Apps: Designer
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
Affinity Designer now includes a new width tool which is available by default alongside the pencil tool in your toolbar:
The Line Width Tool gives you an on-document way of editing the pressure profile of any curve. For example the curve below has 3 pressure points (5 including the start and end pressure). While in the Line Width tool the position of those points are shown along the curve, and you have the ability to drag to change the width and position of them.
You can also click to add a new pressure point, or double click to remove any pressure point on a curve.
There are various modifiers available which you can see in the status bar:
Shift + Drag - allows you to modify the width at any point without adjusting it's position
Cmd (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) + Click - manually enter the width required at the chosen point
Ctrl (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) + Drag - move the point position without adjusting the width
Double click - remove pressure point
Additionally you will find some other options in the context toolbar when using this tool:
Adjust Line Weight - if this is turned on then should you drag the width of any point to be greater than the current line width (i.e. greater than 100% pressure) the line width will be increased to allow you to drag the width unrestricted. If it is turned off then the maximum width you can drag to is 100% of the set line width.
Allow point reordering - This option allows to you to specify whether you want to allow the tool to drag one point past another along the curve, effectively swapping their order, or not.
Snap to curve nodes - This will show any nodes on the curve as small white dots and will snap any pressure points to those nodes
Snap to widths on same curve - this will snap the width at any pressure point on a curve to other widths which already exist on that curve. This only applies when holding shift (i.e. you are adjusting the width without altering the point position).
Snap to curve geometry - this will snap the width to the geometry of any selected curves (again if you are holding shift).
Get our FREE Canvas Creator and give your digital art the authenticity it deserves!
Infinite Canvas Creator features a range of real-world artist’s textures and papers – perfect for showcasing your designs and illustrations. The canvas textures include watercolor paper, canvas, vintage parchment, chalkboard and more!
All textures were sourced from the real thing and have been supplied as seamless, repeat patterns so, you can fill infinite areas without untidy edges.
Hue Range Masks give you much more power and flexibility when masking based on colors. Today we’ll look at how to use the Hue Range Mask feature in Affinity Photo, along with ways to combine them with adjustment layers.
We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.4.20
This build is available as a (sandboxed) MSIX application installer and as an (unsandboxed) MSI/EXE traditional installer.
Please see this FAQ thread for instructions on how to access the unsandboxed MSI/EXE version.
The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.4.2 are listed in this FAQ forum post:
Those are the changes made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.4.0 & 2.4.1
To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer ).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The Windows builds only automatically checks once per day. In the Help menu there is a manual "Check for Updates". The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (those installers are NOT for customers who made Microsoft Store purchases).
If you've purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.
Project Brush Set 08 Organics
Used as brush set to supplement Camouflage III Project
Updated the brush set to version 2 Should work much better now!
Changes/improvements as below
Version 2.0
1. Removed old versions redundant now..
2. Made significant changes to the brush dynamics and nozzles. All nozzles are now vector based replacing previous raster versions (as much as possible)
3. There is a significant number of new nozzles for the brushes Which means they are not like original sets..
4. Made use of the 1.7/1.8.2 brush engine in AD/AP using subBrushes.
5. The old brush set was appearing darker and less intense with 1.7/1.8 update...I have fixed that with this version!
6. Updated the Sample sheets to newer (latest) layout..Sub brushes are displayed in red.
7. Introduced a lot of new base textures
8. Organics Set 01 replaces the original Project Brush 08 set. There are 3 x 30 in the full project
Archived the Older Brush set and updated Library information
Yes!! Super glad I can finally share this Music Video Visuals with Character Animations now. Put a lot of work, time and effort into this one and had to 'kill many darlings' during the process, but with no regrets!
Design and Illustrations were all made in Affinity Designer. Also the new Spiral tool was great for doing the inner wound tapes! That tool arrived just in time!
Animation was completely done in Moho 14 Pro. I've made and audio mastered the music, and also programmed Moho plugin scripts to use the Affinity Designer Spine JSON export to export all graphics as trimmed PNG's and import these with all auto-positioning into Moho quickly and easily. I've also written a script to animate the tape deck by keyframing on speed and accelerations instead of animating on angles.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I had while creating it! 🙂
And if you do, please also like it on Youtube for the algorithm and stuff! Would be nice!
