About the Affinity PAO suite, Photo, Designer, Publisher: History, Use, Features, Daily life, References.

Bitmap or Vector. Colorimetric modes: RGB, CMYK. The different representations of color. The native formats AFPHOTO, AFDESIGN, AFPUB.
Common formats: PSD, AI, EPS, SVG, PDF, TIFF, JPEG

Creation of a new “default” document
The workspace, preferences: performance and history

Workshop: the characteristics of an image

Open an image
Size and resolution of the document
Canvas
Margins
Rulers and marks
The « points of view »
Metadata

Workshop 1: Cropping, straightening an image
Workshop 2: Creating a document with bleed, adding margins

The basic selection tools
Creates a new layer from a selection
Rename layers
Pass a layer from one document to another
Play on the proportions and angle of a layer
Change the order of the layers
Activate the magnetism
Tools selection brush and selection by dispersion
Add / remove selection areas
Mask mode
Adjust selection

Workshops: cropping, layer manipulation, photomontages

Basic recording
Formats intended for paper printing
Formats intended for the WebDesigner, understanding the fundamentals

Creation of a new document
Predefined parameters: print, printing (proof), photo, web, devices
The workspace
Ruler, origin of rules, guides, guide manager, grid
Magnetism
Adding work planes
Navigation in the planes Workshop work
: creation of a simple illustration

Creating simple shapes
Color selection window
Selection
tool Node tool
Anchor points
Movements and transformations of simple shapes
The Rotation tool
Using layers and clipboard

Workshop: creating a simple illustration

Using the Bézier curve tools:
The Pen
tool Node tool
Options for converting points, actions, alignment

Workshop: squaring the circle

The Dynamic Control bar and the Layers panel
Outline
modifications Fill modifications
Color and Swatches panel
Generate a color palette from an image
Create and modify gradients
Fill
tool Transparency tool
Add an outline
Transform an object aspect into graphic style
Symbol Panel
Exchange of graphic styles and symbols

Workshop: redraw a logo in vector from an altered jpeg image

Free, captive and curvilinear
text Convert text to curves
Character and paragraph style
Exchange of character and paragraph styles

Workshop: Business card

Basic registration:
Formats intended for paper printing
Formats intended for Web
Export Persona

Creation of a new document
Predefined / personalized parameters
Creation of a predefined document
The workspace:
Display of rulers and grids, characteristics of rulers, origins and creation of guidelines.
The different shape tools
The selection tool
The attributes # 1: outline and fill
colors
Color selector Outline color and thickness
Transformation and movement of objects
Alignment and distribution of objects
Constraint keys
Creation of dimensional objects exact
Selection and precise positioning of objects
Duplication of objects and repeated operations

Workshop: Business card

Formats supported by Affinity Publisher
Image import from Affinity Publisher
Import multiple images
The Place Image panel
Choose images to pose on the fly
Import vector illustrations
Properties of image adjustments in relation to blocks
Properties of adjustments of the images in the blocks
Convert a shape into an image block
Graphic effects: drop shadow, internal, external glow …
Transparency and blending modes

Workshop: Make an A3 poster

Reminder on the types of fonts:
Serif / Sans Serif
Fixed width
Character
settings : font style, size, approach, kerning, line spacing … Text blocks and options
Texts in columns
Chaining
Texts on lines
Text formatting
List bulleted
Numbered list
Insertion of glyphs
Objects: text wrapping

Workshop: Make an A4 front – back 3 pane brochure

Export in pdf for printing
Settings and options
Export in pdf for the web
Settings and options

Using the Bézier curve tools
Reminder of the basics of geometry
The pen tool
Adding / removing an anchor
point Point conversion tool
Bézier workshop: the basics

Precise trimming of a complex shape using the pen tool
Converting curves to a selection area
Save its curves

Workshop: trimming using the pen tool

White
balance Dark tones / light tones
Analysis of the RGB / CMYK histogram
Analysis of the histogram of the separated layers
Adjustments according to the needs of the image:
Curves, levels, channel mixer

Workshop: correcting the colorimetry of an image

The Pages panel
Navigation between pages
Inserting pages
Moving pages
Deleting pages
Templates or standard pages
Creation and application of templates Page
numbering (folio)

Workshop: Formatting an article on 2 double pages

Use of paragraph styles
Creation of the table of contents
Layout and update of the table

Workshop: Create a table of contents on a multi-page document, update it after modifications

Default libraries Library
behavior
Create your own library
Delete libraries
Delete library items

Workshop: Create a library and share it