Improving affinity photo 2 pen tool - Huge issue for artists

[aSpaceTrool]

We all know photoshop is very well known to be good for digital raster drawings, however the pen tool for any detailed drawing in affinity photo 2 is sadly unusable due to one small thing:
when you use a brush with width dynamics, double-clicking (e.g. when drawing small details), no matter how lightly you double click, will put a max width blob instead of the small touch you wanted to put. Why does this exist I don't know, but there should be a way to disable it. I have a video demonstration attached.
If this is fixed, then I can fully see myself switching from photoshop to affinity photo 2 for digital art.

Edited April 18 by aSpaceTrool
adding important information

[Komatös]

Hello @aSpaceTrool and welcome to the forums.

In Affinity Photo, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Tools and select Windows Ink under Input method for graphics tablets.
If your tablet configuration programme supports it, select Windows Ink there too.

[R C-R]

Another welcome to the forums, @aSpaceTrool.

For future reference when you start a new topic if, as @Komatös surmised, you are using a graphics tablet, it would be a good idea to mention that (& possibly the make & model), plus your operating system. That isn't always important but sometimes is.

Also, a very minor nitpick but your topic title mentions the Pen Tool but you are using the Paint Brush Tool.

[aSpaceTrool]

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"Edit -> Preferences -> Tools and select Windows Ink under Input method"

did not expect for it to do so, but it fixed the issue; thanks a lot; a shame there isn't any other publicly available info about this, i can only imagine how many people encountered this and decided not to use affinity photo for drawing

[What I used: Tablet - Wacom Intuous Pro PTH-660, on Windows 11]

Edited April 19 by aSpaceTrool

[nickbatz]

My only criticism about working with the Wacom, which I've whined about before, is different: I wish you could set up the program so an additional view appears on your Wacom automatically by default.

It wouldn't be necessary if you could just mirror your main monitor at a lower resolution. But I run my main monitor (32") at 3200 x 1800, which makes everything much too small on the 15" Wacom Cintiq. As a result I only use the Wacom about 1% of the time - it's too much of a show-stopper to bother with in (to mix metaphors) the heat of battle.

Not the end of the world, but not the beginning either.

[thomaso]

15 hours ago, aSpaceTrool said:

a shame there isn't any other publicly available info about this, i can only imagine how many people encountered this and decided not to use affinity photo for drawing

While others might not use adobe apps for the same reason there appears to be a Wacom info page especially for pen pressure issues, including an extra info/link to Windows settings:

https://support.wacom.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500006343962-Why-is-my-pen-pressure-not-working