Hydrology 0 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superhaschi 6 Posted July 28, 2018 did you set the controller? MacOS High Sierra AD + AP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R C-R 2,608 Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Hydrology said: Sure did. What did you set the controller to? Affinity Photo 1.6.7 & Affinity Designer 1.6.1; macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 iMac (27-inch, Late 2012); 2.9GHz i5 CPU; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M; 8GB RAMAffinity Photo 1.6.11.85 & Affinity Designer 1.6..4.45 for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iOS 12.1.1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hydrology 0 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdenby 530 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. 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebastian C. 2 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. 1 gdenby reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdenby 530 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. 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hydrology 0 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEB 6,833 Posted August 6, 2018 Hi Hidrology, Welcome to Affinity Forums This is a known issue that already logged to be looked at. Affinity Quick Reference | Common Feature Requests | Call for Camera Images Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdenby 530 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. 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hydrology 0 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hydrology 0 Posted January 7 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites