Prevent paint brush from picking up colour.

[Affinity Rat]

I’m holding my ipad for long periods using A Photo and my hand holding ipad inadvertently causes the paint brush to change colour, is there a way to prevent this? 
 

yes I know keep your sausage fingers off the screen!

 

 

 

[PaulEC]

Wear a glove. Use a stand. Use a cover that keeps your hand further from the screen. (Personally I use a cover with a fold up stand thingy and hold that instead of the iPad itself.)

[NotMyFault]

If you have an iPad with Apple pencil, you can configure it to use touch only for zooming but not for painting.

 

[Affinity Rat]

Thanx for suggestions, I was doing sudoko puzzle in bed so only wanted 1 or 2 colours and eraser.

[iuli]

50 minutes ago, Affinity Rat said:

I’m holding my ipad for long periods using A Photo and my hand holding ipad inadvertently causes the paint brush to change colour, is there a way to prevent this? 
 

yes I know keep your sausage fingers off the screen!

 

 

 

Hi @Affinity Rat

I have the same issue, but it mostly (always?) happens when Color Studio is selected (selected and hidden I mean). Having selected the Layers Studio instead, I have no problem changing color by mistake. (Many times the color is changed to white/transparent). It’s not easy to record this as it’s not happening often, but it absolutely does.

I wanted to post this as a bug before but I thought the workaround is easy and probably devs have already enough (and more important) bugs they have to figure out.

(Sometimes the color in use gets changed and disappears from quick colors too).

Edit — “touch for gesture only” cripples the app functionality, for me; if activating this option would only prevent us to draw by hand, would be great — but we cannot use your hands to interact with the drawing/shapes at all, except for zooming.

All the best!

 

[PaulEC]

6 minutes ago, iuli said:

I wanted to post this as a bug before but I thought the workaround is easy and probably devs have already enough (and more important) bugs they have to figure out.

Sorry, I assumed this was a problem with iPads, rather that a bug in the app! (I'm quite new to using an iPad!)

[iuli]

Hi @PaulEC

You have nothing to apologize for as you are right, those are legitimate ways to keep the hand interaction with the display at minimum. I’m the only one who overreacted, and I take it back.

[Affinity Rat]

It would also be nice if the program could use the iPad accelerometer to stabilize the display so not to make a mess of my neat printing on my crossword puzzle on bumpy country roads or turbulent flights, this is also a cause of that pesky paintbrush to inadvertently pick up colour when wheel falls into a big pot hole!