Hello everyone and welcome back I am your host Elias sarantopoulos.
In this tutorial I'm going to teach you how to create a vector badge inside Affinity Designer
for iPad.
We will use the Pen tool to draw the vector object, will write text, will import and
clip images and shapes, we'll learn how to use gestures and export our work in various
file formats.
We've got a lot to cover so let's go ahead and dive into it.
Inside Affinity Designer let's go ahead and tap on the plus (+) icon to create a new document
and then tap on the new document icon and for device, I am going to go for the Print
option, A4 is fine but for orientation I am going to tap on the Landscape and then tap
OK, and now we have a new an empty document.
Now before I start drawing anything let's go ahead and set up a couple of things.
So I'm going to tap on the Document menu here and I'm going to look at these Snapping options.
So I'm going to Enable Snapping, Snap to Grid because I'm going to have the Grid on and
then Snap to Layer Bounding Boxes and then tap Done.
Another thing that I want to look into is the Grid.
I want to have the grid on so you can toggle off and on the grid so in this case we're
going to show grid and for the Grid Mode I'm going to go for the Standard.
Now at the left side we've got the Toolbar and at the bottom left corner we have the
Snapping Options.
Right now it's On/Off on and so on so you're going to see me doing this.
All right, so let's go ahead and use the Rectangle tool, let's go ahead and create a Rectangle
like so.
OK.
Now I would like to actually add some nodes or some anchor points and there are a couple
of ways you can do this at the very bottom we have the context toolbar and we have a
choice here this says to curve which means Convert this to Curves you can also do this
by the Edit menu and you have this choice here, Convert to Curves so let's go and do
that and now with the Node tool and I'm going to add one node here.
Just make sure it snaps right there, add one here as well OK.
Let's put this in the center and then let's bring this up a bit and then drag this downwards.
Let's bring this in, something like that OK.
So for this node (anchor point) and this node I would like to have a Smooth curve, again
at the very bottom we have the Context Toolbar and the second choice we have, the Smooth
so tap on the Smooth, tap on the other node, Smooth that out as well so we have two of
them.
Probably going to bring this in a bit like so and then between this node and this node
I would like to have a curve so right around the center tap and drag to create a curve.
Let's do this one here to create another curve, there you go and I think this looks good you
can also change that according to your liking.
OK.
So let's go ahead and get rid of the Grid, like so and let's make sure that sits right
in the center, like so.
OK, so let's go ahead and select this let's give it a color, let's go to the Color Studio
here and let's see, no need for Stroke and just a Fill, let's go to the Swatches, pick
any color you wish to use and then let's go to the Layers Studio here or the Layers panel.
What I want to do is I want to duplicate this actually OK.
So I'm going to tap on that and then go to the Edit menu and then Duplicate this.
All right, now what I'm going to do is I want to size this down but first let's give it
a Stroke at the same time and maybe change the color so tap on the Color Studio, change
the color, it doesn't really matter at this point, add a Stroke but as you can see I barely
have any stroke, right now it says the Stroke Studio says, 0.2 points, basically nothing.
So how do we increase the stroke size?
Well we can we have the slider here, that's one way or you can tap on the numeric value
here, OK or even easier you can use your Gestures so you can scrub this up or down and change
the Stroke.
OK, now let's go ahead and size this down so I'm going to make sure that I don't have
the Snapping option ON so NO snapping and what I'm going to do is actually I'm going
to start sizing this but also put three fingers down on the canvas which it will resize around
the center point and also constrain the aspect ratio.
Now here let's go ahead and change the Cap style, right now we have a Round cap style
so inside the Stroke Studio and under the Advanced Options go ahead and change the style
from Round cap to Butt cap.
In addition change the Stroke Alignment to Centered.
Now the stroke of the inner curve is a bit large so I'm going to reduce the size by scrubbing
down and also increase the overall size of it, like so.
So let's go ahead and add some elements here so I'm going to tap on the Rectangle tool
and I'm going to tap and drag one, like so.
Now let's go to the Color Studio, no need for Stroke, color let's say it's Black but
this needs to be actually be clipped on the on this curve.
So I'm going to tap on the Rectangle, I am going to tap and hold and I'm going to bring
this right on top, not below it, right there right, in the middle, right on top.
