Brush Tool: Previews too small

[xresch]

The Previews of the brushes are too small.
When you have a lot of similar brushes, it is actually hard to find the one your are looking for:

In Photoshop you can choose different ways of displaying brushes.
Here the biggest previews are 64x64px(in CS6), but 128px would be my preferred display size.

My suggestion:
I would give option for display style and display size:

Display Style:

• Text only
• List
• Thumbnail
• Thumbnail with (Stroke) Preview

Display Size:

• Small (16x16px)
• Medium (32x32px)
• Large (64x64px)
• Extra Large (128x128px)

I used this technique for some dashboard on a monitoring website.
In your case, you would just need to use a variable for the size factor and multiply the base size(e.g. 16x16px) with it and calculate the height of the preview, while the width would depend on the brush view size.

With this you would handle most needs a brush user could have for displaying the brushes. :-)

 

 

[Guzzi]

+1

Guzzi

[BobaIrid]

I really need this feature as well, I'm trying to make the jump...help me. 

[ColinK]

I concur. The brush panel thumbnails are way too small. I use brushes quite a bit and I find in Affinity Photo that I generally have to individually click on each one to open it up and then reduce the spacing to see what it is. This wastes a great deal of time, not to mention being irritating. The Affinity brushes panel is not so great and needs some work.  

[Cecil]

+1

[xresch]

Hi Affinity Support,

do you already have a plan if you take this up in you roadmap and if yes, in which version you will release it?

Thanks in Advance
xresch

[Molekule]

Also would like to see this implemented.

[Clipi]

yes please... amzing you did no considered this feature already....

[robob3ar]

is there no way to increase brush thumbnail size - it's impossible to work with some brush packs I worked fine in PS.. even in PS I would want them to be larger - I think this should be adressed - even when you double click, there's a brush texture, but still small.. 

[gdc873]

OMG! I am losing it.. I just bought 300 brushes to only realise that I need to test them out one by one with this system glitch with Affinity Photo!!!!  Please do something about it Serif!

[Jowday]

On 6/22/2019 at 2:16 PM, xresch said:

Look! Photoshop sorts brushes in A-Z order *sniff* *sniff*

[gdc873]

Is it me or is affinity reply being obnoxious. No reply if they will fix it or acknowledging that it is a problem. Are they expecting us to live with it? Isn't that attitude why so many of us is tired of dealing with photoshop in the first place? 

[csc14us]

This type of brush management is at the top of my list of things that AP needs to add.  The current situation is pretty bad for efficiently working with different brushes.

[petr0m]

As I use AP for drawing, this is a big +1 for me as well as an improved brush management.

[Frustrated_By_Adobe]

So far, this is the only issue keeping me from making the jump from adobe... program looks pretty solid.
But I've spent the last hour looking for how to view my brushes in what I'm assuming affinity calls
"Nozzle" view or "Tip" view... I too have 100's of odd shape brushes I use for distressing my designs.
Not having that view will totally be a deal breaker.
Lack of customer care as shown in user GDC873's post doesn't help this thinking.
 

[lberry]

Ditto to the request above.

I bought an add-on brush pack (with heads, torsos, eyes, etc.) for easy character creation. I saw a demo of the character creation pack using Adobe and ProCreate, but when I used it in Affinity, I found it's VERY difficult to use because we need to be able to see the small thumbnails of the brushes on the left MUCH larger. I REALLY like Affinity, but this is unfortunately a seriously weak point of the product in comparison to the other tools. I wanted to build out lots of solutions using custom brushes as various stamps and then start teaching those with limited drawing skills how to use Affinity Designer with stamps. Affinity Designer/Photo would be perfect for this audience, but I can't recommend it to them for this purpose unless they can view the brush previews larger. 

I saw a support desk response to turn on brush preview to preview it larger when hovering. I turned it on but all I see when hovering is the same of the brush. Not helpful.

People have been asking for this functionality for a couple of years. Do you plan to solve this problem soon? If so, when?

Thank you for all the other great functionality in the product.

[ambersand]

+1

Definately a must have as described by the OP. The most important is the option with NO stroke, and a grid based list with scalable size (or selectable preset as the OP listed)

[Julia04]

+1

[xresch]

Linking following issue, as it similar to this one: