Watermarks

[Big_Stan]

I created a preset brush in Photoshop that I use to watermark my photos.  Is it possible to set-up a watermark preset brush in Affinity Photo?

[Madame]

Yes. But it's no need to if you know where you Photoshop brush lives, you can just import it. (I have PS Elements and they have this path:
Application>adobe elements>presets>brushes 

The small "hamburger menu" in the brushes panel gives you alternatives. 

 

If you want to make one from scratch, you have to scan a handwritten one, or type with black on a white canvas. 

Save it and then import it from that menu.

You can rightclick the brush to delete it/move it.

 

I don't have a tutorial, but if you get stuck, just ask.

[Big_Stan]

Madame:

The good news: The path for PS is very similar to the Elements path.  The bad news: I can see the "watermark brush" on my brush palette but I do not see "watermark" on the list of brushes when I go to Applications > Photoshop CS6 > Presets > Brushes.  The brush list (.abr) appears to be generic and does not specify any specific brush.  Are you suggesting that I import the entire brush list and hopefully "watermark" will show up in Affinity Photo?

[Madame]

Well, that's a very drastically move. ;)

 

I suggest you do this:

 

Open Photoshop, open a document, and pick the brush with your watermark.

Find your preset manager. In Elements it's in the Edit menu.

 

I think when it opens it displays Brushes and the brush you have open, if not, click on brushes

Click on the brush and choose Save set (I can't find a way to save only one brush)

Name it and save it in a place where you can find it. 

 

Then you open Affinity Photo and click on the "hamburger" menu.

Choose "Create new Category" Name it "Watermark"

When you still are in that category, click on the hamburger menu again.

Choose import new brushes and navigate to the folder/saved brushes, and click on them and click open. 

 

If this is a little different in Photoshop, I hope someone will chime in to the rescue.

[Madame]

If there are more brushes than you want, you can just delete them of course.

 

EDIT: When I imported the brush,(it was only the one brush I clicked on, not the whole set.) it placed itself at the bottom of the list. I had to use the hambuger menu again and move the brush to Watermark. I then deleted the empty category.

[ccandicen]

I created my own with black text but I can't figure out if I can change the colour and if so, how do I change the colour of the brush later?

[Madame]

You can change the colour just as you would change the colour of any other brush.