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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079068

Length 460 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Affinity Designer

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Kevin House

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

Designer Persona tools

In covering our tools chapters, we will be discussing the tools in the order that they appear in the Tools panel, from top to bottom. For this chapter on the Designer Persona tools, we'll start with the Move Tool and finish up with the Zoom Tool.

The Move Tool

The Move Tool (shortcut v) is the main selection tool. The icon for this tool is shown here:

Figure 6.2 – The Move Tool

Affinity Designer refers to it as the Move Tool, but in other similar applications, it might be called the Selection Tool. The Move Tool is used to make selections of objects or groups of objects. Once selected, these objects can be moved, rotated, scaled to different sizes, or have their properties changed.

Selecting is as simple as clicking on an object with the Move Tool. Before you can modify or move any object or group of objects, you must first select it. In order to select or edit objects on multiple layers or a layer other than the...