LordStuff Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Hi there! As the title suggests, can you somehow save the opacity you want to a custom brush? It's kind of annoying that it always resets to 100%. As I didn't find any default brushes with opacities other than 100%, I guess not, but I'm still asking here ;D Thanks and cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 I don't think that's possible. Opacity is not a brush property that you can set or modify in the Affinity brush-editing dialogs. (But it does seem possible, as Carl and MEB describe below. Thanks!) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted December 11, 2020 Hi LordStuff, Have you tried to change the Accumulation in the General tab? It should do what you want. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 I think Accumulation in the brush properties is the same as Opacity But even so and without using that, I appear to also be able to set and save Opacity for my brushes LordStuff and walt.farrell 2 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted December 11, 2020 Changing the brush properties in context toolbar, clicking More and saving it as a Duplicate seems to keep them including Opacity but it's not possible to save them to the existing brush. Is that what you did? GalaxySurfer and LordStuff 1 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, MEB said: Is that what you did? Yes, I always duplicate the standard brushes when changing their settings MEB 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordStuff Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 32 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi LordStuff, Have you tried to change the Accumulation in the General tab? It should do what you want. It goes in the same general direction but seemingly does not result in the same effects. See my attachment on this. 20 minutes ago, MEB said: Changing the brush properties in context toolbar, clicking More and saving it as a Duplicate seems to keep them including Opacity but it's not possible to save them to the existing brush. Is that what you did? YES, this is working! There is no opacity slider in the editor dialog, but you can save the opacity when you save a duplicate of your current brush! 16 minutes ago, carl123 said: Yes, I always duplicate the standard brushes when changing their settings It's a difference tho if you duplicate in the brush collection and then try to edit it. You have to select one, edit it via context and save the brush from there. Thank you all for you time and effort, this has been - once again - very helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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