Alexolotlechuga Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 I use the brush and eraser of varying hardness for many applications. Whether it be for quick shadows, gradients, and vignettes. Pre 5.0, the brush and eraser with a hardness of 0 was very smooth, just like that of a gradient. In 5.0, the same brush I think looks more organic, but not what I desire. The effect which I describe is more apparent in large brush sizes, which I rely on. I found that changing the spacing to about 10% makes it smoother (still not as perfect as before), but it looses the intensity of the color (i.e. painting solid black on solid white will look grey). I see this change becoming a nuisance and a serious hurdle for the things I like to create in PDN. I hope there can be some kind of toggle for legacy brush behavior. I apologize if this came off a little unappreciative. Let me know what you think. I don't have any good photo examples of the pre-5.0 brush unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Sangheili Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I completely agree. I hope they change it back or at least add the option to use the previous brush version. Until then I'm now using an old version of Paint.net. The update was good, but this subtle change makes it unusable for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexolotlechuga Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 I've managed with using the brush with a spacing of 25% and hardness 0%. It's not like the old soft brush exactly, but it's close enough. I admit that I was making this out to be worse than it is when I discovered this new behavior initially. I would still love to have that option, but I doubt anything will be done about it as it is intentional. I will get used to the new brush. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Sangheili Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 (edited) Hmmmm...interesting. On the old version I'm currently using, if I use a brush with size 500 and hardness 0%, and I click in the same spot about 15 times, the effect is very similar to the new brush in 5.0. So yes, the reason the new brush looks so different is because we were using it with spacing 1%. Before 5.0 the spacing was done automatically depending on the size of the brush, which helped a 0% hardness brush not look weird or bad. So I propose that we get a toggle for automated spacing, like in the previous versions. That would help immensely with 0% hardness. Unless the spacing in 5.0 increases with the size of the brush... Edited February 7 by Some Sangheili Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 12 minutes ago, Some Sangheili said: So I propose that we get a toggle for automated spacing, like in the previous versions. "Automated spacing" is just the default value of 15%. That's the same behavior as pre-5.0. (the value wasn't exactly 15% due to nuanced differences in the old vs. new brush engine, but it's pretty close) 12 minutes ago, Some Sangheili said: Unless the spacing in 5.0 increases with the size of the brush... It's a percent because it is proportional to the brush size. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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