Affinity Designer- Design artistic text and Create Fonts

Every technique you need to design artistic text and fonts in Affinity Designer

4.75 (304 reviews)
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English
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Graphic Design
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3,674
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5 hours
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Oct 2018
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$54.99
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What you will learn

Create beautiful artistic based text for a variety of applications

Interface with Font Forge to import the vectors from Affinity Designer into the font creation program

Integrate text into advanced composite images to make your art come alive and convey a message

Master the tools like mask layers and adjustment layers to create complex vector based graffiti art

Description

Thanks for checking out this brand new master's course on text in Affinity Designer

The written word is one of the most powerful communication tools to ignite a feeling or move someone to action, and when combined with visually stunning presentation the result is nothing short of spectacular. This is why we created an ENTIRE COURSE ON ARTISTIC TEXT, TYPOGRAPHY AND FONT CREATION  in Affinity Designer…to get you off and running with text that looks as good as your graphics, welcome to the master’s class.

We wrote the book on the most comprehensive Affinity Designer Course on the market today…and we have followed up the best seller with the first COMPLETE Course on the subject of text in Affinity Designer. We cover the concept of text from all angles, including:

·        How to create advertising centric text composition and let the text sell your story

·        How to create Graffiti and visual street art style images to evoke a reaction in the viewer

·        How to integrate images with photo to create moving stories that are visually pleasing

·        How to utilize the powerful tools in Designer to integrate with Font Forge and create your own font

We also covered the tried and true design principles common to ANY typography, so you get the design education as well as the technical know -how to get the job done. This course is taught from a  perspective of PROJECT and WORKFLOW, each section contains:

·        All the technical aspects you will need to master to get the projects completed

·        Challenge guided projects in each section that build on knowledge gained in other lessons

·        Field challenge to connect with the concepts actually out in the real world.

Included in the course you get:

·        40+ video lessons

·        All the project files for each lesson to follow along

·        Access to experienced instructors

·        Access to social media support groups dedicated to Affinity Designer

·        Lifetime Access to the course and ALL future updates and additions

·        7 different projects to jumpstart your creative portfolio

Why 7th Season Studios

With over 11,000 students, and a strong instructor ranking 7th Season Studios is the premier instructor in the Affinity space to get you from familiar to mastering text ….lets see what some of our other students have said about the courses 7th Seasons teaches for Affinity Designer:

“Great pace, Excellent Examples and Exercises, Clear voice. This course will get you up to speed to designing web art with Affinity. The course is definitely optimized for the student to develop many skills in a relatively brief period of time.”- Guillermo

“Very much enjoying the course so far. Explanations are clear, concise, and thorough. This is most helpful because I'm very much a newbie.”- Susan

“This is a packed course! Excellent. Ties in a bit of practical application of the tools in the real world. Instructor also gives excellent examples of when to use certain tools, effects, modes for which practical application: ie, bevel emboss used in icons often. I also loved the deconstruction exercises”- Julie


At the end of the course you will be able to

  • Feel confident in your knowledge of typography and text

  • Create complex vector art from start to finish

  • Utilize design principles to make the message match the medium

With so many students, high reviews and a desire to learn…..we look forward to seeing you on the inside and making your vision for creation a reality.

Content

Introduction to working with Text

Introduction
Opening a document and basic tools
Basics of Layers for text
Nesting Inside of a Text Layer
Adding Effects to Text
Make the font match the message

Working with layers in Artistic text

Introduction to Pixel Layers
Introduction to Mask Layers
Introduction to Adjustment Layers
Where to get free fonts and images

Introduction to typography working with words on paths

Introduction to the text panel
Terms in typography -3 step Process for spacing text
Making paths for text
Placing text on paths

Creating a graffiti project in Affinity Designer

Basics of the pen tool
Converting text into curves and setting up the lesson
Create 3-D text using expand stroke option
Adding accents part 1
Adding Highlights to the Graffiti project
Accents part 2
Adding soft spots and finishing the design

Typography and Font

Basics of Typography part 1
Setting up Affinity designer template for font creation in Font Forge
Creating a Font using Font Forge

Making a text composition

The Paragraph Panel De-mystified
Working with grids in Affinity Designer
Making a playbill with the paragraph panel
Adding contrast to complex font compositions
Creating a text style in Affinity Designer
Creating a composite text and image project

