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Nick Saporito

Make a clipping mask with Affinity Designer
How To Create A Clipping Mask with Affinity Designer
 How To Create A Clipping Mask with Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Clipping masks add versatility to your vector design work, and for a variety of reasons. They allow you to fill an object with a photo, and they also allow you to make unique shapes in a non-destructive way. Upon first sight, it may appear that Affinity Designer lacks the ability to create clipping masks (also…

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Add a drop shadow in Illustrator
How To Add A Drop Shadow in Illustrator
 How To Add A Drop Shadow in Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Adding drop shadows to your designs is a great way to give them some depth and make them appear as if they’re jumping off of the page. In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can add a drop shadow in Illustrator — whether it be to text, a shape, or multiple objects, so that…

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How to add text in Procreate
How To Add Text In Procreate | The Complete Guide
 How To Add Text In Procreate | The Complete Guide 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Getting started in Procreate, one of the most essential functions you can learn is adding text to your images. In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to add text in Procreate and edit its properties, such as font, style, size, color and more. Adding text in Procreate is simply a matter of tapping the little…

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Save artboards as separate files in Illustrator
How To Save Artboards As Separate Files In Illustrator
 How To Save Artboards As Separate Files In Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Unlike many other design applications, Adobe Illustrator affords you the luxury of creating multiple documents — known as artboards — within a single document, known as an Illustrator file — or an “.ai” file. Saving your Illustrator file will preserve all of those individual artboards within one master file that you can work with later…

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How to fit text to a shape in Affinity Designer
Fit Text To A Shape In Affinity Designer Using The Frame Text Tool
 Fit Text To A Shape In Affinity Designer Using The Frame Text Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Working with text and shapes can sometimes be messy and complicated depending on the software you’re using. However, you can fit text to a shape with Affinity Designer with a single click by using the Frame Text Tool. In this tutorial we’ll be going over just how simple it is. Flowing text into a shape…

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How To Make A Heart In Illustrator
How To Make A Heart In Illustrator | 3 Quick Steps
 How To Make A Heart In Illustrator | 3 Quick Steps 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of the benefits of working with Adobe Illustrator is all of the dedicated tools it has for creating common shapes that would otherwise have to be drawn manually. Unfortunately though, there’s no dedicated tool for generating heart shapes. However, you can make a heart in Illustrator by simply combining two rectangles with rounded edges,…

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Affinity Designer VS Procreate
Affinity Designer VS Procreate: All Of The Differences Explained
 Affinity Designer VS Procreate: All Of The Differences Explained 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Graphic design technology has come a long way over the years, and the rise of mobile devices — like smart phones and tablets — has made it easier than ever to create digital art, whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist. Two of the most well-known apps for digital art would be Affinity Designer and…

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Remove a white background with Inkscape
How To Easily Remove A White Background with Inkscape
 How To Easily Remove A White Background with Inkscape 800 470 Nick Saporito
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As we’ve gone over in previous tutorials, there’s various different ways to remove the background of an image with Inkscape. However, these methods often require tedious manual tracing. If you want to remove a white background with Inkscape though, there’s a handy little trick you can deploy to extract your subject from its white background…

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Make a #D pie chart with Illustrator
How To Make A 3D Pie Chart In Illustrator
 How To Make A 3D Pie Chart In Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In today’s tutorial we’ll be going over a handy tool in Illustrator that allows you to make various kinds of charts and graphs — like a pie chart, for example. Then, we’ll be going over how to make that pie chart 3D. Making a 3D pie chart in Illustrator is simply a matter of using…

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Outline text with Affinity Designer
Outline Text with Affinity Designer Using The New Contour Tool
 Outline Text with Affinity Designer Using The New Contour Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Placing an outline around your text is a rather simple task, and there’s various ways of going about doing so. Thanks to a recent update to Affinity Designer though, it’s now easier than ever. The new Contour Tool allows you to outline text with Affinity Designer with a single click of the mouse, and in…

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