awakenedbyowls Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 I was playing around with brushes trying to get some effects and the next thing I’m drawing blanks - again - a common problem I find with this software - I can’t get any brush to lay anything down no matter what settings I tweak Tried swiping the app away and restarting Tried on a new file Can’t get a pixel brush to lay anything down Video attached Have I done something or yet another BUG Quote Ignore the quotes pressed wrong button and can’t get rid now RPReplay_Final1716138645.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakenedbyowls Posted May 19 Author Share Posted May 19 Protect Alpha - whatever that is Why is this software not getting any easier to use as I try to develop my skills ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 17 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said: Why is this software not getting any easier to use as I try to develop my skills ? Because there are a lot of capabilities, and you haven't learned them all. 18 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said: Protect Alpha - whatever that is Help: https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_paintBrush.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakenedbyowls Posted May 19 Author Share Posted May 19 29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Help: https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_paintBrush.html Awesome feature - a button when enabled that stops you being able to paint - really useful sounding that is - why not just not paint? emmrecs01 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 It lets you work on the edges without accidentally extending the canvas, for the thing. It's a good feature, that you just need to learn about, or not use (i.e., don't turn the option on if you don't want to use it). emmrecs01 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdock Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 A bit of feedback on Alpha Protect. I had the same issue - my brushes weren't brushing. The Assistant even saw I was trying to paint and created a new Pixel layer for me, but no go. I could get some to work by choosing Pixel brush, but my more recent brush purchases just wouldn't. At all. Even the Pixel layer created by the assistant was locked to these brushes. I've never turned on Alpha Protect. As far as I could tell, it wasn't on. I clicked it in case I didn't know what it looked like when it was. My brushes still didn't work. So I clicked it again and the brushes I had been trying to use started working. It seems to me to be a bug. That is, AP seems to be turned on by default in the updates, but it doesn't look like it's on. I had to turn it on then off before my brushes worked properly. BTW, before toggling AP, stamps worked, and some brushes - older ones and those from Affinity. Now they all work, and I'm grateful to this thread for that. None of this has been an issue on Windows 10 PC, same version. Kim awakenedbyowls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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