Affinity Designer Tutorial #07-Convert to Curves Video Lecture | Affinity Photo Tutorials: Basics to Expert - Professional Skills

hey guys ampere bringing you another
affinity designer tutorial and in this
tutorial we'll be going over the convert
to curves tool this tool is very useful
for converting regular shapes or even if
you have made a in-depth selection of a
photo and you want to convert that photo
to curves you can even do that so we're
going to go over here and select a shape
and I'm going to select this double star
tool because it's a very interesting
shape for what we're doing and we're
going to make a quick selection right
here and when you come up to the top you
can edit a bunch of things about this
double star you can edit the stroke the
fill you can even edit the points of the
stars you can make a ton of points very
few points you can change the inner
radius something like that you can
change the point radius to something
like this so you can you play around
with this and one of the other options
up here is the convert to curves button
so if you select this it is now
converted to curves and you can come
over here to select the node tool and
now you can edit all of these nodes as
if you drew it with the pen tool now
this is really useful for creating
something out of shapes you've already
made so you can make a quick shape
something very basic and then edit it to
something else to make it your own now
you can even change everything as you
wish as if you drew it with the line
tool so you can come over here and
change these you can add nodes chain
something crazy and this is not a normal
shape you would be able to bake and it's
not something you would conventionally
draw with the pen tool now not only can
you use it with shapes but you can also
use it with text so if I come over here
and type something like something like
affinity and I come over here the thing
you have to keep in mind is text can
also be edited like the shape so you
have all of your selections and
adjustments you can make up here and
over here there's the convert to curves
button now the thing this changes is now
you can select individual portions of
your design as individual shapes and
then you could even edit this as if it
were drawn with the pen tool and you can
you could edit all of the letters
individually but now the problem with
this is that you can no longer change
font and all the other adjustments that
come along with the text tool so if we
revert back to before it was curves
you can see now you can edit the font
but after you convert to curves you can
no longer change the font so this is
useful for many different things such as
creating your own unique style of font
based off of another font it's useful
for adding a text to your design as you
want to stand out a little bit it makes
it pop more and it gives your own unique
twist on something that you're very
passionate about and adds to design
quite a bit it's really useful if one of
the shapes that's a premade shape like
square a circle is close to something
you're making it you don't want to go
through the task of drawing with the
line or the pen tool and it's really
useful for making very unique shapes
very quickly it's a more of a efficiency
over tasking kind of thing so that is
the convert to curves button and if you
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