jasd Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Is there any way I can draw a line of controlled variable thickness? I've tried playing with the Size Variance slider in the Brush Tools pop-up, but it appears to have little or no effect. What am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted April 20, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 20, 2021 Hi @jasd, If you are using a mouse, then you can draw the line out and apply a Pressure Profile to it to give this effect. If you are using a MacBook, with the brush selected, you should be able to set the controller to Pressure on the toolbar along the top and the pressure you use on the trackpad will vary the thickness of the line. This method would also work if using a drawing tablet. If just using a standard mouse, you could draw the line and with it selected at the bottom of the Stroke Panel is a Pressure option, where you can manually apply a pressure profile to the stroke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Assuming you're using a raster brush (eg in Photo, or Designer's Pixel persona), another option is to increase the size jitter and link it to Velocity. The faster you move your mouse (or finger on a trackpad) the broader the stroke. Linking the size to pressure and using a drawing tablet is probably going to give better results though. Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllyH Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, stokerg said: If you are using a MacBook, with the brush selected, you should be able to set the controller to Pressure on the toolbar along the top and the pressure you use on the trackpad will vary the thickness of the line. This method would also work if using a drawing tablet. If just using a standard mouse, you could draw the line and with it selected at the bottom of the Stroke Panel is a Pressure option, where you can manually apply a pressure profile to the stroke. This has just saved me hours on a particular logotype job. Thank you! Can't believe it didn't spot this before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasd Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 Thanks all you guys. Very helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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