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  1. DelN
    Thank you for your feedback , ClarityDynamic. I really appreciate it. It's an image of a model, not vector. God, I wish I was that good... 🙂 I want to give something to the Affinity community, something free, that they don't have to pay a lot of money for. Many of them are up-and-coming young designers or just design enthusiasts who want to dabble and create. I created the 'Nature' brushes for myself origanally to do concept art, create natural environments like mountains, forests and landscapes. I am fascinated by concept art. Many concept artists are so creative and talented and I wanted to see if I could create nature scenes using brushes that I created myself. Then I realised I needed some textures, so created some brushes which paint with texture. Then I wanted to recreate the gold brushes I had created in Painter so I could create forests of gold, which I used to do in Painter until I found Affinity Photo. Photoshop was too expensive and Adobe wants you to rent their softwaree; I stopped using it years ago. The Affinity suite of design software is affordable and is so good that I wanted to give something to the Affinity users so I put them online. I post the stuff that I created with them merely as examples, to show what is possible to create using my brushes in Affinity Photo. They're not brilliant, not professional, but they are fun to use...
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    Egyptian Queen Artwork created using my free 'Byzantium' Gold brushes, also my free 'Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli' brushes for Affinity Photo. The lips and eyes were done using my free 'Glitter & Gold Dust' brush collection. DelN
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    Ha-ha! That's exactly what I've been doing... I feel like King Midas with all this gold... 😃 It's very addictive. I'm so glad you like them... Most of the images in the brushes are 300dpi, so good to go if you are printing what you create. The more you practice, the better you get. 'Practice, perseverance and patience' is my mantra. Try this. I am obsessed with Symmetry at the moment. You may know of it already, but if you don't... I think you might like it... Create a new layer. Select a gold brush. Turn on Symmetry (see below screengrab) Set it to 16 The Symmetry lines are displayed. Now just dab with the brush. Use [ to make the brush stroke smaller, and ] to make it larger. This is just one dab... This is two dabs... This is several dabs with different brushes. Ensure you create a new layer for each dab... Have fun! Del
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    Wow! Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback, legolina. I really appreciate it. It was so heart-warming to read it. So many people have downloaded my free brushes, but so few have commented that I really have no idea what other people think of them. I use them all the time, creating 'scenes' with them that I just wanted to get them uploaded for other Affinity Photo users worldwide to enjoy. I really just mess around with them too, testing them to see if I can create a mountain scene or a woodland using the textures, clouds and trees and shrubs of the 'Nature' brushes or see what I can come up with using the gold brushes. I get a lot of enjoyment out of using them. If you have any questions about them, feel free to post or message me privately. Thank you again... 😃😃😃 i don't know if you've seen some of the stuff I have done with them, but I have included the link below:
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    My New FREE 'Textures' Brush Collection for Affinity Photo (link below) There were so many 'Texture' brushes that I wanted to include that had to split them into 8 sections. Please be aware of the high file sizes of some of them. They are mostly hi-res 300dpi brushes. You might like to select the ones you like and create your own unique brush collection, then uninstall the ones you don't think you will use. Del FREE 2025 Textures_01 Gold Spores Del FREE 2025 Textures_02 Atmosphere, Mist & Fog Del FREE 2025 Textures_03 Cobwebs Del FREE 2025 Textures_04 Earth & Fire Del FREE 2025 Textures_05 Mycelium Del FREE 2025 Textures_06 White Del FREE 2025 Textures_07 Orange Gold Del FREE 2025 Textures_08 Lichen NB. One or two of them were included in my first 'Textures' brush collection in the 'Nature' brushes. I included them because, along with my 'Byzantium' Gold collection of brushes, my 'Glitter & Gold Dust' brushes and my 'Gold Circles, Spirals and Annuli' brushes for Affinity Photo, these are the brushes I use in my own work. I hope you like them. I'd love to see some of the work you create using them... I have included a chart image of each brush stroke and an example of some of them applied to a plant pot. I hope this helps you. DelN
