• Introduction
    • What is Affinity Designer?
    • Key features
    • About Personas
    • Switching Personas
  • Get Started
    • Create new documents
    • Create new documents from clipboard contents
    • Open documents and images
    • Document setup
    • About bit depth
    • Embedding documents
    • Viewing
    • Zooming
    • Pan/Scroll the Document view
    • Gestures
  • Artboards
    • About artboards
    • Adding and removing
    • Selecting, moving and resizing
    • Renaming and viewing
    • Aligning and distributing
    • Design aids
    • Color and opacity
    • Exporting
    • Printing
  • Drawing curves and shapes
    • About curves and shapes
    • Draw curves and shapes
    • Edit curves and shapes
    • About geometric shapes
    • Draw and edit shapes
    • Cornering shapes
  • Color
    • About color
    • Color models
    • About color spaces
    • Color management
    • Using OpenColorIO
    • Selecting colors
    • Sampling colors
    • Global colors
    • Spot colors
    • Overprinting
    • Color chords
    • Gradient editing
    • Transparency
    • Transparency editing
  • Layers
    • About layers
    • Creating layers
    • Selecting and editing layers
    • Arrange/manage layers
    • Layer opacity
    • Layer blending
    • Layer blend ranges
    • Layer clipping
    • Layer masking
    • Using adjustment layers
  • Object control
    • Selecting objects
    • Grouping objects
    • Duplicating objects
    • Aligning objects
    • Joining objects
    • Compound objects
    • Distributing objects
    • Ordering objects
    • Targeting objects
    • Isolating objects
    • Transforming objects
    • Rotating and shearing objects
    • Rasterizing objects
    • Converting objects to curves
    • Styles
    • Paste Style and FX
    • Assets
    • Symbols
    • Object defaults
  • Vector painting
    • Painting brush strokes
    • Modifying brush strokes
    • Creating custom brushes
    • Pressure sensitivity
  • Pixel painting
    • Painting pixel brush strokes
    • Modifying pixel brushes
    • Creating custom pixel brushes
    • Erasing
    • Retouch
  • Text
    • Working with text
    • Art text
    • Frame text
    • Text on a path
    • Character formatting
    • Paragraph formatting
    • OpenType font features
    • Special characters
    • Spelling
    • Text Styles
      • Using text styles
      • Creating and managing text styles
      • Removing text styles
      • Text style types
  • Media
    • Place images
    • Media Browser
  • Selections
    • Creating pixel selections
    • Range pixel selections
    • Sampled color pixel selections
    • Modifying pixel selections
    • Refining pixel selection edges
    • Creating outline selections
  • Saving and sharing
    • Save
    • Export
    • Print
    • Share
  • Exporting
    • Exporting using Export Persona
    • Export Options panel
    • Slices panel
    • Layers panel
  • Design Aids
    • Using undo, redo and history
    • Clip to Canvas
    • Rotate canvas
    • Grids
    • Projections
    • Guides
    • Margins
    • Rulers
    • Measuring guides
    • Dynamic guides
    • Snapping
    • Force Pixel Alignment
    • Constraints
    • Using snapshots
    • Assistant Manager
  • Layer effects (FX)
    • Using layer effects
    • 3D Effect
    • Bevel/Emboss
    • Color Overlay
    • Gaussian Blur
    • Gradient Overlay
    • Inner Glow
    • Inner Shadow
    • Outer Glow
    • Outer Shadow
    • Outline
  • Adjustments
    • Applying adjustments
    • Black and White
    • Brightness and Contrast
    • Channel Mixer
    • Color Balance
    • Curves
    • Exposure
    • Gradient Map
    • HSL
    • Invert
    • Lens Filter
    • Levels
    • LUT
    • OCIO (OpenColorIO)
    • Posterize
    • Recolor
    • Selective Color
    • Shadows/Highlights
    • Soft Proof
    • Split Toning
    • Threshold
    • Vibrance
    • White Balance
  • Workspace
    • Visual Reference
    • At a glance
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Workspace modes
    • Toolbar
    • Persona Toolbar
    • Context toolbar
    • Tools
      • Design Tools
        • Move Tool
        • Node Tool
        • Corner Tool
        • Pen Tool
        • Pencil Tool
        • Vector Brush Tool
        • Fill Tool
        • Transparency Tool
        • Artboard Tool
        • Place Image Tool
        • Vector Crop Tool
        • Color Picker Tool
        • Pixel Tool
        • Erase Brush Tool
        • Flood Fill
        • View Tool
        • Zoom Tool
      • Shape Tools
        • Rectangle Tool
        • Ellipse Tool
        • Rounded Rectangle Tool
        • Triangle
        • Diamond
        • Trapezoid
        • Polygon
        • Star
        • Double Star
        • Square Star
        • Arrow
        • Donut
        • Pie
        • Segment
        • Crescent
        • Cog
        • Cloud
        • Callout: Rounded Rectangle
        • Callout: Ellipse
        • Tear
        • Heart
        • Cat
      • Text Tools
        • Artistic Text Tool
        • Frame Text Tool
      • Selection Tools
        • Marquee Selection
        • Selection Brush
      • Retouch Tools
        • Dodge Brush
        • Burn Brush
        • Smudge Brush
        • Blur Brush
        • Sharpen Brush
      • Export Tools
        • Slice Tool
    • Panels
      • 32-bit Preview panel
      • Assets panel
      • Brushes panel
      • Character panel
      • Color panel
      • Constraints panel
      • Effects panel
      • History panel
      • Layers panel
      • Navigator panel
      • Paragraph panel
      • Snapshots panel
      • Stroke panel
      • Styles panel
      • Swatches panel
      • Symbols panel
      • Text Styles panel
      • Tools panel
      • Transform panel
    • More
      • Changing UI appearance
      • Preferences
      • Expressions for field input
    • Customize
      • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Workspace
      • Tools panel
      • Toolbar
  • Appendix
    • System requirements
    • Import and export file formats
    • Contacting us
    • Copyrights