affinity photo Photoshop brushes working well in Affinity Photo and Designer

[tradivoro]

I was skeptical of how brushes imported from Photoshop would work in Affinity products.  I'm happy to say they've ported over very well, for the most part, and most of the brushes work well out of the box without tweaking.  There were a very few that needed a lot of tweaking, but those were rare.  This picture was done in Affinity Photo using just the photoshop brushes I've imported.  I've also used the gradient technique on the leaves.  So, just mentioning this for people who use Photoshop for painting wondering if the brushes they're familiar with would work with Affinity. 

[walt.farrell]

If you look deeply enough into the forums you will find issues reported with some Photoshop brushes when used in the Affinity applications. It all depends on the complexity of the brushes and what PS functions they use (and especially, I think, whether they use older or newer PS brush functions). So it will probably be questionable if you're purchasing any brushes, and if you are you should probably make sure the distributor will provide a refund if they don't work in Photo or Designer.

[tradivoro]

Thanks Walt.  Some of the paid brushes I'm using are the Michael Adamidis brushes and so far no problems whatsoever.  Everything else is free brushes I've gotten from various sources.  So, maybe I've just been lucky... 🙂 Where they may not translate so easily is in the mixer brushes.  I haven't tried those. 

[Komatös]

Quite nice, but the rectangular colour fields bother me a little.

[tradivoro]

8 hours ago, Komatös said:

Quite nice, but the rectangular colour fields bother me a little.

I have to check the original to see if I left anything behind.  That doesn't look like part of the brush.

[tradivoro]

Ok, so this what happened.  I was using an eraser brush with a square nib to create some straight edges on the land masses.  However, I'm still learning to navigate affinity photo, and I wind up on the wrong layer every now and then.  While trying to erase, I wound up on the layer with the orange sparkly brush, clicked twice with the square eraser, and that's what  you're seeing.  I don't know how I didn't see it, but these pictures are done very quickly, more of a showcase of the brushes than the picture itself.  Thank you for catching that though, not my finest moment... 🙂

I was more surprised with how well the fog brush worked, the water lines brush worked and the vegetation brushes worked straight out of the box.  The only brushes I've had trouble with are the Aaron Blaise brushes, but those don't work right even with Photoshop, unless you use them with a tablet and stylus.  Then they come to life.  I'll see if I can bring those round to Affinity Photo and Designer.  Thanks again Komatos.