Create a Boho Postcard in Affinity Designer on your iPad

1. Welcome to the Class!: Welcome to the Class. Create a Boho Postcard in Affinity Designer on your iPad. In this class, I show you how to use all the skills you got from the previous classes and put them altogether in your first digital proof. If we haven't met yet, hi, my name is monja. I'm an artist and graphic designer and a teacher, and I'm a huge fan of digital products because they help you to create sustainable and panic free business. In this class, I show you how to create a postcard at texture and place the elements you want to use. I also teach you how to create a Color Palette and how to quickly change colors. Last but not least, to offer different colorways at texts. Your Postcard. In the end, you'll have your first digital product you can sell as a printer. Does it sound interesting? Then join me now 2. What Material you need: For this class, I use the playful, seamless papers from these glands. I also use here some false I have from creative fabric car, as well as the ornament we created in the last workshop. You can of course change all of these materials. You don't need these textures, but they are really nice because they offer a variety of different textures. As you can use them for many project. You also don't have to use these Fonts. It's just because they have a lettering for, as well as a straight one. So I really liked this combination of Fonts. Of course, I use what we have already created because I want you to work with what you have. But sure, you can change that. You don't have to use these ornaments. You can use something totally different 3. Set up your Document: We start by setting up our document. So click here on you and then say new document. And this is what comes up. And now you start by making sure that you have turned on the horizontal document, another vertical one, because we start with a five. You could basically use a four and then the horizontal one and just turn it into half. But I'm going to use it a phi from because I like to have both things separated, but that's up to you. In the end. It's the same thing, so you could definitely do that. Then. Make sure you have the same numbers I have for any case, you might not have the templates anymore. Maybe you have deleted them as fine. But then type in here 210 by 148. And if you don't see the numbers just tapping to the circle and you can just write them here and you have the same thing I have here. Also make sure it has 300 DPI because it really needs to be crisp. So 300 DPI is the number we got with. You can of course also change the unit here. If you prefer to work in inches or something, you could go for that. But I'm leaving it to millimeters now. Then I also toggle on Art board because as I said, I want to have more than one board, so I need these Art core turned on. Then I go with RGB. Actually where you're tab in here, you could go with CMYK. And I highly recommend that if you want to give that to online printer, just because they often require CMYK. But if we do it for our whole printer, I like to go with RGB because the colors are more saturated or more bright. So I like it more recent. Once done here, we go to Margins and bleed. Then we need to make sure that we have turned off the margins here. You see, I do it again. Now it's dark. And when I go here, it gets a little bit brighter, so it fits much of the background. It's now turned off and that's what we want. We don't need any margins and we don't need any bleed. If you don't have zero here for whatever reason, just tap in here and set it to zero. And then you are good to go. Just have another look. Everything is correct. Orientation as fine. A five is fine. Once we have set everything, just click Okay, and our document is created. Now you can see already that this is an Artboard. And now you need to turn on here the magnetic snapping. When I turned it on, you see it's a little bit darker and now it's turned off and now on. Once you've done that, you also need to turn on the rulers. So go into the little triangle here, and it opens a new menu and then make sure it has Brighter dot next to rulers. I already have that. If I turn that off, you see it's lighter. And now I turn it on and you see my rulers here. And I go out of that and set to the middle of the document. Now, go to the middle until it snaps. You see that it's screen. We do not really need that true light just for our orientation. So I just put it in the middle here and now you see it turns red and here it turns green. Eye health center of my card. As I said, I don't really need that right now, but you never know why it's good to have middle, the center of my document. And you can better place your elements here. We now need to duplicate our artboard. And to do so, it's pretty easy. You make sure you have the Move Tool selected. Then just select your artboard. Click Copy. Then click paste, and move it to the top. You see, that's how easy it was. Now we have both over each other. What do that again to have one here for the Qataris. So click Paste again and we can move it here. You see, now we have our three Artboards. We need for this class 4. Install Fonts in Affinity Designer: So before we can finally start with our document, we need the false installed. So to do that on our iPad in Affinity Designer, we go here to the open document. When you open up finches, I know this is what you see is the gallery view. You go here on bottom-left to settings. And then you have here