Affinity Designer Workshop
23.04.2018 – 24.04.2018
Workshop Details:
Date: Monday, 23 April - Tuesday, 24 April 2018 (2 days)
Venue: BMC, Großhaderner Str. 9, Planegg-Martinsried
Language: English
Trainer: Andreas Binder
Workshop content:
Affinity Designer is a fast and powerful graphics program for editing and creating vector- based images. As a cost-effective alternative to Adobe Illustrator it offers many useful and flexible tools to generate drawings for scientific figures, posters and presentations.
In this two-day workshop you will get an in-depth look at both basic and advanced functions of Affinity Designer and learn to use the software by completing many practical examples.
The Affinity Designer course covers the following topics:
- Creation of new documents as well as proper import and export of various file formats (PDFs, Excel, Adobe Illustrator files, bitmap images, etc.)
- The basic interface and tools.
- Managing colors in the document.
- How to use groups, layers and artboards to handle more complex documents such as posters.
- Advanced drawing with the pen tool and node tool.
- Creating complex shapes by combining or subtracting objects.
- Using the alignment tools, snapping function and the coordinate system to easily arrange and transform objects and draw exact illustrations.
- Using the brush tools to create natural looking images and to draw complex objects (DNA brush).
- How to use, edit and arrange text.
- Enhancing your images by using gradients, effects and transparency.
- Integration of Affinity Photo for editing bitmap images (microscopic images, scans).
Registration:
If you are interested in this workshop and/or would like to register for it, please send an email to Julia.Brandt@med.uni-muenchen.de by 29 March 2018.
* Please only register for the workshop if you are sure that you will be able to fully participate in the event. *