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hey today we're going to learn

everything we need to know to get

started with affinity designer version

two I will go over all of the tools and

fundamental features of the software and

after this one video you should be able

to start your journey with this great

Vector editing program as you may know

already I think designer is just a

single patches so that's way more

affordable than Adobe Illustrator right

now okay so let's get started with a new

document so here I am in the software

this is the desktop version for Mac I'm

creating a blank new document that will

be

A4 click create and here we are we got a

blank white page let's just draw

something quickly so we got something to

talk about move around I will head

straight to shapes here

and select a hard

shape so there's dedicated hard shape

tool that's right if you hold shift you

can maintain a nice

proportion let's change the color you

can see the color of it on the right

here in the color panel the ring light

thing that's the stroke color so the

color around the shape actually I don't

want any stroke color so I will keep it

transparent and for the fill color I

will change it into something more like

a pink and while we are here you may

consider switching to the wheel I know

many people prefer that method so click

this little hamburger menu on the right

select the wheel and here's very

familiar very user friendly way of

picking colors so when you move around

360 you picking different Hue and then

the triangle thing that's the full

saturation that's the one one and here

top is the full darkness and this one

here is the full brightness and

everything in between that's for you to

play with all right

oversaturated red hot shap that's what

we

need now we can start with

tools the very first tool on the list

here that's the move tool that's your

default tool the move tool will move the

entire object

but not only that the move tool can help

you with basic Transformations so you

can rotate your

object if you hold shift on your

keyboard you will be jumping

15° all right we can rotate the

object we can also scale the object up

and down and as you can see I can

stretch it as well so if you want to

avoid stretching hold shift again shift

is this very useful keyboard shortcut

good to

remember all right if you hover your

mouse kind of outside it you can even

drag it like

that so move tool move all of the tools

and also basic Transformations there's

one cool figure I need to show you if

you use move tool by default just moving

the shape right but if you press and

hold command on your

keyboard you can duplicate it very

quickly so just press command use the

move tool like you normally move shape

but instead of moving it you're creating

copies of it that's very helpful by the

way how to go back now we could hit

delete on the keyboard or

backspace but you could also just use

comment Z comment Z and that's the

second shortcut remember undo undo undo

do very useful because with graphic

design software usually experiment

trying to do stuff then we undo and

maybe approach the same problem

different angle different tools all

right so that's the first tool cover

what is the next tool that's your

artboard tool right now there's only one

artboard one page in this document when

you click the inser artboard for the

first time you're kind of unlocking the

feature so I didn't put any new artboard

I just unlock this and now if I click it

again take a look I got the second

page I can put one more page

here you can even draw it by hand your

artboards can come with different sizes

there are some predetermined sizes as

well if you zoom out I like to zoom out

a bit old school so I press common minus

if you zoom

out you can rearrange it

and good thing about artboard is you can

actually export this document as

multi-page PDF if you got multiple

artboards you can keep them as pages in

your PDFs or you can simply export just

one artboard when you need so we can

have artboards of different sizes like

Instagram post Facebook this that and

then you can export them separately keep

all of the stuff in one document but use

them for different purposes all right we

can get rid of the artboard same way

just hit delete and we are back to the

one artboard if you got only one

artboard the easiest way to zoom back is

to press commment zero on your keyboard

and is will always give you this optimal

level of Zoom all right so that's the

second thing that's the artbo tool

what's the third thing that's the node

tool to demonstrate the node tool I will

need to turn this shape how I know this

is a shape

layer on the right side in the layer

panel if you hover your mouse next to

that layer that selected right now I can

see the name of that shape so this is a

special type of layer with that shape

but if I convert this two

curves now that's a regular Vector curve

and with that and our Noe tool Noe tool

looks a bit like the move tool but it's

white and the note tool will not move

the whole shape but only move certain

notes so we can move them those notes we

can adjust

them more than that we can actually

delete them so if you click on the Node

and hit delete it's gone we can use that

to add new nodes so just click on the

curve and this will add a new

node you may notice that two kind of

