Drawing problem with Paintbrush, Pencil & Eraser leaving a trail of multi-shaded over

[garysch37]

(09-03-2023, 02:55 AM)PixLab Wrote:

(09-02-2023, 09:59 PM)garysch37 Wrote: Any ideas?

Thanks for replying, but I don't understand why you can't access my image via that link to my Dropbox, since if I go into another browser to view my post as a Guest, the link works and I can see my image. Are you saying when you click my Dropbox link you get an error?

When I tried earlier to "Insert an image", the image displayed as a "?", so I abandoned that method and did a link instead. Anyway, I'll insert my image via its Dropbox URL now:



I'll also include my image as an attachment.

Thanks,
Gary

Quote:Oh Yes!, but it would be only a guess as we can't access your doc -> make it public


You can post a screenshot here directly in the forum -> https://www.gimp-forum.net/misc.php?action=help&hid=11 ,
when you do a screenshot make sure that the tool is selected, the Tool Options dialog as well and the layer's stack dialog

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(09-03-2023, 07:20 AM)rich2005 Wrote:

(09-02-2023, 09:59 PM)garysch37 Wrote: All of a sudden, while I was working on a Gimp document, in Gimp 2.10 on my Mac, instead of drawing a regular brush/pencil stroke, started drawing a weird "trail" of overlapping circles in my foreground colour at different shades and opacities. This happens with both the Paintbrush and Pencil tools, and in fact it also erases with the Erase tool in the same fashion.

Quote:The first thing to check are the tool options, in particular the dynamic settings but also the brush spacing.  Try a reset.

That's it! I must have accidentally turned Dynamics on. It was a bit of a challenge (bad UX), but I managed to turn if off. I don't know why a full Gimp app uninstall and reinstall did NOT reset that, but it didn't! I originally suspected something with Dynamic Options in my tool, but the user interface is so bad (in my professional opinion, as I am a UX specialist), that I didn't see it. Thanks, Rich, for confirming that it was a dynamics issue. I've also never used dynamics, so I was totally unfamiliar with it, COMPLETELY, lol.

Problem solved!

Thanks,
Gary