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Beginner's Guide to Affinity Designer for iPad V2 | Export Persona

teacher avatar Tracey Capone, Illustrator, Photographer & Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome to Class!

      3:16

    • 2.

      The Class Project

      0:55

    • 3.

      Export Function vs. Export Persona

      2:16

    • 4.

      Export Persona Interface

      3:28

    • 5.

      Creating Manual or Automatic Slices

      8:41

    • 6.

      Export Options & Formats

      6:17

    • 7.

      BONUS: Isolating Analog Marks & Scans

      4:18

    • 8.

      Final Thoughts

      1:22

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In this Beginner's Guide to Affinity Designer for iPad V2 class, follow along with Top Teacher Tracey Capone, and explore, and master, the tools in the Export Persona.

Understanding how the Export persona works, provides a quick and easy way to export individual slices of your work, whether they're single layers, artboards, or entire groups. It's a great way to export illustrations for stickers, animations, pattern motifs, digital brush sources, and more!

Hi everyone... welcome to class!

In this Beginner's Guide to Affinity Designer class, we are going to take a closer look at the Export Persona. It's the least complicated of the three personas in Designer, but is power packed with ways to make exporting specific parts of your illustrative or graphic design work much easier!

  • The Export Persona's user interface
  • The difference between the main export function and the Export Persona
  • What is a slice and what are they for?
  • The two ways you can create your slices 
  • Best practices for creating the best slice
  • The various export formats available and when you would want to use them
  • BONUS VIDEO: I'll also show you how you can use Designer's Export Persona to isolate, and create slices, out of any object you create, whether they're from another digital app, or scanned analog marks.

For class, you will need...

  • The Affinity Designer app
  • An iPad 
  • Something to export... I recommend trying both a canvas that has multiple objects on a single layer and one that has multiple objects broken out in to separate layers/groups/artboards

Please note, for this class, I will be using the iPad version of the app, specifically V2, but the key concepts are the same for  V1 of the iPad app, so you can easily follow along. For those using the desktop version, the concepts are the same as well so, as long as you can locate the Export Persona and other tools used in class, you will be able to follow along.

Just upgraded to Affinity Designer for iPad V2 and looking for a quick look around? Check out my class, "Introduction to Affinity Designer for iPad V2" class, and learn what's new with V2.

Hi there! I'm Tracey. I'm an illustrator, photographer and Top Teacher here on Skillshare, located in the Chicagoland area. You can find my full Skillshare profile, including all of my classes, here. I've been a full time artist for over a decade, after leaving the corporate world behind in 2011. My work can be found online, and in select stores around the country.

In my daily work, I use both iPad and desktop apps from the Affinity Suite, Adobe, and Procreate and love being able to share my knowledge of those apps, here on Skillshare, as well as in short form tutorials that complement those classes, here on YouTube.

I have been using Affinity Designer for the last several years and have had the privilege of being spotlighted by Serif, the company who created the app, twice as a go to teacher for their apps. You can find the spotlights here and here.

If you have any questions about the class, or would like feedback on your project, please feel free to let me know in the Discussion section of class, or by emailing me at hello@traceycapone.com.

I look forward to seeing you in class!

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Hello and welcome to my Skillshare channel! I'm so happy you're here!

My name is Tracey. I'm an illustrator, photographer, teacher and self-proclaimed digital art nerd who loves all the apps, and sharing everything I know. Being able to help students understand more complex applications, like Affinity Designer, and hearing about that moment of clarity when everything came together for them is truly satisfying.

not just the how, but also the why... I believe understanding why I take certain approaches, or use particular tools, will help you absorb what you learn and better prepare you to work on your own later. to embrace the perfectly imperfect... in my mind, it's the best way to develop that sometimes elusive creative voice!

