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

Export Persona – a dedicated exporting environment

When it is time to export your artwork out of Affinity Designer, there are two options available:

Normal exporting: Using the FILE | EXPORT option
Export Persona: A dedicated Persona with a suite of features and options for exporting single or multiple items with precise control

Normal exporting

Despite having a specific Persona designed exclusively for exporting, you don't have to be in the Export Persona to export your artwork from Affinity Designer. You can also export your art directly from Designer or Pixel Persona by simply going to FILE | EXPORT. This is what I use most as I generally just export one full illustration at a time, and these simple export options are ideal for that:

Figure 2.15 – Affinity Designer's export dialog options

The options here, as shown in the Figure 2.15 allow for a host of output file formats, as well as the option to export the...