Video (for backstage/making of; see below in this thread! ) :
Working on series of brush sets based on Inktober 2018.(here)
Project Brush inkBrush Vector -Render
Built for flat inking and to extend inkBrush Vector - Paint
Consists of 30 Vector Brushes:
Flat colour painting for use with Blend mode/s:Average AND/OR Controller:Pressure OR Opacity settings OR Solid and tint colour values
Mixing with opacity
Layering with average
Sample PDF as attached
Zip file with 30 vector brushes
Catalogue of FREE resources SAMPLES added to the Forum
1. Brush Library | 2. Asset Library | 3. Styles | 4. Information
Brush Library Sample sets from personal 'Affinity Brush Project'
1. Current uploaded Samples from Brush Library (Forum Sets are not full library versions!)
2. Placed into categories for reference.
3. Ignored older sets/threads (4)...as have been updated by newer an better versions (Mostly relating to Texture Brushes/hatching and Dots)
Application Versions
These are the Brushes that have been edited for Version 2. This includes mostly changes affecting the addition of: sub-brushes and the new 'Distance' option in Dynamics. These are great additions to the brush engine and use them lots. The newer brush sets and edited older versions have mostly updated to accommodate these additional features
I have added my V2 updated list directly out the Folder just for reference
Zombie Special| Set 04 Ammonite A2" | Set 08 Organics A2" | Set 15 Textured INK A2" |Set 15 Textured Pencils A2" | Set 17 Concept A2" | Set 17 Concept Painter A2"| Set 17 Concept Texture Base A2" | Set 17 Concept Texture INK A2"| Set 19 Inker" | Set 19 Inker Texture Toolkit"| Set 21 Scratch and Scribble"| Set 23 Dino"| Set 28 Ink Stipple" | Set 29 Grass A2" | Set 30 Comic Grunge" | Set 31 Base Pattern Textures A2" | Set 32 Comic Concept" | Set 32 Comic Dot" | Set 32 Comic Sketch" | Set 33 Comic Ink Blocking" | Set 34 Graffiti" | Set 34 Graffiti Wall" | Set 35 Zombie" | Set 36 Speed INK" | Set 37 Concept Blocks"
Some sets have been re-listed without change
Sets- PB 29 upwards are essentially created in V2 Affinity Apps
Texture Brushes and older brush sets (Slowly being replaced!)
Archived as updated!
Texture Brushes (Archived)
Archived these 2 large brush sets Texture Brush Packs x12 and Texture Brush Packs x2
Better to use the updated and simpler version found under:
Project Brush 08 Organics (set 1 of 3 available)
Texture Brush Pack Fur Set 1 [120]
Texture Brush Packs (Hatching Version 3) [60] {There are 120 in total}
Updated to latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles including making use of rotation option in sub-brush
Version 2 has been archived!
Texture Brush Fur [30]
30 Raster fur brushes partially updated to version 02
Texture Paint [Mixed Nozzle Raster Brushes] [Sample Set]
Texture Paint [Mixed Nozzle Raster Brushes [Sample Set] [AD version 1.7]
Test version of Sample set using 1.7 Brush Engine
Texture Paint Effects [combined Brush Set] [AD version 1.7]
Test version of Sample set using 1.7 Brush Engine | Combination set using Texture Paint 08 and Project Set 08 (Organics) Brush sets.
Texture Paint Brushes [Group 1-4)] [120 texture brushes]
30 sample brushes from each of groups 1-4
120 Texture Paint Brushes and 30 small textured sketching brushes
Paint Brushes Set 1
Paint Brush Texture Sets 1 & 2
Nozzles
Added some nozzles so you can make your own brushes or patterns! (There are 1000's of these)
Nozzles:Texture Paint Brush Asset Library 01 [Nozzle Set]
Old Pattern Brushes (Archived)
Removed links to set pattern brushes replaced with: Project Brush 20: Pattern
Project Brushes
1. Project Brush Library 25 sets developed or in development...not all sets available on the forum
...and easier to work with....
2. Contains some reworked brushes but also 100's of new ones. (Set six for Poison is all new and the largest of the project sets [300 brushes;150 Raster, 150 Vector])
3. Includes some vector sets...
01 Project Brush Assets Hungry [Mixed Source]1 [30 Raster]
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility. with new collection of nozzles and base textures (not on Forum)
02 Project Brush Assets Crazy Tree [Mixed Source]2 [30 Raster | 30 Vector]
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility. with new collection of nozzles and base textures (not on Forum)
03 Project Brush Assets Big-T [Mixed Source]3 [30 Raster | 30 Vector]
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility.
Version 1.0 has been archived!
04 Project Brush Assets Ammonite [Mixed Source]4 [30 Raster | 30 Vector]
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility. Vector Nozzles match raster naming!
