Paint Brush Tool reverts and sticks to GreyScale

[jsnprkr]

Ive spent 30 minutes trying to do what should take two seconds.

 

I have the Paint Brush Tool selected.

I have a document set to RGB (There is color in a layer already)

I have a color selected in my Color Palette

BUT I can only paint in grey scale. There had better be a very simple NO NONSENSE solution for this.

[jsnprkr]

So, the problem may be that this is a Custom Brush I have created. Is there a reason customer brushes cannot paint with color?

 

[jsnprkr]

SOLUTION (Its not a good one)

The answer can be found near the end of this video. Custom brushes seem to be un-colorable. Great... I mean, I want to ditch adobe, but, come on. Affinity comes with NO BRUSHES, and custom brushes are, uh, unusable? 

It seems you can use an adjustment layer if you want to.
 

[NotMyFault]

You can color intensity brushes (in Photo).

The video you linked is for Designer.
Probably Designer and its vector brushes coul give you more freedom.

[iconoclast]

As NotMyFault says, you probably have created a Texturized Image Brush. Image Brushes can't be coloured in a different colour as they initially have (except afterwards, using filters). If you want to have a brush that can be coloured, create it as Texturized Intensity Brush.

[jsnprkr]

Okay, thanks for the help!

First off, my bad. I am having some growing pains moving from adobe and procreate, and was frustrated that I was spinning my tires last night when all I wanted to do was PAINT!!!

There are a lot of fine brushes in Affinity Photo, I didn't see the proper way to access them, so I went about trying to create my own. At least I learned some stuff along the way.

@NotMyFault: I realize that the tutorial I posted is DESIGNER, I believe that all of the brushes you create are usable in all of the AFFINITY programs? Thanks for helping!
@iconclast: Thanks, I looked up how to make Texturized Intensity Brushes and it looks easy enough, will try later.

If there is a definitive tutorial for creating brushes and brush sets, that would be a great thing to share here, I think, to help future help seekers. I'll return and share if I find one.

[NotMyFault]

46 minutes ago, jsnprkr said:

@NotMyFault: I realize that the tutorial I posted is DESIGNER, I believe that all of the brushes you create are usable in all of the AFFINITY programs? Thanks for helping!
 

Hi,

 

thank you for your follow up.

• Brushes are either pixel based (Photo and Designer) or vector based (Designer only).
• Brushes can be intensity based or image based.
• Pixel brushes can be used both in Photo and Designer, Vector brushes only in designer (but you can open Designer files in Photo and edit them in Photo, with some limits).
• All brushes are based on B/W or color bitmaps, so export them as PNG and you create any type of brush based on the same bitmap.

There are actually countless tutorials available, and there is no single "best" one, it depends on the context (purpose of the brush).

E.g. there are special tutorials to create brushes to paint hair, brushes used for selection / masking, brushes for pixel based work, brushes for vector based work etc.

I would recommend to fire up your preferred search engine, type a few keywords, and start watching