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

Let's get started – downloading the sketch

Okay, let's make a start on this project. To follow along using the logo sketch provided, you will need to download it from the download link and save it to somewhere on your hard drive where you will be saving your Affinity Designer file for this project. The sketch can be downloaded from the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Up-and-Running-with-Affinity-Designer/tree/main/Chapter11.

Workflow tip

For a best practice workflow, placed images such as this sketched image should either reside in the same folder as the Affinity Designer file or at least be close to each other. If the sketch gets moved around on your hard drive after you have placed it in your file, Affinity Designer will say that it's missing the next time you open the file and you will need to relink it. A good way to avoid this is to keep it close to your file and try not to move it or rename it. You can always embed image files into...