Unable to Paint

[TarliArt]

I was running the latest Affinity - 1.7.3 and Windows 7.  Working on a painting and suddenly I couldn't paint in it.  I created a  new file, and couldn't paint there either.  I reset brushes and restarted my computer, and couldn't paint. 

I had to reinstall 1.7.1 in order to paint again.

Very frustrating.

 

[TarliArt]

And the bug is happening again after installing the old version.  I used the Select lasso and then the move tool to select the head of my sketch and rotate it slightly.  After that I can't use the brushes to paint or draw.  I can use the erase tool, so I know my stylus is okay.   This is extremely frustrating.

 

[TarliArt]

It doesn't work with Mouse either, and I've opened a new Canvas and it still does not work.  

 

[walt.farrell]

Make sure you don't still have a pixel selection active. If you do, you can only paint inside it.

Ctrl+D will make sure you don't have one, or Select > Deselect from the menu.

[TarliArt]

Thank you for the response!

I did try making sure nothing was selected.  I also started a new canvas and was unable to paint in that.  I restarted the program, and still was unable to paint.  

The eraser does work.  This only seems to affect the paintbrush.

[TarliArt]

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled again.. so far it's okay.  I'll add to this if it does it again.

[Chris B]

Hey TarliArt,

As Walt said, the likely causes of no paint appearing on the canvas is either a tiny pixel selection or any of the following:

1. Protect Alpha is enabled
2. Flow is set to 0% on the context toolbar
3. Opacity is set to 0% on the context toolbar
4. Layer opacity is set to 0% on the Layers Panel
5. Accumulation is set to 0% in the Brush editor
6. You have a small pixel selection somewhere. Cmd+D (Mac) or Ctrl+D (Win) to deselect it (as mentioned above)