Spitfire Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Hi guys, Looking at making the jump form PS to Affinity photo and I'm just checking to see if the processes I use heavily are implemented in Affinity Photo. In PS you can stroke a path with a brush. Is this possible in Affinity photo? Thanks. :) Fruitbasket, Dan503, HenrikF and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I was overlooking AP. Just know it for AD. :rolleyes: Cheers P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle808us Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I don't find this in the help. But how is it done stroke a line with a brush in Photo ? Not sure how the texture line tool works it doesn't do any thing when selected. Quote Mac MacBook Pro 15 in. OS X 10.9.5, Mid 2012 456.77 GB Affinity Design and Photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 Hi, In PS to run a path along the currently selected brush you just select the path and then at the bottom of the paths palette there is a button. When clicked it runs the currently selected brush along the path. It seems that Affinity Photo does not yet have this function. :) Fruitbasket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Why not doing this in AD then instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Because I do not want the outcome to be a vector. I want it to be pixels and in the same program I will be utilising to create the rest of the illustrations which will be AP. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 But it isn´t when you take an raster image based brush: Cheers P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Agreed, but too much messing around jumping from one program to another. Seems a reasonable function to include in AP. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtrem Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The way you describe jumping back and forth between AD and AP sounds like you don't know about the "Edit in" command under the File menu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted March 24, 2016 Author Share Posted March 24, 2016 I actually know nothing whatsoever about AP or AD other than they look like a pretty good contender to eventually break the Adobe monopoly over the software I need to use to make a living. Like all people who have been in this industry for a while and using the same software for 20+ years. You build up a tried and tested set of workflows and techniques. Changing is hard, changing costs you time and money so we try to make the transition from one to another as seamless as possible. Having the same but improved tools sets with extra goodies makes the process a lot easier for people who are already running and simply don't have the time to stop and relearn. Running a brush along a vector path is quite a simple tool which has been around a long time in PS. There's no point me making the jump to AP until simple things like that have been included. I would then happily spend the next few months becoming accustomed to the new ways that AP does what it does. Edit in command sounds interesting, but being in the file menu suggests to me that it means coming out of AP to edit your file? Even if that is easy I just need to run a brush along a path in my photo editing app. The process doesn't need to be complicated. Just select a path and a brush press a button and boom. Preferably exactly the way PS does it, but in AP. :) Tatom, Fruitbasket and ivan.dedos 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nlbrmn Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I'd like to stroke a path with a brush in AP too and am unable to figure out how. (I don't own AD.) This would be a very welcome feature. Fruitbasket and Yarkspiri 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan503 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I would really like this feature implemented as well. I use it a huge amount when I'm doing the final stages of an artwork when I'm cleaning up all the lines and making everything look smooth. A super important feature to not overlook is "simulate pressure". This is a feature in Photoshop's implementation that basically taperes the thickness of the line on either end of the path. When I'm at the inking stage of my artwork, I draw a line with the pen tool, left-click, select "stroke path" and it strokes the path using my current brush settings (which includes "simulate pressure"). I can't fully make the switch to Affinity without this feature :( Fruitbasket and ivan.dedos 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 On 3/22/2016 at 9:59 PM, PixelPest said: Why not doing this in AD then instead? Using a Curve as a path along which any brush-based tool can be stroked is not the same thing as AD's Vector Brush Tool. For example, think how quickly and simply a two node Curve object can be made to closely match the catenary curve of a power line ruining the sky in a photograph, and then you just tell the Inpainting Brush Tool to use that Curve instead of your mouse/pen/finger movement. Megnusin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gw_westdale Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Dan503 -- just asked the same thing myself -- though I called it a 'length' option on a variation on a brush -- which would be simulated smooth pressure variation over the length of a stroke. Quote Win 11 PCs 64bit Envy and Envy tablet + Filter Forge Retired computer systems tester doing graphics for charities and politics etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan503 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 22 hours ago, Dan503 said: When I'm at the inking stage of my artwork, I draw a line with the pen tool, left-click, select "stroke path" and it strokes the path using my current brush settings (which includes "simulate pressure"). Sorry I meant right-click. As in the click that brings up the context sensitive menu. I usually assign it as an action though to avoid the fiddliness of the right-click menu. So all I have to do in Photoshop is create the path, press F4 (or some other key) to apply a clean brush stroke, then press the delete key to delete the path. Super fast and easy. I need to draw hundreds of these lines when doing the inking. I don't have time to be fiddling around switching between two programs for every single line. It is something that takes me 2 seconds in Photoshop to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbasket Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 I'm in the same boat - I've spent much time searching for a way to apply texture to an object without using a stroke. Unsuccessfully so far. Whereas a search for how to do this in Adobe PS yielded the answer in the first video I found. BTW, I doesn't seem to matter if using Designer or Photo. Neither of them have that function below the layers panel. If it's elsewhere, I yet have to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Fruitbasket said: I'm in the same boat - I've spent much time searching for a way to apply texture to an object without using a stroke. Unsuccessfully so far. Perhaps: Apply a bitmap fill to the object using the Gradient Tool, using an image file containing the texture you want? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbasket Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Thanks for your input, Walt. Wouldn't that be using texture inside a mask? But then the edges aren't textured. I know how to put texture inside objects/masks. But not how to make their edges textured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Just now, Fruitbasket said: Thanks for your input, Walt. Wouldn't that be using texture inside a mask? But then the edges aren't textured. I know how to put texture inside objects/masks. But not how to make their edges textured. I guess I don't understand what you mean by having a textured edge but no stroke, then. (And the post I replied to talked about applying texture to an object; you didn't say "object edge" ) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan.dedos Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 I also need this feature, can anyone confirm if this is possible? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albo Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 I wa also looking for this. I simply added a contour to my stroke and used the fill tool. Quote iMac mid-2017 3,6 Ghz / 32G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmFernandez Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Same here. In Photoshop. pen, then right-click stroke path. delete path. done. please include this on an update, this thread has been asking since 2016. workaround is, pen and then rasterize layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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