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Hello Affinity Team, I am missing two special brush types in AD among the vector brushes, which I have used very often in Illustrator. I miss the possibility to create calegraphy brushes. Maybe you could add these additional settings to the even brush tips (angles and roundness). Then I'm missing a special brush that gives me the possibility to create created graphics into real vector brushes with additional setting options. For the already existing vector brushes, which are more like bitmap brushes, where a bitmap is connected to a vector line, I am missing some additional setting options like direction scaling and mirroring. In addition, Illustrator also allows you to create vector graphics as image brushes. In AI you can also convert all kinds of brushes into vector objects, which is very important for me. And the creation of brushes is much easier in AI. I'm going to attach some videos from AI, where you can see which brushes and functions I mean. Calegraphy_Brushes.mp4 Image-Brush_or_Bitmap-Brush.mp4 Real_Vectorbrush.mp4

Hello! I was looking forward to creating cartoons with a vector ink brush in Affinity Designer, but the default brushes don't have the look that i'm after. I want a brush with a very fine tip. Even though I can edit the default brushes, I can't seem to get it fine enough. Does anyone know where I can find free vector brushes for drawing cartoons/manga?

Hi i have an issue with vector brushes in designer. For some reason it defaults to a basic round brush no matter which brush I choose. I restarted and this worked for five vector strokes. I changed layer then it happened again. I have attached video showing this issue. I have iPad Pro 9.7 2016 model running iOS 13.3.1 and Affinity Designer 1.8.0 it seems to be document specific. Ive tried others and the vector brushes work fine but this is annoying as it looks like I’m going to have to delete document and start again. IMG_0350.MOV

Hello, This is my first post however I have been reading all the questions and getting great info on this forum. The one thing I am having trouble finding is more vector brushes specifically a few dry brush strokes. I’ve watched a couple tutorial on how to make brushes but am having trouble making a good dry brush stroke. My question is does anyone know where I can find some or does anyone have a couple to share. Thanks for any help or direction you can give.

Hi! let me share with you guys a special content that I did recently about using affinity designer on ipad pro I hope you'll enjoy watching, thanks!

Hi! very happy to say that this week we've achieved 5k of subs on my youtube, thanks for everyone for keep up, I love to do my things on affinity designer, it's very friendly and inspiring! now in this one I did a Donut using Affinity Designer on ipad pro. enjoy! Best tips - Techniques 0:55 use the Erase layer mode to "Subtract" a shape behind, remember to keep the objects at the same group! 2:27 you can build shapes by drawing vector shapes - then you Expand Strokes at top menu 3:55 use pencil tool and sculpt the lines as you wish 4:02 you can add drop shadow FX on the group of lines and apply to them all

Hi guys. I purchased this vector brush pack from the Affinity Store a day or two ago and just now had the chance to play around with it -- and I'm a little confused. When I zoom in on a brush stroke, or when the stroke size is too large, it looks blurry, as if it was a raster brush. Am I doing something wrong here? Are these not vector brushes?

hi recently I have tried to make my own vector brushes . and I have met a problem . here is my settings . I want to make a brushes like needle pen . and when I use it , most of time , it shows like a needle pen , but sometimes it suddenly becomes very wide , and it appears without regularity . just as it show in the lower right corner of the picture . can anyone help me ? thank you very much (*¯︶¯*)

