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 guides
The « points of view »
The metadata

Workshop 1: Crop, straighten an image
Workshop 2: Create a document with bleed, add 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 scatter selection
Add / remove selection areas
Mask mode
Adjust selection

Workshops: cropping, manipulation of layers, 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 job

Workshop: 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: creation of 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 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 accurate
selection and precise positioning of objects
Duplicate objects and repeated operations

Workshop: Business card

Formats supported by Affinity Publisher
Importing images from Affinity Publisher
Importing multiple images
The Place Image panel
Choosing images to pose on the fly
Importing vector illustrations
Properties of image adjustments in relation to blocks
Properties of image adjustments in blocks
Convert a shape to an image block
Graphic effects: drop shadow, inner, outer glow …
Transparency and blend 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