Kiarian Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 I'm trying to make a custom brush, using this as an example (image 1). I'm trying to figure out how they got this soft negative effect. First image is what I am using as a reference, second image (Image 2) is a stone wall image I'm using as a test image. I've already tried inverting a desaturated image, but that's not it. How would I go about creating this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Try making shapes with mono gradients, then rasterise and blur or using soft brushes to paint a texture, The first image looks like a displacement map. 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...
firstdefence Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Can I ask are you just learning to make brushes are is this for something in particular? 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...
Kiarian Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 49 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Can I ask are you just learning to make brushes are is this for something in particular? Yes, I am trying to make a custom brush from scratch to use in the newly released Quixel Mixer. I only just realised that I have Quixel Suite 2.0, and I can convert any image into a normal/diffuse/AO/cavity map, so I can use that. I was just wondering if there was a way create a displacement map purely using Affinity Photo. I suppose it might be similar to recreating a normal map. I know NVIDIA have a free plug-in for Photoshop for normal maps (which I am guessing you can also use in Affinity Photo - haven't tried to yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Theres a pretty cool app called CrazyBump that can create normals. Kiarian 1 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...
Kiarian Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 Ah cool. Pretty handy especially if you don't have any dedicated software to do it with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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