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

The Zoom Tool

The Zoom Tool (shortcut z) is used to zoom in or out in your document. The icon for this tool is shown here:

Figure 6.54 – The Zoom Tool

When the tool is selected, the zoom default is set to zoom in. In order to switch that to zoom out, press and hold the Option or Alt key; letting go resumes to the default zoom-out function. I rarely ever use the actual Zoom Tool to zoom in or out as there are many other quicker ways to achieve this, as covered in Chapter 1, Getting Familiar with Affinity Designer's Interface.

With the Zoom Tool selected, the following options are available in the Context Toolbar:

Figure 6.55 – The Zoom Tool options

These options, incidentally, are identical to the View Tool. The Zoom percentage is your current document zoom level. You can either input this numerically or adjust the slider. Units are the current measurement system units of your document.