Version 1.0 has been archived!
Updated and added new Brush set for Affinity 02 (Dynamics: Distance) Affinity 01 Brush set retained!
05 Project Brush Assets Monster Club [Mixed Source]5 [30 Raster]
Updated to Version 02 with new collection of nozzles (not on Forum)
06 Project Brush Assets Poison Set 6 'Undergrowth' [150 Raster | 150 Vector]
Updated to Version 02 Renamed 'Undergrowth' and updated to 1.7 + Brush engine. All nozzles now vector. Re-factored all vector and raster brushes with new nozzles and adjusted brush dynamics. Scrapped original vector brushes.
Extended the original set with a new base vector brush set; Monochrome Pattern Styles; Vector Grunge assets: and seamless vector patterns based upon those styles
Undergrowth Base Vector Brushes 30 Vector base brushes similar to Render I. Used as the basis for all 'Undergrowth' vector brushes
Monochrome Styles based on Base Texture Seamless Patterns
Assets:
Compound Grunge Vectors for adding texture to objects
30 Seamless Vector Patterns that can be stacked, re-coloured, scaled or extracted as compound objects. Samples can be seen here
Old Brush sets are still available on forum but may need some manual adjustments to the brush dynamics here
07 Project Brush Set Ink.Version 02
(tutorial based on inkBrush Project can be found here: Creating Vector Brushes)
Work in Progress sample sheets for inkBrush Project
The largest of the Project sets Consisting of a 900 brush set collection with 350 supporting vector elements:
300 'Vector' based brushes
600 'Raster' based brushes (inc 30 stamp brushes)
350 Vector Assets for texturing objects
100+ Seamless Patterns
Released:
Vector
A. InkBrush - Vector - Render [30 Vector Brushes]
B. InkBrush - Vector - Linear [30 Vector Brushes]
C. InkBrush - Vector - RenderTexture [30 Vector Brushes]
Raster
A. InkBrush - Raster - Grunge (under project set 09)
Vector Patterns
A. InkBrush - Vector Patterns (compound paths) [50]
B. InkBrush - Vector Textures (compound paths and placement textures) [50]
08 Project Brush Organics Set 8 [30 Raster Brushes] Version 02
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility. Added a number of base textures
Version 1.0 has been archived! 150 mixed brush types!
Scrapped original raster brush set and replaced with more comprehensive set!.
The project set now contains a mix of 90 paint brushes with 30 (Set 01) available to replace original brush set Full set here
.. and ink versions for adding texture to ink drawings, supplementing the #inktober brush sets.
Organic Set A (INK)
Contains 30 raster INK brushes (Dynamics reset for inking)
Organic Set B (INK)
Contains 30 raster INK brushes (Dynamics reset for inking)
Organic Set C (INK)
Contains 30 raster INK brushes (Dynamics reset for inking)
Organics Base Texture Set (Ink)
Base texture Brush set added to allow access to all Organic Patterns
Updated For Affinity 2.0
09 Project Brush Grunge Set 09 (60 Raster Brushes)
Added Set 09: 30 RasterPaint Brushes
Added Set 09 [INK]: 30 Raster Brushes; modified version of the inktober 2018 Project Set (modified brush dynamics)
10 Project Brush 10 Set 01 Leaf [30 Raster Brushes] Version 02
30 Raster leaf brushes
11 Project Brush Assets Camouflage [180 Raster Brushes] Version 02
Experimental set based on Camouflage assets with released sample set [30] and Paint [30]
Project Brush Set with 6 Categories (Texture [30] | Bark Grunge [30] Leaves [30] | Canopy [30] | Effects | Paint [30])
Released:
Raster
A. Camouflage (Mixed Samples) [30]
Set consists of 30 Brushes in total with 8 brushes from Leaves; Grunge Bark; Textures plus 6 from Canopy
B. Camouflage:Paint Textures [30]
Set of 30 Paint Brushes based on Camouflage Assets
12 Project Brush Vector Paint [60 Vector Textured Brushes] Version 02
Vector Paint 01 | Vector Paint 02 | Vector Paint 03
60 shape masks with textured overlays partially based on inkBrush Render
Released:
Vector
Set of 30 Vector Brushes compiled from 5 separate brush sets:Render II | Linear II and Vector Texture 01, 02, 03
13. Project Brush Ink Painter [275 Raster Brushes] Version 02
Ink [30] | Paint [30] | Shader [30] | Texture [30] | Mesh [30] | Sketcher [35] | Micro Pattern [30] | Linear [30] Grunge [30]
Group set of raster brushes
Released:
Ink Sketching set to supplement Pencil Brushes
inkPainter Sketcher [35]
Released:
Organic Brush Special Set
An Experiment with variation on single base texture (30 Brushes) using limited nozzles and settings
There is a small sample set for organic brushes Organic Brush Test
Organic pattern Brush Set 01
30 raster Brushes with >15 vector based seamless patterns
15. Project Brush: Texture Pencils [30] Version 02
30 Raster brushes to mimic pencils for sketching with blend mode 'mostly' set to average
Updated and added new Brush set for Affinity 02 (Dynamics: Distance) Affinity 01 Brush set retained!
