Complete Course Custom Made For Affinity Designer Desktop V2

Using Affinity Designer learn Graphic Design, illustration techniques, typography & logo design in this awesome course

What you'll learn

The Essentials of Affinity Designer for those new to the software

Create professional designs and illustrations

Draw your own shapes and manipulate them using the Pen, Pencil, Geometry tools

How to create infographics, logos and icons

Learn to create eye-catching and amazing digital vector artwork with stunning color

Create amazing artwork using repetition

Understand color including RGB / CMYK, Spot as well as working with Gradients

Create designs for use in print, packaging, advertising, social media, websites and mobile graphics

Work with various personas including the Vector, Bitmap and Export personas

Work with bitmap brushes and masks

Learn to design magazine and brochure covers

Requirements

Affinity Designer V2

Eagerness to learn!

No prior knowledge of Affinity Designer Desktop V1 is required

No drawing ability required

Description

Learn to Create Beautiful Graphics on this Comprehensive, Custom Made for, Affinity Designer Desktop V2 CourseThis is a comprehensive course in Affinity Designer Desktop V2, starting from scratch for complete beginners, through to advanced techniques. Using the new version 2, I show you the techniques and concepts to create amazing graphics and artwork. You do not have to be able to draw to complete this Affinity Designer V2 course.  Using real life examples, I will demonstrate and give you exciting projects to carry out so you can easily put these into practice for your own artwork, graphic design work and marketing materials. Whether you want to get paid for your designer skills, or you're doing this for fun / self-improvement, this course and the projects will help you build confidence to be able to translate into your own work.I will take you through Affinity Designer V2 by first looking at a specific set of tools and techniques, and then reinforcing your knowledge in these with a step-by-step project at the end of most sets of lectures. The projects range from simple logos and icons, through to more complex posters, into in-depth graphics and magazine / brochure cover design. All the content can be adapted for both print or web. During the videos there will also be key phrases that appear to help you remember tools, shortcuts and techniques.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 The Best Way to Learn

Lecture 2 Introduction to the Interface

Lecture 3 The Interface

Lecture 4 New Document

Section 2: Working with Shapes

Lecture 5 Introduction to Working with Shapes

Lecture 6 Basic Shapes

Lecture 7 Selecting and Transforming Separately

Lecture 8 Customizing the Shapes

Lecture 9 Moving the Nodes

Lecture 10 Duplicating the Shapes

Lecture 11 Corner Tool

Lecture 12 Boolean Operations

Lecture 13 Shape Builder Tool

Section 3: Project: Creating Icons & Logos

Lecture 14 Introduction to Project: Creating Icons & Logos

Lecture 15 Create a Character

Lecture 16 Make Earphones

Lecture 17 Make Hard Hat

Lecture 18 Make Stop Hand

Lecture 19 Add Text and Save

Lecture 20 Project 2: Truck Logo

Lecture 21 Project 3: Text Logo

Section 4: Introducing Color

Lecture 22 Introduction to Color

Lecture 23 Fill & Stroke

Lecture 24 Color Panels

Lecture 25 Swatches

Lecture 26 Gradients

Lecture 27 Gradient Stops

Lecture 28 Saving Gradients

Section 5: Project: Create a Business Card with Gradients

Lecture 29 Introduction to Project: Create a Business Card with Gradients

Lecture 30 Set Up Document

Lecture 31 Hills with Gradients

Lecture 32 Sky & Sun

Lecture 33 Adjust Your Colors

Lecture 34 Add Your Text

Lecture 35 Export as Print Ready PDF

Section 6: Using the Drawing Tools

Lecture 36 Introduction to Using the Drawing Tools

Lecture 37 The Pen Tool

Lecture 38 Draw a Fish

Lecture 39 Bezier Curves

Lecture 40 Smooth or Sharp Nodes

Lecture 41 Split & Join Nodes

Lecture 42 The Pencil and Pencil Smoothing

Lecture 43 The Vector Brush Tool

Section 7: Project: Poster for a Classical Recital

Lecture 44 Introduction to Project: Poster for a Classical Recital

Lecture 45 Create Document and Place Image to Trace

Lecture 46 Draw the Violin Body

Lecture 47 Draw Bottom With the Pen

Lecture 48 Draw F Holes

Lecture 49 Draw a Peg then Copy & Flip

Lecture 50 Do the Head and Neck

Lecture 51 Save & Color

Lecture 52 Add a Gradient & Background

Lecture 53 Add the Text

Lecture 54 Export as pdf & jpg

Section 8: Introducing Layers

Lecture 55 Introduction to Layers

Lecture 56 What are Layers?

