James and Andy from our docs team (with a some help from Charlotte and Sean) have created over 60 video tutorials to help you learn all about Affinity Designer for iPad. Encased in a lovely platform (as you would expect from our web devs) the video tutorials also showcase the amazing work created by leading creatives in our special beta.
With subtitles available for German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese, everyone can benefit from this treasure trove of learning.
The team have worked really hard on the production values, and it’s not easy creating video tutorials on a building site—with accompanying sounds of fire alarms and drills—for an app still in beta that’s changing all the time! We acknowledge we have some issues with sound in these vids, it’s something we hope to improve on in future. Anyway, here’s James doing his sound check (sorry James, I couldn’t resist)…
Split into 7 sections, you can learn the following:
- Basic Operations
- Advanced Operations
- Vector Tools
- Pixel Tools
- Export Persona
- Text Tools
- Effects & Adjustments
Let’s look at each section in turn and give you a taste of what’s in store…
Learn about basic operations
In the ‘Basic Operations’ section, you will learn all the basics you need to know about Affinity Designer for iPad. Let’s take a look at the UI overview from James, featuring the amazing artwork of Ivan Blažetić Šumski.
Other videos in this section include:
- Gestures
- New and save
- Open and import
- Placing images
- Pan, zoom and rotate canvas
- Selecting
- Moving, resizing and rotating
- Grouping
- Ordering
- Layers Studio
- Align and distribute
- Copy, paste and power duplicate
- Undo, redo and history
- Quick export
Get knowledgeable about advanced features
The ‘Advanced operations’ sections demystifies the more advanced features of the app. In the video below, Andy explains how to use one of our favourite features of Affinity Designer for iPad, View Modes.
You can also learn about how to use Artboards, Assets, Snapping, Constraints and Symbols in this section.
Become a vector guru
In the ‘Vector Tools’, you will learn the skills you need to kill it with vector. The most important vector tool you need to learn is certainly the Pen Tool…
Other videos in this section include:
- Node Tool
- Advanced curve drawing
- Editing strokes
- Pencil Tool
- Shape tools
- Corner Tool
- Boolean operations
- Colour Picker Tool
- Fill Tool
- Advanced colour
- Gradients
- Transparency Tool
- Vector Brush Tool
- Managing vector brushes
Get your raster on
In the ‘Pixel Tools’ section, you can learn how to use the tools that make Affinity Designer for iPad truly multi-discipline. Check out Charlotte explaining how to use the Paint Brush Tool.
Other videos in this section include:
- Pixel Tool
- Advanced brush options
- Managing raster brushes
- Smudge tools
- Erase Brush Tool
- Flood Fill Tool
- Flood selections
- Drawn selections
- Selection modifications tools
- Smart Selection Brush Tools
- Refine Selection Tools
Export like a pro
The Export Persona section is where you get the lowdown on how to get your work exported for professional end use. Sean took charge of this section, and we think he did a really good job. Here he is taking us through how to use the Layers Studio in Export Persona:
You can also learn about the Slice Tool and the Slices Studio in this section.
Text Tools
Sean took the lead in our ‘Text Tools’ section too. Here you can learn how about the Frame Text Tool, Art Text Tool, Text on a path and Importing fonts. Let’s take a look at ‘Advanced Typography’ in Affinity Designer for iPad.
Effects & Adjustments
The ‘Effects & Adjustments’ section explores the powerful colour, lighting and blending features of Affinity Designer for iPad. This section includes videos that look at how to Mask Adjustments, Layer Effects, Advanced Layer Effects, Blend Modes, and Styles. Right now though, let’s look at how you can apply Adjustments in the app.
The video tutorials are also available from the Welcome screen in Affinity Designer for iPad, we hope you find them useful. Let us know what you think of them on our Twitter or Facebook channels!
Want more?
We will be providing video tutorials like these for our other apps and versions when they are updated in the coming months. Stay tuned!