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Essentials of Affinity Publisher on the iPad Version 2
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About Essentials of Affinity Publisher on the iPad Version 2
Course Overview
What Does Publisher Do
The Home Screen Interface
The Interface
Studio Link
New Document Intro
Document Setup
Facing Pages, Multiple Pages, Zoom & Pan
RGB & CMYK
Bleeds
Copy & Paste Text in to Text Frame
Live Prefilght
Change Text & Text Frame Colors
Fonts & Size
Add Some Images
Create a Simple Shape & Change Fill & Stroke Color
Simple Shape Controls
Project: Creating a Brochure / Newsletter Intro
Project: Make New 1-Page Document
Put a Photo Into a Picture Frame
Draw a Graphic & Sample Color on Main Photo
Add a Second Photo & Scale it Up
Add Artistic Text & Duplicate it Twice
Use Move to Back to Change Stacking Order
Add Some Frame Text
Add More Text & Change to White
Add More Artistic Text, Lock Layers & Change to White
Save as Editable File & Export as PDF
Text Intro
Controlling Text Flow Between Text Frames
Convert Shapes to Text Frames
Custom Text Frame
Bold, Italic, Underline Strikethrough, Tracking, All Caps, Small Caps
Superscript, Subscript & Shear
Glyphs, Kerning & Baseline Shift
Paragraph & Bullet Number Points
Paragraph & First Line Indenting
Leading & Drop Caps
Columns & Vertical Text Alignment
Decorations
Text On a Path
Convert Text to Curves
Footnotes, Sidenotes & Endnotes
Wrap Your Text Around a Photograph
Project: Banner, SM Post, PowerPoint Slide Intro
Make a Print Poster in CMYK
Add a Large Artistic Text Character
Add an image From the Stock Library
Put the Photo Inside the Character
Add a Drop Shadow
Add Some Artistic Text
Sample the Image Color
Bullets & Tracking
Save As & Export With & Without Printers Marks
New Document & Add Photo
Add Text On a Path
Add a Glyph & Save & Export
Create a New Document for PowerPoint & Add a Photo
Add Text & Wrap It Around an Invisible Shape
Images Intro
Linked vs Embedded Files
Place in Frame vs Not in Frame
Place in Frame Manually
Use the Pen to Make a Shape for the Photo
Place in Custom Frame
Place in a Word
Working with Multiple Photos
Placing Multiple Photos into Multiple Frames
Multiple Photos into Multiple Frames in One Go
Using the FX
Project: 4-Page Brochure Intro
Make Front Page
Add Multiple Image Frames with Power Duplicate
Add More Images on Pages 3 & 4
Add in the Text
Reorder Your Document Pages
Save & Package Your Document
Color Intro
RGB & CMYK & Why We Use Them
What Are Color Profiles & Color Management
E3 the color panel
Sample Color From the Photo
Working With Swatches & Creating Your Own
Add Colors & Globals to Palette
What Are Spot & Pantone Colors
Working With Gradients & Adding Your Own Colors
E9 fade out a shape with the transparency tool
Project: Create 3 Different Social Media Posts
Create a New Document for Social Media
Add an Image as a Background
Add 4 Frames & Align Before Adding Photos
Add Text & Sample Color
Add a Glyph
Add Some Shapes
Using Blend Modes
Add Blend Modes & Text
Save & Export
Conclusion & Well Done!
What You Will Learn?
- Hi - I'm Tim.
- I'm a senior trainer, and designer at Red Rocket Studio, and a university lecturer working in and around London..
- Welcome to my Essentials of Affinity Publisher on the iPad Version 2 course..
- You don't need any experience to complete this course as I take you from the very beginning through to a point where you can confidently create your own media..
- Affinity Publisher / Affinity Publisher on the iPad is one of the best publishing pieces of software around and a strong (and more affordable) contender for Adobe InDesign..
- It allows you to create beautiful books, magazines and marketing materials through to social media posts, website mockups and a variety of other projects. This modern publishing app gives you the power to combine beautiful type, exciting images and amazing graphics to create stunning layouts ready for publication..
- It has an easy-to-use interface to help you work in a fast and intuitive way..
- The course includes the following:.
- Overview of what Affinity Publisher on the iPad actually does.
- Looking at the interface and where to find things.
- How to setup and create various types of documents.
- Principles of color (such as RGB and CMYK).
- The basics of typography and how to use it within Affinity Publisher.
- Working with images and graphical shapes to make your projects "pop"!.
- Using image frames with intelligent scaling options.
- Creating text wrapping with fine padding control.
- Linking multiple text frames together across your document.
- Exciting projects to help you remember and put into practice what you've learned.
- With powerful features like master pages, tables, text flow and professional print output and other awesome features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whether it's for commercial printing, home printing, web or social media projects..