Tapered Brush Stroke?

[LilleG]

Does a pressure-sensitive tablet allow you to make brush strokes that are tapered at the begging or end?  Is that what I need to achieve this kind of stroke, or is that not possible in Affinity Photo currently?  I have a non sensitive tablet and I don't want to upgrade if it isn't going to do what I need.

[Callum]

Hi LilleG,

 

A Pressure sensitive tablet will allow you to create Brush strokes that vary in size and taper. I have attached a few examples of some lines I have drawn with different Pressure applied to each. They are a little wobbly I'm not great with a tablet sorry! You can also simulate Pressure without having a pressure tablet. To do this you need to set the Controller of your Brush to Pressure. Then in the stroke tab there is a box with the word Pressure next to it clicking inside this box will allow you to simulate your own Pressure by altering the curvature of the graph .  I hope this helps :)

 

C

[LilleG]

Thanks, Callum.  It does, a bit.  I'm looking for the kind of effect that one can get with a real brush (or with Corel's Painter) where lifting the brush at the end of the stroke gives a rounded beginning and a sharply tapered end.  I can get a bit of the texture of Painter's oil brushes by judicious use of the Effects panel (3-D in particular) but the blunt beginning and end of the strokes destroy the illusion.

[Callum]

Hi LilleG,

 

You should be able to achieve that using one of the textured brushes and modifying the pressure curve to make it thicker at the start and shallower at the end.

 

C