Hans Rutgers Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 I'm new to AD, and having fun trying all possibilities, but I have 1 question: after drawing a line with the pen tool or with the pencil or brush tool I see no tool to alter the line width other then for the whole line. In illustrator this can been done with an excellent Width tool. The brush palet can only change it at beginning and end of the line; not in between. Searching the documentation and tutorials has not helped so far. This is an important tool for me, so please tell me I missed something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Hans. :) This is an important tool for me, so please tell me I missed something! You missed something! :D With the line selected on the canvas, click on the 'Pressure' button at the bottom of the Stroke panel and adjust the shape of the graph that pops up. Dragging the endpoints down will make the ends of the stroke thinner, and clicking and dragging up or down between the endpoints will add further variation. Hans Rutgers 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Hi Hans Rutgers, If I understand correctly you are trying to change the thickness of a line at different places.With the selected stroke, you click on the representation of the stroke in the contextual toolbar, then in the submenu that develops, you click on "pressure". You can then change the thickness of the line at any point by adding new points and placing them wherever you want. The changes are done live on the stroke so that you immediately see the outcome.I hope to have answered your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Rutgers Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Thank you! It works not as directly, but absolutely good enough. I think I will be back here with things I "missed" (I'm a bit hasty sometimes); the possibilities are endless and it will take me some time to master it all. Great app, that I will use a lot. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Thank you! It works not as directly, but absolutely good enough. I think I will be back here with things I "missed" (I'm a bit hasty sometimes); the possibilities are endless and it will take me some time to master it all. Great app, that I will use a lot. Thank you for your feedback Hans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 There is also another pressure feature for if you use a tablet. If you are drawing with the Pencil or Brush tool, then on the Context Toolbar, select "Pressure" from the Controller dropdown menu to enable width variation. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 I was just searching for the same thing as Hans and I think while it's nice to be able to change stroke widths at different places of the path at all, it would be a very much welcome feature if you could do this directly on the path and not in an extra "presssure" window where you have to sort of guess which place there corresponds to which place on the actual path. The stroke width or line thickness tool in Illustrator does this just fine and I think – although we shouldn't really aim at making Designer an Illustrator clone – it can't harm to learn from your "adversaries"... so I'd be very happy if such a tool for the direct "local" manipulation of a stroke's width would find its way in here. themandalorian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 26 minutes ago, Lorox said: The stroke width or line thickness tool in Illustrator does this just fine and I think – although we shouldn't really aim at making Designer an Illustrator clone – it can't harm to learn from your "adversaries"... so I'd be very happy if such a tool for the direct "local" manipulation of a stroke's width would find its way in here Rather than posting that comment in this old discussion on the Question forum, it would be better to create a new topic in the Feature Request forum, or add a concurring comment to an existing topic there. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Rather than posting that comment in this old discussion on the Question forum, it would be better to create a new topic in the Feature Request forum, or add a concurring comment to an existing topic there. Sorry, you're right... Concerning this very discussion, though, I find that following the instructions above my stroke gets more or less transparent when I use the "Pressure" feature while the stroke width remains the same. What am I missing here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Lorox said: Concerning this very discussion, though, I find that following the instructions above my stroke gets more or less transparent when I use the "Pressure" feature while the stroke width remains the same. What am I missing here? I just found out "Pressure" affects different properties according to the type of the brush/stroke used. Might have thought of that earlier.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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