jackperdue Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Greetings, I love the tools offered at Retro Supply (brushes) but unfortunately, most are tooled as Adobe Illustrator only. So I have a few questions for the collective brain. Do you know of a way to convert AI brushes to work in Affinity Designer Do you know of a source that has retro etch / engraving brushes such as the one attached Thank you ~ Jack RetroSupplyCo and pmannaro 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted March 1, 2018 Staff Share Posted March 1, 2018 Hi jackperdue, I guess these brushes are in .ai file format? If so, then it's not possible to import those into Designer. I don't know of a source for brushes but i'm sure someone will post one shortly pmannaro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 @jackperdue Do you have illustrator and have access to those brushes? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackperdue Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 I do not have Illustrator but would gladly purchase the brushes available at Retro Supply if I could use them in Affinity Designer. I like a lot of the tools available at Retro Supply. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I have not had formal training in design but love it and learning as fast as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 (edited) Those brushes are fun, I tried doing the same style brushes for AD. I suspect my lines aren't as fine as their, and I'll delete the files if asked to. As said in another post, the brushes are officially released, so I delete the files from this message. have fun Edited October 8, 2018 by Wosven Official release, files deleted from this post. Krustysimplex, k410, BobsDaubs and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmannaro Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Wosven : Thank you. Very nice styles. Also ... It goes without saying that any techie that cracks the conversion between all / any AI add-ons / tools / asset/ brushes etc and AD, will be a hero AND get a little money for their trouble. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmannaro Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 (edited) jackperdue I just wrote to the folk at Retro Supply to ask them to make any / all their products AD-compatible. OK, so Retro Supply DID reply and there's a related Vimeo link below. Their answer is roughly this :Photoshop brushes in the .abr format will work in Affinity Photo. Use the Vimeo link below to see how. They also say that THIS brush set IS compatible with AD : https://www.retrosupply.co/collections/textures/products/retroeffects-classic-collection-bundle Edited April 29, 2018 by pmannaro Update with answer fro Retro Supply RemN and Wosven 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jackperdue Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 pmannaro thanks for the response. I have the retroeffects-classic-collection-bundle already and love it. Use it all the time. That is what got me interested in some of their other products. And that was where I ran into the snag. The Importing brushes video was a nice lesson, too. RetroSupplyCo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie885 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Did you ever find an answer for this? I am actually interested in the same etching brush set and found this thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackperdue Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 On 6/19/2018 at 4:58 PM, katie885 said: Did you ever find an answer for this? I am actually interested in the same etching brush set and found this thread! Hey, no, I didn't really find an answer. Only that some of the brushes Retro Supply sells will work with Affinity Designer and some will not. I contacted Retro Supply about my interest in these brushes and if they plan to create an option for AD. Said, no! I actually had purchased their retro etch / engraving brushes and discovered they would not work with AD they gladly refunded my purchase. RetroSupplyCo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Makes you wonder what the differences are between the brushes that would make one work and the other not? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Perhaps some effects on the strokes that doesn't exist in Affinity. They couldn't be imported or were the results not as expected ? (examples of the later ones would be interesting to look at). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k410 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I just saw that RetroSupply has released their Grave Etcher brushes for Affinity Designer (previously they were only available for Illustrator). Artifex Forge has also been converting some of his brush sets to work in Affinity Designer. RetroSupplyCo and Wosven 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroSupplyCo Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Hi @jackperdue and @katie885 Good news! Grave Etcher is now available for Affinity. You can find it here: https://www.retrosupply.co/collections/affinity-products/products/grave-etcher-vector-etching-brushes-for-affinity-design We are actually working on making all of our Illustrator brushes available for Affinity (it's basically all I have been doing for the past couple of weeks). You can see our Affinity product catalog (so far) here: https://www.retrosupply.co/collections/affinity-products We are hopefully going to be adding a couple of products a month here, so definitely keep an eye out on this page. We would love for y'all to take these for a spin and let us know what you think. Feel free to email me at support@retrosupply.co if you have any questions or comments! -Suzanne at RetroSupply RemN, etiennepisano2862, k410 and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackperdue Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 Hey RS, thanks for support the Affinity Designer community. I just picked up the Grave Etcher brushes — my way of supporting your work and the Affinity Designer platform. Oh, yea, and two others. Thanks ~ Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robokrabe Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Greetings, what about vector brushes? Is it possible in some way to convert brushes .ai format to affinity designer format? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 14, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hi Robokrabe, Welcome to Affinity Forums No, there's no direct way to convert them. Besides that, current Affinity Designer brushes are hybrid (raster textures being repeated or stretched along a vector tor path), not pure vector brushes yet. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroSupplyCo Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hi @Robokrabe! As MEB stated, there's no way to convert Ai brushes to AD brushes. The good news is that we've been super busy manually recreating a lot of our brushes for Affinity Designer. Do keep in mind that, as MEB stated, these aren't pure vector brushes, but they're whats supported by Affinity at the moment. You can check out our entire collection here. If you have a particular brush pack of ours that you're dying to have for Affinity Designer, please let us know! If enough people request a certain one, we can prioritize that. Thanks again to everyone on this thread for your support! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robokrabe Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/14/2020 at 9:13 PM, RetroSupplyCo said: Hi @Robokrabe! As MEB stated, there's no way to convert Ai brushes to AD brushes. The good news is that we've been super busy manually recreating a lot of our brushes for Affinity Designer. Do keep in mind that, as MEB stated, these aren't pure vector brushes, but they're whats supported by Affinity at the moment. You can check out our entire collection here. If you have a particular brush pack of ours that you're dying to have for Affinity Designer, please let us know! If enough people request a certain one, we can prioritize that. Thanks again to everyone on this thread for your support! Greetings, That's what I like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BennyD Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 On 7/14/2020 at 7:40 PM, MEB said: Hi Robokrabe, Welcome to Affinity Forums No, there's no direct way to convert them. Besides that, current Affinity Designer brushes are hybrid (raster textures being repeated or stretched along a vector tor path), not pure vector brushes yet. Would be great if you support pure vector brushes in the future. Illustrator did it back then in CS5. Cheers. B Quote ___♥___ | | | | | | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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