Advanced Artistic text composition technique

Basics of Blend modes in Affinity Designer
Basics of adjustment layers in Affinity Designer
Basics of selection in Affinity Designer
Spectre project- Setting up the composition
Spectre Project- Blend modes and adjusting the layers
Pixelating text and blending smoke in with the letters
Spectre project- Blending Smoke and Adding Adjustment Layers
Finishing and adjusting your composition

Integrating text with image -Bonus lectures and Projects

Cut away text
Closure and last thanks for a great course

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Reviews

Laura
August 14, 2022
Content is good but resolution on iPhone 13 is terrible… no zooming to show which box tutor is clicking so having to go back & watch 3 times to make sure I’m clicking the same box
Jens
May 9, 2022
Fantastic course! Tons of information and examples combined with a proper dose of exercises. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you Jeremy! Best regards Jens
Chris
April 12, 2022
I have purchased four classes on Affinity Designer ,two out of the four are with this instructor, because he knows how to guide students with ease. I really appreciate that he is detailed in all the right places and doesn't over explain which is great! I would say there are times, but not often, where he moves a bit fast in parts of lessons, this is easily fixed by pausing to get to where you need to be. I'll be purchasing more of his classes. Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are the programs I use often. Thanks Jeremy !
Sheila
April 12, 2022
Great teaching! I really enjoy how thorough the instructor is in his teaching. He explains everything very well. I am pleased that I purchased this course and would recommend it to anyone.
Fernando
February 20, 2022
The course was more than I expected. Very well explained & with lots of resources. Jeremy is very knowledgeable in this subject. Thanks.
Colleen
October 3, 2021
Great for learning or reviewing basics. Love that it’s a project based course and that lessons build upon each other.
Erik
August 14, 2021
Great course, very well explained. The instructor definitely knows what he is talking about which is why this is my second course with him.
Bijit
June 6, 2021
This was great. For a novice like with nothing but the software and little interest this course got me to do many things and I could learn so much while doing this course. I can come back and practice few things again.
Miranda
February 27, 2021
Really enjoyed it. Learnt a lot more than I thought I would. One thing I wanted to learn was where text overlap cutting one layer away but leaving a gap. I'll just have to work on that! THANK YOU :-)
Dee
January 24, 2021
I loved the course. It's definitely for beginners like me and although I'm a Mac user I still understood how to use shortcuts etc. You can easily just look up the equivalents online. The pace wasn't too fast or slow, but I definitely sometimes had a hard time when he was using control or alt and those keys don't work on mac.
Marilyn
November 7, 2020
The layering is explained in the most simple way as possible with illustration, that is very nice. Cool course
Ron
July 5, 2020
Jeremy Hazel presents another great course on Affinity Designer and how to use Fonts. I learned so many things about using Fonts. Anyone wishing to expand their AD expertise needs to take this course.
Scott
March 25, 2020
Too much review of basic Affinity Designer. Feels like the Affinity beginner course. Almost half way through and still reviewing character panel and pen tool. If you've seen the other Affinity Designer course, in the words of the instructor, "You've seen this show before!"
Diane
September 2, 2018
Love how he makes it so easy to understand. Just slow enough that you can follow along easily BUT, NOT TO SLOW. I have taken other courses but, Jeremy's courses are the best. I love that he explains everything right down to the smallest point. I have learned so much from this course and can't wait for the next course:) Thank you for being such a great teacher:)
Sonja
September 2, 2018
I enjoyed this course a lot. If you have done some other course on Affinity Designer, some parts of this will be a repetition for you, but even so, it's good to watch them because they are relatively fast and well explained. What I consider to be most useful from this course is nesting inside of a text layer (but I already knew this from previous courses), the three step process for spacing text (I knew some of this before, but this really forced me to think about it and apply it), converting text to curves and doing various stuff with it, the cut away text, and the character panel de-mystified. What could be added is containers where it would be possible to submit finished work, for example for the Spectre project. Or perhaps more 'field lessons'. I think this is a good way to stimulate creativity. The graffiti project was a bit too long and tiresome for my taste. Considering that this is a free course, it's really high-quality, so I am giving it 5 stars. Thank you for all of this, Jeremy.

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