Affinity Designer Basics for Pattern Projecting
New video is FINALLY out! It’s a long one, but I used the description box to give you timestamps so you can skip around as needed. I go over all the basics of using Affinity Designer for pattern projecting-setting up your screen, what tools do what, etc. If you watched the Lives and still feel a little lost, this is the video for you! It releases Saturday, 8/19/2022 at 8:45pm Texas time. As always, clicking the link will take you to YouTube and they will figure out for you when that is your time!
Writing a blog post for this video would include WAY too many screenshots to be reasonable so you’ll have to watch the video to get the good information. Here’s a list of timestamps that shows what I cover:
00:00 - Channel Intro
00:13 - Video Intro
02:46 - Installing Affinity Designer New
03:19 - Reinstalling AD on a New Computer
04:39 - Installation
05:09 - Opening for the first time
05:48 - Setting up the screen
06:29 - Opening a File
08:20 - Move/Arrow Tool
08:35 - Artboard Tool
09:07 - Node Tool
11:32 - Top Menu while using Node Tool
13:23 - Corner, Contour Tools-not used
13:46 - Pen Tool
14:29 - Pencil, Brush, Fill, Transparency, Image, and Vector Crop Tools-not commonly used
17:03 - Rectangle Tool
17:23 - Transform Panel
22:32 - Transform Origin Tool
23:19 - Other Shape Tools
24:10 - Text Tool and Top Menu when Text is Selected
25:17 - Text that isn't text
26:28 - Color Picker Tool
27:02 - Hand & Zoom Tools
27:39 - Righthand Color Menu
28:11 - Stroke Menu
30:17 - Layers Panel
32:03 - History & Navigator Righthand Toolbar, More Zoom
34:02 - Mouse Shortcuts
35:11 - Other Useful Top Menu Tools
36:30 - Common Keyboard Shortcuts, More Mouse Shortcuts
38:53 - Saving a Document
39:17 - Exporting to PDF
41:54 - New Documents
42:46 - Other Resources
44:19 - Wrap Up
45:44 - Outro
This one was a lot of work and I really hope y’all find it helpful!
Till next time, friends,
Branalyn
