Camerajockey Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 37 minutes ago, GarryP said: @Camerajockey You have posted an image without any explanation into a thread which has been ‘dormant’ for about a year. Did you do this on purpose? If so, would you mind saying what that purpose was? Yeah. I added the screenshot accidentally without typing the question. I was in the process of editing it when you replied. This thread came up when I searched for answers to my issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 23 minutes ago, Camerajockey said: I added the screenshot accidentally without typing the question. Ah, that would explain it. I can’t see anything obvious from your screenshot: the Blend Mode of the Tool is Normal; the Colour has 100% Opacity; the layer has 100% Opacity, is visible, and has a Normal Blend Mode; Protect Alpha is OFF. Hardness is at 0% but that might not be relevant. The only thing that pops into my head at the moment is: Which brush are you using? Can you click on the brush icon in the Layers Panel, the one for the Pixel Layer, and get another screenshot so we can get a little ‘preview’ of it? An expert will probably be along later to give you better advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Here's the brush. I'm trying to paint a soft brushstroke, so the brush size and softness is appropriate in this case. Btw, I'm using AP v2.3.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Please show / inspect color panel and specifically color opacity. There is a noise/ opacity switch button (in case you don’t see color opacity). It must be 100%. please check layers panel, and reset it so all channels are active and editable. please deactivate all layers. Add a new one, and choose black from swatches panel. Paint on new layer. Does anything from the steps above work? Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 3 hours ago, NotMyFault said: Please show / inspect color panel and specifically color opacity. There is a noise/ opacity switch button (in case you don’t see color opacity). It must be 100%. please check layers panel, and reset it so all channels are active and editable. please deactivate all layers. Add a new one, and choose black from swatches panel. Paint on new layer. Does anything from the steps above work? Sadly not. I've got "Edit All Layers" checked. I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by deactivate all layers. The opacity is at 100% for the colour, and I've tried painting black on a new pixel layer, however it's not painting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Can you share the .afphoto file with us? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 13 hours ago, NotMyFault said: please check layers panel, and reset it so all channels are active and editable. My fault, autocorrection please check channels panel (instead of layers panel). Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Another thought: the brush size is quite large, with further blurring by hardness zero. This may lead to color transfer by brush strokes gets below 1/255 and rounded down to zero. first of all, please choose a basic round brush with hardness 100%, choose reasonable size (e.g. 64px), choose black from color swatches, and try again. if yes: your brush or brush settings cause the issue. if no: the document has an issue, or brush settings. Open a new document, add a pixel layer, and try again to brush. as Walt said, we would need the document (saved with history) for investigate further. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Maybe asked before: try deselect all. An unnoticed active pixel selection may ruin your day. R C-R 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/29/2023 at 11:34 PM, walt.farrell said: Can you share the .afphoto file with us? Here's the .afphotoMattDonovan_working-file.afphoto file. Bear in mind, this is Matt Donovan's photo supplied for a tutorial. Sorry. Wrong one first. Also I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Busy day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 41 minutes ago, Camerajockey said: Here's the .afphoto .... Do as @NotMyFault suggested & try deselect all. That should cure your problem. NotMyFault 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 18 hours ago, R C-R said: Do as @NotMyFault suggested & try deselect all. That should cure your problem. I'd like to thank you all for your efforts. I've tried all of your suggestions, but to no avail. I think that the file has become corrupted, possibly down to something wrong with my computer. I'll keep an eye on the forums for anything that comes up relating to this and see if I can make it work. Bye for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 The file is perfectly fine. The only issue: there is an active pixel selection, with a very low opacity value. this renders all brush strokes almost useless. You need to only use the menu command "Select->Deselect (CMD-D / CTRL-D)" once to get rid of the selection. Then the brush will work again. R C-R 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 22 minutes ago, Camerajockey said: I've tried all of your suggestions, but to no avail. I think that the file has become corrupted, possibly down to something wrong with my computer. As @NotMyFault wrote, there is nothing wrong with the file. Just use the menu command he suggested & painting will work as you expect it to. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Well, thanks. That sorted it, though I still don't understand why. My bad. Well done chaps. NotMyFault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 9 minutes ago, Camerajockey said: though I still don't understand why When you have an active pixel selection (as you did), you can only paint within that selection. So, when you cannot paint with a raster brush, one thing to try is deselecting any pixel selections. R C-R 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camerajockey Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 On 1/1/2024 at 7:39 PM, walt.farrell said: When you have an active pixel selection (as you did), you can only paint within that selection. So, when you cannot paint with a raster brush, one thing to try is deselecting any pixel selections. Thanks Walt. I must have accidentally made a pixel selection or forgotten that I'd made one earlier walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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