16. Project Brush Painter [60] Version 02
60 Raster Brushes defined in 2 sets: Painter | Grunge Painter
These are based on InkPainter Grunge and inkPainter Paint but with adjusted Brush Dynamics for painting
30 Raster Brushes (Grunge Painter) Version 02
30 Vector Brushes (Grunge Painter) Version 02
Collection of vector based brushes build from vector textures used in original raster set
Standard naming convention (mostly!) [vector and raster brushes share name]
1. Using the same nozzle structure (easy now as all vectors!)
2. Balanced naming for easier reference - so vector/raster brushes have same name (well mostly!)
17. Project Brush: Concept Brushes Version 02
40 raster Concept art brushes as a mix of inkers; texture patterns and distressed paint brushes. Complete re-working of the brush set with 7 additional brushes and a lot of changes to the inker brush content. New Greyscale base textures to build up pattern with every stroke.
Additional supporting sets:
Project Brush 17: Concept Texture
30 raster texture brushes to support concept brush set
Project Brush 17: Concept Painter
Large set of 60 raster paint brushes with bristle effect applied to the sub-brush. Supported with supplementary basic set of 15 bristle brushes for adding to the sub-brush menu
Project Brush 17: Concept Texture INK
Concept Texture Brushes with Dynamics Reset
Project Brush 17: Concept Texture COL
Concept Texture Brushes with HSL values edited to 'drift' colours as you paint...Useful for paint effects and brush texturing
Project Brush 17: Base Texture and Seamless Pattern
2 sets of brushes
a. 40 Base textures (Paint brushes without base patterns)
b. 40 Concept pattern paint brushes
Supplemented with 200 greyscale base textures
Updated For Affinity 2.0
18. Project Brush: Wild Background [30] Version 02
Set of 30 raster brushes based on a limited number of vector shapes used in backgrounds to compliment background builder kit
19. Project Brush: #Inktober Inker Version 02
2 large brush sets:
60 Inking Brushes
21 new inking brushes with large nozzles and manipulated through dynamics to create a ink pen/brush effect for line art (Grunge up your artwork!) and create a set that can be used as default for inking!
Mix of Grunge | Texture Painters | Micro Pattern I Organics Textures and basic comic patterns
Re-worked hatching and stipple brushes
60 Pattern Brushes with a mix of organic patterns and comic book fills includes some overlap with original inking brush set
Inker (Version 02) 2022
1. Makes use of PB 26 (Distressed), PB 09 (Grunge), PB 21 (Scratch and Scribble)
2. Switched out the stipple brushes for new ones from PB 03 (Big-T V2)
4. Re-edited the Sketch/Ink brushes using Dynamics graph to produce the variable stroke rather than a nozzle (much smoother!)
5. Updated base textures
Inker (Version 02) 2022 Sample set
Updated and added new Brush set for Affinity 02 (Dynamics: Distance) Affinity 01 Brush set retained!
Consists of 40 Raster brushes extracted from 7 inktober Brush sets.
1. PB Inker 19 (Used in 2020) from collection of 60...about to modify to version 3 so will be archived!
2. PB 19 Inker pattern (2020)
3. PB 26 Distressed Pattern (6) Blue
4. PB 26 Distressed Eraser (4) Orange
5. PB 26 Distressed Paint (4) Green
6. PB 19 Inker Texture (2022)
7. PB 30 Comic Grunge (2022)
Inker Toolkit
Inker (Version 3) Inker toolkit with 30 Base 40 Base texture brushes and 200 'Ink' seamless patterns (400 x 400px)
Base Texture Toolkit
Seamless Pattern Toolkits for all brushes existing as vector and raster patterns with output at 400 x 400px
20 Base Texture Brushes extracted from numerous Project Brush collections
Mixed selection of seamless patterns from PB Grass | PB Inker | PB Concept
20. Project Brush: Pattern
Updated to Version 02 and latest brush engine, multiple changes to nozzles and enhanced visibility. streamlined into 4 brush sets each with 30 brushes Version 1.0 has been archived!:
Pattern Brush Sets 01 -04
120 Geometric and organic pattern brushes
21. Project Brush 21 Scribble and Scratch Version 02
40 Texture inking brushes for coarse ink sketching (added to the #Inktober base sets (inktober inker | Outliner | inktober Pattern))
(not on forum!)
