Affinity Designer 1.8. From Zero To Superhero (Udemy.com)
A beginner’s guide to Affinity Designer 1.8. Learn how to use the hottest piece of design software on the market
Created by: Dawid Tuminski
Last updated April 2020
What you will learn
- Affinity Designer 1.8 from the basic to inermediate level
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Overall Score : 90 / 100
Course Description
If you’ve been looking for a cheaper and yet super powerful alternative to Adobe’s products, now you’ve found it.
This course is all about you learning how to use Affinity Designer in its latest, 1.8 version.
It’s a beginner’s comprehensive guide that will allow you to independently use all the tools and effects to create any design you wish.
And Designer now comes with A LOT of new features and improvements, covered in this course. Such as:
Multiple fills and strokes
Pen tool with rubber band mode for easier curves creation
Shape tools with custom presets
and hundreds of little tweaks and improvements!
This update is all about new features and tools, but also hundreds of little tweaks and enhancements that make using this software so much better.
And this course is all about getting you from the zero up to the superhero level.
That means you will learn all the basics that you need to get started, but also discover more advanced features of the software.
The true goal of this course is to give you all the knowledge you need to, ultimately, use Affinity Designer independently.
And if you've been holding out on picking up Designer, for whatever reason, now is the time to join the Affinity revolution.
Version 1.8 is a huge step forward in the development of the software that makes using Designer the best decision ever.
Here’s just a fraction of goodies you will find inside:
How to create new documents, templates and artboards
How to create, customize and transform your artwork, using new shape presets, Pen tool and Point Transform tool
How to work with text, including text on a path
How to use the most important panels, like the Layers, Stroke or History
Plus all the supporting files used throughout the course
Basically, all the things you will need to take your own designs from drawing the very first node to the last click on the Export button.
And don't forget that I am here for you - if you have a question regarding the course, ask away and I will gladly answer it.
Hope to see you inside!
Dawid
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
58 Reviews
Dawid Tuminski
Designer, coder and educational entrepreneur.
Adobe Certified Expert in Illustrator whose courses were listed in the Udemy's TOP 10 best reviewed courses.
Creating online courses on design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, logo design, web design, graphic design freelancing, online teaching and digital marketing .
Teaching +100k students in 160 countries worldwide.
Owner of a graphic design studio.
Loves the freedom of creating courses and prides in his teaching method, which is straight to the point and with a smile.
His motto: Boring instructors are worse than boring topics!
His students value his courses for their conciseness, professionalism and actionable tips and techniques they can apply in their day-to-day design tasks and online education businesses.
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Reviews
By Terry Quinalty on 6/13/2021
I am far from a beginner using Affinity Designer. However, I have learned much from this course. I like that Dawid has created short lectures covering short topics. It is easy to use this course as a reference document because the lecture titles relate to succinct topics (i.e., individual tools, techniques, functions etcetera).
By Andrew McCarthy on 3/19/2021
The course over all was basic, which as the description was a beginner's guide, I did however think there might have been a few working examples of the design aspect. over all it was a good course for someone who is completely new to this program
By Janice Hogan on 2/22/2021
Thanks, Dawid, for another great class. Good overview of the changes in AD 1.8. There are no assignments to complete, but to be sure I was understanding what he was teaching, I went ahead and tried to recreate whatever art he had used in his demonstration. This was very useful to me because I was able to do a pretty good job, even without any step-by-step instructions. Showed me I'm starting to get the hang of creating designs in AD.
By Annika Bowen on 2/10/2021
It has been very clear for me to understand what to do and expect from Affinity so far. I am at a very beginning stage of learning so am appreciating the detailed explanations.
By Christian Carrasco González on 9/15/2020
It's a great course for beginners into affinity design, it explains with ease about the tools and how to use them, great to learn the basics of the whole program, obviously only for beginners, it has great content, and the instructor gives clear explanation on how to use.
By Julianna Zdunich on 7/4/2020
this was a good introductory course - I would not say that I now have superhero skills, but he covered the basics and introduced some new concepts to me. I would have liked to have had several pen tool and shape (for combinations) worksheets.
By Deborah Williamson on 5/20/2020
This was a good basic course for learning Affinity Designer. I wish there were more projects in it to really get hands on with it.
By Dee Tav on 5/6/2020
It was a very good course. The only problem I had was that I am using Affinity Designer for the Ipad and this was for the Desktop so it took me a little longer to get through it. But it was explained very well. Thank you.
By Maria Marsili-Cappon on 5/5/2020
I have spent some time using Affinity Designer. This course answered several questions I had and showed some options I didn't realize existed. Only down fall was it would occasionally stop in the middle of a lesson causing me to selection a spot further in the lesson to continue. Thanks
By Mary Schirmbeck on 5/5/2020
The features were explained very well along with visuals to see how the specific tools worked. The course went at a good pace, not too slow or fast. I went thru the course just watching and listening, and plan to go back thru applying the different features to my specific designing. Thank you!












