You're reading from Up and Running with Affinity Designer A practical, easy-to-follow guide to get up to speed with the powerful features of Affinity Designer 1.10

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079068

Length 460 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Affinity Designer

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Kevin House

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Familiar with Affinity Designer's Interface and Layout

2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Affinity Designer's Interface FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with the Three Personas of Affinity Designer

4. Chapter 3: How to Customize Your Affinity Designer Workspace

5. Section 2: Deeper Exploration of Affinity Designer's Documents, Tools, and Workflow

6. Chapter 4: Document Setup and Modification

7. Chapter 5: Main Studio Panels and Managers

8. Chapter 6: Tools – Designer Persona

9. Chapter 7: Tools – Pixel Persona

10. Chapter 8: Tools, Panels, and Process – Export Persona

11. Chapter 9: Workflow: Layers and Objects

12. Chapter 10: Workflow: Symbols, Assets, and History

13. Section 3: Bringing It All together

14. Chapter 11: Creating a Professional Logo

15. Chapter 12: Creating Astronaut Ricky and Sidekick K9

16. Chapter 13: Rocketing into the Pixel Cosmos

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Pixel Persona – expanding your creative options with a built-in raster studio

Affinity Designer's second Persona is the Pixel Persona. If the Designer Persona can be thought of as the analytical side of the brain, then the Pixel Persona is surely the artistic side. The Pixel Persona reigns supreme over all things raster based. With its wide assortment of paintbrushes and adjustment tools, the Pixel Persona is where you will add more painterly and textural effects. Its tools are specifically designed for pixel selection, painting, and manipulation:

Figure 2.11 – The Pixel Persona icon in the toolbar

Pixel Persona workflow

This Persona, as hinted at in the heading, is where you can expand or enhance your art to the next level. While the inherent, precise quality of vector art has been accused occasionally as being sterile or stale in its mathematical preciseness, raster art on the other hand has garnered more of an artistic reputation. Fortunately for...