Brushes not respecting hardness/opacity, feathers no matter what.

[Larisa]

I've looked pretty much everywhere, and short of using the Pixel Tool, which also doesn't work half the time, nothing is functioning as it should.

All my brushes(Except for pixel tool > basic (hard brush)) feather, regardless of what settings I turn on or disable, regardless of hardness and opacity percentages I set, I don't want feathering, I want jagged edges, harsh edges, solid colors, non blended colors, non additive colors, if I paint I want that color to replace whatever was or wasn't there, not to add to that color or remove from that color. If I wanted feathering, I would turn that on by decreasing Hardness.

This is especially painful in erase mode, I'm relegated to using the select tool and delete key to erase properly, which is unacceptable.

[Old Bruce]

You will have to mess about with layer blending by hitting the cog wheel in the Layers Panel.

Otherwise it is down to using Forced Pixel alignment and nothing else for snapping. Plus Square brushes that are aligned to the pixel grid.

[Larisa]

I managed to get pixel paint to work the way I wanted by making custom brushes, but I still cannot use erase properly.

No matter what settings I use, custom brush or not, I still get feathering when erasing, when it should have zero feathering unless I have that enabled.

I want this:

Not this:

[Alfred]

That’s not feathering, it’s antialiasing. Use the Coverage Map in the Blend Ranges dialog to adjust the antialiasing ramp.

 

[Larisa]

I must not be doing something right as when I click the cog wheel and set anti-aliasing to force off, it still doesn't produce hard edges, it still has varying opacity to it.

I tried to edit the coverage map, it seems to do absolutely nothing for me either.

As you can see, the eraser tool still has a gradient too it even though the brush is a binary brush, its nozzle is either transparent or completely black.

Edited April 14, 2022 by Larisa

[NotMyFault]

affinity applies a forced anti-aliasing on brush level, independent from layer settings.

You can use layer anti-alias settings and coverage profiles to make this to be rendered as hard edges, but this wont change the actual pixel content. Never the less, you can rasterize and trim that layer.

Basically, you would to do all “adding” on a new pixel layer, add a channel mixer which boost opacity to 100% (except when zero), and rasterize or merge down.

To erase, you may need to use a similar but mirrored effect: reduce alpha to zero unless it is 1., then rasterize.

as far as i know based on older answers from moderators, there is no way to deactivate brush anti-aliasing.

Except pixel brush - give it a try. This is actually working in the mode you are looking for.

Requires using basic brushes (black / white, no grey or holes inside), but with every color

 

 

[Larisa]

This seems fundamentally flawed, I should be able to dictate how my tools work from the ground up, not have it hardcoded to suite one type of art.

[Larisa]

I did a quick google on brush antialiasing and apparently I can use Ctrl + Left Click in pixel brush mode to erase, which is how frankly, the eraser tool should work with 100% hardness and no feathering or antialiasing enabled.

[NotMyFault]

Well, it seems that you now got all what you where asking for. Anything left making you unhappy?