AF-photo - Hardness field greyed out

[pfi]

(2.2beta.1954) I noticed that the Hardness cannot be adjusted when the paint-brush-tool is selected.

- the Hardness field is greyed out

- Alt-Ctr-mouse allows to adjust Width, but not hardness

[walt.farrell]

This is true in all of the V2 releases, as far as I know, not just the beta.

As I understand it, except for a few brushes, changing the Hardness has never had an effect. However, due to a bug, V1 allowed you to appear to change the Hardness of all brushes, even those for which changing the Hardness has no effect.

V2 fixed that bug, so we are now prevented from changing Hardness unless the current brush supports it.

[pfi]

Before I posted this, I tried with version 2.1, and that seems to work fine

[Ron P.]

You can change the hardness for the Basic Brushes, and some of the Frankentoon Splat brushes.

[walt.farrell]

11 hours ago, pfi said:

Before I posted this, I tried with version 2.1, and that seems to work fine

But what Brush did you have selected, in each case?

[pfi]

Now I know what you mean.  I am new to AF-Photo and I have confused a brush tool (like paint-brush, dodge&burn-brush etc) with brushes.  I have not used brushes much and most likely have used  basic brushes (for dodge&burn tool) and possibly sprays&spatters brushes (for paint-tool).   I have also assumes that a brush is applied to all brush-tools, which I now realize is not the case.

So, thank you for your replies.  I live and learn and will be looking at brushes more closely.

Is there a way to fine out what the last selected brush was?

[Sean P]

Hi pfi,

This is correct behaviour. Brushes created from an image or use image nozzles cannot have their hardness modified - instead they use the greyscale values of the nozzle image to decide the opacity of the pixels as you paint.

As Walt said a bug was fixed in V2 that was making these previously changeable, so they're now disabled when they cannot be changed. It is only round brushes that can have their hardness changed.

[walt.farrell]

On 8/20/2023 at 7:57 PM, pfi said:

Is there a way to fine out what the last selected brush was?

Within your current editing session:

• you can see in the Brushes panel what the last brush you used was. It will have a Blue or Red box around it:

or

• If you've painted on a Pixel layer, the Layers panel will have a brush icon that will let you see the brush characteristics and switch back to that brush:
  

But both of those are for the current session only. The second one doesn't let you see which brush it was, but you can see its characteristics. That's similar to clicking the More button while you have the Brush Tool active.

[pfi]

Thank you, I appreciate your comments.