Another way to add colour is to use the Colour Overlay effect in the effects panel. This method allows you to choose a colour from the colour swatches you have in your file if you need to colour match for consistency and by using the Colour Effect swatches panel you also get the option to add noise to the stroke if desired. EDIT: Yes, as mentioned in Ericks comment below this one, if you create your initial brush as white stroke on a black background and export it out as a png then when you create a new brush from the brush panel choose NEW TEXTURED INTENSITY BRUSH and NOT New Textured Image Brush. This will give you the ability to colour your strokes normally without the Recolour or Colour Overlay workarounds. You can of course choose colour from your swatches and also add noise as you would be able to normally. 🙂
nick you have done a little wrong, you have created a image for a raster brush, to create vector brushes you need to save the image with black bg and white for the brush/texture, and them you can chage the color normally without apply that effect.
Yep this is true. Its kind of selling Affinity Designer short by showing this as the way to make brushes. The work around for adding colour to this type of brush was good though.
Watched your video on gradients. Thanks, that was very informative. Regarding making custom brushes, I'm pretty sure if you create the brush with a black background and use white for the brush stokes you are creating then you will be able to change colors in the usual way.
I created a brush back around 2017 using Affinity Designer. It's been so long that I thought I'd better find out how to do it again. I do recall creating a PNG as you did. I noticed in your video that you can't change the colour of your brush by changing the line colour. I thought this was odd, so I opened up a file to test out the brush I created because I don't recall any issues around changing its colour. Sure enough, I can change the colour of my brush lines easily without any work arounds. Now it's back to the drawing board to remember exactly how I created this brush because I want to create a few more and changing the line's colour without workarounds is a must for me..
Oh my I was here a year ago. I downloaded the file and left a little thank you. I've made brushes quite some time ago and watched your video to refresh how to do it. But now I remember why I stopped making my own brushes; there is a transparent grey area around the strokes. I could never find out why. I follow the instructions and try it over but it's still there.
Hi there. This was very helpful except for one thing. I made the brush along with you, following your steps and it was black. I need it to be a certain brown. I tried to follow your steps to change it and successfully changed it. but now, I don't know how to save it to that brush forever! Can you please help? and thank you!
Hey there, I have been trying to make a rough line vector brush but the tails at both ends always end up curling and doing things that I don't want them to do. I set the offset of them to 0px but It didn't help. I made a little video of my screen and what I did but I don't know how to upload it.
@4:40 I am sorry but that is incorrect. It still uses the full image, but it limits (crops) the area of the source image (the .png) that it stretches along the brush vector line (in stretch mode). It works similar in Adobe Illustrator. You can actually see how the full .png is still utilised as a brush in the video, only the start and the end of the brush does not stretch. However, I actually came here to see how Affinity Designer custom brushes work, in order to see if you can assign opacity variance to (Wacom) pen pressure, but I can hear that the OP is using a mouse to draw, hence no 'Opacity Variance' input. If so, I would say it is a major advantage over Adobe Illustrator that does not have this option, plus pressure options is very buggy and is greyed out as an option every so often. An issue that has been plagueing Illustrator for years.
Thanks. Is there a way to make a custom image brush that doesn't blend that it will put down only solid color pixels? I want to paint 80's style textures and I don't want any blending or mixing of any kind.
Thank you so much, the recolor is a big help. I've watched dozens and dozens of videos and followed Serif tutorials to the letter and my brushes don't consistently come out right since I moved to affinity from adobe, some work others don't. Some say they need to be created in RGB others say it doesn't matter (I work primarily with home printers so I start a doc in cmyk), some say black with white background and I end up with the white background showing on my brushes.
I created a stroke/shape I want to use as a brush (and in the repeat mode)--but somehow it came out reversed: white shape with black background!? I made sure my Stroke color was black and tried it again, but the same thing happened. What am I doing wrong?
Just a little too fast for me as the your font is so very tiny, takes me a while to focus on it. I will go over it a few times though as it is much clearer than many others. The colour change was puzzling me so this was very helpful there, thanks.
hello, would you be able to teach us how to make vector textures for use in affinity? I would like to create my own textures and save them as styles. Thank you for your kind consideration.
can you really not make brushes that you can change the color of??? how hard is that to implement. I dont want to open an adjustment layer everytime I use a brush or want to change its value. EDIT: I figured out how to do this. Use import as intensity brush. The darkest parts of the image will become the brush. Just make anything you want to make a crush out of black and white, pump the contrast, and then export as a png. then import it and wallah.
Check out my master class where I explain how every tool and feature works in Affinity Designer: logosbynick.com/affinity-designer/
Everything you need with no filler. Well done
Very informative, straight forward, and to the point. Thanks.
Thanks - clear and consistent. Very useful.
Very concise, clear and relevant. Thanks!
Excellent as always, very helpful tutorial, thank you!
Many thanks. A short and concise tutorial.
Another way to add colour is to use the Colour Overlay effect in the effects panel. This method allows you to choose a colour from the colour swatches you have in your file if you need to colour match for consistency and by using the Colour Effect swatches panel you also get the option to add noise to the stroke if desired. EDIT: Yes, as mentioned in Ericks comment below this one, if you create your initial brush as white stroke on a black background and export it out as a png then when you create a new brush from the brush panel choose NEW TEXTURED INTENSITY BRUSH and NOT New Textured Image Brush. This will give you the ability to colour your strokes normally without the Recolour or Colour Overlay workarounds. You can of course choose colour from your swatches and also add noise as you would be able to normally. 🙂
Your videos have been a big help man!!
Thank you! This was very helpful.
nick you have done a little wrong, you have created a image for a raster brush, to create vector brushes you need to save the image with black bg and white for the brush/texture, and them you can chage the color normally without apply that effect.