nodes one is the circle one is the

square thing so one note is the curvy

one when we can adjust the curve easily

and one is the sharp

one in that case it will be ending with

the sharp like shape you can easily

transform the sharp into smooth one back

to the sharp one if I grab this guy and

make it into sharp one take a look we

got this sharp ending here and here all

right so the note tool is really really

helpful and also you can use it to walk

with lines so let me just quickly draw a

line all right I need to put a stroke in

that line because there will be no fi

color here it's not a close shape so I

select a stroke color now and you can

head to the stroke panel here on the

right side and decide how tick the line

should

be and why when we are here we can also

explore other options we can make a dash

line we can control that from here two

two all right so that's the dash line we

can make also a texture line style if

you got a some kind of brush on it but

for the regular line we can also control

the pressure here so we can kind of

simulate using a nice tablet and we got

some kind of like pressure thing that we

actually did with just this curve here

so it's we press hard first and then

gently and then a little bit again and

that's how you can apply the pressure to

your stroke to your line but let me

reset that

first and let's back to what we've been

talking about I'll be talking about the

Noe tool so we can also use the Noe tool

this white guy here with lines so we can

move those

nodes

around you can convert them you can add

new

noes and you can also use that to split

the line so if I select this node take a

look there's option to break curve here

and with that we split this line into

two because we break that node all right

so now that's how we can use the node

tool super handy node tool is one of the

most powerful tools because we can

always go back with the no tool and

readjust everything the next thing on

the list that's Contour tool so let's

grab a shape again we need a shape then

a contour tool and this tool will add a

contour around or you can pull

it inside to make it

smaller you can also decide what kind of

corner do you

need and you can use that radius here

this slideer as well you can type it

from the keyboard

all of this is here and if you are happy

with your new look you can even bake

this appearance so it become part of

that

shape all right let's get rid of that I

draw a new shape to test the next tool

the next tool on our list is the corner

tool as you

may predict already it's for rounding

corners but you can do it individually

here you can just round one corner sorry

let's go

undo grab the corner tool first round

one corner take a

look we can select what type of corner

do you

need and as you can imagine because we

got so much Freedom here it can actually

be used to build shapes so take a look

what I got here I use just the corner

tool but we end up with interesting

shape just using the corner tool a bit

underrated in my opinion all right now

we are moving to the next thing that's

the famous pen tool pen tool is the most

frustrating tool in the

program why because it's such a powerful

tool give you the full Freedom so you

can draw whatever you need right you can

draw whatever you need but because of

that it's easy to make some mistakes

here and there pen tool is for drawing

actually it's for placing those noes we

are not Drawing the Line you must change

shift your mindset a bit take a look I

placing the node and then I placing a

node and the line just appear between

them I placing the

node I still holding my mouse down so I

can adjust the curve and the line kind

of appears between them right so don't

think about drawing the lines think

about placing your notes how you will

place your notes where they should be

and then we close the shape we can feel

that shape of course if you make a bit

of mistake with your pen tool go back to

the note tool and readjust that's how we

roll we don't need to make a perfect

brush stroke pen stroke in the vector

graphics the cool thing about Vector

graphic is you can just always readjust

your notes realign your vectors and end

up with a really impressive illustration

even you are not very artistic person I

would say so this is very technical way

of doing Graphics all right I like the

fact that we can always grab this note

tool and save

ourself that's cool let's move forward

this next to core pencil tool and some

people are disappointed with the pen

tool they do not understand the whole

concept of placing noes so they just

grab this one and this one is more like

a drawing the

line the downside

is it's harder to close the shape and as

you can see we still got those nodes on

that

line how can we control them we cannot

the program see our line and try to

place those nodes for us so it's more

for like organic lines

or I always suggest using pen tool

because in pen tool you got this full

cont control right we can do the very

same thing but I got full control every

step on the

way all right so that's was pen tool if

I do the same thing with pencil I'm

making this line but only after I done I

see those notes and the shape is still

not close we can use autoc close feature

here let's try

again that's nice now the shape is

closed and and we can put the color in

