xresch

Hi walt,

thanks again for creating and providing the PDF preview.

Hi @walt.farrell,
thanks for creating the PDF and providing it here for the community.
Hope Serif will provide better previews of the brushes through the UI with a future version.

Thanks and Regards
xresch

Linking following issue, as it similar to this one:
 

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

Hi Affinity Support,

do you already have a plan if you take this up in you roadmap and if yes, in which version you will release it?

Thanks in Advance
xresch

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create a colorful brush with multiple images using Affinity Designer.
I created 5 brushes like these in this tutorial and you can go and download them from my freebies page:
  -  https://www.xresch.com/design-freebies/
 
 

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create a colorful brush with multiple images using Affinity Designer.
I created 5 brushes like these in this tutorial and you can go and download them from my freebies page:
  -  https://www.xresch.com/design-freebies/
 
 

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create a colorful brush with multiple images using Affinity Designer.
I created 5 brushes like these in this tutorial and you can go and download them from my freebies page:
  -  https://www.xresch.com/design-freebies/
 
 

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create a colorful brush with multiple images using Affinity Designer.
I created 5 brushes like these in this tutorial and you can go and download them from my freebies page:
  -  https://www.xresch.com/design-freebies/
 
 

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create a colorful brush with multiple images using Affinity Designer.
I created 5 brushes like these in this tutorial and you can go and download them from my freebies page:
  -  https://www.xresch.com/design-freebies/
 
 

I often use the Export Setting "Area >> Selection without Background".
The issue with this is that Affinity Designer does not remember the setting and it has to be chosen each time again.
It would be cool if the setting would be remembered, this would make it easier when you have to save a lot of designes you keep in a single document.

Thats already better wiht 1.7.3, at least we have now something displayed.
Thanks to the team for the workaround!


Still would be cool to have some preview for styles that were created on pixel layers using the Layer Effects Panel.
Maybe just using a default shape like a rectangle and showing the different layer effects on it like in Photoshop?

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

Created a new tutorial to show you how to use the new lightning brushes you can find in the affinity store:
Brushes >> https://affinity.serif.com/de/store/product/102-lightning-brushes/ Tutorial >> https://www.xresch.com/tutorial-create-electricity-and-lightning-effect-908/
 

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:


In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.


My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:
Display Style:
Text only List Thumbnail Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview Display Size:
Small (16x16px) Medium (32x32px) Large (64x64px) Extra Large (128x128px) I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)
 
 

Affected Version: 1.7.1
I tried to reproduce some photoshop styles I used to color smoke like fire.
This actually works quite well.
The issue here is that I cannot distinguish between the several styles I have created, as the previews in the styles panel is empty.
Screenshot: There are actually 18 styles in the selected category, all selectable through a transparent square that hightlights blue when clicked.

Hi everyone,

I just created a tutorial that was requested by several people who bought my 180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes from the Affinity store.
In the following tutorial you learn how you can use the smoke brushes to create a fire effect on regular images.

Hope you enjoy it! :-)
https://www.xresch.com/tutorial-fire-effect-on-images-876/

 

Hi everyone,

I just created a tutorial that was requested by several people who bought my 180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes from the Affinity store.
In the following tutorial you learn how you can use the smoke brushes to create a fire effect on regular images.

Hope you enjoy it! :-)
https://www.xresch.com/tutorial-fire-effect-on-images-876/

 

When opening the Color Chooser and using the CMYK sliders,
when you click and drag the point on the colorful rectangle,
pure black cannot be selected.
The selection will go to the below values.
If pure black is desired, the for sliders have to be used to get it.
This issue is not present for RGB Sliders, there the mechanism of dragging the point on the rainbow area works fine.

When opening the Color Chooser and using the CMYK sliders,
when you click and drag the point on the colorful rectangle,
pure black cannot be selected.
The selection will go to the below values.
If pure black is desired, the for sliders have to be used to get it.
This issue is not present for RGB Sliders, there the mechanism of dragging the point on the rainbow area works fine.

Hi everyone,

I just created a tutorial that was requested by several people who bought my 180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes from the Affinity store.
In the following tutorial you learn how you can use the smoke brushes to create a fire effect on regular images.

Hope you enjoy it! :-)
https://www.xresch.com/tutorial-fire-effect-on-images-876/