Affinity

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…

Being able to apply gradients to your artwork is an important aspect of vector design, and Affinity Designer makes this process so much easier than rival applications. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to gradient fill in Affinity Designer by using the Fill Tool to create various gradient types; including linear, elliptical, radial…

Different strokes for different folks, as the old saying goes. As an Affinity Designer user you may be wondering how to personalize its appearance — whether it be the background, the artboard, or the surrounding workspace. In this tutorial we’ll be focusing on how to change the background color in Affinity Designer using Preferences and…

In today’s tutorial we’ll be going over a simple process for creating dotted lines using Affinity Designer. Creating dotted lines with Affinity Designer is simply a matter of creating strokes and then changing the style of the stroke to dashed. If you want to change the properties of your dotted lines, however, then there’s a…