and again we always got our note tool if

you got missing note you want to add the

note you can always do that with the

note tool and why we are talking about

pencil and Pen tool because they kind of

works together very similar purpose I

will give you one extra tip for the pen

tool take a look when I drove the pen

tool the line just appears when I put

the second note right and then I must

put the thir note and now the lines

appears again so I kind of need to have

a bit of experience a bit of the

intuition with the pen tool that's why

it's a bit frustrating for beginners but

we can turn on something called rubber

bending mode so when you select your pen

tool search for rubber bending mode here

at the

top rubber Bend mode turn it on take a

look I just plac the first note and what

is this blue line this blue line is is

the prediction of the curve of the next

one so that's very helpful and I don't

understand why this is not turn on by

default so turn it on right now okay

this is really helpful take a look this

was the prediction of course I can

change how curve it is on the second

note and again I got the

prediction if I

click click click I got straight lines

if I click and hold I'm making curvy

line

if you into straight lines you can

also change to the line

mode when you got a pen tool thing

there's also a line

mode that will allow you to draw

straight lines if you don't plan to make

close shapes or you can make also the

polygon mode when you making shapes with

straight

lines all right so explore your options

at the top some of them are really

helpful like this rubber bending mode

all right we already covered the pencil

a very similar to the pen tool we can

stabilize this a little bit to get

smoother line but we cannot fully

control those notes the next thing on

the list that's a vector brush tool very

misleading name guys

because we are drawing a vector path leg

with the pencil so that's the

curve and then we can select the brush

that will be apply to that right the

problem with it

is all right now I'm using Vector

brush we can modify the color we can

change the brush here we can change the

size of the brush as well the problem

with this Vector brush is not the vector

brush it's actually a vector curve so

take take a look if I select this with

the note tool I see only the line and I

can change that line so that's good but

I cannot expand this into

shape this is a rusted brush that is

stretch on this Vector curve so be

careful they call it Vector brush it's

just a vector path with the raster brush

on the top

unfortunately all right let's clear that

by selecting all with the move tool and

hitting delete on the

keyboard what

next there is a knife tool on the list

here Sharp Tools my favorite of De my

favorite way of demonstrating the knife

tool is to draw egg first so I using

this oval here I don't want the stroke

color I want to change the field color

to be like egg shell color something

like that now I will convert to Curves

so I can move those two nodes down you

don't need to move them one by one we

can select two noes just like this and

pull them down

together if you want to pull them in the

straight line hold shift shift again huh

shift will lock us into straight line

and we got this nice looking egg now

grab your knife

tool and cut through this

egg

you must pop out on another side and

this way we split it into two shapes if

I grab the move tool I can take the top

of the egg and move it

out here's our

egg we crack it with the knife tool you

can always double check on your layer

panel now we got two

curves layer panel is located on the

right by default it's a good way if you

want to select certain shapes as well

you don't need to click them here on the

artboard you can click them on the layer

panel as well all right we learn about

knife tool what's next that's a vector

fill tool so if I grab this I can fill

this shape with color but that's

pointless because for shape like that

you can just change the color here so

what's the point of using that bucket

tool in the vector program let me show

you let's create it sit situation where

this thing will be useful so I grab a

pen tool sorry pencil tool

here I don't need to close that let's

try again with just

line all right we got line number one

line number two line number

three we got three separate

lines so there's no way of putting the

color in between them here to this

triang angle but if I select this area

all three lines together and then grab

this useful bucket Vector bucket tool I

can now put the color here and it will

create a brand new Vector shape for me

in this area that's super handy and to

prove that this Vector take a look we

got notes it's a proper

Vector very nice another situation we

can use that

will be when you got overlapping

shapes all right and you select

overlapping shapes and you want to have

a different color in that area

here we can grab a bucket tool then you

can select the

color and then we can hover and recolor

only the area we need so this was not a

new shape at first but now if you open

this ellipse you will see there's

actually a vector shape in

that group here

nice by the way this feature is a bit

hidden because it was not ready for

version 2.0 for this big release they

added in

2.1 so some people Miss on that tool so

there's a proper Vector bucket tool now

