Smart Selection Brush Tool In Pixel Persone Works In Reverse

[Mainecoon364]

When I paint in Add Mode It substracts. (Removes regions)

 

When I paint in Substract mode It adds. (Adds Regions)

 

How can I fix It?

[Callum]

Hi Mainecoon365,

Please could you provide a screen recording demonstrating this issue?

Thanks
C

[Mainecoon364]

I reimported the image and the problem is solved for some reason.

[Tom Zimberoff]

I, too, have this problem with the latest version of Affinity and Mac OS as of April 18, 2024, but it has existing since I started to use Affinity more than a year ago with previous versions.

While carefully selecting portions of an image with the Selection Brush Tool, suddenly — without rhyme or reason that I can tell — the brush starts to DE-select. I am getting impatient with the time it costs me. Does anyone have a solution? I do not want to restart the software every time this happens or reimport an image or whatever. Please help!

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, Tom Zimberoff said:

I, too, have this problem with the latest version of Affinity and Mac OS as of April 18, 2024, but it has existing since I started to use Affinity more than a year ago with previous versions.

While carefully selecting portions of an image with the Selection Brush Tool, suddenly — without rhyme or reason that I can tell — the brush starts to DE-select. I am getting impatient with the time it costs me. Does anyone have a solution? I do not want to restart the software every time this happens or reimport an image or whatever. Please help!

This is an iPad topic in the iPad section of the forum. It would be helpful if you would start a new topic in the Desktop Questions part of the forum, and provide additional details. At a minimum please provide a screenshot of the complete application window when this is happening. Also, perhaps, a screen-recording taken by macOS.

[Tom Zimberoff]

Thanks for your reply, Walt.

The problem I described happens so irregularly (but too often) that it is even just as problematic to assign myself the task of selecting an image and begin to use the Selection Brish Tool to recreate it on demand. Neither a screen recording nor a screenshot would, in my opinion (as someone with software development experience) shed any more light on an issue that seems to be a bug, not user error. ( I reserve the right to be wrong.)

I will nevertheless post this to the proper section of this forum if I can find it; a bit of a labyrith. 🤨

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Tom Zimberoff said:

a bit of a labyrith

Just go to the top of the forum and look down the list

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/

For asking a question you select the appropriate Questions forum (for you, the one that mentions Desktop) and then click on Start New Topic.