Alfred Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 While playing with the Inpainting Brush Tool, I hovered over its icon on the toolbar flyout and saw 'Inpainting Brush Tool [J]'. So the next time I wanted to use the tool, I pressed the 'J' key on my keyboard and was surprised to see an alert about the Healing Brush Tool, telling me that I must use Click+ALT to select a source. On further investigation, it turns out that all of the tools on that flyout have the same default keyboard shortcut, so the first tool is selected when the user presses that key. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2016 That's by design Alfred. The shortcuts will cycle through the tools on the same group. The Mac version works the same way. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 Thanks, Miguel. It seems a little inconsistent that multiple presses of a shortcut key invokes different behaviour if the tool is not in a group, but I'm sure I'll get used to it! Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2016 Hi Alfred, You can configure/change them as you see fit in the Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts section (Photo | Tools dropdown). You can have one shortcut for each tool as long as you have enough keys on the keyboard... A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 Thanks again, Miguel. :) Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauricioC Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 What is truly frustrating is that we have to work with speed and accuracy. I am looking at the art when I work. I count on the shortcut key to work AS EXPECTED, and not whatever flavor of the day the shortcut key seems to want to offer. I'll be painting with a brush, select a color with the wand, I go back to the brush and it won't paint, again and again because it defaults sometimes to "color replacement" brush or "pixel tool" there seems to be no rhyme or reason. All I know is that I have to stop my inspired brushstroke to figure out what went wrong. It would make sense to have the shortcut default to the last use tool IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 6 hours ago, MauricioC said: What is truly frustrating is that we have to work with speed and accuracy. I am looking at the art when I work. I count on the shortcut key to work AS EXPECTED, and not whatever flavor of the day the shortcut key seems to want to offer. I'll be painting with a brush, select a color with the wand, I go back to the brush and it won't paint, again and again because it defaults sometimes to "color replacement" brush or "pixel tool" there seems to be no rhyme or reason. All I know is that I have to stop my inspired brushstroke to figure out what went wrong. It would make sense to have the shortcut default to the last use tool IMHO. That should only happen if you press the B shortcut while you already have the Paint Brush Tool selected, which by default will then switch to one of the tools that shares taht shortcut. In any case, you've responded to a very old topic, and in 1.7 you can solve that by enabling the new Preferences option that requires use of the Shift key to cycle between tools in the same group: If that doesn't fix it for you, and you need to discuss this further, I'd recommend starting a new topic in the Questions area. -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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