Carlos2021 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I've been using Photoshop CS5 for a few years but wanted to get into using Affinity Photo. I like using Affinty photo & I can do everything that i used to do on PS, apart from I used to use the History Brush Tool in PS a lot, the nearest thing in Affinity is the Undo Brush Tool, but can't seem to get it to work for me. I've looked at tutorials & You tube but there seems to be nothing that does what the History Brush Tool does. Can anyone help me with this please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Max P Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hi, If I understood your request correctly Duplicate layer Add above a pixel layer, mode erase Erase with any brush ( modulate with brush option, It's very efficient, Eventually make a group, and rasterize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos2021 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 Tried this but not working how i would like it. I'm trying to revert some of the editing back to the original using a brush, like you can in photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 With the Undo Brush Tool selected, and an appropriate brush selected in the Brushes panel, go to the History panel, find the spot you want to Undo to, and click the "Set Undo Brush Source" icon on the right side of that layer. Then paint. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos2021 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hi Walt, thanks for your reply, I've tried what you said but can't find the "set undo brush source" icon. there is nothing at the right side of the layer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 What does the tooltip say for the icons in the column I marked below? Perhaps yours is on the left instead of right? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos2021 Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 Got it, and it works, I noticed you have to have the background layer highlighted in layers as well. Thanks for your info, much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 4 hours ago, Carlos2021 said: Got it, and it works, I noticed you have to have the background layer highlighted in layers as well. Thanks for your info, much appreciated You're welcome. Note, by the way, that you do not need to have the background layer highlighted. You need to have the layer that you want to modify highlighted. You are using a brush, and it needs to paint on something Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos2021 Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 Hi Walt, thanks for that. I've actually found another way of doing what I want. I opened an image, go to Develop Persona, in the basic tab make your adjustments, click develop, then use the Undo Brush Tool to get the areas I want back to the original. Works for me. Thanks again walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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