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Greetings Affinity Team, Just want to say that the second the Affinity Apps become subscription based or institute a "tiered" model where a "basic" version is offered at one price & "pro" version offered at a higher price, I will look elsewhere for my graphics solutions. I've been with Affinity since v01 but you're not the only game in town. There are some mighty attractive free and low-cost programs out there that haven't moved to "tiered" or subscription models. The merger with Canva leaves me feeling uneasy at best...

Greetings EmT, Apologies...I had updated to version 2.0.3 of the Affinity Apps. I still had V1 versions installed on my computer and uninstalled them after upgrading to V2.0.3. That's when the problem with the raster brushes and color swatches manifested itself. I didn't experience any issues with version 2.0.0. Sorry for the confusion.

Greetings EmT, It was directly after I upgraded to the V2 versions of the Affinity Apps. I ported my 3rd party resources from the V1 software to the V2 Apps. I didn't uninstall the V1 Affinity Apps for a week or so and used the V2 Apps to make sure they were working as expected. When I was confident V2 was working properly, I uninstalled the V1 Apps. After that, the next time I opened Affinity Designer V2 the raster brushes and color swatches were missing. I opened Affinity Photo V2 and the raster brushes and color swatches were missing as well. In addition, I was unable to import raster brushes or color swatches into Designer or Photo. The apps didn't crash nor was I using or editing brushes. I followed the advice of walt.farrell (see posts above) and was able to reset the apps and reload my raster brushes and color swatches. Everything has been working normally since then. I hope this information is helpful.

Thank you for your swift response. Followed your instructions and everything working as it should in both programs. Reloaded my raster brushes and they are working normally as well. Many Thanks!!

All of my installed raster brushes (including Affinity's default raster brushes) have disappeared from Affinity designer v2 and Photo v2. If I try to import them I get an error message "Error Importing Brushes". When I upgraded to the version 2 Affinity Programs, I uninstalled the version 1 Programs.The brushes displayed properly when I updated to version 2.0.3 but now (a few weeks later) they have vanished and I am unable to import them. I have noticed that IPad users have experienced this problem but I haven't been able to find a thread with the problem on desktop or laptop. I am running Affinity Designer 2.0.3 and Affinity Photo 2.0.3 on an Acer Nitro 5 laptop (Windows 11). Hardware Acceleration: On. Tablet: Wacom Intuos BT M (Model# CTL6100WL). Please advise a solution to this issue or if you need additional information from me.