Boom and now this is clipped, of course you can size this up and down to your liking.
So we have something like that and then let's go ahead and add some text.
So I'm going to tap on the Artistic Text tool, OK and let's say I'm going to tap once.
So for color let's use white and I'm going to go for Mountain (text), there we go, OK.
I'm going to size this up and I'm tapping two fingers of the canvas to do so and there
are other ways actually you can increase the size, the size of the type.
So you can tap on the here, as you can see it says the Text Studio, there we go so we
can first of all let's change the font, instead of Arial let's say you go for Helvetica and
then for typography let's make sure we have Caps on.
What else can we do?
Well I want to size is down so an easy way to do is using Affinity Designer gestures
again.
Again scrub it up, scrub this down but I want to do this from the center so tap on the center,
there you go, something along those lines.
OK.
Now I need to make a duplicate so there's a way to do this.
You can actually hold two, you can tap two fingers on the canvas and then drag, see that,
quite easy right?
Now in this case let's double click, let's change all that - oops, Exploration (text).
The thing is this is too big.
OK, so I need to size this down, there we go, instead of regular I'm going to go for
Helvetica Light.
Going to bring this up here and now for Positioning I can actually change the Tracking and I can
do this with my gestures, something along those lines.
OK, there we go, like so.
Another thing we can do is actually add a photo inside the inner shape so I'm going
to tap on the Layers Studio here and then I'm going to bring as a sliding app the Photos
app here, there we go.
I'm going to tap and hold and bring this photo inside the Canvas like so and we're going
to pinch to zoom out because this is quite large so we're going to size this down and
I'm tapping two fingers at the same time in the canvas, OK, just bring this closer around
here.
All right and now this photo has to be clipped inside this curve, right below the Rectangle
not inside the Rectangle but below it, like so, OK.
We have a bit of room to size this down, there we go.
OK, so another thing we can do is actually we can bring in let's see an icon so for that
I'm going to tap and bring in/slide the Files app I have an axe here going to tap and bring
this in like so and then from the menu here from the tools I'm going to use the Ellipse
tool when it tap and drag and I'm not looking for anything specific to be honest with you
because this one, let me change the color to have the same color as this, will sit right
inside so tap and hold and bring this under the Rectangle there we go, and then I'm going
to tap on that I'm going to bring this here and just size this down and I'm tapping two
fingers on the canvas like so.
Now let's go ahead and save our work and then export it in various formats.
First I'm going to save my work as an Affinity Designer native format so I'm going to tap
on the document menu and then tap on the Save a Copy, OK.
So let's give it a name that will be Badge let's say, hit Enter/Return, let's go ahead
and save that out, I'm gonna save it back on the Cloud there we go.
Now let's go ahead and save in other file formats so tap on the Document menu and then
Export.
So right now for example I have the PNG option so for the PNG I would like to have a transparent
background but I cannot accomplish this the way it is so I'm going to cancel that out
and there are a couple of ways you can do this you can either Marquee select everything,
then tap on the Document menu and then tap on Export and then under the Area you can
choose Selection with Background or Selection without Background, in this case I would have
selected Selection without Background but I'm going to cancel that out and going to
show you another way which is tap on the Canvas and then tap on the Transparent canvas, you
see...So now this is transparent so I'm going to export this PNG and I'm going to change
the name again so let's say Badge, hit Enter/Return I'm going to go for PNG 24 and I'm going to
leave everything as is.
So I'm going to tap OK and I'm going to save that out again, back on the Export let's go
for SVG, again let's change the name hit Enter/Return and i'm going to leave everything as is, you
have Options here by the way, you have the Export for Print and so on, just going to
leave it as is and then tap OK, there we go.
And last one is the PDF option, again you have a lot of presets here for Print and so
on, just going to live us export just make sure you have Embed Fonts here OK so the fonts
come in and I'm going to leave everything as this and just going to tap to again rename
this to Badge hit Enter/Return.
I'm going to save that out back on the cloud.
like so.
Well folks thank you for spending time with me learning some basic concepts on Affinity
Designer and a glimpse of what it can produce in such a short period of time.
Let me know if you have any questions below the comments section and don't forget to subscribe
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Elias Sarantopoulos.