Affinity Designer Tutorial - Basics

You can expect a video tutorial on the basics of "Affinity Designer".

In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz explains what kind of program Affinity Designer is and how it differs from Affinity Photo, for example.

Before working with Affinity Designer, trainer Marco Kolditz recommends important and useful presets in this video that make working with the program more comfortable.

Get to know the Affinity Designer user interface in this video and let trainer Marco Kolditz explain how you can customize the user interface to suit your individual needs.

Affinity Designer offers different workspaces for different purposes. Watch this video to learn about the exact differences between the individual "personas" in Affinity Designer.

Affinity Designer is particularly suitable for creating and designing documents such as flyers, business cards, posters and more. It is therefore important to know how to create a new working document with the correct dimensions and units. In this video, you will learn how to set up a new document.

To be able to work with an existing document or place images within a document, you should of course know how to open and import different files in different file formats in Affinity Designer.

Artboards make it easier to work with multiple documents within one document in Affinity Designer. Watch this video to learn how to set up artboards and customize them according to your needs.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains how grids and guides support you in your work in Affinity Designer and how to set them up in a meaningful and targeted way.

If you are designing a complex document with Affinity Designer, it is important to know how to navigate quickly and efficiently through an open document. In this video, trainer Marco Kolditz reveals a few tricks to help you find your way around documents quickly.

After successfully setting up or completing a document, it is of course advisable to save the document or export it to various file formats. In this video, you will learn how to save documents in different ways in Affinity Designer.

Affinity Designer allows you to work with different color formats. In this video you will learn the difference between the popular color formats RGB and CMYK and in which cases you can use the respective color format most effectively.

Working with colors in Affinity Designer is essential for designing illustrations, shapes and documents in general. In this video you will learn how to mix, select and save colors and import saved color palettes.

Affinity Designer allows you to work with surfaces, contours and gradients and customize them according to your needs. In this video you will learn how to use areas, contours and gradients in Affinity Designer.

As in Affinity Photo, working with layers in Affinity Designer is fundamentally important and the basis for organized and structured work. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains exactly what these "layers" are.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains how to create different types of layers in Affinity Designer, use them sensibly, name them and structure them properly.

Layers can not only be moved and thus changed in their order, but also mixed together. Watch this video to find out what "layer blending modes" are and how to use them effectively.

You can use layer masks to hide unwanted areas of a layer and show desired parts. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains various ways of working with masks in Affinity Designer.

Layer effects allow you to apply different effects to the layers you have created. Watch this video to find out which effects are available in Affinity Designer and how to use them effectively.

Contrary to its name, the Move tool is not only suitable for moving objects in Affinity Designer. Learn from video trainer Marco Kolditz what other functions this helpful tool offers.

You can use the artboard tool to create additional documents or so-called "artboards" within an open document. In this video, you will learn how to create and work with artboards using this tool.

Affinity Designer is a program that is particularly suitable for working with vector-based objects and paths. You can use the pen tool and the node tool to create paths. Learn how to use these tools in this video.

The corner tool is a very useful and powerful tool in Affinity Designer for adjusting and rounding the corners of vector-based objects. Learn how to use this tool in this video.

Use the pencil tool and the vector brush to create freehand paths in Affinity Designer. In this video, you will learn how to use these two tools.

Objects can be filled with colors, gradients and images in different ways in Affinity Designer. Watch this video to learn how to use the fill and transparency tools to edit object fills and outlines.

Individual layers can be cropped not only with the help of layer masks - this can also be done intuitively, quickly and precisely with the vector cropping tool. In this video, you will learn how to use this tool.

Affinity Designer offers a variety of ready-made shape tools that allow you to quickly create vector objects such as rectangles, circles, stars, speech bubbles, hearts and diagrams. Get to know some of these shapes and their special functions in this video.

Affinity Designer offers very powerful tools for placing text - be it individual words or extensive continuous text within a frame text. Learn how to use the graphic text and frame text tools in this video.

The "Tone correction" adjustment layer can be used to adjust an image or entire document in a targeted and convincing way. Learn how to use this adjustment layer in this video.

The "HSL" and "Luminosity" adjustment layers can be used to intuitively adjust the saturation of photos or vector-based objects. Learn how to use these two adjustment layers in this video.

Using the two adjustment layers "Recolor" and "Lens filter", the color impression of photos or vector-based objects can be changed very quickly. This allows you to play creatively with different color effects in Affinity Designer. Get to know the two adjustment layers in this video.

A black and white adjustment layer can be used to convert colored photos or objects into black and white variants. This adjustment layer allows a targeted and completely individual black and white conversion using various sliders.

Sometimes embedded images in documents appear too dark or too light, sometimes details in the shadows and highlights are no longer easily recognizable - learn in this video how to bring out details from too dark or too light areas of photos in the best possible way.

Similar to tonal value correction, the contrast of photos or vector-based objects can be influenced using gradation curves. However, the gradation curve adjustment layer offers the option of proceeding in a more targeted and careful manner and even fundamentally changing the color impression of layers.

With the help of a gradient conversion adjustment layer, an image can be colored specifically and individually with selected colors. Learn how to use a gradient conversion in this video.

With the help of selective color correction, you can selectively influence the colors of a document or an embedded photo and thus achieve different color impressions.

With the help of a color balance adjustment layer, you can selectively color shadow, mid-tone and highlight areas of photos or entire documents and thus create new color looks.

With the help of various selection tools in Affinity Designer, you can select specific areas of a pixel-based layer and manipulate these areas or, for example, lift them onto a separate layer. Get to know the selection tools available via the pixel persona in this video.

Use the Pixel tool in Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona to create pixel-based graphics - pixel by pixel. In this video, you will learn how to prepare a document for working with the pixel tool and how to use this tool.

Use the pixel-based paint brush tool to paint on pixel layers with different brushes available in Affinity Designer. Learn how to use the Pixel Persona paint brush in this video.

Sometimes the highlights and shadows of a photo embedded in an Affinity Designer document are not too contrasty or vivid. You can use the Pixel Persona's dodge and re-expose tool to brighten highlights or darken shadows in a photo, making it look much more vivid.

The blur tool in Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona allows you to "blur" or "smudge" pixels in a photo. In this way, you can achieve a painterly look so that an image appears "as if painted". Learn how to use this tool in this video.

After you have created a document in Affinity Designer and embellished it with numerous photos, you may notice that some images appear too blurred in important areas. You can use the Sharpen tool in Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona to sharpen specific areas of a photo and the Blur tool to blur them.

In this video, the new features of Affinity Designer 2.0 are presented. Among others:

1. shape designer

2. duplicate effects multiple times

3. knife tool

4. non-destructive deformation tool

5. file => new with preview of all possible formats

6. draw multiple frames

7. style pipette