Affinity Designer Essential Training

Learn how to create high-quality digital drawings and paintings with the professional drawing, design, and retouching tools in Affinity Designer.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Overview of the Interface
• Understanding the persona workspaces
• Creating a new document
• Setting up your document
• Embedding a document
• Saving and project organization

2. Understanding Preferences and Guides

• Exploring the general Preference settings
• Setting up margins
• Setting up guides
• Setting up grids
• Snapping
• Force Pixel Alignment

3. Drawing Vectors Lines and Shapes

• Defining nodes, lines, and shapes
• Using the Pen tool
• Manipulating and editing nodes
• Using the Corner tool
• Using special vector shapes
• Creating compound shapes
• Creating and editing text

4. Manipulating and Managing Objects: Draw Persona

• Scaling, shearing, and rotating objects
• Using the Transform palette
• Using layers and groups for object management
• Using artboards

5. Understanding Panels

• Creating and managing Vector Brushes
• Managing Pixel Brushes
• Managing the Stroke panel
• Exploring the Color panel
• Exploring the Swatch panel
• Using the History and Navigator panel
• Taking and managing Snapshots
• Creating gradients
• Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
• Using the Paragraph and Characters panel
• Saving text styles
• Creating symbols
• Creating assets

6. Selection Methods

• Creating basic pixel selections
• Selecting by color range
• Selecting by sampling pixel color
• Modifying pixel selections
• Refine pixel selection
• Understanding layer masks

7. Importing and Exporting Your Files

• Exporting your work with the File Export command
• Export persona explained
• Exporting PSD file

Conclusion

• Next steps