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In this course, you will learn:
- How to work with workspaces in Affinity Designer, called personas; use the drawing tools, and create custom brushes.
- This course is designed to help artists feel more confident and become more proficient in using Affinity Designer in their own work.
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started
- Overview of the Interface
- Understanding the persona workspaces
- Creating a new document
- Setting up your document
- Embedding a document
- Saving and project organization
2. Understanding Preferences and Guides
- Exploring the general Preference settings
- Setting up margins
- Setting up guides
- Setting up grids
- Snapping
- Force Pixel Alignment
3. Drawing Vectors Lines and Shapes
- Defining nodes, lines, and shapes
- Using the Pen tool
- Manipulating and editing nodes
- Using the Corner tool
- Using special vector shapes
- Creating compound shapes
- Creating and editing text
4. Manipulating and Managing Objects: Draw Persona
- Scaling, shearing, and rotating objects
- Using the Transform palette
- Using layers and groups for object management
- Using artboards
5. Understanding Panels
- Creating and managing Vector Brushes
- Managing Pixel Brushes
- Managing the Stroke panel
- Exploring the Color panel
- Exploring the Swatch panel
- Using the History and Navigator panel
- Taking and managing Snapshots
- Creating gradients
- Creating layer effects and adjustment layers
- Using the Paragraph and Characters panel
- Saving text styles
- Creating symbols
- Creating assets
6. Selection Methods
- Creating basic pixel selections
- Selecting by color range
- Selecting by sampling pixel color
- Modifying pixel selections
- Refine pixel selection
- Understanding layer masks
7. Importing and Exporting Your Files
- Exporting your work with the File Export command
- Export persona explained
- Exporting PSD file
