| Course Dates | Venue | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Bridge | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| Online | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT |
Day One
Affinity Designer workspace
• Overview of the workspace and relevant toolbars
• Personas - Pixel vs Designer
• Opening existing Affinity Documents
• Setting up a new Document
• Creating different size documents for different purposes
• Moving around the workspace
Creating vector artwork from scratch
• Combining basic shapes and special shapes
• How to flip, rotate, and make simple adjustments
• Making quick adjustments to special shapes
• Using layers
• Layering shapes and creating overlaps
Adding colour to designs
• Adjusting colour and saturation with the Colour Wheel
• Using the Colour Picker
• Adjusting RGB and CMYK colours
• Overview of the Swatch Library
• Creating and saving a Swatch
• Creating colour palettes for future use
Using the Knife Tool
• Drag a path through your shape to slice it in two
• Straight line cuts
• Curved cuts
Using Designer’s freehand drawing tools to create lines and brushstrokes
• Creating straight lines using the Pencil tool
• Creating freeform lines
• Adjusting the position of nodes
• Working with brushes
• Creating different brushstrokes
• Experiment with opacity, hardness, and flow
• Altering velocity or pressure controls to add movement to freehand lines
Using different Strokes
• Adjusting the Stroke of lines or Shape outlines
• Using dots and dashes
• Using the “scale with object” option
Creating gradients
• Creating a basic gradient using the gradient tool
• Create gradients with more than two colours
• Change gradient types - radial, conical etc
Day Two
Guides, Grids, and smart ways of working
• Aligning Objects
• Using the Snapping Tool
• Using Rulers to create custom guide lines
• Using Grids
• Grouping objects together
Text and titles
• Adding text
• Add headings with the Artistic Text tool
• Make adjustments with Character options
Creative text options
• Adding an Outline
• Adding a Gradient
• Adding text to a path or to the outline of a shape
Using the Pixel Persona to work with images
• Placing an image
• Rasterizing image layers
• Using Crop, Scale, Rotate, adjust Opacity
• Removing a white background
• Using the Selection Brush tool to remove backgrounds and apply colour
• Embedding vs Linked images
• Creating a linked file to reduce file size
• Creating a linked file to automatically update changes made to the image in another program
Working with Artboards
• Setting up multiple artboards to work on different versions of a project
• Working with multiple artboards at the same time for social media, print etc
Export your files
• Exporting multiple Artboards
• Exporting to PNG, JPG, and SVG
• PDF exporting settings
Questions and answers
This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.
This course uses the Desktop version of Affinity Designer, however, you can also use the skills you learn in the iPad version of the software
"Wolf was fantastic. It was a very informative and engaging session, and the training was presented in a very accessible way."
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