He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified About Dave Greco. These brushes are optimal for sketching, rough inking, and lineart. If you wanted a printed version of any of our most recent issues we have a selection of back issues to choose from in our online store.The Evenant Community currently consists of over 300,000 aspiring creatives, as well as full time professionals. Readly (all-you-can-eat digital magazine subscription service).PocketMags (multi-platform app ideal for Android devices).Zinio app (multi-platform app for desktop or smartphone).Why not subscribe to a print edition, and have the magazine delivered direct to your door every month?Īlternatively, we have a number of different digital options available, including: This tutorial originally appeared in N-Photo, the monthly newsstand magazine for Nikon photographers. Once done, you can head to the Brushes panel, click the top-right icon and choose ‘ New Intensity Brush’ then load in the PNG.

To make your own brushes, begin by isolating a shape on a transparent background, then export it as a PNG (see video for full details). We can go to the Blend Mode drop-down in the Layers panel and choose Screen, then use the Move tool to alter the position. To finish off, we have opened a star photo from the NASA website, then copied ( Cmd/Ctrl+C) and pasted ( Cmd/Ctrl+V) it into the main image. We’ll paint on the layer mask too, which has the effect of eating away at certain parts of our subject’s figure. One of the best things about using brushes in Affinity is how the brush tip shows a preview of the stroke before you start painting – including any colour, opacity or blend settings applied – so you can see how each stroke will affect your image.įor this effect we start by isolating our subject with a layer mask, then paint both in front of and behind her on different layers of the canvas. You can have hours of fun simply by playing with all the settings.īut the options don’t stop there… You can also create your own brushes from any image or shape, like the colorful splashes in our portrait above (created using real-life ink splashes). What’s more, brushes can be customized with a range of useful parameters like spacing, scattering and wet edge controls. Firstly, there’s a wide array of different brush tips to choose from, including the excellent set of grunge brushes we’ve used for our scatter effect here. In some ways they even surpass what can be done in Photoshop. Brushes in Affinity Photo go far beyond the standard circular brush most of us are probably familiar with.

Affinity photo brushes