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Intermediate to Advanced Course in Affinity Publisher V1 & V2
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About Intermediate to Advanced Course in Affinity Publisher V1 & V2
Intermediate to Advanced Course in Affinity Publisher
The Minor Differences Between Version 1 & Version 2
Studios Have Moved in the Menu (V2)
Introduction to Custom Shapes
Creating Shapes / Shape Tools
Groups
Copy & Replicate Shapes
Convert to Curves
Convert to Nodes
Shape Options
Convert to Picture Frame
Understand the Pen Tool
Draw a Fish with the Pen Tool
Draw Advanced Curves
Remove Handles
Break Handles
Cap, Join & Mitre
Arrow & Line Alignment
Geometry
Project: Eclipse Poster - Photo & Text
Project: Eclipse Poster - Create Eclipse Shapes
Project: Eclipse Poster - Save As PDF
Project: Whale Poster - Create Vector Graphic
Project: Whale Poster - Change Stroke Options
Project: Whale Poster - Save As PDF
Introduction to Design with Tables
Create a Basic Table
Copy from Excel
Place from Excel
Table Panel
Color of Text
Lines & Photo
Photos in Cells
Save Table Format
Project: Table in Poster - Set Up Brochure Look
Project: Table in Poster - Add Table, Format & Type
Project: Table in Poster - Make Ticks & Crosses
Project: Table in Poster - Add Text & Copy
Project: Table in Poster - Export Digital PDF
Introduction to Master Pages & Layers
Why Use Master Pages?
Pages Panel
Adding Pages
Create a Simple Master Page
Add a "None" Page
Clear Master
Text in Master Page
Add a Second Master Page
Edit Detached Page
Page Numbers
Multiple Master Pages
Facing Pages
Document Section
Merge Documents
Layers
Adjustment Layers
Adjustment Layer with Master
Mask with Vector
Mask with a Gradient
Project: Brochure for Print - Set Up Document
Project: Brochure for Print - Columns & Master Page
Project: Brochure for Print - Build a 2nd Master Page
Project: Brochure for Print - Duplicate Master
Project: Brochure for Print - Add Pages
Project: Brochure for Print - New Section, Template & Place
Project: Brochure for Print - Add Masters to Document
Project: Brochure for Print - Add Photo & Adjustments
Project: Brochure for Print - Add Text
Project: Brochure for Print - Export as PDF Settings
Introduction to Styles & Grids
Baseline Grid Document
Baseline Grid - Frame & Ignore
Styles - What are They?
Make a Custom Style
Add a Nested Style
Custom Character Style
Update a Style
Effects Style
Introduction to TOC & Hyperlinks
Interactive Document Overview
Build the eZine
Table of Contents (TOC)
Hyperlinks
Project: Digital Brochure - Overview of Double Spread Doc
Project: Digital Brochure - Changing the Spreads
Project: Digital Brochure - Styles & TOC
Project: Digital Brochure - Sorting Pages Number
Project: Digital Brochure - Update TOC
Project: Digital Brochure - Creating Links
Project: Digital Brochure - Final Package & Preflight
V2 Updates: Using Footnotes, Sidenotes and Endnotes
V2 Updates: Multi Frames & Image Autoflow
V2 Updates: Autoflow Images
Thank You!
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 to Advanced Course in Affinity Publisher V1..
- (Please note this was originally for Version 1 and there has now been a new release, Version 2 for which I have added updates. V2 is very similar and there are very few differences that you'll notice when doing the course. You will of course notice that the icons are now in color where they were previously in black and white. Functionally they are still the same)..
- You need a working knowledge of the essentials (which you can find in my Essentials of Affinity Publisher for Beginners course)..
- Affinity Publisher 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:.
- An in-depth look into the intermediate and advanced features .
- How to work with tables.
- How to use data from Excel in your tables.
- How to create a Table of Contents.
- Work faster and smarter with Master Pages.
- Speed up your process using custom styles.
- Understand how to preflight 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..
- There are 2 Excel files with some data for you to use if you don't have your own for the tables exercises and projects which require data..
- Music courtesy of Bensound..