Official Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials

[James Ritson]

Hello all, we're proud to announce that alongside the V2 launch of the Affinity apps, we've produced a completely new set of video tutorials to compliment the apps. These tutorials are all produced in-house by our Product Experts team.

We've worked incredibly hard on these videos, and feel they represent a huge jump in both technical and presentational quality. Hopefully you all agree! The old V1 videos—now considered legacy—are still available on YouTube, consolidated into one playlist. The link for this playlist is available at the bottom of this post.

Hope you all find the new tutorials useful!

What's New (Overview of V2)

• What's New in Affinity Designer 2
• What's New in V2 for iPad

Basics

• Interface Overview (New: 22/03/24)
• New Document (New: 07/05/24)
• Transforming Layers
• Adjustment Layers
• Layer Effects
• Placing and Scaling Images
• Colour Panel
• Undo, Redo and Undo History
• Copy, Paste and Duplicate
• Blend Modes
• Assets
• Navigator Panel
• View Modes
• Styles Panel
• Clipping and Masking
• Aligning, Distributing and Unifying Objects (New: 28/02/24)

Advanced

• Expand Stroke
• Artboards
• DWG/DXF Import & Export (Updated: 28/02/24)
• Placed Layer Visibility
• Stock Panel
• Ruler and Column Guides
• Style Picker
• Symbols
• Pixel Grid
• Layer States (New: 28/02/24)

Vector Tools

• Stroke Panel
• Vector Warp
• Vector Flood Fill
• Pen Tool and Node Tool
• Shape Builder
• Knife and Scissor Tools
• Pencil Tool
• Corner Tool
• Shape Tools
• Artistic & Frame Text Tools
• Booleans and Compounds
• Data Entry
• Spiral Tool
• Stroke Width Tool (New: 23/05/24)

Raster Tools

• Flood Fill Tool
• Smudge Brush Tool
• Paint Brush and Erase Brush Tools
• Symmetry and Mirroring
• Live Perspective & Mesh Warp

Text Tools

• Text on a Path

Workflows & Techniques

• Vector Flood Fill with Bitmap Patterns
• Vector Mandalas

 

iPad Tutorials

• Interface Overview (New: 17/06/24)
• Exporting
• Layers Panel
• Navigator Panel
• Assets
• Shape Builder
• Vector Flood Fill Tool
• Smudge Brush Tool
• Symmetry and Mirroring
• Pen & Node Tools
• Paint Brush & Erase Brush Tools
• Knife & Scissor Tools
• Pencil Tool
• Command Controller
• Rulers and Column Guides
• Style Picker

 

Legacy V1 Tutorials

• Desktop
• iPad

[Vakgraun]

@James Ritson Cant find the guides / grid menu (or way to set em up) in Designer for iPad, any hint?

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, Vakgraun said:

@James Ritson Cant find the guides / grid menu (or way to set em up) in Designer for iPad, any hint?

Try typing Guides or Grid into the Search box in the in-app Help. Or the online Help (https://affinity.help) if your app's UI is not in English, and you don't have the Help yet. They're here:

[Vakgraun]

@walt.farrell Thxs!! wouldn't find em there in ages.

[Pyanepsion]

For those like me who prefer to watch the video in their own language...
Don't stick with the rather poor YouTube translation feature of a few years ago.
As @KateM points out to me, it is now very understandable.

[James Ritson]

New videos (18/11/22):

• Shape Builder
• Smudge Brush Tool

[Stefan Johnsson]

There are endless of tutorials for the desktop. I need all these for the iPad. It’s impossible to follow along with these videos on an iPad. 

[James Ritson]

Some more iPad tutorials for you all:

• Symmetry and Mirroring (New: 01/12/22)
• Pen & Node Tools (New: 05/12/22)

[James Ritson]

And another:

• Paint Brush & Erase Brush Tools (New: 05/12/22)

[James Ritson]

Update (07/12/22):

• Artistic & Frame Text Tools
• iPad: Knife & Scissor Tools

[James Ritson]

Another one for iPad (from Katy, our iPad product expert):

• Pencil Tool

[James Ritson]

Update 16/01/23: Command Controller (iPad)

[James Ritson]

Update 23/01/23: Exporting (iPad)

[BotNote]

Hi:

What if you completely new to this software!
 

Please make a basic, step-by-step video or instructions that helps you do a specific design from start to finish. 
 

I have buyers remorse since the level of learning seems to be way to advanced for any Newbie to start. 

[dvsDave]

are there sample files we can download to follow along with the tutorial?

[John Rostron]

On 2/16/2023 at 1:35 AM, BotNote said:

Hi:

What if you completely new to this software!
 

Please make a basic, step-by-step video or instructions that helps you do a specific design from start to finish. 
 

I have buyers remorse since the level of learning seems to be way to advanced for any Newbie to start. 

If, like me, you prefer written tutorials, then look at these from @Blueprint.

John

[PaulEC]

12 hours ago, dvsDave said:

are there sample files we can download to follow along with the tutorial?

It depends which tutorial you're talking about!
For some basic tutorials (many with sample files), have a look at those by "Affinity Revolution" on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@AffinityRevolution (There are quite a few free ones.) Many tutorials may still be using v1, but should be fine for v2 if you just want to learn the basics.

[N.B. I have no connection with Affinity Revolution and am not recommending that you pay for any of their courses – I have no personal knowledge of them.]

[Mister2023]

are there sample filesavailablefordownload to follow along with the tutorial?

[silvergt0]

On 11/13/2022 at 7:47 PM, walt.farrell said:

Try typing Guides or Grid into the Search box in the in-app Help. Or the online Help (https://affinity.help) if your app's UI is not in English, and you don't have the Help yet. They're here:

Where to find the Search box in the in-app Help?

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, silvergt0 said:

Where to find the Search box in the in-app Help?

iPad, V2: 

[silvergt0]

On 3/9/2024 at 8:36 PM, walt.farrell said:

iPad, V2: 

Got it! It’s here! Thank you Walt!

[Wolfspyre]

is there someplace **OTHER THAN YOUTUBE** that you have this content?

I cannot adequately express how much complete and utter hatred I have for that platform.

it causes a visceral reaction in me that results in me wanting to throw whatever piece of technology I'm interacting with against a wall. 

 

The popups, distractions, ads, and tracking make content hosted there essentially worthless unless pulled someplace where they can be viewed without obnoxious undesired injections into one's experience.

if I must, I can download them individually via the links you provided in the top page... BUT, those are all only available at 720p res, and I figured they were likely created in higher resolution, but aren't available to people who don't give google permission to mine the hell out of their metadata for profit and profiling purposes 

 

 

[Return]

Use this to watch YT without ads and the likes for Win/Mac/Linux
https://freetubeapp.io/

[Wolfspyre]

Hi, 

I appreciate the suggestion ... but it doesn't actually fit as a solution.

Apps like this don't address the serverside metadata farming that occurs when content is downloaded from them...

Many of the apps in this vein are almost as bad with their own variant of user metadata resale.... and some of them are actively nefarious, as opposed to simply being greedy and exploitative of one's metadata.

Using a tool like this would still necessitate going to a location with public access and downloading the content via a bootable OS image or something similar. 

yes, doable. 

not the full solution I'm hoping to find however. (assets stored for direct download someplace not youtube )

 

 

[Komatös]

On 5/18/2024 at 10:14 PM, Wolfspyre said:

I'm hoping to find however.

Freetube is hosted on GitHub. It seems very unlikely to me that this client is tapping metadata that can be monetized.

And if YouTube is too ad-heavy for you, I recommend you familiarize yourself with the Raspberry Pi and PiHole or Adguard Home.