brush control and hardness

[Berbank]

Hi,

 

I'm giving Affinity a trial after years of Photoshop. So far so good but I have some questions about the brush controls.

 

The main issue is getting a really soft brush. I drag Hardness way down to 0% but it's still much to strong for what I want. What am I missing? Is it not possible to create a very soft brush from the standard one that it uses on start up?

 

I've also tried making a brush that has its Hardness controlled by pen pressure. I've had two results with this and I'm not sure why I got different results. The first time, the hardness did change with pen pressure, but so did the size (size toggle was off and size was not set tied to anything in the brush options). And the second time I tried it, with the same settings, but a different brush, nothing changed with pen pressure. 

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Berbank

[DWright]

Hi Berbank,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

You can duplicate the brush you want to use and then edit it to change the brushes default hardness and pressure settings, also you can use the opacity setting to get a soft effect.