Up and Running with Affinity Designer: A practical, easy-to-follow guide to getting up to speed with Affinity Designer

Book Description

Add Affinity Designer to your creative skillset while creating innovative designs and illustrations, building a solid foundation for your future

Key Features

• Understand Affinity Designer’s interface and setup, discover its capabilities, and develop an efficient workflow
• Harness the power of an easy and flexible vector and pixel workflow in one application
• Learn practical skills and gain the confidence to power your own creative projects

Book Description

Affinity Designer is a relatively new creative application and, in a reasonably short time, it has quickly become a powerhouse design and illustration application. Affinity Designer, along with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, is part of a suite of award-winning creative software applications developed by Serif Europe. Built on the latest technologies, which make it fast and smooth, Affinity Designer is quickly becoming the go-to professional creative application for vector drawing and pixel-based painting.

Up and Running with Affinity Designer is a comprehensive hands-on introduction to the Affinity Designer software. Whether you’re new to the creative industry, a seasoned professional looking for a proven alternative, or an enthusiastic hobbyist, this book will help you get up to speed in no time. Complete with straightforward explanations and supporting hands-on exercises, this easy-to-follow guide will help you gain a solid foundation in Affinity Designer and form a base for in-depth exploration in your own projects.

By the end of this Affinity Designer book, you’ll have gained the knowledge and confidence to use Affinity Designer as part of your creative toolset.

What you will learn

• Explore the interface and unique UX characteristics of Affinity Designer
• Discover features that allow you to manipulate and transform objects
• Apply color, shading, and effects to create unique compositions
• Employ layers to organize and simplify complex projects
• Use grids, guides, and snapping features as design aids
• Adapt to Affinity Designer’s custom workspaces and keyboard shortcuts
• Explore the workflow and design best practices for more predictable and successful outcomes
• Identify potential stumbling blocks in your design process and learn how to avoid them

Who this book is for

This Affinity Designer book is for graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and hobbyists. Anyone curious about Affinity Designer’s unique toolset and vector and pixel workflows or looking for cost-effective alternatives to the Adobe suite will find this book useful. Experience in working with other similar tools will be helpful, but not necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Familiar with Affinity Designer’s Interface
2. Getting Familiar with the Three Personas of Affinity Designer
3. How to Customize Your Affinity Designer Workspace
4. Document Setup and Modification
5. Main Studio Panels and Managers
6. Tools – Designer Persona
7. Tools – Pixel Persona
8. Tools, Panels, and Process – Export Persona
9. Workflow: Layers and Objects
10. Workflow: Symbols, Assets, and History
11. Creating a Professional Logo
12. Creating Astronaut Ricky and Sidekick K9
13. Rocketing into the Pixel Cosmos

中文：

书名：使用Affacy Designer启动和运行：一个实用、易操作的指南，帮助您快速掌握Affacy Designer

在创作创新设计和插图的同时，为您的创作技能增加亲和力设计师，为您的未来奠定坚实的基础

主要特点

• 了解Affity Designer的界面和设置，发现其功能，并开发高效的工作流程
• 在一个应用程序中利用轻松灵活的矢量和像素工作流的强大功能
• 学习实用技能，并获得为自己的创造性项目提供动力的信心

图书描述

Affiliation Designer是一个相对较新的创造性应用程序，在相当短的时间内，它已经迅速成为强大的设计和插图应用程序。Affacy Designer与Affity Photo和Affity Publisher一起，是Serif Europe开发的一套获奖创意软件应用程序的一部分。基于最新的技术，使其快速和流畅，亲和力设计器正在迅速成为矢量绘画和基于像素的绘画的首选专业创意应用程序。

《亲和力设计器的启动和运行》是对亲和力设计器软件的全面实践介绍。无论你是创意行业的新手，还是寻找成熟替代品的经验丰富的专业人士，还是狂热的业余爱好者，这本书都会帮助你在任何时间内掌握速度。通过简单明了的解释和辅助的实践练习，这本简单易懂的指南将帮助您在Affacy Designer中获得坚实的基础，并为深入探索您自己的项目奠定基础。

读完这本亲和力设计器一书，您将获得将亲和力设计器作为您的创造性工具集的一部分的知识和信心。

What you will learn

• 探索Affacy Designer的界面和独特的UX特性
• 了解允许您操作和变换对象的功能
• 应用颜色、阴影和效果来创建独特的构图
• Employ layers to organize and simplify complex projects
• Use grids, guides, and snapping features as design aids
• Adapt to Affinity Designer’s custom workspaces and keyboard shortcuts
• 探索工作流程和设计最佳实践，以实现更可预测和更成功的结果
• 找出设计过程中的潜在绊脚石，并学习如何避免它们

Who this book is for

这本亲和力设计师的书是为平面设计师、艺术家、插画家和业余爱好者准备的。任何对Affity Designer独特的工具集以及矢量和像素工作流感兴趣的人，或者寻找Adobe套件的高性价比替代方案的人，都会发现这本书很有用。有使用其他类似工具的经验将有所帮助，但不是必需的。

目录表

1. 熟悉Affacy Designer的界面
2. 熟悉亲和力设计师的三个角色
3. 如何自定义您的相关性设计器工作区
4. Document Setup and Modification
5. Main Studio面板和管理器
6. Tools – Designer Persona
7. Tools – Pixel Persona
8. 工具、面板和流程-导出角色
9. Workflow: Layers and Objects
10. 工作流程：符号、资源和历史记录
11. Creating a Professional Logo
12. 创造宇航员里奇和伙伴K9
13. Rocketing into the Pixel Cosmos