Affinity Designer Tutorial #30 - Layers Panel Video Lecture - Affinity

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hey guys ampere bringing you another
affinity designer tutorial and in this
tutorial we'll be going over the layers
panel so in this tutorial I have opened
up neon alleyway and it's one of the
sample works in affinity designer I
believe it is a French artist who
designed this and it's a beautiful piece
of artwork something one could even hang
in their house but today we're going to
be focusing on the layers panel so I
have brought the layers panel out you
can put it back here in folder view and
you can even take it out and I'm just
going to take it out to show you so the
first thing is up at the top we have
opacity so we can change the opacity of
a given layer if it's selected say these
green lights or if we select everything
we can change the opacity of everything
so after that we have expand and
collapse as you can see in this little
arrow it is a group so we have a window
glow so you can select different groups
and you can group different things in
layers if you hit the option key we have
two selected you can hit the option key
and come down to group or command G now
there are different symbol indicators as
well such as FX which will show you
different effects so this one has the
got assembler on and you can use this to
add effects by checking the boxes here
as well as below that there's edit all
layers which is another way of like
command a there's mask layers down here
and this creates a layer mask to reveal
a portion of the layer while the rest
away remains hidden there's an
adjustment layer right here which adds
adjustment layer to the current layer
for tonal or color correction you can
choose all the blend modes right now
we're on pass-through but you can see
there's different ways you can blend it
there's blend options under here so you
can change the source ranges and
underlying composure ranges and next to
that is locking and unlocking this
allows you to keep it how you want it as
it won't change if you accidentally move
something it will keep it locked so that
layer cannot be affected until you
unlock it
there's also hide and show where you can
hide or show different groups let's try
a group where it's a little more
noticeable here we go building lights Oh
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the affinity light right here so you can
check it on and off see or hide the
certain layer you can add a pixel layer
down here you can add another Pacer
layer or just a regular layer and you
can even delete layers entirely so this
is just an overview of the layers panel
I find it one of the most useful panels
in affinity designer I use it all the
time obviously if you're in the program
you're probably quite familiar with it
it's one of the most useful panels it
keeps everything organized I personally
do the same thing this artist has done
where when I grew up things I title it
I just find it keeps everything in its
place and really helps your flow of work
just an overall great tool that you can
use for anything and soon a designer and
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