Thanks for this. It really bugged me that you can't create vector brushes from vector objects - I just didn't understand it; I wanted the brushes to be bold and have a crisp, clear outline and not a blurred raster fuzzy edge. Now that you have shown me this technique, it makes sense to use the slice tool as well. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing.
In the end it is mentioned that the color would be fixed once the PNG is exported, BUT there is a workaround: Just apply an HSL or Recolor Adjustment Layer to your Curve and you are fine to make any adjustment.
Really great, watched quite a few tutorials about this but yours is definitely the best so far, although me working not on a tablet at all but understanding it helps a lot. Liked and subscribed.
@@EliasSarantopoulos Yep, I switched to Affinity last year and took all three of them. That´s what I meant, understanding the way to follow your way of working on tablet might be the same to desktop version of course although mostly I find the tablet versions limited to desktop versions, not having that kind of comparison within Affinty, though.
@@fotografieuweroder4175 I honestly feel better inside tablet, I guess since I have been using tablets for such a long time I have been accustomed to. Also, I have found myself in several occasions in meetings, using my tablet and with AD I was able to demonstrate something on the go. Very powerful! 😀
@@EliasSarantopoulos Loving the freedom of Affinity with its different personas and the way you can switch between those is one of its benefits but for work I prefer to stay in my office but must admit that I don`t go to clients and work "in front of them" so everybody has its own way to work and Affinity seems to to let you do exactly that - great. Still PS is in front of Affinty Photo for some specialties but …
@@fotografieuweroder4175 I agree PS is but not AI on the tablet. For example the Node tool is far ahead in terms of functionality, crazy stuff. Now I am waiting for the Blend tool...let's see.
Is there a way to get the pattern brush to go bigger when you press on your pen and smaller when you go lighter ?? But otherwise thank you for the video 🙏
Great video - your description of the slice solved one problem I've had. However, now when I change the length of the line (after applying my brush), the spacing of the brush elements changes. Is there any way to keep the element spacing consistent?
Yes, there is a way, I bumped into this as well. So whenever you make any changes to your original brush you need to save that brush again, maybe give it another name and apply the same settings as before. Hope this helps and thank you for your feedback! 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks for the reply Elias. I've made a brush to mimic a railroad track. Turns out my problem is I had two many repeating elements in my source graphic and it would stretch these elements in odd ways until it repeated the graphic length. I eliminated all the elements except for the track and one wooden beam member. Now when the brush repeats, it is repeating on a much smaller graphic and the elements all look similar now. Thanks again - great tutorial. Keep it up.
Thank u so much but what do I do about corner ?.with pull ,fold and overlap is killing my pattern brushes,is it possible to add corner pattern differently like in adobe illustrator??
You mean Stroke pattern? If so, try the Appearance panel, at least that's the way I would have approached that. Hope this helps! Thank you for your feedback. 👋 😀
This is all fine and dandy but I need a pattern brush that isn’t pixel based but rather stays vector. So I can scale the final graphic up or down. Can Affinity do that?
@@EliasSarantopoulos Yes, it appears you could cut the pattern in half and repeat it to the same effect.Not that I'd know since I've not yet created a vector brush. But that's why I'm asking. Was there a specific reason you extended the pattern so you had complete triangles in the centre instead of the smaller (i.e., half) triangles on the ends?
@@user-ui7fu6wj4x I guess that is my thought process in this case, no other reason. Whatever works at the end as long as you get the pattern perfectly fitting to the grid so it's easy to measure and cut. 😀 👋
Just THANK YOU! Thank you, and thank you. Straight to the point, well explained and ready for me to use it.
Excellent, great to hear that and thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
A smashing presentation, and a great step-by-step tutorial. This will be so useful to me as I learn how to create my own brushes.
And a smashing feedback, thank you so very much for your kind words Chris! 😀 👋
This opens up all kinds of creative uses. Love it!
Thanks for the tutorial.
Cheers!
Super happy to hear, thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
This is just what i need for creating Chinese style circular pattern. Subscribed and thank you so much!
I.am glad to hear it helped, thank you! 😀👋
Thanks for this. It really bugged me that you can't create vector brushes from vector objects - I just didn't understand it; I wanted the brushes to be bold and have a crisp, clear outline and not a blurred raster fuzzy edge. Now that you have shown me this technique, it makes sense to use the slice tool as well. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing.
Leigh, thank you so very much for in depth feedback, much appreciated! In Affinity Designer the more one digs in, the more we find. 😀👋
Thank you dear sir. I learned something new today
Thank you Issac for your feedback, much appreciated! 😀 👋
Amazing details really awesome trick's and tips thank you 🤙🔥🤩
Thank you, great to hear that and thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
Inkscape and illustrator have this kind of tutorial and I'm down when I can't find one for designer. You saved me. Thanks.
That's the goal, to help each other. Thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
awesome tutorial!!!!
