How to Enable Pressure Sensitivity on Affinity Photo Brushes

Go to the brush tool in Affinity Photo. In the tool settings click the “more” button.  This will open the brush settings. Click the middle tab labeled “Dynamics”. Adjust the slider of the property you want to vary based on your pen pressure. Then in the drop down select “pressure”. Close the dialogue window and start painting.

How to Quickly Add and Use Your Photoshop Plugins in Affinity Photo

Find the Photoshop Plugin Directory

On Windows go to the shortcut of Photoshop. Right click it and choose “open file location”.

Find the folder labeled plugins

On Mac go to your applications folder.  Then go to Photoshop and then plugins.

Copy the file path of the Photoshop plug in folder

Add the plugins folder to Affinity Photo

Open Affinity photo. Inside Affinity Photo go to “edit”. Then go to “preferences”.

In the preference dialogue window go to “Photoshop Plugins”.

Click “add.”

Paste in the path of Photoshop Plugin directory and hit “select folder”.

Click “close”. When prompted to restart Affinity Photo select  “Yes”. Go back to edit > preferences > Photoshop Plugins. Check “Allow unknown plugins” and close