Thank you for your kind feedback! There is always going to be Affinity Designer tutorials as ideas come along. For now there are quite a lot up on the channel, let me know if you have any questions. 😀👋
I loved your videos! I just entered the affinity designer world and I perceive the lack of tutorials or cool art examples in youtube. I saw that there is more of illustrator ones. And your videos were those really important and helpful to explain things that others doesn't. Thanks a lot for that! Would love to see more tutorials of your work and how to do more complex art!
Thank you so very much for taking the time and give me such a constructive feedback, much appreciated! Affinity Designer is vast I can say, the more I poke around, the more I realize it's value. On my end I would also like to see where these tutorials take you with designs, patterns, brushes, etc, and come up with. 😀👋👍
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thank you again!!! Seriously, it's crazy to have such amazing mega powerful potential and never get to fully express it. All the best man!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello good night, I hope you are very well. excellent explanation, I congratulate you, I loved it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 please upload more of this this program. regards👍🏻
Thank you for the great tutorial but there is one thing I cannot figure out. What is the fastest way to finish an open line. I’m creating a line with multiple turning points but I do not want to close the shape. How do I finish the line so I can then draw another line somewhere else and not have the new line connected to the end of the previous line?
The easiest way in my opinion is to create your closed path and when you when to continue from a specific point, use the scissors tool to break the path (below the context menu) into two anchor points and continue from there. Hope this helps, thank you! 😀 👋
In some many aspects it is! There are two major tools missing, the Shape Builder tool and the Blend tool. In my opinion that would be so helpful to everyone. 😀👋
Great video. I have one question please (anyone.) When using the pen tool, is there anyway to make the boarders less strong? I've been selecting "smart mode" outlining the area using a lot of small dots, then I hit "Select" and I make my adjustments. It works but the boarder is too hard- too clearly defined. Thanks.
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks. I don't know enough to even answer your question. With the pen I make a lot of little dots around the area. I hit select. Then I change the contrast, colors, etc. It looks to sharp around the edges. I want it to be softer or blend in more with the rest of the subject if possible.
@@MOAB-UT Then it seems that you are creating a corner point. If so, select the anchor point with the Node Tool and at the bottom of the contextual menu select smooth Point. I hope that helps. 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks. I clicked on NODE and just get an arrow that makes a box that doesn't do anything. Not sure it is making my selection area border any softer. I need to zoom in and fine select certain areas using the dots (Pen Tool.) Otherwise I would just use the selection brush tool. For example, say you wanted to only select a dogs NOSE. You use the pen and dots but after you make it darker, it does not blend in well with the rest of his face. I need a soft border. I've seen this in other tools- just not sure how to find it.
The Join command doesn’t work for me. I drew two straight lines and tried to join the bottoms. The tops ended up joining instead. I then drew the lines again, but this time bottom to top to see if the direction of creation would make a difference and it did not. Why doesn’t this work?
Good question! So I drew one path, duplicate it, select both paths from the Layers Studio, marquee select the top nodes and ran the Join command and join the top two nodes. Use the Reverse action to reverse the top nodes, marquee select the bottom nodes and use the Join action. It works on my end TheNordicHunter. Thank you for watching! 😀
Elias Sarantopoulos Still not working. This is driving me nuts. It shouldn’t be complicated or require the paths to be reversed. It should work with any two nodes selected. After selecting each layer, I use the pen tool in edit mode to select the nodes and then press join. That’s correct isn’t it? I appreciate your help.
What I recommend is to connect with me and we can exchange emails so I can share with you. You can find my credentials at the end of each video, if you wish. 😃
Elias Sarantopoulos I may do this, but in the meantime I wanted to share what I have now discovered and hopefully it will help others that are maybe experiencing the same thing. Feel free to try this also so you can see what I’m experiencing. I noticed something with each time that I tried. Distance. If you draw a 90 degree vertical line and then duplicate it and move it to the right horizontally, you can join the blue colored nodes whether they are on top or bottom. But if you draw an angled line and then mirror it to the right with some space in between, it won’t matter which ends are blue, because only the closest ends will join. So when there is equal space, only the blue nodes will join. If there’s an unequal distance, the shorter distance always wins. Not sure why they would make it work this way.
That is a very correct observation, I have experienced the same and that's why when I have two horizontal lines side by side I would use the Reserve action to join either the bottom or the top nodes. Thing is, at least myself, most of the times if not always I draw smooth points so I don't bump into this issue. Great comment and feedback, thank you TheNordicHunter! 🙏😃
@pink tweedy - "None the wiser" in what way? What was it you were hoping to learn but didn't? For me, the Elias' video completely clarified the pen tool.
