[Help Getting Started]

There are quite a few.  So far I like this one the best.

[I am more of a beginner than the tutorials can teach.]

On 10/5/2017 at 2:57 AM, MBd said:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/44836-very-basic-things-tutorial-write-up/

this is more photo specific but if you may take a look and post a precise question I'd probably add that to the list of "easy explanations"

 

hope that helps 

Thanks!  I have also managed to stumble across Miguel Boto and find him tremendously helpful.

[I am more of a beginner than the tutorials can teach.]

On 10/4/2017 at 6:12 PM, gdenby said:

You need to learn some fundamentals that apply to all graphics applications.  Try a search on "introduction to vector graphics" & "introduction to bitmap graphics." You will get a framework, a scaffolding, that lets you get a grasp on what every application, nor just AD, is doing.

 

Learn the basic vocabulary that has been in use for about 35 years. Understand really simple words like "anti-aliasing." For the time being, don't bother w. import and export, which require knowledge of file formats.

I was using "export" as an example of my lack of knowledge of the vocabulary.  But you seem to have understood my point.  So my next step is to study some vocabulary!

[I am more of a beginner than the tutorials can teach.]

Yes, you read that correctly.  I just bought Affinity Designer and I can't even get started.  The tutorials all seem to be "take this and then do this."  Or even "click here to export."  Export?  Isn't that what one country does with another to stimulate trade?

 

So, yeah, where can I find a tutorial that is more basic and starting from a point that someone who has never used any type of program even remotely like this can understand?

 

I hope y'all forgive me for this!