Lessons: 35Length: 2.7 hours
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1.1 Affinity Designer Quick Start
Affinity Designer is an amazing new app for Mac that’s taking the design world by storm. Designers everywhere are reporting they’re dropping their old software and switching entirely over to using Affinity instead.
When you’ve completed “Affinity Designer Quick Start” you’ll have all the right shortcuts and tricks up your sleeve, be fully familiar with the app’s interface and tools, and be able to go from laying down curves all the way through to exporting a design.
Everything we’ll cover can be done in the free trial of Affinity Designer, so even if you don’t yet have the app you’ll still be able to take this course.
Let’s begin!
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1.Introduction
1.1Affinity Designer Quick Start00:58
2.Vector Persona
2.1Creating Curves02:43
2.2Adding, Deleting and Connecting Nodes05:02
2.3Node Types and Pen Drawing Modes05:07
2.4Using the Corner Tool03:15
2.5How to “Power Duplicate”02:49
2.6Real-Time Embedded Object Editing04:11
2.7Painting With Vectors03:45
3.Interface
3.1Transforming Objects03:32
3.2Split-Screen View With Slider02:17
3.3Understanding the Layers Panel07:04
3.4Using the Guides Manager02:51
3.5Tip: Rearranging Studio Panels02:11
3.6How to Set Up Grids03:22
3.7How to Set Up Snapping02:37
4.Color, Fill and Stroke
4.1Working With Fills04:57
4.2Working With Strokes03:10
4.3Color Selection and Copy Paste Hexcodes03:31
4.4Extracting Color Palettes02:17
4.5Generating Color Chords03:45
4.6Define and Edit Gradients05:02
4.7Using the Transparency Tool03:21
5.Pixel Persona
5.1Pixel Persona and Pixel Brushes04:16
5.2Pixel Tool03:33
6.Interactions Between Shapes
6.1Using Boolean Functions04:37
6.2Masking and Clipping07:43
7.Effects, Styles, Pressure and Velocity
7.1Effects and Styles04:42
7.2Velocity, Pen Pressure and Manual Simulation06:07
8.Exporting
8.1Exporting, Export Persona, Continuous Export05:24
9.Conclusion
9.1Wrapping Up00:33
10. Bonus Lessons
10.1Typography18:52
10.2Artboards08:09
10.3Constraints06:49
10.4Symbols06:28
10.5Assets Panel06:56
1.1 Affinity Designer Quick Start
Affinity Designer is an incredible new vector design program from the guys at Serif. This program has been going from strength to strength it's won Apple Design Awards and we're seeing a lot of designers, drop their old software in favor of meeting completely over to the new software, that Infinity is bringing to the table. In this course, we're gonna go through and give you a quick start, if you are new to Affinity Designer, so, you know how when you are learning to use a graphics program and you get a little way into it, and then you find that there was some shortcut or some tool that could have saved you hours and hours of time. Well, this course is designed to give you all of those shortcuts right at the beginning. So, that you'll be working as efficiently as you possibly can with a really smooth workflow from the outset. And everything that we go through in this course can be done in the free trial version of Affinity Designer. So there's nothing to stop you jumping in and following along with every single one of these videos. I'll see you in the first lesson.
