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Official Affinity Designer V1 (iPad) Tutorials


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We’re really happy to provide a brand new set of tutorials to accompany the newly launched Affinity Designer for iPad app.

The tutorials are all available from the app’s Home screen via the Tutorials option at bottom left.

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You can also access them here: 

https://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/designer/ipad/

Some tutorial facts..

  • 62 video in total
  • Seven tutorial categories
  • Shot in 4k resolution
  • Subtitling for eight languages (DE, FR, ES, IT, PT-BR, RU, JA, zh-Hans)
  • Different tutors for specialist areas

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Here’s the full tutorial list..

Basic operations

  • UI overview
  • Gestures
  • New and save
  • Open and import
  • Placing images
  • Pan, zoom and rotate canvas
  • Selecting
  • Moving, resizing and rotating
  • Grouping
  • Ordering
  • Layers Studio
  • Align and distribute
  • Copy, paste and power duplicate
  • Undo, redo and history
  • Quick export   

Advanced operations

  • Art-boards
  • Symbols
  • Assets Studio
  • Snapping
  • Constraints
  • View modes for pixel preview

Vector Tools

  • Pen Tool
  • Node Tool
  • Advanced curve drawing
  • Editing strokes
  • Pencil Tool
  • Shape tools
  • Corner Tool
  • Boolean operations
  • Colour Picker Tool
  • Fill Tool
  • Advanced colour
  • Gradients
  • Transparency Tool
  • Vector Brush Tool
  • Managing vector brushes

Pixel Tools

  • Pixel Tool
  • Paint Brush Tool
  • Advanced brush options
  • Managing raster brushes
  • Smudge tools
  • Erase Brush Tool
  • Flood Fill Tool
  • Flood selections
  • Drawn selections
  • Selection modification tools
  • Smart Selection Brush Tool
  • Refine Selection Tool

Export Persona

  • Slice Tool
  • Export Persona - Slices Studio
  • Export Persona - Layers Studio

Text Tools

  • Frame Text Tool
  • Art Text Tool
  • Advanced typography
  • Text on a path
  • Importing fonts

Effects & Adjustments

  • Applying adjustments
  • Masking adjustments
  • Layer effects
  • Advanced layer effects
  • Blend modes
  • Styles

If you have any feedback, please comment on this thread.

Best wishes

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These are SO helpful! Thank you team! 

One suggestion - I appreciate that they were shot in 4k - but would it be possible to set them to default play in 1080p  (and then allow users to select a higher resolution if they want it)? If I just play them as they come on either my Mac or iPad - I run into a lot of buffering (even with a 50meg internet connection).

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Most of your tutorials are available on Vimeo, and most of those are downloadable, but I can not find these anywhere and can not download them from the forum.

It helps to download the tutorials so we can view and review them when there is no Internet (travelling) or the internet is too slow to be useable.

I like to view the tutorials separately on a laptop/tablet so I can work the examples on the iPad as I stop and restart the video.

Could you please, please, please make these available with links?

Those I have already viewed have been excellent and extremely well thought out. Good job! Perhaps you could pair them up with pdfs as well so we can consult the steps to take to achieve set tasks. 

Thanks, having good instructions is one reason why I choose Affinity products over the competition. Nothing is entirely "intuitive" and getting the most out of the App is what makes it valuable.

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42 minutes ago, PeterBreis said:

Could you please, please, please make these available with links?

 

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13 minutes ago, MEB said:

Check Dave Vector's post (the table with the links) on the thread @Alfred linked to.

The link in my previous post takes me straight to Dave’s table in that thread. I wonder whether Peter is seeing something different! :/

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This is what I chased down:

"Here it is: 1 https://vimeo.com/272723714/79409f3002"

"Affinity Designer for iPad - Offline Video Tutorials" did not show as a link on my screen, just a black text headline.

I have clicked on that now and am DLing the videos, thank you very much.

I am looking forward to giving myself some down time and devoting most of tomorrow to try and absorb them. :)

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On 8/22/2018 at 10:38 AM, zerkotin said:

is it possible to select multiple nodes?

There’s at least 2 ways, firstly you can stretch out a rectangular selection box to select the nodes you want or you can use the multi touch aspects of the iPad to select individual nodes and add to your selection by placing a single finger modifier on the screen whilst selecting the other nodes.

 

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My understanding of fractal art is more ...

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Fractal art is achieved through the mathematical calculations of fractal objects being visually displayed, with the use of self-similar transforms that are generated and manipulated with different assigned geometric properties to produce multiple variations of the shape in continually reducing patterns.

... and thus algorithmic with recursion. Julia-Sets, Apfelmännchen, Koch and Sierpinski fractals send their greetings.

But if you really want to draw things like that manually by hand, mirror and n-plane drawing as the power duplicate function might be helpful here.

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1 hour ago, Alif said:

Well, i try to follow every link available on the list, but no video could be played. I dont know if it is just me, but how about every one else, could you play the  tutorial video? 

I have had no trouble playing the tutorial videos.

Do you perhaps live in a country where the Vimeo service is blocked? I think that's where they are hosted.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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On 2/26/2022 at 7:33 PM, walt.farrell said:

I have had no trouble playing the tutorial videos.

Do you perhaps live in a country where the Vimeo service is blocked? I think that's where they are hosted.

Thank you, now i know what the problem is. You are right, vimeo is banned in my country, thats why i could not what the tutorial. 

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2 hours ago, Alif said:

Thank you, now i know what the problem is. You are right, vimeo is banned in my country, thats why i could not what the tutorial. 

Try here, on YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/AffinityDesignerforiPad

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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