Emskverd Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 I read that the windows shortcut for brush size and hardness are holding Alt + Right Mouse Button and then dragging left/right or up/down. However this is not working for me. Am I doing something wrong? Quote
Staff Callum Posted October 10, 2017 Staff Posted October 10, 2017 Hi Emskverd You should be able to use the [ and ] keys to change your brush size. Thanks C Eugen 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
Staff MEB Posted October 10, 2017 Staff Posted October 10, 2017 Hi Emskverd, Welcome to Affinity Forums Yes, that's the correct shortcut keys but you have to press and hold both the ⌥ (option/alt) key and the right mouse button (keep the right-mouse button pressed as well) then while doing it left-click/drag horizontally to set brush size and vertically to set the brush hardness. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
carl123 Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 25 minutes ago, Emskverd said: ... Am I doing something wrong? Yes, you also have to use the left click button as well as the right click button Just practice getting the order right or grow some more fingers Pdro 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Emskverd Posted October 12, 2017 Author Posted October 12, 2017 well that helped! Thanks a lot guys, you've been most helpful! Quote
juliencollee Posted December 27, 2018 Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) Hi guys I keep trying to use the shortcut to change the Pixel brush size on Windows (10) with a Wacom (Intuos 5) tablet and pen on Affinity Designer 1.6.5.135 but can't make it work... I defined one of the pen button to be the right clic. And try to use the Alt-Right-Click+Click (to mimic Alt-LMB-RMB) but I keep activating the Color Picker... My sanity would gladly appreciate any help... EDIT with solution: The trick was to NOT define a Right Click on the Pen button but to assign the button with a keyboard modifier (Right Click modifier)! By setting the button to Keyboard/Modificator/Right Click it WORKS! I put a picture. It's in french but the idea is there. Once done the shortcut works. Can't stop finding this hack unnecessary, dumb, and frustrating... Hope that helps Julien Edited December 27, 2018 by juliencollee Provided solution Adrián Mišiak and bernard1980 1 1 Quote
rorando Posted June 11, 2019 Posted June 11, 2019 Hey, I just installed version Affinity Photo 1.7.0 on Windows, but holding the right mouse button and the alt key on my keyboard doesn't let me resize the brush. Do you have some ideas on what might be the problem here? Quote
bernard1980 Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 On 12/28/2018 at 5:17 AM, juliencollee said: Hi guys I keep trying to use the shortcut to change the Pixel brush size on Windows (10) with a Wacom (Intuos 5) tablet and pen on Affinity Designer 1.6.5.135 but can't make it work... I defined one of the pen button to be the right clic. And try to use the Alt-Right-Click+Click (to mimic Alt-LMB-RMB) but I keep activating the Color Picker... My sanity would gladly appreciate any help... EDIT with solution: The trick was to NOT define a Right Click on the Pen button but to assign the button with a keyboard modifier (Right Click modifier)! By setting the button to Keyboard/Modificator/Right Click it WORKS! I put a picture. It's in french but the idea is there. Once done the shortcut works. Can't stop finding this hack unnecessary, dumb, and frustrating... Hope that helps Julien BRILLIANT U MAKE MY DAY !!! 😀😀😀 Quote
miguelcoelho Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 On 10/10/2017 at 2:49 PM, Callum said: Hi Emskverd You should be able to use the [ and ] keys to change your brush size. Thanks C Hello. After several attempts I realized that on windows we have to use Alt key + both mouse buttons simultaneously. To increase / decrease the brush size, we move the mouse sideways. To increase / decrease the hardness we move the mouse up or down. It works well for me (finally!) I hope it will be useful for everyone. Stay safe. salvemmi 1 Quote
Quentin PRIGENT Posted May 20, 2020 Posted May 20, 2020 "Hello. After several attempts I realized that on windows we have to use Alt key + both mouse buttons simultaneously. To increase / decrease the brush size, we move the mouse sideways. To increase / decrease the hardness we move the mouse up or down. It works well for me (finally!)" Hello this is working well but for me it's a loss of productivity when I'm working with my pen. It's as fast to do as cliking on the brush size bar and modifying the size manually. Is there any way to increase/decrease the brush size like in Photoshop ? You know, when you press alt + right click, when you drag the pen it increase/decrease the size of the brush. Thanks ! Quote
salvemmi Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 On 4/9/2020 at 10:05 AM, miguelcoelho said: Hello. After several attempts I realized that on windows we have to use Alt key + both mouse buttons simultaneously. To increase / decrease the brush size, we move the mouse sideways. To increase / decrease the hardness we move the mouse up or down. It works well for me (finally!) I hope it will be useful for everyone. Stay safe. Miguelcoelho, thanks a lot, after 3 years of disappointment, I am happy someone found the solution. No mention of that in the help section or preferences. Also Manual and Workbook should be corrected Quote
zazomazzo Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) On 4/9/2020 at 10:05 AM, miguelcoelho said: Hello. After several attempts I realized that on windows we have to use Alt key + both mouse buttons simultaneously. To increase / decrease the brush size, we move the mouse sideways. To increase / decrease the hardness we move the mouse up or down. It works well for me (finally!) I hope it will be useful for everyone. Stay safe. On 5/21/2020 at 12:01 PM, salvemmi said: Miguelcoelho, thanks a lot, after 3 years of disappointment, I am happy someone found the solution. No mention of that in the help section or preferences. Also Manual and Workbook should be corrected Hello, I am using the latest version 1.8.5.703 and having troubles using the mentioned key-mouse-combination. When pressing ALT + left mouse button + right mouse button and moving the mouse all I get is a color picker. The same happens when just pressing ALT + left mouse button and moving the mouse. It simply doesn't matter if I press the right mouse button too. All I get is the color picker. Edited September 17, 2020 by zazomazzo Removed attached image, because it was unnecessary and oversized anyway. Quote
