As our hotly-anticipated desktop publishing app, Affinity Publisher, exits the beta stage and is released for the first time, we’ve published over 45 video tutorials to help you get stuck in!
Each video tutorial has subtitles available for German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese which means everyone can learn how to use Affinity Publisher in no time.
Available in the Learn section of affinity.serif.com, the Affinity Publisher section is split into the following 6 categories:
- Basic Operations
- Page Layout
- Text Tools
- Typography
- Advanced
- StudioLink - interworking with Designer and Photo
- Publishing and Sharing
Let’s look at each section in turn and dip into the new tutorial videos…
Learn about basic operations
In the Basic Operations section, you will learn all the basics you need to know about Affinity Publisher. A great place to start is the UI overview:
Other videos in this section include:
- Moving, resizing and rotating
- Selecting
- Pan and zoom
- Open and import
- New Document dialog with templates
Get knowledgeable about page layout
The Page Layout section demystifies the page layout features of the app. In the video below, Andy explains the many features of Master Pages in Affinity Publisher.
You can also learn about how to use Shape Tools, Assets, Pinning, Linking and embedding, Placing content, Picture frame tools, Baseline grids, Rulers, ruler guides and column guides , Page numbers, Sections and Pages in this category.
Become a master of text tools
We’ve also got a section for Text Tools, where you will learn the skills you need to create and manipulate text in Affinity Publisher. One of the most important text tools you will need to learn to get to grips with is the Frame Text Tool.
Other videos in this section include:
- Find and Replace
- Artistic Text Tool
- Text on a path
- Text wrapping
- Text styles
- Linked text frames
- Simple text
Make your designs stand out by learning typography features
In the Typography section, you can learn how to use the typography tools which will give your text another level of polish. Check out our video Characters: Advanced typography for a taster of this category.
Other videos in this section include:
- Paragraphs: Bullets, numbers and initial words
- Paragraphs: Text Ruler for indents and tabs
- Paragraphs: Alignment, leading and inter-paragraph spacing
- Characters: Special characters
- Characters: Optical alignment
- Characters: Kerning and tracking
- Characters: Fonts and font attributes
Learn about the advanced features of Affinity Publisher
In the Advanced category, you will learn how to get to grips with Affinity Publisher features such as Indexing, Table of contents and hyperlinks. Get started with these advanced features by watching our tutorial about Tables below:
StudioLink—interwork with Designer and Photo from within Affinity Publisher
StudioLink is a revolutionary feature of Affinity Publisher that allows you to instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without ever leaving the app. We have some video tutorials to show you how this could work for your workflow—dip your toe in by watching our video about how to apply creative live filters in the Photo Persona…
Other videos in this section include:
- Designer Persona: Vector Brush and Pencil Tool
- Photo Persona: Paint Brush Tool
- Photo Persona: Removing image areas
- Designer Persona: Multi-stroke/multi-fill effects
Export like a pro
The Publishing and Sharing section is where you get the lowdown on how to get your work exported for professional end use. Watch our video on how to publish a PDF for pro print:
In this category you can also learn about PDF publishing for web, Desktop printing and the Spot PANTONE colours.
These video tutorials all now available from the Welcome screen in Affinity Publisher itself and in our Affinity Publisher learning page on affinity.serif.com. We are adding to our video tutorials all the time so stay tuned!