nixiejames Posted August 13, 2019 Posted August 13, 2019 I'm on the latest beta of Affinity Photo and I can't apply brush shapes to curves made using the pen tool. I'm supposed to just change the stroke settings to texture line style then change the type of brush, right? Nothing happens afterwards. The stroke remains a regular line. Dash line style works so I know the curves in Photo are still smart objects. Applying textures to curves in Photo should be possible like in Designer. Quote
firstdefence Posted August 13, 2019 Posted August 13, 2019 Brushes in Affinity Photo are raster brushes (pixel based) and cannot be applied to a curve, for that to happen you would need a vector brush which Affinity Photo doesn't have but Affinity Designer does. In order to use the brushes in Affinity Photo you will need to use the Brush tool. nixiejames 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
nixiejames Posted August 13, 2019 Author Posted August 13, 2019 If that’s the case, then they should’ve removed the texture line styles tab from the stroke settings. I’m hoping there’s a workaround. Kurb and cc7 2 Quote
firstdefence Posted August 13, 2019 Posted August 13, 2019 You could edit the document in Designer: File > Edit in Designer and then from Affinity Designer use File > Edit in Photo as a round trip. But the brushes that can be applied to the curve are only the vector brushes available in Affinity Designer. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
R C-R Posted August 14, 2019 Posted August 14, 2019 18 hours ago, nixiejames said: If that’s the case, then they should’ve removed the texture line styles tab from the stroke settings. It is there to provide compatibility with files created in Designer but edited in Photo. firstdefence 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted August 14, 2019 Posted August 14, 2019 3 hours ago, R C-R said: It is there to provide compatibility with files created in Designer but edited in Photo. Good point. In theory, though, if the file has not been edited in Designer, or was edited but no texture line style was assigned, that tab could be suppressed in Photo. But I'm not sure which approach would be likely to cause less confusion. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
R C-R Posted August 14, 2019 Posted August 14, 2019 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: In theory, though, if the file has not been edited in Designer, or was edited but no texture line style was assigned, that tab could be suppressed in Photo. But I'm not sure which approach would be likely to cause less confusion. There is also the Studio Link complication to consider ... walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
nixiejames Posted August 14, 2019 Author Posted August 14, 2019 I say remove it coz it's depressing haha. I don't think it should be too difficult to change that and avoid complications with the link. The fact that you can still change the curve to a dash line style after you make it tells me that it should be possible to apply a textured line style only rasterized. I don't like using Designer's brushes on curves because of how they behave when closing a curve. They create a weird gap so you have to break the curve then just create the illusion that it is closed. Quote
framejockey Posted January 24, 2021 Posted January 24, 2021 On 8/14/2019 at 5:43 PM, nixiejames said: I say remove it coz it's depressing haha. I don't think it should be too difficult to change that and avoid complications with the link. The fact that you can still change the curve to a dash line style after you make it tells me that it should be possible to apply a textured line style only rasterized. I don't like using Designer's brushes on curves because of how they behave when closing a curve. They create a weird gap so you have to break the curve then just create the illusion that it is closed. The weird gap can be removed by choosing repeat in the brush edit settings. Quote
cc7 Posted December 22, 2022 Posted December 22, 2022 On 8/13/2019 at 7:30 PM, nixiejames said: If that’s the case, then they should’ve removed the texture line styles tab from the stroke settings. I’m hoping there’s a workaround. Agreed!! I can't use any brush with texture line styles on stroke {Affinity Photo 2.0.3) Quote
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