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 Clip to Canvas feature

The last customization option we're going to cover here is the ability to hide or show what is on your pasteboard. Throughout the course of a project, I can accumulate quite a mass of objects and elements out in the pasteboard area. It's a great place to store elements in case you need them but at times, it can get distracting. Fortunately, Affinity Designer has a feature to reduce the clutter, and that feature is called Clip to Canvas. You can find it by going to VIEW | VIEW MODE | CLIP TO CANVAS. If the option is grayed out, then your document must contain an artboard as this feature is currently not available in documents with artboards.

Clip to Canvas is switched on by default, so in order to actually be able to use the pasteboard, you will need to switch it off. The default toggle shortcut key for this feature is the \ key.

Figure 3.23 – Clip to Canvas off

Toggle it on and off:

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