Lecture 57 Adjustment Layers

Lecture 58 Adjustment Layers on a Photo

Lecture 59 Add Some Effects FX

Section 9: Project: Create a Social Media Document

Lecture 60 Introduction to Project: Create a Social Media Document

Lecture 61 Blend Images

Lecture 62 Add Gradient Map to Unify Color

Lecture 63 Text Effect on Layer

Lecture 64 Make a Logo

Lecture 65 Save & Export

Section 10: Adding Text

Lecture 66 Introduction to Adding Text

Lecture 67 Frame Text Versus Artistic Text

Lecture 68 Fonts

Lecture 69 Preset Character & Paragraph Styles

Lecture 70 Character & Paragraph

Lecture 71 Vertical Alignment of Text

Lecture 72 Bullet & Number Points

Lecture 73 Leading & Typography Options incl Caps

Lecture 74 Outline Text or Convert to Curves

Section 11: Project: Create an Advert

Lecture 75 Introduction to Project: Create an Advert

Lecture 76 New Document and Make Shape

Lecture 77 Bullets & Duplicates

Lecture 78 Add Some Gradients

Lecture 79 Add a Photo into your Text and an FX

Lecture 80 Background Photo & Export

Section 12: The Pixel Persona

Lecture 81 Introduction to the Pixel Persona

Lecture 82 Vector Versus Pixels

Lecture 83 Paint with Pixel Brushes

Lecture 84 Colorize

Lecture 85 Paint on Vector Shape

Lecture 86 Selection Tools

Section 13: Create a Complex Logo

Lecture 87 Project Intro: Create a Complete Logo

Lecture 88 Create Leaf

Lecture 89 Color & Texture

Lecture 90 Duplicate the Leaves & Transform

Lecture 91 Add the Text & Change Characters

Lecture 92 Draw the Birds

Lecture 93 Create a Hand Drawn Brush Line

Section 14: Well Done for Completing Level 1

Lecture 94 End of Level 1

Section 15: Intermediate to Advanced Section - Intro

Lecture 95 Introduction to Interface & Preferences

Lecture 96 Setting up Custom UI & Presets

Lecture 97 Preferences for UI

Lecture 98 Save With History

Section 16: Advanced Working with Shapes

Lecture 99 Introduction to Advanced Working With Shapes

Lecture 100 Power Duplicates

Lecture 101 Multiple Transform

Lecture 102 Rotate & Transform

Lecture 103 Rotate & Scale

Lecture 104 Move Registration Point

Lecture 105 Duplicate With Accurate Angle

Lecture 106 Transform Panel & Expressions

Lecture 107 Warp Group Tool

Section 17: Project: Wild Interface Icon

Lecture 108 Introduction to Project: Wild Interface Icon

Lecture 109 Create Icon With Duplication

Lecture 110 Color Variations on Artboard

Lecture 111 Export as Scalable Vector Graphic

Section 18: Advanced Stroke & Fill Including Patterns

Lecture 112 Introduction to Advanced Stroke & Fill Including Patterns

Lecture 113 Stroke Incl Panel Caps and Mitre

Lecture 114 Dashes in the Stroke Panel

Lecture 115 Panel Options Incl Arrow Heads

Lecture 116 Appearance Panel and Stroke

Lecture 117 Save Appearance as a New Style

Lecture 118 Create a Basic Pattern

Lecture 119 Create an Advanced Pattern

Lecture 120 Create an Advanced Multi-pattern

Lecture 121 The Basic Brush

Lecture 122 Create a Solid Brush

Lecture 123 Create a Textured Intensity Brush

Lecture 124 Textured Intensity with Transparency Brush

Lecture 125 Textured Image Brush

Section 19: Project: Summer Picnic Menu

Lecture 126 Introduction to Project: Summer Picnic Menu

Lecture 127 Create Flower

Lecture 128 Create Flower Pattern

Lecture 129 Create the Butterfly

Lecture 130 Put the Pattern Together

Lecture 131 Change Background Color

Lecture 132 Save the Pattern

Section 20: Advanced Color

Lecture 133 Introduction to Advanced Color

Lecture 134 RGB & CMYK What are the Differences

Lecture 135 What are Pantones

Lecture 136 What are Global Colors and How to Use Them

Lecture 137 Registration Color - What Is It

Lecture 138 Using Color Chords to Help the Design

Section 21: Project: A Simple Business Card

