Affinity Publisher - The Essentials For Beginners

Learn Affinity Publisher and Create Exciting Documents for Web, Print & Social Media

What you'll learn
The Essentials of Affinity Publisher for those new to the software
How to find your way around the software
How to set up a new document with images and text
How to work with different types of images and text
How to create social media posts, brochures, newsletters
Differences between InDesign and Affinity
How to create documents for both web and print
Requirements
No experience necessary but a copy of Affinity Publisher
Description
Welcome to my Affinity Publisher - The Essentials for Beginners Course.You don't need any experience to complete this course as I take you from the very beginning through to a point where you can confidently create your own media.Affinity Publisher is one of the best publishing pieces of software around and a strong (and more affordable) contender for Adobe InDesign. It allows you to create beautiful books, magazines and marketing materials through to social media posts, website mockups and a variety of other projects. This modern publishing app gives you the power to combine beautiful type, exciting images and amazing graphics to create stunning layouts ready for publication. It has an easy-to-use interface to help you work in a fast and intuitive way. The course includes the following:Overview of what Affinity Publisher actually doesLooking at the interface and where to find thingsHow to setup and create various types of documents Principles of color (such as RGB and CMYK)Interaction with the Photo persona (part of the Affinity Suite)The basics of typography and how to use it within Affinity PublisherWorking with images and graphical shapes to make your projects "pop"!Working with double page spread documentsUsing image frames with intelligent scaling optionsCreating text wrapping with fine padding controlLinking multiple text frames together across your documentExciting projects to help you remember and put into practice what you've learnedWith powerful features like master pages, tables, text flow and professional print output and other awesome features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whether it's for commercial printing, home printing, web or social media projects.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About this Course

Section 2: What Does Publisher Do?

Lecture 2 Getting Started with Affinity Publisher

Lecture 3 What Does Publisher Do?

Lecture 4 Getting the Know the Interface

Lecture 5 Tools Overview

Lecture 6 Studio Link

Section 3: Creating a Document

Lecture 7 Introduction to Creating a Document

Lecture 8 Document Setup

Lecture 9 Multiple Pages

Lecture 10 Single or Facing Pages

Lecture 11 CMYK or RGB

Lecture 12 Document Bleed

Lecture 13 Create Frame Text

Lecture 14 Color, Size & Font

Lecture 15 Add Photos from Stock

Lecture 16 Add Your Own Photos

Lecture 17 Create Simple Shapes

Lecture 18 Project: Newsletter - Set Up Newsletter Document

Lecture 19 Project: Newsletter - Set Up Columns

Lecture 20 Project: Newsletter - Add Graphics

Lecture 21 Project: Newsletter - Enhance with Photos

Lecture 22 Project: Newsletter - Add Reader Friendly Text

Lecture 23 Project: Newsletter - Add Professional Titles

Lecture 24 Project: Newsletter - Save & Export

Section 4: Create Professional Looking Text

Lecture 25 Introduction to Creating Professional Looking Text

Lecture 26 Text Frame Scaling and Hiding

Lecture 27 Fill, Stroke & Inset

Lecture 28 Multi Columns & Balance

Lecture 29 Type in Pen Tool Shape

Lecture 30 Type in Other Shapes

Lecture 31 Frame Linking

Lecture 32 Add Extra Frames

Lecture 33 Frame / Column Breaks

Lecture 34 Character Options & Move Horizontally

Lecture 35 Character Options & Move Vertically

Lecture 36 Paragraph Options

Lecture 37 Spell Checker

Lecture 38 Using Bullets

Lecture 39 The "Initial Word"

Lecture 40 Drop Caps

Lecture 41 Hidden Characters

Lecture 42 Frame Ruler & Tabs

Lecture 43 Glyphs

Lecture 44 Artistic Text

Lecture 45 Text on a Path

Lecture 46 Text on a Path Reversed

Lecture 47 Outline Text

Lecture 48 Text Wrap on a Photo

Lecture 49 Text Wrap Around Text

Lecture 50 Project: Web Banner - Create Document & Add Titles

Lecture 51 Project: Web Banner - Text & Sample Color

Lecture 52 Project: Web Banner - Save & Export as jpg

Lecture 53 Project: Social Media - Create Your Document

Lecture 54 Project: Social Media - Adding More Text

Lecture 55 Project: Create a Text Wrap PowerPoint Slide

Section 5: Working with Images

Lecture 56 Introduction to Working with Images

Lecture 57 Linking & Embedding Images

Lecture 58 Size / Crop Images from Library

Lecture 59 Images in Shapes

Lecture 60 Select Multiple Images by Dragging

Lecture 61 Putting an Image into Multiple Shapes

Lecture 62 Putting an Image into Text

Lecture 63 Use Photo Persona to Edit Image

Lecture 64 Project: 4 Pg Brochure - Make Cover Page

Lecture 65 Project: 4 Pg Brochure - Add Pages, Columns & Frames

Lecture 66 Project: 4 Pg Brochure - Add Linked Text

Lecture 67 Project: 4 Pg Brochure - Photo Persona & Text

Lecture 68 Project: 4 Pg Brochure - Image Transparency

Section 6: Color

Lecture 69 Introduction to Color

Lecture 70 CMYK & RGB

Lecture 71 Color Panel

Lecture 72 Color Panel, Tints & Transparency

Lecture 73 Using & Creating Swatches & Global Color

Lecture 74 Color Chords

Lecture 75 Creating a Swatch from a Photo

Lecture 76 Spot Color

Lecture 77 Using the Gradient Tool

Lecture 78 Gradient Options in Tools

Lecture 79 Gradient Transparency on Photos

Lecture 80 Saving Your Gradient

Lecture 81 Color Overlay and Blends

Lecture 82 Stroke Color

Lecture 83 Project: Social Media Post 1 - City Blend

Lecture 84 Project: Social Media Post 2 - Transparent Gradient

Lecture 85 Project: Social Media Post 3 - Multi-Image Overlay

Lecture 86 Project: Social Media Post 4 - Gradient Blend

Lecture 87 Project: Social Media Posts - Save As jpg

Section 7: Course Conclusion

Lecture 88 Thank you!

Those who would like an alternative to Adobe InDesign,Those who want to learn Affinity Publisher,Those who would like to learn to create their own marketing materials,Those who want to create their own or edit existing newsletters, brochures etc,Those who would like to create exciting social media posts