twtw Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Hi, When using the clone brush, the cloned bit doesn’t end up corresponding exactly to the original bit... It is extremely annoying as it makes the overall cloned bit much smoother. As you can see on the attached image, regardless to the hardness of the brush the results are both disappointing. Both were made with opacity at 100% . Any ideas how to solve this? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Looks ok here. Top circle is original. Bottom is cloned. Can you make a screen recording showing your settings and post here. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 Notice the pixels position and opacity of the upper bit of the original circle (bottom) and the same cloned bit (top). They are not the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Which brush do you have assigned to the clone tool? You also have pressure setting turned on (little symbol on the right with the blue circle around it). That may effect brush intensity. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I tried selecting a hard brush, painting a circle and then using clone tool to copy. I can’t see any difference between them. could you attach your file and I’ll see if I get the same effect as you. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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twtw Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 I added the project right below the image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 @twtw Hi, I've used your file and created a copy layer for working on. You can see my Clone tool settings. I am using the 'round' brush from the supplied Basic category. I have set (assigned) this brush to be my Clone brush. When brushes are assigned there names show (I find this helpful - but a little off topic). The screen video shows me cloning different parts of your image. First a rectangle and then a dotted line. I have zoomed right in on each of the cloned areas to show the pixel sharpness. C16D57F6-C3BB-4654-BB6E-ABAB44B8B290.MP4 Affinity iPad Student 1 Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 There is no way I can change this.... In the attached video i am starting a new project, and without touching any parameters I clone a pixeled scribble that looks obviously different when cloned... I don’t know what to do... 8AE90DE5-BCA8-4BB2-BA94-F7924A1C23A4.MP4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 @twtw I suspect it is an issue with the brush settings assigned to the clone tool. I can't see what brush you have selected with the clone tool. Try setting a hard round brush as the default 'Clone' brush. All this does is assign that brush whenever you pick the Clone tool. The attached video shows how to do this. The attached photo shows a black painted background with a white 1 pixel wide line painted with the pixel brush, as you did in your screen video. I then selected my clone tool and 'cloned' a section of the pixel line, making a perfect copy. This suggests it is a setting and not a shortcoming in AP. Please try setting up the brush as shown and see if that works for you. 0E64DFA3-1C64-4141-A120-CB6A2E416078.MP4 Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Well, I guess I’ve been cursed with a personal bug.. In the following video I start a new project, reset parameters to default, assign a brush to the clone tool, and clone some pixels. The results haven’t changed a bit.... BA270205-0DDE-4A14-A39C-BB507C638DF9.MP4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 What, you have a 'feature' no one else has. Gotta be positive. Have to admit I'm out of my depth. Brush shouldn’t make a difference but setting it the same as mine just eliminates brush issues. I can see you have a problem and you can see I don't, when doing exactly the same thing. At least you know that the app IS capable of accurate cloning. I'm assuming you are running an iOS release version and NOT a beta? That may cause issues. I'm running 12.1. Grabbing at straws now... 1. If using an Apple Pencil maybe check the tip is tight and in good condition. Better yet try a new tip or borrow another AP. 2. Try turning off Touch for Gestures in Settings. Then try cloning using your finger instead of the pencil. (That will rule out pencil issues). 3. If it is still not cloning properly, Uninstall/Reinstall app (drastic but sometimes it helps). Save any files you don’t wish to lose before taking this step. 4. Pull out remaining hair, smash device, jump up and down while yelling loudly ..... Er, Maybe better to give step 4 a miss. @Lee D Can mods offer any assistance further assistance here. I'm out of ideas. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 @twtw I notice in the screen shot for your clone brush settings that the brush outline is very fuzzy. Compare that to the clone brush outline for my brush, which is very sharp. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Except deleting and reinstalling the app I did everything and nothing worked. I do think it might be the only thing that could work, but since I am currently working on a big project and I don’t want anything funny to happen with my files, I will try to do it once I finish it and update later. If it won’t work I will report a bug. As for the brush edges, its simply the hardness. But I tried doing it with sharp edges and it didn’t work either. Thank you for your help! I’ll update soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 Hi, A few months have passed already since I reported this bug. Now, after uninstalling and reinstalling the app, resetting all the parameters, the bug persists... It is very unusual I couldn’t read about anyone else reporting the same issue, it seems absurd I am the only user that encountered this problem. The software is up to date and the iPad I am using is the 2017 iPad Pro... Is there anything else I can do? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 We are all waiting for the next release v1.7. Maybe that will be better for you. Quote 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtw Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 Hi, The new version for iPad is out and it absolutely didn’t fix the bug I have. Seems it even got worse... Is there a way I can report a bug? Is there something I can do? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gmlutz Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 I’ve got the same behaviour too on an iPad pro, 13 inches with iPadOS 13.1 . This seems to apply to all cloning / pasting tools, including the healing brush, the clone tool and the patch tool. I believe the issue Twtw and me have is a lack of the `force pixel alignment` option for those tools on the ipad app (or it is well-hidden enough that I could not find it). (See link for a discussion for the desktop app). Could this function be added to the app? For certain editing tasks like greyscale-images with patterns this is a huge drawback compared to apps with pixel-perfect copy-pasting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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