| Course Dates | Venue | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Bridge | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| Online | £399 + VAT save £100 | |||
| 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 |
Day 1
Affinity Designer Workspace
• Overview of the workspace and relevant toolbars
• Personas - Pixel vs Designer
• Opening existing Affinity Documents
• Setting up a new Document - Options for different sizes and purposes
• Moving around the workspace
Shapes and Layers
Create vector artwork from scratch by combining basic and special shapes
• Using basic shapes and special shapes
• Flip, rotate, and make simple adjustments
• Making quick adjustments to special shapes
• Layering shapes and creating overlaps
Colour
Add colour to your designs and create colour palettes for future use
• 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
Knife Tool
• Drag a path through your shape to slice it in two
• Straight line cuts
• Curved cuts
Create lines and brushstrokes
Explore Affinity Designer’s freehand drawing tools
• Create straight lines using the Pencil tool
• Create freeform lines
• Adjust the position of nodes
• Work with brushes
• Experiment with opacity, hardness, and flow
• Use velocity or pressure controls to add movement to freehand lines
Strokes
• Adjusting the Stroke of Lines or Shape outlines
• Using dots and dashes
• Using the “scale with object” option
Gradients
• Creating a basic gradient using the gradient tool
• Create gradients with more than two colours
• Change gradient types - radial, conical ect
Day 2
Guides, Grids, and smart ways of working
• Aligning Objects
• 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 • Add an Outline • Add a Gradient • Add text to a path or the outline of a shape The Pixel Persona For this part of the course we’ll be working in the Pixel Persona Working with Images • Place an image • Rasterizing image layers • Crop, Scale, Rotate, adjust Opacity • Remove a white background • Selection Brush tool - remove backgrounds and apply colour • Embedding vs Linked images • Creating a linked file - reduce file size and automatically update changes made to the image in another program Working with Artboards • Set up multiple artboards so you can work on different versions of the same project at the same time - eg for social media Export your files • Exporting multiple Artboards • Exporting to PNG, JPG, and SVG • PDF exporting settings Questions & Answers 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
"Communication and QandA"
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