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

Workspace customization – the Tools panel and toolbar

The next two areas we will look at for customizing the interface are the Tools panel and toolbar. The process here is pretty straightforward.

The Tools panel

To customize your Tools panel, go to VIEW | CUSTOMIZE TOOLS. This will temporarily expand the Tools panel to show you a view of all of your available tools. Here, you can individually drag any of the tools into your vertical Tools panel, drag any of the tools out of the vertical Tools panel, or even rearrange the tool order in your vertical Tools panel by dragging and moving a tool either up or down to reposition it in the column. See Figure 3.20.

For example, if you find you are using the speech bubble geometric shape repeatedly, you may want to make it more accessible by dragging it out of its default nested position and onto the Tools panel directly. Alternatively, you could drag all of the geometric shapes out onto the Tools panel directly; it's all...