in our Fint designer all right what's

next that's a gradient tool to apply

gradient we need a space for it so

that's our shape now we can apply

gradient on it and the good thing is

it's a live gradient so I didn't even

finish applying the gradient but I can

see it right away that's nice I don't

need to like try try try no just hold

it nice let's go up

here so we can modify the

color by the way you can also open the

Wheel from here if you are big big fan

of that color

wheel okay the end color over here we

can add extra color in the center if you

like and cool thing we can actually add

the noise I like to add a bit of noise

to dark

colors so that's the vector noise nice

by default it's a linear gradient so

it's like a line but we can change that

as well it can be ellipse

so like a

circle we got a radial and also this

conico one that you may see before when

you got this sharp connection here on

this

side I like to change to solid and you

will get only one color you can change

to linear and you loading the gradient

by default from that color you got

already so you don't even need to select

the gradient tool from the list so let's

say you got got your color in your shape

you go to the fill area

here and you can change that you want to

move from a solid color into the

gradient just from here as well or you

can select the gradient tool and you

will see the type is solid right now so

it's not really gradient but if you move

it to linear you get a brand new

gradient based on that solid color so

you got a good start because you already

got that first color in that gradient

and you can just modify the second

color all right that's your gradient

tool nothing impressive here are

fortunately no mesh gradients in our

finity designer right now we are on

version

2.3 version 2.4 is already in beta test

so I can tell you from kind of behind

the scene it's not there as well so no

mesh gradients just yet what next we got

Place tool for placing images there's

also a vector crop tool that I never

ever use so let's draw a shape Vector

crop tool give us this cropping marks

when we can crop the

shape like that why I never use that

tool I'm going to show you later how we

can do this effect way better let's

delete that for now and we finally reach

the bottom part of the tool panel you

got the rectangle and the oval tool for

drawing shapes I've been drawing shapes

a lot today so we already know how to

use them if you press and hold

shift you will have a one: one

ratio we can set up roundness for the

corners from here straight from here

even without using the corner

tool keep in mind some shapes come with

some extra control points like in this

case I got this Orange Point

let me demonstrate this on the more more

complex shape so let's open this whole

long shape selection and pick a shape

like a star

maybe in that case you can see I got

three orange points and they control

different aspects of this shape so I can

make this end of the arm rounded I can

make this space between arms going in

and out and I can finally round this

space between them so you can round it

in if you need to add more points more

arms you can also change that from the

slider at the top so keep in mind some

of those tools come with smart controls

and this way you can very quickly morph

them into new shapes like

this that's nice there is also a shape

Builder tool to demonstrate that I will

need one more shape because we cannot

build a new new shape with just one

shape we need two different

shapes and you need to select them both

how you can do that you can simply click

outside and drag the selection

around you can also click on one shape

hold the shift and click on the second

one then go for shape Builder tool

in this tool we got two modes one is the

plus mode one is the minus mode adding

or subtracting if I use the plus

mode and I can drag now the line

indicating what I want to add together

this part with this part with this part

release your mouse you got a new shape

let's undo command

Z Now use the minus mode what do you

want to

delete maybe I want to delete in only

the center thing it's gone maybe this

one as well gone and that's my new shape

now so shape Builder tool allow you for

interactions between multiple shapes so

let's create that situation let's draw

more than one shape more than two maybe

I will create several different shapes

do you remember how we can quickly copy

shapes with the move tool just press

command and we can copy them quickly

all right now I will place this guy in

the center can you see how it's nicely

snapping to the center of my

screen because I turn on snapping this

little magnet over

here you can turn it on and off you can

also control what do you want to snap

to all right let's rotate the second one

I hold shift so I can have a nice

rotation here

this guy will be rotated like that and

this one this way and if I don't want to

realign all of that by hand I can just

select all of those

shapes and use the alignment panel at

the

top let's align horizontally and

vertically now I see I mess it up a bit

so this one need to be rotated like that

all right Perfect by the way if this

video is a bit too fast for you feel

free to slow it down in the video

options at the bottom right corner and

the other way around as well if it's too

slow you feel bored speed me up a bit

