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Can’t Use Healing Brush


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I’ve been trying for over one day to figure out how to use the healing brush. About to go berserk.   What is the secret?  I tried adding a pixel layer on top of my photo layer so I could try the tool.  Nothing happened.  What layer am I suppose to use?  I tried looking up the different types of layers in Affinity using the help but the instructions were all designed for experts who already know what each type of layer is.

i tried duplicating the photo layer so I could try the healing brush but I found no option for creating a duplicate  layer on top of my photo layer.  So is there no way to create a duplicate layer with Affinity Photo?  If there is where is that option hiding?

The only way I have found to use the healing brush is to work on the original layer.  I do not want to do it this way.  Why can’t I find the option for duplicating a layer?

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The ‘Duplicate’ command is the first option on the Commands menu, accessed via the ellipsis (‘...’) icon.

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Or.. Select your layer, press anywhere on screen until context menu pops up. Select Duplicate on context menu. Done. :)

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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  • 2 years later...
9 hours ago, MBweb said:

The Apple pencil would not set the source for the Healing brush - only fingertouch worked for me.

Correct. Affinity's pencil setup is unable to register a long press. Pity, as it’s not an iOS issue.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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