Brush softness stuck at 0, greyed out.
2018-01-24 15:59:29
Is this a bug? I've spent 45 minutes trying to figure out some way to ungrey out the softness option, I can't paint on anything.
2018-01-26 07:00:08
Hey Sebastiaan,
Is it true that many of the brushes do not allow a softness setting? For instance, the softness on all the stock pencil brushes cannot be changed.
2019-02-03 20:45:58
Hello,
It's a year later and this bug is still present. I'm using the free trial for the first time, and I like the app, but I'm suspicious of no updates in a year.
It's a year later and this bug is still present. I'm using the free trial for the first time, and I like the app, but I'm suspicious of no updates in a year.
2019-02-04 15:36:48
Hey there, Sebastiaan was actually a little too quick to write this off as a bug — it isn't. Softness can be changed for the basic brushes only and this behavior is exactly the same in the original Pixelmator as well. Any texture-based brushes essentially have the Softness "baked in", that particular option was simply less visible as it was only in the Brushes palette. I guess having it in the Tool Options pane makes it seem like a potential bug.
2019-02-04 16:48:36
I still consider it a bug. A softness of 0 would a opacity of of 0 for the pattern and softness of 100 would opacity of 100 for the pattern. Or perhaps a softness of 0 represent the pattern as is and as the softness increased, so would the blur of the pattern. That can not be accomplished with a "baked in" softness. I know I'm fighting battle, here, but just because that’s the way it was in the orginal Pixelmator still doesn’t make most beneficial and flexible for the users..
2019-02-05 10:02:48
That I can agree with — for now, you could do this manually by double-clicking the brush to edit it, dragging out the Shape texture into the Layer list, applying a Focus blur to it, then dragging the layer back into the Shape texture image well and inverting it. That's a bit of a long-winded process and I think we could add this setting to the Brush tool in some way for both textures, but it's a feature request more than a bug, so I just wanted to clear that up.
2019-07-21 01:39:35
Cannot find any brushes that leave a smooth image. All are either streaky or blotchy. I'm so missing a good smooth watercolour brush and a good smooth airbrush I used to have in Photoshop.