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Up and Running with Affinity Designer

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079068
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin House Kevin House
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how to harness the Layers panel to create a smooth and predictable workflow. We discovered the differences between working with vector and pixel layers and how to take advantage of mask and adjustment layers. We saw how sublayers and groups can extend the options we have available to us, and we also covered how to use the clipping function to control the appearance of our objects.

We also took a more specific look at Affinity Designer's objects features and functions and how to manage them within the Layers panel. We learned about finding objects with Auto Scroll, how to create and take advantage of compound objects, how to isolate layers, and how to move objects around within the Layers panel through copying and pasting, targeting, and inserting. In short, we've taken a deep dive into how to use the Layers panel by using regular layers, sublayers, and artboards to help us manage our document objects and streamline our workflow.

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