Hi lesliedow,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
The Help file (menu Help ▸ Affinity Designer Help) covers extensively all the features of the program, with step by step instructions.
Additionally there's also video tutorials covering most of the features/tools/funcionality of Designer. You can find them here: In-house Affinity Designer Video Tutorials
For more learning resources check:
- Affinity Review our ezine, also includes some in-depth written and video tutorials covering specific subjects. The iBooks format includes video too (the PDF doesn't).
- and a few more third party learning resources here, including Books, Training Courses and written tutorials that may also help.
The team have released the latest updates (1.4.2) for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, which focus on bug-fix updates, stability improvements and performance.
Visit your Mac App Store and click on the Updates page to get the latest releases now.
Key improvements
Fix for converting between widegamut RGB and sRGB profiles causing incorrect colours
Fix for converting colour profile/colour model not undoing correctly for inner glow effects
Fix for occasional crash with arrow shape
Fix for Rasterise causing layer effects to appear the wrong size if they were present on a scaled object
Fix for A1 (Press Ready) preset having the wrong dimensions for an A1 sheet
Fix for tool shortcut keys on international keyboards
Fix for scaling issues during copy/paste of text items
Improved RTF clipboard support
Slightly thinner text tool caret
No longer output file paths to PDF export, only use file names (for improved privacy)
Fix for line weight incorrectly scaling based on object size when applying Styles even when 'Scale with object' was deselected in the Stroke panel
Many PSD compatibility improvements, particularly when using 16 bit documents
Singleclick in the Art text tool no longer creates a new Art text object if you are already in caret mode on an Art text object
Improved SVG font export compatibility
Fix for SVG export generating invalid IDs
Fix for vector export of cropped bitmaps
Fix for PDF import of large images and soft masks
Though the focus is mainly on fixes this time we’ll be adding more exciting new features very soon in the upcoming 1.5 updates... In the meantime you can check out the Affinity Designer 1.5 sneak peek video here.
All the best!
Kate
We're over the moon to announce that Affinity Designer has been recognised by Apple with a prestigious Apple Design Award at WWDC 2015 in San Francisco. Congratulations to the whole SerifLabs team for such a remarkable achievement, 5 years in the making.
It's the stuff of dreams, thanks to all our fans and forum participants for helping to make it an awesome reality.
Read more at https://affinity.serif.com/blog/affinity-designer-wins-prestigious-apple-design-award
