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Affinity Publisher for Beginners | Updated for Version 2

teacher avatar Affinity Revolution, Affinity Instructor

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Class Introduction

      1:57

    • 2.

      Download the Class Files

      0:26

    • 3.

      Affinity Publisher Overview

      0:15

    • 4.

      Starting a New Document

      3:15

    • 5.

      Affinity Publisher's Workspace

      5:14

    • 6.

      Mac vs. PC

      1:53

    • 7.

      Navigating in Affinity Publisher

      2:00

    • 8.

      Working with Layers

      5:34

    • 9.

      Move Tool

      3:26

    • 10.

      Artistic Text Tool

      3:15

    • 11.

      Adding Images

      1:50

    • 12.

      Saving & Exporting

      2:56

    • 13.

      Wedding Invitation Project

      10:09

    • 14.

      Adding Style to Your Design

      0:13

    • 15.

      Adding New Fonts

      5:37

    • 16.

      Free Photos and Graphics!

      3:04

    • 17.

      Linked vs. Embedded Photos

      6:04

    • 18.

      Shapes for Beginners

      2:33

    • 19.

      Fill Color & Stroke

      4:31

    • 20.

      Matching Colors

      1:31

    • 21.

      Stroke Panel

      3:15

    • 22.

      Pen Tool

      2:59

    • 23.

      Plant Gallery Project

      8:46

    • 24.

      Working With Text

      0:14

    • 25.

      Character Panel

      4:52

    • 26.

      Frame Text Tool

      5:15

    • 27.

      Paragraph Panel

      5:18

    • 28.

      Text Styles

      7:39

    • 29.

      Maintaining Text Changes

      4:05

    • 30.

      Pages Panel

      4:39

    • 31.

      Page Setup

      3:05

    • 32.

      Restaurant Flyer Project

      12:16

    • 33.

      Restaurant Flyer Project (Page 2)

      12:47

    • 34.

      Adding Lots of Text

      0:14

    • 35.

      Spell Check

      3:45

    • 36.

      Text Columns

      3:10

    • 37.

      Linking Text Frames

      5:51

    • 38.

      Automatic Text Frames

      3:21

    • 39.

      Annual Report Project

      11:07

    • 40.

      Annual Report Project (Part 2)

      10:11

    • 41.

      Getting Technical

      0:12

    • 42.

      RGB vs. CMYK

      2:02

    • 43.

      Margins

      3:20

    • 44.

      Bleed

      4:13

    • 45.

      Guides

      3:38

    • 46.

      View Menu

      1:56

    • 47.

      Getting Help

      1:37

    • 48.

      Working With Large Documents

      0:19

    • 49.

      Table of Contents

      9:17

    • 50.

      Master Pages

      5:23

    • 51.

      Editing Master Page Elements

      2:46

    • 52.

      Page Numbers

      6:29

    • 53.

      Mary Trotter Project

      12:15

    • 54.

      Mary Trotter Project (Part 2)

      11:04

    • 55.

      A Few Last Things to Know

      0:17

    • 56.

      Hyperlinks

      8:20

    • 57.

      Picture Frames

      4:13

    • 58.

      Text Wrapping

      4:46

    • 59.

      Final Project

      0:28

    • 60.

      Document Setup

      3:44

    • 61.

      Front Cover

      10:07

    • 62.

      Adding Text

      12:42

    • 63.

      Adding Images

      5:20

    • 64.

      Adding Quotes

      11:18

    • 65.

      Table of Contents

      3:34

    • 66.

      Wrapping Up

      5:36

    • 67.

      Class Conclusion

      0:17

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About This Class

If you are new to Affinity Publisher, then this class is for you!

I've been teaching Affinity Publisher for over 3 years. During that time, I've learned the best ways to help people learn Affinity. Now in this class, I've brought together all of my Affinity knowledge to give you the ultimate learning experience.

This class has been designed for complete beginners. So even if you are brand new to Affinity, you will be able to easily follow along with these tutorials. We will start at the very beginning, and gradually build your skills.

All of the class exercise files are available to download, so that you can follow along with all of the videos. We will complete lots of projects together, so that you can see how everything you've learned can be used in the real world.

I want to help you maximize your time in Affinity Publisher. So in this class, I will teach you the best techniques that require the least effort. You will learn simple, effective ways to create beautiful designs.

I know you're going to love this class. The tutorials are a lot of fun, and I know you will learn a lot. So if you've struggled with Affinity Publisher in the past, but you still want to learn how to use this amazing program, then please join me in the class! :)

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Hi there! I'm Ally, the girl behind Affinity Revolution. I've been teaching people how to use the Affinity programs since 2016, and I can't wait to share what I've learned with you. :)

