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1. Welcome to this Course: Have you seen the new Sketch
Studio in Affinity on iPad? It's brilliant. It enables you to go
from sketch to vector to lay out all in the one app. I'd like to show you how to make that for the
desktop version. It's actually really quite easy. Have a look. Let's go.
2. Make the Sketch Studio: So let's set up Affinity on the desktop with
a Sketch Studio. Now, at the moment, I've just got the default
ones over here, vector Pixel layout
and Canva AI. And if you go just to the right of that, there
are three little dots. If you click on those, you'll see that you can
switch off other ones. Now, I don't want
to see Canva AI, so I'm going to switch
that one off and it will disappear from there. And this is where you
make your studio. So I'm going to say create Studio by clicking the
Create Studio button. Now, in on the iPad version, it's yellow, so
I'm going to click yellow over there to
choose the yellow color. You can, if you want to
tweak it a bit more, actually click on
the custom color and get an exact custom
color that you like. I'm going to keep mine
on that standard yellow. Down here, I can
choose the icon. Now, on the desktop version, it's like the little Apple
pencil, that one over there. So I've clicked
on this one here, and then I'm going
to go and name it, so I'm going to call it Sketch. You call anything you like. And I'm going to
click on Create. Now, I've got Sketch in there, but it's on the wrong
side because once again, on the iPad version, it's on the left hand side. Back to the T Little dots, and I'm just going
to drag it up here, right to the very
top above Vector. Where is it gone? But it's right at the very
top over there, and I'm happy with that. I don't click Create
Studio again. I just click off of
that, and now we've got our sketch area here. I
3. Adjust Your Tools: I've actually taken a
photograph of my iPad so that we can see you'll probably do it with
your iPad next to you, but I can't show you that. So I've got my iPad there, and I've clicked on the little question mark
down the bottom to show what all these things
actually are so we can actually work our
way through them and make them exactly the same. So let's start off over here by looking at the toolbar
on the left hand side. Now, the to bar has
got the move tool, then the paintbrush tool, then the Oh, let's
zoom in a bit, smudge tool, erased tool, and flood fill tool. And we have got these
little dividers between it. So I'm going to start
off doing that. Now I'm going to just
zoom out with this a little bit so it
doesn't get in the way. What I can do is I
can go to my toolbar. Now, I'm in sketch
at the moment, so I've got Sketch selected. I'm going to go to
my tool bar down the bottom to the three dots
and click the three dots. That takes me into the
customized tool area. Now, there are a lot of tools
here that I don't need. So in the customized area, if I go across to them,
I can just click. So this artboard tool, I'll just click
and drag that off, and I'll just remove all of
these ones that I don't want. Like that. That's very
satisfying when it goes poof and disappears. Now, I think there is a little
rectangle tool in there. If we have a quick look, yes, there's a rectangle tool. I'll leave that one
there. Let's get rid of the blend text. All these ones over here. There is a little
hand tool in there, but there is no Zoom tool. So presumably on your desktop, you're using Command plus
command minus or Control plus Control minus anyway
to zoom in and out. Now, I want to get the
next one in there, which is going to be, let's go over here,
the paintbrush tool. There are so many tools in
here that you can choose from because they're the ones from
all the different studios. So the fastest way to do it
is to start typing paint. And that shows me
the paintbrush tool, and I can just drag it and drop it straight in over there. Let me move across a bit. Over here, we've then
got the smudge tool. So once again,
smudge brush tool, and I'll drag that
one in down below it. Now, I've also above the
paint brush on my iPad, there's a separator
between those two. If I just take out
the word smudge, you can see we've got
little separators in here so I can
drag a separator between the arrow or the move tool and the paint
brush to separate them out. Now, when I add in
the rest of these, I'm not going to get you to
watch the whole process, so we're just going
to cut this here. But all I'm doing is looking
for the appropriate tool. I will just do one more
for you over here, and that's the erase brush tool. Do ERA for erase, erase, erase, brush tool, and once again, drag and drop it
straight in there. And then I'm putting
separators in as well. So we'll cut this here. I'll pick this up again
very, very shortly. It'll be instant for you,
but slightly longer for me, and I'll have all these tools correct from this little area. Now, I've got the
tools in that I want. You'll notice that
there is a cancel and a delete option on the iPad, which we don't have in
the desktop version, because you can use escape
to cancel something. You can use backspace or
delete to delete something. So I'm happy with those. I'm going to close this down. Let's just close that
little window down. And here is my interface so far. It's also put in the foreground,
the background color, which we don't have on
there or fill and stroke, depending on what
you're doing. H.
