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

Shape tools

Basic shapes are undoubtedly some of the most important objects in the history of art and design. Many a masterpiece began as a collection of simple shapes. Affinity Designer has a long list of basic and customizable Shape Tools to get you started in your projects. The following screenshots show the Shape Tools currently available, with examples of their adjustable shape options. The blue shape is the default, while the gray shapes are the configurable options available. I encourage you to experiment with each of these Shape Tools to get familiar with the possibilities each has to offer. The shape tools will remain adjustable until you convert them to curves. The red dots are the edit handles:

Figure 6.42 – Shape Tools defaults (blue) and option examples (gray): group 1

Figure 6.43 – Shape Tools defaults (blue) and option examples (gray): group 2

Figure 6.44 – Shape Tools defaults (blue...