Inpainting Brush Tool

[John van Barneveld]

The first "Getting Started" tutorial shows the use of the inpainting brush tool.  My newly downloaded Affinity does not have one.  The brush selections in mine appear to be slightly different to the one in the tutorial.  How do I get the inpainting brush tool selected?

 

[stokerg]

Hi John van Barneveld and Welcome to the Forums,

Click on the little flyout where the Healing Brush Tool (looks like a plaster) and you'll see the Inpainting Brush  

[Alfred]

This question comes up so very often! It’s far from obvious that the Inpainting Brush Tool is hiding in the same toolbar flyout as the Healing Brush Tool and other repair tools.

[stokerg]

49 minutes ago, Alfred said:

This question comes up so very often! It’s far from obvious that the Inpainting Brush Tool is hiding in the same toolbar flyout as the Healing Brush Tool and other repair tools. 

Would make for a good improvement suggestion so it wasn't grouped with anything else.

Personally ,i've used View>Customise Tools to add it to the tools, but can see how having it on it's own by default would save a lot questions.

[Alfred]

13 minutes ago, stokerg said:

Would make for a good improvement suggestion so it wasn't grouped with anything else.

Personally ,i've used View>Customise Tools to add it to the tools, but can see how having it on it's own by default would save a lot questions.

Even just having it listed first in the group would save a lot of questions!

[stokerg]

6 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Even just having it listed first in the group would save a lot of questions!

I'll get an improvement request logged Monday, if it hasn't already been logged  

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

This question comes up so very often! It’s far from obvious that the Inpainting Brush Tool is hiding in the same toolbar flyout as the Healing Brush Tool and other repair tools.

If nothing else, it would be helpful if all the Tool panel icons that hid fly-out options indicated that in a more visually obvious way.

One way to do that which should be easy to implement is to enlarge the little triangular overlay in the corner of these icons a bit & increase its brightness, or contrast.   Back before the apps got the Light UI option, I dug around in the app's resources in the Mac version & found that the triangle was in fact a separate overlay file (a png with transparency, IIRC), & that I could edit that file to make it one pixel thicker & bright red without breaking anything.

Not only did that make it easier to tell that the icon had fly-out options, it also increased the area where clicking opened the fly-out, which made it easier to do that instead of accidentally selecting the current tool.

When I updated to the Light UI versions, my little hack was removed & I never got around to trying it again, but I suspect it would still work ... & be very easy for the devs to implement.