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Hi. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong but I used to have brush and pen settings for hardness, flow, opacity, stroke, etc, on the tool bars at the top of the screen. These are now missing and I cannot find them. How do I get them back? Thank you. Pat

Hello! I am a very happy convert from Photoshop to Affinity except for one thing: the brush tool settings. Photoshop still is a lot better with these because of their more sophisticated brush tool modification options. I am thinking specifically about dual brush, brush pose, and build up, which don't seem to be available in Affinity photo. I recently bought a set of .abr brushes to compare and contrast the import success between Photoshop and AP, and I'm sorry to say that while Photoshop was able to accommodate some really nice subtle effects (I just want a nice, natural inking brush. There are a million great "big wash" brushes for affinity, but I can't find good liners for the life of me!) that were set into the .abr files, but Affinity imported them as regular round brushes with a noise texture on them, which looked awful! I would really like: 1. to be given some actually helpful tutorials on how to create natural-looking brushes in Affinity (I've had a heck of a time trying to find what I'm looking for. People make tutorials for really silly, goofy brushes, but nothing really practical for fine art!) 2. For the Affinity brush settings to be upgraded to be more competitive with the Photoshop brush settings. 3. For AP to be able to import .abr brushes properly without cutting out the settings and ruining the brush. Thanks for hearing me out! Again, I am LOVING the program for the most part, but I'm just not able to do inking on this program to the level that I want, because of these settings issues. ~K

Did You plan to make the same great menu for adjust brushes by clicking on the mouse2. Especially important is the tool that I highlighted with the arrow. These are very useful and important settings. Roundness is very important setting, you partially implemented it in your option Shape, but it work only for basic brush, so sad. Please add this window like in Photoshop on screenshot* You made a lot of settings for brushes, but many useless and no basic major setting.Thanks for attention and great app AD%)

Hey guys. today i created my own brushes and everything worked fine. So i exported them to send them to a friend. After i restarted Affinity Photo, they changed completly my Settings. I´ve got to Images for you that shows how they changed. The first picture shows my brush settings. The second picture shows the Brushes after i restartet Affinity Photo. I think there is a Bug that have to be fixed.

Hi all, quick question for affinity photo on the iPad, is there any way export/ share the brushes within the app? There doesn't seem to be that function? If not, is that something that might be added later?

Hello Affinity, I'm a photoshop user currently testing Affinity trial. I have a few questions regarding brush settings in Affinity. 1. I found how to setup my brush more like the 'photoshop' standard: By setting accumulation & flow jitter to pressure. The thing is that these brush settings now ONLY apply to my current brush. Can I set this as a GENERAL setting to apply it to all brushes? I constantly have to setup accumulation & flow jitter to every brush I want to use which is not nice. 2. When I load brushes into Affinity it puts them into there own categories. I just want to see all my brushes together in one window so I can quickly cycle. Is that possible? Thanks! Greetings, Vincent Boudewijn

Would like to see ANGLE jitter and ROUNDNESS jitter added to the brush engine. It would make photoshop brushes import identically.

Would like to set minimum and maximum values in brush settings. Ex. a brush that can be set at 100px min and only increase to 150 px max.

Trying to understand the brush settings panel a little more, and I can't find any brush that changes when I use the Shape slider in the General settings. What is it supposed to do? Is it like the Roundness slider in PS?