In this video I'm going to teach you 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 some Affinity
Designer basics if you don't know what Affinity Designer is it's an application a lot like Adobe
Illustrator if you've seen any of my design videos you know that I design on Affinity Designer and I
did a poll recently on my youtube channel if you guys wanted to learn about Affinity Designer and
a lot of you said yes you do. So here's the video for you guys. This one's just gonna be a basics
affinity designer i'm going to go into more detail and some other ones but this will be part one
of an ongoing series not sure how many i would need in this series but i'm going to go through a
lot of the basics the tools on the left hand side so i'm trying to go through all of those so you
can see how those are being used so you're going to want to stay to the end so that you can see all
the different tools that i'm going to show in this video as well as another edition of trend credits
so let's get into this so if you click the link in my description i have a link to affinity designer
in my description uh you'll get to a website like this or something like this depending on
when you're watching this video so this is the affinity website you can see here affinity.serif
we're talking about affinity designer but they also have other applications so affinity photo
which is a lot like adobe photoshop affinity designer which is a lot like illustrator adobe
illustrator and affinity publisher which is a lot like adobe indesign and you can go to
their store here and they have an ipad version as well so right now it's 50 off so if you're
watching this video right when i release it uh it is still 50 off and you can see these are some of
the things that it does it's just some really cool designs you can see here this is a kind of
a high-end application it can do a lot of things so you can get really complex here like build cars
you can see here so uh and just nice artwork with the shading and the brushes so you can do vector
only raster and vector so let's look that's vector right here you can see and vector and raster which
is the shading and stuff it's raster is what is photo pixels you know those kind of things so
and you can use both of that it's just a really powerful tool to have and you can
see here this person is using it for apparel for shirts like that and that's what i use it for
and just beautiful beautiful stuff you can do with it so just wanted to show you that
this affinity designer app is super powerful and can do anything you need for t-shirts
as well as other things not just for t-shirts just art projects in general
so you can see that here so you can save in all of these you can scroll down uh right now it is
only 24.99 are you crazy that's i bought mine at 50 bucks so uh now is a great time to to buy it
i'm not sponsored by this at all anyway i don't think there is any sponsorship deals or anything
if there is affinity people let me know i'd love to do it but i'm not sponsored at all
you can do it on windows mac or ipad ipad is a separate thing so just because you download the
desktop version doesn't mean you get the ipad version ipad version is pretty cool too i don't
have an ipad version but i've seen it in stores and stuff like that so good deals right now so
anyway that is affinity designer let's open up the application and i'll show you some of the
tools in there i'm not going to have time to go over everything but i'm going to go over a
lot of things so let's open up the app right now so this is what it's going to look like when it
opens up it may take a little while for yours to open up depending on what machine you have mac or
pc and how fast it is this app is pretty heavy so it may take just a little while to open up
you'll see right here i'm using mac so you can see right here the apple
and this is what you need to see right here you're going to use some of these as well as these tools
down here so the first thing you're going to want to do is go to file and new you can also hit
apple n right here or i believe and on pc it's command m so just do that
and it's going to ask you what size you need i'm going to bring this over here
so you can have some presets they have their own so print if you're going to do a paper size
uh press ready photo size all these things are preset sizes of your artboard
if you want to do your own presets you can do that as well i'm gonna make mine 4500 by 5400
at 300 pixels and the units i'm going to use is pixels right here and you can see right there
and then there's going to be i i'm getting it hidden right here but there's a create
right here you can click that and it's going to create that artboard at that size so let's do that
hit create and you can see right here this is your artboard so let's go down the the tools right here
and i'm going to talk about each one one by one so the first one is this move tool or
v is the shortcut you can see the shortcut right there v and what the move tool does
is just move things around so if i had a square here and i wanted to move it i can
pick it up with this black arrow the move tool so anything i need if i had a couple of objects
here clicking this i can move that one or click this one or click that one that's basically what
that does the the black arrow or the move tool is to click on something and then move it so
very basic i'm going to delete these the next tool down here is called the artboard tool so
by clicking on that you can see it's changed it to say artboard you have options as insert artboard
or the size that you want some preset sizes right here so i'm gonna just hit insert artboard first
and you can see here now this is the first artboard that we did the one at the very beginning
and you can see the size here is 4500 by 5400 if i wanted to make another artboard because i'm
using the artboard tool i can just draw it here like this and it whatever size you need it to be
you can click on this as well so if you wanted to make the second artboard a different size let's
say the merch by amazon hoodie size then it's 40 50 here right so then you could label these
t-shirt and hoodie and the way you do that is go to your layers palette
here and the first one you can just double click on it and say t-shirt size
or whatever you want to call it and then you can do this hoodie size
and then always have this file or save this as a preset and you're good to go so uh you can always
have this this size the merch by amazon t-shirt size and your hoodie size right here and then you
could also make other art boards you know for the phone case or the pop socket or the pillows so you
can have a whole set of artboards right here just on one page so you don't have to do multiple ones
and just bring it in and size it each one here so this could be like your your page for
sizing and just hold it all there all right so that's artboard that's the artboard tool
the next tool is this one the white arrow or the node tool and there's two different things on here
when you see an arrow at the bottom of the tool some of them have it this one has it and this
one has it right here and this one so there's three of the tools that have extra tools in them
kind of embedded so this node tool a has a node tool and point transformation tool
so let's do the node tool first so this one you can pick points off of an object here so
so i'm doing that and moving the points whereas the black one would only pick the whole thing
if you want to pick individual points on an object then you would use the white arrow or the node
tool see how that works here so that's node tool and point transformation tool i don't use it a lot
