[feature request] "use as eraser" option for all brushes

[lashman]

i know it's already possible to designate any created brush as an eraser, but it still necessitates creating a completely separate brush to achieve this, and it can lead to a pretty big mess when someone uses lots of different brushes. So it would be nice to have an additional checkbox in the brush tool toolbar (or just application settings) that would permanently (until unchecked) use the same brush settings for the eraser tool since basically that's what i want to do 99% of the time anyway.

[GarryP]

Isn’t this what “Settings → Assistant → Brush tool sharing → Brush shared between all tools” does for you when you switch between the Paint Brush Tool and the Eraser Brush Tool?

If not, can you give more details of your requirements?

[lashman]

8 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Isn’t this what “Settings → Assistant → Brush tool sharing → Brush shared between all tools” does for you when you switch between the Paint Brush Tool and the Eraser Brush Tool?

If not, can you give more details of your requirements?

 

oh yes, that's it! i had it set to "smart sharing" (whatever that does), but changing it to all tools does exactly what i need, thank you so much!

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

(I think “Smart Sharing” is the default setting.)

[lashman]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

You’re welcome.

(I think “Smart Sharing” is the default setting.)

ah, that would explain that in that case - it should be better explained, because it's absolutely not intuitive and i would never in a million years have thought that's the setting that would switch the eraser to the same brush

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, lashman said:

ah, that would explain that in that case - it should be better explained, because it's absolutely not intuitive and i would never in a million years have thought that's the setting that would switch the eraser to the same brush

It could be clearer. Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/preferences.html

Quote

• Brush tool sharing—Choose whether a selected brush and context toolbar settings are shared between tools of a similar nature (e.g. Dodge, Burn and Sponge Brush Tools), shared across all tools, or each tool's brush is set independently.

The first one is Smart Sharing, which from that description would not apply to Eraser Brush Tool and Paint Brush Tool, as they are not "of a similar nature".