Man, these companies should hire Elias to do their tutorials. Any time I'm struggling to get the hang of something, i check this channel.
Thank you for your constructive feedback Mr. Muncy! 🙏😀
The best explanation on the pen tool in Affinity designer for iPad!
You are so very kind, thank you! 🙏😀
Just starting to learn AD on the iPad and your tutorials are really helping. Thank you
So great to hear that, thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
Best in the world. Thanks man!
Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated! 😊👍
Very nice tutorial. thank you.
Thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
Amazing tutorial. I don’t know why the others can’t explain this as good as you. Would love more affinity tutorials for iPad from you!
Thank you for your kind feedback! There is always going to be Affinity Designer tutorials as ideas come along. For now there are quite a lot up on the channel, let me know if you have any questions. 😀👋
I loved your videos! I just entered the affinity designer world and I perceive the lack of tutorials or cool art examples in youtube. I saw that there is more of illustrator ones.
And your videos were those really important and helpful to explain things that others doesn't.
Thanks a lot for that! Would love to see more tutorials of your work and how to do more complex art!
Thank you so very much for taking the time and give me such a constructive feedback, much appreciated! Affinity Designer is vast I can say, the more I poke around, the more I realize it's value. On my end I would also like to see where these tutorials take you with designs, patterns, brushes, etc, and come up with. 😀👋👍
Super clear tutorial. Thanks Elias for all your works. Great job .
You are very welcome and thank you for your feedback! 😀 👋
thank you! this was actually better than affinity’s tutorials lol
Thank you Marco for the constructive feedback! 😀
Thank you so much for the vid, extremely useful!!!!!
Thank you José much appreciated, glad it helped you. 😀 👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thank you again!!! Seriously, it's crazy to have such amazing mega powerful potential and never get to fully express it. All the best man!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@migmagingenieria Amen to that, very kind of you José! 😀 🙏😀
Hi! what is the difference between the vector pen and vector brush tool?
Thank you for your very detailed Designer videos!
Pen tool draws shapes, vector brush paints. 😀 👋
That was the most helpful video! Thank you so much for sharing.
Great to hear that, thank you so very much for your feedback! 😀 👋
Hello good night, I hope you are very well. excellent explanation, I congratulate you, I loved it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 please upload more of this this program. regards👍🏻
Wait for the next one Cris and thank you for your encouragement!! 🙏😀
Thank you for the great tutorial but there is one thing I cannot figure out. What is the fastest way to finish an open line. I’m creating a line with multiple turning points but I do not want to close the shape. How do I finish the line so I can then draw another line somewhere else and not have the new line connected to the end of the previous line?
The easiest way in my opinion is to create your closed path and when you when to continue from a specific point, use the scissors tool to break the path (below the context menu) into two anchor points and continue from there. Hope this helps, thank you! 😀 👋
Awesome I watched it three times
Pen tool does take time to grasp, the more you practice the easier it gets. Thank you! 😀👋
You just answered on of my questions…how to draw a straight line in Affinity 👍🏻
I hope I did more than that 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos lol, you definitely did 😄 I didn’t know most of the Pen Tool techniques you demonstrated 👍🏻
@@pinktreeportfolio1450 Graat to hear that! Thank you 😀👋
nice tutorial, very clear
I wish it was the same with AD's background on the Ipad, very poor choice for such a great app
Thank you Stefano, much appreciated! 😀 👋
Lovely
Thank you Akhter! 😀👋
Very clear and concise manner of explaining how to use a tool. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your constructive feedback! 🙏😀
Gràcies!
Thank you very much! 🙏 👋
Very nice tutorial, love it ❤️
Thank you for your feedback, glad you enjoyed it! 😀 👋
Nice, very helpful!
Thank you N W, much obliged! 😀👋
Informative and well paced, thank you for this tutorial.
Goldameir Clemente Thank you for your constructive feedback, much appreciated! 😀🙏
I must say for now AD is more powerful on the Ipad than Adobe Illustrator. I mean so much stuff!!!
In some many aspects it is! There are two major tools missing, the Shape Builder tool and the Blend tool. In my opinion that would be so helpful to everyone. 😀👋
Thank you!!
You are most welcome, thank you as well Anis! 😀 👋
That is EPIC, thank you so much.
