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

Affinity Designer preferences

Affinity Designer has many ways for you to make the application both feel better and work better for you. You may be coming from another similar type of software and want to ease that transition by assigning familiar keyboard shortcuts. Or perhaps there is a certain workspace layout that enables you to work faster or more efficiently. In any case, Affinity Designer is well equipped to let you customize your user experience.

To locate Affinity Designer's application preferences, go to Affinity Designer | Preferences on a Mac or Edit | Preferences on a PC. Here, you will find a panel with eight separate areas to be able to make adjustments to.

We won't cover each and every preference here as there are far too many and some are truly best explored on your own. Following the list here, we will help you take a closer look at those that are most relevant to get you up and running with the application. This includes certain preferences that...