amcd Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Should usually work right out of the box, though not sure what you mean with "Desktop page", do you mean for a new document? paintbrush.mp4 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amcd Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 Yes...... a new document cheers..... amcd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amcd Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 Yes, I see your animation and that confirms it should work, but not for me... I am thinking of a re-install????? cheers.. amcd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 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? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amcd Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 Thank You Walt..... FIXED Cheers.. amcd walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 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). Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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