Graphic Design with Affinity #1.2 UI Overview (100% Free Graphic Design Course for Everyone)

Описание: Welcome to Graphic Design with Affinity, a 100% FREE course consisting of dozens of tutorials to help you become a Graphic Designer using the all new Affinity app! ✨

You're not just going to learn how to use the software, we'll also learn actual Graphic Design principles, compositions, and methods that professionals use and you'll use in real-world Graphic Design applicable in any design scenario and any design software! Then we'll practice with REAL WORLD GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECTS from REAL WORLD CLIENTS, not just some fake client made for this course. 🔥

Best part? This course is really, COMPLETELY free! There's no paid course in Udemy I will suddenly link you to, there's no course materials locked behind paywalls, you don't have to subscribe to a Skool to get full access, it's right here in YouTube, where you only have to pay by liking and subscribing! 🤑

From editing photos in the Pixel Studio, to creating icons and logos in the Vector Studio, to bringing together layouts in the Layout Studio, you'll learn how to do all of these in the Affinity app for free using this course, tutorial by tutorial, guide by guide, tip by tip, and trick by trick!

✅ Perfect for beginners
✅ Great for designers switching from Adobe apps
✅ No prior design experience required

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to design graphics for social media, branding, print, and more... using a really free tool.

1.2 UI Overview
Today, we're getting to know the UI of Affinity so it looks less like a pilot cockpit, and more a comfy canvas for you to make your legendary designs!

Cheat Sheet Link: (I've posted it on my Discord for the time being, as I don't have a file hosting provider yet. For now, join the Discord to pick up that cheat sheet!)

Link for the image used: https://www.pexels.com/photo/young-woman-w...

What is the hype with this all new Affinity app? 👀

If you didn't know, for a long, long time, the Adobe suite of apps (Photoshop for Photo Editing, Illustrator for Vector Design, InDesign for Printing & Publishing Work), has been the go-to for Graphic Designers, especially professionals. However, there would soon be a competitor called Affinity by Serif, who would make an alternative suite of apps: Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher. These three respective apps share similar purposes, functionality, and features as Adobe's apps without all the drama.

What drama? Well, many users of Adobe has abandoned them because of what they call "anti-consumer practices", these include but not limited to: A "cancellation fee" that you pay to cancel your subscription, confusing Plans & Pricing, switching from a one-time payment model to a subscription model, etc. You could pay for Adobe and try cancelling then suddenly get told you must pay a fee. 🥀

Serif's Affinity apps are much simpler, as they use a one-time payment model. You pay for, say, Affinity Designer V2 once and you use it forever. Thinking of cheating on it and using Inkscape instead? No problem. You don't "cancel a subscription", you just stop using the app. No cancellation fees drama, no legal drama, no K-drama, nothing.

But come late 2025... Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher has all been merged into a single app: Affinity 3 by Canva! (Officially called just "Affinity"). So you get the WHOLE package of Photo Editing from Affinity Photo, Vector Design from Affinity Designer, and Print & Publishing Work from Affinity Publisher, all in ONE app! But that's not the best part... not at all.

This app is free. And I mean free free. They don't train any AI on your data, they don't bomb you with ads, they don't lock essential design features behind a paywall, you don't have to be online to use it, you really get it for free! 🤯

The only things locked behind paywalls in Affinity are a subject selection tool (which can easily be replaced by a similar automatic selection tool that's still free), and Gen AI, which... let's be real, isn't free anywhere else. Even when you pay for an Adobe subscription, you get a limited amount of credits to use their AI, paying for more credits if you use up your monthly credits! Besides, not everyone will use it considering the controversies surrounding Gen AI (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

Everything else? Photo Editing capabilities? Icon and Logo design features? Printing aid? Completely free just by downloading the app.

Trivia: This change happened when Canva bought Affinity in late 2025.

Need help with anything? Whatever you're struggling with, you're welcome to join the Discord and ask around!
👉 https://discord.gg/qZyNe4Mu3K

(Note: I am not sponsored by Canva or Serif)