lavon Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 When I click on import AbR brushes, it takes me to my own files. Cannot find Them there. Am I just missing them or do I have to go to the Internet to import them? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Hello, lavon, When you click on "Import Brushes...", select on your hard disk the folder where the brushes to be imported are located. If you have downloaded them from the internet they are normally in the "Download" folder (for Windows) unless you have defined another destination folder for your downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavon Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 When I click on import brushes it goes to my hard drive files and Open is greyed out and they're not in my download folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavon Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 When the folder is clicked on it will open but of course there're no files there???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Open Affinity Photo start a new document, go to the folder with the Abr file in it and drag the Abr file onto Affinity Photos workspace. You can do the same thing in Affinity Designer but the brushes will be found in Pixel Persona 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...
lavon Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 There is NO folder with ABR's files in it????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Ok lets start again, do you have any .abr file to import? if not you can find a lot just by searching with google Try importing this: night-sky.abr 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...
HVDB Photography Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Just double click on the .abr file ... Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 4 hours ago, HVDB Photography said: Just double click on the .abr file ... That's fine as long as you don't have Adobe Photoshop installed 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...
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Logical, that's true, but it had to be specified! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 2 minutes ago, reglico said: Logical, that's true, but it had to be specified! Just dragging the .abr file to the workspace is the easiest, failsafe way to install an .abr brushes file. As a side note, there are many photoshop brushes out there but quantity doesn't equal quality so you'll find yourself installing and deleting a lot of 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...
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Personally, the installation of the brushes has always gone well but I rarely use them, I prefer to remain in vectorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 15 hours ago, firstdefence said: Just dragging the .abr file to the workspace is the easiest, failsafe way to install an .abr brushes file. On Macs, another failsafe way to install .abr brush files is to right click on the .abr file in Finder & from the popup "Open with" submenu choose the Affinity app (Designer or Photo) you want to import the brushes into. I am not sure if there is an equivalent for Windows -- I think I read somewhere that the Windows Affinity apps do not declare to the OS that they can open .abr file types. If so, the 'open with' equivalent would not work. 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...
Guest Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 44 minutes ago, R C-R said: On Macs, another failsafe way to install .abr brush files is to right click on the .abr file in Finder & from the popup "Open with" submenu choose the Affinity app (Designer or Photo) you want to import the brushes into. I am not sure if there is an equivalent for Windows -- I think I read somewhere that the Windows Affinity apps do not declare to the OS that they can open .abr file types. If so, the 'open with' equivalent would not work. Hello R C-R, The installation of the brushes can also be done in this way with Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 There is also an .abr viewer for windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/abrviewer/ and also abrmate: http://www.texturemate.com/abrMate ...and a very useful quicklook generator for Mac: http://brushviewer.sourceforge.net just place it in the /Library/QuickLook folder and then right click on and choose quicklook to view the abr files content. 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...
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