Welcome to Affinity Designer for newbies

These classes were conducted using a previous version of Affinity Designer, and no additional content will be uploaded for that version. To learn the features of the latest version of Affinity Designer, we recommend subscribing to the Version 2 courses.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Affinity Designer for newbies, where I will be teaching you how to make magic.

    • Class 1: Learning Affinity's interface - pre recording

    • Class 1: Learning Affinity's interface - Live

    • Class 1: Learning Affinity's interface - Q & A

    • Class 2: Navigating, saving, exporting, and customizing in Affinity - pre recording

    • Class 2: Navigating, saving, exporting, and customizing in Affinity - Live

    • Class 2: Navigating, saving, exporting, and customizing in Affinity - Q & A

    • Class 3: Learning the Node Tool - pre recording

    • Class 3: Learning the Move Tool - pre recording

    • Class 3: Node vs Move Tool Q & A - grunge mini tutorial

    • Class 4: Layers 101 - pre recording

    • Class 4: Layers 101 - Live

    • Class 4: Layers 101 - Q & A

    • Class 5: Layer properties, child layers, blend modes, and color picker - pre recording

    • Class 5: Layer properties, child layers, blend modes, and color picker - live

    • Class 5: Layer properties, child layers, blend modes, and color picker - Q & A

    • Class 6: Gradients, swatches, stroke panel, and transparency tool - pre recording

    • Class 6: Gradients, swatches, stroke panel, and transparency tool - Live / Q & A

    • Class 7: Adjustment layers, layer effects, and layer styles - Live

    • Class 7 - Q & A part 1-Node mini tutorial

    • Class 7 - Q & A part 2 Random drawing

    • Class 7: Hulk mini tutorial

    • Class 8: Live and Q & A - there are no files for this class

    • Class 9: Artboards 101 - Live

    • Class 9: Artboards 101 Q & A

    • Class 10: Pen tool 101 Part 1 - pre recording

    • Class 10: Pen tool 101 part 2 - pre recording

    • Class 10: Pen Tool 101 - Q & A

    • Class 11: Shapes 101, Compound Shapes, and the Corner Tool - pre recording

    • Class 11: Shapes 101, Compound Shapes, and the Corner Tool - Q & A

    • Class 12: Text tool 101 part 1

    • Class 12: Text tool 101 part 2

    • Class 13: Vector Brushes 101, Brush Controllers, and Symmetrical Paths

    • Class 13: Q & A How to create a RIP design

    • Class 14: How to join curves, Vector Brush Panel , How to make a new Vector Brush

    • Class 15: Raster Brushes part 1

    • Class 15 part 2 & 3 : Making New Raster Brushes & Importing Brushes

    • Class 15: Q&A

    • Class 16: Pixel Persona - Texturing and Shading

    • Mini Tutorial: Seamless Pattern

    • Class 17: Pixel Mask, Marquee Selections, and Selection Brush

    • Class 18: How to make a sample selection, How to refine a selection, and how to use the Dodge, Burn, Smudge, Blur, and Sharpen Tool

    • Class 19 Export Persona

    • Class 20: Assets & Symbols

    • Class 20: Q & A -Mini Tutorial - How to create a banner

    • Class 21: Wire Framing

    • Class 22 View Modes and Constraints

    • Mini Tutorial: Junky Swatches

    • Mini Tutorial: Styles and Typography

    • Mini Tutorial: Mock up mini tutorial

    • Mini Tutorial: How to create sparkles/stars

    • Stress for Sunday - The perks of the Assets Panel

    • Mini Tutorial: How to design a Memorial Ribbon

    • Stress Free Sunday: Fonts with multiple outlines

    • How to curve and warp text using Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo

    • Textures and Affinity Designer

    • Mini Tutorial: Airbrush effect on text

    • Affinity Designer: How to create Stacked Retro font

    • How to split repeating text in AD

    • How to create a screensaver

    • Affinity Designer: How to recolor an SVG

    • AD: How to create a flyer design

    • Affinity Designer: How to create cubed text

    • Affinity Designer Mini Tutorial: How to get the most out of "Art boards" when designing