Overview
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Learn how to create high-quality digital drawings and paintings with the professional drawing, design, and retouching tools in Affinity Designer.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Overview of the Interface
- Understanding the persona workspaces
- Creating a new document
- Setting up your document
- Embedding a document
- Saving and project organization
- Exploring the general Preference settings
- Setting up margins
- Setting up guides
- Setting up grids
- Snapping
- Force Pixel Alignment
- Defining nodes, lines, and shapes
- Using the Pen tool
- Manipulating and editing nodes
- Using the Corner tool
- Using special vector shapes
- Creating compound shapes
- Creating and editing text
- Scaling, shearing, and rotating objects
- Using the Transform palette
- Using layers and groups for object management
- Using artboards
- Creating and managing Vector Brushes
- Managing Pixel Brushes
- Managing the Stroke panel
- Exploring the Color panel
- Exploring the Swatch panel
- Using the History and Navigator panel
- Taking and managing Snapshots
- Creating gradients
- Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
- Using the Paragraph and Characters panel
- Saving text styles
- Creating symbols
- Creating assets
- Creating basic pixel selections
- Selecting by color range
- Selecting by sampling pixel color
- Modifying pixel selections
- Refine pixel selection
- Understanding layer masks
- Exporting your work with the File Export command
- Export persona explained
- Exporting PSD file
- Next steps