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1. Class Introduction: You want to learn Affinity Publisher, then this is for you. Today, I'm excited to announce my brand new course, Affinity Publisher for beginners. This course has been designed for complete beginners. Even if you've never used Affinity Publisher before, you'll still be able to easily follow along with these tutorials. We'll start off by learning the foundational skills of Affinity Publisher. After watching just the first few lessons of this course, you'll already know how to create simple documents in Affinity Publisher. But we won't stop at just the basics. After you learn the foundational skills of Affinity Publisher, we'll build on that foundation as we learn how to create even more interesting designs. As the course continues, your skills will continue to improve. It won't be long before you're ready to make this annual report with me. Just look at those beautiful columns. After that, we'll work our way up to making this cute little book. You'll have all of the skills that you need to make this book from beginning to end, including how to add a table of contents and page numbers. You're going to learn so many amazing skills as we go through this course and to finish everything up, we're going to bring together everything that we learned to complete one final project. For the final project, we'll be making a library magazine. This will be the perfect way to review everything that you've learned and for you to see how all of affinities tools work together in a real world project. But before we dive into affinity, I want to mention that this course comes with a few example files that we'll be using throughout the course. I encourage you to download and use them because practicing what you learn is the best way to retain all of the new skills that you'll be learning. You can download these files in the next lesson and then you're ready to begin your journey of becoming an affinity publisher master. Let's get started. 2. Download the Class Files: Before you begin this class, I recommend you download the exercise files. These files will be necessary for you to follow along with the tutorials to download the files, come to the Project and Resources tab. Then click on the download link. The files will then be downloaded to your computer and you'll be totally prepared to follow along with the rest of the class. 3. Affinity Publisher Overview : This chapter, we're going to learn all of the foundational skills of Affinity Publisher. We'll start from the very beginning, keeping it simple, and we'll work our way up to completing our first project together. It's going to be a lot of fun, so let's get started. 4. Starting a New Document : Welcome to Affinity Publisher. When you first open this program, your screen will look something like this. To begin working in Affinity Publisher. The first thing we need to do is start a new document. To do that, go ahead and come up to the top of your screen and go to file, and then press new. This dialog box will appear, which has many options that we can use to customize what our document will look like. Over on the left side, we have some pre built settings here. You can click one of these presets and you can see how your document will change over here. For example, you could choose the letter preset, which sets up your document to 8.5 by 11 ", which is the standard size of an American piece of paper. You can also change the orientation of the paper right up here. But you don't need to use one of publishers defaults. You could change any of the settings you want right over here on the right side. We'll learn more about some of the more advanced settings later on. But for now, I just want to mention a few of the settings that you need to be aware of. The first setting that you can change is the document units. Right now we're working in inches. But if you click here, you could also change this to pixels if you wanted to. Now you can see the pixels over here. I'll go ahead and change that back to inches. Over here, we can manually type in the page width and page height that we'd like. All you need to do is click in the box and then type in a new number and press Enter on your keyboard. Now you can see how this preview updates. It's pretty nice that this preview updates, you can visualize what your document will look like better. Another thing you can change right here is the DPI. This stands for dots per inch. This is really only important if you're going to print out your document. Go ahead and keep it set to 300, since 300 is a great DPI for most of your projects. Later on in the course, we're going to learn about all of these different other settings that you can change. But for now, I'm just going to make sure that I have facing pages checked off, and I only have one page here. For color, I'm going to make sure that the color is set to RGB eight. For margin, I'm just going to check this off. Then for bleed, I'm going to change this. All of the bleed is set to zero. Now you can see in our preview, all of those lines have now disappeared, and we just have a simple piece of paper. Now that we have this clean document here, I'm going to press Create, and now we're taken into our very first affinity publisher document. Great job. Go ahead and keep this document open because in the next video, we'll use it as we learn how affinity publishers workspace is organized. 5. Affinity Publisher's Workspace : Let's learn about Affinity publishers workspace. I know there's a lot going on here and it looks a little bit intimidating. But don't worry. This actually isn't quite as complicated as it looks. In the very center here, we have our document work area, which is where I we'll work on the project that we're designing. Over here on the left side, we have all of the tools that we can pull out to use on our document, and we'll learn how to use each one of these tools throughout this course. But for now, I just want to highlight one important concept, which is that each of these tools comes with different settings that you can modify. These settings appear right up here in the context toolbar. I'm just going to show you as I click through these. You can see that these settings will change up here. So right above that context toolbar. We have a regular toolbar up here, and this tool bar has some important buttons that are always there. They don't ever change. We're going to learn about a few of these buttons later on. But for now, I just want to quickly mention that if you purchased Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer, you can actually access those programs tools by clicking on their respective logos up here. Okay, and finally, let's come over here where we have all of our studio panels. In addition to these panels on the right, we also have a few panels over here on the left. Now, these studio panels, you can quickly jump through by clicking on these little tabs. And each of these panels have different options that you can use. Now, there are over 30 different panels in Affinity publisher, and they all offer a wide range of functionality. But you might be thinking, this doesn't look like 30 panels, and that's because most of the time, you won't need most of the panels. By default, affinity actually hides some of the lesser use panels. In fact, throughout this course, we won't even need to use all of the panels that are out by default. Let me show you how I like to set up my panels to keep things a little simpler. To remove a panel. All you need to do is click on its name and drag it outward, and then click on the little x to close it out. For this course, I'm only going to keep the color and stroke panel up here. I'll keep all of these panels right here. Then I'm going to remove all of these lower panels. Over here, I'm also going to remove the assets and stock panels. To finish tidying things up here. I'm going to click on this little arrow right here to close up master pages and to close up pages. We're going to work more with those panels later on, but I find them a little bit distracting right now, so I'll just close those up. Just in case your color panel looks a little bit different from mine. I just want to show you how you can make it a color wheel like this. Go ahead and click on this hamburger menu and make sure that yours is set to wheel and also make sure that it's set to triangle. We'll learn more about colors later on. But I just wanted to show you now so that you can have your workspace looking just like mine. I needed. You can also hover over the edges of your studio, and then you can click and drag to stretch out the panels. I like to drag mine out until you can see the full word textiles there. It'll abbreviate sometimes and I don't really like that. I'm just going to click it like that. I really like how our workspace looks right now. It's a lot less intimidating. But you might be wondering how to get those panels back after removing them. Well, this is actually pretty easy. Go ahead and come up to the top of the screen and click on Window. If you come down here to where it says assets, all of these are the panels that we have in Affinity Publisher. We even have some that pop out here, so there's a few extras tucked in some of these arrows. To get these out, all you need to do is click on one of them. Then it will appear. You can drag it around, you can tuck it into the panels. And you can close it just as we did before. If you want to fully reset your studio back to the original settings. All you need to do is go to Window Studio, and then click on Reset Studio. None of the changes that we made in this video are fully permanent. But if you change your studio to look like mine right now, every time you open publisher, it'll look just like this, which will be perfect for helping you to follow along with this course better. Go ahead and update your studio panels just like this. Once you've done that, I'll go ahead and join you in the next video. H. 6. Mac vs. PC : Let's talk about Mac versus PC computers. Before we get too far into this course, I wanted to mention that I'm working on a MAC. If you're working on a PC, affinity publisher will look ever so slightly different for you. For example, when closing a panel, like we did in the last video, the x is on the left side if you're on a MAC, but the x is actually on the right side if you're on a PC. That's just a small difference though. The biggest difference is actually with keyboard shortcuts. If you're on a MC, you'll often need to use the keys command or option to use shortcuts in affinity, and if you're on a PC, you'll often need to use control or t. All of these keys are right next to the spacebar on your keyboard. Command on a MAC is the exact same thing as control on a PC and option on a MAC is the same as Alt on a PC. Throughout the course, I'm going to say the key for both operating systems. I'll say something like press command or control zero. Meaning that if you're on a MAC, you'll press command and zero, or if you're on a PC, you'll press control in zero. That will be important to know as we start using keyboard shortcuts in the next lesson. I wish that these keys were the same on both types of computers, so I wouldn't have to say command or control every time. But I'm going to go ahead and say that so that everyone can follow along easily no matter what type of computer you're on. Now that that's out of the way. Let's continue on with the course. 7. Navigating in Affinity Publisher : Let's learn how to navigate an affinity publisher. To show you how to navigate around with your document, I've included a file with the exercise files that we're going to use for this video. To open up one of your exercise files, go to the top of your screen, go to file, and then press open. Now you can click on the file that has the same name as the video that you're watching. Then just press open. Using this file, I want to show you how you can zoom in and out of your document, as well as moving around. If you're using a track pad, this works just as expected. Just move your fingers in to zoom in. Use two fingers to drag around, and you can pinch out with two fingers as well. But if you're just using a mouse, this is no problem at all. You'll just need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts. The first shortcut is that you can press command or control plus to zoom in. Once you're zoomed in, you can use the hand tool right here, and then you can click and drag to move around. If you have another tool out though, you can actually quickly pull up this hand tool by holding down the space bar on your keyboard. Then you can just click and drag to move around. Once you're in, you can press command or control minus too. Or you could use Command or Control Zero to fit the document to your screen again, which is a shortcut that I use quite a bit. Now that we know how to navigate around our document in affinity. Let's talk about layers in the next video. 8. Working with Layers : Let's learn all about layers. This simple design was included with the exercise files. Each element in your document will come with its own layer, which you can see right over here in the layers panel. This is a layer, this is a layer and so on. Layers stuck on top of each other like pieces of paper. You can click and drag them up and down in the layer stack. You can see now this large rectangle is covering everything, or I can drag it downward like this, and now it's underneath everything. As you click and drag, you can see a little blue line up here. That just shows you where you're about to drop the layer. You can turn these layers off and on whenever you want by clicking on this little button right here. Or if you want to completely get rid of a layer, you can just press on it, and then press on this trash can down here, or you could have a layer selected and then press delete on your keyboard. Now, I actually want those shapes back. I'm going to teach you another handy shortcut. You can press command or Control Z on your keyboard, and this will undo any action that you've done. I use command or control z so much. I think that's an important one to know. Sometimes you want to look at your design without having a layer selected because when a layer is selected like this, it has this blue bounding box around it. If you want to de select a layer, all you need to do is press the escape key on your keyboard. Or you could click just outside of your document right here in this gray area, and I will also deselect. It can be useful to keep things organized with your layers by giving them names. To give a layer a name. All you need to do is double click on the name of the layer, and then you can type in whatever you want to name it. This can be super handy when you have a lot of layers that you want to keep track of. In addition to naming your layers. You can also change the size of your layers. To do that, just come up here to the Hamburger menu. Then you can change the size of your layer thumbnails. You can have them a lot smaller if you have a lot of layers, this might be nice, or you could make them quite large, which makes them easier to see. I personally think medium is just fine. I'll go ahead and click on that. We're going to learn more about the move tool in the next video. This is the tool right here. But for now, just know that we can use this tool to click on items in our document and move them around. If you want, you can lock layers, which means that you won't be able to move them around. I'll just select the background layer, and then I'll press on this lock icon. Now, no matter how I click and drag, this will not be moved. This is really useful when you have a background layer like this, but I can still move around the other layers, which is nice. What if you wanted to move multiple layers at once? Well, all you need to do is select a layer and then hold down shift on your keyboard. This allows you to select multiple layers at once. You can also do this over here in the layers panel. Just select a layer, and then while holding shift, you can select multiple layers like this, and I'll select all the layers in a row. Even though I didn't click on the triangle, while holding shift, I can select all three of them. Sometimes you'll have a group of layers like this that you always want to move together because they're connected in some way in your design. Selecting every single layer like this over and over can be annoying. If you want, you can actually group these layers together, and this will make them so that they always move as one. To group your layers, just have them all selected and then press command or control G. Now, you can see we have a single layer. It's called a group, and you can move this group around. We can also turn it on and off just like any of the other layers. But if you want to work with an individual layer again, you can still do that. Just click on this arrow right here and it will drop open and you can see all of the layers that are involved. You can click on a layer and you can still move it individually. You could also take any of these layers out of the group at any time by clicking on it and dragging it above the group. Now you can see this group is only those two, and this layer is all on its own. Or you could just right click on the group and then come down here to where it says group. Now you don't have any groups anymore. Those are just some tips that I have for you for how to organize and work with your layers a little bit better. Now that you know the basics of how layers work, go ahead and keep this document open. We're going to use it in the next video where we'll learn about the Move tool. 9. Move Tool : This video, we'll learn all about the Move tool. Before we start though, I'm just going to delete this circle and I'll also delete this square. That way we just have a cleaner work space for this demonstration. With the Move tool selected, I'm just going to show you a few things that you can do with it. The main job of the Move tool is to select objects and move them around. If you want to get fancy with moving things around, you can hold down shift as you click and drag objects, and they will move in a perfectly straight line from where they started. You can also resize things with the move tool using these nodes here on the side. Just click and drag them and you can stretch out the triangle or make it larger. If you want your layer to be exactly proportional to where it started, just hold down shift. This will lock your layer so that it's perfectly proportioned. You can also rotate your layers using the move tool. Hover over this area until your cursor turns into two arrows. Then you can click and drag to move it around like this. You can also hold down shift and this will lock your layer into 15 degree increments, which can be pretty useful if you want to turn it all the way upside down or put it on its side. A really fancy trick that the move tool can do is it can duplicate your layers. Now, this is pretty fancy. All you need to do to duplicate a layer is hold down command or control on your keyboard as you click and drag out a layer. You can see that this extra triangle now has its own layer over here. We have an exact copy. In addition to using the shortcut, though, if you like keyboard shortcuts, you can also use command or Control J, and this will also duplicate your layer. You might have noticed that when you move your layers around, sometimes these lines appear. These are snapping lines. They help you to center your object in the middle of the document or line it up with one of the edges of your document, and I can even help you to line up your layers with each other. Snapping is really helpful most of the time. But if you ever want to move your object a little bit more freely, you can easily turn the snapping feature off by clicking on this magnet up here. Now you can more freely move without those snapping lines. I'll just turn it back on though and line this back up. One last thing is that if you have an object selected with the move tool, you can use the arrow keys to move your object around. This will move it one pixel at a time. If you hold down shift and use the arrow keys, this will move your object in ten pixel increments, which means you can move it a lot faster. If you look at the numbers that appear, this is the distance, the number of pixels between your objects. Now you know all about the. I know that was a lot to take in, feel free to practice some of these shortcuts on your own. Once you've done that, in the next video, we're going to learn about adding text. 10. Artistic Text Tool : This video, we'll learn about the artistic text tool, which allows us to add text to our document. I'll be working in a new blank document, just that we have a clean work area for demonstration purposes. I'll go ahead and get out the artistic text tool, which you can find right over here. It has a little A with a blue outline, very artistic. To use this tool, all you need to do is click and drag, and this will specify the size of the text that you'll start to type. Once you release your mouse, a cursor will appear, and you can begin to type. After typing, you can use the move tool to resize and position your text. With the move tool still out. You can also change your text color by coming over here to the color panel. Then using the color wheel, you can select any color that you want. Up here in the context tool bar. We have quite a few more options to customize your text. You can bold your text or use italics or underlines, not all fonts have these options, but you can actually see all of the available options by clicking right here next to the Fonts name. This will open up a list of all of the different options that you can use. Okay Let's change up the font. I'll click here, and this will open up a ginormous menu that gives you all of these different font options. I'll go ahead and pick a new font. Once you've made all these adjustments to your text, you can go back and continue to type. All you need to do is select the text tool again, and this cursor will appear and you can continue typing. Then you can get the Move tool back out to resize and position this. I have a few tips for you while using the text tool. Tip number one is that you can double click in this box while you have the Move tool out, and this will bring you back to type mode. You can see that we've been switched to the artistic text tool. I like doing this double click method because it's a super quick way to get back into typing mode. Tip number two is that you can actually move your text box while you're in typing mode. You don't actually need to select the move tool. All you need to do is hover over the edges of your textbox until this cursor appears. Then you can click and drag to move the text around. Just be careful to wait until your cursor changes like this. Otherwise, you'll create a new text box, and Tip number three. If you ever want to modify any of your text, you either need to select the text while you're in type mode like this, or you need to get the move tool back out. We're going to learn some other tips and tricks for working with text later on. But for now, all you need to know are these foundational skills for adding text your document. In the next video, we're going to move on and learn how to add images to our documents. 11. Adding Images : Let's learn how to add some images. Every good design needs some photos. Fortunately, it's very easy to add photos in Affinity Publisher. There's actually a tool for this called the Place Image tool. It looks like a landscape painting. Go ahead and press on it, and then you can navigate to the adding images folder here in the Exercise files. Then we can select a photo and press open. Then all you need to do is click and drag to add this photo to your document. Then you can use the move tool to adjust the size and positioning of it. If you want to add multiple photos, this is super easy two. Just click on the Place image tool. Then you can select multiple photos like this, and then press open. You can see all of the images that we have to place right over here, and you can click and drag to add them to your document. You can see which one is up next here, and you can also change if you want to add a different one in a different order like this. And just like that, we've added all of our images as a bonus tip. Once you have them, all lined up how you want them. You can actually click and drag with the move tool to select all of your images, and then you can center them in your document. That was a short video. I just wanted to show you how simple this is. Go ahead and keep this document open because we're going to use it in the next video as we learn how to save and export our work. 12. Saving & Exporting : This video, we're going to learn about saving and exporting. Lucky for us. Saving and exporting and affinity is very similar to most other programs. It should feel pretty intuitive for you. To save your work, come back up to the file menu, and then click on Save As. You can enter a name for your file. And then you can save it. If you click on this drop down here, it'll show you where you're going to save it and you can adjust where you want it saved. Then press save. This will save your work as an affinity file, which means all the work that you've done in this document will be saved, and you can reopen this file, an affinity publisher and continue to work. If you want to open a file that you saved, all you need to do is go back up to file open. Then you can select that file and open it up. Now, I already have this file open, so nothing changed on my screen. But if your program had nothing opened, then it would open like this with all of your layers still intact. If you keep working on your design, maybe you move some things around and you want to resave your work. All you need to do is go to file and then click Save. Now this will be saved to that file that you previously saved. Saving is great for coming back to your work later on. But what if you're done with your design and you want to share your finished work with someone else? In that case, you want to export your work. To do that, go to file. Then click on Export. This export menu will appear, and it has a few options that you can adjust. For example, right up here, you can decide if you want to export a PDF or a JPEG file type. JPEG and PDF are the most common file types for affinity publisher. You'll probably want to choose one of those. This export dialogue box has some more advanced settings that you can change, but we'll actually take a closer look at those later on in the course. For now, I'll just press export, and then you can choose where you want to save this exported version, and then press Save. After you've exported the file, you can now share your beautiful design with anyone that you want, including sending your work to a printer. That's the basics of how to save and export your work. Now, this might be a little hard to believe, but using all of the skills that we've already learned in this course, we're ready to complete a project together. We'll go ahead and get started with a Super cute wedding invitation project in the next video. 13. Wedding Invitation Project : All right. To practice everything that we've learned so far in this course, we're going to make a wedding invitation. Just for fun, I'll make mine a wedding invitation for Harry and Jenny from Harry Potter, but feel free to use whatever names you want for this project. Let's go ahead and get started. To start off this project, I'm just going to create a new document. I'll come up to the top of my screen and go to file, and then I'll press now. Now, similar to what we've been doing throughout this chapter. I'm just going to use an 8.5 by 11 piece of paper for this. But you can use any size that you want. Make sure that you have your DPI set 2300 since you'll probably print out this invitation. We'll also learn more about these settings later on. But just as a reminder, I'm going to set mine to one page with facing pages turned off for color. I want this to be RGB eight. For margin, I'm going to turn off margins and for bleed, make sure that your years is set to zero. With that all set up, go ahead and press Create. By default, whenever you make a new document, you'll have a layer over here called Master A. Go ahead and delete that for now. We're going to learn more about master pages later on, but for now we don't need that layer. Let's get started with the text. I'm going to grab the artistic text tool right here. This is going to be a beginning line up here. I'll just drag out a small letter. Then I'm going to type in all capital letters. Please join us. Using the move tool, I'm just going to adjust this. I'll start by centering it. Then I'm going to change the font. I've actually downloaded quite a few fonts. I'm not sure if you have this font. I'm going to use this one right here. If you don't have it, just choose a similar one that looks nice and fancy like this. Don't worry. I'm going to actually teach you how to add fonts to affinity publisher in the next chapter. Go ahead and resize and position this. I think I'll make it quite a bit smaller. We have our first line of text, and we can come back and edit this more as we go. But for now, I just want to add more text. This is going to say, please join us, and then underneath, it's going to say, for the wetting of, and I'm going to change up the font for this part. But I'll go ahead and duplicate this layer by holding down command or control while clicking and dragging. Now with this text box, I'm just going to double click to enter type mode. I'll go ahead and delete everything here. Then I'm going to type for the wetting of. Then I'll go ahead and get out the move tool. This time, go ahead and choose a font that looks fancy, maybe like cursive writing. I'll go ahead and go with this one. Then I'll just resize and position this. I think this one will be a little bit larger. With that nice and centered up, I think that looks really nice so far. Let's go ahead and do that again. I'll just select this top text frame here and while holding command or control, I'll click and drag. This one is going to be a much larger text. This is where we're going to put Harry's name. I'll just double click. As a tip, if you triple click, you'll select all of the text so you can quickly delete it all. I'm going to type in Harry and ACAP. We could use the move tool to resize and position this, but I'm going to be a little bit tricky and I'm just going to hover over the edges here to resize it and position it in the center. With his name nice and big like this, I'm now going to duplicate this layer and just to practice duplicating in another way. I'm going to press command or Control J, and now we have this extra layer. I'll triple click here just to select all of the text, and now I'm going to write his middle and last name. I'm going to make this quite a bit smaller. To write Jenny's name, I'm going to do something pretty fancy here. Over here in the layers panel with James Potter selected. I'm going to hold down Shift and click on Harry's name. Both of those layers are now selected. Then I'm going to press Command or Control J. This will duplicate those two layers. Now with the, I can drag this. Now as I type out Jenny's name, her name will be the exact same size as Harry's name, which will look really nice here. And now using the Move tool, I'll just reposition these text boxes. I want them to be centered. But I don't want to resize the text because then it won't be the same size as the first text boxes. With that centered up, I think that looks pretty good. Now, you might notice that we have this red underline under her name. That's because my spell check is turned on right now. Even though this is her given name and that's how it's spelled, I think, we can actually turn this off, so this red line disappears. To do that, come up to where it says text. Then you can go ahead and go down to spelling, and then check off check spelling while typing. We'll just need to remember that we turned that off because checking your spelling is important, but just in this case, I don't want that red line there. I'm just going to quickly continue to add a few more text boxes to the bottom of this. I just finished typing the Borough England for the location, 5:00 in the evening, and then underneath that, I put reception to follow. I think that's good for all of our. The next thing I want to add is a few images just to spice things up here. To add the first image, I'm going to click on the P Then I'm going to select both of these and I'll press open. This first one is a paper texture. I'm just going to click and drag to add this here. Then I'm going to bring it underneath everything like that. Now we have this really pretty paper texture. I think that looks nice. Then I'm going to add these flowers. I'll click and drag to add the flowers. And I'll go ahead and reposition these. Now, right now, these layers are overlapping on the sides of our document, and that's really no problem at all. But your document might look like this. If you have overlapping sides like this, that's because there's an option called clip to Canvas that you need to adjust. Just come to the top of the screen and go to view view mode, and then check on clip to Canvas. This will get rid of anything that's spilling over like that. I just find overflowing images like that, a bit distracting since they won't even print out like that. Go ahead and change that if you need to. Then I think I'll go ahead and lock the texture layer. Then I want to adjust some things. I like these flowers down here, but our text is overflowing on top of it. I'm just going to quickly adjust the positioning of all of this text so that everything fits together nicely. To fit this to my screen, I'll just press command or Control zero. Now you can see our beautiful invitation is finished. Let's go ahead and save this just in case we want to come back and continue working on it later. I'll go to the top of the screen two file, save as. And I'll call this wedding invitation and then I'll press save. Now we can go ahead and export this so that we can share this with other people. I'll go to export, and I'll go ahead and save this as a JPEG image. You can see a nice little preview there. It looks so cute. Then you can go ahead and export your work. Okay, this was a super fun project. I hope you enjoyed it. It's pretty cool that after just one chapter in this course, you can already create a project like this and there's a lot more to come. In the next chapter, we're going to learn how to add more style to your designs. I'll see you in the next chapter. 