
Learn to create seamless patterns in Affinity Designer, starting with a simple heart pattern, then endless lines, more complex designs, and isometric guide-based patterns, using shapes as pattern elements.
Learn to create seamless patterns in Affinity Designer by building a 500x500 workspace, enabling pixel alignment and snapping, drawing shapes, duplicating, and aligning elements for seamless repetition.
Learn how to save and export a seamless pattern, adjust its size and quality to reduce file size, and edit embedded pattern elements so changes update in the main file.
Fill a circle with a pattern in Affinity Designer by choosing a bitmap fill, selecting a pattern file, and using handles to scale, rotate, and vary the pattern.
Design seamless patterns in Affinity Designer by placing flowers at document borders, using precise x and y coordinates, duplicating and rotating elements, and layering to create a print-ready background.
Copy the corner element to the right by 500 pixels and duplicate downward to build a seamless pattern, then align and test the corner placements in Affinity Designer.
Learn to create a seamless neverending lines pattern in Affinity Designer using vector brushes, the multi-tool, and precise copy-paste transforms to align, join curves, refine points, and build a background.
Crop a section of a pattern in Affinity Designer to create a raster tile, export at 2000 by 2000 pixels, and test the seamless repeat with pixel preview.
Turn shapes into symbols in Affinity Designer to create seamless patterns, copy them across, and edit inside a symbol to update all copies.
Discover how to draw intricate shapes with symbols in Affinity Designer and reuse them to create seamless patterns through copying, rotating, flipping, and editing color and gradients.
Learn the basic concepts, tools used and new ideas to make your own beautiful patterns in Affinity Designer.
Powerful tool
Affinity Designer is a very powerful vector graphics tool which can easily replace Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw in many daily tasks. Affinity Designer is also much cheaper, so it is worth having. But you must also know how to use it. Making seamless patterns is just one of many useful techniques you should have at your fingertips.
What will you learn from this course?
In this course you will learn the principles of making seamless patterns. You will see how to make a simple pattern in seconds using basic tools in Affinity Designer. You will also learn more advanced topics:
In the meantime I will show you some keyboard tips and tricks which make working in Affinity Designer easier and faster.
Content and Overview
This course is suitable for everyone interested in making vector graphics. It consists of 11 lectures and almost 60 minutes of content. Everything is carefully explained and shown, harder parts are repeated in different lessons to help you remember and understand the techniques presented.
The course is free for 10 first viewers, with special code "FREESTART". Enjoy!