All Affinity Designer Tutorials

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16 Affinity Designer – Packaging mit Symbolen

In this tutorial I will show you how you can project the processing of a cuboid onto a perspective model using symbols in Affinity Designer 1.5.5. This process is useful for your packaging designs.   Packaging sample with Affinity Designer This tutorial was created with Affinity Designer 1.5.5 and recorded an edited with Camtasia:mac 2.10.8. […]

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15 Affinity Designer – Stamp

In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a stamp in a few steps with Affinity Designer 1.5.5. To create the teeth, I use a dotted line, where I expand the stroke into a shape and substract it from a square. This is the basis for the stamp and you can start with […]

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14 Jumping Jack CSS Sprite Animation with symbols

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create CSS sprites for a web animation in Affinity Designer 1.5.5 with a template. The sprite is drawn using symbols in Affinity Designer. The animation with HTML and CSS is shown in the tutorial and explained (26:40). The project files can be downloaded here: Hampelmann – […]

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13 Affinity Designer – Affinity Photo iPad Logo

In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw the new Affinity Photo iPad logo in Affinity Designer 1.5.5. I’ve used the following tools: – Rectangular tool – Polygon tool – Move tool – Node tool – Corner tool – Expand stroke – Rotate tool (rotation origin) – Stroke Pressure – Fill and Transparency […]

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12 Affinity Designer – Checkered ball

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a checkered ball with gradients in Affinity Designer 1.5.5. The idea for this tutorial is based on a contribution by the user leobold in the German Affinity Forum. Additional information: Quicktip TEXT IN SHAPE Quicktip GLOBAL COLORS Sources: The logo is from the German speaking Affinity […]

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11 Affinity Designer – Paper clips and brushes

In this tutorial I’m gonna show you how to draw a simple paper clip in Affinity designer. In the first step we will draw the single paper clip as a curve and will use the actions break curve and join curve. With the pen tool we will extend the curve so that it looks like […]

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09 Photo Lens with Symbols – Affinity Designer

In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to draw the front view including the iris diaphragm of a photo lens in Affinity Designer using the symbol function. Unfortunately the sound is not the hit again! I vow to improve 😉 The tutorial was created with Affinity Designer 1.5.4 and recorded and edited with Camtasia: mac 2.10.8.

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08 Textured Image Brush – Affinity Designer

In my tutorial for the end of 2016, I’ll show you how to create a custom Textured Image Brush with texture in Affinity Designer. I will draw the pixel graphic (PNG file) for the textured image brush also in Affinity Designer. At 11:51 I will show you a small preview on how to use Artboards in AD.

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07 Christmas pattern with Assets and Symbols – Affinity Designer

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a seamless, repeating Christmas pattern using assets and symbols. I will teach you the essential difference between assets and symbols. Assets are simply globally available building blocks that you can use in all your illustrations/ drawings. Symbols are only available in the documents where they are […]

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06 Gingham pattern with symbols tool – Affinity Designer

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the new symbols tool in Affinity Designer to create seamless, repeating gingham patterns. Interesting is the visual help created by symbols placed side by side. With this method, you can immediately evaluate the effect of the pattern in the surface. For complex patterns, individual elements that lie in […]

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