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Affinity Designer Top 10 Basic Tasks - Affinity Designer For Beginners

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Affinity Designer is an amazing vector design tool for Mac and windows. It's full-featured, powerful and friendly for beginners. In this design tutorial, I show you the 10 most common basic tasks you might want to accomplish inside Affinity Designer. Remember to Subscribe https://goo.gl/6vCw64 If you are just starting out with Affinity Designer or Vector Design/ Graphic Design Software in General, this tutorial should get you up and running. 1) Making a new document in Affinity Designer 2) Understanding the interface of Affinity Designer 3) Using the pre-made shapes in Affinity Designer 4) Custom Shapes in Affinity Designer 5) How to use colors in Affinity Designer 6) Understanding layers in Affinity Designer 7) How to combine shapes with the Boolean operations in Affinity Designer 8) How to draw your own vectors with the vector brush tool and the pen tool in Affinity Designer 9) How to add text in Affinity Designer 10) How to save and export in Affinity Designer Affinity Designer offers some pretty fantastic features for graphic design, ui design, print design and more, and I highly suggest you check it out of you have been an Illustrator user for a while and are looking for a cheaper alternative. Other Affinity Tutorials: Advanced Skin Retouching - https://youtu.be/5FlJbe98Oc8 Masking Images in Text - https://youtu.be/VP0Tw-pVHRY Change Eye Color - https://youtu.be/vCPiqyoy2jc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ////////// Want to support my content and get extra goodies? Become a member and get perks like member-only content, behind the scenes, design files, and more... https://designchamps.io/hip ////////// Connect with me here 👍🏼 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imjesseshow Twitter: http://twitter.com/imjesseshow Anchor: https://anchor.fm/imjesseshow Medium: https://medium.com/@imjesseshow ////////// Sign up for my Monthly Newsletter 📫 http://jesseshowalter.com/newsletter ////////// Music is from Musicbed click below for a free trial 👇🏼 http://share.mscbd.fm/imjesseshow ////////// Equipment 📸 https://www.amazon.com/shop/jesseshowaltertv

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Affinity Designer is easy to learn, catering to both new and veteran designers.']}], 'duration': 77.776, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0209.jpg', 'highlights': ['Affinity Designer is priced at $50 in the US for both Mac and Windows, making it an affordable option for new and veteran designers.', 'It is a vector graphics software by Serif, competing with Adobe Illustrator, and is suitable for handling illustration, iconography, typography, UI design, and print work.', 'Affinity Designer introduces unique personas feature, including draw, pixel, and export personas, setting it apart from other design software.', 'The program offers easy learning and understanding, making it perfect for new and veteran designers.']}, {'end': 271.788, 'segs': [{'end': 132.915, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 96.51, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 100.472, 'text': "Is it web? Is it print? Is it press ready? So that's how you make a new document.", 'start': 96.51, 'duration': 3.962}, {'end': 108.658, 'text': "If you'd like to work in more of an artboard system, you can simply grab the artboards and you can drag some artboards out, measuring what they are,", 'start': 100.532, 'duration': 8.126}, {'end': 110.82, 'text': 'and then you can even copy artboards.', 'start': 108.658, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 115.303, 'text': 'So if you wanted to do interface design, this would be a really, really good way to do that as well.', 'start': 111.04, 'duration': 4.263}, {'end': 120.167, 'text': 'There are ways to create reusable symbols and interface patterns here in Affinity Designer.', 'start': 115.623, 'duration': 4.544}, {'end': 125.531, 'text': "We're not gonna go into that today, but this is how you work an artboard system if that floats your boat.", 'start': 120.187, 'duration': 5.344}, {'end': 127.592, 'text': "Now we're gonna do a quick tour of the interface.", 'start': 125.911, 'duration': 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6.927}, {'end': 170.397, 'text': "so that's really really nice.", 'start': 169.376, 'duration': 1.021}, {'end': 173.58, 'text': 'you have a pencil so you can do a little bit of custom drawing.', 'start': 170.397, 'duration': 3.183}, {'end': 179.726, 'text': "you have a vector brush tool so you can do some more brush type drawing and there's lots of different brushes and things you can do there.", 'start': 173.58, 'duration': 6.146}, {'end': 184.071, 'text': 'just like an illustrator, you have a gradient tool so you can gradiate certain things shapes.', 'start': 179.726, 'duration': 4.345}, {'end': 186.013, 'text': "you're working on so on and so forth.", 