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Affinity Layout Mode Training (Affinity V3)

Affinity Studio Layout Mode Training | Give your team the skills and confidence to work efficiently in Affinity’s new Layout Mode. Practical, workflow‑focused training tailored to your business needs

  • Ideal for teams switching from Adobe or upgrading from Affinity Publisher V2
  • Learn the new Layout Mode workflow in Affinity 3
  • Hands‑on training using your documents & branding
  • Delivered online or on‑site (Midlands & UK‑wide)
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Affinity Layout Mode Introduction Training

This course gives a clear, practical introduction to Layout Mode in Affinity 3 and overview of the new Affinity workspace. Learn to create professional page layouts, single and multi page documents, add text and images then export for print and generally workinng more efficiently across Affinity 3.

Whether your team is completely new to Affinity or already familiar with desktop publishing software, the course covers both introductory and intermediate skills.

Find out more about Affinity 3 software

What do you learn on an Affinity Layout for Beginners Course?

Affinity Layout is part of a professional creative software suit know as Affinity Studio or Affinity 3. This is a set of apps which bring together vector, photo editing and page layout into single, high-performance application controlled by three tabs at the top left of the screen.

The Layout tab (previously known as Publisher) lets you create flyers, social media graphics, professional‑quality layouts and publications without the complexity or cost of other software. From simple flyers and social media graphics to multi‑page brochures and business documents Serif Affinity offers the tools to:

  • Set up and manage print and digital layouts

  • Work with text, images and colour with precision

  • Create consistent, branded documents using master pages and styles

  • Export ready‑to‑print PDFs or digital output for web and online publishing

  • Build reusable templates for ongoing use or client work

From the beginning this Affinity Introduction to Layout Course gives you the skills to produce a wide range of design for print and digital publishing.

Who attends an Affinity Studio Layout Course?

The Affinity Layout Training is ideal if you are:

  • Completely new to Affinity Layout and working with design and desktop publishing

  • A business owner wanting to create high end business documents and promotional materials

  • A marketer or content creator wanting to create, design and publish for both web and print

  • Office professionals and administrators wanting to make more professional, elegant brochures, newsletters or reports

  • Anyone migrating from Adobe products.

  • Anyone who has recently inherited Affinity documents in a new job role and needs to learn how to edit existing designs

No prior layout or publishing experience is necessary. This course starts at the beginning and builds the skills you need to work confidently with text, images, colour and layout tools

Greta Powell Training 5* Verified Reviews

Working with Greta Powell was an outstanding experience from start to finish. I began as a complete novice in Affinity Publisher, feeling daunted by the idea of creating a large, text-heavy family history book. 

Thanks to Greta’s excellent instruction, I was able to bring my project to completion. A 186 page book containing more than 150 photos, a 50,000-word narrative, a detailed table of contents, captions, and page numbers, all laid out with professional polish.

Marnie Elmer
Author

What is covered on an Affinity Layout Course?

You’ll learn how to navigate Affinity Studio interface, set up pages with margins, grids, and bleed, and manage text, images, and colour. The course will also guide you through creating new and working with existing templates to formatting and preparing documents for print or digital publishing. By the end of the training, you’ll be able to produce polished brochures, flyers, newsletters, and multi-page documents ready for any project.

Key skills you’ll master include:

  • Navigating the Affinity Publisher interface, tools, and panels

  • Creating and managing documents with correct margins, grids, and bleed

  • Working with text — frames, linking, styles, kerning, and paragraph control

  • Placing and managing images, resizing, and wrapping text effectively

  • Using colour, swatches, fills, and strokes for consistent branding

  • Building master pages and reusable templates for headers, footers, and repeating elements

  • Aligning and distributing objects using guides and grids

  • Publish to print and digital /PDF


Because of the style of the Affinity Studio we also take a look at the integration between Pixel, Victor and Layout modes.

Bite Size & Half Day Online Affinity Training Courses

Short Affinity Studio Training Sessions – Bitesized

Already proficient with Affinity desktop publishing but you’ve got a specific issue? Perhaps you need to create and work with a Book panel compilation, trouble-shoot paragraph styles or need to generate an automatic table of contents?

We offer short bite-sized training sessions that focus on specific Publisher problems. 

Depending on the content to be covered bitesized Training is available in both 2 hour sessions or half day training Affinity Publisher workshops.

Where do you travel in the UK for Onsite Affinity Training?

We travel to virtually every location across the country to deliver face to face Affinity courses plus Europe and further afield.

Just to give you an idea over recent months we’ve visited Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Bedford, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Manchester, Liverpool, Stoke on Trent and Sheffield and then more.