The First in a series of Affinity Add-Ons specifically for Designers! This is the Rose Petal Texture set with multicoloured almost translucent colours taken from photos of REAL Roses. There are NO fillers or files to pad out the kit. Just the tools you, as a Designer needs. You can then get on with your artistic skills and make your designs illuminate with these textures. There are just THREE (3) program add-ons:- Rose Petal Texture Styles - for Both Designer & Photo Rose Petal colours Palette - for Both Designer & Photo Rose Petal Vector Brushes - for Designer A collection of Thirteen (13) Vector Brushes comprising ALL Twelve (12) colours from the Styles set PLUS a neutral brush to use with the Rose Petals Colour Palette or other colours of your choice. AUD$10. https://visiblestories.com.au/products/rose-petals-texures-styles-vector-brushes-palette-for-designers-using-affinity-products IMPORTANT ! To ensure that you use the Correct Colour of choice: From the Swatches or Colour tab, ensure that the Stroke & Fill Ring and Circle are BOTH set to NO COLOUR to ensure the Chosen Brush Colour is set. This does NOT apply to when using the First Vector Brush ( Grey one at the top of the Brushes list) so you can use the colour/s of choice. LICENCE: You may use this Add-On Kit for UNLIMITED number of projects, designs, clients.You may use the resulting designs for all delivery methods, including but not limited to digital, printed, Digital On-Demand Print, web, cutting files, video and moving image projects, broadcast etc. NOT to be used for anything Illegal, pornographic, derogatory, or other similar uses.

Between Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo I have a lot of brushes to manage. Accordingly, help with or info about any of the following would be appreciated: 1. Is there a list somewhere of the default brush categories for each app, ideally with the names of (or at least count of) each brush in each category? 2. Are the same-named default AD raster brush categories identical to the same-named AP brush categories? 3. To date, are the default brush categories of the Mac retail & beta versions the same for each pair of apps? 4. Is there any way to tell if an .afbrushes file contains vector brushes (usable only in AD) or raster brushes (usable in both AD & AP), other than by importing the file into one of the apps? For instance, is there a different characteristic header string for each of the two types that could be identified in an app like TextWrangler that can display the file as text? 5. Is there any way to reset the vector & raster brushes in AD independently, or must they both be reset at the same time? 6. I have not checked recently, but at some point in the past it was possible to import vector brush categories into AP, but of course they were unavailable in that app. Is that still possible, & if so, what is the best way to remove them? Why I ask: I have exported what I hope are all the different default brush categories for each app into a backup folder full of .afbrushes files. I am trying to reorganize it into a subfolder containing all the vector .afbrushes files, & a second subfolder containing all the raster .afbrushes files. I would like to eliminate any duplicates in the raster subfolder, make sure I have not missed any of the defaults, accidentally exported a category I had edited so it is not identical to the factory default, etc.

found a photo i like (must i post it ?), worked over it.

Hi, I have been excited about Affinity Designer for a while, however I still haven’t made the complete jump from Illustrator as, in the past Affinity lacked features which I use daily in my workflow, hence it just hasn’t been practical to make the jump. Do I want to jump, hell yeah, I think Adobe take the p**s with the amount they charge. So due the work I do, I am looking for the AD equivalent of the following, if there is one? Object / Transform / Move, Rotate, Scale and so forth is a god send. Blend tool, again this is a must for concentric shapes. Vector brushes? I create a lot of charts and use brushes in illustrator to create mathematically correct pie charts. Donuts with filled colours which match the required percentage. Tutorials for AD equivalent would be perfect, I not looking for AD to be the same, just have something similar to these features. Thanks Grant

I've just stumbled across this website, that offers brushes for vector and raster personas. They are free to use if you give the site credit/provide a direct link. The commercial license seems very affordable. . http://www.obsidiandawn.com

Hi all I am very new to this and have a question I am hoping someone can answer for me. I am used to designing in photoshop which obviosuly uses raster brushes. Is it possible to get new brushes for Affinity that are vector based, brushes like smoke brushes, head phones, clouds, grunge brushes etc. I look forward to hearing from you all Regards Jon

Hi friends, I have been looking for an answer to my question in the thread of brushes questions but I think none of them are meetings my needs, I think that what I need is firstly to be sure that there is that possibility and then after to exactly know the procedings, I do not want toget fixed in how is it done with Ps or Procreate or any other. It is much more important to know this in Affinity from scratch. And so.....what are the methods for creating customized or ouw own brushes either in vector paths or in pixel painting brushes? For sure....admitting the difference between. both kind of brushes. I may be even more interested in the pixel brushes, Let's say, to have brushes with geometricao shapes, or flowers, animals, textures and so on. Anything. I thank you in advance for your kindi interest. You are a really great team and a great memberhood. Rosa