#Affinity designer how to

Click on the menu, shown as small lines at the top right corner, and click on Manage Presets.Ĭlick on Create Category, give your category a name and then click Close. To better organize the presets we will create a category for them. Once you are done editing shapes, you can Convert to Curves to edit further with the Node Tool.Īfter spending time fine tuning a shape you may want to save it for future use. Each shape was copied, edited and filled with pink. In the examples below, the original shapes are filled with green.

These shapes can be edited to create many more shapes. Affinity Designer comes preloaded with 18 fun additional shapes. You are not restricted to simple circles or rectangles. To adjust the corners individually, uncheck Single Radius. Drag in the node and the shape becomes a circle. As you adjust this node, all the corners become more or less rounded. The corners are rounded with a single editing node. Click on the Rounded Rectangle Tool and draw out the shape. The editing tools are the same as with the Rectangle Tool. The Rounded Rectangle Tool is fairly obvious with rounded corners. Close Pie closes the circle if the Start and End angles have been adjusted. The Convert to Pie options features the same editing tools. The options include adjusting the Hole radius, the Start and End Angles and Invert Angles. The properties for the Donut shape will become available in the Editing options. In the Editing options at the top click on Convert to Donut. Click on the Ellipse Tool to select, then hold down Shift and Click + Drag out the shape. The Ellipse Tool includes two shortcut options to change to either a Donut or the Pie Tool. If you chose pixels as the units, then Absolute Sizes will change corners to pixels when selected.

The document units are selected when creating a new document. The Absolute Sizes option changes the percentage of the corner(s) to the Document units. The red nodes can be edited by clicking and dragging or changing the percentage of each corner. Change the TR (top right), BL (bottom left) and BR (bottom right) corners to however you choose. The percentage is set by default to 25% and can be adjusted. You have a choice of None (no change applied), Rounded, Straight, Concave and Cutout. Unchecked allows you to change each corner independently.Ĭhange the Top Left corner by clicking on TL in the editing options. When checked, all corners are adjusted at once. You can change the shape of the corners independently with Corner Type options.ĭraw out a rectangle then go to the Editing options at the top. The Rectangle and Round Rectangle Tool have a very cool editing option. A check mark will show next to it once selected. If the Transform tool is not visible, click the View menu at the top, then Studio and click on Transform. The size and position can be adjusted here. On the left side panel you will find the Rectangle Tool. At the bottom right is the Transform Tool. Holding Ctrl + clicking will keep the shape proportional. Once the shape has been converted to a curve these editing options will no longer be available. These nodes can be used to distort or change the shape. Once edited, the Rectangle will gain the red nodes. Shapes have red editing nodes, except for the Circle and Rectangle. The options will change according to the shape tool used. Here you will find a wider selection of shapes.Īt the top of the screen are the editing options for each shape. On the left side panel there are four options Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, Rounded Rectangle Tool and the Shape Selection Tool.Ĭlicking on the white arrow next to the Tear Tool opens the tool selection. Adjust your settings if required and click Create.Įach shape has its own set of editing options and is placed on its own layer. To get started, open Affinity Designer and select New Document.

#Affinity designer how to

New shapes created can then be saved as presets for later use. In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Shape Tools in Affinity. The designer has the option to edit, distort and change shapes as they choose. Affinity Designer offers basic geometric shape tools as a grounding for designs.