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I suppose it could work as well setting the 4th mouse button assigned to a tablet button; but can’t confirm as only tested in a pen’s side button. You could just set directly “alt” in any of the two and avoid so X-mouse entirely, but again, that proved to me not responsive enough in Photo, for some reason indeed, was faster with the pure keyboard key, but not enough. Then, like with Wacom’s Windows panel, it shows a list of the apps running currently didn’t make a screenshot, but it’s simple enough , and let’s you choose one.

Choose Photo. And then be sure that “Photo” is selected in the list as the profile to edit see screen below. Then you start to configure this X- mouse Button profile for Photo. Where it says “mouse button 4″ , set there ” simulated keys “. A new window for editing the “simulated keys” settings will appear. Be sure to select at the right of the screen ” 1 As mouse button is pressed ” , and the 3 check boxes at the left, make sure only “Block original mouse input” is checked, the other two, blank.

I think it installs by default to load shows up in tray with your Windows start, as is not comfy otherwise if you don’t get it enabled, can check in your Windows settings, then “Start”. Or in your task manager ctrl shift esc , in the “start-up” tab. Or using MsConfig in Windows older than 8. So it is a “set once and forget”. I use it with all of my apps, 2D and 3D. It seems very light. Very importantly, one needs then to remember that with this trick you don’t “click” with the pen tip, to pick the color.

Just side click on the pen’s side button. Again, as Wacom can operate “in air”, click buttons without the tip touching the tablet, and the left mouse button LMB clicking is like already “happening in the command”. But some alternative brands’ tablets do need to actually touch the tablet with the tip when any side button is pressed, to register a button press, I can only fully guarantee it works and with performance with ANY Wacom. Surely does with any tablet, though. But I get used to it surprisingly fast.

You could still click, it’ll pick the color fine, but sometimes then could make that one color pick slower or paint some unwanted dots it happens in that occasion because I forget I’m using Photo, it is not an issue, not for me. I paint not only very fast and fluid with Photo now, but also on huge canvases x pixels!

In RGB 16 bits! And no lag, yay. And huge ones to block by playing with big spacing setting, hard brushes, and making very few things dynamic. And all this in 16 bits mode, for smoother shades and gradients with the brush. It works great for me. I will be using CSP, SAI2 this for gigantic canvases and Krita for many projects, but many others also illustration need Photo’s features, by all means.

Probably the majority of what I paint, Photo seems will end up as main main painting app. I was forgetting the url of the tool. BTW, I’m completely unrelated to this person, I gain nothing. You could still click, it’ll pick the color fine, but sometimes then could get slower or paint some unwanted dots it happens because I forgot I’m using Photo, it is not an issue, not for me.

I paint not only very fast and fluid with photo now, but also on huge canvases 15x12k pixels , by making modifications of the basic round brush I get painterly results thanks to good use of the flow-pressure feature and just painting I use large brushes And huge ones to block by playing with big spacing setting, and making very few things dynamic. And yet it goes fluid machine specs below in the signature. Probably the majority of what I paint.

Thank you very much! It works very well for me now. Is there a way to set up the 4th buttom on keyboard?

The pen buttom works fine, but on keyboard it would be perfect. That was the idea of posting such a long tutorial-thread!. Getting more painters in here. And making my struggles-solutions useful for more people. If you get stuck with anything painting related, let me know in PM or here, I reply in PM when I think it’s more proper to the forum rules or original topic, but IMO this is on-topic , as I have solved pretty much any obstacle to make Photo a practical painting tool for me.

Let me give it a thought to that of making the 4th button trick linked to keyboard, gotta find a way I just use the pen’s side button for alt picking since always, so hadn’t thought of that. You can post now and register later.

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I have confirmed that it is much faster than before. But it’s still slow compared to Photoshop. Thank you. Sorry, I’ve been incredibly busy these days. Just a quick note to say that I will be replying to everyone very soon, including that PM Halex , explaining everything needed. Ok, sorry everyone for my delay in getting back here and in PMs.

I believe I finally will explain it directly here, I hope the team won’t get slightly mad, as it involves a 3rd party tool NOT in the list of incompatible ones. But I’ve become more busy past days, and I can see at least there are 3 artists posting the same issue, surely way more ehm, anyone painting This chunk is a bit off topic about the advantages in using Photo as a painter.

Sorry, I think Inivision removed the “spoiler” tag. Probably because painting and alt-color-picking is also a huge priority in photo retouch! But just to follow that line of reasoning, these are not strictly digital painting apps Designer is mostly vector illustration, imo, it’s a very different animal compared to typical raster digital painting like art rage, etc.

What I do is sort of trickery to use an app to Can’t ask for support for that! Not willing to generate a debate, it is just how I feel about it. More a ” I will adapt the hammer” rather than wait for the hammer to adapt itself. It is more about “planning” than insisting, in that regard. Maybe there’s some exception out there. About why Photo instead of I’m a painter since a kid and am almost 50, now and I started with oils, acrylics, pastels.