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    My New FREE 'Textures' Brush Collection for Affinity Photo There were so many 'Texture' brushes that I wanted to include that had to split them into 8 sections. Please be aware of the high file sizes of some of them. They are mostly hi-res 300dpi brushes. You might like to select the ones you like and create your own unique brush collection, then uninstall the ones you don't think you will use. Del FREE 2025 Textures_01 Gold Spores Del FREE 2025 Textures_02 Atmosphere, Mist & Fog Del FREE 2025 Textures_03 Cobwebs Del FREE 2025 Textures_04 Earth & Fire Del FREE 2025 Textures_05 Mycelium Del FREE 2025 Textures_06 White Del FREE 2025 Textures_07 Orange Gold Del FREE 2025 Textures_08 Lichen NB. One or two of them were included in my first 'Textures' brush collection in the 'Nature' brushes. I included them because, along with my 'Byzantium' Gold collection of brushes, my 'Glitter & Gold Dust' brushes and my 'Gold Circles, Spirals and Annuli' brushes for Affinity Photo, these are the brushes I use in my own work. I hope you like them. I'd love to see some of the work you create using them... I have included a chart image of each brush stroke and an example of some of them applied to a plant pot. I hope this helps you. DelN Del FREE 2025 Textures_01 Gold Spores.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_02 Atmosphere, Mist & Fog.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_03 Cobwebs.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_04 Earth & Fire.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_05 Mycelium.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_06 White.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_07 Orange Gold.afbrushes Del FREE 2025 Textures_08 Lichen.afbrushes
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    Gold Nautilus Shell created in Affinity Photo using my FREE brush collections: 'Byzantium' Gold brushes 'Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli' brushes (download link above) ...also one or two of the 'Texture' brushes which I have still to upload. Won't be too long now (if anyone is even interested... 😃) I created the background Pattern layer with one of the spiral brushes (see above). Inspired by my interest in Sacred Geometry in Nature.
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    Artwork created in Affinity Photo using my FREE brush collections: 'Byzantium' Gold brushes 'Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli' brushes (download link for all my free brushes for Affinity Photo above) ...also one or two of the 'Texture' brushes. I used the background Pattern layer with one of the spiral brushes (see above).
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    FREE 'Textures' Brush Collection for Affinity Photo My FREE 'Textures' brush collection (download link below). DelN
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    I did mean the scene, but the way you portrayed it in wireframe too... It was really effective.
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    I love the wireframe view you did of the scene too. Was that done in Affinity Designer?
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    My FREE 'Textures' brush collection... DelN Example of use
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    I would also like you to add an Import or Open .CDR CorelDraw files to Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. I have used CorelDraw since v5 and have many (thousands, in fact) of logos, maps and other graphics that I created over the years. I no longer load CorelDraw on my laptop. I stopped buying it at v10. There seemed to be no new features that would make me want to buy it. I no longer use Adobe Illustrator since they forced their users to RENT their software. Then I found Affinity Photo/Designer, and use your software, but to have access to the many CorelDraw files would be a great help. Also, its so good to hear (reading above) that Adobe is not the industry standard in China and other places. Long have they dominated (and bullied) the market, forcing out their competitors by buying up their software, then discontinuing it (think Macromedia Freehand and so many others), so that was news worthy of celebration. DelN
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    Finally... My FREE 'Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli' brush collection for Affinity Photo. Please let me know what you think... DelN You can download all my free brush collections for Affinity Photo at the link below. (The second link is to some of the work I have created using the brushes)... 'Byzantium' Gold brush collection 'Nature' brush collection 'Glitter & Gold Dust' brush collection 'Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli' brush collection ...and more to come! Del
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    Exquisite! The muted colour scheme, the attention to detail, the lighting... and I am fascinated by the brown vase. It looks so tactile. I just want to pick it up, turn it over and study it. I'd be very careful... 🙂
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    Finally... My FREE Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli brushes for Affinity Photo. I hope you like them. Please let me know what you think... DelN Del FREE 2025 Circles Spirals & Annuli.afbrushes
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    Finally... My FREE Gold Circles, Spirals & Annuli brushes for Affinity Photo. Link below... I hope you like them. Please let me know what you think... DelN
