Invisible brushes

[billcooke]

I have installed "102 Ligntning brushes by xresh" in Af. Photo. In the side panel the brushes are so faint that I cannot see them and can only choose at random. I have tried adjusting all the appropriate settings/preference I can find. I have no problem with other brush sets.

Any suggestions please?

[walt.farrell]

I'm afraid those are just particularly hard to see, whether you're in the Dark interface or the Light interface. But if you haven't tried both you might experiment; perhaps one will look a little better to you than the other.

And, unfortunately, there's no PDF file that shows all the brush strokes.

A similar problem exists for the Lightning assets, and the fog and snow assets in another content pack.

[billcooke]

Many thanks Walt. As I said, I have tried everything I can think of including your suggestions. Seems a bit daft but thanks anyway.

[walt.farrell]

I contacted @xresch, who had a couple of interesting suggestions:

1. Double-click on a brush to open the editing window, which will give a larger picture.
2. Use the PNG files that you can download from your Affinity account as a guide to the brushes. For example, open the folder of PNGs in Finder or File Explorer with large thumbnails showing.

They also mentioned that they've previously posted a Feature Request about the need to improve the display of brush thumbnails in the Brushes panel. That was for a differerent set of brushes, though, where at least the brushes seemed to be visible, just too small, unlike the Lightning brushes where the opacity/contrast with the Affinity User Interface seems more the issue, to me.

Personally, I don't like suggestion 1 above, as you can't dismiss that window without another click, and I don't want to risk actually making a change to the brush. And it feels too slow when you're searching for a brush.

Suggestion 2 could work, except the PNG images and the brushes are out of synch in their naming. That is, I think they're all present, but PNG #1 is not Brush #1, PNG #2 is not Brush #2, etc. To get around that, I made a PDF that shows a preview of each brush, and with the approval of @xresch I've posted it in the Resources forum:

 

[xresch]

Hi @walt.farrell,
thanks for creating the PDF and providing it here for the community.
Hope Serif will provide better previews of the brushes through the UI with a future version.

Thanks and Regards
xresch