maybe it will be better learning

experience for you also you can always

pause and also rewind the video so keep

that in mind you are in control here all

right back to the topic we got this

combination of four different shapes

I select them all now I select the shape

Builder tool very handy tool and now I'm

going to create a brand new shape out of

those three sections and here again here

again here

again drag and

release and we transform that

combination into a nice logo all symbol

we can even fill those areas with colors

no problem take a

look all right so that's how you use the

shape build the tool we almost at the

very end of the tool panel so what

what's left there is a nice artistic

text and the frame text tool artistic is

for a one or two lines of text like

headlines when you can type the text

modify the font

and by the way a newest feature in the

program is now we got this little hard

shape you can click on it to add the

font to your favorites so if you got

this problem got too many fonts you can

create your favorite list we can change

the size of it and of course we can

modify the color by using the color

wheel on the right like before all right

so that's for our text and the second

one the frame text tool the difference

is this one is more like we kind of

selecting the longer area for the longer

text for now I can insert filler text if

I

like and later on if I got the real text

from my editor I can change that to the

correct text but you can use the fillet

text first so you

can kind of deal with the formatting

right keep in mind that are some options

here at the

top and you can modify some settings of

your text by clicking this a icon

here like position and transforming what

is the distance between lines and all of

that it's here in this popup window for

character nice that's the text tool

what's below the text tool a very

interesting addition there are two

Pickers one is the classic Color Picker

so we can pick the color if you didn't

select anything yet if you pick the

color of

something like this gray backdr let's

add something here so we got as

interesting color all right if I didn't

select anything just use the Picker and

I click on this color it's goes to here

to Quick picker

color and then I can click on that to

put it as my main color and also you can

use that quick picker from here so if

you select the quick

picker press and hold and now you are in

quick picker mode when you can

just put the color in here without

switching to the tool yet it's really

simple but it's hard to explain so I

would like you to try yourself if you

click on this picker and hold you will

get this color picking mode when you can

select the color and the good thing is

you can select it from outside the

program take a look I'm selecting the

color from my interface

here all right I select that blue color

and it's still inside the pier but if I

click on that blue circle it's jump into

my main color and the next shape I draw

will be in that

color if you got shape selected in that

moment and use the quick

picker you can even put it directly in

that shape all right so for picking

colors we got quick picker on the right

inside the color panel and the regular

picker here from the tool list but

there's also this blue picker called

style picker tool so we need to create

two shapes so I can demonstrate that to

you so we got this a little

star and let's copy that c Comm and

moving

around all

right I will click on this first star

and we will head to the layer panel on

the

right select FX below layer

effects now we can add different effects

to

it I encourage you to kind of check

every effect experiment with

them as you can see it's applying to

that selected

layer sometimes we create a really

interesting effect and we want to

transform that effect into the next

shape next object right we don't want to

start from scratch every time that's why

we can use this style picker tool so let

me add this gradient with the overlay

mode and then maybe I will put like

outline on

it

and then we add also all the shadow

there some kind of Shadow popping

out all right that's my weird style I

click close And now I need to put this

on that other shape so I can select this

other shape thing and then go for the

second style pick a

tool now at the top you can decide what

you want to pick all or n or decide

yourself stroke F layer opacity layer

effects now I click on this

guy and I pick that style for this new

shape now this style picker is loaded

with that style I can unload it if I

want to pick the new style or I can use

it on another shape as

well as you can see I'm on the smallest

screen so I cannot see all of my tools

there are still two more areas in my

tool panel you know what before we

explore that let's fix that problem if

you are like me you got smaller screen

in my case that's 13 in laptop I will

need to adjust my tools panel on the

left we can do

that head to view at the top and search

for customized

tools from here you can drag and drop

any tool you need to your tool panel you

can also change the number of columns

you want to

use I will switch to two

columns and this way all of my tools can

fit

now you can also consider rearranging

them for example I like the note tool to

be next to my move

tool and I never ever use the view to

