marcoqf

13 vector brushes and 4 gradient types.
The original width resolution of the brush textures is 176 px.
Arrows 1-176.afbrushes Linked Samples.afdesign
 

Creating a gradient:
Linking properties in AP:
Linked properties:
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These are my sample halftone brushes. Hope it's useful to anyone.
Sample Halftone Brushes.afdesign
Halftones.afbrushes
Halftones_Named.afbrushes

Camouflage III Vector Assets
Two of the completed asset kits for Camouflage III
Ground Plants

Tree Builder 03:Bumble Tree Construction Kit

Hi,
some time ago I found a post with free icons packs. Today I would like to share with you another 5 great libraries:
Evil Icons by evilmartians.com (1.9.0) / MIT license fontkiko (1.0.8) 521 icons x 3 (light, regular, solid) / SIL OFL 1.1 Phosphor Icons (v1.1.2) 683 icons x 5 (thin, light, regular, bold, solid) / MIT license Heroicons (0.4.2) 224 icons (outline, solid) / MIT license Boxicons (2.0.7) / ~1500 icons / SIL OFL 1.1 You can download them @ https://aiac.pl/affinity
Cheers,
Artur.

Hallo Affinity Community, mit euch möchte ich meine Länderflaggen Pinsel teilen. Optimiert sind sie für's zeichnen bei 1% Abstand damit ein Streifeneffekt entsteht. Geeignet also für z.B. Texteffekte. Einige Flaggen waren durch ihr Design für runde Pinsel ungeeignet. Um sie dennoch hinzuzufügen habe ich sie umgestaltet, möglichst ohne ihren Wiedererkennungswert einzuschränken. War z.B. ein Emblem mittig und dadurch beim zeichnen schlicht unsichtbar, verschob ich es ein wenig über die Kante des Kreises/Pinsels. Manche Flaggen besitzen deshalb 2 Versionen.
Die Pinsel sind in englisch übersetzt, auf 4 Kategorien verteilt und alphabetisch sortiert. Ohne englisch Kenntnisse wird man sich auch zurechtfinden da die Reihenfolge der deutschen sehr ähnlich ist. Enthalten sind 193 Stück + 59 Zweitversionen mit einer Größe von je 500 Pixel.
Anleitung für 3D Effekt mit zusätzlichem feinen Linien wie auf dem Vorschaubild:
1. Beliebigen Flaggenpinsel wählen und auf die gewünschte Größe ändern, z.B. 60 Pixel bei 2K Auflösung.
2. Eine neue leere Ebene erstellen und 1x mit dem Pinsel darauf klicken/malen.
3. Live Filter "Rauschen hinzufügen" an die Ebene clippen und Wert auf ca. 25 erhöhen.
4. Belichtungsanpassung ebensfalls an die Ebene clippen und Wert auf ca. -2,5 stellen. An diese Anpassung (nicht Hauptebene) einen vertikalen bzw. je nach gewünschter Lichtrichtung schrägen schwarz/weiss Verlauf zeichnen, sodass der Pinselpunkt oben hell und unten dunkel wird.
5. Ebene duplizieren um die originale zu sichern und das Duplikat rastern.
6. Mit angeklickter Duplikatsebene über Pinselpanel "neuer Pinsel aus Auswahl" wählen. Den Pinsel bearbeiten und Abstand auf 1% reduzieren. Der Pinsel ist jetzt fertig vorbereitet.
7. Auf neuer oder zwei neuen Ebenen (z.B. bei übereinanderliegenden Strichen wie bei Buchstabe A oder H) zeichnen, z.B. einen Text.
8. Ebeneneffekte "3D" oder "Kanten schleifen-innen" mit einem runden Profil hinzufügen (bei zwei Ebenen auch jeweils einen Ebeneneffekt für sich (Effekt kann seit Affinity 1.9 verknüpft werden)). Bei einer gewählten Pinselgröße von 60 Pixel empfiehlt sich ein Wert von 25 - 30. Optional "weichzeichnen" hinzufügen. Nun nur noch das Licht an die bei Schritt 4 gewählte Richtung anpassen.
9. Falls zwei Ebenen verwendet wurden kann auf der unteren gegebenenfalls noch ein Schatten, der durch die obere entsteht, hinzugefügt werden. Das verstärkt den 3D Effekt noch mehr. Fertig
Viel Spaß
 