What I do in digital painting is something pretty similar to what I would do with oils, for example. Not meaning mimicking fully oils or the like. While, imo we all got it wrong Digital painting is just another brush. You don’t paint wit a watercolor brush trying it to look and behave like an oils one, either It is a matter of adapting to the technique. Just the same as we adapt to gouache or oils limitations and its nature, digital painting is ok to have its own “footprint” and still be IMO full Painting.

This is reason number one why I think Photo is more complete for most painterly illustrators doing real life projects with clients, requirements, etc, than many of those super fancy “specialized” apps It’s a better choice than those “painting apps” that lack crucial image related key features, good color management, enough bit depth, good selections, pro PDF export, and etc, etc,etc.

But I am almost alone in that opinion, it seems, among artists mostly those younger than me :D. The problem is actually when it doesn’t pick at much slower pace.

I don’t notice it anymore. In a stress test like in that video, yep, I’m sure it is still faster, because I have always noticed that. Or the overall experience disguise it so much that I don’t notice it. I’ve been pointing out the alt picking issue much earlier bunch of years than this thread. Until I solved it for my use. Which IMO at the end is sth we all got a do it to some extent with With PS and MAX, in every job, I have needed to invent workflows that were not supported neither documented in manuals or any ultra geek forum, even.

And was that or not to release a demo the following day, lol. The one thing I dream of, and is yet remaining, although not a show stopper enough to deter me from painting almost everything now with Photo, is that we don’t have a way to make Photo memorize and many other settings to be remembered , this is a global petition from people; I suspect it requires a huuuge overhaul, and that is key that the color sampler would work with a 3×3 pixels sample, or 5×5 instead of 1×1 default.

Which becomes important with large canvases and textured brushes where picking a dark textured dot would be much darker due to an odd dark pixel than the whole average of color of that “point”. But this thing happens in every app. The trick , is in these forums explained old thread with a too large and almost unreadable tutorial. It’s very simple, tho: Using a free windows app X-Mouse Button Control that intercepts mouse clicks can so indirectly act over your pen config and how it interacts with a specific app and actions using ANY app in your desktop, allowing you to “translate” those to whatever is your preference in both pen and mouse.

In practice, overriding in a way some apps’ defaults. And one would think that such thing should be slow , but in reality, I am not seeing any loss in performance I try it on and off, to check , and I am very demanding in that, as I use huge canvases and need to paint very fast, the brush to be very snappy, etc.

I believe it avoids the problem of the alt somehow because it avoids the “physical” clicking on “alt” key, fools the the bug, maybe. And somehow, setting simply the alt key in the Wacom side button I do that in every app is still too slow and unreliable with Photo for very fast painting, so I resorted to a more complex trick: With the freebie utility it seems I got it solved just finished a very large realistic painting using solely Photo.

Can’t show. They are all too outdated, many of the lacks ie, zoom with wheel that the af. It intercepts those clicks. Basically, in your main pen’s panel found at Control panel or Windows settings -ie, the Wacom panel- after adding Photo as a customized app as you don’t want this behavior for other apps, I configure each app in the Wacom panel you set a 4th mouse or 5th, the idea is you DON’T have such button in your actual mouse to be assigned to one of your pen’s side buttons in Wacom it works, but depends on if a XP-Pen or Huion has that functionality in the pen’s driver panel, hopefully yep, it’s I suppose it could work as well setting the 4th mouse button assigned to a tablet button; but can’t confirm as only tested in a pen’s side button.

You could just set directly “alt” in any of the two and avoid so X-mouse entirely, but again, that proved to me not responsive enough in Photo, for some reason indeed, was faster with the pure keyboard key, but not enough. Then, like with Wacom’s Windows panel, it shows a list of the apps running currently didn’t make a screenshot, but it’s simple enough , and let’s you choose one.

Choose Photo. And then be sure that “Photo” is selected in the list as the profile to edit see screen below. Then you start to configure this X- mouse Button profile for Photo.

Where it says “mouse button 4″ , set there ” simulated keys “. A new window for editing the “simulated keys” settings will appear. Be sure to select at the right of the screen ” 1 As mouse button is pressed ” , and the 3 check boxes at the left, make sure only “Block original mouse input” is checked, the other two, blank.

I think it installs by default to load shows up in tray with your Windows start, as is not comfy otherwise if you don’t get it enabled, can check in your Windows settings, then “Start”. Or in your task manager ctrl shift esc , in the “start-up” tab. Or using MsConfig in Windows older than 8. So it is a “set once and forget”. I use it with all of my apps, 2D and 3D. It seems very light. Very importantly, one needs then to remember that with this trick you don’t “click” with the pen tip, to pick the color.

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That yes, I also have to say that in the rest except for the bug the progress is incredible, and it is a pleasure to use affinity photo, maybe if at some point I become a photographer, I will use it more.

At the moment, for painting I will continue to wait for at least a decent color selector and color picker, and enjoying painting in other programs. All the best. Hi Pluscuamperfecto ,.

