Keyboard shortcuts are great for speeding up your workflow. They can also be helpful if your hands are getting sore from using the mouse a lot. When you hover over any of the tools that have a keyboard shortcut associated with it, you will be able to see in brackets the shortcut associated with it….
I love using keyboard shortcuts for functions I use all the time, like zooming in and out. But, what if you want to set the wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out? Fortunately, in Affinity you can. In the video above I will show you how in Publisher, but it works the same…
Have you ever drawn a text box and suddenly there is a border on it? Or bought a template and can’t figure out how to change the fill color of the text box? Or turn it off altogether? Let’s look at how you can create a colored background on your text boxes and or a…
One of the ways that you can speed up your workflow in Affinity Publisher is by using Assets. Assets are things that you can save that you reuse all the time. Assets are perfect if you’re creating things like journals planners, or printables where you have certain elements that you use over and over again….
Once you create your new document, you are not stuck with the setting you chose. In fact, almost all of your document settings can be edited at any time. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can change the margins on your Affinity Publisher document. In this example, let’s say I…
In this Affinity Publisher tutorial we’re going to look at how you can create text flow. Text flow is when you have a text box and there is more text than can fit into that text box you can set it so it will automatically flow into the next text box. Let’s see how this…
In this Affinity Publisher tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create bullet points for your text. First, we need some text so I will use the Frame Text tool from the left toolbar and draw out a textbox.Go ahead and type up some sample text to work with. To create an unordered list…
In this Affinity Publisher tutorial i’m going to show you how you can create a drop shadow for your text in two different ways. Create two words on your canvas that are identical. I am using Hello. Boring, I know. Method 1: The easiest way to create a drop shadow is to select your object,…
When you have a document or book professionally printed, it is important to set up bleed if any element anywhere in your file extends to the end of the page. If you aren’t sure what bleed is, scroll to the bottom and watch that video first. In this tutorial I am going to show you…
A lot of the tools in Affinity Publisher are available in Designer or Photo, but not every tool is available in each of the three softwares. If you have tried to find the brushes in Publisher to no avail, it’s because they are not there. There is a simple workaround though, in fact it is…
