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It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

Update 1.6.3.103 is out.
The issue not adressed, so this is still a request.

It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

Have been looking for this to be fixed in the latest betas, but alas not so! Is there even the faintest hope that this will be adressed soon...? It is really a show stopper for the otherwise wonderfull paint tools in Photo!

Update 1.6.3.103 is out.
The issue not adressed, so this is still a request.

It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

The lack of responce on this issue, is even the more strange, as it propably would be a very quick thing to fix...?
And you are right, Whitehead -- it would be nice to at least get a feedback from Affinity so as to know if this issue is going to be adressed at all.

It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

I'd like to add my vote here — being able to hide the outline would greatly increase usability.
For me the problem is not solely large brushes with much structure, but dynamic-sized brushes using pressure-sensitive input devices.
Because then I can't even guess where a stroke will appear, e.g. as in the attached example image.
Maybe there is already an existing option that I/we might have missed — or can we hope for a future release?
Thx for any help  : )

The lack of responce on this issue, is even the more strange, as it propably would be a very quick thing to fix...?
And you are right, Whitehead -- it would be nice to at least get a feedback from Affinity so as to know if this issue is going to be adressed at all.

Yes, I work closely with a team of devs and I'm pretty acquainted with the pressures and timescales of software development. That said, I do find the Affinity team's position on this flaw really pretty odd, with a blanket refusal it seems to even comment or give projection I just don't think I've encountered in another small developer. It is pretty dismissive, and if it wasn't for the vector potential of Design (and the absence of good vector packages on Windows) I honestly don't think I would be pursuing any of this. 
As it is, the lack of communication from Affinity betrays a strange arrogance. Their obsession with their iPad presence really starts to grate when a fundamental usability issue continues to roll on, unaddressed, for month after month. I cannot confidently recommend Affinity to my studio team when this is the customer experience, a team happy on their Macs and their Adobe product. Software is not just the platform, it is the totality: it is the understanding you are cared for. What we are all suggesting will help open Affinity up to an even broader market, but for some perverse reason they seem pretty bent on breeding resentment, in at least one of their customers: not the greatest business model in the wafer-thin opportunity outside of the Adobe space.

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.

It would be very helpfull if prefs had the option to turn brush outline on/off. This goes for both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (pixel brush)
Preferences could then read:
 
1. crosshair on/off
2. brush preview on/off
3. brush outline on/off
 
Personally I find the brush outline very distracting when drawing/painting in these otherwise excellent programs.
   

Little more than a week ago I introduced a collegue to Affinity Designer and Photo. When he saw it presented on the Affinity website - and noticed the price - he exclaimed a loud 'Wow!' and immediately placed an order. The next day he proudly presented an intricate logo for his wife's association, made in Designer.
I share his awe and want to express my gratitude for you people at Serif - programmers et al - for your hard work, willingness to listen and to continually seek to perfect already impressive software. I know of NO other software company that rivals you!
A bit off-topic, perhaps...

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

Pure showcase fodder, Cannes shouldn't be too far away. Well done.

Brilliant! It's a visual trip. Must have cost tons of work. Kudos. Nice to see some background as well.

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)

In my latest animated short "House Cleaning" I have used Affinity Photo for both "household" picture jobs (cropping, scaling, adjusting etc.and some green screen clean up) as well as "paint jobs" - painting of sets and prop textures etc.
As the only bitmap edit/paint tool in the production, I have credited it in the end titles.
 
Hope you enjoy my film, as I have enjoyed using Affinity Photo :-)
 
https://vimeo.com/257044867
 
PS: Some behind-the-scenes- shots can be found here:
http://www.imxprs.com/free/tore/bahnson/behind-the-scenes
 
(And of course poster made in Affinity Photo)