Select a stroke colour from the context toolbar or Colour Studio

5. Drag on the page in the direction that you want the brush stroke to follow.

If you wish to maintain the brush type when switching between brush tools, you can set the Brush tool sharing option in the Assistant. Alternatively, you can automatically select a particular brush tool when a brush type is

selected. See the Modifying raster brush settings topic for more information.

Modifiers

From the Home screen's Preferences (Interface tab), On-screen modifier keys are enabled to extend the tool's functionality. From the tool's context toolbar:

•Hold Continue Last to continue painting from the last drawn brush stroke, instead of adding a new stroke.

•Hold Pick Colour to temporarily jump to the Colour Picker to sample a new colour for the next brush stroke.

T o s m o o t h b r u s h s t r o k e s a s y o u p a i n t :

• On the context toolbar, navigate to the Stabiliser option and choose one of the following:

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Rope stabiliser—drag the stroke end by a 'rope' that smooths the stroke but lets you introduce sharp corners at increasing Length (radius) values by redirecting the

slackened rope.

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Window stabiliser—smooths the stroke by averaging the stroke's position over a Window whose size is configurable.

T o e r a s e b r u s h s t r o k e s a f t e r y o u p a i n t : 1. From the Pixel Persona, select the Erase Brush Tool.

2. (Optional) From the Brushes Studio, choose a brush thumbnail that you painted with.

3. Adjust the context toolbar settings.

4. Drag on the page in the direction that you want the erase brush stroke to follow.

SEE ALSO:

Paint Brush Tool Brushes Studio

Modifying raster brush settings Painting raster brush strokes

M O D I F Y I N G R A S T E R B R U S H S E T T I N G S

Raster brush settings can be modified before you paint on your design. Basic modifications can be made directly on the context toolbar, while advanced settings can be accessed from the context toolbar's More button. You can edit the brush in the Brushes Studio itself, but this edits your brush permanently unless you duplicate it.

S e t t i n g s v i a M o r e b u t t o n

The following settings are available:

G e n e r a l

• Size—sets the default width of the stroke. This can still be overwritten for individual brush strokes using width on the context toolbar or the Stroke Studio.

• Hardness—how hard the edges of the brush are. The brush appears softer as the percentage decreases.

• Flow—controls how fast colour is built up under your brush.

• Accumulation—sets the opacity or visibility of the brush.

• Spacing—sets the distance between each nozzle point. A lower percentage results in the nozzles blending together to give a flowing stroke. A higher percentage pushes nozzles away from each other creating a spray-style stroke.

• Rotation—sets the angle at which the brush nozzles are drawn. Great for non-round brushes, e.g. for calligraphic effects.

• Shape—sets the diameter of the brush nozzles.

• Blending Mode—changes how the applied colour interacts with existing colours on a layer. Select from the pop-up menu.

• Wet Edges—sets the default 'wet edge' behaviour of the brush. The 'wet edge' behaviour builds paint up along the edges of your pixel brush stroke, producing a watercolour effect.

D y n a m i c s

• Jitter settings determine the extent to which a chosen controller (Pressure, Velocity, Rotation, etc.) will affect the above General settings. Pick a Controller from the pop-up menu and tap the adjacent Ramp profile icon to create your own custom profile using the ramp chart. Move circular nodes to reshape the non-linear ramp, add nodes to the ramp by tapping on the line, or select a node to remove it using the delete button. Enable the Linear button for straight lines between all nodes; If disabled (non-linear), nodes are connected using smooth curves.

• Scatter X—sets the deviation in the horizontal position of the stroke the preset will allow as a stroke is painted.

• Scatter Y—sets the deviation in the vertical position of the stroke the preset will allow as a stroke is painted.

Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity Jitter settings affect the brush colour, which is set via the Colour Studio.

T e x t u r e

For nozzle control:

• Brush Nozzles—displays the nozzles currently used in the current brush.

• Add—adds an additional nozzle to the preset.

• Remove—deletes the selected nozzle from the preset.

F o r b a s e t e x t u r e c o n t r o l :

• Base Texture—displays the underlying texture or pattern for the current brush.

• Set Texture—launches a dialog to add a base texture, as an image, to the brush. For example, to simulate a textured surface like paper or canvas.

• Remove—deletes the base texture from the current brush.

• Invert—createsanegativeversionofthetexture.

• Mode—controls how the base texture contributes to the current brush. Select from the popup menu.

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None—the base texture is ignored, so only the brush nozzles are used.

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Nozzle—allows nozzles to build up brush colour onto the base texture depending on flow and opacity response.

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Final—the density of the base texture is kept constant, with no nozzle flow or opacity response.

• Scale—sets the size at which the texture is displayed. A lower percentage will display the texture at a larger size. A higher percentage will display the texture tiled at a smaller size.

Images for base textures should be JPG or PNG. Any reasonably sized image will be acceptable as the base texture can be scaled (above

T o m o d i f y r a s t e r b r u s h s e t t i n g s :

Choose one of the following:

• With Paint Brush selected, on the context toolbar, adjust Width, Opacity, Flow, etc.

• With Paint Brush selected, on the context toolbar, tap More to access more advanced

T o r e s e t c o n t e x t t o o l b a r b r u s h s e t t i n g s b a c k t o b r u s h d e f a u l t s :

• On the Brushes Studio, long-press a chosen brush and tap Reset from the pop-up menu.

SEE ALSO:

Painting raster brush strokes Creating custom raster brushes Modifying raster brush strokes

C R E A T I N G C U S T O M R A S T E R B R U S H E S

You can create a custom brush from a preset or from scratch (with or without raster brush nozzles).

T o c r e a t e a c u s t o m b r u s h f r o m a p r e s e t :

1. On the Brushes Studio, long—press a chosen brush and tap Edit. To create a copy of the brush to modify instead of editing the original, long-press a chosen brush and tap Duplicate, then locate your duplicated brush at the bottom of the same brush category and Edit that brush instead.

2. Adjust the settings in the Properties or Controller section.

T o c r e a t e a n e w r a s t e r b r u s h o n t h e f l y : 1. On the Brushes Studio, select a brush.

2. Adjust the settings as you paint on the context toolbar, accessing additional settings via the More button

3. Tap Save from the More section to save your edited brush as a new brush which can be found at the bottom of the same category as the brush you initially selected.

T o c r e a t e a c u s t o m b r u s h f r o m s c r a t c h :

On the Brushes Studio, select Preferences and then select:

• New Intensity Brush—creates a brush stroke based on the opacity values of a raster image as its nozzle. In the pop-up dialog, navigate to and select a file.

• New Round Brush—creates a brush stroke based on a circular shape.

• New Square Brush—creates a brush stroke based on a rectangular shape.

• New Image Brush—creates a brush stroke based on the colour values of a raster image as its nozzle. In the pop-up dialog, navigate to and select a file.

The new brush is added to the selected category using default settings, which can be altered

Additional options from Studio Preferences allow you to create, rename, and delete brush categories.

Move brushes to any created category by long pressing the brush and selecting the Move to option from the pop-up menu. Previously created custom categories adopt the naming convention 'Brushes', 'Brushes 2', 'Brushes 3', etc.

E R A S I N G

Affinity Designer lets you erase areas of a pixel or vector layer using a combination of the Erase Brush Tool, the brushes stunts and the tool's context toolbar. Typically you'd erase previously unwanted raster brush strokes on a pixel layer.

E r a s i n g o n a p i x e l l a y e r

If you're working on a pixel layer, you can use the Erase Brush Tool to erase unwanted pixels directly on the layer.

T o e r a s e o n a p i x e l l a y e r :

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