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