22. Project Brush 22 Substrate Painter Version 02
30 Texturing paint brushes (not on forum!)
23. Project Brush 23 Dinosaur Skin Textures Version 02
1. 30 Seamless pattern brushes based on dinosaur skin supplemented with 30 seamless style patterns
2. 30 Patterned inking brushes
Dinosaur Pattern Palette
Pattern palette build from seamless Dinosaur skin Pattern Assets Version 02.1
24. Project Brush 24 Bristle Vector Brushes Version 02 (not on Forum)
30 Vector Bristle Brushes to supplement Substrate Painter (raster set) (not on Forum!)
25. Project Brush 25 Vector Inkers Outliner Vector Brushes Version 02
2 brush sets with different width and content
30 Vector inker Brushes Compiled and edited from existing brushes
30 Vector Linear Inker Brushes (Smaller version of the above with greater proportion of inking brushes!)
26 Project Brush 26 Distressed Version 02 (not on Forum)
90 Raster Brushes in 3 separate sets of 30 brushes consisting of:
Distressed Erase | Distressed Paint | Distressed Pattern
Essentially a set of texture brushes with unpredictable results. Reliant on the Erase option of the sub brush to generate the effect.
27 Project Brush Texture Painter Version 02 (not on Forum)
4 new sets of brushes to replace 2017 texture and organic brushes. 120 new brushes (Using sub-brush erase)
10 Base brushes for each set repeated 3 times across each brush set.
110 seamless patterns creating the texture. Old Patterns reworked using multi-layer symbols.
3 sets at 400px 1 set at 200px patterns
Sets 1-3 work in conjunction with Project Brush 08: Organics
Set 04 work in conjunction with Project Brush 20: Stipple
A. ProjectBrush 27 - Texture Paint Set A
B. ProjectBrush 27 - Texture Paint Set B
C. ProjectBrush 27 - Texture Paint Set C
D. ProjectBrush 27 - Texture Paint Set D
E. Project Brush 27 - Texture Paint Set E
F. Project Brush 27 - Texture Paint Set F
28 Project Brush Ink Stipple Version 02
Condensed set of Ink Stipple Brushes mostly based on existing nozzles. Consists of 35 Raster brushes extracted from PB 03 (Big-T) | PB 19 Inker | PB 15 Texture Pencils | PB 17 Concept | PB 21 Scratch & Scribble
Set 4 Texture Painter for pattern Painters
Updated For Affinity 2.0
29. Project Brush 29: Grass Version 02
Added Collection of Grass brushes with a supplementary set of seamless patterns
30 raster Grass Brushes
90 Seamless Pattern Brushes (3 x 30)
Updated For Affinity 2.0
30. Project Brush 30 Comic Grunge Pattern Version 02
40 Comic Grunge 'vintage' Brushes
With a collection of seamless vector patterns
2 optional sets of seamless patterns (80)
31. Project Brush 31 Base Texture Toolkit A2
Brush toolkit consisting of 20 Texture Brushes extracted from 5 different new and previous sets.
15 additional base textures to exchange between brushes
4 Symbols
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
32. Project Brush 32 Comic Sketcher A2
40 Comic Sketching brushes: A mix of ink Sketchers and comic patterns
11 Base textures added
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
Comic Dot Toolkit A2
Based on same principles as Inter Pattern Toolkit Sample Set with 20 Texture Brushes supported with optional Base Pattern Textures
20 Texture Brushes
20 Additional seamless patterns
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
Comic Concept | Penciller A2
10 Eraser
20 Fine Line Penciller Brushes for blue line sketching
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
33. Comic Block Inkers and Pattern Bases
30 Block Inking Brushes
20 Inking seamless patterns
20 Pattern Paint Seamless Base Textures (Repeated brush stroke fill pattern to solid!)
80 Optional Extra Greyscale Pattern painters
34. Graffiti Brushes
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
2 Complete Brush sets with 160 Base Texture. Extensively use Dynamics 'Distance' and 'Direction' to assist painting
Graffiti Paint Brushes
40 Brushes with 40 Base textures
Graffiti Wall Brushes
40 Brushes with 120 Base Textures
35. Zombie
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
Elevated the original free 12 brushes for Halloween to full Project Brush Set with 40 Brushes
36. Speed Ink
Updated For Affinity 2.0 only!