'start': 184.071, 'duration': 1.942}, {'end': 187.975, 'text': 'the transfer transparency tool.', 'start': 186.013, 'duration': 1.962}], 'summary': 'Transcript discusses design tools including ellipse, pen, pencil, vector brush, and gradient tool for shape and drawing.', 'duration': 41.653, 'max_score': 154.312, 'thumbnail': 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interface.", 'duration': 54.51, 'highlights': ['You can create a new file by heading to File and pressing New or by using the shortcut Command N, offering flexibility and ease of use for users.', 'The artboard system allows users to easily drag and measure artboards, as well as copy them, making it a great tool for interface design, providing practical and efficient design capabilities.', 'Affinity Designer offers ways to create reusable symbols and interface patterns, enhancing design efficiency and consistency for users.', "A quick tour of the interface includes an overview of the tools in the tool panel on the left-hand side, starting with the pointer clicker arrow, providing a comprehensive overview of the program's interface and functionalities."]}, {'end': 170.397, 'start': 133.035, 'title': 'Design tools overview', 'summary': 'Introduces the artboard, node, corner, and pen tools, highlighting their functionality in creating and manipulating shapes and bezier curves.', 'duration': 37.362, 'highlights': ['The pen tool is great for drawing custom shapes with bezier curves, providing flexibility in design creation.', 'The corner tool allows for precise manipulation of corners and creation of perfect radius using an ellipse, enhancing shape customization.', 'The node tool functions like a white arrow tool, allowing manipulation of individual nodes to fine-tune designs.']}, {'end': 271.788, 'start': 170.397, 'title': 'Adobe illustrator interface overview', 'summary': 'Provides an overview of the adobe illustrator interface, including tools such as pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and various panels for editing and adjusting designs. it also discusses the ability to customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired.', 'duration': 101.391, 'highlights': ['The interface includes tools such as pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and various panels for editing and adjusting designs. The interface provides a wide range of tools, including pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and panels for editing and adjusting designs.', 'Ability to customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired. Users can customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired, offering flexibility in workspace arrangement.', 'The interface allows for handling Boolean functions, such as Pathfinder tools, and provides options for managing layers and effects. Users can handle Boolean functions, like Pathfinder tools, and manage layers and effects within the interface, offering extensive design capabilities.']}], 'duration': 193.383, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn078405.jpg', 'highlights': ['The artboard system allows users to easily drag and measure artboards, as well as copy them, making it a great tool for interface design, providing practical and efficient design capabilities.', 'Affinity Designer offers ways to create reusable symbols and interface patterns, enhancing design efficiency and consistency for users.', 'The pen tool is great for drawing custom shapes with bezier curves, providing flexibility in design creation.', 'The interface includes tools such as pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and various panels for editing and adjusting designs. The interface provides a wide range of tools, including pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and panels for editing and adjusting designs.', 'Ability to customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired. Users can customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired, offering flexibility in workspace arrangement.']}, {'end': 959.464, 'segs': [{'end': 335.41, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 310.242, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 316.464, 'text': 'Each of the individual default shapes like circles, rounded squares and squares have their own settings that they come with.', 'start': 310.242, 'duration': 6.222}, {'end': 318.205, 'text': "They've done a little bit of the work for you.", 'start': 316.824, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 319.265, 'text': "I feel like that's going to be.", 'start': 318.305, 'duration': 0.96}, {'end': 328.808, 'text': 'the overwhelming tone of this tutorial is the fact that Affinity Designer has done a lot of the work for you, but it still allows you to customize.', 'start': 319.265, 'duration': 9.543}, {'end': 330.549, 'text': "And I think that's a pretty sweet spot to be in.", 'start': 328.848, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 335.41, 'text': 'Any object that you make on the screen, you