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Hello and thank you for your help first!

The problem is that the brushes do not preview when using them or hovering with the pencil on iPad Photo 2.

When using the intelligent selection tool, you cannot see if you will be leaving the object you want to select because you have no way of seeing how thick the brush you are using is. I've noticed that this issue also occurs in other tools for Photo 2 on iPad.

I hope the tools behave like they do on the PC version, where you can see the brush at all times.

Attached video - Affinity photo 2 iPad 2.5.7 - iPad Air 2024 M2 + Apple pencil pro

______________________ Additional question:

In Designer 2 for iPad, placing your fingers on the screen simulates Commands (Cmd, Option, Ctrl...), and blue circles also appear under your fingers. Is there an equivalent function in Photo 2 that does not require activating the command circle?

Thank you!
 

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Hi @eduardotanco,

On 1/23/2025 at 12:50 PM, eduardotanco said:

The problem is that the brushes do not preview when using them or hovering with the pencil on iPad Photo 2.

The 'Show Brush Preview' app setting will display a preview of the currently selected brush nozzle when using an Apple Pencil with Hover enabled but it won't show the circular brush area. Therefore, since the selection brush tool doesn't display the brush nozzle there is nothing to preview when hovering. Comparatively, if you use the paint brush tool it will display the selected nozzle when hovering the pencil. There isn't an option to view the circular brush area while pencil hovering at the moment.

On 1/23/2025 at 12:50 PM, eduardotanco said:

In Designer 2 for iPad, placing your fingers on the screen simulates Commands (Cmd, Option, Ctrl...), and blue circles also appear under your fingers. Is there an equivalent function in Photo 2 that does not require activating the command circle?

Gestures are also available on Photo 2 for iPad, but it can depend on what tool you're using as to what gestures are available I've linked the cheat sheet below.

https://resources.serif.com/spotlight/learning/shortcuts/Affinity-Photo-2-Gestures-iPad.pdf

 

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On 1/23/2025 at 7:50 AM, eduardotanco said:

and blue circles also appear under your fingers

Perhaps you have Show Touches enabled in the Settings for Designer, but not for Photo? That would not affect the actual functioning of the gestures, but it would affect how they display, which is often useful when making screen recordings.

 

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-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

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Hello! @NathanC @walt.farrell Sorry for taking so long to respond.

Thanks for the replies!

I understand that what I'm looking for is not a current feature in Photo, but it would be great if it were added. Being able to preview the tools you're working with makes the workflow much easier.

Where could I request the addition of tool previews as a new feature?

Thanks!

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58 minutes ago, eduardotanco said:

Where could I request the addition of tool previews as a new feature?

You could post in https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/122-feedback-for-the-affinity-v2-suite-of-products/ but please also read the guidance at the top of its parent, https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions/

-- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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