Affinity Designer Essential Training
3h 16mBeginner2017-09-11
Authors
Ronnie McBride
Designer, Artist
Course details
Looking for a compelling alternative to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW? Affinity Designer is a powerful and affordable vector-design application mixed with pixel-based texture and retouching tools—all in one easy-to-use interface. It was created with the professional-level features that any artist, designer, or illustrator needs to execute high-quality results.
Here Ronnie McBride introduces the workflows and tools required to get up to speed with this fast, powerful, and professional application. He shows how to work with workspaces in Affinity Designer, called personas; use the drawing tools; and create custom brushes. This course is designed to help artists feel more confident and become more proficient using Affinity Designer in their own work.
Learning objectives
Creating a new document
Setting up margins, guides, and grids
Snapping and aligning
Drawing vector lines and shapes
Using the Pen tool
Creating and editing text
Scaling and rotating objects
Managing vector and pixel brushes
Creating symbols
Selecting areas and color ranges
Using layer masks
Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
Exporting work
Here Ronnie McBride introduces the workflows and tools required to get up to speed with this fast, powerful, and professional application. He shows how to work with workspaces in Affinity Designer, called personas; use the drawing tools; and create custom brushes. This course is designed to help artists feel more confident and become more proficient using Affinity Designer in their own work.
Learning objectives
Creating a new document
Setting up margins, guides, and grids
Snapping and aligning
Drawing vector lines and shapes
Using the Pen tool
Creating and editing text
Scaling and rotating objects
Managing vector and pixel brushes
Creating symbols
Selecting areas and color ranges
Using layer masks
Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
Exporting work
Skills covered
Affinity DesignerSerif Ltd.Web GraphicsWeb DesignEssential Training
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started
- 03 - Overview of the Interface
- 04 - Understanding the persona workspaces
- 05 - Creating a new document
- 06 - Setting up your document
- 07 - Embedding a document
- 08 - Saving and project organization
2. Understanding Preferences and Guides
- 09 - Exploring the general Preference settings
- 10 - Setting up margins
- 11 - Setting up guides
- 12 - Setting up grids
- 13 - Snapping
- 14 - Force Pixel Alignment
3. Drawing Vectors Lines and Shapes
- 15 - Defining nodes, lines, and shapes
- 16 - Using the Pen tool
- 17 - Manipulating and editing nodes
- 18 - Using the Corner tool
- 19 - Using special vector shapes
- 20 - Creating compound shapes
- 21 - Creating and editing text
4. Manipulating and Managing Objects - Draw Persona
- 22 - Scaling, shearing, and rotating objects
- 23 - Using the Transform palette
- 24 - Using layers and groups for object management
- 25 - Using artboards
5. Understanding Panels
- 26 - Creating and managing Vector Brushes
- 27 - Managing Pixel Brushes
- 28 - Managing the Stroke panel
- 29 - Exploring the Color panel
- 30 - Exploring the Swatch panel
- 31 - Using the History and Navigator panel
- 32 - Taking and managing Snapshots
- 33 - Creating gradients
- 34 - Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
- 35 - Using the Paragraph and Characters panel
- 36 - Saving text styles
- 37 - Creating symbols
- 38 - Creating assets
6. Selection Methods
- 39 - Creating basic pixel selections
- 40 - Selecting by color range
- 41 - Selecting by sampling pixel color
- 42 - Modifying pixel selections
- 43 - Refine pixel selection
- 44 - Understanding layer masks
7. Importing and Exporting Your Files
- 45 - Exporting your work with the File Export command
- 46 - Export persona explained
- 47 - Exporting PSD file
Conclusion
- 48 - Next steps