Up and Running with Affinity Designer: A practical, easy-to-follow guide to getting up to speed with Affinity Designer

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Getting Familiar with Affinity Designer's Interface and Layout
Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Affinity Designer's Interface
	Technical requirements
	What is Affinity Designer?
	Understanding the user interface and its menus
		The menu bar
		The Persona toolbar
		Toolbar
		The context toolbar
		The Tools panel
		The document view
		The Right Studio
	An overview of the menu bar
		The Affinity Designer menu
		The File menu
		The Edit menu
		The Text menu
		The Layer menu
		The Select menu
		The View menu
		The Window menu
		The Help menu
	Main tools – Tools panel overview
	Toolbars – overview
		The Persona toolbar
		The Toolbar
		The Context Toolbar
	Studio panels – overview
	The document view and artboards – overview
		Toggle UI
		New View
		Window modes
	Navigation tools – overview
		Panning
		Zooming
		Rotating
	Summary
Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with the Three Personas of Affinity Designer
	Vector and Raster –  the power behind the Personas
		Separate but equal
	Designer Persona – embracing the control and precision of a powerful vector workflow
		Designer Persona workflow
	Pixel Persona – expanding your creative options with a built-in raster studio
		Pixel Persona workflow
	Export Persona – a dedicated exporting environment
		Normal exporting
		Export Persona workflow
	Summary
Chapter 3: How to Customize Your Affinity Designer Workspace
	Affinity Designer preferences
		The Preferences panel – at a glance
		General preferences
		Color preferences
		Performance preferences
		User Interface preferences
		Tools preferences
		Miscellaneous preferences
	Keyboard shortcuts – a closer look
	Workspace customization – Studio panels
	Workspace customization – the Tools panel and toolbar
		The Tools panel
		The toolbar
	The Clip to Canvas feature
	Summary
Section 2: Deeper Exploration of Affinity Designer's Documents, Tools, and Workflow
Chapter 4: Document Setup and Modification
	Technical requirement
	Registering Affinity Designer and the welcome panel
	New document setup and editing your current document setup
		The New Document dialog
	Using Artboards
		Working with Artboards
	Summary
Chapter 5: Main Studio Panels and Managers
	Panel behavior
		Resizing and hiding Studio panels
	The Color panels
		The Color panel
		The Swatches panel
		The Stroke panel
	The Effects panel
	The Styles panel
	The Brushes panel – Designer and Pixel Personas
	The Type panels – Character, Paragraph Typography, and Text Styles
	Manager panels – Guides, Grids, Snapping, and Resources
		Guides manager
		Grids Manager
		The Snapping manager
		Resource Manager
	Summary
Chapter 6: Tools – Designer Persona
	Designer Persona tools
		The Move Tool
		The Artboard Tool
		The Node Tool
		The Point Transform Tool
		The Contour Tool
		The Corner Tool
		The Pen Tool
		The Pencil Tool
		The Vector Brush Tool
		The Fill Tool
		The Transparency Tool
		The Place Image Tool
		The Vector Crop Tool
	Shape tools
	Text tools
		The Artistic Text Tool
		The Frame Text Tool
	The Color Picker Tool
	The View Tool
	The Zoom Tool
	Summary
Chapter 7: Tools – Pixel Persona
	Pixel Persona tools
		The Move tool
		Selection Tools
		Painting Tools
		The Dodge Brush tool and Burn Brush tool
		The Smudge Brush tool
		The Blur Brush tool and Sharpen Brush tool
		The Color Picker tool
		The View tool
		The Zoom tool
	Summary
Chapter 8: Tools, Panels, and Process – Export Persona
	Export Persona tools
		The Slice tool
		The Slice Selection tool
	Export Persona panels
		The Layers panel
		The Slices panel
		The Export Options panel
	Summary
Chapter 9: Workflow: Layers and Objects
	The Layers panel and the types of layers
		What are layers and how do they contribute to a good workflow?
		Creating a layer stack plan and taking advantage of Sublayers
		Setting up and managing Main and Sublayers
		Layer Context menu
		Moving or repositioning layers
		Clipping
		Artboards and the Layers panel
	Objects in Affinity Designer
		Finding objects
		Grouping and ungrouping objects
		Duplicate and Power Duplicate
		Compound objects
		Isolating object layers
		Rasterize
		Converting shape tools or text objects into curves
		Copying, pasting, and inserting objects
	Summary
Chapter 10: Workflow: Symbols, Assets, and History
	Symbols
		Creating symbols
		Using symbols
	Assets
	History
	Summary
Section 3: Bringing It All together
Chapter 11: Creating a Professional Logo
	Prerequisites and expectations
	Let's get started – downloading the sketch
		Document setup
	Summary
Chapter 12: Creating Astronaut Ricky and Sidekick K9
	Prerequisites and expectations
	Let's get started – downloading the sketch
		Document setup
		Placing the reference sketch
		Creating the layer stack hierarchy and adding a background color
		The steps we will be following
	Summary
Chapter 13: Rocketing into the Pixel Cosmos
	Prerequisites and expectations
	Let's get started – downloading the sketch
	Document setup
		Placing the reference sketch
		Creating the layer stack hierarchy
		The steps to create this illustration
	The process in brief
		Steps for painting in the Pixel Persona
		Pros and cons – a win-win situation
	Summary
	Image copyright
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Index