Problems with Paint Brush Tool

[Yaoif]

Hi, I've had this problem with the paint brush tool with Affinity Photo V2 and the pixel persona in Affinity Designer V2: whenever I draw with the paint brush on the pixel layer, the drawings do not show completely on my screen (Please see the picture).

They only show completely once I zoom in (See picture).

And when I start the next drawing, this happen all over again.

Does this happen with every Affinity user? Or is that just me?  By the way, I use the laptop Lenovo Legion 5i and windows 11 for all the Affinity V2 programmes. Not sure if it has to do with my laptop settings?

[Ron P.]

What Brush are you using?

Check the Context Menu, to see if Protect Alpha is checked?

Can you provide a full screenshot, especially showing which brush is selected and the context toolbar?

[Lee D]

@Yaoifeng Also open the apps Preferences/Settings > Performance and turning OFF Hardware Acceleration.

It may also be worth checking to see if your graphics drivers are fully up to date. 

[Yaoif]

On 5/28/2023 at 9:18 AM, Lee D said:

@Yaoifeng Also open the apps Preferences/Settings > Performance and turning OFF Hardware Acceleration.

It may also be worth checking to see if your graphics drivers are fully up to date. 

@Lee D Thank you for your reply! I tried turning off the hardware acceleration but this lag with pixel paint brush still exist. What I've just found interesting is that this problem only occurs when I draw on a pixel layer which is placed inside an empty vector layer "Layer1" (Please see the image below):

But if I move the pixel layer outside of the pixel layer "Layer1", the lag with the pixel paint brush will disappear (see the picture below):

This is a bit frustrating because I like to organise all my pixel layers inside of an empty vector layer to keep them in order. I wonder if this is a general bug with affinity designer V2, or it's just on my laptop.

[Yaoif]

On 5/26/2023 at 10:47 PM, Ron P. said:

What Brush are you using?

Check the Context Menu, to see if Protect Alpha is checked?

Can you provide a full screenshot, especially showing which brush is selected and the context toolbar?

@Ron P. Thank you for your message. Any paintbrush I use will cause this problem. And I didn't check Protect Alpha. Please see the screenshot below:

[walt.farrell]

Please try it without having the pixel layer inside a Layer. And if that still has the problem, please try it without the Artboard.

[lynzrand]

On 5/31/2023 at 6:37 AM, walt.farrell said:

Please try it without having the pixel layer inside a Layer. And if that still has the problem, please try it without the Artboard.

I am experiencing the same issue, and I can confirm that removing the artboard solves the issue.

[Bryan Rieger]

This seems related to (or the same as) the issue I had last week 'Weirdness with pixel layers in groups on iPad - v2 Bugs found on iPad'.