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

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken a look at a few ways to customize your workflow and your workspace. We first explored the myriad of preferences Affinity Designer has at its disposal, and then we took a deeper dive into its keyboard shortcuts, until finally seeing how to customize its tools and toolbar. I showed you how I set up my UI, with some suggestions on how and why customizing your workspace can be beneficial for a more efficient workflow. Affinity Designer is a pretty impressive package right out of the box, but if you take the time to set it up for a more Personal experience, you will be rewarded with an application that will feel more natural to you.

In the next chapter, we'll cover creating a new document and some of the settings such as document presets, dimensions, resolution, measurement units, color models and profiles, artboards, and document templates.