point a which has fonts. And you see, I don't have any installed yet. But I can do just by tapping here on the Plus and going to the folder I have created for my bot postcard, and I have downloaded the fonts. I've showed you the cupcake one and the handmade one. You just tap on that and click Open and it gets installed. And I do that again for the handmade one. Let's go again to the folder. Tab on handmade click Open, and the font is also installed. So just click them. And you have your phones both in Affinity Designer 5. Create a Color Palette: Now let's create our color palette and for that, we need to grab it from somewhere. So I just open one of my document with the color palette and grab it from there. So I just tap in here and say Copy. You can open it from the folder, from the material I added to the class, and then you can copy it from there as well. So let's go into the document we just set up and say paste. You see you can copy it from one document to another is not a big deal. So let's pretty cool about Affinity Designer, and now we can create our color palette. To do so, we just tap here on the color wheel. And then if you don't see that, we say here swatches on the bottom. And then you can see there are already a lot of color palettes included. And we create our own now. Till you set. Go to the three lines here on top and say AT application palette. Now we can give it a name. And I say just Postcard. And click. Okay, once done, you see that it turns here into postcard and is a point in my menu now, postcard just here. And now we need to pick these colors and get them in here. And we can also export them. So we have some handy to do that. Go here to the eyedropper tool and just pick the color. You see it's null there if you have market, all, what happens now is that it all turns into that color. If you tap on that, you see everything turns until the color. We need to undo that. But we can also just tap here so we don't have selected and then tapping here, you see nothing happens. And now we can go here at current fill to palette, and it's there. Now let's do that again. Make sure you don't have a stroke selected. But the fill here. And then we can grab second color and tap in here and then say again, add current fill. Let's go on like that. We grab the color, tap on that, say add current fill. You see, that works quickly. Now I have the eight colors from my palette here. They are eight colors actually. So we can work with them. We don't need that anymore, but I leave it for therefore now. But now we can work here from our color palette, which is pretty handy. 6. Set up Artboards: So now we will add a background to our app board. And for that, I go to my folder I have created with the background from the playful seamless pattern pack. And I go to the SRY lines here and say place, it's a little bit different than you'd expect in other programs where just click Open and do it. Then in a vector program, you always place. I go to place from files, and then I go to my folder. And you see here I have my background included. I just copied from the playful seamless pattern collection here into that folder. And once done, I click Open, you see nothing happens. But I have that in my have it copied somehow. So I can now draw over my Art board. You'll see it's a little bit tricky because here's where my file and I have it there now and it's a pretty big 112 by 12. So it's fine. Make sure that your paper is big enough. And once you have placed it, make also sure you add lines to document here. So just need to make it a bit smaller. So now my paper is on top. And what I need is I need to copy that. To do the same for the back side. I do so by click copy, click Paste. Now I have them twice. You can see that right now, but when you go to the Layers palette, you can see that I have copied them both. And I know need to move them to the other Artboards so it just drag it here too awkward. One, which is a little bit confusing because a postcard or port one, but doesn't matter. So we can just put it there. One is placed correctly. Make sure you zoom in if you can't see it. You say lock, and for that you switch to the left and say lock. So it gets a little key here and you can't move it anymore in this pretty handy. If you place something on top or all these things and thanks, move. Believed me. So it's better to lock that. So again, we do that for the front side. I have now both locked and now I need some color for the front side. So what I do in a vector-based program is I go here to my Shape tool. When I click on the bottom right on the triangle, a lot of different shapes come up and I need rectangle now, so I click on that and I just draw here, my rectangle already has the right color. I'm going to show you how to change the color. Make it a bit smaller. We can grip the color here. We can also grab it from the color palette we created. So when I tap now here you see it easily change it. I want now or dark gray. And once done, I have my document ready. But now I need to blend it into be able to see the texture. So let's zoom in a bit so you can see it better. And when you have marked the rectangle, you can go here, are normal. Then you see you have different different blending modes. And you can scroll over them. So you see, sometimes you see more and sometimes less. So with this linear burn, for example, you can see the texture pretty well. So I guess that's what I will leave. But you can of course, change something to something else. It's up to you. But