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How to Use the Pen and Node Tools in Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is a popular graphic design app that offers a wide range of tools and features for vector design. In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of using the Pen and Node Tools. We’ll also provide tips and techniques for mastering these tools and creating professional-looking designs. If you’re a beginner who wants… Continue reading How to Use the Pen and Node Tools in Affinity Designer

How to Use the Move Tool in Affinity Designer

The Affinity Designer Move Tool (V) is analogous to the Select Tool in Adobe Illustrator. As the name suggests, it allows you to select objects on your page. You’ll identify it as the black arrow icon at the very top of the toolbar. Don’t confuse the Move Tool (black arrow) with the Node Tool (white arrow),… Continue reading How to Use the Move Tool in Affinity Designer

How to Create an Artboard in Affinity Designer

In this tutorial about Affinity Designer 2, we’ll learn what an artboard is and how you can easily add and customize one. We’ll also go over how to add reference images, which we’ll use later in the course. If you like design video tutorials, check out the complete Affinity Designer 2 course from the Tuts+… Continue reading How to Create an Artboard in Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer 2: Get To Know The Interface

Affinity Designer 2 is a great tool if you need to edit vector and raster graphics in a single app, open Adobe files, and create on the go in the iPad app. It’s a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator, and there’s no subscription required, only a single payment. If you want to know more about… Continue reading Affinity Designer 2: Get To Know The Interface

Affinity Designer vs. Illustrator: Which is Better?

Affinity Designer vs. Illustrator: Features Affinity Designer Affinity Designer boasts a powerful and unique feature set. While it has sought to incorporate many of the most popular features from Illustrator, it has also differentiated itself by taking a fundamentally different approach to the workflow. Crucially, it supports both raster and vector workflows natively. Some of… Continue reading Affinity Designer vs. Illustrator: Which is Better?

How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

Learn how to expand simple strokes, multiple strokes, or text outlines into shapes that you can further modify and distort as you need. Once you’ve learned how to convert a stroke to a shape in Affinity Designer, you can head over to Envato Elements, where you can get unlimited downloads of stock videos, music, graphics,… Continue reading How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

How to Create a Layered Text Effect in Affinity Designer

If you love all sorts of Affinity Designer warp text effects, distorted text effects, or text effects in general, then follow this tutorial and improve your skills while learning to create a retro layered text effect that’s fully editable. Affinity Designer is good at creating an editable text effect, and it might impress you too… Continue reading How to Create a Layered Text Effect in Affinity Designer

How to Make a Neon Text Effect in Affinity Designer

Are you interested in a simple and editable neon text effect that you can apply to other fonts and icons, including the Beat Saber logo? Stay tuned until the end to find it! If you don’t have the time to learn how to make a neon sign text effect, you can always try Envato Elements,… Continue reading How to Make a Neon Text Effect in Affinity Designer

How to Outline Text in Affinity Designer

In the following tutorial, you will learn three methods that can be used to outline text in Affinity Designer. Once you’ve learned how to outline text in Affinity Designer, you can head over to Envato Elements where you can get unlimited downloads of stock videos, music, graphics, photos, fonts, and more. What You’ll Learn in… Continue reading How to Outline Text in Affinity Designer

How to Add a Gradient Fill in Affinity Designer

Being able to apply gradients to your artwork is an important aspect of vector design. In this tutorial, we’ll be going over how to add gradients in Affinity Designer and learning about the different types of gradients: linear, elliptical, radial, and conical. What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial How to add a gradient in Affinity… Continue reading How to Add a Gradient Fill in Affinity Designer

How to Curve Text in Affinity Designer

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to curve text in Affinity Designer. We’ll use this simple badge design to exemplify all the techniques that you can use to edit and stylize curved text in Affinity Designer. Once you’ve learned how to curve text in Affinity Designer, you can take… Continue reading How to Curve Text in Affinity Designer

25 Best Affinity Designer Brushes For Affinity App

27 Shares Affinity Designer is one of the best app for designers and creative artists. Professional designers and amateurs alike creating a range of resources like Affinity Designer brushes and more to complement the software. Today we’re featuring over 25 of the best Affinity Designer brushes around, as well as a selection of premium Affinity… Continue reading 25 Best Affinity Designer Brushes For Affinity App

1,000+ Best Wood Textures (PNGs, PSDs, Vector, EPS, Brushes, and More!)

