Help! I've deleted the Basic brushes for Affinity Photo 2.0 in error

[DelN]

Hi,

I've deleted the Basic brushes for Affinity Photo 2.0 in error and I am not sure where to download them again, or whether I have to 'repair' Affinity Photo 2.5.3.

Can you tell me what I should do.

Thank you.

Del

[Alfred]

You can get the legacy Affinity brushes from here:

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/get-legacy-affinity-brushes/

I don’t think there are any new ‘basic’ brushes in version 2 of the Affinity apps.

[Ron P.]

In Affinity Photo, click on the green icon in the far right, looks like a head and shoulders. Then you should see a cloud with down arrow on the right. You can download them, and they are installed automatically.

You can also check on your pc,  "yourusername"/.affinity/Common/2.0/user to see if you still have a file called raster_brushes.propcol.

[PaulEC]

22 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

n Affinity Photo, click on the green icon in the far right, looks like a head and shoulders. Then you should see a cloud with down arrow on the right. You can download them, and they are installed automatically.

Can you down download the Basic Brushes from there? I thought this was just for add-ons, purchases and freebies from Affinity, not content that comes included with the software.

[R C-R]

20 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Can you down download the Basic Brushes from there? I thought this was just for add-ons, purchases and freebies from Affinity, not content that comes included with the software.

I am pretty sure you are right about that.

However, the link @Alfred mentioned above includes a download button for the V1 basic brushes & instructions for installing them in V2.

Edited July 28, 2024 by R C-R
fixed typos

[Old Bruce]

Try this button from the prefernces before downloading. Assuming of course that you have backups of any and all purchased and home made brushes.

[R C-R]

13 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Try this button from the prefernces before downloading

??? That will not restore the V1 basic brushes to V2!

[Ron P.]

56 minutes ago, R C-R said:

??? That will not restore the V1 basic brushes to V2!

No probably not. However I think the OP should first check to see if he still has the raster_brushes.propcol file (found under %userprofile%/common/2.0/user ). The size should be rather large. Since the OP states only deleting the Basic Brushes, using the Reset button just might restore them.

I think it's also possible to just rename the 2.0 folder found at the aforementioned location, to something like OLD2.0, and Affinity should rebuild it upon restart. Then the solution provided by Alfred will work.

Finally, I uploaded the zip file I have on my pc as a backup. Downloaded a few years ago, from the store, the same link provided by Alfred.

affinity-photo-brushes.zip

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Ron P. said:

Since the OP states only deleting the Basic Brushes, using the Reset button just might restore them.

I can't see how since the brush reset feature deletes every brush category except the V2 factory defaults. IOW, this would work only if the V1 Basic brushes were included with V2, but they are not.

Assuming the OP wants the V1 basic brushes It's really simple -- just use the link @Alfred posted to get to where one can download & install the V1 basics.

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Assuming the OP wants the V1 basic brushes It's really simple -- just use the link @Alfred posted to get to where one can download & install the V1 basics.

Those that are provided in the link, are the same ones I attached to my post...

[DelN]

Hi,

Thank you all so much for the replies.

I went to Settings as Old Bruce suggested above...

On 7/29/2024 at 12:46 AM, Old Bruce said:

Try this button from the prefernces before downloading. Assuming of course that you have backups of any and all purchased and home made brushes.

...and the Basic brushes were restored in a second. 

Thank you, Old Bruce, for this easy solution to my problem.

Thank you all so much for helping... 🙂

Del

[R C-R]

10 hours ago, DelN said:

...and the Basic brushes were restored in a second.

Just to be clear, do you mean the brush category named "Basic" with a set of round brushes, a set of round soft ones, & a set of round light brushes, each set only differing in their weights ... or something else, like maybe all the default brush categories?

[DelN]

Hi R C-R,

Yes, the brush category titled 'Basic' in the 'Brushes' palette.

Old Bruce solved it... 🙂

This one...

[R C-R]

8 minutes ago, DelN said:

Yes, the brush category titled 'Basic' in the 'Brushes' palette.

Old Bruce solved it... 🙂

Weird! I was almost certain that category with those brushes was not part of the AP V2 app, so I was very surprised that in Settings > Miscellaneous a factory reset of the brushes would restore them. Did doing that on your system remove any other custom or downloaded brush categories you might have had installed?

[DelN]

Ah, as to that I have no idea. I've not noticed anything missing. I uninstalled my own brushes before I did the restore...

[R C-R]

16 minutes ago, DelN said:

I've not noticed anything missing. I uninstalled my own brushes before I did the restore...

Well, that would explain why the factory reset did not delete them! 😄