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Design Design Tools Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Affinity Designer

You can start using Affinity Designer 1.9 today to design beautiful and professional graphics!
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (3,750 ratings)
40,567 students
Created by Jeremy Hazel, Video School
Last updated 2/2021
English
English [Auto], French [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to use Affinity Designer to design your own professional graphics
  • Quickly understand the interface and how to navigate Affinity Designer
  • Use all of the important tools including the Pen Tool, Pencil Tool, Brushes, and more
  • You will have fun learning with real world projects perfect for social media
  • Create advanced shapes with fills and gradients to look amazing
  • Save and export your Affinity Designer projects for any purpose
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • You should have Affinity Designer installed on your PC or Mac
  • You DO NOT NEED any experience designing graphics or using Affinity Designer to take this course

Description

Welcome to the MOST COMPREHENSIVE Affinity Designer course on Udemy, including the 1.9 update!

With this course, you will learn everything you need to feel confident designing graphics in Affinity Designer.

You're here because you want an inexpensive, yet powerful and professional, alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Affinity Designer is perfect for you. 

And this course will help you get started!

What Will You Learn?

  • Dive right in and learn how the Affinity Designer interface works.

  • Create new documents for print and web.

  • Add and adjust shapes exactly how you imagine them.

  • Design advanced shapes with reflections, expressions, and operations.

  • Understand the power of color in your designs and how to use it properly.

  • Draw lines with the Pen tool and Brush tool

  • Add and edit text with the Character and Paragraph panels

  • Design professional logos

  • Use masking and shading

  • Export and save your projects for any use

Learn By Doing

Throughout this course, you'll be working on real-world projects such as social media graphics so that you can see your new skills in action!

About Your Instructor

Jeremy Hazel is a professional graphic artist, who loves sharing his knowledge with students like you. Jeremy is dedicated to making this the best Affinity Designer course on the market, so that you can easily start using this amazing application.

If you ever have a problem, Jeremy will be there to help you out!

About Affinity Designer

Winner of the Best App of the Year, Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available! 

It's perfect for illustrations of any kind!

100% 30-day Money Back Guarantee

Enroll now with now risk. If you're not enjoying the course, Udemy will gladly refund your purchase with no questions asked.

See you inside the course!

Who this course is for:

  • Graphic designers who want an alternative to Photoshop
  • Affinity Photo users looking to take their graphics to the next level
  • Anyone looking for an inexpensive and powerful design tool

Featured review

Heidi Bada
Heidi Bada
452 courses
93 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 57 months ago
This course covers a lot of instruction. I had the luxury of prior experience with CorelDraw, and this course was useful to learn new concepts and best practices, and re-learn basic vector drawing principles too. It's handy for reference as well, with short lessons on discrete topics. I constantly come back to the lessons to ensure I've got the terminology and techniques down.

Course content

10 sections • 120 lectures • 11h 53m total length

  • Preview01:53
  • Additional resources to help in your learning
    00:14
  • Downloadable files for Section 1
    00:03
  • Preview04:28
  • Preview05:01
  • Tips to Improve Your Course Taking Experience
    01:06
  • Basics of the interface
    04:16
  • UPDATE: 1.9 Custom studio spaces
    02:46
  • Basics of Layers in Affinity Designer
    07:31
  • Creating a simley face in Affinity Designer- Step 1
    07:01
  • Adding highlights to the project
    05:22
  • Adding a pixel layer to shade the image
    04:45
  • Creating the mouth and detailing
    07:23
  • Exporting and placing an image
    03:31

  • Section 2 downloadable files
    00:03
  • Applying Fill and Stroke to shapes
    05:35
  • 1.7 Update Apply multiple strokes to offset a path
    03:46
  • UPDATE: 1.9 Contour
    05:18
  • Filling a shape with the gradient tool
    07:10
  • Adding transparency to a shape with the transparency tool
    05:03
  • Introduction to challenges
    01:05
  • Challenge- Creating a 3 sphere image using transparency
    07:13
  • Adjusting the size, and rotation of shapes
    05:51
  • Power duplication and expressions
    06:52
  • Aligning and distributing shapes in AD
    05:46
  • Snapping - What is it and how to use it
    04:48
  • Creating complex shapes using Operations
    08:47
  • Southwest turtle challenge
    10:19
  • Using the symbols panel with shapes
    04:05
  • Grids
    07:59
  • Making a template for a seamless pattern 4x4
    03:43
  • Making a seamless Plaid pattern
    09:50

  • Rocket ship files for section 1 of the project
    00:04
  • Setting up the composition
    06:52
  • Making the rocket ship
    07:20
  • Detailing the rocket ship
    10:28
  • Underpainting the galaxy
    06:23

  • Downloads for the entire section on Vector line art
    00:04
  • Introduction to nodes part 1
    06:25
  • Introduction to nodes part 2
    06:10
  • Introduction to nodes part 3
    06:45
  • 1.7 Update- Sculpt function and the pencil tool
    04:01
  • Line weight and art
    05:40
  • Making a pinstripe design using the pencil tool and profile of a line
    09:01
  • Basis of the Pen tool
    07:43
  • Basics of pen tool application
    07:25
  • 1.7 Update Node transformation
    03:55
  • Basics of vector brushes and brush management
    09:28
  • Basics of Image brushes and intensity brushes in vector
    06:36
  • How to make an image brush
    06:18
  • Create an intensity brush
    08:58

