Affinity Photo Liquify Persons Push Brush Size Slider

[Khoulaiz]

Hi! 

I frequently use the Liquify Persona on my Mac for Portrait Retouch. The by far most annoying piece of UI in Affinity Photo is IMHO the Push Brush Size Slider. I am just wondering if I am the only person feeling this pain. For me this slider is ridiculous wrong designed. I use brushes from the size of 400 pixels and lower. Which means I have to deal with a slider with gigantic values to the right that I never use, but I have to fight with the slider to set the pixel size to values like 32 or 64 which is quite hard in the small area of this slider. 

Could you maybe just change this slider to allow easier access to the more common used values instead of wasting the right side of the slider with values that are useless? Or are there use cases in which users really need these gigantic push pixel sizes?  And btw: No one says that a slider needs to be linear...

Thanks for listening. Still love Affinity Photo as product.

Andreas

[carl123]

6 hours ago, Khoulaiz said:

but I have to fight with the slider to set the pixel size to values like 32 or 64 which is quite hard in the small area of this slider. 

On the Windows version the slider snaps to the following values

32, 64, 128, 256, 512px

Does that not happen on a Mac?

Also bear in mind that the Brush panel can be undocked and enlarged (see screenshot). This enlargement stays even if you restart the program

 

 

[Khoulaiz]

Your screenshot is a nice example. Look at your enlarged slider for the brush size and the ruler on top. The are you will use the slider is from ruler position 300 to 500. The ruler area from 500 to 2100 which is around 90 percent of the whole slider is completely useless. What UX designer on earth would design a slider in this way? That is such a waste of space. It is ridiculous to force the user to work in this way.