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    Work created using my FREE 'Byzantium' Gold brushes for Affinity Photo Medusa Del's Byzantium Brushes of Gold Byzantium Byzantium Antiques Byzantium Antiques 02 Byzantium Dripping Gold Byzantium Gold & Blue Circle Byzantium Gold Circle on Tarnished Copper Byzantium Gold & Blue Circle Byzantium Gold Explosion Byzantium Emerald Green Circle Byzantium Gold & Blue Circle Byzantium III Purple Byzantium IV Purple Byzantium V Rust Byzance Antiquités Byzance Antiquités Byzantium Brushes of Gold for Affinity Photo Emperor Gold of Byzantium How Much Gold Can You Handle? The Golden Emperor Byzantium Magenta, Blue & Gold Byzantium Magenta & White Gold Dancer on Orange, Red & Gold Male Dancer in Gold Swimmer in Gold Lichen The Decline of the Byzantine Empire Ambient Life in the Red Cave The Red Room (Interior) Golden Spider Spinning a Web of Gold Patterns Gold Byzantine Gold on Pink Gold on Gold Pattern Purple on Gold Pattern Cyan on Gold Pattern Dancer 01 Pattern Dancer 02 Pattern Dancer 03 Pattern Skateboarder Pattern Catwalk Model Pattern 01 Male Dancer (Red) Pattern Male Dancer (Blue/Green) Pattern Male Dancer (Gold) Pattern Skateboarder Pattern Swimmer Pattern 01 Catwalk Model Pattern Swimmer Pattern 02 Skateboarder Pattern Female Dancer in the Red Room Female Dancer in the Gold Room Female Dancer Pattern 01 Female Dancer Pattern 02 Female Dancer Pattern 03 There are 4 brush sets in my FREE 'Byzantium' Gold collection for Affinity Photo: 01 Gold 02 Gold Annuli 03 Gold Tiles 04 Gems Download link (below): Please let me know if you like the brushes... DelN
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    Work created using my FREE 'Nature' brushes for Affinity Photo Watching the Waterfall (with Teddy) Abandoned Monastery Fire in the Woodland Owl Flying Over Mist-laden Forest Treacherous Sea The Face of Nature Looking Up from the Ravine Mountains in the Clouds Monk Ghosts in the Rain Bridge Above the Clouds Floating Islands in the Mist Poisonous Fruit in the Forest of Night Horses Misty Woodland Alien Landscape Bridge Edge of the Forest Lightning Strike Misty Valley Towers in the Mist The Red Room Christmas 2021 Jungle Waterfall DelN
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    Beautiful. Such a peaceful scene, and still so early... Is there an armchair? I'll get a book from the bookcase and sit and read, listening to the ticking of the clock...
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    Finally! I have finished another set of free brushes for Affinity Photo... This is my 'Glitter & Gold Dust' collection. They are a part of my new 2025 collection of brushes that I have been working on for a few months now, selecting (and rejecting) brushes before deciding on the final brush set. The others in the collection will be available when they are ready. I have created my own brushes in Painter for many years and, after Adobe forced all their users to rent their software, I ditched Photoshop for Affinity Photo. I could not use my Painter brushes (of which there were many) in Affinity Photo, so I began creating my own Affinity Photo brushes, importing the images I had saved previously and re-creating the brushes I had made in Painter as I couldn't find any Affinity Photo brushes that suited my purpose. And I found that Affinity Photo is so much easier to use than Corel Painter (which I still love, don't get me wrong). I enjoy using these brushes myself and I am making them available to other Affinity Photo users (as I did with my free 'Nature' and 'Byzantium' Gold brush sets previously) so that they can experiment with them and create their own artwork. I would love to see what you create with them. I hope you will upload some of the designs so I can see them. Below is an image of the brushes in the 'Glitter & Gold Dust' collection. It has taken almost as long to create the brush example file as it has to create the brushes. 😄I was still at it late last night, having been testing to see if I could create an iridescent glitter brush; creating, selecting and saving the images, bringing them into a new Image Brush, adjusting the spacing, sizing and rotating settings only to find that it just looked grey when I painted with it. Finally, I did manage to create one that I was happy with, from which I then I created the two Red Pink Orange iridescent glitter brush and a Green Blue Purple iridescent glitter brush after I had mastered it. Anyway, I hope you like them... DelN Del FREE 2025 Gold Dust & Glitter.afbrushes
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    Hi, When I have finished my new brush sets, I will upload them here... so that all my free brushes for Affinity Photo are all together in one location. Del
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    My 'Nature' brushes for Affinity Photo... Free to download... There are 12 brush sets in this collection. These are the last 6... Del DEL Nature 2024 Pt7 Forest Floor.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt8 Forest Floor II.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt9 Ferns.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt10 Moss.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt11_Lichen.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt12_Moss II.afbrushes
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    My 'Nature' brushes for Affinity Photo... Free to download... There are 12 brush sets in this collection. These are the first 6... Del DEL Nature 2024 Pt1 Shrubs & Plants.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt2 Rocks.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt3_Dust & Motes.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt4 Mist & Fog.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt5 Textures.afbrushes DEL Nature 2024 Pt6 Trees Branches Leaves.afbrushes
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    Free 'Nature' brushes (download link below). Del
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