Affinity Designer for iPad tutorials Watch our collection of short video tutorials to help you get started with Affinity Designer for iPad. Gradients Duration: 03:27 Advanced curve drawing Duration: 05:05 Smudge tools Duration: 02:15 Managing raster brushes. Affinity Designer Tutorial #23-Gradient ToolQuick look at simple gradientsFollow on Twitter @theampharos5Like Cool decals and Graphic Tees check out my redbu. Enrol on this course and find out just how well I can answer these questions. I've been a designer for nearly 30 years. I've spent thousands of hours working in various design studios and now I'm bringing that experience to Affinity Designer for the iPad. Over the years I've learned what matters when you are creating good design and what doesn't.
At Campfire, we use Affinity Designer and Affinity Designer over Illustrator and Photoshop.
This is due to a number of reasons such as price, how they deal with clipping masks, gradients and grain, Primitives, The Ability to use photoshop style effects and tools within Designer (there version of illustrator) with the use of Adjustment layers and Persons, Brushes and much much more. (I can go in more details about this design in a separate post)
Tho, for now, let’s talk about some of my favourite and most use recourses to use with Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.
Note: Some of these recourses are paid and free. None of this content is sponsored. The resources listed below we use at campfire.
A list of some of the main brushes I use within Affinity Designer and Photo, this list is a mix of Raster brushes (the ones you find within Photoshop) and some vector Busters.
Tip: If you’re moving from Photoshop to Affinity most if not all brushes from Photoshop will work in Both Designer and Photo.
Vector
Marker Brushes: http://bit.ly/2JX9njo
Comic Book: http://bit.ly/2ESDioJ
Texture Pain brush: http://bit.ly/2IdHqAs
Raster (bitmap brushes)
Frankentoon - Texturizer Pro 1.6: http://bit.ly/2WuyW2c (also have some vector brushes)
Frankentoon - Nomad 2 Brush Pack: http://bit.ly/2MpvbGj (also have some vector brushes)
Frankentoon - Concept Master Vol.1: Nature: http://bit.ly/2WGlbN5 (also have some vector brushes)
Comic Basic set: http://bit.ly/2KpsD8y
Blend Brushes: http://bit.ly/2IwSAkj
Daub brushes: http://bit.ly/2WuGYYV
After some pre-made icons for your next project to save time, such as social media icons or other. Then check the below links for some great sites.
Tip: If you find your self commonly using some icons over and over again, such as social media icons, create assets out of them in Affinity so you can easily access them in any project. You can learn how to create assets here: http://bit.ly/316iVxS
Flaticon: http://bit.ly/2QPdY7V
Iconfinder: http://bit.ly/2XmpcDn
Icons8: http://bit.ly/2XqTYLj
The Noun Project: http://bit.ly/2K01863
Graphic Burger: http://bit.ly/2QM9EGH
Outside of icons, there are some other vector assets you can use, here are some links to some vector assets site.
Uplabs: http://bit.ly/2Wc3S28
Free Vector: http://bit.ly/2Wp4ExB
Graphic Burger: http://bit.ly/2QM9EGH
Vecteezy: http://bit.ly/2WiQSI9
Freepik: http://bit.ly/2Wnmj8R
When it comes to images you may not have the time or budget to take custom images for the project so here are some sites to download some stock photos.
Pexels: http://bit.ly/2WqGtig
Pixabay: http://bit.ly/2Wp4IgP
Unsplash http://bit.ly/2WnjVPF
Show off your designs in style with a mockup, this helps to showcase to a client, or to show your work on your portfolio. Here are some great sites to download mockups.
Tip: With use in Designer and Photo most mockups will not work off that bat since most of them use Photoshop smart objects so some tweaking will be needed.
Mockupword: http://bit.ly/2WnmwsF
GraphicFuel: http://bit.ly/2Wnnd5f
Unblast: http://bit.ly/2WpL2cO
Pixeden: http://bit.ly/2Wp8oz3
Creative Market: http://bit.ly/2WluUZI
To help add some magic to your design, effects and image overlay effects such as lens flares and dust and help give a pop to your image.
Lens flare: http://bit.ly/2Wpyke3
Dust & Dirt: http://bit.ly/2Wc77Xm
Dust & Dirt 2: http://bit.ly/2Wc7bGA
Halftone: http://bit.ly/2WexKuD
VHS Effect: http://bit.ly/2WhxF9q
Wood & Link: http://bit.ly/2WenLFC
Sick of your computers default fonts, let’s change that with some custom fonts.
Font Squirrel: http://bit.ly/2WlSXYx
My Font: http://bit.ly/2WrvGnZ
Font Fabric: http://bit.ly/2WpiJeB
Creative Market: http://bit.ly/2WpiJv7
Font Shop: http://bit.ly/2WoQ3lF
Graphiccriver: http://bit.ly/2WmvJla
Suck at picking colours well check out these colour recourses and swatches to help you pick the perfect colour.
Mega Swatch Pack: http://bit.ly/2WpLaZQ
Colour template creator: http://bit.ly/2Wb6z3P
Gradients 1 (works together with the above link): http://bit.ly/2WbqIa9
Colours: http://bit.ly/2WeXAi9
Affinity Designer Gradient Map
Colour Hunt: http://bit.ly/2Wb6zAR
Adobe Color: https://adobe.ly/2WbqY97
Sometimes reading a good book can help, here are some amazing books about both Affinity Designer and Photo.
