dpc Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I have Affinity Photo 1.8.6 (purchased through Apple App Store) on a 2015 27" Macintosh computer running macOS Big Sur 11.1. The inpainting brush stopped working properly about a week ago. I can highlight areas I want affected but the inpainting function fails to apply. It has been working fine up to a week ago. I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to fix this problem. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 If you can give us more information about your workflow and your document (a full-screen screenshot including the Layers Panel with your selected layer showing while you are using the tool – so we can see your Context Toolbar settings – is usually useful) then we should be able to give you advice specific to your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpc Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 6 hours ago, GarryP said: If you can give us more information about your workflow and your document (a full-screen screenshot including the Layers Panel with your selected layer showing while you are using the tool – so we can see your Context Toolbar settings – is usually useful) then we should be able to give you advice specific to your problem. Tried to remove small tree in upper left of picture with inpainting tool. It appeared to be working in that it highlighted the tree in red and the progress bar ran indicating the programme was working. When it quite the tree was still there. I didn't apply any layers to the picture. I've used the inpainting tool many times previously without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 If I'm seeing that screenshot correctly, you seem to have the Opacity of the Inpainting Brush set to 0%. I think you should increase that Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampton Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Been having the same issue for a few months now, not sure if it coincided with MacOS update or not. I'm running Catalina 10.15.7 on a 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel i7. Also, my opacity is at 100%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Try going into the brushes panel and choosing one of the basic brushes in the Basic brush category Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampton Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 carl123! That's it! Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpc Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 Thanks walt.farrell! Problem solved. It was the opacity slider. I didn't realize you could adjust the opacity on a brush that was basically a sophisticated erasure. Have a great one. Thanks to all who responded. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin431 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 (edited) do it non-destructively. add pixel layer. by Affinity Photo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiXiIP5zDg0 Edited December 25, 2020 by Robin431 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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