Assets (brushes etc.) bought for AFv2 in the new Affinity

  • I haven't loaded any of the brushes I bought previously, but I have imported some of my old custom brushes that I made in v2 and they work fine (so far) in v3.

    2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Tahoe 26.1 O/S, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet, 2TB OWC SSD USB external hard drive, Logitech MX Anywhere 3 bluetooth mouse.

  • yes you can:)
    They import just fine....go forward not backwards with the apps. V1 and V2 brushes should import fine...I added some of my vast collection...without any problems
    You can get the ones from previous apps or from Managed Stored Content on the Home Window Screen

    V3 does not go to V2 though

  • Thanks Ali!

    I assume there is no "migration" tutorial for AFv2 users.

    There might be - I have not searched for one yet, but I am one who prefers to find their own way. I like exploring new UIs and looking for the things I need, so I'm not the right person to ask, really. No doubt more stuff like this will become available in time.

    Discord is horrid, but there are channels there being set up for tutorials and resources, so maybe go and have a look there. Just steer clear of the general chat sections!!!

    Ali 🙂

    Hobby Photographer, Web Designer & Desk Top Publisher (Retired Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages)
    Running Affinity Suite V2 & Affinity Studio on Windows 11.
    Volunteer with the Sutton Hoo Ship's Company: saxonship.org

  • If you still have the version 2 programmes installed and have imported brushes and other items, you can copy the existing .propcol files.

    Where are the Affinity V2 apps resources and preference files located?
    Affinity Photo, Designer & Publisher V2 apps now use a shared location for your saved resources, including; Object Styles, Text Styles, Fills, Brushes, Tool…
    forum.affinity.serif.com

    MAC mini M4 | MacOS 26.0.1 (Tahoe) | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD
    AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 32 GB DDR5 6000 MT/s | Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (26100.6584)
    Windows 11 Pro (ARM) on VMWare Virtual Machine (on Mac)
    Affinity Studio (3.0)

    Don't waste my thoughts with useless ideas!

  • I am happy to report that File / Import Content / From Affinity 2... works like a charm to import assets, brushes, styles, macros, et al. They came across into v3 just fine. Thank goodness someone (possibly an end-user?) in programming was thinking.

    Of course, I still have v2 installed.

    Affinity v2 current versions, with a smattering of what I call v3.

    1 M3 Pro + 1 M4 Air.

    Edited 2 times, last by Twolane (November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM).

  • I did connect the account and that was fine. These are assets and brushes etc, that were not bought from Affinity. Free resources from different places. The odd thing is, it brought some of them, but not all that I had installed.

  • Hootowl If you still have access to the V2 programs, you also have the option of exporting additional content from the V2 programs that has not been transferred.

    MAC mini M4 | MacOS 26.0.1 (Tahoe) | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD
    AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 32 GB DDR5 6000 MT/s | Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (26100.6584)
    Windows 11 Pro (ARM) on VMWare Virtual Machine (on Mac)
    Affinity Studio (3.0)

    Don't waste my thoughts with useless ideas!

  • I did connect the account and that was fine. These are assets and brushes etc, that were not bought from Affinity. Free resources from different places. The odd thing is, it brought some of them, but not all that I had installed.

    Others on Discord have mentioned this issue

    If you raise a support ticket with Affinity they may able to determine why some of yours did not import by analysing the failed ones

    Please report back if they give you an answer

    https://support.affinity.studio/hc/requests/new

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