New Inking Set to speed up ink Sketches | Concepts
40 New brushes
Extensively use Dynamics 'Distance' and 'Direction' to assist painting
Asset Library
Vector assets created and available in Resources section of Forum
Free assets based on drawings saved into asset panel with supplementary explanation PDF (mostly!)
Inktober 2017
1. Screech
2. Juicy
3. Poison Updated with Full set of Vector objects. Samples can be seen here
4. Shy
5. Filthy
Condensed into single .zip file with all 5 original AD files as asset sheets
InkBrush Project Vector Assets
Vector textures to supplement InkBrush Project
1. Geometric and organic pattern textures
2. Compound and placement textures
3. Nozzles
Snowflakes
1. Snowflakes and construction assets
60 Vector Snowflakes
30 Vector Construction elements
2. Hand drawn vector snowflake sketches
90 Vector Hand drawn Snowflakes
60 Flat Vectors
30 Dual Layer Vectors
Camouflage Project
1. Camouflage I
2. Camouflage II
Camouflage III
1. Vector Assets:Bumble Tree (Basic Construction Kit for building trees)
2. Vector Assets:Ground Plants (Basic Construction Kit for Ground Plants and cluster assemblage) Full Set
3. Vector Asssets: Tree Construction Kit 03: (Bumble Tree) Full Set
Rock Monster Project
1. Vector Texture Toolkit Rock Monster World
A vector toolkit for creating vector backgrounds without painting using raster brushes. Used in the Rock Monster Project. Consists of Styles | Vectors and construction layers.
2. Rock Monster Kit
A vector toolkit (Version 1.0) for creating little Monsters! Contains textures and shapes for 10 pre-built designs but you can pick and mix..2 samples included.
3. Monster World Plants
Vector Assets including Plant Shapes, Textures and Grunge
Ammonite Project
1. Vector Texture Toolkit: Ammonite II
Contains vector objects to create vector backgrounds
Untamed Project
Tree Toolkit (A Stand of Trees)
A set of 6 Vector tree toolkits basic tree construction each with several variations | Branch options and Canopies | Textures. Based on 'A Stand of Trees'
Tree Toolkit [T1] Tree Toolkit [T2] Tree Toolkit [T3] Tree Toolkit [T4] Tree Toolkit [T5] Tree Toolkit [T6]
Tree Toolkit (Mesh Trees)
Set of 5 Vector template shapes for Inking and Sketching. Includes a selection of leaves and textures
Tree Toolkit T7
Membrane Toolkit MT1
A collection of basic compound meshes to enhance Tree Toolkit T7
Membrane Toolkit MT1
Rock Toolkits (Untamed)
Rock Toolkit R1
40 Vector Rock shapes that can be used as templates for inking rocks
Meadow Plants Toolkits
Sets of vector ground plants
Meadow Plants MP 01
Bellflowers with Composites and colour variations
Planetary Toolkit
A collection of Vector Planets and Texture assets for Creating Backgrounds
Planet 01 and Planet 02
2 Planets and their associated textures added to resources
Comic Book Template Toolkit
Vector Textures
48 Comic book Vector Compound Textures
Seamless Pattern Fills
A mixture of Dots | Grunge | grids
60 Vector Patterns contained in container rectangle spilt into 3 asset sub-categories for use with the new Version 2.0 feature of dragging assets to fill container on the context menu
Sketch Templates
A collection of sketch templates in Affinity Designer that an be integrated into A4 Comic Book generic template in Affinity Publisher. Contains Mask Panel Layer | Tier and Panels | Sketch and Vector layers organised to sketch using red or blue according to settings in adjustment layers.
