colour picking

[mick560]

i am fairly new to affinity photo,  i got an ipad pro and pen,   my aim is to use a photo of my painting and change some of the fine detail with the colours i can get on affinity photo and finally make some large prints.     i am interested in the colours that i can produce with the affinity photo and am trying to apply colours in a different way to to the canvas painting i made,    my problem is that sometimes when i pick the colour and brush etc,  nothing happens when i press down on the ipad,   i don't know if there is a problem with affinity photo app or if i'm doing something wrong,  i have tried lots of variations in the way i start,   can anybody let me know if there one specific way to proceed ?

[DM1]

Mick there are are some great tutorials for the iPad version now. The serif ones by James Ritson are very good and can be found here

I am just learning myself, so not a great help. If you are using the beta version there is a known bug with colour selection. I'm not sure if it effects the release version though.

Some of the brushes have zero hardness and low flow settings which allows you to gradually build colour. It may initially appear that they are doing nothing. You can adjust flow and hardness to suit for each brush however they will return to their defaults when next selected.

 

Perhaps if you provide a specific example of what you are doing and what result is being achieved, someone may be able to explain why and how to fix it.

 

There is also a thread here dedicated to questions about Affinity Photo for the IPad. You are sure to get help there.

[mick560]

many thanks for reply,   i really think it must be a bug although not really qualified to prove it,  its interesting what you said about the hardness setting,  i had noticed these had been set to nought, and was wondering if it could be something to do with that,  i will experiment with it,  thanks again,  michael.

[mick560]

1 hour ago, DM1 said:

Mick there are are some great tutorials for the iPad version now. The serif ones by James Ritson are very good and can be found here

I am just learning myself, so not a great help. If you are using the beta version there is a known bug with colour selection. I'm not sure if it effects the release version though.

Some of the brushes have zero hardness and low flow settings which allows you to gradually build colour. It may initially appear that they are doing nothing. You can adjust flow and hardness to suit for each brush however they will return to their defaults when next selected.

 

Perhaps if you provide a specific example of what you are doing and what result is being achieved, someone may be able to explain why and how to fix it.

 

There is also a thread here dedicated to questions about Affinity Photo for the IPad. You are sure to get help there.

hi,  thought i had better say that i think have solved the problem,   it looks like it was all my fault,  i must have created another layer without knowing and got my layers mixed up,  everything seems ok now.   thanks for trying to help.