Affinity Designer had an upgrade and one of the new tools is the Shape Builder tool. Are you looking for a way to easily create individual shapes from a group of overlapping lines and color each shape individually. Now you can do this in Affinity Designer with the Shape Builder tool.

In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will create several color palettes from only one color. With just this one color, Designer can automatically create color palettes, called color chords. Follow the steps below to create your own color chords from your favorite color swatch.

In this Skillshare course entitled Illustrator Basics: The Shape Builder Tool, Dylan Mierzwinski shares one of her favorite Illustrator tools and shows how it enhances her workflow. She includes four downloadable pdfs that are step-by-step instructions for creating cute monster graphics.

In this Skillshare course entitled Bends and Blends in Adobe Illustrator, Helen Bradley takes you step-by-step through her process for making beautiful geometric art using the Bend and Blend tools in Adobe Illustrator.

In this Skillshare course, entitled Mandala Creation With Affinity Designer, Aldara B. Dios shares her techniques for creating beautiful mandalas.

Whether coloring can really release stress is true or not, adult coloring books have been popular for some time. You can even buy them on Amazon. In fact, some of the self published adult coloring books have become best sellers. So I decided to do a little research about the subject.

In this Affinity Designer 2 tutorial, we will learn how to customize the Tools panel. Each artist has a unique way to create art, customizing the Tools panel to match that process is very important to the artistic workflow. You will find that the Tools panel in Affinity Designer 2 is very flexible.

We have discussed a few commonly requested changes for the Affinity Designer user interface. Below, we have step-by-step instructions for making those changes.

Affinity Designer 2 customize user interface. How to change color and contrast setting for the User Interface, custom presets for the snapping behavior and Tools panel and a special stroke default setting in the Stroke panel.

In the previous Affinity Designer 2 tutorial, we set up the basic line that we will use to create a country style plaid pattern. Now it's time to duplicate that line downward from the top to bottom of the Canvas