can grab by this little rotation handle and rotate it.', 'start': 330.909, 'duration': 4.501}], 'summary': "Affinity designer's default shapes come with preset settings, allowing for customization and rotation.", 'duration': 25.168, 'max_score': 310.242, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0310242.jpg'}, {'end': 370.997, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 344.273, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 350.396, 'text': 'All of these custom shapes, not only do they have individual properties up at the top, but you can see they also have special nodes.', 'start': 344.273, 'duration': 6.123}, {'end': 360.62, 'text': 'And when I hover over these special red nodes, I can pull in or out and manipulate the different properties of this shape.', 'start': 350.436, 'duration': 10.184}, {'end': 362.441, 'text': 'So I can make it a soft star.', 'start': 360.94, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 366.954, 'text': 'changing the inner and outer kind of edges of the shape.', 'start': 363.752, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 370.997, 'text': 'And each one of these differ on the shape that you actually pick.', 'start': 366.994, 'duration': 4.003}], 'summary': 'Custom shapes have special nodes for property manipulation and can be transformed into different shapes.', 'duration': 26.724, 'max_score': 344.273, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0344273.jpg'}, {'end': 523.433, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 500.519, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 507.743, 'text': 'the majority of them have a layer system where I can create a shape and then create another shape and insert a photo.', 'start': 500.519, 'duration': 7.224}, {'end': 510.485, 'text': 'And all of these are working on different layers.', 'start': 508.144, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 512.567, 'text': 'You can see them over in the layers panel.', 'start': 510.525, 'duration': 2.042}, {'end': 516.308, 'text': "As you're working with the layer, you can change that layer's opacity value.", 'start': 512.947, 'duration': 3.361}, {'end': 518.671, 'text': 'You can change its blending modes.', 'start': 516.629, 'duration': 2.042}, {'end': 523.433, 'text': "You can manipulate them by turning them on or off, locking it so it can't be moved.", 'start': 519.01, 'duration': 4.423}], 'summary': 'Graphics software allows creating shapes, inserting photos, and manipulating layers with opacity and blending modes.', 'duration': 22.914, 'max_score': 500.519, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0500519.jpg'}, {'end': 571.086, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 542.362, 'weight': 0.789, 'content': [{'end': 549.367, 'text': 'I could move it back up by doing the same thing by making sure that the highlighted blue edge or blue line is all the way over.', 'start': 542.362, 'duration': 7.005}, {'end': 558.234, 'text': "If I indent, what that's actually telling Affinity Designer is that I actually want that to be clipped or merged onto the shape itself.", 'start': 549.728, 'duration': 8.506}, {'end': 565.52, 'text': "You can see I could twirl open the donut layer and I can select the text and move it around and it's been masked inside of the donut.", 'start': 558.494, 'duration': 7.026}, {'end': 571.086, 'text': 'I can remove it by pulling it out and putting it where it belongs, just right there.', 'start': 566.46, 'duration': 4.626}], 'summary': 'Demonstrates clipping and masking in affinity designer with a donut shape and text.', 'duration': 28.724, 'max_score': 542.362, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0542362.jpg'}, {'end': 608.484, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 578.013, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 583.558, 'text': "The next thing we're gonna talk about is combining shapes using all the Boolean tools or what we might call the Pathfinder tools.", 'start': 578.013, 'duration': 5.545}, {'end': 587.862, 'text': 'And this allows us to merge shapes into each other in interesting ways.', 'start': 583.938, 'duration': 3.924}, {'end': 589.924, 'text': "So I'm just gonna draw a few shapes out here.", 'start': 588.142, 'duration': 1.782}, {'end': 592.827, 'text': "Here's a square and here is an ellipse.", 'start': 589.984, 'duration': 2.843}, {'end': 598.153, 'text': "and I'm just gonna make one of them a little bit of a different color and I wanna merge these two shapes together.", 'start': 592.927, 'duration': 5.226}, {'end': 601.016, 'text': 'I wanna do it in an interesting way though.', 'start': 598.173, 'duration': 2.843}, {'end': 608.484, 'text': "I'm just gonna grab both layers and I'm gonna use my alignment tools to make sure they're lined up, and then I'm gonna move it into the middle and,", 'start': 601.336, 'duration': 7.148}], 'summary': 'Using boolean/pathfinder tools to merge shapes in interesting ways.', 'duration': 30.471, 'max_score': 