In this video i'm doing part two of some affinity designer basics. Let's go!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all
about helping you design and sell t-shirts online in this video i'm going to talk about
more affinity designer basics i did a part 1 earlier i'll put the link up here
for part 1 where i went over some of the tools on the left-hand side of affinity designer
in this part two i'm gonna do more of those tools on the left side and see how far we get
there's a lot of good tools on this one so you're gonna wanna stay all the way till the end as well
as another addition of trend credits so let's get started so here we are back on affinity designer
i tried to make it just a little bigger so you can see more of the tools hopefully this helps
so the last time we were here we used this vector brush tool that was the last tool i told you about
the next one right under it is the fill tool and let me show you what that does
so first we're going to need something to fill so i'm going to just draw in a square right here
and then go back to the fill tool and then you can just drag on it like that
and you can see it's filling the shape with two colors
so there's different things that you can do here with the fill tool there's no fill
there's a solid fill if we just did then it's solid white and you can pick a color
we also have linear which is a linear gradient so let's pick that and then the gradient will be
you pick this color first here so let's pick a like a red just so you can see it
and then this color is second so let's just pick like a yellow so you can see it
the difference so we'll just do a gradient from the color you pick here to the color here and you
can add multiple colors in here as well so if you want this to be blue instead in the middle
then you can do that nice rainbow color and you can add as many colors as you want
here here and you can move them as well so you can move that and move this and so on so that's linear
gradient of course there's others like elliptical gradient uh this is more like a circle you can see
as i pull this down like a circle kind of gradient and then you have radial gradient
which is kind of the same and then you have conical which more looks more like a cone
so let me pull this in here so this one's kind of kind of a weird one with the colors being on the
outside so you can see that how it's doing that and bitmap this one you actually have to go in and
and pick a bitmap so i'm not gonna do that so the other things that are here are the different
contexts so you have a fill and a stroke so so stroke is the outside of it or the outline so
let me just do another one here let me fill this in with just a solid color so now the stroke here
is going to be this big but i got to color it so you can see it let's do the stroke red right now
so you can see here just the stroke has the gradient from light red or yellow
right to red so that's how you do that and then this just switches it so it rotates the gradient
around the corner and this one just does it backwards so red to yellow or yellow to red and
then this one it just maintains the aspect ratio of it so when you hit that and you grow the grow
the size of the object it just maintains the same thing so this fill tool is great for gradients
i use it all the time so if you want to put any gradients in your artwork that's the tool you're
going to want to use so the next tool is the transparency tool so we're going to need a couple
of shapes for this one too so let me just show you right here let's just make this one um black
actually let's do red and yellow because the this works really well
so we got that and then we'll do another shape let's just do a circle shape here that is yellow
okay so now this yellow shape is above the red shape here so when i hit this transparency tool
you can see it's kind of like that gradient tool
but it's transparent it does it not a color it does it the opacity so you can change the opacity
here and i hardly use this tool because because the opacity is right here all i need to do is
is change it there and there so that's you could still use the
gradient tool this one right here the fill tool and let me show you let's get out of here
you can get the same effect by doing that and hit this do that and then just take
this opacity down so same thing there but it's just nice that it does it for you so
i hardly use the transparency tool i mainly use the fill tool when i do want to do something
like that so the next tool is the place image tool right here so if you click on that
you'll see your desktop or any folder you can get access to any folder and just pick a picture
from there and hit ok and then drop it in right there and that's all it does it just places the
image from any one of your folders your desktop or wherever and your image can rotate and scale and
anything like that i rarely use this because i can just get on my desktop and just drag it in and it
does the same thing so i rarely use this tool but it's there for you if you need it the next tool
is the vector crop tool right here and it works really well with images so i'm going to show you
how that works so click on the vector crop tool and then click on the image and you'll see these
handles here to crop it and you can crop it in or go out so this is really good if you need a quick
mask of your image just a quick uh rectangle mask or square mask this will do really well so that's
how you use that one vector crop tool i don't use it that much because i don't crop things just in
