Affinity Designer: The Comprehensive Guide for Beginners and Beyond

Hello Designers! and welcome to
Affinity Designer: The Comprehensive Guide for Beginners and Beyond.
This MEGA tutorial covers everything you need to become proficient in Affinity Designer. Whether you are a complete beginner or just want to brush up on your skills. You will learn the very basics like understanding the user interface through to learning all the tools and features.
The main aim of this Affinity Designer tutorial / course is to get you familiar with all the tools and features Affinity has to offer, along with using relevant options, shortcuts and techniques of design. It’s beginner friendly and I’ll take it slowly and teach you step by step so you can follow along with me.

It’s a very long video so you can skip around to the chapters that you want to learn more about and come back to the chapters you haven’t watched when you are ready.

See below for the chapter times.

Affinity Designer V2 (2.5) Used in this tutorial.

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NOTE: I'm Using a MAC, so any shortcuts I mention may be different for WINDOWS USERS. See the below for the key comparisons:

MAC vs WINDOWS
Cmd = Ctrl
Option = ALT
Mac Ctrl = Windows Button & Right Mouse Button

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Below is the information for the chapter timings and subjects covered.
Also see the Intro for a visual representation of each chapter.

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro
0:32 Pixel Vs Vector
1:44 Document Setup
5:58 Custom Setup & Presets
9:09 Templates
11:28 Create a Document
12:17 Personas
15:00 User Interface
18:07 Custom Interface
18:52 Dark vs Light Mode
19:24 Customise: Toolbar, Tools, Ruler
21:28 Navigation
22:27 Intro to Creation Tools
23:23 Getting Started: Basic Shapes
29:28 Transform Panel
31:42 Shapes & Customising
35:54 Convert to Curves
37:54 Colour Fill vs Stroke
40:11 Colour Fill & Gradients
45:01 Stroke Panel (Outline)
51:48 Appearance Panel
53:16 Colour Swatches
56:47 Layers Panel
1:07:32 Insertion Tools
1:08:48 Guides & Snapping
1:14:16 Duplicate Options
1:17:52 Artboards
1:21:02 Alignment
1:25:08 Corner Tool
1:33:54 Boolean Operations
1:38:02 Geometry Tools
1:41:22 Compound Shapes
1:45:20 Knife Tool
1:48:43 Contour Tool
1:54:24 Pen Tool
2:10:41 Node Tool
2:18:49 Node Tool: Break & Join
2:20:08 Node Tool: Making Selections
2:21:30 Pen & Node Tool Together
2:23:14 Pressure Profiles
2:27:13 Width Tool
2:32:20 Pencil Tool
2:40:13 Vector Brush Tool
2:50:14 Shape Builder Tool
2:55:59 Vector Flood Fill Tool
3:14:17 Artistic Text Tool
3:23:47 Text on a Path
3:27:15 Frame Text Tool
3:32:33 Layer Effects FX
3:39:37 Style Picker Tool
3:42:49 Styles Panel
3:35:19 Warp Tool
3:54:05 Assets Panel
3:56:32 Stock tab
3:58:41 Symbols
4:04:05 Grids, Axis & Isometric
4:13:36 Place Tool
4:15:08 Pixel Persona: Ui & Tools
4:26:38 Pixel Persona: Paint Inside a Vector Object
4:28:19 Pixel Persona: Image vs Pixel Layer
4:32:00 Pixel Persona: Destructive Edits
4:34:05 Pixel Persona: Non-Destructive Edits
4:42:12 Pixel Persona: Pixel Tool (Game Art)
4:43:42 Export Basics
4:45:59 Export Persona
4:50:09 ArtistWright Thanks You

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[ArtistWright]

Thank you so much to everyone who left a Super Thanks! 🙏 Your support means the world to me and helps keep this channel going strong. I’m grateful to have such an amazing community.

[andrewturnerlasers]

Such a mammoth effort dude. You’ve set the bench mark for all other Affinity tutorials

[stillalive]

Finally an excellent tutorial by a decent looking Brit bloke who is not 450lbs North American toad! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN MATE! AMAZING WORK!

[gandolfred]

You have done a great and important job for the Affinity community. Thank you very much. 🎉😊

[patopatagon]

Bright, clear and very useful. Thank you very much

[leechie]

I'm assuming you spliced a whole lot together...Very effortless flow. enjoyed it.

[Regulus]

WoW! this took me 3 days on and off to watch it all properly in case I missed some good stuff, albeit I realised I had learned a lot already there was still SO much value here. Thank you for it was worth its size in gold!

[primothegreat]

Thank you for your long educational video and patience

[orlamdc]

Just fantastic. I'm going to save this link and hope to get to it over the next couple of months👍👌

[LibbyEggleston]

Can’t thank you enough!!! I hope to find a photo version that is this level. You are so helpful as I try to learn affinity with 0 design experience. This is by far and away the best tutorial out there!

[dulceritmo]

Thank you so much ! As soon as saw your video on tik tok I came here! ❤❤❤❤

[zocuad]

Thank you for this. I just started dipping my toes into Designer and now I think i can just go jump into the deep end with this.

[meinhendl]

An indescribably valuable tutorial. thank you very much for your effort.

[BeastieFloyd]

Just working on my own tutorials so this is great. #AntiAdobeRevolution

[neilsaunders]

Thanks and keep up the excellent job you're doing for us all. I found things i didn't know - again!

[miro_juric]

Great work my friend!

I appreciate it very much!

Cheers 👍

[elonanamor]

Incredible class. I have watched many of your videos and learned so much. This has been the most comprehensive full tutorial from which any beginner can learn. You covered so many of the tools clearly and with no fluff! Thank you so much for taking the time and so much effort to create this.

[laurahaynes]

Thanks ... Can you do a video for Apple iPad, please thanks🙏

[vandanatilak]

So well done!! on point and the perfect teaching style. Hats off to you for getting a beginner on the right foot. Thank you!

[winnielau]

It is a wonderful tutorial. Now i know Affinity Designer much more that before. Thank you so much.