[Affinity Photo] Change brush size on German keyboard

[Andreas Scherer]

This could easily be a user error, so bear with me. I'm working on Mac Mini with a keyboard model A1243 (German layout).

According to the inline documentation of Affinity Photo (or the Pixel Persona in Affinity Designer), the keyboard shortcut to decrease and increase the brush size is [ and ]. This also seems to be defined in the application settings in tab “Tastenkürzel”.

However, on a Mac keyboard with German layout, you have to type “Alt 5” and “Alt 6“ to get [ and ] respectively.

Having received a warning beep whenever I tried to follow the help/tutorials, I changed the “Tastenkürzel“ as in the screenshot and now the keyboard shortcut works as advertised.

Could this be a misconfiguration from the start? Clicking on “Serif-Standard” puts [ and ] back in.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Andreas Scherer said:

Could this be a misconfiguration from the start?

From what I've seen, the default keyboard shortcuts are setup, in all cases, assuming a standard English keyboard layout. If you use a different keyboard you will probably need to redefine the shortcuts to get them to work with your layout.

[Andreas Scherer]

It seems that only the [ and ] without any keyboard modifiers are affected. For example, the default settings for “one layer up/down” (cmd+] and cmd+[) and “move to top/bottom layer” (shift+cmd+] and shift+cmd+[) work also with the German keyboard layout, i.e. (shift+)cmd+alt+5/6. Only alt+5/6 makes a difference.

I've saved three *.affshortcuts files with the replacements for [ and ] and use these between my two Macs at home and at work.

IMHO, the inline help should address this mishap (or a non-English installation should take care to replace these collisions).