once you're done again, you should lock it because it's ready and it's easier to lock it and don't need to worry about anything else here. So we are done with that. And we can now that great or Card 7. Create the Front and Back Side of your Postcard : Now let's create the flip side of our card. So I go to the artboard here on top. And what I want is a hand-drawn line in the middle, and then one here, a few for the address. So what I do here, as I did on the bottom one, I just place a ruler here. Careful to grab a ruler. And as long as I have my camera turned on, my snapping turned on. It should flip in the middle. It's not marked, so I guess that's why it doesn't go there. So let me go in here. And click Art bought one. And now I grew up with a ruler that works. You see now I have duplicated that one, so I don't need an extra ruler anymore. But that's how you would go if you don't have it, if you don't see that. But for me it there already I can turn that off, so I just close it. And now we go here to the pencil tool. This is one here. And I stick to the gray, maybe a lighter gray. And then I also need to make sure it has the right with I don't know what the right width is because it always depends on the resolution of your documents. So I just draw something for now. Like so center here. I don't want it to be too straight. But maybe also know that when case. So I just do it again and see how that looks so dark. It's dark, black. The reason why is because I haven't changed to the stroke. I need to do that stroke. Then tap on that and you see it gets lighter. And now I can decide on the width of off my line. I make it pretty small. What I also do is I'm going to go to the Layers palette and set the opacity lower. Don't want to be really that are Holiday scene. So that's what I do. Now I move on and create a few more, few more of the slides. So let's do that here. The address. So you see now that it will have the same color and everything, but it's also 100 per cent. So we need to make sure we also set it to 28 to have the same as we have before. So I just go over with my pencil and set it to the same size here. You don't feel comfortable doing that. You can also tap in here and write the number. Once you're done, you can even modify that. So let's close the layers palette and we can modify here our notes. To do that. You can go to the new tool here and you can change the nodes, everything to your liking recursively and Vector. So that's easy. I have it now as I want. And then I say copy. Then paste that me show you another thing. I just move it down a little bit. I want to have at the same distance now with the next time. So I just say Paste again. You see it jumps to the next. Or actually it should, but it does do that again. Paste, it doesn't do it. Usually. It would go to the next line, have the same distance. Now we need to check the R cells that you can do. It says April and seven here, and you can move it here as well to 8.7. So here you're going to go. I can't grab it. I go to the pelt. Here you see now it says ate as high. I do the same for this line. Set it to eight. As I said, usually it should work on its own, should just jump there. Now it's 7.9, don't really care. It's okay. It should look hand-drawn. So I like that. Now I turn off my layer palette and I have my lines here. So I now have a front of the card and the background. Now we need to decorate it 8. Place your Boho Leaf: So now we need to grab the ornament, the leaf from one of the previous documents and add them to our new one. So I just open it and go in here, tap on that, so make sure everything is marked. And once you have that click on Copy, you already know that's how it works. We go just from one document to the other and paste it in. Pretty easy paste. And it's pretty big. So I'm make it smaller. I can scale infinite app. And now thanks to the lines I have, I can go to the middle with it. I make sure both lines are showing green and thread. And then I know it's in the center. So now I need to change the colors right now it looks a little bit strange, so let's do that. I click on the pellet here on my layers, and I go to my ornament and turn it on. So here you see the little arrow. When I click on it, it, it goes up here. And I can access each of the layers. So now I go to the colors and the colors we have created and see which one works best. I like this one, but I could also change easily to whatever color I want. So you see, it doesn't look too bad. So I want these creamy one. I could also change the colors of leaves and they would do the same. I just go to the palette here, tab on whatever leaf, use one of the leaves and go to my color palette and change the color of the leaves. So let's go here. All there. It's pretty easy to do that. I'm going to leave it like that for now. I could, if I don't like it anymore for whatever reason. Also modify my splash here to the layer and then go to the neutral. And you see here are all the nodes I can change, I can get more and change it then. I just want to make it a little bit smoother here. And that's it. I have placed my ornament. Now we can move on with the lettering with a fall 9. Add Text: Keep Calm and carry on!: So I just go in here, make sure it's not marked. And then I go to my Text tool and just drag it here. So you see the a goes away and I can now tap here. Here, I need to tap on the icon for the keyboard. And now this little, tiny little keyboard comes up. I just type in, Keep Calm. Of course, you can type in