Reseting Brushes

[jctorta]

Being new to Affinity paint but not new to Paint programs I started working with and changing brushes to suite my need.  (saw the reset button) so assumed I could revert the brush at any time.

I dramatically changed a standard brush and decided I wanted to revert it back to the original.  The reset button did not work as expected. So I am WTF and then looked for the directory with the brushes so I can copy the originals back. .  Can’t find that either?! (it looks like they are kept in a single library file? Is that true? and did not dare to touch that)

So I am stuck, And need advice

Do I need to reinstall the entire program JUST to reset that brush back?
Where ARE the brushes, macros etc stored?
and Lastly what IS the best procedure on using brushes? I change the settings a lot (using a base brush as a start) and making a new copy every time I tweak anything or risk losing the settings seems an unfortunate issue.

Any help here would be great, I expect I am just missing something obvious to long time users.

Thanks!

 

[carl123]

Try

 

Edit > Preferences > Miscellaneous > Reset Brushes

[R C-R]

If you reset the brushes you may want to first export any custom ones you want to use again. You can then import them later.

[jctorta]

Thanks for the aid. I did not see that setting.

 

I did the preference reset and it said "Failed to restore brushes to factory settings"

 

So, no go .  and that really looked like the correct method . . bug?

[- S -]

I think so.  Despite the error message it still resets the brushes though.

 

I reported it in the bug section here:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/32110-affinity-photo-resetting-brushes-displays-an-error-message/