Lessons: 35Length: 2.7 hours
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4.4 Extracting Color Palettes
Affinity Designer includes a really powerful function that can pull color palettes out of any document, be it a vector drawing, photo or anything at all. Learn how to use it in this tutorial.
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
4.4 Extracting Color Palettes
Hi and welcome back to Affinity Designer Quick Start. In this lesson we're gonna learn how to extract color palettes from any document. So here we have this beautiful vector design, and it's got a very clear color scheme. And rather than going through and manually selecting these colors if we wanted to continue working with this piece, we can have them automatically extracted out of the piece. And the way we do this, is in the Swatches panel. If we head up to the little drop down menu here, you'll find that we have this item, Create Palette From Document. And this is gonna pull all of the colors that are needed out of the document, and there are three ways that you can create this palette. You can create it as An Application Palette so it will be then available for you every time you use Affinity Designer from then on. You can create it as a Document Palette, so it's available just within this document only. Or you can create it as a System Palette, so you'll be able to use it anywhere in your machine, including in other art applications. So for now, we'll just choose As Document Palette. And there you go, all of the colors that are used in this design have been extracted, so they're all there for easy use. And you can also see that the pallet has been named according to the name of the file. So the files called Concerto, and story is our new color palette. So this is a vector piece. But the process works equally well with photographs. So over here, we can do the same thing again. Create Palette From Document. Give it a second. And then there's all of our coffee colors and background aqua colors. So that's incredibly useful also if you're doing a design where you need to work with a client's logo, so you can easily pull the colors out of their logo. It's great for sharing color palettes from one application to another. If your work goes through a pipeline that involves multiple design tools, and it's overall just a great time saver. In the next video, we're gonna learn how to create color palettes in a different way, and that is by creating color cords. Now these color cords are based on rules from color theory. I'll see you there.
