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Up and Running with Affinity Designer

You're reading from   Up and Running with Affinity Designer A practical, easy-to-follow guide to get up to speed with the powerful features of Affinity Designer 1.10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079068
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin House Kevin House
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Familiar with Affinity Designer's Interface and Layout
2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Affinity Designer's Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with the Three Personas of Affinity Designer 4. Chapter 3: How to Customize Your Affinity Designer Workspace 5. Section 2: Deeper Exploration of Affinity Designer's Documents, Tools, and Workflow
6. Chapter 4: Document Setup and Modification 7. Chapter 5: Main Studio Panels and Managers 8. Chapter 6: Tools – Designer Persona 9. Chapter 7: Tools – Pixel Persona 10. Chapter 8: Tools, Panels, and Process – Export Persona 11. Chapter 9: Workflow: Layers and Objects 12. Chapter 10: Workflow: Symbols, Assets, and History 13. Section 3: Bringing It All together
14. Chapter 11: Creating a Professional Logo 15. Chapter 12: Creating Astronaut Ricky and Sidekick K9 16. Chapter 13: Rocketing into the Pixel Cosmos 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Artboards

Artboards are a powerful way to work in Affinity Designer when you want or need to have multiple pages in one document.

Artboards are basically separate pages within one document. They can all be the same size, as in a multipage magazine or brochure design layout, or various versions of the same design in different color schemes. Artboards can also be of varying sizes, for example, for a company stationery package of business cards, letterheads, second sheets, and envelopes, or as an advertising campaign with various ad sizes or concepts.

In short, Artboards are a convenient way to add pages to or organize your multiple-paged Affinity Designer work that are as flexible as you need them to be.

Working with Artboards

Artboards can be created, as discussed in the previous section, from within the New Document dialog box by clicking on Create artboard, or at any time in an existing document by using the Artboard Tool from the Tool Panel.

This applies to single...

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