14. Adding Style to Your Design : That you know the basics of Affinity Publisher, I want to show you how you can make your designs more stylish. We'll learn about fonts and images and shapes. It's going to be a lot of fun, so let's get started. 15. Adding New Fonts : This video, we'll learn how to add new fonts to Affinity Publisher. In the wedding invitation project, I mentioned that I would show you how to add new fonts, and that's exactly what we're going to learn right now. When you want to change a font for your text, you'll come right up here and see this amazing list of so many different fonts. Now, these fonts are all fonts that are already installed onto your computer. In this video, I'm going to show you a great place you can go to download new fonts and then install those onto your computer. A great website to download New fonts is called de font.com. You can search for fonts by category by coming through these. Once you find a category you like, go ahead and click on it. Then you can scroll down here and see all of these great fonts. Now, these fonts are sorted by popularity, which is nice. You can see there's just so many and there's such a variety of them here. Once you find a font that you like, all you need to do is come over here and click Download. But before you do that, I want to give you two tips. The first tip is that you can type whatever text you want right up here in this preview area. Then press Enter. Now that text that you typed in will appear here. You can see exactly what this font will look like with your chosen text. This is super helpful if you have a specific title or name that you want in this font. For me, personally, I find it really useful. The other day, I wanted to make a YouTube thumbnail that said Affinity revolution. But I found myself downloading fonts over and over, trying to get the letter R to look just right. But then I realized that if I just type affinity revolution right up here, I can quickly scroll through these fonts and find exactly what I'm looking for. Another tip that I have for you is that some of these fonts are free for personal use only, and some of them are 100% free. If a font is 100% free, that means you are free to use it even in commercial work, which is pretty useful. Now, if you only want to see fonts that are 100% free right down here, all you need to do is come right here to more options, and then check on 100% free. This will also check on public domain, which is perfect. Go ahead and hit some mint. Now, all of the fonts that you see down here are 100% free. Once you've found a font, go ahead and press download, and this will download it onto your computer. After downloading a font, you'll need to install it. If you're on a Mac computer, here's how to do that. Go ahead and double click on this file. This will unzip the file, and now you'll be able to see a folder. Go ahead and double click on that folder to open it, and then select the text file. This is a TTF file. Go ahead and double click on that to open it up. Then all you need to do is press Install font. Now that font is installed on our computer. Go ahead and close out of these and you can actually delete these files now. You don't need them. That's how to do it on a Mac. If you're on a PC, this is actually a very similar process. But unfortunately, I don't own a PC to demonstrate this on. I'm going to leave a link underneath this video where you can watch a super quick YouTube video. This video will show you how to install fonts on windows. You just need to watch the video from about a minute 30 to 3 minutes and he'll show you how to easily install fonts. After installing the font, it's immediately available for you to use and publisher. You don't even need to restart the program. Just come up here to the font and to quickly find the font, start typing the name of the font, and I'll come up right here. We'll go ahead and click on that. So cute. If you really like this font and you know you're going to use it a lot, but you don't want to lose it. All you need to do is click right here on this little heart icon. This will mark it as one of your favorites. To see all of your favorites, just come right here, and here is where you can store all of your favorite fonts. As one last tip for you, there's another website that's great for downloading fonts onto your computer. It's called Google Fonts. All of the fonts on Google Fonts are 100% free for any use. That's another great resource for you. Beneath this video, you're going to find a lot of links to different font websites answer that YouTube video. I suggest you check those out and see for yourself how easy it is to use these. Once you've done that, you can move on to the next video, where I'm going to show you a great resource to get free photos and graphics to use in your designs. 16. Free Photos and Graphics! : In this video, I'm going to show you another great website where you can get free photos and graphics to use in your designs. This website that I want to show you is called pixabay.com. I'll leave it linked beneath this video. First, type in whatever type of image that you're looking for. Once you press enter, you can see that you have so many images to choose from. Once you find an image you like, go ahead and click on it, and then come over here to where it says Free Download. Go ahead and press on that, and then you can choose whichever size you want for this image. Then go ahead and press download. Once you've downloaded your image, you can come back into Affinity Publisher, and then you can use the place image tool to place that image. Lovely. Okay. That's one way to download an image. I just want to come back to Pixabay really quick and show you how you can find photos that have their backgrounds removed. These types of photos can help you create a more interesting design rather than only using photos that are squares and rectangles. So coming right back up here to where it says trees, I'm going to click in that box and press Enter again. Now we're back on that page where you can see all of these lovely tree pictures. To only see images that have a transparent background. Come right up here to where it says color, and then check on transparent. Then click on G. All of the images that you see down here now have had their backgrounds removed. But you might notice that a lot of these images are drawings, not photos. That's because Pixabay lets you get free photos and free drawings. If you want to specify which type you're looking for, come right up here to where it says images, and then you can choose. In this case, I'm going to click on photos. Now you can see that all of these images have had their backgrounds removed and their photos. Let's go ahead and download one of these. I'll choose this nice fall one. Then you can go ahead and download it just as we did before. Now we can go back to publisher. Using the place image tool, I'll just place this image into our document. Now you can see that because its background was removed, we can place this on top of other images, and it creates a cool collage effect. Pixabay is a great place to find and download images. I use it all the time for my designs, and I hope this video has helped you see how easy it is. Go ahead and find a couple of images and place them on a document like this. In the next video, we're going to learn a little bit more about how affinity handles images. 17. Linked vs. Embedded Photos : This video, we'll learn about linked and embedded images. While we're on the topic of photos, I thought now would be a good time to tell you the difference between linked and embedded images. But to help explain the difference, I want to ask you a question. You see these photos of trees in my document. What would happen if I were to delete the tree photos from off of my computer, Will these trees still appear in publisher? Well, the answer is it depends. It depends on whether these images are linked or embedded. A linked image is an image that is linked to where the photos are on your computer. Meaning that the photos in your publisher document are dependent on the photos still existing on your computer. The benefit to this is that it keeps your publisher file size small. Embedded photos live inside the publisher file. This makes your publisher file size larger, but it also means that you could delete the photos off of your computer. We can see what type of images these are by going up to the top of your screen to window, and then going to where it says, resource manager. From here, we can see a table that shows all of the images in our document, as well as their status for if they're linked or embedded. Now, both of these images are linked, and that means that the photos in this document are only able to exist. As long as those photos stay in the same place on my computer. If I deleted these tree photos from my computer, they would no longer be in this publisher file. If I wanted to, though, I could select both of these images and then click on embed. Now these images are permanently in this file, so I could delete them from my computer and nothing would happen to this publisher file. If you want to change whether images are set to linked or embedded by default, you can just go to file, and then click on Document Setup. In here, you can change this from prefer Linked to prefer embedded if you wanted to. This option also appears whenever you make a new document, right here. You could change it there if you'd like to as well. Now we know the difference, but which option should you choose? Well, normally, I like to use linked images. Before I start a new project in Affinity Publisher, I like to just make a folder on my computer for where I'll keep all of the images for that project. Then I'll leave all the photos in that folder as I make the publisher project. I don't typically use embedded photos because if you embed all of your images, the publisher file will become very large and it will take a long time to load each time you save or open the file. But even though I prefer linked images, you need to be aware that if you're using linked images, you need to make sure you don't move the photos on your computer or affinity won't know where to find them. However, if you do accidentally move a photo, it's an easy fix. As an example, I'm just going to use the place image tool, and then I'll go ahead and select one of our exercise files, and I'll place it in our document. Now if I come up here to Window resource manager, you can see that this image is linked while the other two are embedded. But let's see what happens if I move this photo to a different folder on my computer. I just moved that photo to a different spot on my computer. Affinity no longer knows where it is. This photo looks terrible in my document. Affinity can only display a rough preview of what the photo used to look like. If I come back up here to Window Resource Manager, Affinity tells me that the status of this photo is missing. Now, lucky for us, it's actually pretty easy to tell affinity where the photo is by pressing re link. Then you just need to find that image again. Once you've found it, you can select the folder, and this will re link that image. Now if I go back into my document, you can see that the preview is nice and clear again. Now you know the difference between linked and embedded images and you can use which every type of image works better for you. With that all done. In the next video, we're going to learn how to create shapes. Hey, there. Before we move on to the next lesson, I just wanted to give a quick update to this video. After filming this video, Affinity made a little bit of an update for how document setup looks. Now, if you want to change whether a document links or embeds images by default, you'll go to file document setup just as before. But now, you need to go over to the documents tab. From here, you can change whether a document links or embeds images by default. But remember, you can also choose this when you're first making your document. This is exactly the same as I showed you earlier in the video, but I just wanted to remind you that under the Layout tab, you can choose the default image placement behavior. I know this update is a really small change from what I showed you earlier in the video, but I still just wanted to explain this to you so you don't get too confused. Back to the course. 18. Shapes for Beginners : In this video, we're going to learn about shapes. Previously, we worked a little bit with shapes and we did this with the move tool. But in this video, I want to show you how to create shapes, and I want to show you a few extra options that you have. Let's start by coming over here and clicking right here on the rectangle tool. With the rectangle tool, I'll go ahead and drag this out and you can make this long and skinny like this or like this. But you can actually keep this perfectly square if you hold down shift, and that will lock it into a square shape. I'll go ahead and give this a color over here in the color panel. Make it a nice red color like that. As we learned about before, you can use the move tool to move the shape around, to snap it to places, and you can resize it while holding shift to keep it proportional. There are quite a few other shape tools in Affinity Publisher, you can find those by clicking on this little gray triangle right here. This will open up so many different tools here. To show you some of the special options that some of these tools have, I'm going to select the star tool. Then I'll click and drag out a star while holding down shift to keep it proportional. Once you've dragged out a star, you can give it a color. Now, a lot of shapes have different options up in the context toolbar, right here. These options allow you to alter the shape a little bit. For example, right here where it says points, you can click here and change this number to give it a lot more points or fewer points. A lot of different shapes have different options right up here that you can change. Because there's so many shape tools, I don't want to go through and show you all of these. But this is just to give you an idea of the types of options that you have. Remember, if you have a shape tool out, you can still alter your shape if you hover over the edges like this, or you could just use the move tool. That was a really short video about shapes. But I just wanted to show you how you can create and alter these shapes. In the next video, we're going to dive a little bit deeper as we learn how to alter these shapes even more. Oh. 19. Fill Color & Stroke : In this video, we're going to learn a little bit more about color. I'm going to use this exercise file from the first chapter of the course. Go ahead and reopen that, or you can just practice and create these shapes all on your own. Every shape that you make has two colors. It has a fill color and a stroke color. The fill is what you can see here. It's the shapes main color that fills the center of the shape. The stroke is the color of the shapes outline. Now, right now, we don't really have an outline here. But if we click on this triangle, you can come up here to the color panel and see that we have a blue fill, and then this followed out circle represents the stroke or the outline. Because we don't have a stroke right now, this actually shows no color, so you can see that it has a red line going through it. That means that no color is being applied. We already know that it's pretty easy to change the fill color. Just make sure that you have the fill color selected, and then you can use the color wheel here to move this around. This works exactly the same for the stroke color, just select it, and now we can choose a nice color for the stroke. I just set the stroke to white and you can barely see it. It's pretty small. We can make the stroke a bit bigger, and there are a few ways to do this. With some tools like the move tool. When you have it selected, you can come up here to where it says stroke. Then right next to that, right here, we can change some of the options for the stroke. If I click on this, I can go to where it says width and I can increase the width, and now you can really start to see the stroke here. You can change the stroke from up in the context toolbar like this, or there's actually a stroke panel right here, which you can get out at any time, no matter what tool you have out, and these options you see here are exactly the same in both places. I personally like using the stroke panel, so I don't need to worry about which tool I have out, but feel free to use whichever one works better for you. Back in the color panel, you can press on this little circle here to remove the color from the fill or the stroke. Now you can see I just made it so there's no fill and a white stroke, which creates a pretty cool effect. With the color panel, I just wanted to show you that so far we've been using the color wheel. If you wanted to, you could change this to sliders. Then you could change the color from here. Now, the color here is changing, but our triangle isn't changing. Well, that's because we don't have that layer selected. If something in your trying isn't working, always make sure that you have the right layer selected. I'll just select that. Now you can see that we can easily change that and it works here and here. I'm going to change it back to the wheel though because I prefer that method, but feel free to use whatever you want. To explain this color wheel a little bit better. I'm going to select this yellow square, and then with the fill color selected, I'm going to change the color. You can change the hue by moving this outer circle around this ring here. Once you have a hue selected, you can come into this interior area of the triangle here and move this other circle. If you move it to this corner, it'll change to white. If you move it to this corner, it'll change to black, and if you move it to this last corner, your color will be fully saturated. This is something you can play around with a little bit and try to get used to the different color combinations that you can come up with here. For example, if I move it along this line toward white, we get a much lighter version of this blue color. If I do the opposite, moving it toward the black, it'll become a much darker color. Can take a little bit of getting used to, but once you have it down, you can see that the color wheel is pretty limitless and you can come up with any color that you want. Now that you know a little bit more about fill and stroke. Go ahead and keep this document open. We're going to use it as we learn more about color in the next video. 20. Matching Colors : Let's learn how to match colors. I love the color of the square. How can I make the other two shapes the exact same color? Well, there are two ways to do this. One is right over here. The color panel will keep track of the last ten colors that you've used in your document. You could just select the circle with its fill color selected, and then press on the blue color. That's pretty easy. But let's say that you've used 11 colors and you've lost this blue color. Well, in that case, you can just use Affinity's color picker, which is right up here. To use this color picker, just click and drag on the color picker. Now wherever you release your cursor, that color will be sampled. Now that color is right up here. I'll go ahead and select the triangle, and then I'll make sure that the stroke color is selected. Then I'll apply that color to it by clicking on it here. Normally, you just want to use a few colors throughout your document because using fewer colors will keep your design looking clean, consistent, and professional. Sampling colors makes this super easy to keep those colors an exact match. Go ahead and keep this document open because we're going to use it in the next video too. 21. Stroke Panel : This video, let's learn a little bit more about the stroke panel. I want to spend a little bit more time with the stroke panel to learn how to customize the stroke even more. But first, let's practice giving a shape a stroke again. I'll click on the square, and then with the stroke color selected, I'll go ahead and give this a nice white stroke. Then I'll go to the stroke panel and increase the width so that we can see it better. I'll go ahead and zoom in here. Now coming over to the stroke panel. I want to show you how to use these options. There are a lot of different buttons here and you really don't need to worry about all of them, but I just want to review the most important ones with you. The first thing you might want to change is the join option. The join is where your two lines meet, so right here on the corner. Right now, we have a curved join, but you can change it to a sharper join by clicking on this button right here. Now we have a nice sharp corner. I use this option quite a bit, so I thought that would be important to know. Another option that you can change is the alignment. Right now, the stroke is going into our shape a little bit. This is even more apparent if you bring the width up even more. You can see how the stroke is swallowing the shape here. Well, this won't be as much of a problem if you change the alignment. Right now, the stroke is centered on this line, the outer part of our shape. But if you click on this button, this will align it to the inside of your shape. Now as I change this, you can see it's only staying on the inside of the shape, or you could change it to this last option here, which will put your stroke on the outside of your shape. It depends on what type of design you're working with. But this is a good option to change. The last important button that I think you should know is scale with object. With this option turned off, we can make the square very small. We can see that the stroke is staying really large. It's not proportional to the original square shape. I'll just undo that with command or control z. If we turn on scale with object, this will change that up. As I decrease the size of the square, you can see that the stroke also decreases in size, which makes a lot more sense. I like to keep scale with object turned on whenever I'm working with strokes. Those are the most important buttons in the stroke panel. But one last thing that I want to mention is that you can actually add a stroke to anything. We've been working with shapes in this video, but you can also add a stroke to text or even to a photo that you've placed in your document, and by using the stroke panel, you'll be able to style your stroke just the way you want. And that's it for this video. We don't need this document anymore. In the next video, go ahead and open up a clean blank document and we'll use that to learn about the Pen tool. 22. Pen Tool : In this video, we'll learn about the Pen tool. We won't use the pen tool very much in this course, but there is one very important thing that we want the Pen tool for, and that is making lines to show you how to use this, let's go ahead and get out the Pen tool. Then up in the context toolbar, I'm going to change the mode to line mode. Using line mode. All you need to do to make a line is click and then click one more time. Now you have a beautiful line. The lines that you make with the pen tool actually don't have a fill. They have a stroke, which means that you can use the stroke panel to adjust things about the line. For example, I'm just going to increase the width here so we can see the line better. Then just for fun, let's go over to the color panel, and with the stroke color selected, I can go ahead and give this line a nice color. With the Pen tool, you can click as many times as you want to make little lines like this. There's a few shortcuts that you can use while you're making lines. One useful shortcut is if you lay down your first point, you can hold down shift and you can make another point that's exactly straight down from your first one, or you can make one that's straight to the side. Once you've made a line, it's also nice that you can adjust your lines super easily using the move tool. I'll go ahead and select that and show you that you can move your lines around. You can rotate them and you can make them longer or shorter. One last thing to know about making lines is that you can use the stroke panel to adjust them even more. Now, notice that the end of this line is rounded right now. This is similar to when we were using the stroke panel with our shapes earlier. By default, the corners on shapes are rounded like this. We needed to change the join to a sharp join. However, this doesn't work with lines because this isn't two lines meeting up and creating a corner, the join actually isn't what you need to change. Instead, you need to change the cap. I'll go ahead and make it this one, and now you can see we have a nice sharp end and just like how the color stuck around as we were making new lines. Once you've changed something, made this a nice blunt end there. You can make more lines that have the exact same settings as the one you didn't before. Now you know everything you need to make beautiful lines in affinity publisher, which you can use in all sorts of ways to stylize your designs. In fact, in the next video, we're going to do a little project together where we'll use a stylized line and we'll use a few of the other things that we learned throughout this chapter. I'll meet you in the next video. 23. Plant Gallery Project : In this video, we're going to create a flyer for a live plant gallery. Now, my concept for this is it's like an art gallery opening, but instead of artwork, it's a bunch of live plants. That's what we're going to create. I know it's a silly idea, but I thought it would be fun and I think this flyer is going to turn out really beautiful. Let's go ahead and get started. To start off making our flyer, let's first put the background image in place. I'll come over here to the Place Image tool. I'll select the Plant gallery Project image. Then I'll press open, and I'll click and drag this out until it covers the entire background. Now, I think I want the plants to be a little bit larger. I'm going to stretch this out. Once you have it at a size you like, go ahead and lock this layer in place. We don't want to accidentally move it as we're creating our design. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to add the main title for the flyer. I'll grab the artistic text tool and I'll drag out some te, I'm going to type live plant. Then I'm going to press enter or return on my keyboard to drop down a line. Then I'll type gallery. Using the move tool, I'll just center this. Then we can go ahead and adjust this text. First, I'm going to make it white. Then we can go ahead and choose a nice font to use. Now for this, I'm going to use a font called dream orphans. I found this font on defont.com. You can go over there and download this font if you want to use the same one. Otherwise, just find a font that's nice and bold like this. I forgot to mention that I typed this in all capital letters. Make sure that ears is all capitals like this. Then I'm going to make this bold. There we go. With that nice and centered up. I think I want to make this a little bit easier to see with such a busy background image. It's a little hard to make out these letters. I'm going to use the rectangle tool, and I'll drag a rectangle. I'll make it black, and then I'll drag it underneath the text layer. Now it's a lot easier to see our text, but it's completely covering our background. A trick I'm going to use is I'm actually going to lower the opacity of this layer so that it becomes semi transparent. To do that, come on up here to where it says opacity. Go ahead and click here, and now we can go ahead and lower this down. I lowered it about halfway, but I think I want it to be a b less transparent, so I'm just going to raise this up. I think I like how that looks. Now that we can see the text a bit more easily. Let's go ahead and finish adding texts to this text area. I'll grab the artistic text tool and I'm going to drag a little bit of a smaller font here. Then I'm just going to type in the date and the time. With that all typed up, I'm going to go ahead and grab the move tool so that I can change the font. I think it's nice to use a couple of fonts whenever you're making a document like this, just so they contrast each other a little bit. The font that I'm going to use for this is called railway. You can download this font off of Google Fonts if you want to use the same one as me. I really like this railway font. If you come right here next to the Fonts name, there are so many options you can change to make it just the right thickness and italicization that you want. For this one, I think I'll use medium. And I'll make it a bit smaller. To finish adding our text, I'm just going to select this one, and then while holding command or control, I'm just going to drag it down here. The reason I s that is because I want to use this exact same font. I'll just click in here and delete all of the text. Then I'm going to type in the location. This is going to be at the plant store. I'm just going to decrease the size here. Then I'll grab the move tool so I can reposition this. Then while holding command or control, I'll duplicate this layer down. In this textbox, I'm going to type the address. With that all typed out, I'm going to grab the move tool, and I'm going to line this up with the edges here. Then I'm going to shrink this text down until it matches up to the other edge where it says store. This text isn't the exact same size, but it does line up on both sides, which I think looks pretty nice. Now that I've shrunk down this address, I'm also going to make this regular, which shrunk down the text, I'm going to stretch it out a little bit. Now we have the store name and address there. I think I'm just going to lower these down. Now we can make a few more adjustments to our document. The first thing I want to do is I want to add one of those stylized lines I was talking about by using the Pen tool. I'm going to come over here and grab the pen tool. Then in line mode, I'm going to draw a line starting with the first point, matching up to the very top of where it says Saturday. Then I'm going to hold down shift, so it's perfectly straight, and I'm going to drag it down to where it says eight to 10:00 P.M. I'll go ahead and make the stroke color white, and I'll go to the stroke panel so I can increase the width. I think I'll make the width two points. That thickness looks pretty good. Now I'm just going to adjust the positioning a little bit. But before I do that, I think I want to change the cap from this rounded cap to the blunt cap. There we go. Now I'm going to use the move tool to move all of these things in place. Starting with this line, I'm just going to hold down shift so it moves in a straight line, and I'll line it up with the text here. Then we holding shift, I'm going to select the line and this text so that I can move it in and line it up with the edge of this right here. Holding Shift to select both of those. I'll hold shift and drag it in. Now it's perfectly lined up there. I think I like how tight it is, but I think I'm going to space it out just a little bit more. I'll select both of these layers. Then using the arrow keys on my keyboard, I'm just going to bump it down one. I think that spacing looks good. I think I'm going to select all of the top text though. While holding command or control on my keyboard, I'm going to select the line, the date and time, and the main name of the document. Then I'll go ahead and move them all down. This is looking really pretty. I'm just going to add one more little detail, which is a fun way to frame out your text. That is using the rectangle tool. I'm going to go ahead and drag out a rectangle like this. Then in the color panel. I'm going to remove the fill and the stroke, I'm going to keep it white. Then in the stroke panel, I'm going to make sure that it's two for the width. Then using the move tool, I'm just going to center this. Now you can see we have a nice little frame for our text. I think this looks really cute and stylized and fancy. With that, I think we are done with this project. Great job. As you can see, simple designs can look really nice. You do not need to go overboard and add a lot of things to make an effective design. In this flyer project, the beauty is in the simplicity. With that, we are done with this chapter. In the next chapter, we're going to work a little bit more on customizing our text. 24. Working With Text : This course, we've already learned the basics of how to add text to your documents. But in this chapter, I want to build on that and teach you more powerful tools that you can use to stylize your text. Let's get started. 