talannewton Posted November 16, 2022 Posted November 16, 2022 I don't know if this is a bug or user error, but on both my MacBook Pro and my Mac Studio, the Brush Hardness setting is greyed out. I haven't tested EVERY brush on my computer, but a random sampling of both the stock and imported brushes shows it greyed out in the tool bar and brush settings. Is there some other setting I have to change to make it editable or is it a bug? I'm on Affinity Photo 2.0.0 with macOS 13.0.1. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 16, 2022 Posted November 16, 2022 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @talannewton. It is neither a bug, nor a user error. It is a change made intentionally to the processing, from my understanding. I was a bit surprised myself when I first noticed it, but I went back to Photo V1 and as far as I can see the Hardness setting never did anything, except for the Round brushes (such as those in the Basic category). From another topic, a well-known brush maker had noticed this earlier, when working with V1, and suggested to Serif that if the setting was not going to have an effect on a brush, it should be disabled. Apparently Serif agreed, and made that change in V2. 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
talannewton Posted November 17, 2022 Author Posted November 17, 2022 Interesting. I see now what you mean when I try out the Basic brushes. Thanks for the info! Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 17, 2022 Posted November 17, 2022 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Thilo Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 Same issue here: hardness is greyed out thus cannot be adjusted. Reinstalling will fix it just until I change my brush type. Using V2 atm. Once done V2 will always start with hardness greyed out. This happend to me a few times in V1 as well. I don't get why they should overhaul the UI just to grey out this one. Even if its just for "round brushes"(@walt.farrell) it makes sense to be able to use hardness in many cases when drawing. And if not customers can decide for themselves. Additionally, the rubber tool still have hardness setting (fortunately). Hope serif will fix this soon or at least inform its costumers about (further changes) properly. Thilo Mweber, jmwellborn, keiichi77 and 1 other 4 Quote
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