New brush strokes being drawn underneath old brush strokes

[Anna W]

Hi,

I'm using the brush tool in Affinity Photo on Mac with a Wacom tablet. As I'm painting, I will suddenly find that my brush strokes are being drawn underneath previous strokes. I have to make a new layer to paint over old strokes. Is this a bug, or have I stumbled upon a setting that I don't know how to toggle off?

For context, I have attached an image. On the same layer, I have tried to draw new blue strokes on top of the old grey strokes. However, the new blue strokes are being drawn underneath the old ones.

[David in Яuislip]

I can do that with the brush blend mode set to Lighten

Try clicking More and checking the setting

[Dan C]

Hi @Anna W,

Welcome to the forums

In the top right of the application, you should see 3 icons which look like a small circle and square - these options control where your new objects are drawn/placed. Please make sure that none of these options are selected, as it sounds like the following is enabled -

 

I hope this helps!

[Anna W]

Hi Dan!

Thanks for your reply. I have ensured that the insert behind selection tool is turned off, and the problem persists!

[Dan C]

Thanks for confirming that Anna and I'm sorry to hear this! Could you please provide a copy of your .afphoto file, with History Saved? You can enable History being saved with the file by selecting File>Save History With Document, then use File>Save to save the document and upload this here.

Many thanks in advance!

[BrendaLi]

I have this exact same problem! And none if those options mentioned are selected. Still having the same issue. 

[walt.farrell]

38 minutes ago, BrendaLi said:

I have this exact same problem! And none if those options mentioned are selected. Still having the same issue. 

A screenshot of the entire application window, including the Context Toolbar and the Layers panel (with the layer you're painting on selected), would help.

[BrendaLi]

Thanks! Attached is a video. The new strokes sometimes go behind. Sometimes go inside the stroke like it’s masked. Sometimes the strokes don’t draw at all. Not in my control. 

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, @BrendaLi, but that doesn't give me enough. (It might, for someone else, though).

For me, the simple screenshot would have been better. A video might work, if recorded by your computer not by pointing a phone or camera at the computer.

So, when you're having the problem, please just capture a screenshot (from the computer, not your phone), and post that. Also, please click the More button on the Context Toolbar and provide a screenshot of that, too.

If you're not familiar with taking screenshots: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=screenshot+macos or use your preferred search engine and look for screenshot macos

For info on creating a screen recording:

 

[Wosven]

You seems to use the replace colour brush (there's an option for Tolerance). Don't you want to use the regular brush instead?

[BrendaLi]

Thanks @Wosven Ya I want to use the regular brush. Will check if I used the replace color brush. 

[BrendaLi]

thanks @walt.farrell, I didn’t know how to screen record haha. Glad you showed me how. Thank you. 

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

If you're not familiar with taking screenshots: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=screenshot+macos or use your preferred search engine and look for screenshot macos

Alternatively, go here:

Take a screenshot on your Mac

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Alfred said:

Alternatively, go here:

Take a screenshot on your Mac

The instructions for How to capture a window or menu make it harder than it actually is to do this. You do not need to tap the spacebar while tapping the other three keys (Shift, CMD, & 4). You can just tap those three & then tap the spacebar.

Edited to add: you do not need to keep holding down any of those 4 keys, either. Just press the Shift, CMD, & 4 keys at the same time & release them to enter the 'capture mode.' Then you can either press the spacebar to enter the menu/window capture mode or click & drag to capture just whatever is included in the rectangle you drag out.

Pressing the Escape key immediately exits capture mode without capturing anything.

Edited February 12, 2022 by R C-R