Our onsite digital design courses can be run at your offices, home or a meeting venue at times and dates that work around your schedule.

Affinity Layout 3 FAQs

Online Affinity Layout Courses run virtually with a live instructor giving you direct contact with them throughout the training via video, chat & screen share.

We run this online training via all the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx. It’s your choice which one you prefer.

Do you record the Affinity Courses?

We do but due to privacy issues are only able to record for individual or closed company sessions

24 /7 Hour Training

Online training is available on a 24 /7 basis including overnight and during weekends.

Pre-Course Chat

Once the course is booked in we organise a voice call /online meeting to discuss the course content and structure ensuring the training goes smoothly.

All our digital design courses are available online. 

Our Onsite  Training Affinity courses are hosted on your premises across the UK. 

Super flexible booking dates which work to your schedule.

The training course is focused entirely upon you and your company requirements and can be tailored to suit you.

Tailored Affinity Courses

We are happy to tailor the Affinity Publisher content to suit you.

The trainer comes direct to you so there’s no travelling involved for you or your team saving them travel and expenses.

Pre-Course Meeting

Once the course is booked we organise an online chat with your trainer to discuss the content and any logistics involved in the course.

Courses are available across the Affinity 3 Studio ranging from introduction and advanced through to group workshops and one to one sessions.

Take your Affinity Layout Introduction Course further on our Affinity Layout Advanced Course and learn how to work with and automate long documents and electronic publications.

Affinity Publisher Advanced Training

With Affinity Photo Training learn to enhance, retouch and publish photographs to print or digital. From downloading your images through to publishing in print or digital our Affinity Beginners Course guides you step by step through the photo process.

Affinity Photo Training for Beginners

Work with vector artwork to create and design logos, infographics, charts and other artwork:

Affinity Designer Training for Beginners

Is there a Certificate?

Each delegate receives a certificate of completion by email upon completing the course

What post course support do I get?

We offer full training support for one year from the date of the course. This is usually via email, a short video recording of the issue or it there’s a more complex problem then a face to face meeting with your course trainer via Zoom or Teams.

Because of the flexibility of online training 24 /7 and Weekend Affinity Layout Training can be arranged.

The courses run on any time zone, evenings, overnight and during the weekend.

We travel the length and breadth of the UK, most major cities, towns and their surrounding areas including Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Liverpool, Chester, Oxford, Cambridge to deliver your Affinity Course at your premises. Please get in touch to discuss availability in your area.

Absolutely yes they are. 

Both the Onsite and Online Affinity training sessions can be tailored specifically around you. We usually organise an online meeting or voice call prior to the training to discuss the course content and structure of the day. 

Booking with us

Please get in touch with us via the online booking form.

Our Contact Form for Publisher Training

We’ll get in touch and send the details of booking reservation, find out your timeframe for training and then send across dates.

Once the booking is confirmed we then organise a pre-course call /meeting to discuss the course and any logistics around the day.

Payment

Payment for training is via BACS or Credit Card

Credit Card payment is via Stripe

*Greta Powell Training Ltd does not collect or store your card details.

Purchase Orders

We accept purchase orders from UK registered companies and the public sector.

Affinity by Canva - Layout Mode Training Course for Beginners - Course Content

Meeting Affinity Layout

The Affinity Tabs

The Affinity Interface /Panels /Tools

Navigating & Viewing Documents

Affinity Preferences

Affinity Layout & Images

Creating & Working with Image Frames

Place Images

Image File Formats (PSD, TIFF, PNG, JPEG)

Image Frame Properties

Resource Manager /Image info /Linking Unlinking / Embedding

Inserting Special Characters

Affinity Layout & Colour

Working with Colour /Colour Modes /Colour Tints

Accurate Colour /Colour Panel

Using Colour Panel’s Selector

Colour Selection Properties

Colour Swatches

Affinity Layout Documents

Creating Documents /Using Preset Documents

Setting Printer Marks

Master Pages /Pages Panels

Facing Pages

Affinity Layout Formatting

Changing fonts /font pairings

Character / Font Text Traits

Spacing 

Alignment

Affinity Layout Text Wrap

Text meets Images

Placing Images for Wrapping

Text Wrap Styles

Distance from Text (Outset)

Wrap Outlines

 

Affinity Layout & Text Styling

Creating & working with Text Frames

Text Threading

Overset Text

Paragraph & Character Styles

Place Text

Affinity Shapes in Layout Mode

Working with Shapes

Shape Fill & Stroke

Selecting /Resizing /Rotating Shapes

Shape Transformations

Align & Distribute Shapes

Affinity Exporting & Publishing

Publishing to Print or Digital

Exporting to PDF

(Print PDF /Interactive PDF)