Affinity Designer- Design artistic text and Create Fonts

On September 6, 2018

In Affinity Designer , Udemy

Release date:2018, September

Duration:04 h 57 m

Author: Jeremy Hazel

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

What Will I Learn?
Create beautiful artistic based text for a variety of applications
Interface with Font Forge to import the vectors from Affinity Designer into the font creation program
Integrate text into advanced composite images to make your art come alive and convey a message
Master the tools like mask layers and adjustment layers to create complex vector based graffiti art

Requirements
Basic computer knowledge is a benefit
Whatever version of Affinity Designer is out there….loaded and ready to rock
A need to learn artistic text or font creation within the realm of Affinity Desire
The desire to actually apply what we are learning in the project based environment …we will do projects

Description
Thanks for checking out this brand new master’s course on text in Affinity Designer

The written word is one of the most powerful communication tools to ignite a feeling or move someone to action, and when combined with visually stunning presentation the result is nothing short of spectacular. This is why we created an ENTIRE COURSE ON ARTISTIC TEXT, TYPOGRAPHY AND FONT CREATION in Affinity Designer…to get you off and running with text that looks as good as your graphics, welcome to the master’s class.

We wrote the book on the most comprehensive Affinity Designer Course on the market today…and we have followed up the best seller with the first COMPLETE Course on the subject of text in Affinity Designer. We cover the concept of text from all angles, including:
· How to create advertising centric text composition and let the text sell your story
· How to create Graffiti and visual street art style images to evoke a reaction in the viewer
· How to integrate images with photo to create moving stories that are visually pleasing
· How to utilize the powerful tools in Designer to integrate with Font Forge and create your own font

We also covered the tried and true design principles common to ANY typography, so you get the design education as well as the technical know -how to get the job done. This course is taught from a perspective of PROJECT and WORKFLOW, each section contains:
· All the technical aspects you will need to master to get the projects completed
· Challenge guided projects in each section that build on knowledge gained in other lessons
· Field challenge to connect with the concepts actually out in the real world.

Included in the course you get:
· 40+ video lessons
· All the project files for each lesson to follow along
· Access to experienced instructors
· Access to social media support groups dedicated to Affinity Designer
· Lifetime Access to the course and ALL future updates and additions
· 7 different projects to jumpstart your creative portfolio

Who is the target audience?
Anyone looking to use text in ANY form within Affinity Designer , we cover design principles as well as technical application
Anyone looking to apply text to Tshirt design, advertising , website creation or anything else you can possibly place text on
Someone looking to grown their skillset by actually doing projects, we cover the technical items in each project…but at the end of the day we are creators

Table of Contents

Introduction to working with Text 27:05
Introduction 01:47
Opening a document and basic tools 04:57
Basics of Layers for text 04:53
Nesting Inside of a Text Layer 04:33
Adding Effects to Text 06:36
Make the font match the message 04:19
Text Challenge #1
Working with layers in Artistic text 22:48
Introduction to Pixel Layers 07:12
Introduction to Mask Layers 05:47
Introduction to Adjustment Layers 04:41
Where to get free fonts and images 05:08
Text Challenge #2- Create an urban decay texture 1 question
Introduction to typography working with words on paths 30:35
Introduction to the text panel 10:05
Terms in typography -3 step Process for spacing text 07:02
Text Challenge 3- Spacing for Text as design 1 question
Making paths for text 04:49
Placing text on paths 08:39
Text Challenge 4 – Applying text to path 1 question
Field Lesson 1- Placing test on the path 1 question
Creating a graffiti project in Affinity Designer 52:31
Basics of the pen tool 09:49
Converting text into curves and setting up the lesson 06:23
Create 3-D text using expand stroke option 06:05
Adding accents part 1 09:09
Adding Highlights to the Graffiti project 05:09
Accents part 2 09:54
Adding soft spots and finishing the design 06:02
Field Assignment 2- Street art 1 question
Typography and Font 14:52
Basics of Typography part 1 03:25
Setting up Affinity designer template for font creation in Font Forge 05:21
Creating a Font using Font Forge 06:06
Making a text composition 47:59
The Paragraph Panel De-mystified 09:41
Working with grids in Affinity Designer 05:44
Making a playbill with the paragraph panel 10:01
Adding contrast to complex font compositions 06:52
Creating a text style in Affinity Designer 06:37
Creating a composite text and image project 09:04
Advanced Artistic text composition technique 59:18
Basics of Blend modes in Affinity Designer 06:12
Basics of adjustment layers in Affinity Designer 05:24
Basics of selection in Affinity Designer 05:14
Spectre project- Setting up the composition 07:31
Spectre Project- Blend modes and adjusting the layers 09:00
Pixelating text and blending smoke in with the letters 10:00
Spectre project- Blending Smoke and Adding Adjustment Layers 05:47
Finishing and adjusting your composition 10:10
Integrating text with image -Bonus lectures and Projects 05:04
Cut away text 04:16
Closure and last thanks for a great course 00:48