Andy05 Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 On windows, this usually works: Try to click/press (and hold the keys!) in the following order: [ALT]+[CTRL] -> [right mouse button] -> [left mouse button]. As long as you keep all those keys pressed, you can move the mouse left and right for changing the size of your brush, whilst moving vertically edits the brush's hardness. And, as @carl123 already suggested, it might be very, very useful if you'd grow yourself some more fingers for this stupidly difficult procedure. But I'm not complaining as it could have been worse (i. e. additionally drawing circles on a touchpad with the nose in order to activate the "shortcut" mentioned above). zazomazzo 1 Quote »There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.« Milton Glaser (1929 - 2020)
zazomazzo Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 35 minutes ago, Andy05 said: On windows, this usually works: Try to click/press (and hold the keys!) in the following order: [ALT]+[CTRL] -> [right mouse button] -> [left mouse button]. As long as you keep all those keys pressed, you can move the mouse left and right for changing the size of your brush, whilst moving vertically edits the brush's hardness. Thank you so very much, that did the trick! You are the first one that mentioned the CTRL key. And yeah, that combination is really ridiculous. Maybe they will change it one day or make it freely configurable within the settings. Quote
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Andy05 said: On windows, this usually works: Try to click/press (and hold the keys!) in the following order: [ALT]+[CTRL] -> [right mouse button] -> [left mouse button]. As long as you keep all those keys pressed, you can move the mouse left and right for changing the size of your brush, whilst moving vertically edits the brush's hardness. You don't need to hold both mouse buttons if you're running a current Affinity release. Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouse then drag to change the current attributes that are shown. Or Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouse click to change to a different set of brush attributes, then Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouse Drag to change the new set of attributes. (On Mac, use Cmd rather than Ctrl.) Wrong. See below. https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Painting/painting.html (See the Modifier Keys section) zazomazzo 1 Quote -- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
zazomazzo Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: You don't need to hold both mouse buttons if you're running a current Affinity release. Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouse then drag to change the current attributes that are shown. Thank you for clarification. And yes, I tested it right away and it works exactly as you described it. So over the last versions they changed it from ALT+LMB+RMB (old) to CTRL+ALT+LMB (new) it seems. (I am not using it on a regular basis, more like on demand. So I don't recognize every change right away) Quote
h_d Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) 40 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: (On Mac, use Cmd rather than Ctrl.) Generally speaking, for keyboard shortcuts, yes. But not for these brush action modifiers. On Mac, the shortcuts are also control-alt-click and then drag left-right to modify width, or drag up-down to modify hardness. Just to add to the fun, on UK (and possibly other European keyboards) the "alt" keys are labelled option.* *EDIT: except when they're labelled alt EDIT 2 (and slightly more serious): on Mac, with the brush tool selected, holding down ctrl-alt (or ctrl-option) and repeatedly clicking cycles through three options: Width-Hardness Shape-Spacing Rotation Screen Recording 2020-09-16 at 22.58.07.mov Not sure if this works on PC? Edited September 16, 2020 by h_d Amendments and annotations walt.farrell 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 2 hours ago, h_d said: EDIT 2 (and slightly more serious): on Mac, with the brush tool selected, holding down ctrl-alt (or ctrl-option) and repeatedly clicking cycles through three options: Width-Hardness Shape-Spacing Rotation Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, and it works the same on Windows. Quote -- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted September 17, 2020 Posted September 17, 2020 9 hours ago, h_d said: Just to add to the fun, on UK (and possibly other European keyboards) the "alt" keys are labelled option.* FWIW, on current U.S. Apple keyboards like this Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad model I have, & the latest Magic Keyboard one, the alt key is also labeled "option." They also have wider Escape keys labeled "esc" & all the top row function keys are the same height as the regular keys. Not particularly magical but an improvement on the older ones. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 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
Baaaaaaatz Posted October 18, 2022 Posted October 18, 2022 Never worked for me on a German Keyboard Layout on Win10. Now I found a solution: Left mouse Button and the "alt gr" key works. Regular "alt" key doesnt work. Wich is a bummer, since I have my left hand on the keyboard and can only use the alt on the right hand side of the keyboard. Its something at least. Quote
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