4. Set Up Your Panels: Now let's have a
look at the Whoops. Let's have a look at
the right hand side. So we've got a number
of panels in here, and I want the color panel, so I'm going to pull
out the color panel. I'm just going to put them
on the left hand side of my screen so we can
work with those. If you click on
the color panel on the desk on the iPad version. I also brings up the swatches, so I'm going to have the
swatches in there, too. And then we have
got the brushes. So I'm going to see if I can
find the brushes in here. Now, if I can't see the brushes, I'm going to go to the
window menu and then I can find the brushes
in here somewhere. Now, if you're not sure, just flick through until
you can find the brushes. Generally, they are in
the general setting because they can be used
in different areas. So I'm going to go over
to brushes in there. Be careful you don't pick up something like
the vector brushes. So I've got the brushes, which I will pull out, as well. Let's just pop that over there. Adjustments. Well, let's go with layers because
I can see the layers over there first. Then we need the adjustments. Now, I can't see them up here, so I'll go and find
them in here again. And let's go down to Pixel and
find adjustments in there. There we go. We've got the adjustments
panel, the navigator. I honestly don't
use the navigator, but we'll bring it
up there as well. And then we've got a
little space in there. And then an AI assistant
and a question mark. We don't have those
as separate panels, so I'll just leave
them as they are. Now, all the panels on the right hand side can
now be closed down. So I'm just pulling them
out one by one over here. Let's get rid of that, this one, and that one over there. You can, of course, go
to the right hand side, and you can just say
close panel group, which is a fast way to
get rid of them as well. Whichever way works for you. Now, let's set this up. So I'm going to start
off with color. I've actually taken
a photograph of my eye so we can in there. You'll probably do
it with your iPad next then I can
see what that is. So I've got my iPad watch. I'm going to a little
aches question mark down the bottom color I'm
going to the link areas. Actually I can do either so I can actually
work our way through them there and make them after that you've
got our layers. So, so Snels over here by looking below that bar
on the lower side. Now, the 2 bars layers, brush adjustments the
drag in Smudge tool, erased tool and just going. And we have got these little defined between it. So
I've forgotten about. I'm going to start
off doing that. So once again, I just a window mount with this a
little bit so it doesn't get in the way. What I'm looking for is
the quick Export option. I've got option to my tool bar. Quick Export. No,
I'm in skirts at this moment, I selected. I'm going to go to my
tool bar down the bottom. I think the three d
we got takes me into the customized under
the quick Q sport area. But I've forgotten,
there are a lot of tools here that I don't take the customized area and I between I can just
this artboard tool, I'll just lay off find out. I'll just remove all of these
ones that I don't want. I kind of want to
drop it between. That's very satisfying
when it goes over there. Poopen Now, drag is a little
rectangle tool and a color. In there, if you have would
click on a rectangle tool, very quickly. I'll
leave that clothes. Let's get bland, click layers, double click adjustments,
double claws Cole ones. And you can see
they're over here. Nice hand tool in there. That's like the button
you've got over here. So, presumably on your desktop. They using the
comdat plus command minus or Control plus.
What else have we got? Well, anyways, we've gotten
This little bar oh, now, here I want to get the next one's the same as this
one along the top. Now, we can't go
vertical like we do on the IP so many tools in hand you can choose because
there's the ones from. So I'm going to go
to the view studios. So I'm going to go down
to contact ties that. And I'm going to undo that shows me the page
brush that I can push. I can just drag it and
drop it wherever I want. So if I don't want
to maybe sort of similar to a bit over here, I can drop it sponge tool. Left hand to once again, I can also move
it out if I like. Smudge lastly lion in top here. Down below it. There's only
a few things in that bar. Of course, I'll just click
on the paint brush on mine brush panate as
I'm changing these, it doesn't have to bat. You can see we've got
little separators in here, you can drag separate. So if I go to the paint brush, I can sizes the
move to Look we've got in the the paint let's
have a look them out. Now at adjusting this
adding the rest of these tools on the
right hand side to get you to watch
the whole process. What I want case Edit A
I'm doing so I'm going to go to the You ment once
again, I will just do one. I'm going down over to Octo
bar and I'll just say Basis. So in the tar, is
amazing brush tool. Pull there and pull them down. I can once again getting
straight in there. Then they separate us
in That's w don't want. I don't want that cut this here. Pick this suf again.
You can even short. I'll be instant for you but tween along the lines
between I'll have all these tools of them correct
from this as well area. And finally, I'll remove
something that I want. That goes across. You'll
notice that there is very much like and
we've got in there. The only difference is
that we've actually had which we don't have Option which is the desktop version on the you can use escape
to cancel something. At this stage, you might also as you might want to hide your
Delete something in there. So we can do with those goose
the rulers downloho and hid here is my interface so fun Command put forward
foreground show and hide, which we don't have the on
there or fill and stroke, depending on what
you're actually doing. I think we're nearly there. We've got the same sort
of feel to the sketch. Now, what we need
to do is to save this as the default for sketch. So if you right click on Sketch, and we're going to go
down and we're going to say, Update Sketch Studio. So now remembers this layout. Now, if I go to a different out, let's say I go to
Vector over there. When I go back to Sketch, I've now got the tools in there. And if you do make any changes, if I just open up the navigator, go back to there, go back
again, it will open. I like to keep my brushes open. I'm not too worried about
the navigator, as I said, so I can then just flick
between the studios.
5. Well Done & Thank You: So now you can draw and
design in Sketch Studio, go across to Vector Studio
to do the vector lines, and then across to either Pixel or layout for the final work. I hope you like
this short course. Have a look at my
other Affinity courses for more in depth training. What do you think?
What do you think? Moo. Yes. Okay, off you go. I need
to talk to these people. Food you're very distracting.
Tim Wilson, Adobe Certified Instructor and Expert