but I will keep it from now to

demonstrate that first you can also drag

this line to create a

separator between different sections in

your tool panel and if you like some

tools to pop up like for the shapes for

example like hard shaped tool normally

it's in the group right you must open

the group first and pick it up you can

put it directly here if you are using

this really often all right let's click

close and with this new double column

tool panel on the left let's explore the

remaining tools so there's area

tool if you select that you can decide

about the scale of your drawing that's

for planning if you create a plan or map

in a designer you can actually make a

real scale like 1 to 10 1 to 100 that

should help you out with your plan so we

can make a scale but also so if you are

in that mode and you click on something

you can see the area of that late of

walls of lines so it's really for making

plans detail plans maps and stuff like

that so that's your area tool and

there's also a measure tool when we can

measure stuff with temporary lines like

that like this is 77 mm so if you are

actually planning to manufacture some

actual product based on your

illustration on your drawings that's can

be also a handy for checking

unfortunately we cannot stick it right

now so everybody been asking me how can

you make this line stick and left here

like that okay I switch the tool back

and the line disappear so we ask the a

developers about this already we hope

that they will add the stickiness to

those measurements that next update okay

so that's a measurement tool and below

that we got our Zoom tool that I never

use why you know why because I zoom in

with the keyboard so if you are on

desktop mode like me you can just press

comment plus comment minus to zoom in

and out if you're on iPad version it's

even easier just pinch with your fingers

and speaking of iPad version there is a

controller for you on iPad to indicate

some virual buttons so today I show you

some helpful tips and tricks right like

press command to duplicate or press

shift to rotate 15 degrees if you wonder

how you can use that knowledge on iPad

you can you can turn on your virtual

buttons and you can actually press shift

or commands on iPad as well all right so

that's the zoom tool and the last

remaining tool that's our view tool also

called pan tool or hand tool that allow

us to drag the camera around so if you

are in the zoom in mode you want you can

drag yourself around and I never ever

use this tool from the tool panel why

because if I'm using a tool let's say a

pen tool I don't want to change to that

tool I simply press and

hold space bar and then I can use that

temporary I'm still holding the space

bar move around move

around and release space bar and you

jump back to the pen tool to the

previous tool it's way better for your

workflow all right seems like we cover

all of the basics on the left so that's

the tool panel we still got stuff here

at the top and on the right so let's

focus our attention to the top right now

the very first thing we can see are

personas so we got designer Persona

that's the default one for editing

vectors but there also a pixel Persona

if I click on that everything we learn

is obsolete because we got totally new

tool set all of those tools in the pixel

Persona as you may guess are for

modifying raster images that's right you

can modify raster images in a designer a

designer is not exactly an alternative

to adob illustrator it's more like two

in one hybrid so it's mostly for vectors

but if you really need you can actually

do some raster work on your raster

Graphics as well and no surprise we got

multiple selections

tool there's a rust a

brush eraser tool rust a bucket tool and

few more so it is a burn SMUD and blur

very basic set for r editing but it's

here it's will be not used by

photographers to enhance the pictures

but it's used by illustrators so let's

say you create a beautiful Vector

illustration using designer Persona and

then you want to add this organic touch

to it so you can switch to pixel Persona

and use some raster brushes adding

raster textures and work with that all

right and the last Persona on the list

the next one is export Persona and the

two tools are so limited here because

our attention should be focused on the

right side when we got export options we

can decide which what kind of format do

we need and Export our Graphics it's

really cool because if you got multiple

icons you can create slices for

them and Export them all at once very

nice let's jump back to the main

personas of design a Persona personas

are different interfaces designer is the

main one for vectors pixel Persona is

for enhancing Ras elements and Export

Persona is for the finishing export

especially if you got complex design

that don't need to export into multiple

files like icon sets all right what else

is here that we should talk about we got

some basic transer options like flipping

horizontally and vertically rotating

clockwise anticlockwise from here we can

align I already show alignments option

here and keep in mind while you are

aligning there's also option for

distribution so let's create a few more

elements misalign elements who did that

all right and now we use we select them

all first so I click here select them

all go to alignment let's align them