Used in conjunction with assets (Comic Pages and Comic Tiers and Panels) and Mask Overlays
Grunge Vector Border Assets
A collection of grunge borders that can be used to mask panel and tier edges
Grunge Page Borders
A4 Grunge Borders for Pages or Affinity Designer A4 Templates
Large Vector Grunge Pattern Overlays
Vector Grunge Patterns Built to overlay Panels and Tiers to add texture to drawings
Dialogue and typeface assets (Speech Bubbles and labels)
Scalable Vector Assets using Global Colours with Type styles built in
Palette Assets
A collection of Palette assets
'Graphite' Colour + Grey-Black
'Untamed' original
'Untamed Mushroom Forest'
'Untamed Chili Trees'
DC Comics 1982 Original Colour set is here
Comic Dialogue Toolkit
Vector assets for creating Comic Dialogue objects
Comic Toolkit Splat
Compound Vector Splat Asset Kit
Comic Toolkit Circle
Vector Grunge Circles and Solid round shapes kit
Comic Page Template Assets
Added 4 Tier A4 and associated Page masks to assets panels
Halloween Vector Toolkit
Zombie Vectors
A collection of hand drawn assets for Halloween that includes:
Zombie Sillouettes
Palettes
Small set of Ink brushes
Irregular Backgrounds
Ink brushes now full Project Brush set PB 35
Haunted Trees Vector Toolkit
Tree Shape Vectors
A collection of hand drawn assets for Halloween or whatever! that includes:
13 large Vector base trees
21 Branches
12 Grunge Bases
Little Monsters
A collection of Little Monster Toolkits
1. Wood beast
Style Library
Style assets created and available in Resources section of Forum
Inktober 2017
1. United
2. Screech
3. Poison
4. Long
Camouflage II
1. Pattern Styles I
Set of 30 coloured patterns based on base textures for brush nozzles
2. Pattern Styles 2
Set of 30 coloured patterns based on base textures for brush nozzles
Camouflage III
1. Pattern Styles 01
Set of 15 patterns using the vector objects of Camouflage III
2. Pattern Styles 02
Set of 15 patterns using the vector objects of Camouflage III
Dinosaur
1. Dinosaur Skin Patterns 01
15 Seamless patterns based on dinosaur skin
2. Dinosaur Skin Patterns 02
15 Seamless patterns based on dinosaur skin
Graffiti
1. Graffiti vector Wall Assets Part 1
40 Vector Wall Pattern Assets (Part 1) W.I.P
Information
1. Pulled this from another thread...may find useful.....
Issues relating to installing iPad Brushes: brushes on iPad and Loading IPad Brushes
2. #Inktober
Created a working set of inktober brushes consisting of:
A. Project Brush 09: Grunge
B. Project Brush 19: Inktober Inker (sketch and pattern sets)
C. Project Brush 21: Scribble and Scratch
D. Project Brush 25: Vector Inkers (Outliner)
Tutorials and some excellent links....
These fantastic tutorials also very useful if you wish to explore creating your own..and have some fun at the same time.
Managing Raster Brushes
Managing Assets: @Frankentoon kindly created a video tutorial for installing AD assets including Brushes on YouTube. Brushes available here
Creating your own Vector Brushes for iPad: at Affinity Spotlight
Creating your own brushes for iPad at: Affinity Spotlight by @paolo.limoncelli: Paolo's Daub Brush Techniques acquire them here
Creating your own Bristle Brush: Tutorial
Creating and individual Vector Brush from @Mensch Mesch: Ivy Brush
Creating Vector Brushes by @IsabelAracama: Custom Vector Brushes
Creating vector (intensity and image brushes) Custom Vector Brush
Creating Brushes General
1. Making Custom Vector Brushes in Affinity Designer by Arianne Criseyde
2. Creating Custom Brushes in Affinity Photo by Oliver Sarikas
General process of creating Vector Brushes by Envato Tuts+: Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes
Introduction to creating Vector brushes including method to extract vector based brushes from illustrator and convert to AD Vector (raster) equivalents
Articles Linking Brush Libraries:
Spoongraphics List of Affinity Brushes: Best Brushes for Affinity Designer
Envato Tuts+ 25 of the Best Affinity Designer Brushes
Installing Assets
Help page to install assets into Affinity Suite
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/resources-install-guide/
Others
Custom Smoke Brushes
Texture Brushes and Blend Modes
Creating Vector Brushes (includes assets and 10 sample brushes)
Creating Base Textures for Brushes
Added a process information sheet outlining methods of seamless pattern creation that can be used for brush base textures and graphic styles
Creating Distressed Texture Painting Brushes
Process of using Sub-Brush erase to distress brush nozzles
Creating Ink Brushes using Dynamics
Textured Stripes
Experimental coloured brushes with linear banding and texture masks
With my free SVG Calendar Tool (https://svg-tools.mensch-mesch.com/calendar/) you can create different types of SVG Calendar Templates (Scalable Vector Graphic) for all Affinity products.
This tool is not perfect but it will possibly safe a lot of time.
Hope you like this simple tool
Keep on drawin'
Norbert
I spent the last weekend creating a tool to convert Adobe suite .grd gradient files to .afpalette files for use in the Affinity suite.
