How to stop brush painting outside of the cursor circle when hardness is decreased

[Wonko]

I am trying to use the clone tool with soft edges, when i try and paint the size of the area painted is greater then the cursor shows making it difficult to work with hard edges is there a way to change this so that it does not do this, and paints up to the edge of the circle.

Someone else had a similar problem but on photoshop and they were given the advice to change the the cursor settings to set full size brush tip on, so i am looking for somthing similar to that.

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

[carl123]

If you have "Wet Edges" selected in the context toolbar, try unticking it

[Wonko]

Thank you for your suggestion but i don't have "Wet Edges" turned on.

[NotMyFault]

8 hours ago, Wonko said:

am trying to use the clone tool with soft edges, when i try and paint the size of the area painted is greater then the cursor shows

Affinity shows the 50% opacity line. For hard brushes you will see the actual edge, for soft brushes or with hardness reduced you don’t get a size preview of the brush area between 1 to 50%.

The best way to deal with this situation is a non-destructive workflow:

• add a pixel layer above
• in clone tool, set to „current and below“ or „layers below“.
• if the clone brush covers to much, simply switch to erase brush, set hardness to 80-100%, use a basic round brush with hard edges, and delete any excess areas. This will reveal the original layer. You may even use selection tools to limit any brush to specific areas, both while using the clone brush or later with erase brush.

Affinity has currently no option to preview the full area of brush, above the mentioned 50% opacity threshold.

[Wonko]

@NotMyFaultThank you for answering. I will follow your suggestions although i think it will take me a little while to get used to the non-destructive workflow.