Thank you Dr. Nephario, much appreciated! 😀 👋
Great video. I have one question please (anyone.) When using the pen tool, is there anyway to make the boarders less strong? I've been selecting "smart mode" outlining the area using a lot of small dots, then I hit "Select" and I make my adjustments. It works but the boarder is too hard- too clearly defined.
Thanks.
Do you mean the Stroke size of the path?
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks. I don't know enough to even answer your question. With the pen I make a lot of little dots around the area. I hit select. Then I change the contrast, colors, etc. It looks to sharp around the edges. I want it to be softer or blend in more with the rest of the subject if possible.
@@MOAB-UT Then it seems that you are creating a corner point. If so, select the anchor point with the Node Tool and at the bottom of the contextual menu select smooth Point. I hope that helps. 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thanks. I clicked on NODE and just get an arrow that makes a box that doesn't do anything. Not sure it is making my selection area border any softer. I need to zoom in and fine select certain areas using the dots (Pen Tool.) Otherwise I would just use the selection brush tool. For example, say you wanted to only select a dogs NOSE. You use the pen and dots but after you make it darker, it does not blend in well with the rest of his face. I need a soft border. I've seen this in other tools- just not sure how to find it.
@@MOAB-UT when you say you use this in other apps/tools what's the name of that tool?
wow, thanks
Yeah, Pen tool rules them all, can't live without it. Thank you! 😀
What files can be daddy in Affinity Designer such as CDR files?
I am sorry I don't quite understand. Do you mean which files can be opened in Affinity Designer?
LOVE IT
Francesco Fabbri Thank you so very much! 🙏😀
How do I reverse the layout ؟؟؟
Not sure how understand the question, what are you trying to reverse? The layout is one. 😀
@@EliasSarantopoulos The drawing you drew Pen Tool, like a half heart at 8:20
I duplicate the layer and try to reverse it as my example :)
@@Adeeeeelr Create a dublicate from the Edit menu and inside the Transform Studio Flip it Horizontally. Try that and let me know if you wish. 😀👋
@@EliasSarantopoulos Thank you very much, I am new to the program and I am learning from your lessons ^_^..
@@Adeeeeelr Affinity Designer is just such a graat piece of software, so many great features. Thank you so very much for your feedback and support! 😀👋
The Join command doesn’t work for me. I drew two straight lines and tried to join the bottoms. The tops ended up joining instead. I then drew the lines again, but this time bottom to top to see if the direction of creation would make a difference and it did not. Why doesn’t this work?
Good question! So I drew one path, duplicate it, select both paths from the Layers Studio, marquee select the top nodes and ran the Join command and join the top two nodes. Use the Reverse action to reverse the top nodes, marquee select the bottom nodes and use the Join action. It works on my end TheNordicHunter. Thank you for watching! 😀
Elias Sarantopoulos Still not working. This is driving me nuts. It shouldn’t be complicated or require the paths to be reversed. It should work with any two nodes selected. After selecting each layer, I use the pen tool in edit mode to select the nodes and then press join. That’s correct isn’t it? I appreciate your help.
What I recommend is to connect with me and we can exchange emails so I can share with you. You can find my credentials at the end of each video, if you wish. 😃
Elias Sarantopoulos I may do this, but in the meantime I wanted to share what I have now discovered and hopefully it will help others that are maybe experiencing the same thing. Feel free to try this also so you can see what I’m experiencing. I noticed something with each time that I tried. Distance. If you draw a 90 degree vertical line and then duplicate it and move it to the right horizontally, you can join the blue colored nodes whether they are on top or bottom. But if you draw an angled line and then mirror it to the right with some space in between, it won’t matter which ends are blue, because only the closest ends will join. So when there is equal space, only the blue nodes will join. If there’s an unequal distance, the shorter distance always wins. Not sure why they would make it work this way.
That is a very correct observation, I have experienced the same and that's why when I have two horizontal lines side by side I would use the Reserve action to join either the bottom or the top nodes. Thing is, at least myself, most of the times if not always I draw smooth points so I don't bump into this issue. Great comment and feedback, thank you TheNordicHunter! 🙏😃
Why is your profile pic "e" ?
What a great observation thank you! It's my initial but also in Japanese the letter E is very meaningful. 😀👋
Towards the end it’s too rushed, with little explanation.
It's hard to catch each one's pace but thanks for the feedback. 😀 👋
Let’s go ahead and say go ahead too much
Still none the wiser, sorry.
Sorry to hear that! 👋
@pink tweedy - "None the wiser" in what way? What was it you were hoping to learn but didn't? For me, the Elias' video completely clarified the pen tool.
@@MarkManSC That's very kind of you! 😀🙏