Thanks for your feedback – I would recommend posting in the relevant sections of the forums, so our developers can see and consider implementing these changes:.

I hear you. I had the exact same issues. I paint now with A. Photo, accurately, fast and comfortably. And of the raster kind, reason why I prefer Photo I use designer for a lot of graphic design. I’ve had several problems to do exactly that, paint comfortably with Photo.

While these apps lack of a lot of really essential functionality that Photo and PS does have, for work that is not just for hobby.

The thing is that it is doable, I’m using Photo exactly for that. I actually had to use totally different settings than you did, to get good performance no freaking idea why.

Thing is, I had already very good performance with Windows Ink, and the standard default Photo preferences. Textured brushes ie, Daub’s etc look great in 8 bits, or that’s my impression. But all good, as anyway I prefer to work in 16, now that I finally have hardware for that.

So, maybe that thread of tricks is only for those wanting to do such projects and yet might not work. And maybe Krita struggles, tho despite how cool it is, less performance than with Photo and CSP, by far.

Moving and transforming selections at that size in Krita is so slow that can’t do it accurately. With my tricks, I paint now with px brushes in 12kx16k px, 16 bits, comfortably. As the brushes, u need them to be amazing and featured way later than when blocking the first large areas of color, IMO. My tips but maybe I’m wrong, it just works for me! Maybe the settings have changed since then, as I solved some smaller performance and etc issues, and I had a problem of randomly not being able to select the menus had to close the app and save using keys only, hehe , after a while working so, the preferences screens more valid are the below!

That problem is also gone. But this working for me so well, I think it depends only on my very peculiar configuration 2 screens might be heavy for the , so that disabling openCL dunno if a low end nVidia card does well with OpenCL, anyway might work better, etc. Although the 2 monitors at a time might compensate, as that could be more taxing.

I remember setting “calidad baja” low quality in Renderizado Retina , made a huge change in performance in my painting workflow. Dunno why, but it did. Not “baja precision” , as that brings problems even with the lasso tool, to make stuff accurate. Each of these changes did seem to add a bit more performance each, till the current status. IMO, always listen to better than to other users what the staff here recommends on each matter.

But before abandoning totally the app which would be a pity as it CAN be I’m the proof like having a full non subscription Photoshop for what is needed for painting gigs I just use currently Designer more and Affinity shines like no other suite with that “edit in the other one” stuff , and prefer to not have it activated when doing raster And surely the last screen, “General” has absolutely nothing to do with these issues.

Also, don’t trust me too much on settings in this or the other screens, these just work for me for painting super smoothly. But hey, try this before deciding to stop using photo. Yup, agreed. In my experience, if pulled as an independent panel not docked I can get the window bigger, but not the actual wheel bigger to pick colors in a more zoomed in way.

I’d love it larger, but I’m kind of handling it fine, though. And yes, I do as well would need to have both the HSL sliders and the wheel not one or the other. As both are essential. Indeed, HSV is better, as value is more important for painting, but that’s one of the things I can live without even although I miss it I have other ways and habits to check values while painting. Also, I get that his is a Photo graphy app the name is very explicit , so, it makes sense to use sliders that are more practical for photographers and related.

IMO in its current state Photo works great for general image editing, painting, comic, technical treatment of images, and graphic design basically every area.

I’ve been years thinking I’d never use Photo for painting. Now I use it for everything raster, including painting. Or proper color management, etc that those apps are far from having or even ever getting.

Sometimes I just do the more painterly work in those, and then import PD: I am not even linking X-Mouse Button free windows-only utility, as I don’t want to be seen like pushing people to use external tools, after seeing there is even a list of external apps that cause problems I think x-mouse button control cause none, is not in the list, But went ahead and made a tool long tutorial here, for those needing such, years ago , but not going to link them.

If you want to go “extreme” like I did or before deciding to forget about Photo , it’s on you! But this is the only way I could get a very fast as fast as any painting tool alt picking technique with Photo, and good performance.

I did not mind what would it take. For the general public I recommend not to use external tools I’ll keep doing it, indeed, I do it actually with many other non serif apps to not change so much my usual shortcuts, habits and mouse buttons between apps, and very happy about it.

I can PM you tips with X-Mouse and etc or better said, answer to question of doubts while using it, as is not an easy app to handle , private message only, to not expand here about third party utilities. Yet tho I can’t guarantee it will work on your PC, I have only my own situation as a proof, and as much as it works great here, that’s cr4p for statistics.

Eizo ColorEdge CS monitor. Windows I’m interesting know more about that X-Mouse. I’ve sent you a private message. Hello SrPx , thank you very much for your comment, as you say if I would prefer to use affinity exactly for the reasons you comment. I don’t use a lot of brushes, and the things I do use are much better. Really, in my case, everything works fine and the ones that I don’t understand are being solved over time because they are bugs and they don’t really affect me too much.

Even the color selection window gets past it. But what really tires me, is not that affinity doesn’t bother to add more features for the painters something that could be missed , but something that seems that they don’t consider a bug, for me it’s a design decision that could be close to being.

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