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

Symbols

Put simply, symbols are objects that affect other objects. Symbols are especially useful when you have a lot of repeating objects or elements in your project, and you want to have the flexibility to be able to make edits or updates to those objects all at once. The Symbols panel allows you to change one symbol, such as scaling or changing its color, and all of its symbol instances will get updated to reflect that change.

Creating symbols

To create a symbol, you will need to have the Symbols panel onscreen. Go to VIEW | STUDIO | SYMBOLS to make the Symbols panel appear. As far as I can tell, using the Symbols panel is currently the only way to create a symbol. On the Symbols panel there are three buttons, Create, Detach, and Sync, which we will discuss in detail in the following visual examples:

Figure 10.1 – The Symbols panel

Once you have the Symbols panel onscreen, select the object you want to become a symbol and click the Create button...