Undo brush tool

[rusab11]

the undo brush tool does not work correctly. if you take a photo as a front camera, then the effect of the undo brush tool is applied mirror up. if the rear camera is all right. I also wanted to understand how to save snapshots as in the desktop version. it is very necessary.

[Dan C]

Hi rusab11,

Welcome to the forums! I'm sorry, I can't replicate this issue. Are you referring to the iPad version of Affinity Photo? If so, could you please attach a screen recording or screenshots of this?
Unfortunately Affinity Photo for iPad does not support snapshots currently, my apologies.

[rusab11]

3 hours ago, Dan C said:

Hi rusab11,

Welcome to the forums! I'm sorry, I can't replicate this issue. Are you referring to the iPad version of Affinity Photo? If so, could you please attach a screen recording or screenshots of this?
Unfortunately Affinity Photo for iPad does not support snapshots currently, my apologies.

i did attach video

saving snapshots are planned for the iPad? or they will not exist at all?

[Dan C]

Thanks for that video, I can see that you have not selected the undo state when using the brush, please see my attached video alongside the instructions below:
1. Display the History panel.

2. Click the Undo Brush Source camera icon on the history state you want to paint back to.

3. Begin painting with the Undo Brush Tool

As far as I know, there are no current plans to implement snapshots, but I'd never say never!  

[rusab11]

It's not quite that, try to take a picture of the front camera and insert this photo program. After that, treat with some effect and apply the undo brash tool. It does not work correctly if you take a picture with the front camera. For any other photos, the instrument will change normally.

[MEB]

Hi rusab11,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thanks for the additional details. This seems an issue/conflict related with the orientation/metadata of the file. I was able to replicate it here although in my case the Undo Brush Tool has painted the image rotated 90º clockwise. I'm checking if we already have this issue logged and will fill a bug report in case we don't. Thanks for your feedback.

[Dan C]

Cheers MEB, I've also just recreated this issue and I'll update this thread with our development log, as we are already aware of this issue in regards to portrait images.

 

[MEB]

Thanks for the heads up Dan

[rusab11]

thanks for the comments. one more question (sorry for offtopic): when is the output of Affinity Design for iPad planned? in the instructions to Affinity Photo, I saw that it was installed on iPhad.

[MEB]

Hi rusab11,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
It should be out this this Summer (no specific eta).

[rusab11]

17 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi rusab11,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
It should be out this this Summer (no specific eta).

Thanks. I will be wait

[John Rostron]

On 6/4/2018 at 3:47 PM, rusab11 said:

If you take a photo as a front camera , then the effect of the undo brush tool is applied mirror up. if the rear camera is all right. 

Could someone please explain these technical terms to me? "front camera" "rear camera" and "mirror up"

John

[MEB]

Hi John Rostron,
I believe @rusab11 was referring to the front facing camera of his phone (or tablet), to the rear (back) camera of the same device and that the undo brush was painting the image upside down when the photo was taken with the front facing camera.

[rusab11]

6 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi John Rostron,
I believe @rusab11 was referring to the front facing camera of his phone (or tablet), to the rear (back) camera of the same device and that the undo brush was painting the image upside down when the photo was taken with the front facing camera.

all correct. i did speak about that

[rusab11]

Hey. Bugs continue. Snapshots does not work correctly. Now with a photo from the rear camera. Applying the undo brash tool effect is applied with scaling. As if the photo was enlarged by 2 sizes.

[rusab11]

And a very big flaw (at least for me). I worked for a long time in photoshop and there you can roll back in the history palette several levels higher, but the effect is to apply the one that is below. For example: 1 step - I translated the photo into black and white. Step 2 - greatly increased the contrast. then rolled back to 1 step, and apply the effect with 2 steps. You can really only roll back. It simply does not apply the effect below the step you are on. This is not very convenient. Is critical. On the desktop version it is decided in the form of saving snapshots. Do it so that in the version for the iPad it is possible. Or implement the work of the undo brush tool like in Photoshop.

[walt.farrell]

If this thread is about iPad shouldn't it be in the iPad Questions forum?

[Dan C]

On 6/23/2018 at 11:09 PM, walt.farrell said:

If this thread is about iPad shouldn't it be in the iPad Questions forum?

Thanks Walt, I'll get it moved now.

On 6/23/2018 at 10:32 PM, rusab11 said:

Now with a photo from the rear camera. Applying the undo brash tool effect is applied with scaling. As if the photo was enlarged by 2 sizes.

I've tried to replicate this issue and cannot, what effect/filter are you using in conjunction with the undo brush?

[rusab11]

I understood how it works here. There is a little bit differently organized work with effects. those that are applied as a separate layer are not partially canceled and they need to be masked as a layer. but those that apply directly to the layer itself (like a filter) - these can be partially undone in the history palette

[Dan C]

Could you possibly take a screen recording using your iPad and upload the video here, so we can take a look at your workflow and replicate the enlarging issue?
You're correct in saying that adjustments and filters work independently of each other, and slightly differently in regards to masking. 

[AnneX]

I'm using MaacOS 15.1, Affinity Photo 2.5.5

The camera icon does not show up in the History palette and therefore I can't use the Undo Brush. Is this a bug? or is there some way to choose to make the camera icon display in the palette.

Thanks for any hints on this.

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, AnneX said:

I'm using MaacOS 15.1, Affinity Photo 2.5.5

The camera icon does not show up in the History palette and therefore I can't use the Undo Brush. Is this a bug? or is there some way to choose to make the camera icon display in the palette.

Thanks for any hints on this.

 

This is an archived iPad topic from before V2 was released. Please create a new topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS & Windows) and ask there, and include a screenshot of the complete application window including the History panel.