whatever you want. Once you have done that, make sure you turn it off again, hide keyboard. And now we need to tap in here as long as everything is marked. And then we can go to another fall here. And the one we have now, it's cupcakes. Now, let's what I choose cupcakes. And then I need to make it smaller again to have an overview. And now this keyword is here. So you see, it's a little bit hard to get to the point where CFC. So now I can just move that a little bit Art. So I just show you what we want to come up with. Have written here, Keep Calm and carry on. And that one has the cupcake for, and here is the hint written false. So let's go back here and pick the other four. We do it the same way. We just have on the a here and get my keyboard again. You don't have the right form. Again, just tap in until everything is smart and then change to the other phone you want. In this case, handmade is fine. Then make sure this one is a little bit smaller than the other one. That's how I wanted at least you can of course, do it differently. But unlike when those two are over each other and this a little harder, we see how that works now. Okay. If I want to move them to gather, I just need to mark both of the layers and then I can just move them both. I could also change the color. Of course, I want to. If I would want to do that, I go again to my color palette and go to swatches, and then I just tap inherent change to the other color. In this case, I want to keep it black. And once done, card is Friday for now 10. Export your Card: So at this point, I want to save everything we have created and then place it on a document we can just print out. So to do that, I first of all, export my color palette. So I am here my color palette. If you are not there, you need to go here on the circle, then click here on swatches. And then you can easily exported by clicking on the three lines and say export palette. And you see it already says postcard and you can click Save and it's there. And now we need to export document. So to do that, go to the Move tool. Mark every sink which is on your artboard here. We are right now it doesn't really matter because we don't want a PNG file, we want a JPEG file. So I can just click here on the three lines and say export. Which one I grabbed, doesn't matter. So I can just go here, click Okay, and I then need to move to the folder. So click on iCloud Drive, Boho Postcard, and save, and whatever the name is, doesn't really matter. I have the first one exported. Now export a second one is also called Artboards. So that's why it's a little bit confusing. But the main point is that we have both of them. So I can now again go to the next app board. Maybe that's right one. You never know if course of the name. Whilst a little bit silly, doesn't really matter. I can see it here on the bottom left, so yes, it's the right one. So go to Boho Postcard and I just say second, Sri. Actually, I just need to export these two loads. Fine. Okay, once done, let's go back to the gallery view and I create a new document. This time, I use the A4 and I use it horizontally. Again, I make sure that the bleeding is turned off, the margins are turned off. Make sure I have the right color profile, as we already said. And you don't don't even need an artboard. I just need my right sizes here. Then I click okay. And once I have done that, I can import now with the placing the two images we just saved. I go here, say place, go to my folder. You already know how that works. And here they are. I first set untitled. So I just opened that one. Would be nice to have snapping turned on as well as size. Not getting stretched because we are now it's no longer. Vector is actually its pixel now. So because we have saved it as a JPEG, so don't worry about Vector anymore at this point. So now we need the second one. Place. We can rearrange that in a bit. So I scale here, Boho Postcard 23, open that one. And again, I just draw over it here. And now when it's on, it's turned upside down, so I need to turn it around. Okay. Once you have placed your card, make sure it has here the right size. You are done. So now you have your here, your card, Postcard ready if you print it now and then fold in the middle, it's done. You would need to save that. So let's export the entire thing. Again. We just say JPEG and now we use the entire document. Whole document is already marked because it's a JPEG, then its whole document anyway. So click OK, name it, whatever. I just say, postcard. And then click Save, and it's there. Now we can print this thing out and have our Postcard ready. 11. Your Project: Congratulations, you are done with your Postcard. And now of course It's time for you to try that. And I want you to create a postcard like that. It's of course, up to you what text you put here, what the background color is. And if you use a leaf from the previous workshops, but I believe it's easier than drawing everything again from scratch. So make sure you try it out. And also that you have your Postcard ready like this, that you have a tear turn round and that you have put the lines here which look pretty handy if they are not too straight. Make sure you have your Postcard. Of course, you can change the colors on forever. So what? You have finished it, please take a screenshot, just present two buttons here. And you can easily take a screenshot and upload that to the gallery so we can all see what you have come up with them looking forward to see your card and what you have created.