Affinity Designer Course Project-based Learning Experience

Learn how to use Affinity Designer to design vector logo, poster, illustration, business card and more.

4.20 (11 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Graphic Design
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94
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6.5 hours
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Dec 2023
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$64.99
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What you will learn

All important Affinity Designer tools

Effective workflow techniques

Vector graphics fundamentals

Real-life application of tools

Description

Welcome to the Project-based Affinity Designer video course

With this course, you will learn everything you need to know to effectively work with Affinity Designer. AD is an inexpensive, yet fully professional, alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Whether you are switching from Illustrator or you are brand new to vector graphics this course is for you.


Content

The content of this course is split into four parts. In the first chapter, I will show you all the important tools of the designer persona I also prepared some worksheets for you to practice merging shapes and drawing with the Pen tool. The second chapter is all about pixel persona tools, pixel persona is a mini raster editor(like Photoshop) built in Affinity Designer. The short third chapter is dedicated to the iPad version of Affinity Designer. The fourth chapter is the main unit of this online course it is where I will guide you to several real-life projects. In addition, there is a bonus chapter where I going to post follow-up videos to keep this course relevant.


Learn By Doing

Throughout this course, you'll be working on real-world projects so that you can use tools you have learned about and build a small portfolio. I highly recommend that you pause the video from time to time and follow all the steps instead of waiting for the video to finish.


Free Updates

This online Affinity Designer class is constantly evolving! Originally launched in 2021 for version 1, it's been meticulously updated by the dedicated instructor. Outdated lessons have been revamped for clarity, and entirely new lectures have been added to cover exciting features and tools introduced in 2022 and 2023.


About Your Instructor

I’m Mark Krukowski a qualified ICT instructor and visual designer, I love sharing my knowledge with students in both live class-based workshops and online video tutorials. I strongly believe that Affinity Designer V2 is the best vector editor on the market right now.


Like always on the Udemy platform, there is a 100% 30-day Money Back Guarantee

And remember you will get a certificate after finishing the entire course!

Content

Introduction

Course Presentation
Why Affinity?
Introduction to vector graphic
Persona!

Designer Persona Tools

Interface and shortcuts
Shapes and boolean
Smart shapes
Merging shapes practice
Pen tool and node tool
Pen tool practice
Layers and effects
Styles
Type tool
Pencil & Brush tools
Chapter summary
Quiz

Pixel Persona Tools

Pixel persona
Selection
Selection Practice
Masking Layer
Pixel Brushes and texturing
Custom brush
Chapter summary
Quiz

Affinity Designer for iPad

Affinity Designer for iPad OS
Gestures & Shortcuts
Shapes and Boolean
Transformation
Pen and Node tools
Pencil & Brush tools
Pixel brush & texturing
Chapter summary

Project-based learning

Warming up
Typographic Logo - part 1
Typographic Logo - part 2
Typographic Logo - part 3
Digital Stickers - part 1
Digital Stickers - part 2
Business card - part 1
Business card - part 2
Icon set - part 1
Icon set - part 2
Icon set - part 3
Vintage badge - part 1
Vintage badge - part 2
Vector illustration - part 1
Vector illustration - part 2
Vector illustration - part 3
Vector illustration - part 4
Retro Poster - part 1
Retro Poster - part 2
Instagram Post

Course summary

Export persona
Well done!

BONUS

Affinity Photo
Affinity Publisher

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Reviews

Gaylotta
February 16, 2023
This is version 1.9 and I am using 20. The tools for shapes work differently than describe in the lesson. I was not able to follow along.
Georgian
November 20, 2022
It's a pretty good course. It includes a lot of information and the instructor has a good way to explain everything is needed, slowly and clearly.

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4/21/2021
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