Why don't my brushes have hard edges and full opacity?

[xicus]

Even drawing a single hard pixel is hard (haha). Seems to me that if Opacity is 100%, Flow is 100%, and Hardness is 100%, the default Basic brushes should apply fully opaque and pixelated aliased edges. I've tried changing Wet Edges to "Set wet edges 'off'" as well.

Am I missing something basic?

[NotMyFault]

All brushes have anti-aliasing on at the edges. This becomes visible at very high zoom levels.

to get hard edges without anti-aliasing, use the pixel brush instead of paint brush.

[xicus]

2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

All brushes have anti-aliasing on at the edges. This becomes visible at very high zoom levels.

to get hard edges without anti-aliasing, use the pixel brush instead of paint brush.

Aha--thank you! I guess I expected a pencil. What about brush opacity? I have to go over areas more than once to properly cover them.

[NotMyFault]

Just now, xicus said:

Aha--thank you! I guess I expected a pencil. What about brush opacity? I have to go over areas more than once to properly cover them.

You have multiple opacity settings:

• on brush
• in color panel

Check them all.

 

[AffinityMakesMeWonder]

56 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

All brushes have anti-aliasing on at the edges. This becomes visible at very high zoom levels.

to get hard edges without anti-aliasing, use the pixel brush instead of paint brush.

For me, also the pixel brush give me antialias with 1px setting…

Any settings that must be changed?

[NotMyFault]

Assuming you are using Affinity Photo (not Designer).

Please try a fresh start with a new document:

1. Close the app (save open files if required)
2. Open Photo
3. Reset brushes (settings / miscellaneous / Brushes). Save self-defines brushes if you have any before!
4. Create new document, using "web" preset, pixel as units, size to taste 
5. activate snapping, force pixel alignment, deactivate move by whole pixels
6. choose pixel brush
7. choose basic round brush of small size (e.g. 2-8 px).
8. create pixel layer
9. paint some pixels in. 

 

please make a screen recording if you still have issues.

Do you use Windows or Mac?