  • Download files for this section
    00:02
  • Basics of color -terms and visualization
    05:04
  • Color schemes and free resources for color
    07:15
  • Color pallete management
    05:04
  • The color picker tool
    05:06
  • UPDATE: 1.9 Select same option
    04:41
  • Mask layers
    05:59
  • 3 masking techniques you already know
    04:55
  • Blend modes - What are they
    06:59
  • Balloon Project Background
    06:38
  • Building the basic Balloon
    08:38
  • Finishing the balloon
    07:29
  • Adjustment layers
    08:45
  • Preview07:24
  • Creating the neon effect
    08:02
  • Applying the neon glow part 2
    06:25
  • Adding background and glow
    02:31
  • Aligning the background and the foreground
    04:02
  • 1.7 update HSL adjustment layers
    04:01
  • Effects
    08:58
  • Styles
    05:26

  • Downloadable resources for the pixel persona section
    00:02
  • Introduction to the Pixel Persona Interface
    04:04
  • Basics of selection volume 1- The selection brush
    05:35
  • Basics of selection volume 2 - marque and menu selection
    07:05
  • Basics of selection 3 - Lasso selection
    04:46
  • Pixel Persona Selection Challenge - Photo adjustment
    05:29
  • Pixel brushes - Basics and import/ export
    04:16
  • Adjusting Pixel Brushes
    04:53
  • Pixel brushes Creating a pixel brush - Basic round brush- making a Bokeh brush
    06:57
  • Creating and intensity brush-Making a fog brush
    08:12
  • 1.7 Update- Sub brushes in vector
    07:06
  • UPDATE: 1.9 Brushes
    03:29
  • Smudging blurring sharpening dodging and burning
    07:04
  • 1.7 Update symmetry in Affinity Designer Pixel persona
    04:46
  • Making your flame brush
    11:33
  • Making your smoke brush
    07:51
  • Setting up the project
    07:43
  • Making the flame
    07:03
  • Crafting the smoke
    06:39
  • Setting up the backlighting
    09:13

  • Downloadable files for this section
    00:02
  • Rasterizing and Selection of an image using the selection brush
    08:59
  • Adding adjustment and recolor layers to the Image
    07:39
  • Dodging and Burning - Both destructive and nondestructive
    06:52
  • Dodge and Burn using curves adjustment layers
    05:58
  • Rasterizing and Smudgning
    09:56
  • Sharpening and Blurring
    07:57
  • Adding a vignette and smoke
    06:30

  • Resource files for this section of the course- finishing the rocket
    00:03
  • Crafting the Planets
    12:38
  • Finishing the earth and stars
    10:33
  • Making the blaster
    07:09
  • Detailing the rocket ship
    11:46
  • Finishing and saving the file
    11:20

  • Downloadables for this section
    00:02
  • Rulers Guides and Artboards
    07:21
  • The artistic text tool
    06:48
  • The text frame tool
    05:39
  • Making paths for text
    04:49
  • Placing text on a path
    08:39
  • Text Challenge 4 Applying text to path
    07:13
  • Making a Holiday card
    08:57
  • Making a holiday card -Finished
    08:06
  • UPDATE: 1.9 Sharing your work
    07:19
  • What is exporting and various formats
    06:48
  • The export persona
    07:43

  • Outro and thanks for taking the journey
    00:55
  • Bonus Lecture: Learn More from Phil + Video School
    00:29

Instructors

Jeremy Hazel
Professional artist and career creative
Jeremy Hazel
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 9,843 Reviews
  • 83,203 Students
  • 14 Courses

With over 20 years tattooing , and almost 40 of being a creative I have been into art since I got something I can draw with in my hand. Starting out in more traditional mediums I cut my teeth in pencil, charcoal, and acrylic painting until discovering tattooing. This began a love affair with art and lead me to open 7th seasons studios. Nothing inspires a higher level of perfection than knowing the client will walk around with my art for the rest of their lives. 

After completing a masters in business and having to manage the marketing of a successful shop I quickly realized that the future of art is digital and I began making my own show banners and managing my own website. This sealed the deal and digital art has replaced the traditional pen an ink for me. 

Furthermore the industry has changed to such a degree that more and more clients and artists are demanding digital skills i the design and application of art, and so I saw a significantly under served market in people with existing talent, but lacking digital 

As a career teacher the most rewarding portion of what i do is seeing someone learn what they previously thought what out of reach and gain a confidence through the learning process....I identify with that because i m a firm believer in the beginner mindset and the idea of a life long learner. To me, art is as essential as breathing and I cannot even narrow down all the ways I express myself through various mediums, that is one of the best competitive advantages I feel we have at 7th season.....we are constantly curious. 

I believe every person has within them a desire to create something out of life....and many times they lack the skills to realize this. 7th season studios is about taking this need and in reality changing "I wish"....to "I am glad I did". Teaching allows us to do that, sometimes it is teaching engineering, sometimes writing, and sometimes digital art and film production 

We primarily work with small businesses and solo entrepreneurs with no staff and no budget showing them how to make the most of their valuable time to deliver their vision for their business to the clients they serve...this is why our training catalog has such a wide variety of offerings in terms of platforms and skills......because these are the skills we wish we had when we started 7th season. 

Feel free to email me with questions or comments...or even if you get stuck 

jhazel0705@gmail.com

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