Photo 2 - Individual Brush Reset Q

[Glennsart]

G'Day all. New to Affinity V2 and I have to say, the developers have done a fabulous job on this update. Nice going.

I have a question regarding the "Reset" button on the individual brush edit pane (see screenshot). I noted in the manual it says to reset the brush to 'factory settings' (not sure if that was the exact wording) to hit the 'Reset' button while holding the CTRL key down. However, when I do that, my adjustments to the individual brush do not go back to what they were when I first opened the panel. The modified settings remain unchanged. I have tried holding the CTRL, then the CMD, the OPT and finally the SHIFT keys down (not in combination with each other) while I click on the button, as well has simply hitting the 'Reset' button with no modifiers, but none of those work. Just wondering if I am missing something obvious here or if anyone can give me a head's up on the correct operation of this. Many thanks.

System Specs:

Apple Studio M1 Max; Sonoma 14.5; 32 GB RAM, 0.75 TB free HD space

Affinity Photo v2.5.0

Thanks again,

Glenn

[Glennsart]

Just to update, the Basic Brush set doesn't seem to reset, but the Oil set does by simply hitting the Reset button. I'm not sure about other brush sets at this time. This is likely an interpretation thing on my part so clarification of this operation would be helpful. Many thanks again.

[walt.farrell]

That Reset button resets any changes made from the time you opened that dialog, to the time you close it. Once you close it, the changes are committed and can no longer be reset individually. Thus, it's a good approach to save a copy of the brush (Save As), and update the copy. Or you can make a copy within the Brushes panel. (I'm away from my PC, and I'm not sure if you'd do that with a right-click on the brush or by using the panel options (3-bar icon, aka burger menu).)

References to "holding the Ctrl key down" probably refer to holding it while starting the application, which will bring up a Clear User Data dialog that will allow you to reset all the brushes to their factory state (and remove any brushes you have added or modified). But without a better reference to what you were looking at I can't be sure about that.

[Glennsart]

Thank you very much for this Walt. I tried what you said above about pane open/pane closed and that worked exactly as you described, which clears up my confusion. I only modified one brush where I'm not sure was returned to it's original state (any others I returned manually), so since I don't yet have any third party brushes (the stock ones seem excellent so not sure I need to), I can just do the "Clear All User Data" option to reset everything. That's good to know. I saw that procedure when I was searching the forums here for an answer to my question prior to posting, which was in a 2019 post, but wasn't really what I was specifically looking for here. 

Again my thanks. Appreciate the help.

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, Glennsart said:

I can just do the "Clear All User Data" option to reset everything

You're welcome. And, no, that won't affect brushes. You would use Reset Brushes, from that list (in the second section, which affects all 3 applications if you have them).