Affinity Designer is an amazing app for Mac which is taking the design world by storm. Designers everywhere are reporting that they’re dropping their old graphics software and switching entirely over to using Affinity instead. By completing “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! Get the most out of Affinity with our course Branding on a Budget With Elements and Affinity: https://design.tutsplus.com/courses/branding-on-a-budget-with-elements-and-affinity?ec_promo=tuts_youtube&ec_unit=description&ec_topic=webdesign
1. Introduction
0:00 1.1 Affinity Designer Quick Start
2. Vector Persona
0:58 2.1 Creating Curves
3:42 2.2 Adding, Deleting and Connecting Nodes
8:45 2.3 Node Types and Pen Drawing Modes
13:52 2.4 Using the Corner Tool
17:08 2.5 How to “Power Duplicate”
19:57 2.6 Real-Time Embedded Object Editing
24:09 2.7 Painting With Vectors
3. Interface
27:55 3.1 Transforming Objects
31:27 3.2 Split-Screen View With Slider
33:44 3.3 Understanding the Layers Panel
40:49 3.4 Using the Guides Manager
43:40 3.5 Tip: Rearranging Studio Panels
45:52 3.6 How to Set Up Grids
49:15 3.7 How to Set Up Snapping
4. Color, Fill and Stroke
51:52 4.1 Working With Fills
56:50 4.2 Working With Strokes
1:00:01 4.3 Color Selection and Copy Paste Hexcodes
1:03:33 4.4 Extracting Color Palettes
1:05:50 4.5 Generating Color Chords
1:09:36 4.6 Define and Edit Gradients
1:14:38 4.7 Using the Transparency Tool
5. Pixel Persona
1:18:08 5.1 Pixel Persona and Pixel Brushes
1:22:16 5.2 Pixel Tool
6. Interactions Between Shapes
1:25:50 6.1 Using Boolean Functions
1:30:27 6.2 Masking and Clipping
7. Effects, Styles, Pressure and Velocity
1:38:11 7.1 Effects and Styles
1:42:53 7.2 Velocity, Pen Pressure and Manual Simulation
8. Exporting
1:49:01 8.1 Exporting, Export Persona, Continuous Export
9. Conclusion
1:54:25 9.1 Wrapping Up
10. Bonus Lessons
1:54:59 10.1 Typography
2:13:52 10.2 Artboards
2:22:01 10.3 Constraints
2:28:50 10.4 Symbols
2:35:18 10.5 Assets Panel
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