Affinity Photo Workbook: http://bit.ly/2Wbr2FT
Affinity Designer Workbook: http://bit.ly/2WuEk5r
The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking: https://amzn.to/2WmIHiA
The Brand Gap: https://amzn.to/2WebaSX
Zag: https://amzn.to/2WgVQ82
Creative Strategy and the Business of Design: https://amzn.to/2WoQX1Q
Art of the Book: https://amzn.to/2WoQZ9Y
Graphic Design Visionaries: https://amzn.to/2Wp95IF
Jost Hochuli: Detail In Typography: https://amzn.to/2WneEaP
Or maybe books are not your thing, so here are some online videos to help you learn.
Franken Toon TV: http://bit.ly/2WlkSrw
The Futur: http://bit.ly/2WmIOL2
The Futur Academy : http://bit.ly/2Wp7mTD
Learn Affinity Photo (Desktop): http://bit.ly/2FuL60f
Learn Affinity Photo (iPad): http://bit.ly/2WuCrFS
Learn Affinity Designer (Desktop): http://bit.ly/2L9sKFP
Learn Affinity Designer (iPad): http://bit.ly/2WnfqEL
Advanced Illustration Vol.2 for Affinity Designer: http://bit.ly/2WnfvZ5
Toonlab: http://bit.ly/2Wf83tR
iOS icon assets: http://bit.ly/2Wl9Anf
Bjango App Icon Templates: http://bit.ly/2Wp9oDj
Drafttable: http://bit.ly/2Aq5ieQ
I hope you got some great Affinity recourses out of this post. Have I missed any you love? Let us know over on twitter @madebycampfire
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A Little About Me and My Channel
Thank you for taking the time to read this little extra. Liking and Subscribing to my channel really helps to support my creative efforts. I love making these How-To-Use-Affinity videos, it’s a lot of fun.
Many people watch without Liking or Subscribing, and although it’s nice to see so many viewers it would be much nicer, and help me a lot, if you were to Click the Like icon, that’s the little ‘thumbs up’ symbol, and while you are there click on Subscribe. It’s completely free and a cool way to make sure you don’t miss any videos I upload, and not least… it makes my day.
At the moment I don’t have a regular upload schedule but do upload at least twice a week if I can. You can expect something every week related to one or other of the three Affinity products, Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, or Affinity Photo. I mainly focus the videos toward Beginners. People who need the most help. After all, the Professionals are already there and busy making a living,
I always try and answer questions or comments, and really appreciate any feedback viewers can provide as it helps me develop my content. As for what’s coming next? I keep my videos short enough to get the describe the ideas while still being useful.
My Channel Details.
So what kit do I use to create my channel content?
Topics generally covered:
Technology – Topic
Photography – Topic
Design – Topic
Content made with the following Software.
Affinity Photo
Affinity Designer
Affinity Publisher
& Hardware
Apple Pencil on the iPad Mini 5
Mac Mini 2012. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD. 1TB HDD. External storage on 3 x 1 TB HDDs.
TimeMachine
iCloud
Dropbox
Video production with
iMovie (Mac and iPad)
Keynote (Mac and iPad)
Pages (Mac and iPad)
IntroMate (iPad and iPhone)
PromptSmart Pro (iPad)
Book & Script Writing
Scrivener (Mac, iPad, iPhone)
Note Keeping and Repository of Ideas.
Evernote (iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows)
OTHER VIDEOS YOU MAY LIKE:
The whole Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertChalmers
○ Affinity Photo Inpainting on iPad in Affinity Photo https://youtu.be/gsiHS4lRwkk
○ Knockout Text & Shapes in Affinity Photo iPad https://youtu.be/yocoRo5Ng6I
○ Affinity Photo and Gradients on iPad https://youtu.be/VcmMZA75IYw
○ Affinity Photo and Text On Curves https://youtu.be/BWNM4cWqXPI
○ Affinity Photo iPad and Working With Gradients https://youtu.be/dG9cvQB4u2Y
○ Affinity Designer and Photo. Using Perspective https://youtu.be/XcTtywtrdb0
Lots of ideas from https://www.youtube.com/c/CathrinManning
COME SAY HI!
Blog: https://robert-chalmers.uk/blog
Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_A_Chalmers
Affinity Designer Gradient Mesh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_robert_chalmers/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/R_A_Chalmers/
TOOLS & BOOKS I USE:
○ Video Hero – Video Skills for Entrepreneurs – https://tinyurl.com/sh9l2c5
○ Affinity Designer for iPad – https://tinyurl.com/wlamozn
○ Affinity Photo for iPad – https://tinyurl.com/unnh3pt
○ Affinity Designer Workbook – https://amzn.to/2DDwdY
○ Affinity Photo Workbook – https://amzn.to/35Zf47D
○ DepositPhotos – https://tinyurl.com/snxl9qb
○ Scrivener – https://tinyurl.com/tfamjda
○ Scrapple – https://tinyurl.com/ts6hn3c
○ KDSPY – https://tinyurl.com/u3e6etm
○ SAM Broadcaster Pro – https://tinyurl.com/qmzw2g2
○ SAM DJ – https://tinyurl.com/s3whs46
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