Feature Requests: pattern tool and custom brushes

[cobraky]

I noticed making your own custom brushes (specifically a pattern brush) is a feature that is very limited in this program. Custom brushes are not very editable, I’m unable to change its color (in a non destructive way) to truly make the brush my own.

Along with that feature I’d like to see an implementation of the pattern creator (similar to Illustrator) to make for faster workflow of more complex illustrations.

The Affinity suite I believe has the potential to knocked Adobe on its behind but minor inconveniences and missing features such as these make it hard for designers to do a full switch over from Adobe. 

[DylanGG]

When creating a brush, make sure you're creating an "Intensity Brush" which will allow you to change the color with the color wheel as it is in Photoshop.

[cobraky]

I may not have explained well, what I meant was the “textured image brush” option. When I create a custom shape to make my own pattern brush this option locks you into the color of the imported shape. The only way to change it is to rasterize the layer and add an adjustment overlay.

[Alfred]

19 minutes ago, cobraky said:

I may not have explained well, what I meant was the “textured image brush” option.

That option locks in the original colours. If you use the ‘Intensity Brush’ option as @DylanGG suggested, the greyscale values corresponding to the colours in the image will be used as an opacity map for whatever colour you’ve chosen from the Colour Wheel (or the sliders).

[cobraky]

The "intensity brush" allows for color change but doesn't keep my shapes atop a transparent background. The top (red line) is an example of what happens when I take my shape and use it as an intensity brush. While the bottom (black line) is the result I'm looking to achieve (textured image brush) but that stroke's color cannot be changed.

The way I created the brush was to make a random shape, select it then I exported it as a transparent png and uploaded it as an intensity brush.

 

 

[Alfred]

The problem you’ve encountered is that the opacity map for a Textured Intensity Brush uses white for fully opaque and black for fully transparent, so you need to swap the colours. Try importing the attached PNG image.

[cobraky]

it workout fine, thank you for the advice!

[cobraky]

For future references, did you export the shape as a PNG with a black matte!? How did you create the effect, because when I try it the color now changes but has a subtle boarder in the background. When your's doesn't have that issue.

[Alfred]

1 minute ago, cobraky said:

For future references, did you export the shape as a PNG with a black matte!?

No, nothing as fancy as that! I simply placed the white circle and triangles on top of a black rectangle, selected them and chose the option to export only the selected objects/area. Make sure that your objects have no stroke applied.