Hydrology Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 ...exactly like the brush in Adobe Draw. No matter what settings I adjust in either vector brush or pencil in Affinity Designer, I cannot get a tapered brush that also works with pressure control. I can get the taper at both ends if I switch pressure off, but then every stroke is the same width. Please help! Maybe someone could send me a working brush if I’m doing it wrong! This alone would see me move away from Adobe Draw, and ultimately Illustrator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superhaschi Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 did you set the controller? Quote MacOS Big Sur AD + AP + APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrology Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 Sure did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Hydrology said: Sure did. What did you set the controller to? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrology Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 Here is the taper brush doing EXACTLY what I want it to do in Adobe Draw: Here is the same settings in Designer: Why can’t a free app give me the simplest of brushes and a paid app cannot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrology Posted August 5, 2018 Author Share Posted August 5, 2018 Anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Hi, Hydrology, See the attached sample. Pencil work, with Sculpt turned on. Vector, w. brush dynamics adjusted to have size variation. Both using the default pressure curve. 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...
Sebastian C. Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Hello Hydrology, What you want to do is use the Pencil Tool and adjust the settings in the Stoke Studio. I'll attach some examples. With the right settings, you'll be able to get a perfect taper every time. gdenby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Sebastian C.'s approach works very well. As far as I can tell, the stroke pressure adjustments are only available within the document. The desktop version allows multiple pressure profiles to be saved and assigned from the stroke panel. In the iPad version, I've only been able to transfer the pressures by "copy/paste style" between different strokes. The desktop version allows the stroke pressure curves to be saved as layer styles, and available to all documents. So far I've found no way to do that in the iPad version. Perhaps a feature request is in order. 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...
Hydrology Posted August 6, 2018 Author Share Posted August 6, 2018 Thanks guys, I can achieve this style of taper, but what it doesn’t give me is pressure adjustment - I don’t want every stroke to have the same thickness. It seems silly - it means for my workflow I have to continue to have a Creative Cloud subscription - I have to do my linework in Adobe Draw, export it to Adobe Illustrator, then save and import into Affinity Designer, which kinda makes Designer of no use to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 6, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 6, 2018 Hi Hidrology, Welcome to Affinity Forums This is a known issue that already logged to be looked at. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Hello, again. I was looking at the screen cap from Draw, and had a thought. I'd been working on some textured image brushes for use w. the vector brush that would emulate wood cut strokes. Tried them out, and thought they might be worth a look. They seem to respond to pressure pretty well, and this was just the 1st trial. 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...
Hydrology Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 So, has this been fixed if an issue or added as a feature? Haven’t and can’t use this program (despite already purchasing) until this is sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrology Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Again, I ask if this has been fixed for the iPad version? Havent used it since I bought it and could not get pressurised taper brush to work like it does in Adobe a Draw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian C. Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Post deleted, restarted the app and worked again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 On 1/7/2019 at 11:42 PM, Hydrology said: Again, I ask if this has been fixed for the iPad version? Havent used it since I bought it and could not get pressurised taper brush to work like it does in Adobe a Draw. 56746CD5-3EC7-4857-AFB3-9EE9EBF41DB8.MOV Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrology Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 Thanks for the video but this is nothing like the taper I want and screenshotted above from Adobe Draw. How hard is it for this paid software to allow me to use a taper brush just like I do in Adobe Draw - a FREE app? I haven't used Affinity since I bought because of this - I find it hard to believe nobody else needs this simple "feature" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messed Head Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Hi Hydrology, "How hard". Methinks you miss the economics of a free 'gateway' app into the world of global Adobe subscriptions versus an app trying very hard but with much smaller resources (and price tag). I'm a newbie to this too, and I would looooove to get rid of my Adobe Sub. Cheers DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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