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[Photo] Save Opacity to Custom Brush


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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!

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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!)

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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

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.

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2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Is that what you did?

Yes, I always duplicate the standard brushes when changing their settings

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.

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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!

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