Affinity tailor-made training

Vector

  • Learn how to properly design without compromises
  • Learn how to create posters, flyers, content for social media and more

Pixel

  • Edit and process your photos with ease
  • Apply colour, edit skin and more, with professional tools

Layout

  • From flyers to magazines, publish your next piece with confidence
  • Create texts that flows and engage your audience with stunning compositions

Vector

Course Overview

This intensive training course covers the fundamentals of Affinity Designer, including vector graphics creation and image editing, tailored for beginners and those with experience in Adobe Illustrator. The course balances foundational concepts with advanced techniques to ensure participants gain confidence and proficiency.
Affinity Vector (group 5)
AWG.45010 hours
  • 5 classes of 2 hours each
  • Small group of 5
  • Certificate of completion
  • Final project piece
  • Online or presential
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Affinity Vector (Individual)
$75010 hours
  • 5 classes of 2 hours each
  • Personalised schedule
  • Certificate of completion
  • Final project piece
  • Online or presential
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Introduction and explanation 

  1. Course explanation and practice files info

Interface & navigation

  1. Welcome screen and Preferences
  2. Open and save files
  3. Overview of workspaces (Persona)
  4. The tools
  5. The windows (Studio Panels)
  6. Navigate, zoom (Viewing & Zooming)
  7. The navigation window (Navigator)

Start image editing

  1. Image size for screen
    production
  2. Image size and resolution for print
    (Print production)
  3. Adjust canvas size
    (Canvas)
  4. Cropping
    and straightening
  5. Adjust perspective
    (Perspective)
  6. Transform image
    (Transform)
 

The selection tools

  1. Painting selections in Quick Mask mode
  2. Getting acquired with selections and layers of info
  3. Anti-alias and doze
    (Feather)
  4. Combine free selection and selections
    (Freehand Selection Tool)
  5. Polygon lasso, save and load selection
    (Polygonal Tool)
  6. Make and Refine quick selection
    (Selection Brush Tool & Refine)
  7. Selecting color areas with the Magic Wand
    (Flood Selection Tool)

Working with text and shapes

  1. Drawing and shaping vector shapes
    (Shape)
  2. Combining vector shapes
    (Geometry)
  3. Place text and paragraphs
    (Artistic & Frame Text) 
  4. Formatting text and paragraphs
    (Character & Paragraph)
  5. Apply effects to text and shapes

Export and publish images

  1. Affinity File Exchange
  2. Types of export formats (Export)
  3. Export to Adobe Photoshop with.psd.
  4. PDF for print & printing (Print / Press)

Pixel

Course Overview

Affinity Photo is a very affordable photo editing program and a great alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other commercial programs. With Affinity Photo, you can creatively edit and/or optimize photos and images. In this course, you will learn to master Affinity.

Affinity Pixel (Group of 5)
AWG.75010 hours
  • 5 classes of 2 hours each
  • Small group of 5
  • Certificate of completion
  • Final project piece
  • Online or presential
Book Now
Affinity Pixel (Individual)
AWG.75010 hours
  • 5 classes of 2 hours each
  • Personalised schedule
  • Certificate of completion
  • Final project piece
  • Online or presential
Book Now

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Introduction and explanation

  1. Course explanation and practice files info

Interface & navigation

  1. Welcome screen and Preferences
  2. Open and save files
  3. Overview of workspaces (Persona)
  4. The tools
  5. The windows (Studio Panels)
  6. Navigate, zoom (Viewing & Zooming)
  7. The navigation window (Navigator)

Start image editing

  1. Image size for screen
    production
  2. Image size and resolution for print
    (Print production)
  3. Adjust canvas size
    (Canvas)
  4. Cropping
    and straightening
  5. Adjust perspective
    (Perspective)
  6. Transform image
    (Transform)

 

The selection tools

  1. Painting selections in Quick Mask mode
  2. Getting acquainted with selections and layers of info
  3. Anti-alias and doze
    (Feather)
  4. Freehand selection and combining selections
    (Freehand Selection Tool)
  5. Polygonal Lasso, Save and Load Selection
    (Polygonal Tool)
  6. Make a quick selection and Refine
    (Selection Brush Tool & Refine)
  7. Selecting color areas with the Magic Wand
    (Flood Selection Tool)

Working with text and shapes

  1. Drawing and shaping vector shapes
    (Shape)
  2. Combining vector shapes
    (Geometry)
  3. Place text and paragraphs
    (Artistic & Frame Text) 
  4. Formatting text and paragraphs
    (Character & Paragraph)
  5. Apply effects to text and shapes

Export and publish images

  1. Affinity File Exchange
  2. Types of export formats (Export)
  3. Export to Adobe Photoshop with .psd
  4. PDF for print & printing (Print / Press)

Layout

Course Overview

You will learn how to use the building blocks of Affinity Publisher, such as layouts, objects, text, and images. Additionally, layout tools like guidelines help with sizing and placement, while styles allow you to automatically format page elements. You will see how easy it is to produce documents, flyers, advertisements, and much more.

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Introduction and explanation

  1. Navigating the Publisher interface

Designing a document

  1. Creating a grid and page layout
  2. Working with page elements

Edit text

  1. Working with units of measurement (mm, points, picas)
  2. How text flows in a document
  3. Text boxes continuous
  4. text across multiple pages

Document settings

  1. Creating tables
  2. Export and import documents
  3. Embedding images in Layout
  4. document size margins layout
  5. Create master page
  6. layout page number Publisher

Image and Place tools

  1. Creating adjustment layers for effects
  2. Creating and managing layers and Masks
  3. Export options
  4. various formats such as PDF, PNG, and TIFF.
  5. Settings for print and web.