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1. Welcome to Class!: [MUSIC] If I had to describe myself, I would say I'm an artistic nerd. I get just as excited about technical tools in my favorite digital apps as I do the creative ones. I think it's what drew me to using vector apps in the first place. The thing is as dry as those tools may be, understanding how they work and sometimes understanding them enough to make them work in ways they weren't intended, can make the creation process more efficient, abundant, and ultimately more enjoyable. Hi everyone. I'm Tracey Capone. I'm a Chicago area illustrator, photographer, and top teacher here on Skillshare. Welcome to class. Where as part of my beginner's guide to Affinity Designer for iPads series, we're going to explore the ins and outs of designers export persona. I've been a full-time artist for over a decade and designer has been one of my go-to apps for the last several years. I've taught a range of designer classes here on Skillshare, as well as tutorials on YouTube. I've had the privilege of being spotlighted multiple times by Sara of the Makers of Designer as an online teacher to watch. The expert persona is the least complicated of the three personas in designer, but I'll admit it's also the least creative. What we'll be focusing on a technical tool and designer in this class, understanding how it works and more importantly, how it can work for you will allow you to take what you've created and the other two personas and prepare it for use in multiple projects like stickers, animation, digital brushes, cut files and more. The best part, you aren't limited to what you create in designer. You can use the Export persona on anything you create in any app, even scans with analog marks, artworks, and images that you import to designer. In this class, I'm going to share all my best tips and tricks on how to make the Export persona work for you. We'll start by taking a look at the difference between the main export function and the Export persona when you'd want to use each. Next, I'll walk you through the interface and show you the best practices for creating slices, which are individual selections that you can create from within a single Canvas, even if everything's on the same layer. After that, we'll export our slices and talk about common export formats and which work best for your various needs. Then finally, as a bonus, I'm going to show you how to use designers' export persona to export slices of objects created outside of designer, like scanned images, analog marks, or artwork you created in other illustration apps. For class, you'll need the Affinity Designer app. I'm going to be using Version 2 of the iPad app. However, if you're on Version 1 or either version of the desktop application, the principles are the same so you can easily follow along as long as you know where the tools are located. You'll also need something to export. I recommend using both a canvas with all of your objects on a single layer and a multi-layer canvas with everything broken out as we'll be covering both scenarios here in class. This class is perfect for beginners or even experienced users who want to learn more about exporting in designer. Are you ready to up your export game? If so grab your iPad, join me in class, and let's get started. 2. The Class Project: [MUSIC] The project for class is to create slices from your own work for whatever project you'd like to use them in. Create your slices manually or allow a designer to do it, and export in whatever format works best for your needs. Take screenshots of your process along the way, and share your approach. When you're ready, tap to create project button at the top of the Projects and Resources screen. Create a cover photo, upload your screen grabs, add any comments and hit "Publish." Sharing your project not only allows future students to see what they'll learn when they take the class, it helps more students find the class. Next up, we'll take a look at the difference between the main export function and the export persona. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 3. Export Function vs. Export Persona: [MUSIC] In an upcoming lesson, we'll take a closer look at how to use the tools and the Export Persona. But for now, let's look at how they differ from the main export function as well. We do have some similarities. There are some distinct differences between the two. The main export function can be found in the Documents menu at the top of the screen. This is in all three personas. When you want to export your entire document in various formats, this is the place to go. You'll be given several format options along the top, and you'll want to choose one of those before you move on to the rest of the screen because each option has its own set of parameters to choose from. I'm not going to run through all of the format options, but I do want to point out that under each format you have the ability to select what area of your document you want to export, whether it's the entire document, a particular art board, or if you use them even a selection. Now while it will allow you to isolate selections, you need to make sure that it's broken out into something that you can easily select in the layer studio. The Export Persona can be found by clicking the persona icon at the top here and choosing "Export". Now, this isn't the option that you want to use to export an entire document. You're going to want to stick to the main export function for that. The Export Persona creates what are called slices. These are isolated objects that can be created by designer if they're broken out into individual layers, groups, or art boards, or manually by you if they're not. Again, we'll get into more detail on how to create those slices in an upcoming lesson. The manual process of being able to create your own slices is the big advantage that the Export Persona has over the main export function. If you've created all of your objects on one single canvas without breaking them out, or you pulled in a scanned image or marks on a single piece of paper, you still have the ability to export them as individual slices to use as stickers, cut files, brush sources, pattern motifs, and more. At the end of the day, the best export option for you is going to depend on what you want to export, how you want to use it, and ultimately how you have your canvas broken out. Next up, we're going to take a look at the Export Persona's interface. