michaelws Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Just wondering if there will be more development in the brushes area of the Photos program? I am primarily an illustrator and right now I use mostly Corel Painter. I love Affinity Designer and would love to use Affinity Photo in place of how I now use Photoshop but as an aside i was wondering if I could import photoshop brushes or if there will be more development in the brushes part of Photo. Thanks for any info on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 In Designer, its already possible to import photoshop brushes. So I'm pretty sure Photo does it as well. I used to use Corel Painter. Its focus then was on making imitations of various traditional media. That is not the focus of either Photo or Designer, tho they do a pretty good job. A few days ago, over in the "Share your work" part of the forum user Charlychuck showed some rather surprising effects painting with a freely available brush. And, lots of other nice work shown in that section using the painting features. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 thanks gdenby. Can you direct me to where I might learn how to import brushes? Thanks for the reply. 000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 See for example: Import ABR Photoshop brushes into Affinity Photo tutorial - If you do a google search etc. you will find additional tutorials, also how to make your own brushes for Affinity Photo! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Yes...thanks v_kyr I will look at the link and I have found some sources on a google search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 I decided to purchase Affinity Photo...knowing I can import. Now I will look at the possibilities of custom brush creation within Affinity. I will hold on to photoshop until i am certain I can make my own within Photo. Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 For some brush creation tutorials see: AP - Create random number brush tutorial How to create realistic snow with a custom brush AD - Create your own brush - grass example ... and so on ... Also take a look into the Affinity Photo application's help system under: Affinity Photo Help ▸ Painting and Erasing ▸ Creating custom brushes. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 great...and thanks v_kyr. I will look further into this topic and see. Will be fun experimenting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 You might also want to have a look here, a set of more than 150 brushes (raster & vector), created and sold by one of our forum members, that gives you a decent overview about whats possible to do brush-wise with Designer and photo: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21273-150-vector-brushes-for-affinity-designer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 will those brushes work with A Photo as well as A Designer? Looks great. Thanks Jen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 On 15/02/2017 at 11:04 PM, Jens Krebs said: You might also want to have a look here, a set of more than 150 brushes (raster & vector), created and sold by one of our forum members, that gives you a decent overview about whats possible to do brush-wise with Designer and photo: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21273-150-vector-brushes-for-affinity-designer/ There were originally 150 brushes in the set, but a month ago Jef doubled the number, as noted in his post here. On 16/02/2017 at 0:06 AM, michaelws said: will those brushes work with A Photo as well as A Designer? Looks great. Thanks Jen. The vector brushes only work in the Draw Persona in Affinity Designer. The raster brushes work in the Pixel Persona in either application. 000 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...
michaelws Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 I just tried to buy the box set but for some reason Gumroad is not giving me the download even though paypal sent me my receipt. Technical glitch I guess...but frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelws Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 I just bought the box set...looking forward to getting the download link and trying them out. Says there are over 300 now in the set. I look forward to learning the brushmaking capabilities of Affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I decided to purchase Affinity Photo...knowing I can import. Now I will look at the possibilities of custom brush creation within Affinity. I will hold on to photoshop until i am certain I can make my own within Photo. Thanks again Follow the links in this post from brush wizard Paolo Limoncelli. 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...
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