(PHOTO) Let a brushstroke trace a curve?

[iconoclast]

Hi!

Is there any opportunity to let a brushstroke trace a curve? Can't find it. Would be helpful for some kinds of brushes.

[Alfred]

This is currently missing from Affinity Photo, probably because ‘vector’ brushes are not supported. I’d also like to be able to stroke a ‘marching ants’ selection with a brush.

[walt.farrell]

That capability is reserved for vector brushes in the Designer Persona of either the Designer or Publisher applications.

[iconoclast]

Hi Walt, thanks for your quick response!

That's what I was afraid of, because what I wanted to do will not work in Designer. I created some brushes by myself, that shall overlap while they get drawn. This isn't possible in Designer, but in Photo. But it is not easy to draw them accurate enough by hand. Even with the Stabiliser.

For example this one.

 

[iconoclast]

17 minutes ago, Alfred said:

This is currently missing from Affinity Photo, probably because ‘vector’ brushes are not supported. I’d also like to be able to stroke a ‘marching ants’ selection with a brush.

Hi Alfred, thanks to you too!

You don't need vector brushes for this. Just a curve to let the brush trace it. For example GIMP has this opportunity. But in my special case it would be even better if Designer would have a feature that lets forms follow pathes. For older GIMP-versions a similar plug-in existed (Arakne's "Follow Path"-plug-in). That would be better in this case, because the brushhead is made in Designer and has a directional lighting (3D-effect), that would be kept with the vector object in Designer, but of course not with a bitmap elsewhere or even in Designer.