25. Character Panel : This video, we're going to learn about the character panel. The character panel gives you some advanced options for modifying text to get it just the way you want. But before we dive into that, we need to create some text. I'll come over here and grab the artistic text tool, and then I'll drag out some text. I'll go ahead and type. I love to use, then I'll drop down a line. Affinity Publisher. I'll use the move tool to center up this text in the document, and now we can go ahead and open up the character panel. You can find the character panel right over here next to the layers panel. At the top of this panel, you can change the font and font size. I typically like to just use the context toolbar, but you can do that here as well. Then below that, we have a section for decorations. I'm just going to close this up because the main area that we want to focus on is the positioning and transform area right here. Using this area, we can adjust the positioning of all of our text. Let's go ahead and start right here with the shearing. The shearing is just what it looks like right here. It's Lancer text. This is a way to give a custom amount of italicization. This even works on fonts that don't normally have an italics option, which is really nice. I'll click in this box. Then I'll type 25 and I'll press Enter. Now you can see how much italicization we've added. I'll go ahead and press command or Control Z to undo that. Now I'm going to show you a couple more options. This option down here is pretty important. It's called letting override. This allows us to control the spacing between the lines of our text. If I click on this drop down arrow, you can see what a small amount of letting override would look like, and you can see what a larger amount would look like. 99% of the time, it's important that you keep this set to auto. Auto will change the letting amount based on the size of your text. This is a good thing to keep on auto. The last two things I want to show you in this panel are kerning and tracking. You can find these right at the top right here. These are pretty similar, but the differences with tracking, this change the spacing between all of your letters. Kernin will only change the spacing between two individual letters. To show you this, I'm going to start right here with tracking. I'll click on this drop down here, and then you can see a smaller amount of tracking, will bring all of the letters closer together, while a larger amount will spread them out more. I'll set it back to zero, and now I'm going to show you Kerning. But to do that, I need to click in our text and choose where I want the letters to be spaced farther or closer together. I'll go ahead and click right in here between the P and the U of publisher. I think those would look nice if they were a little bit closer together. I'm going to come back over here to the kerning. Now I can go ahead and adjust this. To bring them closer together, I'll use a smaller percentage. I think negative 30 looks pretty good for this. Now, Kernin is pretty specific and I really only use it when I'm working on maybe a main title or logo because Kernin is so particular and between only certain letters like this. While we're in type mode, I just wanted to mention that you can highlight any word in this textbox, and you can change anything you want about just that word. With Love highlighted here, I'm going to come back here to the shearing, and I'll go ahead and type in a number to give that some italicization. Then I'll go ahead and change the fill to red. Let's go ahead and make this bold. T. Since I did some shearing, you can see that the letters are a little bit more spread out. With that highlighted, I think I'll go ahead and lower the tracking a little bit of that word. There we go. The character panel is great. It has so many options in here and I didn't go over all of them, but I just think these ones are the most important shearing, letting override, and tracking and curning. We're going to continue to practice some of these options as we go through the rest of the course. In the next video, we're going to continue to learn more about text. As I show you a brand new tool that we haven't used before, called the frame text tool. 26. Frame Text Tool : Let's learn about the frame text tool. Far in this course, we've used the artistic text tool whenever we've wanted to create text. But there are actually two text tools in affinity publisher. We have the artistic text tool, and we have the frame text tool right up here. The artistic text tool is represented by an A, A for artistic, and the frame text tool is represented by a T for text. I don't know why they didn't use an F for frame to differentiate them, but whatever, So the difference between these two tools is that you'll generally use the artistic text tool for headlines or small amounts of text, while the frame text tool is used for larger amounts of text. Let's go ahead and select this. Then we can click and drag to create a text frame. Once you've created your text frame, you'll see a cursor blinking right here. It's ready for you to add text to it. We could just start typing to fill in this frame. But for demonstration purposes, I've already prepared some text for us to use. You can find this in the exercise files. This text is just gibberish text. It doesn't actually make any sense, but it will work for demonstration purposes. Now to place the text, what you need to do is come up to the top of the screen to file. Then click on place. Then you can go ahead and click on this document. Then press open. Now, all you need to do to place this text is click in the text box where you want it. So you know, Affinity Publisher only lets you place Microsoft Word documents into a textbox. It doesn't work for documents that were saved in Apple pages. This method of going to File Place really only works for word documents. Otherwise, you'll just need to copy and paste your text from wherever you wrote it. Now that we have our text, let's see how we can work with it. Let's use the Move tool to resize this text. Okay. This isn't working. Why isn't the text getting any bigger? Well, what we're doing here is actually making the frame bigger, not the actual text. If we want to make the text bigger, we need to come up to the context toolbar and adjust the text from here. At this point, you might be wondering why you would ever want to use the frame text tool. So far, it just seems like a more annoying version of the artistic text tool. But I want to show you where the magic happens. As we resize this text frame, the text reflow to fit the frame. While the artistic text tool is nice to quickly and easily resize the text and make it look just the way you want for a heading. The frame text tool is nice because as you resize the frame, this text will reflow, which is perfect for long strings of text that need to be resized and positioned. There's a few more things to know about the frame text. You see this red eye right here, That means that we have text inside this text frame that isn't visible right now. Probably because this text frame is too small. I'll go ahead and resize this text frame until that red eye disappears. Now you can see all of our text is in the frame. This is really nice just to make sure all your text is visible. Now, a little problem that you might run into is centering your text. If I center this text frame in the document, you'll notice that the text frame is centered, but the actual text has more space down here than is necessary, which means it's not actually centered. To fix this, I like to make the text frame just small enough that all the text is showing like this and then center our text. If we have way too much room down here, the centering just won't work right. So make sure your text frame is very tight snug against your text before you center anything. One last trick I want to show you is that we can resize the text frame as you've seen, and we can resize the text by coming up here to the context toolbar. But we can actually combine these two things using this floating handle right out here. If I click and drag on this, this will increase the size of the text frame and increase the size of the text. Or it can do the opposite and make the text a lot smaller along with the text frame. We'll be working with the frame text tool more throughout the rest of this course. But now you have some foundational skills to add large amounts of texts to your documents. Go ahead and keep this document open because in the next video, we're going to learn how to stylize paragraphs in this text frame. 27. Paragraph Panel : This video, we're going to learn about the paragraph panel. The paragraph panel is actually pretty similar to the character panel, except it's used to stylize large paragraphs like this, not individual letters in the paragraphs. For demonstration purposes, I'm going to use the text that we placed in the last video, and I just went ahead and made the font a bit smaller. Now it's 16 Now let's go over here and open up the paragraph panel. Just like the character panel, this panel has a lot of different options. Many of which are pretty technical and advanced. In this video, I'm actually just going to focus on the options that are most important to know about. At the top, we can set paragraph alignments. Right now, our text is left aligned, which means it's pushed over to the left side. We can see that right here. But we can also change this if we want to to make it right aligned or centered. We can also make it justified left, which means that the text will stretch across to fill up both sides. This reminds me of a newspaper or magazine column. It nicely fits on both sides, and it's doing this by changing the tracking and between the words to stretch out the spaces in some areas. These options are here in the paragraph panel, but you can also find them right up here in the context toolbar. The next thing I want to show you is this spacing area right here. The very first option right here is letting. Now, using letting, we can change the space between lines of text. We can do this based on font size. Or if you come up to the top, we can do this by percentage. Then we can change it to 200% if we want it to look double spaced, like a school paper. I'll go ahead and change this back to 100%. This option is just like the letting override option that we used in the character panel lesson. But most of the time you want to use the letting option in the paragraph panel, not the override option in the character panel. The character panel letting is overriding the paragraph panels letting, which means that it can create some unexpected spacing in your paragraphs if you use both of them at the same time. I suggest just using this version of letting in the paragraph panel. But maybe you don't want double space text. You just want a bigger space between each of your paragraphs. In that case, you can use space before or space after paragraphs right here. I like using these options and you can use either one if you want. For this one, I'm just going to change the space after the paragraph. I'll go ahead and type in a larger number here. Now you can see we have a little bit larger of a space. I'll go ahead and make this a bit larger using these arrow keys, so you can really see the difference. The next thing I want to show you is actually not in this section. I'll go ahead and close this up and I'll close up all of the rest of these. You can see we actually have quite a few here. I'm going to go to the hyphenation category. This hyphenation category allows you to add hyphens to your text like this, which is really good for when you're justifying your text on both sides. If auto hyphenation is turned off, you can see that there's a bit more spacing in your words as it tries to fill the space of each line. I'd like using auto hyphenation to make the spacing a little bit more compact and normal looking. This is a good thing to check on if you're ever using justified text. Those are the most important options that you can find in the paragraph panel. But I wanted to highlight one last useful thing to know. You can apply these paragraph changes to the entire text frame if you want to, or you can apply these changes to individual paragraphs by having your cursor blinking anywhere in that paragraph. You don't actually need to select the entire paragraph. Just have your cursor blinking in one of the paragraphs. Then we can come over here to the spacing, and I'm just going to increase the spacing after paragraph. And you can see that's only affecting this first paragraph. But just like before, if you want to modify individual words in the paragraph, you need to go ahead and select those. All you need to do is select the words, and then you can go ahead and change those words just like we were doing before. You can still individually to your text. But the paragraph panel just gives you more options for these larger blocks of text. Great work on this video. Now you know the basics of how to work with the paragraph panel. We didn't cover all of the paragraph panel options in this video, but we'll learn about a few other options it has throughout this course. In the next lesson, we're going to learn how to combine the power of the paragraph panel and the character panel to make text styles. 28. Text Styles : This video, we're going to learn about textiles. To see textiles in action. I've already placed a word document from the exercise files into this text frame, which gives us some nice texts to play around with. Textiles are a way to save all the style that you've added to some text and then easily apply those changes to other text. To show you how this works, let's go ahead and give this first title here a little bit of style. I'll highlight this. Then let's go ahead and give it a larger font. Then we can give it a fun font. Go ahead and choose anything here. Then go ahead and give it a color. Up in the context toolbar, I'm just going to center this to give it one more change. Let's go ahead and bold it. Let's say I like how this title is looking, and I want the other three titles in our document to look exactly the same. Now, I could highlight each of these titles and format them the exact same way as I did for the first one. But who has time for that? Let's use textiles to save the formatting of the style, and then easily apply this to the other titles. To do this, we need to use the textiles panel, which you can find right over here. This textiles panel comes with some default styles that you can use on your text. But instead of using the default styles, I want to update one of these pre existing textiles to look the way that I formatted this text right up here. I'm going to click to have the cursor blinking within this right here. Then I'm going to come over here to Heading one, and I'm going to update this to match this textile here. To do that, I'll use the hamburger menu next to it. I'll open that up. Then I'm going to click Update Heading one. You can see that heading one has just shifted around a little bit and looks different. That's because now it's adopted the exact same things that we have here, the font, the color, everything. We can apply this to other headings by having the cursor blinking in one of these paragraphs, and then applying it to it. Text styles act like paragraph styles, which means we don't need to highlight anything that we're trying to change. We just need to have the cursor blinking like this. Wasn't that so easy? We didn't have to go through and change each of these titles manually. We could just apply heading one to it. Let's practice this again. This time, we're going to make a textile for our body text. I'll go ahead and highlight this entire text here so that I can make some changes to it. Let's go ahead and add a new font. Then I'm going to justify this text to the left. Then in the paragraph panel, I'll just come in here and I'm going to increase the leading. Let's go ahead and increase it just a little bit. There we go. I'll go ahead and increase the space after paragraph as well. With all that stylization, let's go back to text styles. This time, let's go ahead and update the body style. I'll click next to it on the Hamburger menu. Then I'll click Update Body. This body style has not been updated, and we can apply this to the other three paragraphs. And now you can see we've easily done that as well. Textiles can save you a lot of time. But we're not done yet. Let's say we changed our mind and we really want a new color for our paragraph headings. Well, all I need to do is select the first title. Then let's go ahead and change the color. Now, all I need to do is go back to heading one and update it one more time. Just like that, all of the textiles have changed. Text styles are just a really smart way to work. You don't need to edit the text in a text frame. Instead, you can just apply a text style and edit that style, just like we just did. This will make things way easier if you ever need to change things later on. Like if you wanted to change the font of 100 different chapter titles. Let's practice updating styles again. But this time, I'm going to show you an even faster way to do it. I'm going to highlight all of the text in this paragraph here, and note that up here in the context toolbar, it says we have the body style applied to it. Just for fun, let's go ahead and change the color of this text. We'll go ahead and make it a nice and dark green. Now up here, it says body plus. This means that the text did have the body textile applied to it. But now we've modified this text beyond what the textile is. It has a little plus button, meaning that there's a little bit more style applied to it. If we want these plus changes applied to all of the other ones, all we need to do is click on this button right here, and this will automatically update the text. This button is the exact same thing as if we were to go to the text styles and update the style here. But this is just a much faster way to do it. I'll go ahead and click that. Now you can see all of these textiles were updated, Well, almost all of them. This one up here didn't change. Why did that happen? Well, this is because we didn't actually assign this text, the body textile. We alter this text, we changed the font, and we based the style off of it. But because we didn't actually apply the textile to it, it didn't update with the other text. This is a really simple fix though. All we need to do is have the cursor blinking in this paragraph, then we can apply the body style to it. Now you can see it updated just like the rest of them, from here on out, if we were to change anything else about these paragraphs, maybe I want it to be blue instead. I can update the style and all of them will change because now this one is connected, it has the same textile as the rest of them. If you ever wanted to remove a textile from some of the text, all you need to do is have the cursor blinking and then click on No style. This will completely remove any textile that was previously applied to it. Okay. I know that textiles can be a lot to take in at first, but they really are so useful and can save you a lot of time. Great work on this video. We're going to continue to practice using textiles as we go through the course. In the next video, I want to spend a little time to clear up any confusion with how affinity handles changes that you've made to your text. We'll go ahead and do that in the next video. 29. Maintaining Text Changes : This video, I want to talk about how to maintain your text changes from text frame to text frame. I want to spend a little bit of time clearing up any confusion about how affinities handles which changes will be carried over to your next frame of text. To start, let's go ahead and make a text frame with the frame text tool. We'll go ahead and drag one out. Then I'm going to type in. I hope you are enjoying the course. I'm going to get out the move tool, and let's make a few changes to this text. First, let's go ahead and give it a nice fun font, something that looks a bit different like that. Then I'll go ahead and give the font a nice fun color. Let's go ahead and increase the size of this text. We've made a few changes. Let's go ahead and make a new text frame and see if any of these changes are carried over to this next one. In this one, I'll just type in. Affinity is So much fun. Notice how all of our text changes are kept in this new text frame. That's pretty nice. I'm going to go ahead and get out the Move tool. Let's alter this text a little bit more. This time, I'll go into the paragraph panel, and I'll go ahead and center the text. I'm just going to move these around a little bit. Let's drag out one more text frame. Then I'll go ahead and type some more text. This time, the text wasn't centered. Why is that? I made it centered in the last one. Well, here's the trick. Affinity will only maintain character changes that you make to your text. This includes things like the font, the font size, the color, but it won't carry over any paragraph changes, changes which you could make in the character panel, like how the alignment is set up. If this is true, affinity only carries over character panel changes. What would happen with textiles? Will affinity maintain any textiles that you've applied to a text frame? Well, let's go ahead and see. I'll go ahead and highlight I love cute cats, and then we'll go ahead and go to our textiles. I'll go ahead and apply heading one to it. Take note that now the font is aerial, it's bold, it's 20 for font size, and it's black now. I'll go ahead and make a new text frame and see if these changes carry over. It looks like we have aerial bold, 20 point font. But if my cursor is blinking in this text, it says there's no style applied to it. Why is that? It looks the same, but it didn't carry over. Well, this is because text styles act like paragraph styles, which means that they're not kept in your new text frame. All the other changes to your text were changes that could be done in the character panel, like the color and font. Those were carried over. I know this is a little bit confusing, but just remember that the character panel changes are maintained when you make a new text frame, but paragraph panel changes are not kept. Hopefully, knowing this will help you to demystify some of Affinity's behavior as you make text frames. Now that we've clarified a little bit of that in the next video, we're going to learn about something that we've had closed up this entire time, which is the pages panel. 30. Pages Panel : Let's learn about the pages panel. Far in this course, we've been working on a single page only, but you can actually add as many pages as you want in Affinity Publisher. A great place to do that after you've already created your document is right over here in the pages panel. I'll go ahead and come to where it says pages, and I'll click on this dropdown arrow. Here you can see an overview of all of the pages that you have. Now, right now, we only have one page, so we just have a preview of that one. If I were to draw a rectangle on this page, You can see that this page updates over here. Not only does it show you the amount of pages, but it also shows you a little thumbnail of what's on that page, which can be really useful as you scroll through your pages. To add more pages to our document. All we need to do is press on this little page button right here that has a plus sign. Go ahead and click on that and this box will pop up. This will show you how many pages you want, where to insert them, and which page to put that before or after. You can read this like a sentence. In this case, let's add five pages after page one. Then go ahead and press. And now in the pages panel, you can see that we've added five pages after page one, and now we have a total of six pages. Once you've scrolled through all your pages and you've found the page you're looking for, all you need to do is double click on that page and you'll travel to that page here, or in this document area, you can just scroll upward like this to get to the different pages. Let's go ahead and double click on the very last page. Just to make it easier to see that we really are on the last page. I'm going to draw another rectangle here. Let's go ahead and give this one a different color. Just as before, the pages panel automatically updates with the new rectangle that I just drew. Another thing that you can do with the pages panel is you can actually duplicate pages. I'm going to click on this last page so that it gets highlighted in blue. Then at the top of the pages panel, I'm going to click on this button right here, which will duplicate the page that I have selected. Now, if I scroll down, you can see we have two copies of that page. If you want to duplicate multiple pages at once, you can hold down shift to select multiple pages, and then you can duplicate them in that same way. With these pages selected, I could duplicate them all at once. But this time, I want to demonstrate how you can delete pages that you have selected in the pages panel. To do that, go ahead and click on the trash can. Now those pages are deleted, and you can see we just have our first page, two blank pages, and our last page in the pages panel, similar to the layers panel over here. We can also rearrange the pages by clicking and dragging on them to move them up. I want to share one last tip with you. I want to show you how you can quickly navigate to different pages. I'm actually going to add a very large number of pages. Let's add 1,000 pages after page four. I'll go ahead and press. Now you can see down here that we have 1004 pages in our document. That is quite a lot and it would take a very long time to scroll through all of these pages and get to one of the later pages. Instead, we could use the pages navigation bar right down here where you can see the number of pages. Using this bar, we can jump to the very first page by clicking here, or we could jump to the very last page by clicking here. In addition to using these arrows, we could also just click here and type in whichever page we want to go to. Once you press enter, you'll be taken to that page. This is super useful for large documents. I'm glad that we have this little toolbar down here that we can use for that. And with that, now you know how to use the pages panel. This is really going to come in handy with a lot of different projects that we'll work on as we continue this course. In the next video, I want to go over some page setup options that you can change when you're creating a new document. We'll go through those in the next video. 31. Page Setup : Learn how to customize your page setup. To begin, let's make a new document by coming to the top of the screen to file and then new. From here, I want to go to the pages section. You might be in the layout section right now. Go ahead and click on pages. From here, we can actually set the number of pages that we want before we've even created our document, which can be nice if you already know the number of pages. Of course, we saw in the last video that you can easily add and remove pages in the pages panel. But this is good for doing it beforehand. Another important setting is facing pages. Through the magic of video editing, I'll show you what facing pages looks like. Facing pages are what you normally find in a book or magazine where you have a left page and a right page. On the other hand, if you have facing pages off, then each page will stand on its own, like how you see most PDFs. Each page of the PDF is by itself. There isn't a right and left side. Depending on your particular project, facing pages may or may not be what you want. I'll keep mine turned on right now because I want to show you one more important setting. With facing pages turned on, you can choose if your first page appears on the right side or on the left side. In more practical terms, this means you're deciding whether or not you want to have a cover page that stands on its own. L et's make a six page document with the first page starting on the right and facing pages turned on. Then we can go ahead and press Create. As you can see it, page one starts on the right side, and because there's no page before the first page, this will stand on its own, acting as a cover page for our document. If I go back up and create a new document with the first page starting on the left side, Then I press Create. You can see that now every page has a partner. It has a left side and a right side. The pages are facing each other from the very beginning. Whether you start your pages on the left or the right is totally up to you and your project. But before we finish this video, I want to show you that you can change this setting if you change your mind after you've already started your document. The way to do that is go back up to file. Then you're going to come down here to where it says document setup. This box will appear and it gives you the same options that we had in that pages area as we were setting up the new document. From here, you can turn facing pages on and off, and you can also change if it starts on the right or the left. Those are some nice options that you have as you're creating your document. Now that you know about facing pages, we're going to use this and the other things that we learned throughout this chapter to create a restaurant flyer project in the next video. 