Can you point me toward resources to learn more

[Pinktoes71]

Can anyone point me toward some resources to learn more about:

1--Document set-up in Designer and Publisher (or information that is "generic" and applies to any program you choose to use).  My end user prints on regular old copy paper on home printers or an office copy machine.

2--Working with images and how settings interact with print results.  How can I make image file size smaller but still print crisp? What settings are best for different applications?   What options do I have for working with images and their size? 

If the information was aimed at beginners, even better.  I'm self-taught and I am finding this information hard to come by in terms I can understand.  I tend to default to saving everything at the best and highest settings just to be safe and I am guessing that is overkill for most of my projects.  The images I am using are ballooning up my document file size as well because I'm afraid to mess with them and get blurry printing.  I don't like linking images, but I regularly get a prompt asking me if I want to link because of the large number of embedded images in my documents.  Designer and Publisher are not happy with the number of images I have in some of my documents and are acting up.

Google search results are not helpful because it seems that my search terms give me results for professional print-ready documents for graphic designers who already know something about all this.  What search terms would you suggest to get results on this information for regular folk with end users who are also regular folk?

I genuinely thank you for any help you can provide!

[Joachim_L]

Here are some good tutorials to start with

 

[Pinktoes71]

Thank you Joachim_L--I have dug into those videos (and still do) when I have a question and most of the time I find what I need.  I have found them very helpful.  I also bought the Affinity Designer Workbook which I try to use to answer questions.  I am not finding what I need this time.  I am very new to Publisher, so I probably need to watch some of those tutorials.  I did have a rudimentary working knowledge of Serif PagePlus which I was using until I very recently bought Publisher.  

As I am looking at my question after I wrote it up, maybe what I need are resources that aren't necessarily Affinity related (like how you do this function in an Affinity program), but more about how to work with images and documents in general--across any platform you use?  That is assuming all the platforms treat images the same way (which I do not know that they do).  For instance, if I rasterize an image in Designer, that would be the same as if I rasterized an image in Illustrator?  So if I find information specific to Illustrator, will it translate to Affinity?   When is it appropriate to rasterize?  What are the implications if I rasterize an image?  Are there other options out there similar to rasterizing that I don't know about?   After all, I didn't even know about rasterizing until I had an issue that Affiniity support helped me with.

I had a document that was hanging up my computer when I attempted to open it in AD and a helpful staff moderator on here said I had a lot of large images in the document.  And I did--a LOT of them. He deleted most of them (they were duplicated throughout the document) and rasterized  the remaining.  I was told to copy and paste the raster image where I needed it.  It solved my issue and I could open the document.  It made me start thinking that maybe I should be doing that in all my documents.  

And that has led me to asking Google questions when I don't know the words I should be using.  Maybe someone knows of a YouTuber who does tutorials on this sort of thing?  Or a blogger?  I've found a lot of helpful videos from Affinity users on YouTube for in-depth tutorials on things like using color in Affinity or mastering the pen tool.  But this isn't really covered.  Maybe my situation is a little more unique--maybe Affinity users aren't making large clipart png files and then dumping a bunch of them back into another project?