RCCOHN Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 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. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCCOHN Posted July 7, 2023 Author Share Posted July 7, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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