Thank you for your kind feedback! 😀 👋
In the end it is mentioned that the color would be fixed once the PNG is exported, BUT there is a workaround: Just apply an HSL or Recolor Adjustment Layer to your Curve and you are fine to make any adjustment.
I believe that will work, will keep that in mind, thank you! 😀 👋
Great video. Thanks. I hope it is the same method on the desktop version.
Thank you Behram, yes it should work with no hiccups. 😀 👋
Really great, watched quite a few tutorials about this but yours is definitely the best so far, although me working not on a tablet at all but understanding it helps a lot. Liked and subscribed.
Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated! As for the tutorial, it works the same on the desktop version of AD. Do you have that? 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Yep, I switched to Affinity last year and took all three of them. That´s what I meant, understanding the way to follow your way of working on tablet might be the same to desktop version of course although mostly I find the tablet versions limited to desktop versions, not having that kind of comparison within Affinty, though.
@@fotografieuweroder4175 I honestly feel better inside tablet, I guess since I have been using tablets for such a long time I have been accustomed to. Also, I have found myself in several occasions in meetings, using my tablet and with AD I was able to demonstrate something on the go. Very powerful! 😀
@@EliasSarantopoulos Loving the freedom of Affinity with its different personas and the way you can switch between those is one of its benefits but for work I prefer to stay in my office but must admit that I don`t go to clients and work "in front of them" so everybody has its own way to work and Affinity seems to to let you do exactly that - great. Still PS is in front of Affinty Photo for some specialties but …
@@fotografieuweroder4175 I agree PS is but not AI on the tablet. For example the Node tool is far ahead in terms of functionality, crazy stuff. Now I am waiting for the Blend tool...let's see.
Nice! Thanks!
Thank you Paul, much appreciated! 😀 👋
Thanks for this tuto
I love it 👍🙏
So great to hear that René, thank you for the feedback! 😀👋
Is there a way to get the pattern brush to go bigger when you press on your pen and smaller when you go lighter ?? But otherwise thank you for the video 🙏
Once you define the pattern as a brush, go inside the brushe's settings and scale it up. See how that works for you. Thank you! 😀 👋
Great video - your description of the slice solved one problem I've had. However, now when I change the length of the line (after applying my brush), the spacing of the brush elements changes. Is there any way to keep the element spacing consistent?
Yes, there is a way, I bumped into this as well. So whenever you make any changes to your original brush you need to save that brush again, maybe give it another name and apply the same settings as before. Hope this helps and thank you for your feedback! 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks for the reply Elias. I've made a brush to mimic a railroad track. Turns out my problem is I had two many repeating elements in my source graphic and it would stretch these elements in odd ways until it repeated the graphic length. I eliminated all the elements except for the track and one wooden beam member. Now when the brush repeats, it is repeating on a much smaller graphic and the elements all look similar now. Thanks again - great tutorial. Keep it up.
@@easyroller54 Awesome, thank you for the heads-up! 😀 👋
Thank u so much but what do I do about corner ?.with pull ,fold and overlap is killing my pattern brushes,is it possible to add corner pattern differently like in adobe illustrator??
You mean Stroke pattern? If so, try the Appearance panel, at least that's the way I would have approached that. Hope this helps! Thank you for your feedback. 👋 😀
This is all fine and dandy but I need a pattern brush that isn’t pixel based but rather stays vector. So I can scale the final graphic up or down. Can Affinity do that?
Ben under the Slice Options you can choose to export as an SVG or EPS. Try that, it should do the job. 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos sounds like a plan. I’ll try it out and let you know how it goes. Thanks!
@@BenFrankarts Personally I am a huge fan of SVG, so versatile and perfect for logos, web, you name it. 😀
@@EliasSarantopoulos I love them too but some of my clients are really specific. They are getting identities so the work has to be 100% scalable 🤷🏾♂️
@@BenFrankarts SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics so all is scalable and much more diverse than EPS. 😃😃
Elias, is there some reason you used two segments in the initial creation, instead of a single segment?
You mean creating the pattern itself?
@@EliasSarantopoulos Yes, it appears you could cut the pattern in half and repeat it to the same effect.Not that I'd know since I've not yet created a vector brush. But that's why I'm asking. Was there a specific reason you extended the pattern so you had complete triangles in the centre instead of the smaller (i.e., half) triangles on the ends?
@@user-ui7fu6wj4x I guess that is my thought process in this case, no other reason. Whatever works at the end as long as you get the pattern perfectly fitting to the grid so it's easy to measure and cut. 😀 👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Cool. Thanks for the tutorial. :-)
@@user-ui7fu6wj4x I thank you for the interest and feedback! 😀 👋
Thx Bro
You bet, I thank you for watching! 😀 👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Keep doing it, it's very helpful.
@@redarerto3 Thank you! 😀 👋
I tried a circular circle pattern and the circle gets distorted.
Annabelle, inside the Body of setting up your brush, choose Repeat instead of Stretch. Try that and see. 😀 👋
cool
Glad you liked it, thank you! 😀 👋
Niceee
Thank you Izzat! 😀👋