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

Document setup

Once you have the sketch downloaded, let's create the Affinity Designer document that we will be using to build the illustration. With Affinity Designer open, go to FILE | NEW. For my setup using this sketch, I am once again going to start out with an 8.5 in x 11 in vertical format. If you need to resize the document after you create it, go to FILE | DOCUMENT SETUP and reconfigure your options.

Refer to Figure 13.3 for the document settings that I chose for this logo project. I'm using a vertical version of the Letter size at 300 DPI using Inches for Document units. Similar to the previous chapter, I'm not using the Create artboard option and I've set Image placement policy to Prefer Linked. I'm also again going with RGB/8 for Color format and an sRGB profile, and I'm deselecting Transparent background without any Margins or Bleed settings: