Inpainting Brush makes its own selections

[waltonmendelson]

I am running Affinity Photo ver. 1.9.2.1035 on Windows 10, fully updated, with 32GB RAM.

I am cleaning up the edges of some paintings I shot for a client.  In the attached sample, I drew with the Inpainting Brush a line, approximately 1/32" to 1/16", along the bottom edge between the two arrows. The end of that line is visible, coming out of the 3/8" line.
About the time the Inpaint progress window reached the end, the large Inpaint vertical line automatically appeared and a new Inpaint progress window appeared.  

I did not create that line.  This has happened to me around a dozen times.  Depending on where the line is generated from, it can take over 10 minutes to process.  

The attached example, with the white arrows, happened just after I rebooted the computer, because of this problem.  This example happened immediately, with no other programs running.  

As I am posting this, I went back to that image, drew 8 patches, and it worked ok. I opened a new image, and drew another 13 patches, all thin, along the bottom edge.  On the 13 patch, Inpaint drew another line, narrower than the other.  I've attached a screen shot, it has no arrows on it.  The time to render the line was 1min 53sec.  These patches were all approximately 1/32" X 1/8" to 1".

It happened again after 17 patches.  This time the 17th was a dot, 73px in diameter.  I did not get a screen shot.  Two dots later, another line, and this is the 3 screen shot, this time the line originates about half way into the image.

This is an erratic problem, in that it does not happen every time I make an Inpaint correction.  The corrections are all quite small. But I have noticed this now for several weeks.  

Have I documented this enough?  What more do you need?

 

 

 

 

 

[Chris B]

Hey waltonmendelson,

What are the overall dimensions of this document? It looks pretty big. I wonder if perhaps there's some sort of delay/lag going on which is causing the inaccuracies or undesired areas being painted.

The Inpainting Brush Tool can be quite resource heavy so if I can get either your document or at least the dimensions I can try and reproduce.

[Joachim_L]

7 hours ago, waltonmendelson said:

Have I documented this enough?  What more do you need?

These straight lines remind me of having Preferences >> Performance Hardware acceleration activated. Turning this off should be worth a try?

[waltonmendelson]

Chris B . . . I am attaching one of the images I've been working with.  

Thank you for helping!

 

Walton

[waltonmendelson]

Joachim_L . . . I have turned off Hardware acceleration.  I'll post how that works out. Thanks for the suggestion.

Walton

[waltonmendelson]

Joachim_L  & Chris B, 

Hardware acceleration . . . turned off!

I just spotted 173 white dots, and 32 long, thin, edge corrections (1"-4"):

• No problems!
• The processing speed was equivalent to Photoshop's.

I did not say in my original post that for spotting, the Inpainting Brush sucked!  It was very slow.  Even without the weird line problem, it was easily 5-10 times slower than working in Photoshop.  

Thank you!  If you ever find yourself over in the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) forum, look me up.  I'd love to return the favor.

Walton

 

[waltonmendelson]

Turning off Hardware Acceleration does not work with Affinity Photo 1.10.0.1127

The problem is there with a vengeance.  

As noted above, turning off Hardware Acceleration did work with ver. 1.9.2.1035.