help file says to Modify Gradient: with Gradient Tool selected, make Layer active, enabling editing stops, position, colours etc. But no Gradient controls appear on gradient. Any advice on this would be welcome