32. Restaurant Flyer Project : All right. In this video, we're going to create this adorable restaurant flyer for a cat cafe, a cafe that makes cat food, and cats run the cafe, and it's adorable. It's pretty much the movie at Tui, but for cats. This project is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to use a lot of the skills that we've already learned learning about working with multiple pages as well as some of the text options that we've been learning about. Let's go ahead and jump right in. To start, let's go ahead and make a new document together. For this document, I need two pages. I'm going to turn facing pages off. That way, we have a front and back side of the flyer and they both stand on their own. I'll also make sure that I still have my page width and height to 8.5 by 11, and this looks good. I'll go ahead and press Create. I'm going to come over here to our layers panel, and I'm just going to delete where it says Master A. We're going to learn more about master pages later on. But for right now, let's just go ahead and delete those, so we have a tidier layers panel. Then I'll double click on the first page, so we can start there. For this first page, I want to create a background color, and I'll use the rectangle tool to do that. I'll click and drag out a rectangle to cover the entire page. Then we can go ahead and change the fill color. I want this to be a faded yellow color, like a parchment color. Once you have a color that you like, we can go ahead and add some paper texture. I'm going to do this with the place image tool. In our exercise files, go ahead and open up the restaurant flyer project. You'll see we have quite a few different images and even a few text files that we'll be using to create this project. Go ahead and select the paper texture. I'll open that up and then I'll drag this across the page. Go ahead and stretch it until it's covering the entire page. Then go ahead and lower the opacity of this layer. I still want to see the yellow color from behind it. I need to make this a little bit transparent. Coming up here to the opacity, I'll just go ahead and lower this down. I think that looks pretty nice. You can still see the little spots and texture, and you can also see the color that we chose before. I'm going to go ahead and lock both of these layers so that we don't accidentally move them. Then I'm going to select both of these layers by holding shift and clicking. Then I'll press command or control C to copy these layers, and I'll come to our second page, and I'll just press command or control V. Now these layers are pasted onto the second page. Both of the pages will have the exact same texture and color. When I copied and pasted those pages, they became unlocked on the second page. I'm just going to go ahead and lock those layers. With our backgrounds done, let's go back to page one. You can see these layers are still locked, just fine. Everything is how we left it, which is perfect. Let's go ahead and start by placing an image. I'll use the place image tool. Let's go ahead and use this image right here of the two cats. I'll double click on that to open it up. Now we can go ahead and click and drag to place these cats in our document. I want them to be centered in the document like this. Now to make this look a little bit more faded and rustic looking like the paper texture, just trying to create a restaurant atmosphere here. I'm going to lower the opacity of this layer as well to make it more faded. I'll go ahead and bring this down like that. Now you can see that black isn't quite so striking of a color. To add some style to our design, I want to add a circle in the background behind this photo. I'll do that using the ellipse tool right over here. I hold down shift as I click and drag to make a perfect circle. Then using the move tool, I'll make sure that this covers the cats completely. Then I'll drag it underneath the cat layer like this. I want this circle to be a darker yellow color. I'm going to come up here to the color panel, and I'm going to change the fill color to a darker color. I think a color like this looks pretty good. I'm just going to lower the opacity of this as well. I just want this to be a subtle frame around our cats. I think I want to make the circle slightly larger. While holding shift, I'll just enlarge this a little bit, and then I'll rec. With this all finished. I want to add a little bit of information here at the bottom. I want to add in the address and the phone number of this cat cafe. To do that, I'm going to use the artistic text tool since this isn't very much text. I'll click and drag. Now let's go ahead and do the first line of information. I'll go ahead and type out an address. I'll press enter or return on my keyboard to drop down a line. With the address all typed up, I'll grab the move tool, and then we can choose a font. Now, I previously used this font. It's called railway. You can download this font on Google Fonts if you want to use the exact same one or you can choose whichever font you want. It really doesn't matter. I'm going to change the thickness here. Let's go ahead and make it light, and I'll decrease the size to 20. I think I'm going to keep the opacity at 100% for this layer so that you can easily read this text in its black color. Now I'm going to duplicate this text. With a move tool still out, I'm going to hold down command or control, and then I'll click and drag to duplicate that. Then I'll just click in this box, and I'll go ahead and click four times to highlight all of the text, and then I can go ahead and type in my new information. I'm just going to type in. We do takeout. How exciting. Go ahead and drop down a line and I'm just going to make up a phone number for the cat cafe. Oops. I think I'll put spaces in between this hyphen here. This looks pretty good. Because we copied and pasted it, it has the exact same font and font size. We don't need to make any other changes to this text, which is perfect. I'm just going to go ahead and use the move tool to select both of these. I hold shift to select both of them. I'll go ahead and center this up in our document. Now, I want to create a bit of separation with a line here. To do that, let's pull out the Pen tool. I'll set it to line mode. Then I'm just going to zoom in here and I'm going to start my first point at the top of where the text is. I'll hold shift, and I'll go to the bottom of where the phone number is. I'll click. Remember that this is the stroke. The stroke is already set to black, which is perfect. I'll just go to the stroke panel to increase the width. I want to see this a little bit better, but I don't want to make it thicker than the lines of the text here. I'm going to try to find a sweet spot in the middle where the line looks about similar to how thick the text is. With that done, I think I actually want to bring this side in a little bit. I think that's lined up quite nicely. We have all the information I wanted to add at the bottom. Now we can go ahead and add the name of the cafe right up here at the top. Now, for this one, let's go ahead and grab the artistic text. I'll click and drag some text, and I'm going to type out the cat. I'm going to put cafe on another line. But we'll do that in a second. First, let's go ahead and grab the move tool and change the font here. The font I'm going to use for this is called James stroker. This is a free font off of de font.com. You can get it there if you want to use the same one as me. But basically, I want to use a font that looks fancy. It has a little bit more movement to it and looks a little bit more hand done. With that, I'll go ahead and make this a little bit larger, and then I'm going to rotate this text to give it some style here. A Now that I've done that, I'm going to duplicate this text by holding down command or control. Then I'll click and drag down here. I'll select all of the text by triple clicking. Then I'm going to type in cafe. Because this is a separate textbox, I can position this wherever I want. I think I'm just going to put it right under here. I like the spacing between the words, but I don't like how close this is to the other cat. Using the move tool, I'm going to hold down shift to select both of our textboxes, and I'll just move those both upward. Maybe I'll move this one to the side a little bit. This looks really cute. I think I want to move all of these layers upward though. I'm going to do a little trick. I'm going to click and drag with my move tool out until all of those layers are highlighted, and then while holding shift, I'm just going to move them all upward a bit. Just to give a little bit more space from the text at the bottom. Now that I'm looking at this, the text looks very dark. We lowered the opacity of the cats and I'd like the text to be a similar color. I'm going to select both of these cat layers and I'll just decrease the opacity to make them a little bit more faded. But you might notice something here because the letters are overlapping like this. We have a darker spot right here, which looks a little weird. Maybe instead of lowering the opacity, we can just change the color of the text. With both of those layers selected, I'll go to our color panel. Then using the color picker, I'll click and drag and I'm going to sample the color of the Cat's vest. Then with the fill color selected on both of those text layers. I'll click on this color to apply it. Now it's the exact same color as the cats. It looks just as faded, but we didn't need to worry about the opacity of that strange overlapping. All right, and with that, we're finished with the first page. Now, I recognize that this is turning into a super long project. Feel free to stop here, save your work, take a rest. Otherwise, if you're ready to move on, you can meet me in the next video, where we'll tackle the second page of this project. 33. Restaurant Flyer Project (Page 2) : Okay. Great work. The front of our flyer looks really good. Let's move on to the back side by double clicking on this second page preview here. Now that we've jumped down to that. Let's start off by adding a stylish border to this back page. To create a border, I'm going to use the rectangle tool. I'll click and drag out a rectangle like this. Then I'll go ahead and make sure that it's nice and centered. Then I'll come over here to the color panel, and I'm just going to remove the fill. Then with a stroke, I'm going to change it to the exact same color that we just sampled for the front of the flyer. Then in the stroke panel, I'm going to increase the width. I think that amount looks pretty nice. Then I'm going to change the join to a sharp join, so we have nice sharp corners. To give this a little bit more flare, I'm going to duplicate this rectangle to duplicate the rectangle, I'll press command or control J. Now we have a duplicate copy of our rectangle here. I want to shrink the top and bottom and the left and right sides, the exact same amount. I'm going to hold down shift while resizing it. Then using the move tool, I'm just going to center this. Now, you might notice something. It looks like this side right here is closer together than the top and bottom side. I held shift, but it looks like it's not the exact same amount. I think that's because this isn't a square, so I messed with the dimensions and the sizing here. But I do have a solution for us. Let's go ahead and press command or control Z to undo the resizing. Now, both of our rectangles are the exact same size, we're going to use a panel to get these to shrink down the exact same amount on all sides. I'm going to go up here to window. Then I'm going to open up our transform panel. The transform panel will allow us to change the positioning or the sizing of whatever layer we have selected. In this case, we have the rectangle selected, and we want to change the width and the height, the exact same amount. To do that, I'm actually going to use some math. I'll click in this box until the cursor looks like this. Then I'm just going to type in -0.3. Then I'll press enter. This rectangle has just shrunk 0.3 " on that side, and I'll do the same here. I'll click until the cursor is blinking like this, and then I'll do -0.3. Now it has shrunk by that exact same amount on the lower part. If I click and drag this to center it, you can see that now we have exactly proportional sizing around this entire border. That was all thanks to the transform panel. I really don't use this panel often, but it can come in handy for situations like this. With this inner rectangle selected, I'm just going to reduce the stroke a little bit. I think 2.5 looks pretty good for this. Sorry, that was a little bit complicated, but I just wanted to show you how to troubleshoot that problem and get your border looking perfect. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to add another image. I'll use the place image tool, and we can go ahead and select this cat with cart. I'll open this up, and I'm going to click and drag to add it to this top corner here. Then I'll lower the opacity of this layer to make it look more faded. As a quick tip for you, if you want to flip your layer around, you can actually come up here to this toolbar up here and you can flip things horizontally or vertically if you want to. I want this cat to be facing the other way. I'm going to flip it horizontally, and that was super easy. Now the cat is facing toward where we're going to put some text. Let's go ahead and drag out a text frame. We're going to put a block of text right over here. With the cursor blinking. Let's go up to file, and then place and go ahead and place text one. I'll click in the text frame. Now we can go ahead and alter this text. I'll make sure the move tool is out. Then we can go ahead and change the font. Now, I want to use the railway font again. I'm actually going to click on where it says recent. This has all of the recent fonts that we use. I'll click on railway. Then I'm going to change this to light. And I'm going to increase the size here. You can adjust the size of the text box if you want to. I'm just going to move it down a little bit because I actually want to add a title above this block of text. For the title, I'm going to grab the artistic text tool. Then I'll click and drag. You can see that this is the exact same font that we used for the cat cafe at the beginning. But I think I want to use a different font. I'll grab the move tool, and this time, let's go back to where it says all so we can access all of our fonts. I'm going to use a font called Grutch shaded. This is another font that you can find off of D font. Go ahead and click on that, and you can see it's this really pretty blocky text. I think this looks really cute and hand drawn. Let's go ahead and use that. I like the color. It's the same color as the Cat's vest from the beginning. I'll go ahead and resize this and place it like that. I really like how this looks. Let's go ahead and hold down shift to select both of these text boxes, and then I'll hold down command or control and drag them down here. We have a little bit more text we want to add. But before we do that, let's go ahead and change this text right here. I'm going to instead type cafe today. Then in this textbox, I'll delete all of this text, and I'll go ahead and place the second text that we have in our exercise files. Go ahead and click in the box. Unfortunately, the text lost its formatting, which is a little bit frustrating. But to quickly change it to look exactly the same as this text box. I'm going to click in this textbox until this cursor is blinking. Then I'm going to go to text Stiles, and I'm going to update the body text. Now, the body text is the exact same style as this paragraph. I'll go ahead and click on body to apply that style to this paragraph. Then I'll click in this box and apply the body style to it. Now, unfortunately, this is two paragraphs here. Clicking didn't change all of the text. I'll go ahead and click in this last paragraph and add that formatting as well. I think I'd like to remove this extra space we have up here. I'm just going to go to before where it says in and I'll just delete to bring that up. Then I think I want to add some extra spacing in between these two paragraphs. I'm going to click right here. Then I'll go to the paragraph panel and add space after paragraph. I'll just click on this arrow to increase it. All right. I think this is looking pretty good. The very last thing I want to add on the back here is a little reward that this restaurant got. Let's go ahead and place the last image, this award image. Go ahead and open this up and then click and drag to add this award. I want this to look like it was just stamped onto this menu. I'm going to rotate it like that. Then I think I want to make it a little bit larger, so it's partially overlapping with that text. Then I'll go ahead and go back to our layers, and I'm just going to decrease the opacity of this award to make it look more faded. Now that I'm looking at our flyer, I think I want to adjust these text boxes a little bit more. I don't really like all of this spacing on the sides. I would rather them be justified to the left. I'm going to click on this first textbox, and I'm just going to click right up here to the justified left setting. Now you can see it says body plus. I'll go ahead and update this. I think that looks a lot better. Now it's time to do some finishing touches. Go ahead and use the move tool to adjust where everything is placed. I think I'll just lower this down, make all of this a little bit tighter here. I think I want to lower the opacity of this award a little bit more, so I'll just do that. I think I want this text to not overflow from this text box. You see how it's over the edge here of this side. I'm going to shrink this down so that it fits perfectly here. I think that looks a little better. Maybe I'll go ahead and decrease the size up here as well. With all of that, I think I actually want to hold down shift and select all of these text boxes here. As well as this cat here. I'm just going to make sure that these are centered like that. Perfect. Now that we've repositioned everything, everything's looking really good, and we're done. You could save this file to work on it more in the future, or you could export your work. I'm going to come up to where it says file, and then I'm going to click on Export. We got a pre flight warning. That means that our document has some errors that we need to go back and check on. So Let's check this out. I'll open pre flight. Now over here, you can see some of the mistakes that we've made in this document. Most of these are spelling mistakes, but that's because I made up words in this document to make it cap famed. Those errors are just fine. But there is one error that I definitely need to check out, and that's the overflowing text frame. It looks like as I was rearranging things and changing up the fonts, we have some overflowing text. To check on that, I'll double click on the error, and it'll take me to that text frame. Yep, I see a red eye right here. I need to stretch out this text frame, so all of that text is showing, and now that error is gone. I'll go ahead and close this preflight panel. Now we can go ahead and export our work. We have a few options here that we can export our work as. We can do it as a JPEG. This will export each page as its own separate image, or we could do a PDF, which would put these images into a single document with two pages. Either one works just fine. And we are done. Great work on this project. I know that was a. It was a pretty big project, but I think it turned out so cute. I'm glad that we could put everything that we've learned so far in this course together to create such a cute project. Okay, with this chapter all wrapped up, we're ready to move on to the next one, where we're going to learn how to add lots of text to our documents. 34. Adding Lots of Text : Far we've worked with text, but we haven't worked with lots of text, like pages and pages of it. In this chapter, we're going to focus on working with large blocks of text. Let's get started. 35. Spell Check : This video, we're going to learn about spell check. Now, before we dive into working with large amounts of text, I want to start off with something a little bit simpler, which is checking your spelling in your work. Now, this is a very important step whenever you're working with a lot of text. I've already placed a file from the exercise files right in here into a text frame. As you can see, we have quite a few misspelled words in this text. If you want to turn these red lines on or off, all you need to do is go up to where it says text, then go down to where it says spelling. Then you can check and uncheck where it says, check spelling while typing. I'm going to leave this turned on so that we can see where our misspelled words are. But feel free to turn that off if you don't want to see the red lines. Like most other programs, all you need to do is well, first get in type mode like this, so the cursor is blinking. But then you can right click on a word to see the correct spelling, and you can change it from here. However, if you want to get a little bit fancy, you can actually pull open a dialog box that will let you easily scan through your document to see all of the misspelled words and correct them in one place. To get to that fancy dialog box, just come on right up here to where it says text, go to spelling, and then click on Spelling Options. As you can see, this dialog box will appear here. Using this box, we can go through each of the misspelled words and decide what we should do with them. Right up here, we can see the misspelled word, and then right down here, we can see the suggested corrected spelling. If we want to change it to the first word in this list, all we need to do is click change. If we want to skip over a word, we don't want to deal with it right now. You can just click on Find next and it will skip to the next misspelled word. I'm going to do this a couple of times so that I can show you that sometimes it will suggest multiple spellings of a word. Right now, if I click change, it will change to this first spelling. But if we want to change it to a different spelling in the list, all you need to do is click on that spelling and then click on change. If you get to a word and you say, Hey, that is how I want to spell it in this instance, you can click on Ignore. Click in on ignore will let you keep that spelling in this one instance, and Affinity will pretend like that spelled right. However, if you get to a word and you say, Hey, that is spelled correctly. I want affinity to learn this spelling. You can click on learn and this will make it so in this instance and all future instances where you spell the word this way. Affinity will recognize this word and say, yes, that is the correct spelling. In this case, though, I'm going to change it to the correct spelling and I'll do the same here. Once you're done, go ahead and click Close. Now you can say, all of these words are spelled correctly or how I want them to be spelled. I just wanted to mention that there are a couple of strategies with spell checking your work. You can keep this checked on so that the red lines appear and you can correct the spellings as you go, or you can turn this off like I usually do so that you don't see any red lines as you're working. I just find the red lines to be a little bit distracting as I work, and then you can spell check afterward. This does come with the risk though that you'll forget to spell check, so just be aware of that. With this simple video out of the way, we're ready to move on to the next one where we're going to learn about text columns. 36. Text Columns : 's learn about text columns. If you have lots and lots of text, you might want to split your text frames into columns. To show you how to do this, first, let's get out the frame text tool. Then I'll go ahead and make a large text frame like this. Now, for demonstration purposes, we could place another word document into this text frame. But I want to show you a nifty little trick. Have your cursor blinking in the text frame like this. Then right click on the frame, and then you can click on Insert filler text. This can be a handy trick for when you're making a mock up of a design, but you aren't quite sure what the text will say yet. One tip I have for though is to turn off spell check because all of these filler text words will probably be spelled wrong. To add columns to this text frame, we can come right up here to the context toolbar, and go ahead and click on this arrow, and now you can change the number of columns that we have here. By default, we have one column. But I'm going to go ahead and change this to three columns. I'll type three and then press Enter. Now you can see we have three columns here, which is really nice. We can also change this to any number of columns, I'll just change it to two. You can see what that looks like. Below that, we can also change the size of the gutter. The gutter is the space in between the columns. You might want more or less breathing room between these. I'll go ahead and increase the size to show you that, and I'll bring it back down. I think what it was at 0.33 looked pretty good. I'll go ahead and set it back to that. So even though we have columns now, this text frame will work exactly as normal. You can still resize the text frame and the text will reflow. But something to take special note of is that the text will reflow between the two columns. Go ahead and look at the text down here. It says, morbid. Look at those two words, and see what happens as I shorten this. Now you can see MreB tcdant is right up here. The text will reflow into the next column, which is really nice. Something to be aware of though is that even though this text frame is using multiple columns, it's still just one text frame. For better or for worse, if you have your text frame selected, any changes that you make will affect all of the text in this frame. I'll go ahead and grab the move tool and we can change the text to a new color, and you can see that both of these columns are affected. If you wanted these columns to be independent of each other, you would need to just make two separate text frames and place them together so they look like columns. Now you know how to add columns to text frames. In the next video, we're going to learn how to connect multiple text frames together, which is a very critical skill for working with lots of text. 37. Linking Text Frames : This video, we'll learn how to connect multiple text frames together. For demonstration purposes. I've included this document in the exercise files. Go ahead and open it up. You'll see that on page one, we have two text frames and two images here. So cute. On the next page, we have one text frame and two images. Then down here on page three, we have one text frame that's been split into two columns like we learned about in the last video. On the last page, we just have a single text frame like this. Let's go ahead and select the first text frame, and we can go ahead and play some text inside of it. I'm going to use the word document that's in the Exercise files. I'll go to File Place. Then I'll click on the document that's called Linked text frames. I'll open that up and I'll click to add it to this first text frame. This text is a bit too small to read. Using the Move tool, I'm going to change the text size to size 16. If we look at this text frame, we can see the red eye again, which if you remember, means that there's more text than is visible in this one text frame. If we click on it, we can actually see all the overflowing text here. I'm going to click on that to turn it off for now. What I want to show you is how you can connect this text frame to the next one so that the text will automatically flow into the next text frame. To do this, all we need to do is click on this triangle next to the eye. Then click on the next text frame that you want to link it to. Just like that, the red eye disappeared because this text is being redirected over here. There's still more texts though, which we can see because we still have this red eye. Let's go ahead and connect the second frame to the third frame over here. I'll click on this triangle again. Then I'll click on this third text frame. Now you can see we don't have an I over here, and we have a line connecting from the first page to the second page like this. It's super nice that you can connect your text frames easily like this and they can span across pages. Let's go ahead and continue to connect this text. I'll click on the triangle again, and I'll scroll down to the third page. You can see that the entire text frame is being lit up here. It looks like these are two separate text frames, but they're just split into columns, and we learned in the last video, that means this is all just one text frame. I'll click to add this text, and you can see this line connecting them here. And let's go ahead and connect it to the last frame. We've run out of text frames, but there's still a lot more text that's not visible here. You can see if I click on the eye. We still have a little bit more text here. What could we do? Well, we could make another text frame and then connect that text frame to this one, the same as we've been doing. But in even faster way is actually clicking on this connecting arrow right here. Then we can click and drag out another text frame, and that text will automatically be filled in the new text frame that we're dragging. This is a pretty cool fast method to get all this text added. That's the basics of connecting text frames. But I just want to share a few more tips with you. First, notice all these lines that are connecting the text frames. These are affinities visual way of quickly showing us which frames are connected. These lines are helpful to see what's going on in my next tip, which is what happens if you delete a text frame. Let's go ahead and delete this third text frame here. I'll have its layer selected and then I'll press delete. What just happened? Did that text disappear? Well, if I click on one of these text frames, we can see that no, the text didn't disappear. Instead, it just skipped over that text frame, and the text flowed into this third page down here. Affinity is so smart this way. It didn't delete the text. It knew that this text was supposed to be connected, so it just continued and pushed it into the next frame. But let's say later that I changed my mind and I want this third frame back. Well, all I need to do is click on the output triangle here on the second text frame. Then I can go ahead and click and drag out a frame. This will reinsert this text frame in this string of texts that we have here. It's so nice that affinity can intelligently flow all of this text. It really makes it easy to connect all of these frames together. One last tip. I want to show you how you can easily edit all of the text in all of these text frames at the same time. To do this, click in one of the boxes and get into type mode so that this cursor is blinking. And then click Command or Control A. This shortcut will select all of the text. With all of the text selected, you can make any edits to the text that you want. Just to quickly show you I'll change the text color. Now you can see that all of the text was changed to this blue color. This will even work if you have text that's overflowing outside of the text frame. That text will also update this new color. Connecting text frames is so useful and we'll be doing a lot of it throughout the rest of the course. You'll get plenty of practice. In the next video, I'm going to show you a fancy magic trick called automatic text frames. 38. Automatic Text Frames : In this video, we'll learn about automatic text frames. In the last video, we learned about linking text frames, which is a wonderful tool to have. But it can be tedious to link together hundreds of text frames if you have a large document that you're working with. In that situation, it's better to use automatic text frames. As you can see in this document, I've already set up a text ram here, and now I'm going to place a nice long file into this. I'll go up to file place, and then I'll use our automatic text frames document. I'll open that up and I'll click to add it here. Now, this text is way too small, so I'm quickly going to adjust the font size like that. So we already know that we could click on this output arrow, and then we could draw out a new text frame. But to make enough frames for all of this text would take a very long time. Let's have affinity do the heavy lifting for us. We can use this feature called auto flow, which is when affinity automatically makes a bunch of connected text frames based on how much text is in here. To do that, all we need to do is hold down shift and then click on this arrow. Okay. Wow, that was amazing. But what just happened? Affinity has made additional pages and text frames until all of the text that was inside the text frame is now visible. Depending on how long your text was, affinity can add a few more pages or even thousands. Each of these text frames has been linked together just as we learned in the previous video. One important thing to note though is that each of these text frames is the exact same size as the very first original text frame that I made. If I had made this first text frame long and skinny instead, then all of the next text frames would look exactly like that. You should also know that after you've used auto flow, you aren't able to easily change the size of all of the text frames at once. You could change individual text frames, but they won't all change at the same time, so just be aware of that. Now you know how auto flow works, but I want to show you one more thing before this video ends. You see how there isn't much space here between our paragraphs. In fact, it's hard to tell where paragraphs even are. Well, let's go ahead and enter type mode, and then I'll press command or Control A to select all of our text. With all of the texts selected, I can go ahead and change the spacing between the paragraphs. I'll come over here to the paragraph panel. Then I'll change the space after paragraph, and I'll just use this arrow to increase that. Now this spacing looks a lot better, but if we go to the end of our document, we now have overflowing text again. But this is really easy to fix. All we need to do is hold down shift and click on this arrow one more time, and it will automatically create more text frames. Using automatic text frames is as simple as that. It can be extremely useful. We're going to practice using this feature in a real world project in the next lesson. 