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 4. Export Persona Interface: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we're going to take a tour of the export persona's interface and map out where all of the tools are located. Let's get started. I mentioned in the previous lesson that you can locate the export persona by tapping the persona icon at the top here and choosing the third option. Now this persona is the least complicated of the three, and the interface is pretty straightforward, but each tool has its own separate and distinct role in the export process. We're going to go into greater detail about how to create slices in the next video. But for now, let's start with a high-level overview of the interface itself, starting with the tools. Before we begin, I want to note that my screen is flipped for a left-handed person. Our tools and studios may be flipped opposite of one another. However, everything works exactly the same. I'll be sure to note which icon I'm choosing. However, if you ever had a hard time locating one, you can always tap the question mark at the bottom here, and labels will pop up along the sides as well as the middle. I'm going to start with these two tools, the first one being the slice tool. This is going to allow you to manually create slices in the absence of your layers being broken out. It works just like any selection tool. You'll tap and drag across your object and it's going to automatically create a slice. You can modify your slice by dragging your handles. In a little bit I'll show you how to work with a canvas like this, where things are a little bit crowded. The arrow here, which will looks like the move tool, is called the slice selection tool. This tool allows you to select your slices. However, unlike the move tool, it doesn't allow you to move them. Let's head to the opposite side of the screen and talk about the export studios. Starting with this top one, this is the slices studio. As you begin to create slices, they're going to show up here and this is also where you're going to export your slices from. The second icon looks like the layer studio and the other two personas and is actually called the layer studio. However, it is specific to creating slices. If you have your Canvas broken out into individual layers, groups of layers or art boards, this is where you can prompt designer to create slices automatically by selecting the layer or group of layers and tapping, create slice. Just like the layer studio and the other two personas you have layer options available by clicking these three dots at the top, but it's very basic. You can change the name of your slice by tapping here. You can make your slice exportable or not by clicking this off and on, though you can also do the same thing within the layer studio itself by turning them off and on here. You can also lock or solo your layer as well. The last few icons are the transform and history studios. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure of the point of the transform studio and the export persona as it's specific to transforming the slices and frankly, I find it awkward. I personally opt not to use it and instead manually change the size of my slice by dragging the handles that I pointed out earlier. The history studio isn't specific to the slice studio. It's actually the same history studio that you'll find in every persona. You can backup to a particular point on your canvas overall up to the total number of history snapshots that you've selected in your settings. Let's head to the next video where we'll take a look at how to use all these tools to create some slices for export. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 5. Creating Manual or Automatic Slices: [MUSIC] Now that we've taken a look at the tools in studios and the export persona, let's look at the two ways that you can create slices, either by allowing Designer to make an automatic selection or by creating one manually using the slice tool. I have two versions of the same illustration here. One is a group of individual group layers, the other is a rasterized version where everything is on the same layer. I can create slices from both of these, but each one warrants a different approach. I want to export these as transparent PNGs. Before I do anything, I need to make sure that my transparent background is on and that any backgrounds I've manually created are turned off because I don't want them to be exported with the rest of the slice. If you've created your own background using the shape tool or some other method, you're going to make sure that's turned off first. Now from the layer studio in the export persona, you can tap the layer and turn the opacity all the way down. Or, you can go to one of the other personas, I'll go to the "Designer" persona, go to the layer studio and turn the layer off. The layer that I manually created is set, but now I need to turn my transparent canvas on because right now I have the white background that Designer automatically places on my canvas. I'll go up to the Documents menu, tap "Canvas," and then choose "Transparent Canvas" and I'm all set. I'll go back to my export persona. Now if you plan to export as a JPEG, Transparent