Affinity Photo - Brushes Explained

[@Bcheller65]

FANTASTIC!! Your tutorials feature so many aspects of Affinity Photo that others don't address.

[@calebfunkner5910]

Thank you so much for your tutorials! I'm a COMPLETE beginner and every video I've watched from you has been very professional and easy to understand. :)

[@WeiChong]

An excellent intro to AP brushes. I needed this, and look forward to your more advanced brushes tutorial. You didn't have time to describe the effects of the Dynamics on the far right-hand side--those that look like graphs for each dynamic. Thanks a bunch.

[@jo-annvalentine1910]

Thank you, I'm starting to understand brushes better now and I just bought a drawing tablet so now it makes more sense on how to best use them!

[@sunrisas7417]

Great explanation of brushes. It broadens my horizons to the use of brushes. Thanks.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Sunrisas. Happy you learned so much. Anything else you would love a Tutorial on?

[@mdjcam9032]

Thank you so much. You tutorials are VERY good! You explain everything perfectly!

[@kathrynedmonds3029]

Thank you :) I have used photoshop before but not very much and am now trying Affinity Photo. This really helps us beginners!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Kathryn. Affinity Photo is really nice and a lot easier to use, because of it's simpler interface. :)

[@menkassio]

Affinity should hire you for such essential tutorials!

[@OlivioSarikas]

I'm rather free as a bird. But they could pay me as an adviser. As a tutorial and product creator I have a lot of ideas where they should improve next. Especially for digital products around their main software, like brushes :)

[@farzamsalami4860]

Great Tutorial Thank You! I have a question that so far haven't been able to find an answer anywhere, How do you change a brush color AFTER you drew on a pixel layer? Thank Youu!

[@dennisoffline1568]

All the brushes im downloading have edges - coming from photoshop makes this a big pain, is there a solution? great video btw. thx!

[@enthusiaticbeginner]

This video has given me a much greater understanding, thanks Olivio ! ÿ

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Jim :) Happy to help

[@Paytonwh]

This is awesome and so helpful! Could you do a video on how to connect a drawing tablet and how the brushes work with it? Thanks!

[@karinobojkovits7735]

Very well explained. Thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

My pleasure 😁👍

[@dodgy1954]

Very helpful. Many thanks!

[@KimDinh1]

Super Einführung in Pinseln! Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass es doch so viel gibt, das man hier beachten kann! Da habe ich echt gedacht, dass Pinseln Pinsel sind!

[@jigishspatel]

Nice review of brushes. Thank you for making this.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Jigish Patel. A new Brush video is coming soon on my channel :)

[@greennn375]

This video is so helpful! Thank you so much😍

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you. Are you from Korea?

[@GordonBagshaw-GBEnglishClass]

brilliant, thank you for this

[@zoltanpuskas4722]

Superb instructional video, than you.

[@frankbelt633]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@birdie399]

Thanks for the video it has been very helpful.

[@peterdonoso2975]

I have avoided diving into using brushes. I tried them out on a friend's computer and wasn't able to restore the default brush Affinity Photo uses when first installed. My friend tried restoring all defaults and that STILL didn't restore the standard brush, so he had to reinstall the full program and now won't talk to me. Please tell me which brush is the default one used by the brush tool so I can explore other brushes and hopefully repair my friendship as well.

[@iandrury1542]

My Mind Has Been Well and Truly BLOWN by this ! I didn't realise just what is possible with Brushes. So could I create a 'custom bird brush' from a bird photo, that I could then add onto another photo as a layer ?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you :) Yes, you can do that. If you check my 1.9 Review video, I also show the new way how to do that in 1.9 - it's super easy now!

[@ubivermiscerritulus195]

I am so glad I got this software

[@KevinPhillipssb]

A nice explanation of brushes. I will give this a try on my iPad with Apple Pencil. Thank you.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome. Please report back if the Apple Pencil has pressure and works with Affinity Photo :)

[@KevinPhillipssb]

Olivio Sarikas I have tried the Apple Pencil on my iPad, and for me, they work just fine, impressive even. I am not a digital painter so I am not able to tell the subtleties being described by Marco as I have not tried these other products. Having said this, on a positive note, it means I can do some brushwork on my iPad and then continue my workflow on my desktop Mac (which doesn’t have a graphics pad).

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome, that sounds great. Mostly i think the test with a brush is to see if there is any lag with more complex or larger brushes, because that would be a problem for the flow and stroke when painting. However, when you just do some re-touching the brush can be used slower, so that shouldn't interfere too much with the work.

[@lordoftheflings]

Great video! Thanks!

[@Silver-xf7it]

Very helpful, thank you

[@jekeydaniel7276]

Great video, thanks

[@Wombles_Wanderings]

Excellent tutorial.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Sharon :)

[@Mr_Matrix]

Thanks! Very helpful! 😃❤️

[@voice-of-oblivion]

thank you very much.

[@Scultronic]

Please someone can tell me how do i interactively change the size of the brush in Affinity Photo like when you do in photoshop pressing Alt+Right Click and drag? Please I've been searching everywhere.

[@Matsh0t]

Press Alt+Right AND Left Click (at the same time), then drag it up/down left/right :)

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you for answering, Matsh0t

[@timhowell2833]

how do you identify which brush was selected ....??? nothing tells me what brush i just used ...

[@OlivioSarikas]

you have to remember it. i don't think there is a way to record which brush or brush setting you used at a given time

[@agnieszkakrolikiewicz7141]

That was very helpful. Thank you :-)

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome, Angie :)

[@tirthvalu4232]

how do i enable the pressure sensitivity to stay on by default?

[@OlivioSarikas]

You need to save the brush as a copy with your new settings.

[@gordonstewart5774]

Excellent!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Gordon :)

[@sam45354]

when I open Affinity photo there's no place in the program that it shows me brushes. How do I get brushes to show up in the app on my Mac and is there any way to get different brushes like for hard or soft or medium strokes with a brush?

[@OlivioSarikas]

hi, Samuel, Go to "View -> Studio -> Brushes" to check if they are visible.

[@kayaeki]

it sucks they dont have opacity jitter and you have to change the jitter settings everytime

[@PatMcDonald41]

Excellent ...

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Patrick

[@belajb]

do you know how to stroke a path with a brush in affinity photo?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi belajb, you can't do that in Affinity Photo, because these are pixel brushes, not vector brushes. However you can do it in Affinity Designer and then copy it over to Affinity Photo :)

[@belajb]

@@OlivioSarikas great to know....I want to get designer....ty for your answer!

[@TravelMap]

How to blend colors in affinity photo?

[@OlivioSarikas]

There is a color blend brush you could give a try :) But i will put this into my tutorial list

[@xGryfnoFrela]

THANKS BRO!

[@lu_lila]

Affinity brushes are bad. Most of photoshop brushes don’t work correctly in affinity. And this is sad. If they redoing their brush engine it will be one of the best apps

[@edlondon3717]

Goofy

[@Wzxxx]

Brush settings in Photo are so counterintuitive that I quit. They don’t work. Just it. I spent hours to figure out how to make simple setting like in ps but i failed.