39. Annual Report Project : Okay. For this project, we're going to create an annual report for the generic company. This company has a wonderful CEO, so we're going to have a little page for him. We're also going to have some beautiful stock images throughout this report. As we go through this document, we're going to be using columns which we've learned about. Also, we're going to fill these columns with text using the auto flow feature. In addition to that, we'll also be using text stiles and a few other things that we've been learning throughout this course. This will be a nice project to wrap up this chapter. Let's go ahead and get started. To start, let's go ahead and make a new document. I'll come right up to the top and I'll go to file and then new. Now in here, we're going to make sure we're still set to 8.5 by 11. Then over here in pages, I'm going to make sure facing pages is turned on. I'm also going to make sure that we're starting on the right side because I want this document to have a cover page. I'm also going to put the number of pages at five pages just to start, and then we can go ahead and press create Let's go ahead and start with this single page. You can see this is the only page that's standing on its own because this is the cover page. Let's go ahead and start by grabbing the place image tool. Then I'm going to go into our annual report project folder. In here, I'm going to select the cover page and I'll go ahead and open that up. I want this cover page to fully cover this page. I'm really going to stretch it out like this, and then I'll reposition it. I think I like the people standing off to the side like this. With that background image in place, we need a place to put the text for our title and then a little tag line down here to make this text easier to read, let's go ahead and use some rectangles for this. I'll grab the rectangle tool and then I'll click and drag out a rectangle right up here. I'm going to fill this rectangle with black. Then I'll grab the move tool and we can hold down command or control as we click and drag to put a rectangle at the bottom as well. With those rectangles in place, we're ready to add our text. I'll grab the artistic text, and then I'll click and drag to add some texts to the top. Now this entire document is an annual report, so I'll go ahead and type that in. Now, we can't see this because the text is set to black. To change that, I'll grab the move tool. Then I'll change the fill to white. Now we can adjust how our font looks. I'll come over here, and I think I want to use the railway font. I'll go back to our recent fonts since that's a font we've been using and I'll click on that. I think I want this actually to look italicized. Let's see what some of these would look like. I'm going to go with semi bold italic. I think that looks really nice. Now we can go ahead and reposition this. I think I'll make it a bit smaller and I'll just bring it over like that. If you're having trouble centering it, it's probably because this isn't fully snapped to our document. Make sure that your rectangles are snapped to the edges of your document so that you can easily recenter things. Now we should have no problem centering this. Let's go ahead and add some texts down here as well. I'm going to grab the artistic text tool again and I'll just click and drag a smaller letter here. Then we can create our little tag line for this annual report. I'm just going to type in building a generic tomorrow together. I'm going to shrink this text down so we can see all of it, and then I'll recenter it in this box. I think this is looking good. I just want to add one more detail. I want to place a line underneath annual report. I'm going to grab the pen tool in line mode. Then I'll go ahead and click once on one edge here, I hold shift, and I'll click again once it's lined up to the edge of where it says report. I'm going to change the color of this to white. Then in the stroke panel, I'm just going to increase the thickness. I can see that we have a rounded cap, and I want to change this to a blunt edge. I'll just change the cap to that. With that, I think we're done with page one. This looks like a really nice cover to a really boring report, so I think that's perfect. Let's go ahead and move on to the next page. This page is going to be an ode to our CEO. It'll have a picture of him and then a brief description. Let's go ahead and grab the place image tool, and we'll place our CEO into this area. I'll press open. Then I'll click and drag like that. I want him to be centered on the page, but in the top half of the page so that we have room for text down here. I'll go ahead and grab the artistic text tool. I'm just going to type out some text. This is going to say R Leader. This text is set to white since that's what we have been using. I'll grab the move tool so that we can change the color to black. I'll make sure the fill is selected and then I'll change that to black. I think I want to change this font. I don't want it to be italicized anymore. I think I'll just change it to light. And I'll make it a bit smaller. I like how it's lined up with the edge of the picture like that, so I'll leave it there. Now we can go ahead and add some text under here. I'll grab the frame text tool and then ops. That wasn't supposed to happen. I'll press command or Control Z to undo that. Then I'll go ahead and with the frame text tool selected. I'll just click and drag out a frame text box. I like how both of the edges of this frame text box are lined up to the picture. Make sure yours looks like that as well. I'll just make it a bit shorter. Before I put our text in here, I think I want to give this columns. I'll come up here to the context tool bar and change the number of columns to two. This will just break up our text, and we'll also be using columns throughout the rest of our document. I thought this would look nice. With the cursor blinking. Let's go ahead and go to file and then place. Then we're going to insert our CEO text into that spot. I'll click to add that text. With the move tool selected, I can adjust how this text looks. Let's make it quite a bit larger. Let's go ahead and change this font to something even more generic than the aerial font. I was thinking of using Ts New Roman. This is the standard font that at least where I went to school, every essay was typed in times New Roman. I thought this was nice and appropriate for such a boring company. This looks good. I'm just going to shrink down the text box so that there's about even text on both sides. Now to finish this off, let's just add a line underneath our text. I'll grab the pen tool again. I'm just going to click once on this side. I'll hold shift and click again on this side. This time, I need the color to be set to black, so I'll select the stroke and make it black. I think that line is a bit too thick, so I'll change the width. Like that. This is really coming along nicely. Let's go ahead and move on to the third page. This page, similar to the CEO page is another introduction to the company. It's going to be the name of the company, another little tag line, and a stock image. Let's go ahead and get started with adding the title to this page. I'll grab the artistic text. I'll click and drag, and then I'm going to write the name of the company. Generic oops. I think I want this actually to be all capital letters. Generic company. I'll shrink this down a little bit. Then with the move tool, I'm going to adjust this text. I'm just going to change the boldness. I think I want it to be semi bold here. Now we can create a little tag line with the artistic text tool again. I'll click and drag. Then let's go ahead and type out Challenging today, Reinventing tomorrow. So inspirational. Let's grab the move. This one, I think I do want italicized again. Maybe light italic would look nice. Then we can go ahead and shrink this down quite a bit. Go ahead and reposition the text, however you'd like. Now we can go ahead and place our image. I'll grab the place image tool and the stock photo. I'll open this up and click and drag to add this to the bottom here. I think I do want this to be more centered, but there's a lot of white space over here and not as much on this side. We need to guess where it would look the best centered. I think that looks pretty good. With that, we have all of the introductory pages to this project. You can see we have this beautiful cover, our CEO, our leader. We just love this guy and this introductory page to introduce our company. With that, I think I'm going to close out this video because this is going to be a long project. Feel free to take a break and come back to this project later. Or if you're ready to move on, I'll go ahead and meet you in the next video, where we're going to add a lot of tet columns to the rest of this document. 40. Annual Report Project (Part 2) : All right. If you're watching this video, that means that you already finished the first one, where we made the first three pages of this annual report project. In this video, we're going to move on, and we're going to create some text columns to fill up the rest of this document. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to place a text frame right in here. I'll grab the frame text tool. Then I'll click and drag out a text frame. Now, you may notice that we already have columns in this text frame. That's because up here, we made columns in this text frame. Affinity publisher remembered that and gave us columns here. I'm just going to center this. Then I'm going to go ahead and place our text. I'll come up here to file and then to place. I'm going to insert this main text document. Now I'll click to place this text. As you can see, this text is pretty small and I'd like to edit it. But in order to do that, we actually need to select all of the text. There's text that isn't even visible in here, so we need to do this this special way of double clicking to enter type mode. Then I'm going to press command or Control A to select all of our text, and now we can go ahead and edit this. I'm going to make the font times New Roman like we've been using. Then I'll go ahead and increase the font size. I think that looks better. Next, I think I want to apply a textile to this text. We're going to be using textiles for the different headings and things like that. But before we do that, let's go to where it says body. I'll click on the Hamburger menu next to it, and I'm going to update the body. Then I'll click on body to apply a text style to all of the text. Now you can see as we have all of this text selected, it says body up in the context toolbar, which is perfect. Now that we have that all done, make sure that you like the placement and size of your text frame because we're going to use the auto flow feature. Go ahead and hold down shift and then click on the red triangle. Wow, just like that, we have all these pages added, and all of the text is in columns, just like our first little section up here. All of these text varums are the exact same size. This looks great. But now that I'm looking at all of the text and columns, I think I'd like this to be justified text so that we don't have so much gapping on the edge. I'm going to click in one of the paragraphs. Then I'm going to justify the text to the left. Then I'll go ahead and update the body style so that all of the text updates. Perfect. This looks much better. Now that we've refined the body a little bit more. It's time to move on to the different headings that we have. The first heading we have says quarter one. I'm going to apply heading one to that. Go through the document and look for anywhere where it says quarter. There should be quarter one, two, three, and four. Go ahead and apply heading one to all of those. Then when you get to the end, there's going to be one heading. That's called future outlook. Go ahead and click on that one and make that heading one as well. Then let's go back to the start, and there are going to be three words in each of these sections, revenue, expenses, and impact. Click on each of these words and make them heading two. We're going to alter these headings more later to change up their font and size, and things like that. But sometimes I like to just apply these te styles directly to the document. That way, as I update the different styles, I can see how that looks in real time as it updates all of the headings in the document at once. At this point, I've applied a textile to all of these different headings, and that's great. Let's go ahead and start customizing a little bit. I'm going to start by customizing the heading two. For this one, I'm going to highlight the word revenue. Then I'm going to change the font. Let's make this times New Roman. I like the size 14 font, but I'm going to unbold it and underline it instead. One more thing I want to change about it is I wanted to be all capital letters. I could just retype the word, but that wouldn't affect the rest of these different headings. A quick way to quickly capitalize all of the letters is actually going to the character panel, and then go down to where it says Typography and click on this button right here to capitalize all of the letters. One last thing I want to change is in the paragraph panel. I'd like there to be a little bit more breathing room before this heading. I'm going to come over here and increase the space before the paragraph. I'll just click on this arrow to increase that. I think I'll also increase the space after the paragraph just a little bit. Actually, maybe I'll just keep it set to 14. With that spacing looking better, I'm going to update heading two up here and you can watch as I push this button that all of these different headings will change as well. Now they're all capitalized with an underline, just how we formatted this one. Let's move on to stylizing the main heading up here. I'm going to highlight it to select it. Then I'm going to change the font. I think I'd like this one to be railway since that's a font that we already used in this document. I'm going to make it regular. That way, it's thick enough that you can easily read it. I'm also going to increase the size of this font. I like that it's centered, so I'll leave it like that. Then I'm going to capitalize this one as well. Going back to the character panel, I'll just click on this button right here under Typography. Then in the paragraph panel, I'm also going to add some spacing. Let's just increase the space after paragraph. Just a little bit. The last thing I want to update is I want to update the flow settings. What I mean by this is I don't want the main headings to look like this, where it starts at the bottom of a column. I think that doesn't look very nice. To fix this flow, you can come down here to where it says flow options. Go ahead and open that up, and then where it says, start, change this to in the next column. I'm going to update the heading now because that was everything I wanted to change. You can see that now quarter two starts on its own column. As you scroll down, you can see we have a space here because quarter three has been pushed onto the next page in this next column here. I think this just looks a little bit cleaner and nicer to organize the sections in this way. But because we added all of these different column breaks and all of this spacing, we actually no longer have enough text frames. Look at that. Good thing we actually know this isn't too bad of a problem. Just hold down shift and click on this triangle and this will fill in all of the text frames that we need. Okay. With that, I think all of the column text is done. I think this looks really nice. All of the headings look really good. I actually have one last page I want to do. This is going to be a final closing page. I'm going to go ahead and add that one more page in the pages panel. I'll click on Add pages. I'm going to add one page after page 11. Then I'll press ok. Here we have our closing page. Now on this page, this is going to be similar to our very first page. I'll double click on the first page. On this page, I'm actually going to select a few of the layers to copy onto the last page. What I mainly want to copy over are the text boxes. I'm going to click to select the first text. Then I'm going to hold down shift to select the other one. Then I'm going to press command or Control C to copy these text layers. Then I'll go down to this page and I'll paste them with command or Control V. I'm going to make both of these text layers black. I'll select the fill and make them black, and there we go. The reason why I wanted to copy these over is because this text is going to say the exact same thing and I'd like it to be the same size. It was just easier to copy them. I'm going to go ahead and leave those as is for right now, and I'm going to insert one last picture, so I'll grab the place image tool. I'll click on where it says back page here. I'll open that up. Then I'll click and drag to add that to this page. I'm just going to center this up nicely. Then we can go ahead and reposition our text. I think I'll make this text a little bit smaller so that it lines up with the edges here. And just like that, we finished the final page. Great work on this project. I know that was a lot of work, but I'm happy that we were able to practice more with using columns and auto flow and even text styles. Hopefully you enjoyed that. Now that we're done with this chapter, we're going to move on to the next chapter. We're going to learn a few technical things that will really help you as you're creating your designs. 41. Getting Technical : This chapter, I want to cover some technical and maybe a little bit boring stuff, but it's all very important. Don't worry. I'm going to keep it nice and simple. Let's get started. 42. RGB vs. CMYK : This video, we'll learn about different color formatting options. To get started, let's create a new document. I'll go up to file and then new. Then we're going to come over here to the color tab. Now, so far, I've just told you to stick to RGB eight, but there's actually a few other options in here. The main difference that you need to know with all of these color options is the difference between RGB and CMYK. We're going to take a little time to explain this. RGB stands for red, green, and blue, which are the three colors that computer screens combine to create every color. This means that if your final document is going to be viewed on a computer screen, then you need to set your colors to RGB eight. On the other hand, we have CM YK. CM Y K stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. The key color is just a fancy name for black, since black is such an important key color for printers. This leads to the fact that can magenta, yellow, and black are the colors that printers makes together to print every other color. If you're making a document that's going to be printed, you need to use CM Y K eight. No matter which color format you use, you actually won't notice much of a difference in affinity publisher as you're working. But if you don't use the correct color format when setting up your document, then your colors will look ever so slightly off when you export your work to share it with the world. Please remember to use the correct color format when you're starting a new document, just so you don't run into that problem. Now that we know a bit more about the color tab. In the next video, we're going to move on to the next tab where we'll learn more about margins. 43. Margins : This video, let's learn about margins. Margins are the name of the buffer area that goes around the edges of your document. Take a look at this piece of paper. Notice anything strange about it. I think it's pretty easy to see that this paper looks terrible because the words go right up to the edges of the paper. But now take a look at this piece of paper. It's the exact same words, but notice how much better it looks. That's because this document has margins, which is the buffer zone that I've highlighted in blue. There are a few reasons you should add margins to your document. Number one, it just looks better. But number two, think about what would happen if your text went right up to the edge of the paper. How would people read the words on the edges if they have to hold the piece of paper? Their fingers would cover up the words. This is an even bigger problem with books and magazines where words can get lost in the center crease of the pages. Because of this, you should always add at least a little bit of a margin. I would say the absolute minimum margin that you could use is an eighth of an inch, which is about 0.125 " or 3 millimeters. But you should probably use more than that most of the time, like 1 " or 25 millimeters, will often look pretty good. I'm going to check on include margins here, I'm going to make sure that I have 1 " on all sides to give myself a nice buffer zone. If you have this lock turned on, it will change all of these numbers at the same time. For example, if I put two in here, you can see all of these numbers will update. I'll just change it back to one. But you can unlock this if you want to adjust these individually. Up here, you can see a preview of your margin now. So far we haven't been using margins, but now that we've checked them on, we can see this blue box right here representing the margins our document will have. If you press Create, you can see your margin right here in your document. If you want to go back and change your margin size afterwards, you can actually come right back up to file, and then go down to spread setup. Right in here, we have the margins category where you can go back and change your margins. Now that you know more about margins. In the next video, we're going to move on to learning about bleed. Hey, there. Before we go to the next video, I just wanted to do a quick update to this lesson. After filming this video, Affinity made a little change to the program. They've now combined spread setup with document setup. Now, if you want to change the margins of your document, go to file document setup. Then you can go to the margins tab. From here, you can enter a new margin size for your document. After this update through affinity, now there's no more spread setup. Everything is in document setup. I actually really like this change because now everything is in one convenient place. Now that you know about that little update, let's go back to the course. 44. Bleed : Let's learn about bleed. You can think about bleed as the reverse margin. Unlike a margin, which tells you to keep things inside of your document. The bleed is the area for putting things outside of your document. But wait, that doesn't make any sense. Why would you put anything outside of the document area? Well, here's the little secret. Printers can't print to the edges of a piece of paper. Whenever you print something, even on the fanciest printer in the world, there will always be a small gap between what the printer can print and the edge of the piece of paper. But take a look at this magazine. Notice how the cover photo goes right up to the edges of the paper. How is that possible if printers can't print to the edges of a piece of paper? Well, I'll let you in on the trick. Let's say, we want our magazine cover to look like this. Let's say this final piece of paper is supposed to be 8.5 by 11 ". Well, to make the cover look like this, the print shop would actually print your design on a larger piece of paper. As an example, they might print it on a piece of paper that is nine by 11.5 ", meaning that there is a half inch bleed area going around our design. Then after printing on this larger piece of paper, the print shop will cut off the bleed area, so that all we're left with is this beautiful cover photo that goes from edge to edge on an 8.5 by 11 piece of paper, pretty clever, huh? Now coming back to affinity. What does this all mean to us? Well, if you plan on printing your design and want parts of your design to go to the very edge of your paper, then you'll need to use a bleed area. Most print shops want you to use 3 millimeters or an eighth of an inch of bleed. But when in doubt, you should probably ask the business that you're printing with, and they can tell you exactly how big of a bleed they want you to use. In this case, I'm just going to use a half inch of bleed so that you can see this better. I'll type in 0.5 and then press Enter. Because this lock is on, all of them will update at the same time. Now up here, you can see this bleed area going around our document, and when you press Create, you can see this bleed area represented outside of our document. But remember, your actual document is still the same size, regardless of what bleed you set. Our document is still 8.5 by 11 ". It just has this bleed on the outside of it. I'm going to grab the place image tool so that we can see how this works. I'll select this image and then open it up. When you're placing an image, you actually want to start your image in the bleed area. Notice how this document is visible outside of the document area up until the edge of the bleed line. If you want your background photo to go all the way up to the edges of your printed design, then you'll need to extend your photo all the way to the bleed line and then they'll cut parts of it off. This make sure your final design goes edge to edge when it's printed, even if the paper shifts slightly during the printing process. If you need to change your bleed at any time, you can go up here to file, document setup, and then go to where it says bleed. From here, you can change the size of your bleed, and you can even change the color of it if you want these lines to appear differently. One other thing to note is in the export process. If you're using bleed, you need to make sure that when you go to file export and then you export your document, you need to make sure that you're including your bleed. I'm going to export this as a PDF so I can show you that there's this little box right here that says include Bleed. Check that on, and then when you export your document, your file will be ready to be sent to a print shop with the bleed included. Now that we know more about bleed in the next video, we're going to learn about guides. 45. Guides : Let's learn about guides. These margin and bleed lines are great for helping you to place things in the right area. But what if you want to make other guiding lines like this and place them in other parts of your document? Well, to do this, all you need to do is press command or Control R. As you can see, this has brought up this ruler on the sides of your document. Using this ruler, all you need to do is click and drag on the ruler, and then you can bring a guiding line into your document. I'm just going to place this at the halfway point. Then pulling from this other ruler, I'll place this also in the center. When you're done dragging out these ruler lines, you can just press command or Control R to put away the ruler. These guides can be a great way to help you accurately place things in your document. Because as you move things around, affinity will snap to all of these different guiding lines. To add guides a little bit more precisely, we can also use the guides manager, and you can find this if you go up to the top of the screen to view. Then click on Guides. This dialog box will appear and it allows you to put guides into your document. Right now, we can see we have a horizontal guide that's at 5.5 " and a vertical guide that's at four and a quarter inches. If you want to make this a little bit more clear, you could also turn this into percentages and see that each guide is placed at the halfway point at 50%. You can use percentages or inches, whichever is easier for you. We can add another guide. Let's go ahead and add another horizontal guide by clicking here. Then you can double click and change the amount. I'll make this 25%. Now over here in our document. You can see we have another horizontal guide added. We can also delete guides if we don't want them anymore. For example, maybe we don't want a vertical guide. All you need to do is click on the guide and then press on the trash can to get rid of it. Now you can see in our document, we no longer have that guide. In addition to adding all of these different lines, we can actually also add columns as guides. Over here, I'm going to add two columns. Now you can see their outline there. Just like when we created columns previously using the frame text tool, we can also change the gutter here. I'll go ahead and increase this to 1 ". Now you can see what that looks like. I quickly wanted to mention that these columns that you see here don't work the same way as the frame text tool columns. When you use columns with the frame text tool, your text will automatically flow between the columns. But here, these columns are just a guide. As you lay down a frame of text, you can use these columns as a guide for where to place your text frames. But they don't work exactly the same as the frame text tool. So guides and columns can be very helpful as you try to organize and position everything in your document. But right now our document is starting to look a little bit cluttered. Is there a way to make our workspace look a little cleaner? Yes, yes, there is. We'll learn all about that in the next video. 46. View Menu : This video, we'll talk about the view menu. Coming up to the top of the screen here, we have the view menu. From this, we can change a lot of things about how we view our documents. As you can see down here, we have show bleed, show margins, show guides, and all of these are checked on right now. But we can easily turn this off if we want to, and you can see those guidelines just disappeared. I'll go ahead and turn those back on. Because personally, I actually don't like to use the view menu all that much to individually turn off these guides. Instead, I like to use preview mode to show you how preview mode works. I'm first going to make a few shapes and a text frame. Now you can see I made a few rectangles, a text frame, and I filled this with filler text. As I work, sometimes I want to see what my document would look like without all of these lines and guides. To do that, all we need to do is press this button right up here. It looks like a windshield wiper. Go ahead and click on that. Now you can see all of the guides have disappeared. Now the only thing that's visible are the actual layers that are in our document. This preview mode is giving you a preview of what your document will look like once it's exported. This can be really handy to quickly turn this on and off. If you want to see your guides again, you can go ahead and turn preview mode off, and now all your guides are back. I really like using preview mode because it's a lot faster than going through the view menu. But feel free to use either one of these strategies. They both work just fine. In the next video, I'm going to give you a few tips on easy ways to get help as your working and affinity publisher. 47. Getting Help : In this video, I'm going to show you how to get help when you're working in affinity publisher. To wrap up this chapter, I just want to say that I know the things we've been covering can be pretty confusing. In fact, all of Affinity Publisher can be a little tricky when you're first starting out. I thought now would be a good time to tell you about a wonderful resource that you can use called the Affinity Forums. The Affinity Forums is an active website where people in the Affinity community come together to ask each other questions. There's so many great people on these forums and they love to help other affinity users. You can scroll down here to see all of the previous questions. You can even sort by the most recent questions, or you can come up to the top of the screen, and you can actually search right here. Then you can scroll down here to see a lot of the other questions that other people had about that particular tool or a thing that you're trying to search for. I'm just going to go back though because right here, you can start a new topic. Here, you can put a title, your e mail address, and your question right here. You can even attach files if you have screenshots of whatever your question is. Just make sure that any of the questions you ask are clear and concise, and then you'll have a helpful response in no time at all. I'll leave a link to this forum below this video. With that, we're done with the chapter. In the next chapter, we're going to do a lot of work with large documents. 48. Working With Large Documents : Now that you know how to add large amounts of text to your document, your document might start to look a little bit overwhelming for your reader. To fix that, in this chapter, I'm going to show you ways to help your reader navigate your documents better by adding things like a table of contents and page numbers. Let's get started. 