Affinity Designer Tutorial #03- Shape Tool Video Lecture | Affinity Photo Tutorials: Basics to Expert - Professional Skills

hey guys up here bringing you the third
opinion designer tutorial and in this
tutorial I'll be showing you guys how to
use the shape tool now there are a few
shape tools in affinity designer and
they're all right here and all
represented by different shapes so
they're right over here there's for
starting off with the rectangle tool the
ellipse tool the rounded rectangle tool
and the polygon tool the polygon tool if
you hold on it or drag down you can come
up with all of these different forms of
the polygon tool you can just click drag
out with any of the shapes you can also
click and drag if you hold shift it will
make a perfect shape so this is holding
shift for the circle tool this is not
making any lips now when you have a
shape selected you can come up here and
grab your move tool and you can move
your shape around this means your shape
is selected so you can also change the
fill color and the stroke color and you
can change the stroke thickness now all
these shapes will create new layer tools
and if you go into the node tool on them
you can shift these points to make
variants on your shapes and the move
tool allows you to move different shapes
in two different places and you can even
combined two of the shapes to overlap
and come in here select this move this
all it down and you can make more shapes
with them grouped you can make shapes
within shapes and if you come into the
polygon tool you can select any number
of
these you can make more more pointed
less pointed you can change our number
of points up here so like here's 18
points you can make it up
here's 48 you just keep increasing you
want to do more and more as you can
change different radii points appear on
different tools now all these tools have
different things you can do to edit them
so these orange little node things
allowed you to change different aspects
of the shape right here and you could
you can tell if it's symmetrical when
these red lines come up versus green
lines so now you know the shapes the
same there's a bunch of different tools
you can play around with there that
allow you to change different things
about them and the shape tool is really
useful if you have a shape that needs to
be done really quickly but you don't
want to trace anything out it's a great
tool to use in conjunction with the pen
tool and if you want to see how to use
the pen tools in a previous video but it
allows you to create more than just
stock shapes so if you need a certain
sort of stock shape if you're creating
like a logo or something the shape tool
is great for this you can even add text
to certain shapes and everything and add
different variants to your shapes you
can customize your shapes really 10 to
no end and it's a great great tool I use
it for making small drawings like you
can make like a quick snowman right here
you can make something quick like this
they come up and make a quick snowman
like this it's good for making quick
look little doodles here and there it's
great if you're doing something like a
prison
you need something like an arrow to
point to something in your presentation
you can really customize all of your
shapes and everything it's great for
really adding a new new layer chair
effects you can make sort of comics if
you want with the text bubble so all
these shapes are really good for quick
doodles and the shape tool also works in
conjunction with these buttons up here
and allow you to rearrange your things
and it's a really great tool takes full
advantage of most of the tools in
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thinking on doing a sort of speed
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just go through and I'm in a fitting
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think let me know what you think about
that I'm just gonna go and make some
random art and just do a speed run
through it and I'm gonna set it some
background music and that's what's up
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speed drawing tutorial or just to speed
drawing in general very soon so uh stay
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