Affinity Photo - Inpainting doesn't work for selection created from Pen tool

[mrqasq]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is inteded, but I have just experienced strange behoviur of Inpain option in Edit menu, while using Pen Tool for creating selection. I wanted to have selected area with straight lines on sides, so I decided to use Pen Tool, instead of other marquing tools :

But to my surprise, when using Pen Tool, and converting shape to selection with button:

Than from the Edit menu, Inpaint - option is greyed out, and isn't accessible to execute :

Below is video showing this bug.

Tell me it's by design, or am I missing something here

Thanks!

[PaulEC]

Try changing the tool from the Pen Tool to the Move Tool before applying Inpainting.

[mrqasq]

It works! But how did you manage to find it, and is it a workaround, or a rule to follow?

[PaulEC]

I've noticed in the past that some things only work when you have a particular tool selected, but I have no idea why it's designed like this: I can't really see why some functions, such as Inpainting, should depend on what tool you have selected at the time!

[mrqasq]

Ok, than I would insist on calling it a bug for now  

[PaulEC]

13 minutes ago, mrqasq said:

Ok, than I would insist on calling it a bug for now

I would have to disagree! I don't think that this is a bug (i.e. it doesn't cause a crash, loss of work etc, and it works as intended), but it is something that could probably be improved in functionality.

[fde101]

On 4/11/2025 at 9:35 AM, PaulEC said:

I don't think that this is a bug

I suspect it is indeed a Windows-specific bug, as the Inpaint command is available when the pen tool is still selected under macOS.

[stokerg]

Hi @mrqasq,

Thanks for reporting this.

I've logged this as a bug, as i'd expect this to be the same between operating systems.