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Intermediate - Advanced Affinity Designer V2
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About Intermediate - Advanced Affinity Designer V2
Introduction to the Course
Getting the Most from Your Course
Introduction to Interface & Preferences
Custom UI & Presets
Preferences for UI
Save With History
Introduction to Advanced Working With Shapes
Power Duplicates
Multiple Transforms
Rotate & Transform
Rotate & Scale
Move Registration Point
Duplicate With Accurate Angle
Transform Panel & Expressions
Warp Group Tool
Introduction to Project: Wild Interface Icon
Create Icon With Duplication
Color Variations on Artboard
Export as Scalable Vector Graphic
Introduction to Advanced Stroke & Fill Including Patterns
Stroke Incl Panel Caps and Mitre
Dashes in the Stroke Panel
Panel Options Incl Arrow Heads
Appearance Panel and Stroke
Save Appearance as a New Style
Create a Basic Pattern
Create an Advanced Pattern
Create an Advanced Multipattern
The Basic Brush
Create a Solid Brush
Create a Textured Intensity Brush
Textured Intensity with Transparency Brush
Textured Image Brush
Introduction to Project: Summer Picnic Menu
Create Flower
Create Flower Pattern
Create the Butterfly
Put the Pattern Together
Change Background Color
Save the Pattern
Introduction to Advanced Color
RGB & CMYK - What are the Differences?
What are Pantones
What are Global Colors and How to Use Them
Registration Color - What Is It
Using Color Chords to Help the Design
Introduction to Project: A Simple Business Card
Set up a Business Card and Choose Color Mode
Create Spectrum and pdf
Introduction to Advanced Color
Grouping & Layers
Clipping & Masking
Clip & Mask Multiple Objects
Adjusting Layers In or On Mask
Blend Modes
Blend With Gradient
Blend Options
Introduction to Project: Paper Rocket
Creating the Basic Paper Shape
Creating the Depth with Blur
Color with Gradients
Add a Clipping Mask
Moon & Stars
Create the Rocket and Save
Introduction to Advanced Typography
Character Panel
Leading Tracking & Kerning
Skew Baseline Shift, H&V Scale, Super Sub Script
Ligatures
Small Caps, Ordinals & Fractions
Paragraph Panel Align, Indent and Space Before
Tab Stops
Justification and Bullets & Numbering
Paragraph Styles
Character Styles
Spell Checker
Glyph Browser
Text on a Path
Move Text Below Path
Type on a Circle
Introduction to Project: Typography Poster
Create A3 Doc with Text and Styles
Make Text into Graphical Shapes and Customise
Add Some Graphical Shapes
Add More Text
Rotate Artwork and Add Texture Background
Choosing Colors
Blend Modes and Export
Introduction to Speed Up Workflow
The History Panel
Cycle the Future History
Symbols
Create an Artboard and Copy
Create New Blank Artboards
Effects and Fill Opacity
Introduction to Project: Infographic
Create a Donut
Divide into 8
Create Second Half and Add Arrows
Add Color
Add Depth
Add More Graphics as Symbols
Create a Shadow
Introduction to Pixel Persona
Working on a Pixel Layer vs On a Vector Layer
Difference Between Opacity and Flow
What is Brush Spacing
Brush Options
StabIliser, Pressure & Wet Edges
Symmetry & Mirror
Burn, Dodge, Smudge, Sharpen & Blur
Basic Selection Tools
Antialias and Feathering to Soften Your Selections
Magic Wand Selections
The Selection Brush
Introduction to Project: Magazine Cover
Create Document and Place Cover Image
Cut Out Person and Adjust Mask
Add an Infinity Background & Shadows
Add the Title Text
Add Corner Image and Color
Well Done on Completing the Course
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 Intermediate-Advanced Affinity Designer V2 Course.
- This course is for anyone who has beginner knowledge of Affinity Designer or has completed my beginner course..
- Affinity Designer is one of the best design pieces of software around and a strong (and more affordable) contender for Adobe Illustrator..
- It allows you to create beautiful logos, infographics, patterns, icons and other digital vector work with stunning color. This modern vector graphic creation software package works primarily in vector form but also allows for a pixel function including working with photographic images and pixel brushes to add gorgeous textures to your artwork..
- It has an easy-to-use interface to help you work in a fast and intuitive way..
- The course includes the following:.
- How to draw your own shapes and manipulate them using the Pen, Pencil and Geometry tools.
- How to create infographics, logos and icons.
- Learn how to create eye-catching and amazing digital vector artwork.
- Understand color including RGB / CMYK, Spot as well as working with Gradients.
- How to create designs for use in print, packaging, advertising, social media, websites and mobile graphics.
- Understand the pixel persona.
- Affinity Designer has everything you need to create the perfect vector graphics – whether it's for commercial printing, home printing, web or social media projects..
- Music I use: BensoundLicense code: 8WRBM1DVXSFIJTFK .