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 Color Picker Tool

The Color Picker Tool (shortcut i) samples colors from your document or anywhere on your screen and stores them in the swatch next to the Color Picker icon, either on the various Color or Swatch panels. The icon for this tool is shown here:

Figure 6.50 – The Color Picker Tool

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

Figure 6.51 – Color Picker Tool example and options

The Apply to Selection option will immediately apply your sampled color to the selected object. This is the default behavior. Source controls where the sample is picked from. Current Object restricts the sample to the current object only, while Global will sample from all objects or layers. Radius determines how wide your sample is collected from, based on the cursor location when clicked. It starts with a single Point sample of 1 pixel in size and goes up from there. Average averages...