578.013, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0578013.jpg'}, {'end': 640.787, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 611.107, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 617.191, 'text': "Now, I can select both items and I can come up here and here's my Pathfinder or my Boolean tools.", 'start': 611.107, 'duration': 6.084}, {'end': 618.792, 'text': 'I can add them to each other.', 'start': 617.511, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 621.054, 'text': 'I can combine them to make them one shape.', 'start': 618.812, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 627.698, 'text': 'You can see what would happen if I just laid the shape here, grabbed both of them, and then combined them into one shape.', 'start': 621.094, 'duration': 6.604}, {'end': 634.002, 'text': "It's gone ahead and merged the actual vector points and turned it into a single shape rather than two shapes.", 'start': 627.998, 'duration': 6.004}, {'end': 638.305, 'text': "That is a destructive process, which means that you can't edit it anymore.", 'start': 634.283, 'duration': 4.022}, {'end': 640.787, 'text': "So you definitely want to make sure that that's what you want to do.", 'start': 638.405, 'duration': 2.382}], 'summary': 'Using boolean tools to merge vector points into a single shape, making it non-editable.', 'duration': 29.68, 'max_score': 611.107, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0611107.jpg'}, {'end': 781.04, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 751.152, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 753.653, 'text': 'Next we have the pencil tool, which we spoke about briefly,', 'start': 751.152, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 760.534, 'text': "but the pencil tool is a way to add quick vector shapes to the screen and there's no telling where the vector points actually go.", 'start': 753.653, 'duration': 6.881}, {'end': 767.756, 'text': 'The software itself is actually judging where the best place is to put the curve, so that if you wanted to come back with the node tool,', 'start': 760.874, 'duration': 6.882}, {'end': 771.137, 'text': 'you could move them around and always edit them later.', 'start': 767.756, 'duration': 3.381}, {'end': 772.757, 'text': 'Last is the vector brush tool.', 'start': 771.497, 'duration': 1.26}, {'end': 777.399, 'text': 'You can get that by either clicking the tool itself or pressing the hotkey of B.', 'start': 772.818, 'duration': 4.581}, {'end': 781.04, 'text': 'And once I do that, I get a brush that I can paint things out.', 'start': 777.399, 'duration': 3.641}], 'summary': 'The software has a pencil tool for adding quick vector shapes, and a vector brush tool for painting, allowing for easy editing later.', 'duration': 29.888, 'max_score': 751.152, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0751152.jpg'}], 'start': 272.288, 'title': 'Affinity designer features', 'summary': "Covers the use of pre-made shapes, manipulation of shapes, color customization, working with layers, combining shapes, and creating custom vector shapes in affinity designer, showcasing the software's capabilities and ease of use.", 'chapters': [{'end': 328.808, 'start': 272.288, 'title': 'Using pre-made shapes in affinity designer', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of pre-made shapes in affinity designer, highlighting the ease of drawing and customizing shapes, as well as the ability to choose colors and strokes for the shapes.', 'duration': 56.52, 'highlights': ['Pre-made shapes in Affinity Designer allow for easy drawing and customization, with the ability to choose colors, strokes, and corners for the shapes.', 'Using pre-made shapes involves selecting shapes such as squares, circles, and rounded squares, and customizing them by adding strokes, colors, and adjusting corners.']}, {'end': 577.772, 'start': 328.848, 'title': 'Affinity designer: shapes, colors, and layers', 'summary': 'Discusses the features of affinity designer including manipulation of shapes with rotation handles, customization of shapes with special nodes, color manipulation using various methods like swatches, sliders, and gradients, and working with layers including opacity, blending modes, and effects.', 'duration': 248.924, 'highlights': ['Shapes can be manipulated with rotation handles for customization. Users can grab any object on the screen and rotate it using rotation handles, providing a high level of customization.', 'Custom shapes have special nodes for individual property manipulation. Custom shapes feature special nodes that allow users to manipulate different properties such as softening edges, offering enhanced customization options.', 'Various color manipulation methods including swatches, sliders, and gradients are available. Users can utilize different color manipulation methods such as swatches, sliders, and gradients to customize the color of shapes and designs.', 'Layers panel allows for manipulation of layers including opacity, blending modes, and effects. The layers panel in Affinity Designer enables users to adjust layer properties such as opacity, blending modes, and applying effects for intricate designs.']