KaitosArt Posted March 5, 2023 Posted March 5, 2023 Hi there Affinity community! I love the apps and I know its hard to listen to all those suggestions. What I have to say its about the Pen Tool and Brush tool. 1º Pen Tool: It's really a workflow breaker that there isn't an option to toggle of the auto-selection the Pen Tool does after we draw any line. With pen tool, I just want to draw freehand and create figures or shapes. But when the auto-selection, which is automatic to this tool, happens, it breaks the visualization I have of the same line I've drew, and therefore, breaks the workflow of the drawing. What we need at least is an option to turn off this auto-selection behavior. 2º Brush Tool: I figured out that I can draw with the brush tool more freely, since the pen tool its annoying. But the problem of this tool is that is have an auto correction turned on. Which is terrible, because usually we draw lines that aren't perfect, and some times we need those lines that way, to create the desired shape. Like we do in raster apps. So at least, add an option to toggle on/off the auto-correction, or even to make it 'harder/softer'. All that because I cant draw human figures freehand style in a proper and fluid way in Affinity Designer. Which is a shame, because it's an awesome app. PS: I've attached and video to show what I mean. The first tool used is the Pen Tool and then the Brush Tool. Both in Affinity Designer 2. Pen Tool and Brush Tool.mp4 Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 5, 2023 Posted March 5, 2023 15 minutes ago, KaitosArt said: PS: I've attached and video to show what I mean. The first tool used is the Pen Tool and then the Brush Tool. Both in Affinity Designer 2. To be clear, the first tool was the Pencil Tool, not the Pen Tool. At this point you're right: there's no way to stop the auto-selection. You can press Esc to deselect the object. 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
KaitosArt Posted March 6, 2023 Author Posted March 6, 2023 YES @walt.farrell! Thanks for the correction! Its the PENCIL Tool. I hope that Serif would give us a solution by that. Because I really can't draw in Affinity Design. Unfortunately, I have to work in other apps and then bring to it. Quote
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