![]() If you always used the same 5 brush variations that are stored in your brush history, then you might not ever need to define new ones-although if you wanted to save/share/sync/etc them you probably would. If you choose not to create any new brushes, the defaults would always exist along with a temporary history of brush variations. Any chance to automate much of that workflow would be most welcome. ![]() If you choose not to create new text styles, or redefine existing styles you will end up with a mess of unrelated, conflicting styles that becomes a nightmare to manage. Perhaps a temporary history could automatically be kept (say the most recent 10 variations), and only the variations you choose to save would be permanently (at least until deleted) associated with that parent. True, but not every variation would have to be saved. I am not sure how well parent grouping would work, since that easily could generate hundreds of variations from one 'parent' brush preset. This way you could create common sizes, variations that you use often and keep them associated with the original, default brush. For example, you could create a number of pen variations including brush size and hardness based on one parent, which could all be accessed by selecting the parent and looking at the existing variations. You could even automatically group brushes by their parent so that you could immediately see all of the brush variants created from the original-kind of like drilling down in a layer group, but it would be a brush group. At this point you could choose to revert the style to the original settings, update the original style to match the current settings, or create an entirely new style based on the existing settings.Ĭreating a similar workflow with brushes in the Affinity apps would be most welcome. If you modify an existing style the app provides a visual marker indicating that while you are using this base style, you have made changes that aren't reflected in the current style settings. One option would be to steal what apps like Pages, Word and even Publisher (attempt to) do with text styles. So basically, while it should be possible to simply keep the last selected brush preset highlighted until another brush preset is selected, it won't necessarily tell you much if anything about what the next paint stroke will look like. Likewise, at least on Macs it is also possible to change the width, spacing, hardness, rotation, & shape without having to open the "More" dialog by holding down the CTRL & Option keys & clicking on the canvas to cycle through these options, also resulting in very different painting properties from those of the preset. How would you suggest this new feature should work if, for example, someone selects on of the Acrylics presets, clicks the "More" button on the context toolbar, & changes any of the several dozen brush options available there? The results could be a brush with very different painting properties than the preset they started with. ![]() Well, I don't know if it's a bug, but I think it's certainly a much-needed feature. ![]() Here's a link to this bug that someone else provided: They need to either correct the brush failing to remain highlighed when switching between tools or add some indicator as to which brush is currently selected. I tried using the "More" button with a brush, it is nearly impossible to determine exactly which brush is selected, many look very similar. Once the highlight is gone from the Brushes panel, you can't be sure which brush you started with as a model. Once you cange those characteristics, the brush in the Brushes panel is no longer highlighted, as you're not really using that brush any more. However, if you choose a brush, and then make adjustments to the brush characteristics (such as changing its size, opacity, flow and some other characteristics via the Context Toolbar or the shortcut keys) then you can no longer see which actual brush by name you are using. You can see the characteristics of the current brush by pressing the More button on the Context Toolbar.
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