vertically nice

let's distribute them so let's say the

distribute terribly like that I go for

alignment and then we got distribution

as well so space horizontally will'll do

the trick by the way if you got three

shapes

selected and you try to rotate them you

will end up with something like that

you're rotating from the center here and

even you can move that center it's still

not rotating as individual shapes so

what you need to do is you need to head

to the top and click transform objects

separately and now it seems like only

the first one is selected but pay

attention to your layer panel they're

all still highlighted so if I rotate the

first

one now every selected shape is

transforming separately

I can even scale

them a little trick for you guys if you

want to transform multiple objects but

in the separate manner all right so we

are ready cover snapping and magnets we

can snap to different elements and it

will give you those temporary guides

take a

look it's nicely snapping and helping me

out relocate my object I can even locate

that perfectly in between those two

shapes without any alignments because of

snapping and we finally moving to the

most important part of the top

panel to demonstrate that one I will

need two new

shapes let's go with the very

classic

square and

circle

with two shapes like that we can test

the bulling operation also called

geometry sometimes called po figh by

some Adobe fans so we can unite two

shapes together but wait Mark you just

tell us to use shape Builder tool right

this thing on the left here in the panel

we can unite them together as well yeah

that's right the shap Builder tool is

for more complex compositions but we we

still got options to do just simple

actions between two three shapes if you

just want to unite everything together

you can select

them

BM undo let's try the next action called

subtract now the shape at the top make a

hole in the shape below that this option

for intersection so we got only the

intersecting part left there's also XR

so difference to intersection when the

intersecting part is gone and the last

one is interesting because the last one

will divide it

into three separate

shapes all right so that's another way

how we can build shapes we already talk

about colors and take a look that

different panels here one for stroke

appearance same for layers we got layers

we got transform and we can see exact

size of the object object this

navigation one if you fun of that we got

brushes and

styles and all of that are from the

studios panel so we can literally drag

out this Navigator pull it out and

relocate this in the program to be in

different position sometimes it can even

stick so I can stick it to this side all

right we can put it back here to be

above of our

colors drag it out and close it if you

don't need it how we can reopen those

Studios and snap them into our interface

easy stuff go to window and you will see

which studios are turn on the one that I

on right now got the check mark so if

you need history because you love to

undo a

lot click on

history and it appears here now I can go

all the way back back to very beginning

of this video and we can learn

everything once more okay so that's how

you do it you can turn on different

Studios to modify your interface for

your

needs then we got our color wheel and

layer panel in the layer panel we can

add a special layer effects we try it

out already on that star remember

there's FX here but there's also a nice

addition in version two warp so we can

actually Vector

warp using some

presets or we can use the mesh and warp

ourself those Vector

shapes logos and stuff like that with

the proper Vector

warp so that's a nice addition and if

you are happy with your result and you

want to kind of B this in you can

convert to Curves and you end up with

the new shape all right I mentioned

before that I hate using the crop tool

and I got a better method the my method

is when I got a shape and I need only

half of

it I make a second shape right and those

geometry options we just learned about

this bulling operations I can

subtract and I got half of the shape

left keep in mind if you you cannot

modify the shape with the note tool you

cannot see your

nodes maybe you must convert your shape

into curves so when you draw the shape

for the first

time and you try to modify it in detail

you just see this orange control Point

click convert to Curves to unlock the

shape always pay attention to the layer

panel to see which layer is currently

selected all right guys I think we cover

everything you need to know to get

started with your up designer Journey

One Last Thing Before you go because

that's can make give you trouble if

you're working on some pngs that you

want to export without

backdrop right let's test this out so we

got this little star here if you want to

export this without the

backdrop there is eest way is to

actually get rid of the backdrop from

your artboard you can click document

setup and you can go to color and turn

on transparent

backdrop and you will got this very

familiar checkerboard indicating

transparency all right guys I hope this

was helpful keep in mind I got almost

200 tutorials for Ain designer so feel

free to explore the whole playlist and

learn more about this great software I

will see you in the next video bye