Let’s say you’ve created a couple of shapes in your design. They’re all separate but are part of the same structure. In that scenario, modifying each shape individually to produce a more complex design would be a nightmare. Compounding the shapes, on the other hand, will work wonders. You’re basically making one shape out of… Continue reading How to use compound shapes in Affinity Designer
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How to Use Swatches in Affinity Designer
What Are Color Swatches? Color swatches are predefined color samples stored within a design software program like Affinity Designer. They act like a handy color library that helps you maintain consistency and efficiency in your designs. Differences Between Palettes in the Swatches Panel Affinity Designer’s Swatches panel offers three options for adding color palettes: Add… Continue reading How to Use Swatches in Affinity Designer
How to Clip Layers in Affinity Designer
Want to confine your artwork to specific shapes? Affinity Designer’s clipping feature lets you do just that. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to clip layers, transforming any object into a stencil that defines the visible area of the layer below. What Is Layer Clipping? Imagine using a cookie cutter on your design. Clipping lets… Continue reading How to Clip Layers 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