english
Hello Affinity community, i want to share my country flags brushes with you. They are optimized for round brushes by painting with 1% space to create a streakeffect. Because of some flags are unsuitable i had to edit them.
This packs contained 193 brushes + 59 with a second version, separated in 4 categories, translated into english and arranged in alphabetical order. All have a size of 500 pixel.
Tutorial for a 3D effect with additional fine lines like on my wallpaper:
1. Choose a flag brush and set it to a size you like, for example 60 pixel on 2K resolution.
2. Create a new empty layer and paint 1x time on it.
3. Add "add noise" live filter and clip it on this layer. Set the value to around 25.
4. Add "exposure" adjustment and clip it also to this layer. Set the value to around -2,5 and add a vertical (or other light direction you like) black/white gradient on this adjustment layer. Your brush dot is now bright on top and below dark.
5. Duplicate the complete layer to save your original. Rasterize the duplicate.
6. With active duplicate go to brush panel and click on "create brush from selection". Edit this brush and set space to 1%. The brush is now ready to paint.
7. Paint on a new layer (or 2 if your lines cross each other like for letter A or H for a deeper 3D effect).
8. Add layer effect (If you have 2 layers use 2 layer effects. Since Affinity 1.9 it is possible to link them.) "3D" or "inner bevel". I recommend a value of 25 - 30 when you paint with 60 pixel. Optional smooth the effect a little. For a round 3D effect use a round profil. Now only adjust your light direction to a similar like on step 4.
9. If you use 2 layers you can add a shadow on the layer below to increase the 3D effect. Done
Have fun


Country_Flags_A_-_F.afbrushes Country_Flags_G_-_L.afbrushes Country_Flags_M_-_P.afbrushes Country_Flags_S_-_Z.afbrushes

Existing Protractors. I have uploaded them again on request.
They can be downloaded in "Resources section".
Zero-point Rulers are obsolete and will not be uploaded again.
Protractor-type1 v3.0.afdesign Protractor-type1A v3.0Multicolor.afdesign Protractor-type2 v3.0.afdesign Protractors v3.afassets

OK, They're back ! Sorry, I never got around to creating a Pixel-based ruler.
Moreover, I think it would be best to Post a Feature Request in the appropriate Forum section.
 
RulerV+H-15cm v2.0.afdesign RulerV+H-30cm v2.0.afdesign RulerV+H-Inch-10th v2.0.afdesign RulerV+H-Inch-16th v2.0.afdesign

Im not sure how useful or good they are, but I made some vector brushes.. useful for me, and if anyone can use them, here you go :-) 
i made them for the love of vintage lettering styles, and I use it for backgrounds, like the old Sanborn Maps style.. 
Anyway, as I’m quite new to brush making, I’m sure they can be improved, and if I do, I’ll update them here :-) 
hope it it will be useful for some :-) and they can be downloaded from here.. 
feel free to give feedback.. good or bad is welcome as long as it is constructive:-) 
276ccm Vintage Lines.afbrushes

The inner kid in me felt the need to work with some chalk colors.  Here is a Crayola Sidewalk Chalk (64).afpalette to get you creating until you can get outside.  Enjoy, - T V       
 Crayola Sidewalk Chalk (64).afpalette  

Hello everybody,
It's for a while I didn't write here about our new series of textures.
We are an architecture group, creating PBR Textures and sharing them around the world. We have more than 800+ textures in our archive.
You can download them free and you can use them on your projects. You don't need to registrate, click ad walls etc. :) 
Here some rendered textures of our new wood packages. You can download them clicking Wood Floor Textures
Some textures not published yet. But all of them scheduled for free usage... 
 
