Nick Saporito – The Affinity Designer Master Class
Explainer videos for every tool and feature in Affinity Designer
The Affinity Designer Master Class is a comprehensive collection of 70+ lessons where I go over every tool and feature in Affinity Designer and explain what it is and demonstrate how it works.
Your Instructor
I’ve been a freelance graphic designer since 2011, mostly using open source design software like Inkscape and GIMP.
I’ve also made hundreds of design tutorials for YouTube that have been viewed over 10 million times, amassing a following of over 140k subscribers.
The Logos By Nick blog is another learning resource I’ve created. It hosts hundreds of written tutorials and articles relating to design and brings in over 3,000 visitors per day on average.
Course Curriculum
- Welcome!
- Launch Menu (10:56)
- Layout Overview (14:49)
- Document Setup (8:08)
- Saving & Exporting Your Work (5:28)
- Introduction To The Studio (2:06)
- Basic Functions (8:37)
- Aligning Objects (4:46)
- Snapping Objects (4:30)
- Boolean Operations (3:55)
- Working with Grids (5:01)
- Working with Guides (6:16)
- Assets (2:51)
- Adding Color (Fill & Stroke) (5:07)
- Creating Swatches (3:45)
- Strokes & Outlines (8:22)
- Using Brushes (2:56)
- Creating Brushes (6:47)
- Layers (5:54)
- Layer Masking (3:11)
- Adjustment Layers (3:54)
- Clipping Masks (4:37)
- Effects (5:29)
- Styles (2:22)
- Text Styles (2:57)
- Stock Photos & Clipart (3:12)
- Transform (4:03)
- History (2:37)
- Navigator (1:46)
- Isometric (3:22)
- Snapshots (1:22)
- Introduction To The Designer Persona (1:04)
- Move (3:46)
- Artboards (3:59)
- Nodes (Anchor Points) (11:25)
- Point Transform (1:49)
- Corners (1:33)
- Contour (Offsets) (1:55)
- Pen Tool (5:04)
- Pencil (2:46)
- Vector Brush (3:30)
- Fill (Gradients & Patterns) (10:10)
- Transparency (1:36)
- Place Image (0:40)
- Vector Crop (1:54)
- Shapes (3:34)
- Artistic Text (3:44)
- Frame Text (2:14)
- Color Picker (2:38)
- View (1:08)
- Zoom (0:55)
- Introduction To The Pixel Persona (0:50)
- Move (5:12)
- Marquees/Selections (7:30)
- Freehand Selection (4:11)
- Selection Brush (5:08)
- Pixel (2:18)
- Paint Brush (7:22)
- Erase Brush (1:47)
- Flood Fill (3:16)
- Dodge Brush (3:08)
- Burn Brush (2:03)
- Smudge Brush (1:35)
- Blur Brush (1:33)
- Sharpen Brush (1:29)
- How To Use The Export Persona (8:10)
- Questions & Feedback
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