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Affinity Photo Paint Brush not working on .afphoto desktop


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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

 

 

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

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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:

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Do you have the options set that way?

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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).

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