PS for moderators: If there is some resources section for free textures, please add this post on there. ;Thanks in advance.

I made some reusable, all vector based, Star Wars Mandalorian Assets for Affinity (... to the hopeful delight of my nephew too?).



 
The assets file to share is this here:
star_wars_mandalorian.afassets License:  Free for personal use only, not meant for commercial reuse !!!
And well as you all probably know: "This is the way"! 😉

Link to Metallic Gradients Share
Here are some fancy metallic gradients I put together.

1) draw a  circle 100x100px.
2) duplicate circle 1 and increase the size of it to  162x162 px
3) duplicate the new circle 2
4) select circle1 + circle 2 (leaving one copy of circle 2 ) and downsize them until circle 2 has 100x100px
Repeat this until you have enough circles.
 
here is a useful website for the golden ratio stuff. They also created PhiMatrix plugin ( not sure if they developed it for AP/AD) but used it a lot with photoshop. 
https://www.goldennumber.net/category/design/

One workaround, for now: After you've moved the files, open the Publisher document that uses them. You'll get a popup about missing resources, asking if you want to locate them.
Click Yes (not Resource Manager). You will get a Finder or File Explorer window with one of the files named in it. Navigate to the new location containing that file and click Open.
Publisher will find all the missing files that are in the same folder.

What about   kickstarter  ?
Im ready to support the porting into Linux. 
And then i can happily  say Bay Bay for ever to Windows and Apple.
 

Greetings true belivers! I made a free pencil brush set for Affinity Designer! There used to be a link to my gumroad page here, but I removed them from the shop and simply placed the files here. You can download them directly. Enjoy! 




0820_SP_UL1.abr 0720_Prototypes.abr

Let's go back to school, with some of those common and well known plastic/wood/metal like school rulers.

The ruler assets shared here ...

... are all vector based and do have a printed on centimeters or inch scale (some also do contain both cm + inch scales together printed on). The default ruler sizes and thus their shown scales, should nearly match the Affinity ruler measurements, which means they could be used to measure when placed into Affinity docs, as far as their default size is kept and they are not resized from their initial size.
Note that all rulers are just a bunch of grouped together vector parts (curves and text) ...

... thus they can be modified in colorings and the like.

 
The set of rulers contains some straight rulers ...

... a few triangles smaller and bigger sized ...

.. and some simple protractors.
Here is the associated assets file:
school-rulers.afassets Have a nice school day!

Here are some metal styles (mostly silver and gold textures):
 

   
The compressed styles file:
 
metal-styles.afstyles.zip

Today, let’s have fun with Gradient Maps…
Gradient Maps are a great way to color grade photos, since they map dark, light, and midtone values according to a pre-defined gradient. This can easily define a “look” for photos that might otherwise be hard to accomplish.
Although I am not a user of Photoshop, our “arch rival” has a wonderful group of gradient maps called “Photographic Toning” that are specifically designed to color grade photos. Although you have to drill down through a few panels and dialog boxes to find them (and you sort of have to know they’re there in the first place) they are a truly nice addition. Also, they are easily obtained by anyone.
But, as they say, there’s the rub. Affinity Photo cannot import Photoshop gradient maps. Affinity Photo can store pre-defined gradients in the Swatches studio, but for some unknown reason the stored gradients are not available from the Gradient Map studio panel. Gradient Maps can be stored as presets, and can be chosen from the Adjustments panel, but I don’t believe they can be easily exported from one computer and brought into a different one.
So… after a long couple of days of transcription, I have created a set of Macros that apply each of the 38 Photographic Toning gradient maps. Since macros are easy to store, and to share, I am making them available for anyone who wants them.
There are actually 2 sets of Macros included - each as an easy-to-import Category from the Library panel. The first group of Macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients” and these are named according to the gradient map they apply. Each macro creates a Gradient Map layer, applies the appropriate color values, and names the layer according to the gradient map it applied. The second set of macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients - reduced.” This category also applies the gradient maps in a similar fashion, but then reduces the opacity of the layer to 30%. This reduces the effect of the Gradient Map, and produces a much subtler effect.
Here is an image that shows the full-strength versions of all 38 gradient maps.