Yep this is true. Its kind of selling Affinity Designer short by showing this as the way to make brushes. The work around for adding colour to this type of brush was good though.
Correct, as seen in this video - ruclips.net/video/5mB2ta6zEOo/видео.html
thank you so much for the information!
Nick your the reason why I do this
Watched your video on gradients. Thanks, that was very informative. Regarding making custom brushes, I'm pretty sure if you create the brush with a black background and use white for the brush stokes you are creating then you will be able to change colors in the usual way.
Brilliant and simple thanks 😊 👍 👏 🙏
I created a brush back around 2017 using Affinity Designer. It's been so long that I thought I'd better find out how to do it again. I do recall creating a PNG as you did. I noticed in your video that you can't change the colour of your brush by changing the line colour. I thought this was odd, so I opened up a file to test out the brush I created because I don't recall any issues around changing its colour. Sure enough, I can change the colour of my brush lines easily without any work arounds. Now it's back to the drawing board to remember exactly how I created this brush because I want to create a few more and changing the line's colour without workarounds is a must for me..
You need to create a 'Textured Intensity Brush' rather than the 'Textured Image Brush' mentioned in the video
@@funkymaniak thanks. I worked it out in the end and made a bunch of new brushes.🙂
Oh my I was here a year ago. I downloaded the file and left a little thank you. I've made brushes quite some time ago and watched your video to refresh how to do it. But now I remember why I stopped making my own brushes; there is a transparent grey area around the strokes. I could never find out why. I follow the instructions and try it over but it's still there.
So easy !!! Thanks!!!
Very helpful
Thanks!
thank you
Can I follow the same idea if I wanted to make a custom brush of a bicycle chain?
Hi there. This was very helpful except for one thing. I made the brush along with you, following your steps and it was black. I need it to be a certain brown. I tried to follow your steps to change it and successfully changed it. but now, I don't know how to save it to that brush forever!
Can you please help? and thank you!
Good lord. I thought I could live without photoshop but no, I can't.
Hey there, I have been trying to make a rough line vector brush but the tails at both ends always end up curling and doing things that I don't want them to do. I set the offset of them to 0px but It didn't help. I made a little video of my screen and what I did but I don't know how to upload it.
@4:40 I am sorry but that is incorrect.
It still uses the full image, but it limits (crops) the area of the source image (the .png) that it stretches along the brush vector line (in stretch mode). It works similar in Adobe Illustrator. You can actually see how the full .png is still utilised as a brush in the video, only the start and the end of the brush does not stretch.
However, I actually came here to see how Affinity Designer custom brushes work, in order to see if you can assign opacity variance to (Wacom) pen pressure, but I can hear that the OP is using a mouse to draw, hence no 'Opacity Variance' input. If so, I would say it is a major advantage over Adobe Illustrator that does not have this option, plus pressure options is very buggy and is greyed out as an option every so often. An issue that has been plagueing Illustrator for years.
Thanks. Is there a way to make a custom image brush that doesn't blend that it will put down only solid color pixels? I want to paint 80's style textures and I don't want any blending or mixing of any kind.
Thank you so much, the recolor is a big help. I've watched dozens and dozens of videos and followed Serif tutorials to the letter and my brushes don't consistently come out right since I moved to affinity from adobe, some work others don't. Some say they need to be created in RGB others say it doesn't matter (I work primarily with home printers so I start a doc in cmyk), some say black with white background and I end up with the white background showing on my brushes.
Watch this video - ruclips.net/video/5mB2ta6zEOo/видео.html
I created a stroke/shape I want to use as a brush (and in the repeat mode)--but somehow it came out reversed: white shape with black background!? I made sure my Stroke color was black and tried it again, but the same thing happened. What am I doing wrong?
初めまして。Affinity Designerのブラシについて教えていただきたいのですが、先日イラストを描いて後日その続きを描こうとした場合、そのイラストで使用していたブラシがどんな種類のブラシだったのかがわからなくなってしまいました。
ブラシの使用履歴のようなものを確認できればよいのですが・・・
よろしくお願いいたします
Thks dude
Also, when I export it as a .png created in the right color, it comes out reverse! brown background and white stroke. Can't see a way out of it!
Can this be done with the iPad version?
Just a little too fast for me as the your font is so very tiny, takes me a while to focus on it. I will go over it a few times though as it is much clearer than many others. The colour change was puzzling me so this was very helpful there, thanks.
when I copy my brush it has the outline from the slice how do I get rid of that?
Yes sir
hello, would you be able to teach us how to make vector textures for use in affinity? I would like to create my own textures and save them as styles. Thank you for your kind consideration.
Well I do have to ask but was it .
Affinity design who did have this mix brush .
Who was vector and raster.
Or am I wrong .
Will the brush stroke retain the crispness if we zoom in ?
This is what I was wondering, can you make a true vector brush, from a vector shape, that will be resolution independent...
I cannot open the png when making the brush
do you think this software will sold for adobe one day?
Will Adobe buy Affinity? No.
@@tristengrant why no?
@@RafaelPNogueira The only reason they'd buy it is to remove the competition.
I find it easier to create rushes in affinity photo.
can you really not make brushes that you can change the color of??? how hard is that to implement. I dont want to open an adjustment layer everytime I use a brush or want to change its value.
EDIT: I figured out how to do this. Use import as intensity brush. The darkest parts of the image will become the brush. Just make anything you want to make a crush out of black and white, pump the contrast, and then export as a png. then import it and wallah.
Maybe add some background music so it can over-ride that lip smacking and mouth noises.
OMG... the lip smacking in this audio!
Drink some water before talking dude!