49. Table of Contents : In this video, we'll learn how to make a table of contents. To demonstrate this. I've already set up this document, which you can open from the exercise files. This is a very long document. I have a cover page here. I have an area where we have a little quote and an area for the table of contents. Then if you go into the actual document, you can see we have quite a few different sections here. I have the main heading, which I've assigned heading one for textiles, and down here, the smaller headings are all set to be heading two. As you scroll through this, you can see it's quite a long document with quite a lot of different sections. That's pretty fun. All the text is gibberish, unfortunately. I'm sure this would be a very fascinating read. I'm sorry. But once you have a document that's set up like this with all of the different sections and headings, you're ready to create a table of contents. I've already made a text frame on this page, which is perfect, and this is where we're going to place our table of contents. This is actually pretty easy to do. The first thing we need to do is come up to where it says Window, and then we need to go down to where it says references. And then click on Table of Contents. This will open up a little panel over here. Using this panel, we can insert a table of contents. Go ahead and enter type mode in your text frame, make sure that cursor is blinking. Then all we need to do is press on this button to add a table of contents to our document. Clicking that button was like Magic. Here, we can see all of the headings and subheadings are listed in this table of contents, along with their page numbers over here. But how did affinity do this? Well, the trick is that we use tech styles. Over here in the table of contents panel. We can see that affinity is adding everything that's been marked as heading one and heading two, over here in the table of contents. If you want to, you can turn off one of these, for example, I'll turn off heading two. We can see that now only heading one has been added to the table of contents with their page numbers. I'll go ahead and turn that back on though. I just want to mention that you could also include any of these other textiles if you wanted to. For example, if you had three different headings or something like that, you could check on whatever that textile is and it will be added right here as well. But by far, because heading one and sometimes heading two are the most common textiles, Affinity will automatically add those to the table of contents. Once you've inserted your table of contents, you might like to style the text, and this is pretty easy. All we need to do is click and right now I'm on a Heading one. This was the great outdoor section down here. It was labeled as Heading one. You can see right up here, it's called Table of Contents Heading one. This is actually separate from this heading one, which is why it looks different. But we could adjust this textile and change it as we would any other textile. I'll go ahead and highlight this. Then I'm going to go ahead and change the font. I'll just change it to times New Roman. I'm going to increase the size. Then I think I want to make this all capital letters. I'll come right over here to the character panel. Go to the Typography section and turn this button on. Now we can see it's all Capital letters. I'm going to update this text style by clicking here. Now all of those other heading ones are updated in the table of contents. Next, let's work on this Heading two style. I'll go ahead and highlight this one. For this one, let's also make this times New Roman. I'll go ahead and increase the size as well. In the paragraph panel, I think I actually want to increase this indent that we have here. We already have a little bit of an indent. But if we go over here in the paragraph panel, we can actually increase this indent. I think I'll increase this to half an inch. It says 0.5. Perfect. Then something that I think most people would want to add is the dot dot dot connecting this name to its number. That way it's just easier to look across the page and see which page number this is on. To add those dot dot dots. All you need to do is in the paragraph panel, go down to where it says tab stops. Open that up. Then you're going to want to click on this third little button right here. There's these gray buttons. Click on the third one. Then where it says Tab stop Leader character. Click on the one that has the little period right there. Now you can see we've added all of those dots there. I'll go ahead and update this one. And look at that. Now we have a beautiful table of contents. As a little bonus tip. I think it would look nicer if the main headings actually didn't have a page number. Only the dot dot dot headings have a page number. To remove that page number, it's actually pretty easy. All you need to do is come over here to the table of contents panel, and where it says Heading one, open the Hamburger menu, and then check, include page number. Now you can see we have this beautiful table of contents. There's no page number there, but we do have page numbers on all of the subsections. I think this looks really beautiful. That's the basics of how to make a table of contents. But let me just give you a few more tips that might come in handy. First, how can we place a long table of contents like the one we have in this document across multiple pages? Well, we'll need to go to the pages panel. And then we'll need to add a page. But as a quick tip, you can actually right click on the page and then press add pages. You don't actually have to come here every time. Once you've done that, you can add your pages. I'll go ahead and add one page after page three. Now you can see we have an extra page here. Then I'm going to use auto flow on this table of contents here. I'm going to hold down shift and click. Now you can see that we have added text into this second page here, and this text frame is the same size as this one. Because of that, we have a bit of space up here. I think I want to add this table of contents text to that page as well just so we can see that it's continuing. I'm going to grab the move tool, and with this text frame selected, I'll press command or Control C to copy this. Then I'll return to the fourth page, and I'll press command or Control V to paste it. Then I'll just move it over while holding shift, and I'll center it on that page. I think that looks really nice. But here's one little problem. Because we added this new page. All of these page numbers are the wrong page number now. You can see fresh air is supposed to be on page four. But if we go to page four, this is the table of contents. Fresh air is actually on the next page. This is because the table of contents does not update automatically when you make changes to your document. To fix this, it's actually pretty easy. All you need to do is go to the table of contents panel. And then click right here where it says date. Once you click on this, the page numbers will update to the correct page number. I have two last things to show you. Number one, you can manually edit any of the text or numbers in the table of contents. For example, if I come right down here, I can go ahead and click in this box, and I can actually change the words here. I can even alter how it looks. For example, I'll just highlight this and make it red. You can even change these numbers. Just be aware that if you ever go back and update your table of contents, all of these changes will disappear. Now it's back to normal. One last thing I want to tell you is that when you're exporting your document, you need to make sure you include hyperlinks. I'm going to come up to file export. Then I'll come down here and make sure that include hyperlinks is checked on. This works when you're exporting this as a PDF. Now, once you have your exported document as a PDF, you can go to the table of contents, and you can actually click on these different parts of the table of contents to jump to these pages. This is super nice. I love this part of table of contents. It makes it so easy to navigate these large documents. With that, now you know everything you need to create your own table of contents. In the next video, we're going to finally learn what a master page is. I know we've been deleting master page layers this whole time. But you'll finally get to know what master pages are all about in the next video. 50. Master Pages : This video, we'll learn about master pages. Master pages allow you to place an item on a page one time and have that item appear on every page in your document. Right now, I have a document set up with ten pages, and I went ahead and turned off the margin and bleed for this video. Let's say that I want every page in this document to have a blue banner going across the top of the page. Rather than making that same banner, over and over again, I can just use a master page to place it one time. Go ahead and open up master pages by clicking on this arrow, and then double click to have the master page selected. Then let's go ahead and make that blue banner. I'll grab the rectangle tool, and then I'll click and drag across these pages. I'm going to fill this with a nice blue color. That looks pretty nice. As you can see, if you go down to our document pages, every single page has this blue banner going across the top. This updated instantly, and it's so amazing because it can save you so much time. Let's see what else master pages can do. I'm going to use the artistic text tool now. I'll go ahead and drag out a letter, and I'm just going to type in Affinity revolution. I'll go ahead and use the move tool to change the font. That looks good. I'll go ahead and shrink this down a little bit. Then I'll place it on the bottom of this page. Notice that we've placed this on the left page. Over here in our document. Every left page has affinity revolution at the bottom of it, but the right pages remain blank. That's because when you have master pages like this with facing pages, each page will have specific things that you can change about it and it will only affect that side or that page within your document. Another example of something you might want to add to a master page are guidelines. I'll go ahead and press command or Control R to bring up the ruler, and then I'll go ahead and add some guidelines to the right side. There we go. I've placed guidelines in the center of that page. I'll go ahead and put away the ruler by pressing command or Control R. Now we can go back to our document. Now we're in the main document and you can see the guidelines that have been placed here. They're represented by a dotted line because these guidelines are on the master page. Just as a reminder, remember that we can always turn off guides at any time by coming up here to the preview mode and turning that on and off or going to the view menu and turning off guides here. But while we're here in our main document, I want you to take a closer look at how master page elements are applied to our pages. We can see master page elements are applied as a group. You can open the group here and see that we have the text here, and we also have this rectangle banner. Since these master page elements are layers, they can be covered up with other layers if we wanted to put something on top of that. I'll grab the rectangle tool and I'll place a rectangle on top of where it says affinity revolution. You can see anything can be placed on top of the master pages. By default. The master page is applied to all of the pages in our document. But maybe there's a few pages that you don't want it applied to. I'll go ahead and select the first few pages by holding down shift and clicking on all of these pages. Then I'm going to right click. Then I'm going to press clear masters. As you can see, now the master page elements are removed from these pages, and they also don't have that master page layer anymore. But if I scroll down here, those master page elements are still existing on the other pages. If you change your mind and you want to add a master back to these pages, all you need to do is select all of the pages again, I hold down shift to select all of those. Then right click. Then you can go down to where it says Apply Master, and you can apply Master A to all of those pages. It looks like I accidentally didn't select page five, but you can see that all of the pages I have selected now have that master applied to them. I'll go ahead and apply the masters to this one as well. Or actually, why don't I show you that you can also have a page selected, and then you can click and drag on the master to apply it to that page. That's another way that you can apply these master pages. Master pages are so useful for adding these consistent design elements throughout your document. It's really great that we can remove these elements from individual pages. But what would be really nice is if we could add master page elements throughout our document, and rather than removing those elements on certain pages, we could edit those elements. That's exactly what we'll learn how to do in the next video. Go ahead and keep this document open because we'll be using it in the next video. 51. Editing Master Page Elements : In this video, we'll learn how to edit master page elements on an individual page. For demonstration purposes, we're going to continue to work on the same file that we started in the last video, Let's go ahead and start off on page two of this document. I like how the text says Affinity revolution throughout the whole document. But let's say that I wanted it to say something else on just this page. How could we do that? Well, if you want to type something new in this textbox, all you need to do is click in the textbox and start typing But here's where we run into a problem. I'm going to grab the Move tool and you see how this text box isn't centered anymore. It has all these xs around it. When I have the move tool out, I can't even move it. This isn't like a normal locked layer because over here in the layers panel, there isn't a lock icon. What do we need to do to make it so we can freely move this? Well, the trick is to detach this element from the master page group. To do that, go ahead and right click on where it says Master A. And then click on it detached. Right now, we're editing in detached mode, which means that I can go ahead and select this text and move it around. I'll go ahead and re center that now, and once you finish, you can go ahead and click on Finish. Now this is still part of the master page element here. It's still all connected, but we've edited it so that it can be centered. However, because we edited this in detached mode, it's important to note that once you detach something like this, that element will no longer change if you go back to that element on the master page and change it. For example, if I come in here and change the affinity revolution font to something else, You can see it's updated there, Let's go ahead and make sure this is nice and centered. Yeah. We edited that. Now you can see that this has been edited on all of the other pages, except for the one that we just edited. However, if you only change that one master page element while working in detach mode, then the other element we'll still be able to update along with the rest of the document. Let's go back to our master page, and I'm just going to change the color, and you can see that this is updated on every page, even the one that says so Long Adobe. So that's a good thing to note. Okay. Now that we've seen how useful master pages are. In the next lesson, we're going to learn about one of the most common uses for master pages, which is how to add page numbers. Keep this document open because we'll be using it in the next video. 52. Page Numbers : This video, let's add page numbers. To demonstrate this, we're going to be working on this same file that we've been using for the last couple of videos. To add page numbers, let's start by going to the master page. To make room for page numbers, I'm just going to delete this text down here, and you can see in our document that this text disappeared. It even disappeared on page two. For a moment there, it was still visible, but you can see that even that was deleted. With all of that text cleared off, we're ready to make our page numbers. To add a page number, it's important that you use the frame text tool. Don't use the artistic text tool for this. With the frame text tool selected, go ahead and click and drag to make a textbox, and then right click on the box and go down to where it says Insert field. Then click on Page number. Page number has just appeared in the box. I'm going to grab the move tool and now we can edit how this text looks. We can increase the size if we want to and we can change up the font. I'll just make it times New Roman, and I think that size looks pretty good. I'm also going to center this in the box and center it on the page. Now if we go down into our document, you can see that we have a page number on every left hand page. Let's go ahead and add it to the right side as well. Coming back into our master page, I'm just going to click on this box, and then I'm going to type in Command or Control J. Then while holding shift, I'm just going to move this over and center in the page. Now when we go into our document, you can see that all of the right sides have numbers. As you can see, it's super fast and easy to add page numbers when you're using master pages. But I have three additional tips for you. Tip number one, is that we use the frame text tool and made the box really large. By centering the page number inside of the text frame, that's way larger. No matter how many pages we add, even if this document had over 1,000 pages. The page numbers would still be perfectly centered and fit in this text frame. If we had used the artistic text tool, then only the first number in the page number would be centered on the page and the rest would spill over to the side. That's why we had to use the frame text tool. Let me just show you this. You can see. I'll go ahead and make it. Nice and big. I'll right click and insert a page number. Using the move tool, I'm just going to center this on the page. Then I'm going to come down to our document, and I'm going to add 100 pages after page ten. Now if we jump to the last page, you can see that this is completely off center. Only the first number is centered. I'll just undo that. I just wanted to show you the reason why we had to use frame text and why we centered it. You can see here the frame text underneath it is perfectly centered. I'll press Command or Control Z a few times just to undo this. We're back to where we started. That was tip number one, make sure you use a frame text tool and center it. Tip number two. Let's say that you're writing a book. The first few pages of your book have the title page and a table of contents and things like that. Well, we don't want page numbers on those pages. I'm going to shift click on the first three pages. Then I'll right click and say Clear Masters. Now these pages are blank. But if I come down here, it still says this is page number four. W maybe we want this to say page one, since it's where our story is actually starting. Well, here's the solution to that. You can actually use sections. I'm going to select page four in the pages panel. Then I'm going to open up the section manager, which you can find right up here. This section manager allows us to make separate sections to restart the numbering on particular pages. I'm going to make a new section by clicking on this button right here. Then I'm going to tell the section to start on page four. You can see right here, pages 1 through three, are their own section. Then Section two starts on page four and goes to the end of the book. Then I'm going to click right here where it says restart page numbering, and then I can close out of this. Now you can see, even though this is technically page four of our document, it's re numbered these pages to start on page one right here, and then it goes from there. Tip number three is that we can also use these sections to stylize our page numbers. To see this in action, I'm first going to add a few more pages. Let's go ahead and add five more pages after page ten. Then I'll press k. Let's say that after page ten, we have an appendix to our book, and we want this to have different types of page numbers than the rest of the book. Maybe we want it to have Roman numerals or something like that. With page ten selected, I'm going to open this section manager, and I'm going to add another section. Because I selected page ten, it says that it starts on page ten for this new section, which is perfect. I'm going to click on Restart page numbering. Then I'm going to change the number style. We can have basic numbers, large Roman numerals. I'm going to go ahead and click on small Roman numerals for this one, and then you can click Close. Now you can see that we have normal page numbers, that start on page four, and then down here in our new section, it restarts with Roman numerals. Okay, now that you have all of this information and those three tips, you are a page number master. Congratulations. We're going to practice using page numbers more in our next lesson, where we'll practice putting together a book. 53. Mary Trotter Project : In this video, we're going to make this adorable children's book called Mary Trotter. We have illustrations sprinkled throughout this story, and there's also multiple chapters. We'll get to use the table of contents option. This is going to be a lot of fun. We'll be using textiles and different things that we've learned like page numbers. This should be a lot of fun. Let's go ahead and jump right in. To get started, let's create a new document together. I'll go to file, new. This time we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm going to scroll up here and I'm going to use the A four size. Now, so far, we've been using 8.5 by 11. But A four is another common size. I just wanted to use this one to mix things up. Then over here, let's go ahead and go to pages and make sure that facing pages is turned on, starting on the right side. Let's go ahead and start with 20 pages. But it doesn't really matter since we can always add more pages later. Go into the color. I'm just going to change this to RGB eight. Since I want this to be a book that's available online. Computers will be reading this. Go over to margins. The default margin for the A four file size is 25 millimeters, which is 1 ", except for the bottom, where it's th millimeters because sometimes we want a little extra room for page numbers. I think this all looks really good. Let's move on to bleed. Actually don't think we need bleed because I'm not going to print this. With this locked like this, I'm just going to type zero in this box and then I'll press enter, and now we no longer have a bleed. With all that setup. Let's go ahead and press Create. These first few pages are going to be reserved for a cover page as well as a table of contents and a few other things. Let's actually skip all the way down to page nine. I'm going to double click. Then I'm going to grab the frame text tool and I'm just going to click and drag out a text frame like this. Then I'm going to go up to the top of the screen to file and place, because we're going to place the text document that I prepared into this text frame. Let's go into the folder that says Mary Trotter text. Then I'm going to click on body text and I'll open that up and place it in this text frame. Now, all of these words are gibberish. It's just Lum Ipsum, which is a commonly used filler text. If you have spell check turned on, every word is underlined. Let's go ahead and go up to where it says text, spelling and check spelling while typing. Now that we have this first text frame, I'm going to hold down shift and click on this triangle so that it auto fills every page with this exactly same size text frame. Now as you scroll up, you can see, wow, we have so many pages of this document. Going right back up to the top, let's go ahead and stylize the text that's in these paragraphs. First, I'm going to double click so I'm in type mode. Then I'm going to press command or Control A. This will select all of our text and now we can edit it all at the same time. To edit this text. I'm just going to go over to where it says text styles, and I'm going to apply the body text to all of it. Now that body has been applied to everything, let's go ahead and update the style of one of these paragraphs. Then we can update body after that. With that paragraph highlighted, I'll just come over here and Let's use times New Roman. Then I'm going to increase the size. I think I'll go with 14, and I'm going to justify this left. Okay Let's go over to the paragraph panel next. Then down here, there's a area where we can change the first line indents. Now, I think I want every new paragraph to have a little bit of spacing. I'm going to increase this, and I think I'll increase it to 10 millimeters. As you can see, there's also quite a bit of spacing here. That's because as I was creating the word document, I added a line break in between each paragraph. But because of that, we have quite a large space. Let's go ahead and adjust the settings so that there's not quite so large of a space. Over here in space after paragraph. I'm actually just going to change this to zero. Now that looks like a much better spacing. The last thing I want to do is I want to make sure that we have auto hyphenation turned on. I'm going to close up all of these tabs, and then I'll go down to where it says hyphenation, and I'll check on auto hyphenation. You can see a slight change here. But all this is doing is it's allowing us to break up our words so that we have less spacing in between our words with this justified text. That looks good, and with that taken care of, let's go ahead and update the body style right up here. As you can see, all of this text has now been updated. Now that the body text is taken care of. You can see right up here that I have a space where we have the chapter and Chapter name. I want to apply heading styles to these and apply them throughout the entire document. Let's go ahead and start by just applying some text styles to these. I'll go to the textiles panel. Then I'm going to click on where it says Chapter one, and I'm going to go ahead and apply heading two to it. Everywhere where you see the word chapter and a number, go ahead and click on it. You don't even have to highlight it, just have your cursor blinking and change it to heading two. You might be wondering why we're using Heading two instead of heading one. But we'll talk more about that later as we do the table of contents. So next, I'm just going to click in the name of the chapter, and I'm going to apply heading one to that. And I'll go ahead and do that throughout the document. With that all finished, let's go ahead and head back to Chapter one, and we're going to go ahead and stylize heading two. I'll go ahead and highlight this. Then I'm going to place it in the center of our document. I'm also going to change the font to times New Roman. Let's go ahead and increase the size. I think 30 looks good. Let's go ahead and unbold this. Go ahead and click on where it says Bold to do that. Then we can go ahead and update Heading two right up here. Now that that's done, let's go ahead and stylize Heading one. I'll highlight this. Let's change the font two times New Roman. Let's increase the font size. I think 36 looks pretty good. Then we can go ahead and update heading one right up here. The next thing I want to do is I want to prepare our document for adding and images. There are five chapters throughout this document, and each chapter has a corresponding image that I'm going to put on the left side page. Because of that, we actually need to modify heading two from the paragraph panel. Go ahead and highlight heading two. Then go to the paragraph panel, and we're going to change the flow options. If you remember before when we made the annual report, we made it so every new section started in a new column, and we can actually do this with pages as well. With Heading two selected, where it says Chapter, I'm going to change the flow options to start on the next odd page. This is because you can see over here that this is starting on page nine. I want this to start on the next odd page so that this evenly numbered page has space for the picture. Let's go ahead and update Heading two right up here. You might not have seen a change. But if we scroll down in our document, you can see that now every chapter page has a page next to it for the picture. However, if you still need another page break for some of the chapters, then you can actually add that yourself manually. In this case, we do need to do that. To do that, I'm just going to click right before where it says chapter, so see my cursor is blinking right here. Then I'm going to insert a page break. I'm going to come up to the top to where it says text. Then I'll go down to where it says insert. Then go down to where it says breaks, and then go to where it says page break. I know that was a lot of different ones. Again, that's text, insert breaks, page break. Once you click on that, you can see that this say drop down a page, because of the text style that we have here, it also skipped this even numbered page. Now we have even extra spacing here. Just going to scroll down here and oops. It looks like some of our text has disappeared now. I think that's because of all the page breaks that we've added. All we need to do is click on this last text frame. Then I'm going to shift click on this arrow to auto fill the rest of these. Now we have Chapter five back and Chapter four, and both of those look good. We don't need to add a page break there. Now each chapter has a space. This is perfect for adding our images. Let's go ahead and do that now. I'm going to scroll back all the way to the very top. Then I'm going to use the place image tool. I'm going to go back to the Mary Schroder images folder. Then I'm going to select all of these images and I'll press open. Now, as you can see, we have our place images panel up here. This allows us to quickly click through and choose which images we want to put in which area. But in this case, I ordered them nicely. All you need to do is click and drag to place them in our document. I'll go ahead and click and drag and this should fill the whole page, and there's our cover page. Then if you scroll down to page three, you can put in this page. Very nice. Now, go ahead and skip these pages and where it says Chapter one, we have the Chapter one image. Go ahead and place this one. Then place Chapter two and so on. All right, and with that, we have all of the images for this document. I drew all these images myself. I worked really hard on them, so hopefully you like them. All right. I can already tell that this is going to be a pretty long video. So I'm going to go ahead and end it here. Go ahead and go take a break. Or if you're ready, go ahead and move on to the next video where we'll finish off this project. 54. Mary Trotter Project (Part 2) : I you're watching this video, that means you've already watched the first part where we began this project. Let's go ahead and keep going. We have our cover page and a little interior cover page. On this next page, I want to add some copyright information to make this look all official. To add this, I'm going to drag out a text frame. And with that cursor blinking. I'll go up to the top two file, then place. Going back to the text folder, I'm going to click on where it says Copyright page, and I'll just open that up and click here to add that. With that added, I'm just going to stylize this. I'll go ahead and highlight all of this. Then I'll change it to times New Roman. And I'll go ahead and change the size. I think ten looks pretty good for this. Then let's go ahead and center all of this. Actually, now that I'm looking at it, I think I want to make this slightly larger. Maybe 12 looks pretty good. With that, I'm just going to resize this text frame. I'll make sure it's completely snapped to these edges. Perfect. Then I'll go ahead and lower this so that it's centered on the page. Remember to make sure something is perfectly centered. You need to line up the text frame with the bottom of the text. Then you can go ahead and center it. This looks pretty good. Next, I thought on this blank page, let's go ahead and add a little quote to add the quote, I'll just click and drag out a text frame. Then I'm going to place the quote that I've prepared. We have opening quote here. Go ahead and open that up and click in this box. Perfect. I'm just going to highlight all of this so that I can change it. Let's make this one times New Roman as well. I'm going to increase the font size, so we can see it better. Then I think I actually want to italicize the person who we're quoting. Let's go ahead and italicize that and I think that looks pretty good. Let's go ahead and make this a little bit tighter and then center this on the page. There we go. That took me a minute, but now it's centered. I think I actually do want it to be a little bit higher than center. Now you can see what that looks like. We're moving right along. This looks really good. The next thing I want to do is I actually want to zoom all the way to the bottom of our document. Then I want to go ahead and add a page here. This Extra last page is going to be about the author page. Let's go ahead and right click on this last page and then press Add pages. I'm going to add one page after page 36. Go ahead and press k on that. Now we can go ahead and click and drag to make our text frame. Then I'm going to insert some author information here. Go to File Place, and let's open up about the author. I'll click in this box to add it. Let's go ahead and alter this text. We'll change it to times New Roman and we'll go ahead and increase the font size here. I think I want this whole thing to be italicized. I think that would look nice. I think this looks pretty good. Go ahead and place this wherever you want it. I think I like it near the top of the page like this. Now that we've done that, the next thing I want to do is let's add page numbers to this book. I'm going to go to our master pages to do this. Then I'm going to grab the text frame, not the artistic text tool, the text frame. Then I'm going to click and drag a text frame down here. I'll go ahead and right click in this box, and I'll go down to where it says, Insert field, page number. With the move tool selected, I'm going to go ahead and center this. I'll also change it. I want this to be times New Roman. I do not want it to be italicized, and I think I want it to be a little bit smaller. I'm just going to change it to size 14. Then I'm just going to reposition this box. I want it centered in the document, but I don't want it right up against the text, just in case the text comes all the way down to this last area right here. I'm just going to lower this a bit. That should be better. With that done, I'm going to press command or Control J. Then we holding shift, I'm going to click on this and drag it across the page until it's centered. With that, we can go back to our document and check out those page numbers. I think that's a good amount of space between the final lines of text and the page number. This looks really nice. Now, we actually don't want page numbers on these first pages or on the chapter image pages. