Tutorial for Affinity Designer for Beginners

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Affinity Designer is an amazing software which is taking the design industry by storm. Designers everywhere are reporting that they’re dropping their old graphics software and switching entirely over to using Affinity instead.

What you’ll learn in this course?

  • Adding, Deleting and Connecting Nodes
  • Node Types and Pen Drawing Modes
  • Set Up Grids & Snapping

Is this Affinity Designer course for you?

  • A great alternative for Photoshop Designers
  • Affinity Photo users looking to take their graphics to the next level
  • Anyone looking for an inexpensive and powerful design tool

Course Tutorial

Course Overview

1 Introduction

0:00 1.1 Affinity Designer Quick Start

2 Vector Persona

0:58 2.1 Creating Curves
3:42 2.2 Adding, Deleting and Connecting Nodes
8:45 2.3 Node Types and Pen Drawing Modes
13:52 2.4 Using the Corner Tool
17:08 2.5 How to “Power Duplicate”
19:57 2.6 Real-Time Embedded Object Editing
24:09 2.7 Painting With Vectors

3 Interface

27:55 3.1 Transforming Objects
31:27 3.2 Split-Screen View With Slider
33:44 3.3 Understanding the Layers Panel
40:49 3.4 Using the Guides Manager
43:40 3.5 Tip: Rearranging Studio Panels
45:52 3.6 How to Set Up Grids
49:15 3.7 How to Set Up Snapping

4 Color, Fill and Stroke

51:52 4.1 Working With Fills
56:50 4.2 Working With Strokes
1:00:01 4.3 Color Selection and Copy Paste Hexcodes
1:03:33 4.4 Extracting Color Palettes
1:05:50 4.5 Generating Color Chords
1:09:36 4.6 Define and Edit Gradients
1:14:38 4.7 Using the Transparency Tool

5 Pixel Persona

1:18:08 5.1 Pixel Persona and Pixel Brushes
1:22:16 5.2 Pixel Tool

6 Interactions Between Shapes

1:25:50 6.1 Using Boolean Functions
1:30:27 6.2 Masking and Clipping

7 Effects, Styles, Pressure and Velocity

1:38:11 7.1 Effects and Styles
1:42:53 7.2 Velocity, Pen Pressure and Manual Simulation

8 Exporting

1:49:01 8.1 Exporting, Export Persona, Continuous Export

9 Conclusion

1:54:25 9.1 Wrapping Up

10 Bonus Lessons

1:54:59 10.1 Typography
2:13:52 10.2 Artboards
2:22:01 10.3 Constraints
2:28:50 10.4 Symbols
2:35:18 10.5 Assets Panel

Credit: Envato tuts+