The Beginner's Ultimate Guide to Affinity Designer

How To Quickly Get Started with Affinity Designer: all tools and techniques explained in one place!

4.15 (227 reviews)
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Jun 2020
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What you will learn

Quickly use Affinity Designer independently and create various designs with it

I will learn how to use the interface

I will learn how to get started with Affinity Designer

I will learn how to use artboards

I will learn how to use guides, grid and snapping

I will learn how to draw shapes in Affinity Designer

I will learn how to customize my artwork

I will learn how to work with text in Affinity Designer

I will learn how to use the layers

I will learn how to export the documents

Description

"This course made me realize the power of Affinity Design. I am understanding the various tools and methods of creating any design that I visualize in my mind. I would recommend this video course to any who really wish to gain knowledge in Design in a very short time."

Charles Margrave

"This is a good methodical look at Affinity Designer along with an bit of information about use cases. The content is exactly what I was looking for in the course."

Ben Holtzman

A TRUE alternative to Adobe’s overpriced software has finally come.

Meet Affnity Designer – a piece of vector graphic design software that will allow you to easily create awesome designs without ruining your bank account.   

So if you’ve been looking for a cheaper and yet super powerful alternative to Adobe’s products, now you’ve found it.   

This course is all about you learning how to use Affinity Designer.   

It’s a beginner’s comprehensive guide that will allow you to independently use all the tools and effects to create any design you wish.   

Inside you will find   

  • 50+ lectures in 14 sections   

  • Clear and concise explanations with lots of visual aids for easy understanding   

  • Tons of supporting material (design files and presentations) so you can practice as you learn   

Let me take you take you step-by-step through all the tools, effects and techniques that come with the software.   

This course is not for advanced Affinity Designer users, but if you are a total beginner you will love the course content.   

Here’s a comprehensive list of goodies you will find inside:   

  • If you want to create glamorous designs, you need to have something to create them in. You need Documents that you can create fast and easy and you need to know how to manage them. That’s Section 3.   

  • What’s a design if it doesn’t have… shapes? Affinity Designer makes creating objects fun and easy. That’s why Section 6 is so… fun.

  • You don’t only want to create artwork, do you? You also want to easily customize it, so it looks perfect. That is why customizing and transforming your artwork is covered not in one, but in TWO sections: 7 and 8.   

  • Once your nifty design is ready, you probably want to put in front of all your friends’ faces, right? In section 12 you will learn how to save and share your work with the world of internet.

  • In the bonus section you will learn how to use the pixel tools in Affinity Designer, should you wish to quickly tweak your photos, too.

  • I assume that you are a total beginner so in the first section you will learn what Affinity Designer is and what its core features are, including a unique concept of 3 different tool sets called Personas.

  • Looking at any piece of software that you are unfamiliar with can cause headaches. That’s why Section 2 is all about painless learning how to use Designer’s interface.

  • Are you thinking about becoming a web designer? Then you need to know how to create and use artboards, so your workflow is fast and professional. Have a look at Section 4.

  • If pixel perfect designs are all you are dreaming of, jump right into Section 5.

  • Almost each and every of your designs is going to use some form of text. If you want to quickly learn how to add and transform type in Affinity Designer, have a look at Section 9.

  • The software comes with powerful panels. The most important of them is the Layers panel. You will learn all about panels and layers in sections 10 and 11.

Now you can create stunning logos, web layouts, mobile app designs for a fraction of a price that Adobe is asking for their products… MONTHLY!

Because the best part about Afffinity Designer is that there is   

…NO subscription...   

You pay for it ONCE and it’s yours to keep!   

Say good-bye to forking out hundreds of dollars for software every year even if you are just a hobbyist, a student or a freelancer just starting out your design adventure.   

And yes, as always, you are completely covered by a   

100% 30-day money back guarantee.    

If after 30 days you won’t be convinced that you can use the software independently, simply ask for a refund and you will receive it promptly.   

No one will ask a single question about your reasons.   

It's your call now.

Click the Enroll button and...

Enroll now!
Dawid

PS One more thing.   

As a SPECIAL BONUS, you will get a How to get started with Affinity Designer e-book for FREE (worth $29.97).   

It’s almost 200 pages, with more than 200 images to compliment your learning process, if you are not in the mood for watching videos or you prefer the old school type of learning.   

PPS You will also receive a comprehensive list of ALL the shortcuts used in Affinity Designer.   

A true professional knows how to use shortcuts to make his or her workflow super speedy.   

Content

Introduction

Hello and welcome to the course
What is Affinity Designer?
What are the core features of the software?
What are Personas and how to use them

What you see is what you work with

First look at the interface
How to work with the Toolbar
How to customize the Toolbar
How to work with the Tools panel
How to customize the Tools panel
How to work with the interface

How to get started with Affinity Designer

How to create new documents
How to manage already created documents
How to view your documents
Zooming, panning and using the Navigator panel
How to use the Zoom tool

How to use the artboards

What are artboards?
How to add and remove artboards
How to manage your artboards
How to export your artboards
Adding artboards

How to use guides, grid and snapping

How to use guides
How to use Dynamic Guides
Working with the grid
How to use snapping
Snapping quiz