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the first page. Then I'm going to go down to page eight and while holding Shift, I'll click to select all of those. Then I'll right click and press clear Masters. Now these pages don't have page numbers anymore. I'm going to scroll down here. These chapter image pages actually don't have a page number because the image is covering them up, so that's just fine. But coming down here to the very last page, I don't want this about the author page to have a page number anymore. I'll go ahead and select that page. I'll right click and I'll press Clear Masters on that page. Okay. Let's go back to the top. We are almost done. I'm going to click here so we can be on page six and seven. Here we're going to add our table of contents. I'm just going to grab the artistic text tool and I'll click and drag out here, and I'm going to just type in table of contents. I'll go ahead and shrink that down so it fits the page, I think I want it left aligned. I'll also make this times New Roman, but I need to highlight it first. Let's go ahead and do that. Highlight times New Roman. That looks good. Now we're going to use the frame text tool to drag out a text frame for our table of contents. To make a table of contents. I'm just going to go up to Window references, and then I'll click on Table of Contents. I'm going to insert this right next to where it says pages. With that cursor still blinking, I'm going to click here to insert our table of contents. Now we can see this beautiful table of contents over here. Because heading one and Heading two were both included in this, you can still see where it says Chapter one and the best birthday, the name of the chapter. I don't want Chapter one, Chapter two, all of that to be in the table of contents, and we applied heading two to that. I'm just going to turn off heading two. Now you can just see the cute little names of the chapters. That's perfect. Let's go ahead and alter how this looks. I'll come up here and change this to times New Roman. I'll increase the size. I think size 16 looks pretty good. Then I want to add the dot dot dot. Let's go over to the paragraph panel and where it says tab stops. I'll click on the third button and use the one that has a period. Perfect. This looks so good. But wait a second. The very first beginning part of our book starts on Page nine. That's not good. Let's go back to the pages panel. Let's go ahead and click here. This is page nine in our document, but I wanted to actually say Page one. I'm just going to double click on this page and have it highlighted. Then I'm going to go to the section manager. Let's go ahead and start a new section here. It says it's starting on page eight. I actually wanted to start on page nine. We're going to restart the numbering at one with the normal number style, and then I'll go ahead and close out of this. Now you can see this is page one, which is exactly what I wanted. Now we can go right back up here and with the table of contents. I'm just going to go to the table of contents panel. Let's go ahead and update the table of contents using this arrow right here. Oh, my goodness. I just realized I made a big mistake. I didn't update the table of content style when I changed all of that. Let's go ahead and press Command or Control Z. Our table of contents is back to how it originally was with the wrong page numbers. Then I'm going to come up here and I'm just going to update this paragraph style. Now let's see if this works. Date. Okay good. I don't want to lose all the style digested, and now it starts on page one, which is perfect. Always make sure to update your text styles. It can be really easy to forget that. With that, I think we're done. Let's go ahead and turn on preview mode. Now we can quickly scroll through here and see all of our work. Oh, this looks so good. I'm so glad we learned how to add table of contents. This looks really nice and we have all these beautiful page numbers sprinkled throughout. I think this all looks really good. As a reminder, whenever you export something with a table of contents, make sure to turn on include hyperlinks. With that, we're done. Let's just make sure that our hyper links are working. I'll go to our table of contents, and ye, we can click right here and go to that page. That's perfect. Great work on this project. This was a pretty fun one, and I hope you enjoyed it. In the next chapter, we're going to work on a few last things that you should know before we completely wrap up the course. I'll meet you in the next chapter. 55. A Few Last Things to Know : Great job. You're almost done with the course. But before we wrap up the course, I just have a few last things that I want to teach you. I know you've already learned so much, but stick with me just a little longer. You won't want to miss these last lessons. Let's get started. 56. Hyperlinks : In this video, we'll learn how to add hyperlinks. You can go ahead and open up this mini travel brochure here from the exercise files. In this brochure, our first page has four different travel locations, and then the next pages has a page for each of these locations. Now my plan for this video is to add a couple of different types of hyperlinks. On this first page, I want each of these words to link to its corresponding page in the document. When I click on London, I want it to take me to the London page. Then once you're on that page for that destination, I want this line of text down here where it says, Learn more here. To link to the website that corresponds with the location. Now you know the plan. Let's dive into adding these hyperlinks. To start, we first need to get out the hyperlink panel, which you can find by going to Window. Then come on down to where it says references, then hyperlinks. As you can see, we have this little hyperlinks panel pop up right here, and using this, we'll be able to add hyperlinks to all of these different words. I'm just going to go ahead and stick this right up here for easy access, and then we can start adding our hyper links. To start, I'm just going to highlight the word London. Then I'll go ahead and add a hyper link to it by coming right down here to this little plus button. Once you click on that plus button, this dialog box will pop up here and you can go ahead and add the hyperlink from here. Now, the first thing to notice is there are different types of hyperlinks. There's page, which means that this will link to a different page in your document, which is exactly what we want. But another popular type of hyperlink is URL, and you can use this one to type in the exact URL that you want this word to link to. But we'll get to that a little later. For now, I'm going to do a page hyper link. I want to link the word London to its London page, which right over here, you can see is page two. I'll change this to page two. Down here, we can change the character style. Now, by default, this is set to hyperlink style, which I think is exactly what it sounds like. It will turn your text blue and underline it, which is a pretty general indicator that you can click on that word and it will link to something. But if you want to, you can click in this and you can change how this looks. For example, you can put this on emphasis, which will italicize your word, or you could put it on strong, which will bold your word, or you could do a combination of the two. I'm not sure why these options are repeating right now. Ignore that. But the other option that you might notice is this one right up here that says No style. If you click on No Style, your word will remain unchanged. I'll go ahead and do the hyperlink style, and then I'll press k. Now you can see what that looks like. Now this word will link directly to that page. I'm going to go ahead and continue this for the rest of the words on this first page. I'll just highlight this. I'll add a hyperlink. Our settings are already set up here from our last one. It's a page type and hyperlink style. I'm just going to bump this up to the third page because that's where New York is, and then I'll press. I'll go ahead and do this for Rome as well. That's on page four. For our last one, just to mix things up. I'll go ahead and add a hyperlink to the fourth page. But this time, I'm going to change the character style to no style. Wow. It's really repeating that now. That must be some glitch. But that's okay. I'll go ahead and click on no style, and then I'll press k. Right now, the word Tokyo didn't change like the rest of them. But if you wanted to, you could still go back and change how this looks however you want. For example, I could still underline this text, and I could go to the color panel and change its color. That's just a way you can customize your link. This still looks like a link to me, but it's not the typical default blue color. With that all done, let's go ahead and hop down here and add in our hyperlinks to this page. Let's go ahead and start on this London page. Then I'll go back to the hyperlink panel and I'll add a hyperlink. Now, this time, I want this to be a URL type. Then I can click in here and type in whichever URL matches this destination. For example, the travel website for London is called visit london.com. With that typed in, I'll go ahead and press. It'll be in the hyperlink style, which is perfect. Now we have a link. I'll go ahead and continue this. I'll highlight the New York learn more. I'll press the plus button. This website is called visit new york.com. Then I'll go ahead and press. Coming on down here, I'll do the Rome one. This is a nice and simple one. This is just called rome.com. Last, we have Tokyo. I'm just going to click on the Plus button. This one is a little bit different. It's called goo. Then there's a forward and E N. That way, the website is in English. Then I'll press. Just like that, we've added all of our different hyperlinks. If you come over to the hyperlink panel, you can actually scroll through this list and see all of the hyperlinks that we've added. There's a few more options here that can help you to navigate through your document and find these hyperlinks. For this first one, I'm going to click on the word London. Then I'm going to come down here. Here we have two options. This first button will jump you to the original word London. And the second one will jump you to wherever it's linking to. I'll click on this first button and you can see that it jumps as right here to the first page. The way we set up this hyperlink is if I click on the word London, it will go to this page right here. That's one way to easily navigate through your hyperlinks. You can jump to the source, and you can jump to the target. That's pretty easy. Another option I want to show you is that right down here, you already saw we can add a hyperlink by pressing the plus button. But you can also press the trash can if you want to completely get rid of a hyperlink, or if you want to edit a hyperlink, you can just click on this empty circle right here. This will open the same dialogue box that we had before, and you can change the page or style however you want. One last thing that I want to remind you of is that after you've put on all this work to add your hyperlinks and you're ready to export, make sure that you check on, include hyperlinks. I wish this was on by default, but it's not. Just make sure to check on, include hyperlinks, and then you can go ahead and export your document. I just exported this document and now we can see how all of these different hyper links work. To start, I'll go ahead and click on one of these words. Let's go with Rome. Yeah, that works just fine. It jumped us right to the Rome page. If I click on this link, it should take us to the Rome website here, which you can see. Wasn't that so easy? It's actually pretty simple to add hyperlinks and affinity publisher, and I think this turned out really nicely. I hope that was helpful for you for your projects. Now that you know all about adding different types of hyper links. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to use picture frames. 57. Picture Frames : In this video, we'll learn about picture frames. Picture frames are exactly what they sound like. They are digital frames that we can put photos inside of. When you place a photo in your document, sometimes it's not quite the right dimensions, and maybe you want to crop part of that photo. To do that, we can put any photo into a picture frame. Then using the picture frame, we can cut off parts of the photo that you don't want. I'm just going to show this to you. Over here, we have two picture frame tools. I'm going to click on the square one. Then while holding Shift, I'll make a perfect square. Now coming up here to the context toolbar, I'll just click on Replace image. I'll go into the picture frames folder, and let's go ahead and use the first picture here. I'll press open. Now you can see that this image has been placed in this picture frame. We can zoom in and out of this picture using this bar right down here. We can also use this area right here to click and drag to move our picture around. In addition to that, we can also resize the picture frame. You can see I can move these nodes around right here. We can cut it in a little bit if we need to. Or if we use this outer handle, we can go ahead and resize it to make the image larger and smaller. In addition to using a square picture frame, you've already seen right over here, we also have a circular picture frame. I'll go ahead and click on that tool. I'll go ahead and click and drag. I'll just make this an oval shape here. Once you've dragged out your picture frame, just come right up here and click on Replace Image. This time, I'll go ahead and choose this elephant. Now you can see we've placed the elfin right here into this picture frame. Again, we can do the same things we did last time. We can increase the size, we can move it around. Lovely. In addition to placing images into the picture frame, we can also give it a stroke to add to this picture frame effect. To give it a stroke, I'll come right up here to the stroke panel. You can already see we have a black stroke here, and I'll just go ahead and increase the width. And I'll go ahead and change the alignment to the outside that we're not swallowing the picture here. In the color panel, you can change this to any color that you want. I have one last tip for you with picture frames. You can actually set up picture frames before you're ready to place in your photos to help you figure out how you want your document to look. This is really useful for making mock ups of designs. I've already set up this document with five picture frames. I use the picture frames to figure out exactly where I wanted to put all of my photos. Now that everything set up, I can easily place the images that I want to add. Using the place image tool, I'll go ahead and select all of these images and press open. Now I can place each one of these images into the picture frame just by hovering over it and clicking when I find the right one. I think that looks pretty good. I'll go ahead and place that here. This nice and tall alpaca can go there. Put the elephant here. Maybe put the ducks down there in the cat. Once I've placed all of these, I can go back and adjust them to make sure they fit into their frames nicely. Picture frames are a great way to plan out where you want your photos to go, and they allow you to easily crop parts of your image. Now that we've learned about the picture frame tool, in the next video, we're going to work a little bit more with images as we learn about text wrapping. 58. Text Wrapping : Let's learn about text wrapping in this video. You can open this document from the Exercise files. In this document, you can see we have this beautiful Ducks document. It has all of this text and a few images here. Now, these images are currently sitting on top of the text. But you can actually adjust your images so that the text wraps around them. You can do that by coming right up here to this toolbar and clicking on this button right here. This will open the text wrap settings. You can change the rap style right up here. I generally like to go with tight. This makes it so that the text hugs the edges of your image. If you want to make this less tight looking, you can actually change the distance right down here. For example, I'm just going to lock these numbers together. Then in this box, I'm just going to type in 0.25. Now you can see we have a little bit more space coming off the edges here. If I move this image around, you can see we have space on all of the sides. You can even change these independent of each other. For example, you could unlock this and put more space at the bottom if you wanted to. This is pretty cool. I'll just close out of this and show you that right now the text is wrapping very tightly on this side. We have a nice straight line of text going down. But this side is a little bit more jagged. To change that, all you need to do is turn on justified text. I'm just going to select the text frame, and then I'm going to justify this text. Now you can see that each of these edges is very evenly spaced. However, the words are all spaced out strangely. Just be aware that that could happen. But if I make this picture a little bit smaller, I think that looks a bit better. Text wrapping can also work if we've put our picture in a picture frame. In this case over here, I have a round picture frame and I placed an image inside of that. With this image selected, I'm going to open up the text wrap settings. Then I'm going to change it to tight. Now you can see the text is tightly going around the edges, and I'm just going to add some spacing. I'll lock these numbers together, and then we can go ahead and add a little bit of spacing on each side. And that looks pretty good. Now we can go ahead and adjust this. If you want this image placed over to the side like this, but you don't want the words to be singled out on these edges here. You can actually change that by going back into the text wrap settings and changing it to say largest side instead of both sides. Now you can see the text is all over on this side. Text wrapping even works with an image that has its background cutout like this one right here. If you need a refresher on finding photos that have their backgrounds removed, you can go back to the earlier video in the course where we learned about Pixabay and the free photos and graphics lesson of the course. I'm going to select this image here. Then I'm going to turn on tight text wrapping. With these values locked together. I'm going to change this to 0.15. Now you can see that the words are going around the duck, and even though the duck is in irregular shape, the text is still wrapping around it nicely. You can even resize this duck and you can position it in different places. This wrapping will still work. I think I actually want to flip the duck around. I'm going to flip it horizontally by clicking right up here. Then I'm going to put this duck down here. Now, remember that if you don't want words singled out, you just need to click on largest side. Just like that, we have all of our images in this document nicely wrapped with the text. Text trapping is such a fun way to give your designs a little bit of pizzazz. I hope you enjoyed this video, and I hope it was useful for you. Okay, everyone, this is it. You've learned so many affinity skills, and in the next chapter, we're going to bring together everything that we learned, and we're going to complete one amazing final project together. I'll see you in the next chapter, which is the final chapter of this course. 59. Final Project : This is it. The final project of the course. We're going to put together everything that we learned to make this magazine. Just look how cool it is. This magazine has a beautiful library theme. It has two articles in it and we'll work with textiles to create a table of contents for those. Throughout the magazine, we have beautiful pictures and quotes sprinkled throughout it. This is going to be a lot of fun to put together. Let's get started. 60. Document Setup : This video we're going to start off our final project by setting up our document. Let's go right up to the top of this green two file and then click on new. Now for this document, I'm going to use the A four setting. This is just the size that I thought would be good for this. Then I'm going to go into pages, and I'm going to make sure facing pages is turned on for our magazine. I'm going to start it on the right side so that we can have a cover page. I'm going to go ahead and change the number of pages to 12. With that set up. Let's move on to color. Now, I'm going to keep this at CMYK because for magazines, you typically print these. We'll go ahead and leave that as is. Then going over to margin, I'll make sure that include margins is checked on, and I like the distances we have here. We have 25 millimeters for these first three here, but then the bottom is at 30 millimeters. I think that looks pretty good. Then moving on to bleed. I think 3 millimeters is great. We want to print out this document and sent in the magazine. We'll have images going from edge to edge of our paper, and this is only really possible if we use bleed. I think this will be perfect. With all of that setup. Let's go ahead and press Create. Now, before I begin, I want to make sure that preview mode is turned off. That way we can see all of these different guides that we've placed here. If you don't see these guides, just come on up to view and make sure that you have your bleeds and your margins all turned on so that you can see them. To continue setting this up, I'm just going to go to our master page here and I'll double click on it. Then I'm actually going to put three columns in here because that's going to be the general setup that we use throughout this entire magazine. To add these three column guides, I'm going to come up here to view. Then I'm going to come down here to where it says guides. Remember that this is where you can place your own guides here. We use the ruler generally for this, but this is that same window. I'm just going to change the number of columns 23. You can see that right there. I think the default gutter of 8.5 millimeters looks pretty good. I'll just close out of this. Then still on this master page, I'm going to insert page numbers. I'll select the frame text tool. Then I'll click and drag a text frame down here. I'll right click Insert field, page number. Then with the move tool selected, I'll go ahead and change the font. I'll go ahead and use times New Roman for this. I like 12 point font. I think that'll be good and then I'll center this. Then I'm just going to move this bottom frame around a little bit. I want this centered on the page and a little lower on the page like that. Then to duplicate this for the other side, I'll just press command or Control J. Then while holding shift, I'll click and drag this until it's centered on the other side. And now we have our master page done, and I think this is going to be a really great start as we go into our document. Now if we go into our regular pages, you can see that they all have page numbers and guides on them. Now, not every single page will need these column guides, but I think this is going to be very useful as we begin to create our document. With that all set up, in the next video, we're going to add our front cover to our magazine. 61. Front Cover : In this video, we'll make the front cover for this magazine project. I'm just going to double click on Page one, and we don't need these master page guides or the page number. I'm just going to delete the master A layer, and now we can go ahead and make our front cover. The first thing I want to place is the image that's going to go in the background. I'm going to grab the place image tool and I'm going to click on this front cover image here, and they'll go ahead and open that. Now I want this to go all the way from edge to edge. I'm going to start in the bleed. Then I'm going to drag this out until it hits the other edge of the bleed. I think that looks pretty good. Now, you might have your image spilling out over the edge here. If that's true, just go up to view view mode and make sure clip to Canvas is checked on. If not, it will look like this. Just make sure that's on, and then we can go ahead and move on to adding some text. Now that I've used the bleed already. I'm just going to turn on preview mode, so those lines disappear. Now we can add our text without all those lines being a distraction. I'll grab the artistic text tool and I'll click and drag out a letter, and I'm just going to type out the name of the magazine. Now, this magazine is all about libraries. This magazine is called Library Ts. Using the Move tool, I'll just adjust this text a little bit. To start, I think I'm going to make this white. Then we can go ahead and center the text. I'm going to make this times New Roman. I think this size looks pretty good for right now. I'll just go ahead and center this. Then we can add a little bit more text underneath. I'll go ahead and grab the artistic text tool again. This time, I'm going to drag out a little bit of a smaller letter. Then I'm just going to type in some extra information about our magazine. This is the 56th volume. I'll go ahead and write Volume six. And then I'm going to put a little comma and this is number six. I don't really know what any of that means, but it makes our magazine look more official. I'll drop down a line, and then I'm just going to type in the month. This is going to be the July to August edition of 2022. With all of that out of the way, I'll use the Move tool to adjust this. I want this to be a different font than the main title. I think I'm actually going to use the railway font. I want this to be thick enough that we can read it. I'm going to go in here and change this to regular. Then I'll just center the text, and I'll make this a bit smaller. You might have noticed that it's hard to read our text right now. But we can easily fix this by adding a black rectangle to the background here. I'll go to the rectangle tool and then I'll click and drag out a rectangle and I'll change the fill to black. I'm going to drag this underneath our text, but still above the front cover image. Perfect. Then I'm just going to lower the opacity of this layer so that we can still see the background. I think this looks pretty good. I think I'll make the rectangle just a little bit larger. I think that looks perfect. I want to add a few more details to this front cover. I'm thinking, I want to add a few little frames going around library times just to emphasize it even more. To do that, I'll grab the rectangle tool. Then I'll click and drag out a rectangle like this. I'm going to make it have no fill and a white stroke. Then going into the stroke panel, I'm just going to increase the stroke. Let's bring this up quite a ways. Then I'm going to change the joint to a sharp join. Now I'm just going to reposition this. I want this to be centered. I think I actually want it to be a bit smaller. Like that. Make sure that's nice and centered up, perfect. Now I'm going to duplicate this. We did this once before where we made a border and then had an inner border. When we were making the Cat cafe project, and we're going to do a very similar thing here. I'm going to press command or Control J to duplicate this layer. Then I'll go ahead and bring out the transform panel. I'll go to window, and then I'll come down here to transform. Using the transform panel. I'm just going to shrink this other layer. To do that, I'll click in this box until my cursor is blinking. Then I'm just going to type in -20, and I'll do the same to the height -20. Now this has shrunk down equally on both sides. I'll close out of this and center this. Now you can see we have even spacing around all of the sides here. I think I just want to lower the width of the stroke. All right. I think this looks really nice. I'll just go back to the color panel so this all looks normal again. Now we can really start to see this come together. I think this looks really professional and fancy. There's one last thing I want to add to this. It's a little logo for this library association, and we can actually find this logo in the exercise files. I'll select the place image tool and I'll select this logo and open it up. Then all you need to do is click and drag to place this logo. Now, this logo has had its background removed, so we don't need to worry about any weird spacing with white edges or something. As you can see, you can see through this logo a little bit. It has a lower opacity. I think this looks really nice. I'm just going to place this in this top corner up here. Like that. Now that that's there, I think I want to lower everything else. I'm just going to click on this first layer and then hold shift and click on this last one. Then I'm just going to lower everything down. I think that added space looks nice right there. With that, our front cover is done. While we're at it, I think we should go ahead and make our back cover as well. Let's go ahead and come over here. Now, we could scroll down to the last page or we could click on this arrow here. Now we're on the very last spread of this document. I'm going to delete master A here. Now, right now our guides are off. This page should look like this, but I'll delete the master because we don't need that. I'll go ahead and turn off the guides because we don't need them for this one. This back page is going to be super simple. I'm just going to use the artistic text tool. Then down at the bottom, I'm going to type out a little bit of text. I'm going to type out copyright and we can't see what we're doing. The text on the first page was all white. The artistic text tool remembered that. I'm just going to grab the move tool and I'm going to change the fill to black. That way we can see our text again. And while we're at it, let's go ahead and make sure we have railway as our font, and go ahead and make sure it's set to regular. I think that looks pretty good. With that I'll set up, I'll just double click in this box to return to type mode, and then I'll continue typing. Copyright 2022, Library Association, Perfect. Now, I want to add a little copyright symbol to make this more official. This is actually pretty easy to do. I'm going to click right here where I want the symbol to appear. Then I'm going to right click on this area, and I'll just scroll down here. If you see right here, we can insert a special character. We can insert a symbol. Here we have quite a few different symbols that we could insert here. One of these is the copyright symbol. I'll just click on that to add that in. It looks like that replaced where we said 2022. I'm just going to retype that. Perfect. This looks really nice. I'm just going to make this a little bit smaller. Now to finish this off, I'm just going to insert the library logo on the back cover as well. Using the Place image tool, I'll just select that. I'll click and drag to add this to the back page. I'll center it right here. Then as one last detail, I'm just going to come over here and use the rectangle tool to add a little bit of a rectangular background here. I'm going to change the fill. I want this fill to be a similar color to the logo. I'll just sample that color and apply it. I'll drag this underneath the logo. Then with that rectangle layer still selected, I'm going to lower the opacity down a little bit. It's the same color, but now it looks like a lighter version of that color because the opacity has made this layer a bit more see through. Just like that, our back cover is done. Now we have our front cover and our back cover, and I think both of these covers look really nice. Now that that's done. In the next video, we're going to add the magazine's text. Oh. 62. Adding Text : Add our main body text to this magazine. Now, before we get into adding text, I notice down here that we have a yellow symbol. This means that we have some warnings. Usually this is green if our document is fine, but if we have a problem in our document, it will turn yellow or red. Let's go ahead and click on this to see what's wrong. You can see here we have three issues, and they're all bleed hazards. What this means is that the placed image in this area doesn't go all the way to the bleed, which could create problems with printing it later on. If we print it just like this, and then our printer cuts the page, but it's not perfectly aligned, then we might have a strange sharp cut off here. I'm going to go ahead and fix these bleed hazards. It looks like we have two on the first page, and then we have one on this last page wher