Affinity Photo Paint Brush not working on .afphoto desktop

[amcd]

I am trying to create a new picture in Affinity Photo 1.6.7 for Mac ( I am not trying to edit a placed bitmap image).

I notice that the Paintbrush tool does not work on a new Desktop page which I assume is an .afphoto file.. (The pen tool seems to work OK.)

I fear I must be missing something about editing/creating in .afphoto format?

I am aware that if I export the file to a bitmap format and then reopen in AP that the paintbrush works. I can't believe this is really necessary???

Would appreciate some advice on this.

cheers amcd

 

 

[v_kyr]

Should usually work right out of the box, though not sure what you mean with "Desktop page", do you mean for a new document?

[amcd]

Yes...... a new document

 

cheers..... amcd

[amcd]

Yes, I see your animation and that confirms it should work, but not for me...

I am thinking of a re-install?????

 

cheers.. amcd

 

[walt.farrell]

You may have noticed in that video the popup indicating that the Assistant automatically created a pixel layer for the brush to paint on.

That action by the Assistant is optional, and controlled by the options specified in the Assistant Manager (menu View > Assistant Manager), specifically:

Do you have the options set that way?

[amcd]

Thank You Walt..... FIXED

Cheers.. amcd

[Pšenda]

6 hours ago, amcd said:

new Desktop page

New Document is empty container for objects (curves, shapes,..), bitmaps, layers,...

Pen insert curve object. For Paintbrush, and other pixel manipulation tool, must create/insert pixel object/image (either manually or with an assistant).