a rectangle i like to mask things out in a shape but it's there if you need that one too it's it's
a really quick crop tool so the next few tools are the shape tools so lots of cool things you
can do with these shapes let's do the rectangle if you click on it and hold down shift you can see
it does a perfect square width and height are the same i'm holding down shift as i drag
the other things you can do with this is so you can do rounded corners here even
though there's a rounded corner tool rounded rectangle tool which does the exact same thing
so i'm just going to show you the rounded corners here but if you wanted this rounded rectangle
tool same thing same handles same thing so the different rectangle the different corners are
rounded corner straight corner you can see here kind of cut off concave
which is kind of nice and cut out and you can move those with this percentage right here like that so
that's cool so the next shape is the circle ellipse tool this one's
really neat because hold down shift again and make a perfect circle you can convert to pi
so you got these things whoops so you got these handles here where you can make a donut in the
pie or you can move these handles to make your pie a different shape you can also hit this angle here
this controls it these two or you can invert it so if you want it the opposite so there's
that so that's really cool there and let me go back oh let me just make another circle here
you also have the convert to donut so if you need a donut shape bigger or smaller
just kind of changes the inside circle and this changes like what we were seeing earlier
the pi so really cool and of your of course you can invert it and everything or close it
so the one thing with all these shapes let me do the rounded rectangle so you can see
you can't move certain you can't move points within it so it's just a shape
that you can move this and this but if you want to move specific points you'll have
to convert it to a curve so there i converted it to a curve now i can move the points on it
and that goes with any of these shapes on here so all the other shapes are in here triangle tool
when you click on this you'll see the whole list this is the whole list right here so all those
shapes right there are pretty fun you can try them all out yourself i'm not going to go through
all of them but they all kind of work the same way as what we saw with the square and the circle
so i really like the heart tool so let me show you that it just makes a heart and that's really
convenient for valentine's day and you know if you want to put it like that and turn it and maybe
duplicate it and maybe duplicate both of these and flip it
you know you could do a clover really easy maybe a four leaf three leaf clover you know
space it out like that so this is really helpful if you need a clover
or heart or any of those kinds of things not exactly the clover but you know what i mean
you can use these shapes to make other shapes so so those are all the shape tools out there
have fun with those play around with those and see what you can make with those shapes those
shapes are really powerful so you don't have to draw them yourself with the pen tool so the next
tool is the color picker tool and it's pretty much the same as this color picker tool here so
if i had this color and i wanted to make another one but this one was black but i
wanted to make it this same red i would click on this object then the color picker tool
and then that's how you would do it so real simple you can do the same thing with the color here
so if i did this and pick the color here and went like that and then
hit this it would do the same thing so that's how you can pick a color with the color picker
tool either here or over here with the color palette the next thing here is the view tool
so basically if i click on this hand i can move everything around so i'm moving my artboard
around everywhere so i don't use this very much because i'm just gonna i can just slide
and go up and down this way without it so i don't know what how good this one is but
it's there you can use it i i almost never use that tool and the last thing is zoom so
let's pull in that beach again so if i wanted to zoom i just click click click click click
like that and that would zoom or i could hold down option and unzoom or go back so zoom zoom zoom
option click so i don't use that either because i have my trackpad and i can just zoom in and zoom
out and zoom in and zoom out real quick with the two finger pinch and pull so i hardly use that one
so those are all the tools on the left side congratulations you know how all of those work
for my next video i'll probably talk about all these tools up here there's a lot of them and the
different palettes and all these things there's still a lot more to learn but you got the basics
so now that you know how all these tools work try it out on your affinity designer
and see how it goes maybe you'll find other things that i haven't taught you
let me know in the comments what else you want to learn in affinity designer thanks
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thanks so much for watching this video and again let me know in the comments
what other things you want me to show on affinity designer what kind of tips and tricks for affinity
designer that you want to know on there i'll make it on the next affinity designer video part three
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