Canvas doesn't apply because JPEGs use encoding that automatically place a white background on your file in the exact size of the slice made whether it's manual or done by Designer and that's the case whether you're working on a transparent background or not. Now that our backgrounds are taken care of, let's take a look at the single-pixel layer. Because I have all of my bugs on one layer, if I go to the layer studio and select that layer and then tap "Create Slice," it's going to create one large slice with all of my bugs which isn't what I want because that's no different than exporting the entire document. Instead what I need to do are create manual slices of each individual bug. The problem is the placement of my bugs on the canvas is going to make that challenging because some of them are very close together, so I need to make some adjustments first. The most important thing to remember when you're creating slices is that what you slice is what you get. In other words, if I grab my slice tool and I drag across this guy here, in order to make sure that I've captured the entire bug, I'm also capturing some of the one beneath it and that's going to get exported with it which, of course, isn't what I want. What I need to do is adjust the placement of the bugs on my canvas first, and then make my manual slices. I'm going to do that in the pixel persona. Inside my pixel persona with the freehand selection tool which looks like a lasso, I'm going to select each of the bugs and move them to a spot on the canvas where I can easily create slices without touching any of the other bugs. Let's go back to this guy here. I'll select my free hand selection tool and I'm going to start drawing a selection around him. I'm going to stay pretty tight to the bug, I want to make sure that I'm not getting any of this guy below. Once the selection is made, I'll grab my move tool and move him up and away from the others. Now I'm going to do that with the rest of the bugs and I'm going to speed it up. But before I do that, I want to note a few things. Make sure to avoid dragging your selection over any of the other objects, otherwise, you're going to end up including them in your selection which, of course, isn't what you want. The other thing to remember is that slices are a rectangular selection, they're not free-form like we have here. I find that it's easier to rotate my objects either perfectly vertical or perfectly horizontal so that I can more easily make that rectangular selection. Then finally, if you need to, you can always size an object down slightly once you select the move tool if it's not going to matter to your final output. If it helps you place it in a area of the canvas where it's not going to get cut off, you always have that option. I'll go ahead and move the rest of my bugs. I'm going to speed it up and I'll see you on the other side. [MUSIC] Once I'm done moving all of the bugs on the canvas, I can go back to my export persona, grab my slice tool and begin making my slice selections around my bugs. I make a rough selection first knowing I can always go back in and adjust. I'll just go ahead and drag across all of these. You don't have to worry if your slices cross over one another, for example, right here. Because you're working with transparencies, as long as you don't hit anything here, you're fine. [MUSIC] Two things to keep in mind when you're creating your manual slices. The first is that anything outside the bounds of your object but within the bounds of the slice box is going to export even if it's transparent. In other words, if I pull my selection all the way out, anything within the bounds of that box is going to export as a transparent padding. If I'm going to use this on a webpage where I pull this in as an image file, that transparent padding is going to mean that anything else I pull in can only be pulled up to the edge of the transparent line. So if you don't want that padding, you want to make sure to adjust your selection so it's enough that nothing is getting cut off, but not so much that it's creating an invisible barrier around your object. The other thing to note is that at the top of every slice box is a label bar. Your selection can actually go to the very top of the box, you don't have to keep it beneath that bar. I can bring my selection down so that it's just above those antennae, but below the top of the blue bar. I'm going to go ahead and adjust all of my selections here, again to bring them in nice and close to the bugs, but not so close that I'm cutting anything off. While I started out with a very cramped single-pixel layer, I was able to move things around using a combination of the free-hand selection tool in the pixel persona and then the slice tool in the export persona. If I go up to my slice studio, you can see that I have seven individual slices created from one single layer. We've created manual slices from a single-pixel layer, now let's have Designer create automatic slices from multiple layer groups. This is the other illustration that I created, and this is the one where everything is broken out into individual group layers. Now because they're broken out, of course, I don't need to make manual selections. I can simply tap on a group, tap "Create Slice," and it automatically does it for me. Now, it's quick and easy but I do want to note that Designer while it tends to make some pretty good selections, every once in a while I do find things get cut off. That has actually happened here. Despite the fact that this white area here is part of my group, if I zoom in, you can see that it's cutting off the top here. It's not a problem, I can just take this and drag it and I'll just make sure that everything with my bug, including that white background, is included. I always let Designer make the initial selection and then I adjust it out