Affinity Designer

Path offsetting is an essential function when it comes to vector design. It allows you to resize objects by adding or removing an equal amount of surface area around an object, which differs from scaling. Simply adding to an object’s width and height does not produce the same result as offsetting. In this tutorial we’ll…

Having the ability to distribute objects on your canvas in an organized and evenly-spaced way is an essential function for graphic designers. This is especially true for some of the more advanced distributions, such as positioning around a circle. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to duplicate objects around a circle in Affinity…

One of the more frustrating aspects of working with Affinity Designer is that it lacks the ability to make advanced transformations to paths, such perspective and envelope distortions. This is a point I touched on in my post comparing Designer to Inkscape. That said, there is a workaround we’ll be going over in this tutorial…

Let’s say you’re working with a couple of objects in Affinity Designer. Both of them are paths with defined stroke properties, and you want to combine them together. This is a pretty common task when working with vectors, and Affinity Designer makes it as easy as any other application. In this lesson we’ll be going…

Using textures as a fill property is a task that is handled differently according to the software you’re using, and Affinity Designer is not exception to this. In fact, Affinity Designer doesn’t handle texture filling at all, but thankfully there is a workaround. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to texture fill in…

One of the more common edits you may look to make to a photo is by adding a simple border around it — whether it be a plain white border, a solid fill, a gradient, or even a pattern. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to add a border to an image in…

In today’s lesson we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the Layers panel in Affinity Designer and going over how you can best utilize it. In Affinity Designer layers function differently than they do in other applications. This tutorial will seek to demystify this feature in case you’re a new user and are used to…

Today I’ll be sharing a neat little trick that will allow you to create seamless patterns with ease. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to make a single object into a repeat pattern in Affinity Designer. This will be done in such a way that the result will be a single square tile…