• Affinity Designer Tool Tips | Transparency & Fill

    Hello and welcome to another installment of Affinity Designer Tool Tips! In this lesson, we’re going to focus on two tools that work very similarly to one another, the Transparency & Fill tools. While they work similarly, the resulting outcomes are different, however they can easily be used in conjunction with one another to achieve some really cool gradient effects. I’ll be using the iPad version of the app for this tutorial, however, if you’re following along on the desktop version, the overall process is the same. Let’s get started! Where Are the Transparency & Fill Tools? The Transparency and Fill tools are located on the default tool bar on…

  • Affinity Designer for iPad: Creating Textured Styles

    Hello and welcome to my tutorial all about how you can easily create, and save, textured styles in Affinity Designer. While this tutorial is geared towards the iPad version of the app, the process is exactly the same for the desktop version. Best of all, any styles you create in Designer can be imported in to both Photo and Publisher and used there as well. Let’s get started! What is a Style? A style allows you to save a stack of non-destructive effects, such as Fill/Stroke, effects created in the Layer FX Studio as well as gradients and transparencies created with the Fill and Transparency tools, on one shape for…