How to draw shapes in Affinity Designer

The Rectangle and the Ellipse tools
It’s more than just rectangles and circles
How to use the custom shapes tools
How to use the Pen tool
How to use the Pencil tool
How to use the Vector and Pixel Brush tools
How to work with gradients using the Fill tool
How to use symbols
How to use the drawing modes to simulate masking
Creating custom shapes

How to customize your artwork

How to use the Corner tool
How to use the Node tool
How to use the Transparency tool
How to use the Vector Crop tool
Vector crop tool

How to transform your artwork

Selecting and grouping objects
How to align and distribute objects
How to create complex shapes from simple objects
How to rotate, reflect and shear objects

How to work with text in Affinity Designer

Basics of working with text in Affinity Designer
How to use the Character and Paragraph panels
Creating and managing text styles
How to create text on a path

How to use the panels

What’s a Studio and how to use the panels
How to use the Stroke panel
How to use the Swatches panel
How to use the Effects panel
How to use the Studio

How to work with layers

A brief introduction to layers in Affinity Designer
How to create, manage and edit layers
How to use layer adjustments and effects
Layer clipping and masking

How to save, share, print and export your artwork

Saving and printing your artwork
Sharing by exporting
Using the Export Persona

Summary: Where to go from here

Thank you for watching

BONUS How to use Pixel tools in Affinity Designer

Creating pixel selections
How to use the marquee selection tools
How to use the Dodge and Burn tools

BONUS 2: Affinity Designer Updates

What's new in Afinity Designer 1.6
Designer 1.7 is coming soon!

Complimentary e-books

How to get started with Affinity Designer
A Complete Affinity Designer Shortcut Directory
BONUS lecture

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Reviews

Patricia
February 26, 2022
Very good training; moves along quickly. But it seems to assume I already know how to use a software program like this.
Ian
December 27, 2021
for a beginners course it starts with a lot of language used by design programs which I feel true beginners cannot associate with.
Teresa
January 19, 2021
I'm learning so much! The program is much simpler to grasp than I'd imagined and you are a great instructor!
Bhaskar
October 22, 2017
Till this point in the course it was quite easy to follow along and comprehend the provided information, while looking at the software in real time.
Brad
September 22, 2017
Dawid is great and explains things very clearly. I have learned so much, even in the course intro. It has been a great experience overall going through Dawids lectures, thank you!
BD
September 20, 2017
Appears to be professionally presented and well thought out. I was familiar with a much simpler previous version of the program. Affinity is so much more versatile and useful. This training helped me become familiar with its many features.
Justin
September 16, 2017
Seriously great course to get you up and running with Affinity Designer. It covers pretty much anything you might need to do with the software. It's full of little tips and tricks that really make a difference in the speed you can create designs with. Marked down 1/2 star because the audio quality varies from video to video.
Cindy
September 15, 2017
I love learning all the Affinity Designer tools and that we can go back and watch this over and over when needed! Great job on this course!!!
Chris
September 2, 2017
This course is very clear and easy to follow. the author also shares a lot of knowledge, techniques and tips. I really will recommend this course to others. Review update at the finish of this course. I regret very much I am done with this course. I learned so many new techniques and tools. I also realise how powerful how powerful Affinity Designer is. Before taking this course, I reverted back to serif DrawPlus X8 when it became difficult and DrawPlus looked so much easier. However, now I know how to use Affinty Designer, I will never go back to DrawPlus again. This is an excellent course, with a lot of room for your own imagination and experimentation. I have a suggestion for the author. Make those images like the Isle available to your students (as jpeg or png). In this way they can as an exercise place them on a background layer and draw them on other layers. Because they will not see how the original is drawn, they have to think about the tools which works best to draw the drawing. By the way I took a screencapture of the Isle and started to draw it myself. Great course, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. Chris
Steven
August 25, 2017
Not being familiar with the content/terminology, I would have rather you dumb the intro down so I could understand what you were talking about, or better yet that you save a lot of this for when you are showing the actual program menus, functions and icons. But I still enjoy your course.
Ben
July 16, 2017
This is a good methodical look at Affinity Designer along with an bit of information about use cases. The content is exactly what I was looking for in the course.
Dave
July 5, 2017
This is my second affinity course. This one is better. Well done. Covers all the basics. Instructor answered my questions promptly. Maybe some more demos would be nice........ but Im very happy with the course. I really should watch it twice to pick up a few things I missed.
Charles
June 27, 2017
This course made me realize the power of Affinity Design. I am understanding the various tools and methods of creating any design that I visualize in my mind. I would recommend this video course to any who really wish to gain knowledge in Design in a very short time.
Henk
June 9, 2017
Very comprehensive lessons for a beginner like me. The videos are well designed and pleasant to watch. The audio varies in volume per video which is a little bit annoying.
Thomas
May 29, 2017
Excellent, excellent beginners. Affinity Designer is pretty awesome. Using it is more fun than using Ai. I've done a couple of other tutorials on AD before but Dawid really does a great job of explaining the tool set much better than other courses. I really learned a number of new things as a beginner with that tool that other tutorials simply did not explain well or at all. I highly recommend this course. I would recommend improving the audio experience as the audio levels weren't even from video to video. Also, it would have been nice to have had some of the demonstration files as well. Yet, this is a five start beginner course for learning AD. I hope Dawid does other design classes for AD as he has with Ai. Thanks Dawid.

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