slightly to make sure that nothing is cut off. Sometimes it does it perfectly, other times it doesn't, it's always a good idea just to check. One final note about the automatic slices is, unlike manual slices, because everything is on its own layer, there is no danger of slicing anything from another layer. While I had already moved things around on this canvas, I could've done this just as easily with the original canvas where my bugs were closer together, as long as they were on different layers. You do, however, want to be aware of the padding issue that we talked about with the single layer. If you don't want extra padding around your space, make sure that everything is as tight as possible without cutting anything off. Now that we've touched on how to create the slices, let's take a look at how to export them. That's coming up in the next video and I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 6. Export Options & Formats: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we're going to take a look at how to export our slices and which export formats work best for the various scenarios. Let's get started. There are a few ways to export your slices, all of which take place in the Slice Studio here at the top. You'll note that a slice is were created, they were added here to the studio. There's also a layer for the original background illustration that was pulled in. I can turn off any of these slices that I don't want to export simply by tapping this dot on or off. I wanted to do that with the background illustration because I don't need another copy of it before I export, I want to make sure that the remaining slices are named the way I want them. Otherwise, they're going to be exploited to slice 1, 2, 3, and so on. I also need to make sure that my file format is correct. I'll do that by selecting the layer, going to the slice options here at the top, the three dots. I can tap at the top here and change the name. This works exactly the same as it does in other layers. I'll tap Bug 1 and click "Okay". You'll note though that other than that, there's only one additional option to change here in the Slice Studio, and that's the file format. Your slice is going to be set up front with an initial format as soon as you create it, typically it's whatever you used the last time. In my case it was PNG. You have the ability to change the format or add additional slices with a different format. I can either tap these arrows or I can tap in the middle to get the list of all file formats available. Now I'm not going to run through every single format here, but suffice it to say there are many options. The one that you choose will ultimately be driven by how you plan to use your slides. Let's take a look at some of the most common selections. I'll select PNG when I want a transparent background, which in most cases that's what I'm going to be using because for the most part, if I'm exporting a slice, I needed to have a transparent background and PNG is the best option. This is perfect for stickers, pattern motifs, digital brush sources anything else where a transparent background is a must. You're going to note that there are two different types of PNG. PNG8 tethered is typically used for very small graphics. Standard PNG is going to be quite suitable for most of your needs. You're also going to note here that there's three options; standard, retina, and three times. These are linked with your documents, dpi. The export dimensions in dpi will change with each option depending on which you pick. Let's say that you have a 100 by 100 pixels slice at 72 dpi. If I choose standard, it's going to export it exactly that 100 pixels by 100 pixels at 72 dpi. If I choose retina two times, it's going to export 200 by 200 at 144 dpi. Finally, of course, three times we'll export it 300 by 300 pixels at 260 dpi. You can export at all three dimensions and it's going to create an individual slice for each one. I typically stick with standard but choose whatever works best for your needs and what you're exporting. Let's talk about JPEG. Remember, JPEG encoding means the designer is going to export your slice with a white background out to the bounds of the slice that you create. This is fine if you're creating something like a sticker, just remember though, it's going to be the exact shape of the slice you created, not the shape of the object you slice. If you do need a transparent background, JPEG is not the option for you. Then finally, if you're exporting a vector object and need to be able to use it in either another vector app or on a cutting machine or laser you can export it as an SVG. It's going to export with all of the vector attributes that you've added to the shape before slicing it. Strokes fills everything like that. I always go with high quality whenever I use this option, I do want to note that when you set your file format, it's for an individual layer and it's going to stay set to that format until you change it. In other words, if you want to export one slice as a PNG and another slice as an SVG, for example, you need to select each of those layers and change the format for that individual slice, then export each object individually and we'll get into how to do that in a moment. Then I also want to note that if you go to the burger menu at the top of the Slice Studio, you're going to see the option to choose Export Folder. This is going to allow you to set your Export Folder in advance. If you don't do this, it's going to prompt you to choose an Export Folder once you export your slices. Once you've named your files and you've set their format, there are two ways to export. Either by choosing export all at the top, or exporting one by one. When you export all, you're going to want to make sure that you uncheck any slices that you don't want to export with the rest, and then hit 'Export