Wood textures are a great way to add a tactile quality and interest to art, design, and architectural projects. High Res Wood Textures is just one of the many wonderful wood textures you can find at Envato Elements If you are looking for the perfect wood texture for your next project, this list of over 1,000… Continue reading 1,000+ Best Wood Textures (PNGs, PSDs, Vector, EPS, Brushes, and More!)

How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)

What You’ll Be Creating Face masks have become an essential item for many of us in the world, and creating a face mask mockup design can be a great way to experiment with reusable options. Have you considered designing or creating your own face mask, rather than relying on disposable ones? You can do so right… Continue reading How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)

17 Tools I Can’t Design Without

I think of a creative practice as a combination of an approach (a design philosophy) and a series of techniques (craft skills); a good tool facilitates a technique, which in turn supports an approach. It wasn’t until I sat down to write a list of tools I can’t design without, that I realized just how… Continue reading 17 Tools I Can’t Design Without

How to Create Patterns in Affinity Designer

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, we’re going to learn how to make a pattern in Affinity Designer. We’ll explore three different methods in order to see which one is the best. Also, don’t forget you can always expand your pattern library by heading over to Envato Elements, where you’ll find a great selection of… Continue reading How to Create Patterns in Affinity Designer

Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes

What You’ll Be Creating Welcome to this Affinity Designer tutorial, in which you’ll learn everything you need to know about Affinity Designer brushes, from how to create and install brushes to how to use Photoshop and Illustrator brushes in Affinity Designer. You’ll also learn where you can find Affinity Designer halftone brushes and other valuable… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes

Created by You, November 2019 Edition

What You’ll Be Creating Hello, and welcome back to our monthly community feature! Each month, we’ll take a look at a selection of content created and submitted by you—the Envato Tuts+ community! We love seeing the things you’ve created. These creations are from the Design & Illustration section of Envato Tuts+, and you can join… Continue reading Created by You, November 2019 Edition

How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)

What You’ll Be Creating So you’ve decided to start your own YouTube channel, but don’t actually have the required tools or skills to design the actual banner? Well, if that’s the case, don’t worry since I’m going to show you how you can easily make a galaxy YouTube banner using Placeit’s YouTube Banner Maker. From… Continue reading How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)

50 Best Design and Illustration Tutorials & Articles of 2018!

It’s that time of year again… we’re going to dive into the best design and illustration tutorials and articles of the past year! Before we jump into it, let’s look at what we’ve been up to on Envato Tuts+ as a whole: On Envato Tuts+, as mentioned in the Envato Year in Review 2018, we… Continue reading 50 Best Design and Illustration Tutorials & Articles of 2018!

Created by You, December 2018 Edition

Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try them out. This is an assortment of those comment submissions found throughout the Design & Illustration section. Check… Continue reading Created by You, December 2018 Edition

Illustrator Tutorials: 30 New Tutorials to Learn Illustration and Drawing Techniques

In vector illustrator tutorials you’ll learn how to draw illustration vector resources like vector logo, cartoon characters, typography poster and more useful illustration graphics. You’ll be able to use these illustration and drawing techniques for your future drawing and vector art and creating new interesting graphics and compositions! You may be interest ed in the following new articles… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 30 New Tutorials to Learn Illustration and Drawing Techniques

Bjango: A complete set of app icon templates

Bjango is a free comprehensive set of app icon templates for Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and Affinity Designer. The templates cover Android, iOS, macOS, Apple TV (tvOS), Apple Watch (watchOS), iMessage, Windows, Windows Phone and web favicons. All free and open source, released under the BSD license. Download freebie