And here is a photo to which I’ve applied a full-strength gradient map, and also a reduced-strength gradient map.

These macro categories are included in the ZIP file attached to this post, along with a Letter sized JPG that includes samples of the gradient maps. Also included in the ZIP file is another macro category that includes one more macro. It’s called “Obama Hope Poster” and, as you might have guessed, it turns any photo into an Obama Hope-style poster. Just because…
Please enjoy them!
Photographic Toning Gradient Maps.zip

Hey folks!
 
I've created a little collection of some flower brushes for AP and AD (Pixel Persona). Hope you like it.
 

 
You can download the brushes here: FLOWER-POWER-by-MENSCH-MESCH.afbrushes.zip [12.3 MB]
 
Installation:
Unzip the downloaded zip-file. Install the FLOWER-POWER-by-MENSCH-MESCH.afbrushes file in your brush panel.  

 
Keep on drawin'
 
Norbert

Here are -2, -3 and -4.   Fingers crossed.  Two files resulted in "Decompression failed."  Patterns-3 seems to download and install properly.  Back to the drawing boards!  Patterns-2 seems to have worked.  Patterns-4 has a file which is quite a bit larger.   Rembrandt needs rework.
@v_kyr I am so grateful for your kindness in following this snarl.  Tomorrow I will start all over with the balance of these styles.   Live and learn.
Monday, Jan. 20: Here are most of the balance.
Tuesday, Jan.21:  Here are all the files except for 2 animals files and a revised PDF.    
 
Fabric patterns-1.afstyles.zip
Fabric patterns-2.afstyles.zip
Fabric patterns-3.afstyles.zip
Fabric patterns-4.afstyles.zip
Added:  Jan. 21, 2020
Free botanicals-1.afstyles.zip
Free botanicals-2.afstyles.zip
Free botanicals-3.afstyles.zip
Free botanicals-4.afstyles.zip
Added:  Jan. 22, 2020 - the remaining two files and the revised and final PDF.
Fabric animals-1.afstyles.zip
Fabric animals-2.afstyles.zip
Free fabrics - patterns, botanicals, animals.pdf
 
 
 
 
 

Assets from [Screech] inktober #09
Sharing a selection of vector assets
Asset List subCategory List
35 Feathers
8 Fill texture patterns
14 Texture Groups
19 Texture Overlays
11 Trees/partial
13 Leaves
11 shapes 
Asset Sample Sheets
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 7 subcategories
 
Samples as displayed (had to change colour of some assets in library as don't display well on grey backgrounds)
Also embedded repeating patterns (x2) had to be inserted to assets as group rather than embedded file (which is how I usually use them.)
 
Enjoy!
 
Hope you find them useful
 
 


Vector Assets 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets 01 02.pdf
vectorAssets-Screech.zip

Assets from [Juicy] inktober #23
Asset List subCategory List
17 Leaf shape
24 Branches
4 Branch Groups
5 Complete Branch
17 Texture Pattern Shapes
23 Colour Block shapes [ground pattern]
 
Asset Sample Sheets
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 6 subcategories


vectorAssets - Juicy.zip
Vector Assets 02 01.pdf
Vector Assets 02 02.pdf

Vector Assets from [Poison] Inktober#03
Asset List subCategory List
20 Mushroom Outlines
11 Overlay Textures
13 Texture Patterns
19 Plants
10 Cracks
13 Moss Patterns
10 Leaf Shapes
7 Vegetation Components
PDF sample Sheet x3 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 8 subcategories
Asset Sample Sheets



 
Vector Assets Poison 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 02.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 03.pdf
VectorAssets-Poison.zip