All". Now if you've already set a folder, it's going to be sent to the folder that you selected. If not, it's going to prompt you to choose a folder. You can also export individual slices one at a time by using the sheer arrow here. Again, it's going to prompt you to choose a folder if you haven't already selected one. One final option I want to show you is continuous export, which can be found in the burger menu at the top of the Slice Studio. This is going to allow you to automatically update a slice with any changes that you make in design or even after you've exported it. For example, I have this leaf shape and I've created a slice out of it. If I export it to my chosen folder in green and then go to that folder, you'll see that it's here in green. If I go back to designer, go into my designer persona and change it to something like blue. If I go back to that folder, you'll see that now it's blue because it automatically exported that same slice again in the same format with the updated color. Now one important thing to note if you're intentionally exporting the same object twice with two different colors, either create two slices or turn continuous export off because it's going to replace the original object. Next up as a bonus, I'm going to show you how you can use the Export persona to isolate and create slices from objects that you create anywhere, not just in designer. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 7. BONUS: Isolating Analog Marks & Scans: [MUSIC] Up to this point, I've showed you how to isolate an export objects that have been created within designer. But the expert persona is also handy for isolating and exporting manual marks that you make. For brush sources, analog creations you want to use in patterns as well as image cans that you've created that aren't already broken out. I have this scan sheet of white paper that I've made some sharpie marks on and I want to isolate the mark so that I can use in this brush sources. When I scan it and I made sure to scan it as a black and white image so that I don't have any other colors coming through and I did this for two reasons. First, I needed to be pure black and white to create the brush source. But just as importantly, I need it to be black and white so that I can take the next step to remove the white background and make this transparent. Before I do anything else, I want to rasterize the image that I've placed so that I can use all of my tools on it, including the free hand selection tool and the Pixel persona. I'll go to my layers studio, select the "Layer" and go to this second icon and choose Rasterize and now I'm all set. Next, I want to turn off my white background so I can go up to my Documents menu and choose Canvas and transparent Canvas. But you'll note as still have the white paper in the background. Now I could pull this into Affinity Photo and use the erase white paper filter which designer doesn't have. But instead, I'm going to show you a different way you can remove all traces of the white paper for a transparent background in my layers studio, I'll select my layer and go to Layer Options and I'm going to go all the way to the bottom to blend ranges. I want to use the box on the left here called source to remove all of the white from my file. Now I'm not going to go into great detail on Blend ranges in this class. But for the purpose of this exercise, just note that if I drag down on the right note here, it's going to remove all light areas. If I drag down on the left node, it's going to remove all black. So if I were to drag this down, you can see all of the black marks are almost gone. Conversely, if I drag down on the other side, it's removing all of the white. For added measure I'm going to make sure that any between grays are removed. So I'll drag this node a bit to the left as well. If I want to make sure that I've removed all traces and white, I can add a pure black rectangle behind my transparent layer and just check to make sure that I'm not seeing any additional marks, which in this case I'm not even if I were to zoom in. Just be sure to remove this when you're done so I'll delete that. One final step that you could take if you felt you needed to do is to add a threshold adjustment. Now, I don't need to for this one. But if you did, you could select your layer, go to the adjustments panel and scroll down to threshold, and then adjust the contextual menu accordingly. I would do one final check with your black rectangle just to be sure and then you can move to the next step. Now that my background is transparent, I want to clean up some of the lines left behind by the shadow under the paper when I scanned it and I'm going to do that in the Pixel persona. I wanted choose my rectangular marquee tool that's under the free-hand selection tool. That's going to be the easiest way to select these and then delete them. Before I do anything now I want to change this from new to add and I want to make sure that my layer is selected and what Add is going to allow me to do is begin my selection and then continue to add to it as I go around so I can select all four sides. I'm going to end up cutting off a little bit of this source image here, but I'm not going to worry about that. I'll hit "Delete" and then de-select and I'm all set. From here, I can go into my Export persona, grab my slice tool, and begin creating my rough selections and then editing them with the notes wherever I need to. Once I've selected all of these, I can export each of these individual slices and I have separate source images that I can use to create digital brushes in any app. Next up, we're going to wrap up class with some final thoughts. I'll see you there. [MUSIC] 8. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] Thanks so much for joining me here in class. 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