Affinity Publisher - The Complete Course for Beginners

Explore the Affinity Publisher interface by navigating the five main areas—the canvas, top toolbar, left panel, context toolbar, and studio—and customize panels, margins, and table of contents for efficient design.

Learn how to import and crop images in Affinity Publisher by placing images from file, resizing to fit pages, and cropping to the document layout of a simple university booklet.

Design a cover page with artistic text for titles, adjust size and font via the context toolbar, and center a subtitle like 'Skills for the Future' for clean layout.

Change the cover color with the color panel, switch main color and stroke, and use the color picker to apply palettes across shapes.

Access the character panel on the right to adjust font size, color, kerning, tracking, baseline, and horizontal and vertical scale, honing typography in Affinity Publisher.

Master the paragraph panel to align text, apply styles, and format bullets, drop caps, and spacing. Adjust indentation, left margins, justification, decorations, and fill color to customize paragraphs.

Learn how to wrap text around images in Affinity Publisher by placing images, choosing wrap options (none, jump, square, tight), and refining with edit wrap options and alignment.

Explore the effects panel to finalize the university booklet back cover, applying blur, outer/inner shadows, gradients, and background color, then refine typography and layout using layers and image placement.

Add page numbers to a document by editing master pages, inserting fields, and placing numbers on both sides. Use sections to vary numbering style, restart or continue numbering.

Discover practical shortcuts to speed up Affinity Publisher work, including V for move, I for color picker, undo actions, and using the history panel for quick recalls.

Explore free stock photos via Affinity Publisher's stock panel, drag and drop and crop them to fit your pages, then browse, install, and use commercial-use fonts to enhance your design.

Explore intermediate to advanced features in Affinity Publisher by applying techniques to an existing document, using your own project as a reference and practice file.

Learn to index text in Affinity Publisher in three simple steps: locate text, insert index marks, and view or update the index panel to generate an index page.

Master advanced find and replace in Affinity Publisher, using exact matches, whole-word options, and case awareness to ensure consistent design and clean paragraph breaks across the document.

Select fonts that fit your document's theme and era to evoke the desired feeling. Use fonts in use to explore options, install fonts, and tailor typography for the document's consumers.

Master kerning and tracking in Affinity Publisher to fine tune the space between letters and words. Explore how spacing choices affect logos, print quality, and overall design impact.

Explore how to control text positioning in Affinity Publisher using baseline, leading, shear, kerning, tracking, and horizontal and vertical scales. Apply these techniques for readable, visually appealing text.

Learn how the photo persona in Affinity enhances editing by selecting and refining areas. Use the color replacement brush and sample continuously to change a top color for better contrast.