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I'm using Affinity Photo 2 on an iPad. When I select the Clone Brush and touch the Apple Pencil tip to screen where I want to select my source, a little message tip pops up telling me that I'm using the Clone Brush and I must first touch and hold to select a source.

But no matter how long or how still I hold the pencil there, no source is ever selected, and when I pick it up and then try to paint somewhere, I just get the same pop-up message again.

What's the secret to getting the program to recognize that I really am selecting a source on the iPad?

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1 hour ago, Charles Jenkins said:

What's the secret to getting the program to recognize that I really am selecting a source on the iPad?

Try using your finger, instead of the pencil.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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You're welcome.

 

-- 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 18.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4

Posted
56 minutes ago, Charles Jenkins said:

Ugh. That was it. Thanks!

I never considered it because I have "touch only for gestures" turned on.

I went through the same frustration before I realized it. Good thing for the forums...

  • 4 weeks later...
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I’ve tried holding down the pencil and my finger. I am getting the crosshair like it’s selecting a source but it won’t paint anything im cloning and I just see the crosshair moving as I move the pencil even though it’s not where the pencil is touching but where I sampled.

 

ETA power of posting I guess. I apologize I can’t figure out how to delete my post. I realized right after I had “current layer” as the option and needed to change it…

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34 minutes ago, Merlina said:

ETA power of posting I guess. I apologize I can’t figure out how to delete my post. I realized right after I had “current layer” as the option and needed to change it…

😁 you can tap the 3 dots at the top right of your post and select hide to remove them.

With clone brush I recommend adding a pixel layer and selecting that then set clone to current layer and below. This way the cloning is done non destructively on the pixel layer, not the original layer. Want to see image without the clone, just turn off the cloned pixel layer.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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