Changing brush thumbnail

[AJBenson09]

Hi, 

Super new to Affinity (coming over from Photoshop) and I'm slowly adjusting to it. (Any tips and pointers would be much appreciated) Anyway, I was wondering if there was a way to change the brush view so it is just a large thumbnail? Also is there a hotkey to adjust the hardness and opacity?  In Photoshop I had gotten used to using alt- right click, to adjust the size, opacity, and hardness.

Thanks so much for the help!

[Chris B]

Hey AJBenson09, welcome to the Affinity Forums

You can change the brush size and hardness by holding Alt and then pressing both the left and right mouse buttons. Dragging up/down will change Hardness and dragging left/right will change the brush size.

Opacity can be changed by pressing the number keys. 1 being equal to 10%, 2 is 20% and so on. Note that if you press the number keys when the Brush Tool is not selected, it will change the the opacity of the layer. 4

You can't change the brush preview to a single thumbnail of that brush at the moment. A lot of the brushes have different nozzles so a static thumbnail for a particular brush might not make sense when its nozzle changes after a second click on the canvas. I'm not sure how PS handles that...

[Mark Ingram]

Moving to Questions forum.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Chris B said:

Opacity can be changed by pressing the number keys. 1 being equal to 10%, 2 is 20% and so on.

You can also set opacity to intermediate values by pressing two number keys rapidly one after the other. For example, to get 12% press 1 quickly followed by pressing 2, & to get 1% press 0 (zero) quickly followed but pressing 1. Pressing 0 (zero) sets opacity to 100%, as does pressing 3 number keys quickly, one after the other.

[SrPx]

On 4/1/2019 at 3:57 PM, R C-R said:

You can also set opacity to intermediate values by pressing two number keys rapidly one after the other. For example, to get 12% press 1 quickly followed by pressing 2, & to get 1% press 0 (zero) quickly followed but pressing 1. Pressing 0 (zero) sets opacity to 100%, as does pressing 3 number keys quickly, one after the other.

Good to know, R C-R,  is exactly as in PS. (great so for not needing to "rewire" the brain). Hadn't notice the fine tune aspect of it (the 1% stuff) as am using in every app since a while the disc for brush size....    Edit :  That very sentence made no sense : had too many coffees that day. Or sth.