Confused / Does Photo no have a stroke panel?

[Martin_1]

Hi,

I am used to the stroke panel in Designer but can't seem to find it in Photo. I see the stroke option in the bar but I prefer to work with the panel.

Is it not part of Photo?

Regards,

Martin

[MEB]

Hi Martin_1,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
No, there's no Stroke panel in Photo. Only in Designer and Publisher.
 

[Martin_1]

No wonder I couldn't find it LOL. Weird though as it is a very useful and I assume rather simple feature to implement seeng it IS part of Designer..

[iconoclast]

But there is a dropdown menu in the context bar of the Pen and the Shape tools, that contains everything the Stroke panel in Designer contains. What I still miss is the option to trace vectors by pixel brushes. That's a thing, none of the apps offers. And I think, Photo should.

[PaulEC]

I have to agree that, although you can add a stroke from the toolbar, I would really like a dedicated stroke panel in Photo, the same as in Designer and Publisher.

[loukash]

4 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

I would really like a dedicated stroke panel in Photo, the same as in Designer and Publisher

The "art of focus" also means that less essential features are being omitted from an app.
Photo already has the longest list of studio panels. (Not to speak of its personae and "sub-personae".)

So -1 from me because a stroke is primarily a vector attribute and thus not essential to a bitmap editor.
Besides – as pointed out above – all functionality is still there when the context (!) requires it.