There are so many great resources for gradients out there but no easy way to get them into Affinity applications without a lot of manual labour.
The tool is hosted on GitHub (the Javascript code is available for the curious), but all processing is done in your browser. No files are uploaded anywhere.
https://mikestimpson.com/GrdToAfpalette/
There are a few limitation around colourspace (RGB only) and transparency (not supported), and I have not tested with a huge number of .grd files. It works for what I needed 🙂
I have been very pleased with Affinity Photo, I recently updated it to version2.
I have Affinity Photo 2.0.4.msix installed on my Windows 10 computer. I am unable to access it from my Lightroom 5 software as an external editor.
1. Is there any way I can get Affinity Photo 2.0.4 msix to work as an external editor in Lightroom 5?
2. If I uninstall Affinity Photo 2.0.4 msix and install the msi version, will Lightroom recognise it as an external editor?
3. Which is the best method of uninstalling Affinity Photo 2.0.4 msix in order to install the msi version?
I'm using Designer with a cheap Wacom Intuos. While drawing with the vector brush tool, sometimes it will get stuck on that tool and won't let me click anything. I can still draw, but can't change anything, or click another tool, layer, change color... can't access the file menus or anything. If I minimize the app, then bring it back up, I can click everything again. Not sure off-hand if there is something specifically triggering this lockup. I have three artboards at the moment. Haven't noticed any pattern. Sometimes I'll switch between using the mouse and the pen. Not much more I can think of to report on that. Will keep an eye out if it happens again.
AMD cpu and gpu
Windows 10
Designer V2.1.0.1742 Beta
I'm also having this issue.
I'm using the Mac v1.7.2.
I can confirm that I get stuck when using the Hand Tool by using the shortcuts to zoom out: alt+space and click to zoom out.
It's not consistent, but it does happen often. It's very frustrating when trying to get into the flow of work. I wish there was a way to get out of it without rebooting the program.
UPDATE: Reading through other postings in this forum regarding the same issue, I ran across the When-this-happens-just-hit-the-space-bar solution. It works great and doesn't interrupt work flow. It was the solution I was looking for.
Sometimes when I am in the View Tool (Hand) and want to use a different tool, selecting the tool or my short cut for a tool does not respond no matter how long I try to change tools. In the past I have quit Designer and started again. This time I tried turning on "Use SHFT modifier to cycle tools" in the Tools Preference pane. This did the trick. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a better way of correcting it?
What happens in that scenario depends on your Assistant Manager settings. Sounds like you want this setting, but have chosen one of the other options:
I just tried this with the Crayon Box brushes, and they act as Erase Brush Tools as long as you select the Brush you want, and then switch to the Eraser, if you have this setting selected.
It would be really helpful to have the option to choose a specific DPI/PPI, in both desktop and iPad versions. At the team I'm working at I need to export to SVG and send it to a coworker, only so he can then open it in Photoshop and export it to PNG in the right DPI. It's a tedious process. In so many ways, the Affinity applications are fully competitive with Adobe, but this little detail makes a PS license necessary.
James:
Ive always enjoyed the Affinity Photo Video Tutorials. You do a much better job than A@0&3! When you brought out V2 I updated. Yes, you've added some valuable shortcuts and streamlined tool layout.
For around 5 years your customers have been begging for a DAM product. I was sooooo hoping AP V2 would at least bridge some of that gap. I often shoot in my studio using the same backdrop, same exposure and same studio light set up. Prior to moving the AP, I would make adjustments across a group of raw image files using something like Bridge. Adjustments like exposure, file info (metadata edits, copyright notice, etc) saturation, white balance and the like. I still don't see anyway to perform these initial camera raw edits to multiple files at once in AP V2.
I've explored the File/New Batch Job tool. Although it allows for the use of Macros, who wants to write a custom macro overtime editing a group of Raw files? What am I missing? Sure appreciate your insights.
I design print magazines and one of the key things I do before layouts is convert all images to 300 dpi. This is necessary to insure images will be used at appropriate sizes in layout and pass preflight reviews before going to press. Otherwise, a low-res image used at 100% "size" will appear far larger than it should for a print layout. If used, it would print as a blurry, blocky mess.
In Adobe, I use Bridge and Photoshop. I created a simple Action in Photoshop to change only the dpi of the image. Bridge then lets me batch process images quickly.
I've attempted to create a similar Macro in Affinity Photo 2 with no success. It shows a save of "document properties" but that's essentially it. And since I can't create a macro that does that one thing, I can't use the Batch tool to process a group of images.
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