Blend Modes disaligned between Edit Brush settings and Context Toolbar

[AGain]

I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, I guess it is a bug.

This is what happens in AD2.2.1 for Mac

1. blank new document, go to Pixel Persona
2. Select any brush
3. Double click or right click the brush and choose "edit brush". Now suppose you want to change there the "Blend Mode". So you select for example "Multiply" (or else).

4. Immediately in the "context toolbar" (independently if it's visible or not, the worst happens if it's not visible because you don't realize what is going on) the "Blend Mode" also changes to what you selected in the edit brush panel that is "Multiply" in this case. This means that whatever blend mode you select in the "edit brush" this is reflected in the context toolbar. so far so good. If you do the same with other blend modes they are changed also in the context toolbar and what you change in the context toolbar is reflected in the brush settings.

5. Now the bug: if you go back to edit the brush and now you select as a Blend Mode "Don't set Blend Mode", close the edit bursh panel => nothing actually changes in the context toolbar and therefore in the brush behaviour because ... in the "context toolbar" the Blend Mode is not updated and it is still the previous "Blend Mode" we selected which was "multiply" in my example.

Instead this Blend Mode should change to at least "Normal" (because Don't set Blend Mode does not exist...) to reflect the change done in the edit brush menu. The result is that you think you have reset your brush selecting "Don't set Blend Mode", but unless you also go to the context menu and you set that to "Normal" the context menu is disaligned with the "edit brush" panel and it remains with a wrong blend mode.

Not only that but if you select another brush which is set to "Don't set Blend Mode" it doesn't work as you expected because the active  Blend Mode  is what is still selected in the "Context Toolbar" ... .

I hope my point is clear.

Andy

 

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[walt.farrell]

On 10/26/2023 at 5:48 AM, AGain said:

Not only that but if you select another brush which is set to "Don't set Blend Mode" it doesn't work as you expected because the active  Blend Mode  is what is still selected in the "Context Toolbar" ... .

"Don't Set Blend mode" means "do not change it from what is currently set on the Context Toolbar". In other words, it is like the Wet Edges setting of "Do not set Wet Edges", which is different from both "Turn Wet Edges On" and "Turn Wet Edges Off".

It makes sense to me that changing the Blend Mode while editing a brush would change the setting on the Context Toolbar. And once it is changed, it also makes sense to me that "Don't Set" would leave it as it currently exists in the Context Toolbar. But I can see how that would confuse someone (just as the Don't Set Wet Edges seems to confuse many users).

[AGain]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

"Don't Set Blend mode" means "do not change it from what is currently set on the Context Toolbar". In other words, it is like the Wed Edges setting of "Do not set Wet Edges", which is different from both "Turn Wet Edges On" and "Turn Wet Edges Off".

It makes sense to me that changing the Blend Mode while editing a brush would change the setting on the Context Toolbar. And once it is changed, it also makes sense to me that "Don't Set" would leave it as it currently exists in the Context Toolbar. But I can see how that would confuse someone (just as the Don't Set Wet Edges seems to confuse many users).

Hi Walt, reading your reply, you are  saying that the brush context toolbal rule the general behaviour of all those (poor) brushes that do not have set in their panel a specific "blend mode"... . But there are "chosen" brushes who have their own blend mode set in their panel and just for that they are capable to change the context. This is not imho good logic design because:

- you don't' have always the context toolbar active (and if it's not, you don't realize who is ruling the context toolbar setting or the brush setting ?)

- if you have the context toolbar active w. whatever blend mode  then you never know if that blend mode is defined in the context toolbar and "not set" in the brush or if it's set in the  brush and by consequence has modified the context . The only way to check is open the brush and see.

For me it's very confusing and should be corrected.

Andy

[Callum]

On 10/26/2023 at 12:17 PM, walt.farrell said:

"Don't Set Blend mode" means "do not change it from what is currently set on the Context Toolbar". In other words, it is like the Wed Edges setting of "Do not set Wet Edges", which is different from both "Turn Wet Edges On" and "Turn Wet Edges Off".

It makes sense to me that changing the Blend Mode while editing a brush would change the setting on the Context Toolbar. And once it is changed, it also makes sense to me that "Don't Set" would leave it as it currently exists in the Context Toolbar. But I can see how that would confuse someone (just as the Don't Set Wet Edges seems to confuse many users).

Walt is correct in his above statement this is by design.

[AGain]

 

1 hour ago, Callum said:

Walt is correct in his above statement this is by design.

I supposed this was considered a "feature" and not a "bug", but nevertheless it is not intuitive at all even if it's "by design". In any case I'll live with that now that I know the secret meaning 🤔. Thanks once more.