Engelbert

I get bitten by this problem all the time. It really kills the joy of painting with AP. Is Affinity working on any kind of solution? I have to disagree. Affinity is to blame for limiting the colour picker to the Alt key with no way to rebind it. The menu acceleration feature in Windows is non-optional and there is no good way (that I know of) to turn it off or work around it. Since this is not a new feature (it has been around longer than mouse support), any failure of Affinity's tools to play nice with it is entirely Affinity's fault. Any way to correct this oversight would be fine imo. Rebind the colour picker to Ctrl or have an option to disable menu acceleration for Affinity's menus would do the trick.

I have to agree, releases that only have fixes are still great. Nobody likes bugs and it's stupid to have to wait for major releases to stuff to be fixed, so well done Affinity! One crit though. How hard would it be to add a link to this thread to the download page (or even the new version notification in the app)? I mean, really, come on! We all want to know what features or fixes are new and if it's an update we need to install asap or maybe one that can wait a bit. This is the only software I know of that tries to hide what's new. There really is no excuse, it is literally just one link you have to provide. Please just take five minutes to fix that, it's the easiest improvement you can make to your software suite. But enough ranting, thanks for the update guys!

+1 for adding optional brush names to the brushes panel. Also for still showing what brush is being used even if something like the size has been changed.

Sorry to hear it's not working for you, but I greatly second your request for having more customization options for input settings. It is a constant pain to have to find solutions that harmonize well across apps while apps like AP force you to abandon previously successful combos. For me this is one of the main reasons I cannot recommend AP for serious digital painting. Personally I don't understand why things like this don't get priority over new tools and features. Adding a new tool results in one or two extra gimmicks. More customization in input, bindings etc instantly improves all existing tools and workflows.

Agreed, the outline is very distracting. For painting this gets annoying really fast, +1 for a toggle to switch it off. I like AP a lot and keep wanting to use it for my painting work, but this is one of those little things that keep sending me back to other software.

I agree this is a much needed feature. I don't like to have to scroll down just to select the categories I use 90% of the time.

Finally found a workable and easy solution. I do more painting than image manipulation, so panning and zooming hundreds or thousands of times per piece gets really frustrating if it requires fifteen buttons and thirty tools. I use a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet, but have always overlooked a very handy navigation option in the Wacom Tablet Properties. It is possible to set the pen buttons to certain navigation functions. There is a nice list to choose from and for me the pan/zoom is a god-send that finally solves most of AP's difficult navigation style without even having the need for a modifier key. Clicking the button set to pan/zoom while hovering pans, and dragging the tip while clicking the button zooms. So simple and it was hiding in plain view all along! Anyway, there are lots of options and combinations to choose from, so I hope this helps you out, too.

Pretty neat idea as well! I will definitely use that. It even has the curvature inbuilt! I do more painting than photography nowadays, so I usually create all my textures digitally, but you're reminding me that I need to start looking around at physical objects too. At the moment I'm racking my brain over a way to create nice realistic looking cloud patterns for planets, without having to limit myself to photos from NASA or rendering complex 3D smoke or fluid dynamics. They can take lots of time to paint and it's hard to come up with the predictable yet random patterns that nature manages so easily. So if you now of any vegetable or bread that looks somewhat like a cloudy planet shot by an astronaut, I'm all ears.

Your pancake for texture idea is pure gold. Thanks for the awesome tip!

I sorely miss simple options like moving categories up and down in the list and exporting all brush categories at once. I did notice that some brush packs (like DAUB) can contain several categories, so it does seem to be possible, but I can't find out how.

I agree, I'd like to be able to rearrange the brush categories as having their location fixed makes for tedious witching. I create my own categories, but I have a long list of categories, so that the ones I use most are stuck at the bottom, requiring me to scroll down to them. Would love to have my custom categories at the top since I use them 90% of the time. EDIT: As an alternative, just being able to hide/unhide categories would let me maintain an uncluttered list.

Imo, this is a rather big and silly oversight. When using AP as a painting tool, this can be a very much used feature. I use it about a hundred times per painting. Anyway, I have an easier workaround than the flood fill tool, because let's face it, who has the time to switch tools in mid painting flow? It's simple: Select all layer content (ctrl+a). Now pressing delete or backspace will result in the layer being cleared, but not removed. While painting in AP I make it a habit to always paint with the entire layer selected, so I can just press delete at any time. This prevents me from wanting to commit suicide when doing stuff like trying out brushes. But seriously, this workaround should not be required at all. Good luck!