Affinity Designer - How To Deselect A Brush And Return To The Default Brush?

[Mainecoon364]

Affinity Designer - How To Deselect A Brush And Return To The Default Brush?

[walt.farrell]

There isn't really a "default brush", in my experience, except the very first time you use the brush tool, ever. (That is, the first time you use it after you first run the app, or immediately after you do a Reset on the Brushes, e.g., from the application Settings menu.)

Just pick the brush you want.

However, perhaps you mean this: The actual default brush that first time is a 16px hard round brush without pressure. That brush does not seem to be part of the current selection of brushes that are installed with Designer, at least on iPad. So, in fact, that very first "default" brush is not one you can get back to on the iPad, as far as I can see, except by resetting the brushes, or by installing the old 1.7 set of brushes that is available from Affinity Spotlight: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/get-legacy-affinity-brushes (where you will find it as one of the Basic brushes).

[NathanC]

Hi @Mainecoon364,

With no active selection in the layers panel and with the vector brush tool selected you can reset to the default brush by going to the Document menu > Defaults > Factory Reset which should switch the tool back to a basic round brush, however if you're actively working in a document would be easier just to create a basic round brush in your existing brush category and then switch to that if required.

[Circulus]

Create a new category and add solid brushes to it by creating new solid brushes.

[Mainecoon364]

Thank you very much for the answers.