Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Affinity Designer's Interface
Welcome to the first chapter of Up and Running with Affinity Designer.
Success when learning any new software application is to know enough to be able to get it to do what you need it to do. Starting out, you don't necessarily need to know every aspect of the interface, just enough to help you to take that next step. The goal of this chapter is to get you comfortable with the layout and location of Affinity Designer's main interface panels, toolbars, and menu items. Later, we will be discussing each of these areas in more detail, either in a dedicated section or as part of the three practical exercise chapters.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- What is Affinity Designer?
- What's new in 1.10.x
- Understanding the user interface and its menu
- An overview of the Menu bar
- Main tools – Tools panel overview
- Toolbars – overview
- Studio panels – overview
- The document view and artboards – overview
- Navigation tools – overview
