Chris in NZ Posted February 26 Posted February 26 Hi all I've used Affinity Photo for years doing product photography. I often need to use the pen tool to draw around an object then click the Selection button to give me a selection. I can use that to mask out backgrounds etc. Upgraded to 2.6 and there is a very unwelcome new behaviour that I do not know how to turn off. When I use the pen tool it fills!!! as I draw in whatever my foreground colour happens to be set to. Which means I can't see what I'm trying to fit my curve to! If I either click to switch off the 'use fill' button on the right hand side of the toolbar under style OR if I click the fill button on the left of the toolbar and choose the icon with the line through it, then it stops filling, BUT it also nukes my selected foreground colour. Which means when I go to my mask I have to press D to reset my colours to default. And then the next time I use the pen tool (literally 30 seconds later sometimes) I have to switch fill off again. PLEASE tell me there is a way to disable this? I've used the pen tool for years and NEVER had this happen. Help! I'm going slowly mad with this thing. Quote
R C-R Posted February 26 Posted February 26 I'm seeing the same thing in both AP & AD 2.6. I suspect it is a bug & not intended ... at least I see no way to change it. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Staff Lee D Posted March 21 Staff Posted March 21 @Chris in NZ We do have an issue logged with our developers regarding the Pen Tool and when you click Selection it enables 'Use Fill'. Quote
Ron P. Posted March 24 Posted March 24 On 3/21/2025 at 9:56 AM, Lee D said: @Chris in NZ We do have an issue logged with our developers regarding the Pen Tool and when you click Selection it enables 'Use Fill'. Mac only Bug? I'm not seeing this on Windows. Quote Affinity Photo 2.6..; Affinity Designer 2.6..; Affinity Publisher 2.6..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win11 Home Version:24H2, Build: 26100.1742: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD; Wacom Intuos 3 PTZ-431W
Ldina Posted March 25 Posted March 25 +1. Mac, m4, sequoia, v2.6 Quote 2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Sequoia OS, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet, 2TB OWC SSD USB external hard drive.
Adam Husek Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) I have the same problem and it's crazy if I have to take a lot of photos where I need to make a precise selection, it drives me crazy the only way I've figured out now is that before editing each photo I have to turn off STYLE when the pen tool is active, it's still quite annoying because it can't remember the settings. I use win10 Edited March 28 by Adam Husek add picture Quote
street79 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 At first this fact bothered me a lot, but then I got used to it to the point that now it comes naturally to me, as soon as I select the Pen Tool I deselect the fill in the Style. Quote IMac 27" Retina 5K – OS 12.7.6 – Affinity Photo-Designer-Publisher 2.6.3 I apologize for my English. It's not my native language.
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