Combining vector and raster tools, Affinity Designer is an affordable-yet-powerful alternative to Adobe CC. It’s available for Mac, PC and also iPad. Offering impressive quality and features, this tool provides a great middle ground between the more basic free and the pricey but feature-rich suite.In this tutorial, we’re going to be taking a closer look at Symbols. When creating design systems for things like websites or apps, its important to keep a sense of continuity in your work, which is where Symbols come in.
In this Affinity Designer iPad tutorial you will learn how to add a layer mask and use that to hide portions of a layer and reveal contents below. We will use black and white color to see the.
With Symbols, you create an object and any changes you make will be reflected across all other instances of that object across the whole document, in real time.
A more recent set of tutorials for 1.7 (and above) is available via or from Designer's Welcome screen.The legacy tutorial set, also available on, includes:1. Getting Started.2.
Drawing Lines and Shapes.4. Colour and Opacity.5.
Layer control.6. Object control.7. Symbols and Assets. (1.5). (1.5)8. Saving, exporting and sharing.12. Design Aids.
Hi brunhilda,Welcome to Affinity Forums:)You seem to be doing it right but you have only repeated it three times in the second case which is not enough to see the spiral pattern appearing. It also depends on how much you rotated the original shape. The bigger the rotation, the quicker you will see the spiral pattern being generated. Try to rotate the star to 330º (keep it closer to the original object too).The only thing you need to pay attention is to NOT deselect the shape while you are applying transforms.
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So you have to duplicate the original shape, scale it down, rotate the shape and press ⌘ (cmd)+J without ever deselecting the object. I love the videos. But is there a searchable manual? The videos are great but when I forget how something is done I need something I can quickly search and refresh my memory without going back to watching the whole tut. I DO need the video tut for learning. LOVE that you do this.
Just need somekinda quick reference and maybe what would really be great is some kinda keyword reference?for example you use 'nodes' instead of points for the editable parts of a vector. Theres a few other things you say differently than what Im used to and Im happy to adapt.just think some kinda quick glance chart or something as a refresher would be awesome. Maybe you have that already.just point me to it!Thanks! I love the videos. But is there a searchable manual?@dizeynerI would recommend the Help system as this comprehensively covers all of Designer's features and is fully searchable.This can be accessed from within the app, simply go to the Help menu and type your keywords into the Search field. Please allow a few seconds after typing for the full results to show.Alternatively, select Affinity Designer Help from the Help menu to browse and search the Help system directly.If you can't find anything in there or feel areas are inadequately covered, please let us know and we'll do our best to update it.Thanks.
I have a comment about ease of access to tutorials.I've seen pages like and But I'm looking for something else: more text that I can read. The tutorials I've checked have been videos. I know that designers like visual presentations. But I like to be able to search for text, scan through lists or info quickly - not have to replay a video to find a particular bit of information. For instance, I might have questions like:.
'Someplace is the button/menu item/etc. That does XYZ. Which is it?' . 'What does this ABC menu item / button / dialog do again?' .
'I remember that I can do XYZ, but I can't remember how to do it. Do I have to watch endless videos to find out?' As an extreme example, imagine a language dictionary that is only available as a video. Let's say you want to find the definition and/or synonyms of a word/concept. You have to either play the whole video or try to scroll through it on the video player timeline and hope you get lucky finding what you need. It'd be even worse if the dictionary were split into multiple videos.So I'm suggesting that you make the tutorials 'text-friendlier' for people who need or prefer that way of getting info.
Ideally, you'd do this as you produce the video. Otherwise, you might at least retro-fit it. For instance, you might:. Put the script used to make the video (the written words) onto a web page. Link each section of the script to the point on the video that shows it.
For instance, if the section on doing XYZ is at 3 minutes 45 seconds into the video, make a link to something like. Make a series of bulleted/numbered lists that do the same thing.Thanks from a long-time computer user who is used to reading things and looking at illustrations, not watching endless videos.P.S.
The Help page has a lot of missing icons at the left edge of the list.