These are the tools that I use for my professional illustration work, so they've been tailored to my own needs. If something feels a bit off when drawing feel free to adjust any of the settings to better fit the way you draw. All the brushes are optimised for Procreate 5.3 on an iPad with the Apple Pencil.
The brushes can be used freely on personal and commercial projects. Obviously selling the actual brushes themselves is not allowed. (There are a few scam sites that try to sell these and won't take them down, so please don't support them or be one of those people!)
Is there a way to restore the brush panel to the old version where all the brushes are in a grid rather than in the annoying "groups"? I've been searching for hours on blogs, forums, and videos trying to find out how to do it. I've seen a few moderators from the community forums here say there is a way, but none of them actually said how to do it or provided a useful link to the answer. So, how do I go back to the old panel? Am I just S-O-L?
Have you tried playing with the display options? Right click inside the document window and click on the gear icon. Turning everything by Brush Tip off gets you close. As c.p. has told you, you can drag the presets out of the folders and delete the folders.
I came to some realizations, and shared some thoughts a few days ago in this thread. Like all radical changes, it can take some work to learn them, but they are usually seen as improvements in the end. Heck, I am even starting to like Select & Mask nowadays.
I did see the feature video from Julieanne Kost about being able to drag brushes out of groups and such, but that unfortunately doesn't solve my problem considering I use so many brushes in my works that doing that would create an endless list that I would constantly be clearing and loading. I currently have 86 brush sets, each with roughly a dozen or so brushes so that would get pretty cluttered pretty quickly.
I have played around with the view settings to get it close to what I had (show brush tip only, and expanding the panel size with large icons), but the groups are still not very easy to use on the fly. My major qualms being that the user has to have pinpoint accuracy to click on the tiny arrow to expand a group (easier to do with a mouse, but can put tablet users out when using their pen), rather than just being able to expand or collapse groups easily by clicking on the line itself. My other qualm is that organization has to be done manually rather than having having a function auto sort groups alphabetically. The thread of yours that you linked has some useful information that I can make use of, so I appreciate that.
By the looks of it I'll just have to grit and bear it and get used to the groups until Adobe decides to add that sort of automation functionality to the brush groups. As it stands I find the majority of the features in CC 2018 too useful to go back to the earlier version (especially the updates to the pen tool). I'm a very heavy brush user so it's possible I find this more inconvenient than most other users.
I bet you don't use most of those sets very often. I limit myself to 100 sets, and use something like 20 brushes daily, and 100 brushes in an average month. If you want your brushes immediately available, make a new folder, and drag just the brushes you use all the time into that folder. Then delete the old folder as mentioned before.
The deleted folder will still be in your list, and have all its presets, so you'll have lost nothing. Then you could have your master folder at the top of the right click panel, twirlled open ready to use.
We should make a suggestion on the feedback site 'with high res screens the brush folders are difficult to open. Can add a function so that they open with the right cursor arrow, and close with the left cursor arrow? I'd also like to be able to kill the warning dialog when deleting folders, although there is a gotcha with this. New brush sets can only be saved from the Preset Manager, so you need to do that with any custom sets before deleting them from the right click list, or it will be lost forever.
BTW A trick I have been using for years, is to rename the brush folders from File Explorer, so that they list in meaningful order and group in clusters. It can save a lot of time if you use a lot of brush sets. I try to leave enough of the original name to identify the sets in case I need to recommend them to other people. You need to make hidden files and folders visible to see the App Data folders.
Am I correct in assuming that if I group my brushes in folders in the presets that Photoshop will place them in groups as well in the brush panel? Or will I still need to load sets individually and manually organize them?
Only so long as you don't delete the folder from the right click list. Photoshop will remember what is in that list via its Preferences (I think) so resetting Preferences might lose those changes. I'll test that when I get some time.
To be safe, open the Preset Manager, and save the modified folder/set. I have a feeling that will save it to Program Files. Yep, just checked and is the case. So if you use the App Data hierarchy, (or its Mac equivalent) copy the files across after you have organised your brushes
I still have my CC2017 presets, and can copy from there, but I have reinstalled Windows since CC2015, so they do not show. FWIIW, I always save the entire App Data folder hierarchy to a different drive before reinstalling Windows.
This time apart from the version for users with and without tilt recognition in their tablets, I made a separate bundle for left-handed artists (needed only when using tilt). As always the set comes with the manual briefly describing all the presets in a set.
Good day!!!
I entered the forum just to tell you that your brushes are absolutely beautiful. this version is more polished and balanced than the previous one.
Congratulations, my next illustration will be with these brushes.
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This set was made by me while experimenting with anime background style painting in Procreate on iPad Pro. It is meant to emulate the traditional way such backgrounds are painted - poster color paints and not-so-sharp brush strokes.
hello! so recently i just updated krita to the newest version (5.1.4) and my previous version was 5.1.0 beta, in that version i created this brush that i really liked and have been using for 2 months now. but after the update the brush broke and now are in a different shape and feel! idk what to do, should i revert back to the previous version?
Can you revert back to previous version and check if the brush behaves the same? Do you have a copy of the brush somewhere? Please upload it to some cloud drive and link here so that others can test it.
it isnt 100% the exact same because i only had the old version of the brush and i do need to do some minimal tweaking later but hey, its better than to remade the whole thing and it works! thanks alot!
In theory the brush pack should just be a .afbrush file which you can import directly into Designer on the iPad. Having said that, it's not something i've directly tested with brushes from a 3rd party but in theory if it's a .afbrushes file then the iPad version should import it
That gave me the option to save the file to the iPad's Files app. I did that, choosing an ordinary (unbadged) iCloud Drive folder I had previously created there for importing files. I had no problems importing the .afbrushes file from that folder into Affinity Designer.
So while I can't guarantee it will work for all sites, as long as you can find a link to the actual .afbrushes file download on whatever site you want to obtain it from, I think the above procedure should work.
Separating a foreground object from a background is a crucial step in many visual effects and compositing workflows. When you have created a matte that isolates an object, you can replace the background, selectively apply effects to the foreground, and much more.
Use Roto Brush to draw strokes on representative areas of the foreground and background elements. After Effects uses that information to create a segmentation boundary between the foreground and background elements.
Next-Gen Roto Brush is the latest and improved version of the Roto Brush tool powered by a brand-new AI model. It offers enhanced precision during the selection and tracking of objects in footage over time and space compared to Roto Brush 2. This makes masking complex objects such as overlapping limbs, hair, and transparencies quick and easy.
The propagation banner is displayed in both the Layer and Composition panel, which contains the layer to which Roto Brush is applied. If you have the Layer panel closed, and you're working on something else, you still see the propagation progress.
The Roto Brush & Refine Edge span shows a light gray chevron pattern, and the base frame is a bright green box at the beginning. When you propagate the frames, green color chevrons display in the middle of the span. For more information, see Strokes, Spans, and Base frames.
The default rotoscoping option is Next-Gen Roto Brush. However, if you prefer the older versions - Roto Brush 1 or Roto Brush 2, you can select it using the Version dropdown in the Roto Brush & Refine Edge effect panel.
Paint extra strokes, or paint background strokes by holding Alt or Option to remove portions of the selection. Draw strokes around the edges that you want to remove. The magenta line that surrounds the object starts to get refined.
If you cut a little extra, release Alt or Option and drag over the area to add to the selection. The indication is that the cursor is green during addition. When drawing a background stroke, the Roto Brush tool's pointer is a red circle with a minus sign in the middle.