< 3px brush in affinity designer

[earl_grey]

I cannot use a brush smaller than 3px in Affinity Designer.

 

 

 

[Hangman]

Hi @earl_grey,

I can confirm the same behaviour on Windows, though this works as expected on Mac...

[stokerg]

Hi @earl_grey,

I'm having no trouble using a brush under 3 pixels.  There is a rounding issue, when you enter 2.9 it will display as 3 (or 2.4 under and it will display 2) in the context toolbar but the brush is actually using 2.9, which can be seen when you edit the brush.

For myself, using the same brush and setting the value to 2.2 and i can paint on the canvas.  Can you post a screenshot of Edit>Settings Performance? 

@HangmanIs it the rounding issue you can see or the brush not working when set to below 3?  I've yet to get my brush to fail to work under 3.

[Hangman]

Hi @stokerg,

It doesn't appear to be a rounding error, if I enter any value of 3 px or above, all works fine...

• If I enter 2.9 px, it rounds it up to 3 px (as expected) and works fine...
• If I enter 2.8 px it fails...
• If I enter 2 px or 1 px it fails...

Note: This seems to be specific to the Basic Brush set and only in the Pixel Persona of Designer. The same linked brush works without issue in both Photo and the Photo Persona of Publisher at values below 3 px, e.g., 1 px and 2 px...

[carl123]

@Hangman

5 minutes ago, Hangman said:

If I enter 2 px or 1 px it fails...

I see the same as you but if I set the Hardness of the 2 px or 1 px basic brush from 100% to 99% (or lower) it seems to work OK

Do you see the same

 

Windows 11

[earl_grey]

42 minutes ago, stokerg said:

Hi @earl_grey,

I'm having no trouble using a brush under 3 pixels.  There is a rounding issue, when you enter 2.9 it will display as 3 (or 2.4 under and it will display 2) in the context toolbar but the brush is actually using 2.9, which can be seen when you edit the brush.

For myself, using the same brush and setting the value to 2.2 and i can paint on the canvas.  Can you post a screenshot of Edit>Settings Performance? 

@HangmanIs it the rounding issue you can see or the brush not working when set to below 3?  I've yet to get my brush to fail to work under 3.

In video, I also used a 1px brush ( not a float value)

[Hangman]

16 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Do you see the same

I've just tried this and (for me) it makes no difference... I see the exact same behaviour as @earl_grey...

[stokerg]

Hi @earl_grey and @Hangman

I've replicated it now  and have just logged it with the Developers.

 

[Hangman]

Hi @stokerg,

Perfect, thanks for confirming and logging...

[delpi767]

This is also a problem with Affinity Photo

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Basic Brush can't be set below 3 pixels" (REF: AF-4002) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2861). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.