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 […]
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the new symbol tool in Affinity Designer to create a seamless repeating pattern. These patterns are very often used in printing technology (wallpaper, wrapping paper, etc.) or in web applications as small, fast-loading backgrounds. The pattern in the tutorial resembles the chain link of a bicycle […]
In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a Fibonacci spiral in Affinity Designer. The Fibonacci sprial plays an important role in the image design next to the Golden Cut and is based on the Fibonacci sequence. For more information on the Fibonacci number, click here, in the free encyclopedia on Wikipedia. The tutorial […]
Since version 1.5 of Affinity Photo, we are able to create focus stacks. In this short tutorial I show you how to create a picture from several photos with the help of the new Photo Merge function. Focus Stacking is a digital image processing process where several images with different sharpening depth areas are calculated […]
In this short tutorial I will show you how to use the rotation point and the duplicate tool in Affinity Designer to create the dial of an analog clock. The hour and minute divisions are thereby rotated around the center of the dial. The duplication tool I also presented in this tutorial Snowflakes and stars. The […]
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw simple snowflakes or stars with the Duplicate tool in Affinity Designer 1.5.4. In principle, only a prong or tip of the flake or the star is drawn and subsequently duplicated and rotated several times. Duplicate tool With the Duplicate tool, which is not a tool in […]
In this tutorial I will show you, how to draw a logo with an Iris Diaphragm in Affinity Designer 1.5.4. You will learn how to add and substract objects to create new shapes, to convert objects and text into curves and how to align them and last but not least how to export your logo […]
In this tutorial I will show you how to create two different types of frames around your photos. In the first part I show you how to increase the canvas size to keep the whole size of your photo. In the second part I show you how to create an editable frame with a layer […]