Keyboard and Mouse Brush Modifier (Affinity Photo)

Discover how to change brush width, hardness, shape, spacing and rotation using a quick and easy keyboard and mouse shortcut.

[bbbnnn]

Outstanding - running a MacBook Pro without an actual mouse. Your shortcuts and commands translate well to the trackpad. Your Affinity Photo videos are the Gold Standard - keep them coming!!!

[cevxj]

this should of been the first video in the playlist

[DirkTeucher]

This is why I love using affinity, you folks really work on making that tools workflow super fast. I would just add that it would be useful if you added more text to the buttons in the UI during hover state or perhaps when holding alt and hovering. Please include much longer text descriptions of how to use the tool when you hover over it. Doing this all over the UI would help me to remember all the keyboard modifiers or just learn about ones I never knew existed. You do this already to some degree but you do not include all the info like using [ ] for example to increase brush size. This would help so much to self document the app and help newbies become experts faster. And having an option in the preferences to disable it for pros too. Pretty please with sugar on top.

[gtsdeluxe]

Easily the most important information and tool to master. Thanks a lot!

[zabriskie]

Just like to say thank you for this tip, I recently purchased Affinity photo2.... yes I'm a beginner, so it's all new for me
I mite pop by every know and again to learn more all arround affinity.

Thank you
regards

[creative.lights]

Very useful. I never knew about all of this. Thank you.

[gandolfred]

When the brush cursor began to rotate in the planes - my hair on my head began to move in surprise. 😂 Wow! 😃

[rogerbeltz]

Great video. Good to know that like Photoshop, Affinity Photos allows the use of "short cut keys" to control paint brush attributes. (Re: Mac OS, I believe you mean, hold the Command+Option keys). So glad to know this. Just another "plus" for switching to Affinity Photo rather than having to pay a monthly fee to Adobe. Thanks for sharing.

[javierrivero]

I congratulate you for the new tutorials where the image of the person who is explaining does not appear, since this image distracts and covers part of the program's interface. Congratulations!

[ZenMastaKai]

James your instructional videos are always informative and inspiring, thank you for you doing these. I have a couple of gripes and it's with the brush history. Great we have the history but when you close the document the brush history is erased, can you ask the devs to look into programming a real "saved" history for brushes and also what category they are from. The reference numbers for the brushes are not enough. Also, moving brushes from one category to another needs a lot of work. Moving one at a time is time consuming. I would like to drag and drop brushes from one category to another and move "whole" categories by drag and drop, is this possible? Thank you again for all you do for the Affinity community!! Cheers!

[JuhoSprite]

1:47 is there a way to turn this modifier switching mods off? I just want the regular modifier for size, like in photoshop. And I don't need the other ones. it bothers me because I accidentally switch them all the time when using my brush.

[raymk]

is there a way to reset the brush settings back to its default settings?

[kuko.]

Is it possible to change this feature from left keypress to right keypress so it's same as in Photoshop? Thanks to anyone who responds.