Lecture 139 Introduction to Project: A Simple Business Card

Lecture 140 Set up a Business Card and Choose Color Mode

Lecture 141 Create Spectrum and pdf

Section 22: Advanced Layers & Masking

Lecture 142 Introduction to Advanced Layers & Masking

Lecture 143 Grouping & Layers

Lecture 144 Clipping & Masking

Lecture 145 Clip & Mask Multiple Objects

Lecture 146 Adjusting Layers In or On Mask

Lecture 147 Blend Modes

Lecture 148 Blend With Gradient

Lecture 149 Blend Options

Section 23: Project: Paper Rocket

Lecture 150 Introduction to Project: Paper Rocket

Lecture 151 Creating the Basic Paper Shape

Lecture 152 Creating the Depth with Blur

Lecture 153 Color with Gradients

Lecture 154 Add a Clipping Mask

Lecture 155 Moon & Stars

Lecture 156 Create the Rocket and Save

Section 24: Advanced Typography

Lecture 157 Introduction to Advanced Typography

Lecture 158 Character Panel

Lecture 159 Leading Tracking & Kerning

Lecture 160 Skew Baseline Shift, H&V Scale, Super-Sub Script

Lecture 161 Ligatures

Lecture 162 Small Caps, Ordinals & Fractions

Lecture 163 Paragraph Panel - Align, Indent and Space Before

Lecture 164 Tab Stops

Lecture 165 Justification and Bullets & Numbering

Lecture 166 Paragraph Styles

Lecture 167 Character Styles

Lecture 168 Spell Checker

Lecture 169 Glyph Browser

Lecture 170 Text on a Path

Lecture 171 Move Text Below Path

Lecture 172 Type on a Circle

Section 25: Project: Typography Poster

Lecture 173 Introduction to Project: Typography Poster

Lecture 174 Create A3 Doc with Text and Styles

Lecture 175 Make Text into Graphical Shapes and Customise

Lecture 176 Add Some Graphical Shapes

Lecture 177 Add More Text

Lecture 178 Rotate Artwork and Add Texture Background

Lecture 179 Choosing Colors

Lecture 180 Blend Modes and Export

Section 26: Speed Up Workflow

Lecture 181 Introduction to Speed Up Workflow

Lecture 182 The History Panel

Lecture 183 Cycle the Future History

Lecture 184 Symbols

Lecture 185 Create an Artboard and Copy

Lecture 186 Create New Blank Artboards

Lecture 187 Effects and Fill Opacity

Section 27: Project: Infographic

Lecture 188 Introduction to Project: Infographic

Lecture 189 Create a Donut

Lecture 190 Divide into 8

Lecture 191 Create Second Half and Add Arrows

Lecture 192 Add Color

Lecture 193 Add Depth

Lecture 194 Add More Graphics as Symbols

Lecture 195 Create a Shadow

Section 28: Pixel Persona

Lecture 196 Introduction to Pixel Persona

Lecture 197 Working on a Pixel Layer vs On a Vector Layer

Lecture 198 Difference Between Opacity and Flow

Lecture 199 What is Brush Spacing

Lecture 200 Brush Options

Lecture 201 StabIliser, Pressure & Wet Edges

Lecture 202 Symmetry & Mirror

Lecture 203 Burn, Dodge, Smudge, Sharpen & Blur

Lecture 204 Basic Selection Tools

Lecture 205 Antialias and Feathering to Soften Your Selections

Lecture 206 Magic Wand Selections

Lecture 207 The Selection Brush

Section 29: Project: Magazine Cover

Lecture 208 Introduction to Project: Magazine Cover

Lecture 209 Create Document and Place Cover Image

Lecture 210 Cut Out Person and Adjust Mask

Lecture 211 Add an Infinity Background & Shadows

Lecture 212 Add the Title Text

Lecture 213 Add Corner Image and Color

Section 30: outro

Lecture 214 Well Done on Completing Level 2

Anyone who want to learn how to use Designer,Anyone who want to learn how to create logos, infographics, icons and social media graphics,Anyone who want to translate their existing artwork into vector format,Anyone who want to learn how to create amazing digital artwork,Anyone who plans to enter graphic design,Anyone who wants to draw using vector software,Adobe Illustrator users who want to learn or transition to Affinity Designer from another application