How to use the Clouds & smoke and the paper pictures ?

[Leitz]

Hello,

i got possibly a very naive question . When i downloaded the 180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes pack it inclued a zip file named "Image-PNG" this included one file

named "Image-PNG" whitch included two files, one named Clouds that contains 100 pictures of clouds in black and white and the the other named smoke that

contains 80 smoke pictures in black and white . Are these just meant to be examples to look at or what and how exactly would one use these in a design or photo

project ? maybe cutting them out and copy and paste them or using them with a other transparnet layer ?

 

considering the 20 black and wihte paper pictues that are part of the DAUB® Watercolours & Washes pack, i imagine that one uses them as a Layer to put paint

on it ?  

Thanks

 

[v_kyr]

According to the pack title "180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes", those are reusable brushes. So what you do find there as PNG images in folders can be loaded and used for drawing with those as custom brushes then. - See also:

• 180 Smoke and Cloud brushes

[jmwellborn]

2 hours ago, Leitz said:

Hello,

i got possibly a very naive question . When i downloaded the 180 Smoke and Cloud Brushes pack it inclued a zip file named "Image-PNG" this included one file

named "Image-PNG" whitch included two files, one named Clouds that contains 100 pictures of clouds in black and white and the the other named smoke that

contains 80 smoke pictures in black and white . Are these just meant to be examples to look at or what and how exactly would one use these in a design or photo

project ? maybe cutting them out and copy and paste them or using them with a other transparnet layer ?

 

considering the 20 black and wihte paper pictues that are part of the DAUB® Watercolours & Washes pack, i imagine that one uses them as a Layer to put paint

on it ?  

Thanks

 

I am certainly not an experienced user, but I also have those spectacular brushes.  Have you imported the brushes themselves into Photo or Designer?    Those PNG pictures are just to help you choose the brush you wish to use.  (I actually printed those PNGs out in larger size so I could get a better idea of what I wanted versus the tiny images in the brushes Panel .)   You use the Brushes Panel to locate your selection and with the paintbrush tool you paint away.    As for the textures, I also have the DAB watercolours and Washes, and found that there is an excellent video tutorial on Mr. Limoncelli’s website, https://www.daub-brushes.com/affinity/ which shows how to use the textures.    The key is to note that after you  create a rectangle layer, you switch to the Fill Tool, then go up to the context toolbar and change the entry in the box labeled “Type” to “Bitmap”.    That will send you to files with Textures.   Select one, click Open, and it will fill your rectangle with your selected paper texture.  Then paint away!  The video shows all this but goes very quickly from step to step.    I got the Bitmap step on the third try!

I am sure that highly qualified forum members will come to your rescue at the start of the work week.   Meanwhile, perhaps this will help.