}, {'end': 959.464, 'start': 578.013, 'title': 'Combining shapes and drawing custom shapes in affinity designer', 'summary': "Covers combining shapes using boolean tools to merge shapes, creating custom vector shapes, and adding text and exporting designs in affinity designer, offering a comprehensive overview of the software's capabilities and features.", 'duration': 381.451, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers combining shapes using Boolean tools to merge shapes The tutorial explains how to use Boolean tools to merge shapes into each other, offering a comprehensive overview of the different Boolean operations, such as adding, subtracting, intersecting, dividing, and combining shapes.', 'Creating custom vector shapes using the pen, pencil, and vector brush tools The tutorial provides insight into using the pen tool to create Bezier curves, the pencil tool for quick vector shapes with editable nodes, and the vector brush tool for painting and customizing brushes, offering a variety of options for creating custom vector shapes.', "Adding text and exporting designs in Affinity Designer The tutorial demonstrates adding text using the artistic text tool and frame text tool, along with comprehensive editing options, and explains the export process, including saving as an Affinity Designer file, generic save, and exporting in various formats, highlighting the software's comprehensive export settings."]}], 'duration': 687.176, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/Ek5MKvqxvn0/pics/Ek5MKvqxvn0272288.jpg', 'highlights': ['The tutorial covers combining shapes using Boolean tools to merge shapes, offering a comprehensive overview of different Boolean operations.', 'Pre-made shapes in Affinity Designer allow for easy drawing and customization, with the ability to choose colors, strokes, and corners for the shapes.', 'The layers panel in Affinity Designer enables users to adjust layer properties such as opacity, blending modes, and applying effects for intricate designs.', 'Custom shapes feature special nodes that allow users to manipulate different properties such as softening edges, offering enhanced customization options.', 'The tutorial provides insight into using the pen tool to create Bezier curves, the pencil tool for quick vector shapes with editable nodes, and the vector brush tool for painting and customizing brushes, offering a variety of options for creating custom vector shapes.']}], 'highlights': ['Affinity Designer is priced at $50 in the US for both Mac and Windows, making it an affordable option for new and veteran designers.', 'It is a vector graphics software by Serif, competing with Adobe Illustrator, and is suitable for handling illustration, iconography, typography, UI design, and print work.', 'Affinity Designer introduces unique personas feature, including draw, pixel, and export personas, setting it apart from other design software.', 'The program offers easy learning and understanding, making it perfect for new and veteran designers.', 'The artboard system allows users to easily drag and measure artboards, as well as copy them, making it a great tool for interface design, providing practical and efficient design capabilities.', 'Affinity Designer offers ways to create reusable symbols and interface patterns, enhancing design efficiency and consistency for users.', 'The pen tool is great for drawing custom shapes with bezier curves, providing flexibility in design creation.', 'The interface includes tools such as pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and various panels for editing and adjusting designs. The interface provides a wide range of tools, including pencil, vector brush, gradient, custom shapes, text, color picker, and panels for editing and adjusting designs.', 'Ability to customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired. Users can customize the interface by pulling out different panels and placing them as desired, offering flexibility in workspace arrangement.', 'The tutorial covers combining shapes using Boolean tools to merge shapes, offering a comprehensive overview of different Boolean operations.', 'Pre-made shapes in Affinity Designer allow for easy drawing and customization, with the ability to choose colors, strokes, and corners for the shapes.', 'The layers panel in Affinity Designer enables users to adjust layer properties such as opacity, blending modes, and applying effects for intricate designs.', 'Custom shapes feature special nodes that allow users to manipulate different properties such as softening edges, offering enhanced customization options.', 'The tutorial provides insight into using the pen tool to create Bezier curves, the pencil tool for quick vector shapes with editable nodes, and the vector brush tool for painting and customizing brushes, offering a variety of options for creating custom vector shapes.']}