Danny Rowton Posted June 25, 2021 Posted June 25, 2021 This is by far the most frequently used tool in Affinity Photo I use. I was working away and completed editing two photographs. Loaded a third and DEFINITELY didnt knock anything and accidently change settings, and now I cannot use this tool. I have tried what some suggest as 'Rasterising' and this didnt work. Would anybody be able to help me, please, as this system is of little use to me as things stand? There is 'Blemish Removal' but this is a rather cruder version of Healing Brush as I cannot drag more precisely with it as I would were the tool operable. 1.9.2.1035 is the version I have now, if that helps. Many Thanks Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 25, 2021 Posted June 25, 2021 At a minimum we would need a screenshot of the entire application window with the layer selected that you're trying to heal, and the Layers panel showing with that layer visible. A video might also help. And possibly the .afphoto file that you're having the problem with. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Danny Rowton Posted June 25, 2021 Author Posted June 25, 2021 Hi Walt Thank you so much for replying to me. Sorry for not supplying the additional information in the first place. Here is a video and PrtSc. Let me know what you think. Kind regards Danny Affinity Photo 2021-06-25 20-00-00.mp4 Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 25, 2021 Posted June 25, 2021 Thanks. Watching the video it seemed to me that the tool worked (at least somewhat) until you zoomed in. After that it did not seem to do anything. Does that accurately describe it? I wonder what brush you're using. If you click the More button in the Context Toolbar, what does it show? 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Danny Rowton Posted June 25, 2021 Author Posted June 25, 2021 Hi Walt Ive just worked out what happened. As I said earlier, I hadnt accidently knocked anything, but what I forgot I had done was change the opacity from 100% on the last image I corrected without issue, to 20% on the first one I had problems with. I had changed it to 20 for a paint brush tool adjustment (The one below Gradient Tool) So the edits have been taking place but imperceptibly so. Im sorry, but at least your comments made me think about settings which may have triggered the penny drop. Thank you Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 25, 2021 Posted June 25, 2021 You're welcome. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Romsky Posted June 26, 2021 Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) I have this issue, sometimes, too. Healing and Restauration Tool not working. (here opacity is set to 100%, so its not the same problem.) Just nothing will be applied to the image. Maybe an opencl problem? After i restart AP its working again as it should Edited June 26, 2021 by Romsky Quote
Prairiepoet Posted July 2, 2021 Posted July 2, 2021 I'm the first to admit that I'm a total amateur with this photo editing stuff, but I must echo what some of the others are saying , my healing brush simply doesn't work. I've done everything but kill a chicken and sprinkled it's blood on my computer, (iMac 2018) 24 gig memory) I might mention that the retouch tool in my Apple photos app works just fine. Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 2, 2021 Posted July 2, 2021 To @Romsky & @Prairiepoet Make sure you have the Pixel layer selected, make sure you have the brush hardness at something higher than 0%. Make sure the brush is not one that is very faint to begin with. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Prairiepoet Posted July 2, 2021 Posted July 2, 2021 Well Old Bruce, I'm not sure exactly what I did , but at the behest of your post I went back and gave it the old college try once more, and lo and behold it seems to be working. Thanks!!!! now all I have to do is learn the finer points , piece o' cake, right? 🙂 Thanks again Old Bruce 1 Quote
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