benrymnd Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 I have been trying to sketch in af but most of the brushes don't seem to work and some will only work when pixel brush is selected I am using a blank document what am I doing wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 @benrymndAre you referring to Photo or Designer? Pixel brush as in the Pixel Tool in Affinity Photo, or do you mean just a pixel brush vs a vector brush in Designer? What happens when you use the brush you want to use? What's the name of the brush category and the brush in the Brushes panel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benrymnd Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 I am referring to af photo when I open af photo and select new and open a new document then select a paint brush to start which ever brush I select will not work some will work when I select pixel brush, this is all on a new blank document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 It could be that you need a layer to paint on, a new blank document has no layers. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 14 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: It could be that you need a layer to paint on, a new blank document has no layers. By default, though, the Assistant will provide a pixel layer if one opens a New (empty) document in Photo and tries to paint on it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 @benrymnd: Perhaps you have the Protect Alpha option enabled in the Context Toolbar? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benrymnd Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Thanks guys for your replies, don't have protect alpha enabled, will try making a layer to see if that cures the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 If not, can you please provide a screen recording of the issue you're seeing? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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