Streaking while using tablet stylus and touch on Photo canvas

[RCCOHN]

Hello -

While drawing with a tablet pen on the Affinity Photo 2.1.1 canvas, if a finger on the non-pen hand touches the canvas, a streak can result from the pen point in the direction of the touch point. The same problem occurs if touching outside of the canvas, such as pressing a toolbar button.

This appears to be Affinity Photo not ignoring touch input while the pen is in use.

A couple of workarounds for this are: (1) lift the pen before touching with the finger of the other hand; and (2) Select Edit | Settings | Tools | Touch For Gestures Only, which will prevent the streaking if touching within the canvas area.

Is this a known bug?  I could not see any mention of it in the forums.

Thank you.

[Komatös]

Hi @RCCOHN and welcome to the forum.

What kind of tablet do you use (pen computer, pen display, pen tablet or an MS Surface)?

Presumably the touch gesture is linked to a keystroke (CTRL). This would explain the creation of a line.

This is not a bug. 

 

[RCCOHN]

Thank you for your quick reply.  Apparently, I am not familiar with concept of Affinity gestures.  A tap on the canvas (or elsewhere in the UI) must be considered a gesture and so will cause streaking in the way I've described.  When I encountered the streaking behavior, I was using a pen/touch tablet.  If there was a gesture assigned to that tap (as you describe), it must have been there by default when I installed the program.  It's good to know there's a way to prevent the streaking by use of the "Touch For Gestures Only" option.

Thanks again.