but what you can do is transform object by moving the point so it would grow depending where this
is so you can see here i'm going to put this down here and then grab this point and then just drag
so you can see how it's transforming the object from a specific point so i'm going to move it from
here or move it from here so you can see how that grows like that and it does some other stuff but
i don't use that that much because i can just size it by doing this pretty much so
that works too so next tool is called the corner tool so let me draw a square here
doesn't have to be a perfect square i'm going to zoom in so you can see what i'm talking about
and make a black outline all right so here's my square i'm going to use this corner tool
and click on one of these corners and you can see it's only doing the corner and i can make this
corner rounded or some of these other corner types rounded there's this flat there's this inverse
rounded and then there's this inverse corner so you can see it does a bunch of those things
and you can move it bigger or smaller with this tool you can also change the radius with this so
that kind of does it but only a little bit this does it a little better right here and
you can control the thickness right here at the top of your line so that's nice
you can control a lot of things in the shape just right here so the fill you can pick the
color is the stroke which is the line outside of it you can pick the color so and then the
thickness you could even make it a dotted line or or different things like that or not have one
and then you could bake the corner so what baking the corner means is it won't have the ability
to do that so if you like right when you're done with that and you you think you're good
you can hit bake and you can see it now it makes it point so it doesn't have that
round thing again and you can do this with different corners so you don't have to make
it the same for each corner so this corner could be you know this inverse round thing right here
if you wanted to and then bake that one and now it's now it's points now you can use the node
tool to to move these points right so that's all that uh the corner radius the or that's all
the corner tool does uh i don't use it that much only if i needed rounded corners or other kinds
of corners in my design then i would use that so the next tool here is my favorite it is the
pen tool i use this the most so the pen tool is really neat this is where i draw and trace things
so the first thing you're going to want to learn how to do is use this pen tool
so you can click and make straight lines or you can click and make curved lines by just
moving this around holding down and dragging so i'm holding my mouse down and dragging this around
this is called a bezier curve so you can see here this is all mathematics uh and with this tool
you can as the further you pull it you can see it make that or the less you pull it it makes it less
curved shape and then you can of course move the curve around like that so it takes getting some
use to to to drawing but you know you could even make a circle if you're really good or
i'm not saying i'm really good at making the circle but you can see you could do that and
then move things around like this so this would be really good to practice with the pen tool so what
i like to do is draw something on paper with a pencil and then bring it in here scan it and then
trace over it with the pen tool so that's really powerful and then there's some tools here with the
pen tool of course that you can make all these different things not going to go into this but
one of the things that i use is this corner one so you can make sure that it has a
curve so if i come in here and click this convert to curves you can see now i have these bezier
handles these handles to make it more curvy and if i want to take away that i can make
it a corner again by clicking up here so that is the pen tool so next is the pencil tool so
kind of different the pencil tool is more about holding down and dragging so i'm holding down
my mouse and then i'm just dragging and then when you lift up then it makes those points
uh in there so this one's a little harder for me but some people have that steady hand it's kind
of like drawing with a bar of soap uh it would be nice if you have the ipad with the pencil
that works really well but just drawing it with a mouse you kind of get you know it's
not that great i mean it's kind of good but it's still kind of hard to draw so pencil tool
and then let go and it makes it into points and so if those points aren't the right place
you can you know move them around like this and make it more curvy or just delete the point and
have it that so that is pencil tool the next tool under the pencil tool is a lot like it it's called
the brush tool or vector brush tool so let me show you that one it's the same kind of thing except
this one is connected to a brush so you'll have a brush tab here and you can convert these things
into brushes now so you can see how that changes it into all these it's like different types of
brushes let me show you some of the other ones that comes with it ink so you can see
i guess you don't see that that that different let's do a different one oh acrylics is pretty
cool so you can see here so it's still those points so you can still move these points
but it is a brush shape so it comes with it so if you need to give your
designs that kind of brushed look and then you can change it too
so if you want to change the brush to something else oh you could do that watercolors
do that so just this nice kind of brush stroke as if you were painting so i don't use this
a lot but this one's really powerful if you want to give your design some of that extra
look this is this tool is really powerful to make your design looks like if it was painted
so that is the brush vector brush tool so i'm going to stop right there we got about halfway
through these tools there's still a lot more to do i'm gonna put that in another video so
that you can see how to use those other ones let me know in the comments which tool of
these that we learned today is your favorite i love the pen tool but maybe you might like the
brush tool or some of the other tools let me know that in the comments and thanks so much
for staying all the way to the end and your reward is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying all the way to the end here is your trend, "Just pretend I'm not here" so you can
see some of these are higher BSRs but there's some other ones that are lower 725 here 126. So
on Merch Informer it's getting an A. Remember I have a link in the description for Merch Informer
if you don't have it, a lot of other things you can do here as well. If you don't want to use
this trend you can see here i'm just here for the i'm just here for the snacks for the raid for the
wings you know so think of different things you can say i'm i'm just here for the blank for the
game for the food for the whatever so those are a couple of different trend ideas especially because
uh you know super bowl is coming up and and those kind of party things are coming up maybe holidays
uh gatherings uh you can use that kind of t-shirt it would be funny t it could be a funny t-shirt
for those kind of things so your trend is just pretend i'm not here but think of other ways you
can do this of course don't copy what's already here make your own in phrase and design if you
want to use this phrase make sure your design is different if you don't want to use this phrase
use a different phrase along this topic along this niche so that is it for this video and
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