Affinity Photo Symmetry & Del's Free 'Byzantium' Gold Brushes

[DelN]

Affinity Photo Symmetry & Del's Free 'Byzantium' Gold Brushes

I have been playing around with Symmetry
using my free 'Byzantium' Gold Brushes for Affinity Photo...

Select the Brush tool

 

On the tool properties bar:
Click Symmetry

In Number of Symmetry Lines:
Type a value
Symmetry is shown as fine guides radiating from a centre point

Select DEL Byzantium 01 Gold brushes

Select a brush
In Width:

Type a brush size
Note:
[ will size down your brush size
] will size up your brush size

Paint on the canvas...

Select another brush from the category
Hover over the canvas

Press [ a couple of times to size down the brush size
Click on the canvas (dab)

Select another brush
Press [ to size down the brush again
Click on the canvas

 

Turn off Symmetry for a second...
Find another brush and dab to place a gold shape in the centre

 

I am fascinated with what you can create in Affinity Photo using Symmetry with the 'Byzantium' Gold brushes...

 

[DelN]

These were created really quickly. I didn't spend much time on them...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DelN]

Byzantium Circle 02

I created this in Affinity Photo 2.5.

First, I set the brush to 'Symmetry' (number of Symmetry lines: 12) and used several of my free 'Byzantium' Gold brushes to paint a short dab on each layer (which is then duplicated around a central point using Symmetry, so that you get a circle of the gold brush stroke or dab). I used a few of the gold annulus (circles without centres) on separate layers and resized some of them, then centred them around the same central point.

I applied textures to some of the circles in the centre to give them a 'tarnished gold' look, and backlit the entire set of gold circles with a light cyan using a HSL adjustment layer.

The prickly gold rays around the 4 gold balls are simply a line that I applied emboss to, then changed the object centre of the line to one end and then duplicated the line many times until I had a circle (short example on how I achieved this, see above). Then I grouped them and rasterised the layer. Then I applied 3D and Emboss to it. I duplicated this prickly circle and placed them round the gold circular spheres so that they looked like a glow effect (or that was what I was aiming for - ha-ha!). 

I applied a few short brush strokes of a gold tile (with Symmetry set to 12 and duplicated and rotated it until I had a circle. Then I grouped them and rasterised the layer.

It perhaps sounds complicated, but in fact it is quite easy to do, although it does take a while (with some experimenting along the way) and many layers. 

The 'Byzantium' Gold brushes are: 
DEL Byzantium 01 Gold, 
DEL Byzantium 02 Gold Annulus, 
DEL Byzantium 03 Gold Tiles and 
DEL Byzantium 04 Gems
and are free to download from the Affinity Forum.

I am obsessed at the moment to see what gold jewellery and amulets I can create using the 'Byzantium' Gold brushes, also patterns I can create in Affinity Photo using them.

DelN