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Introduction to Affinity Designer Course UK Wide

Learn the essentials of vector design with a practical introduction to Affinity Designer delivered by expert design trainer Greta Powell. This beginner friendly session shows you how to create clean, scalable artwork using the core tools you’ll rely on every day. It’s perfect if you’re new to Affinity, switching from Adobe Illustrator, or finally ready to understand vector graphics without the overwhelm.

Virtual online Affinity Training |Onsite Affinity Courses

What you’ll get in this intro session

  • A professional, friendly start to vector design
  • Simple, confidence‑building techniques you can use straight away
  • Practical guidance that helps you create clean artwork from scratch
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This intro session gives you a clear, solid foundation in vector design. It helps you understand how Affinity Designer actually works so you can create professional artwork with ease. You’ll get practical, beginner‑friendly guidance that removes the confusion around shapes, curves, colour, and layers, and replaces it with a workflow that feels logical and manageable. Whether you’re brand new to design or switching from Adobe Illustrator, this course helps you build confidence quickly and sets you up for more advanced Affinity training when you’re ready

What you’ll create in this session

  • Clear scalable icons using basic shapes and curves
  • Simple illustrations using the Pen Tool
  • A tidy, layered mini‑layout such as a flyer or info-graphic showing structure and organisation
  • A finished vector graphic you can export for print or web

What You’ll Learn on an Intro to Affinity Designer Course

How vector graphics work understanding shapes, curves, nodes, and why vectors scale so beautifully.

  • Creating and editing artwork: drawing, adjusting, and refining simple illustrations and icons
  • Working with colour and strokes: fills, gradients, outlines, palettes, and keeping your artwork consistent
  • Build clean, professional designs: simple layouts, icons, graphics, and starter projects
  • Exporting your work: saving artwork for print, web, and social media without losing quality
  • Practical workflow tips: small habits that make Affinity Designer feel intuitive instead of overwhelming

Quick Tip, did you know?

If you’re completely new to vector graphics, a little background goes a long way. Understanding how Bézier curves work will help you draw smoother shapes, edit paths with confidence, and get far better results from the Pen Tool.

Wiki has a wonderful page about Pierre Bezier, the creator of the Bezier tool otherwise known as the Pen tool.  

Who was Pierre Bezier and what does he have to do with vectors? 

Who usually books Affinity Designer Courses?

This introductory Affinity Designer session is typically chosen by

  • Small business owners and freelancers who want to create clean, professional graphics without outsourcing
  • Marketing and communications staff who need to produce simple visuals, icons, or layouts as part of their role
  • Teams transitioning from Adobe Illustrator and looking for a structured, confidence‑building introduction to Affinity Designer
  • Product creators and makers who need accurate, scalable artwork for packaging, labels, or digital assets
  • Professionals who’ve opened Affinity Designer and felt overwhelmed, and now want a clear, guided start

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Affinity Designer FAQs

As with all the onsite courses our Online Affinity Designer Training Courses are flexible; content can be customised to individual and group training.

The course is delivered on video software of your choice including both Zoom and Teams and is available across all time-zones.

They are delivered via live instructor in a virtual environment where you can share screens and interact with one another.  

Onsite Affinity Designer training is extremely flexible and can be organised for one to one sessions, company groups /workshops and larger team roll-outs

  • The trainer comes directly to you
  • No travel, hotels or other expenses are involved for your staff
  • The course is focused on your objectives as there are no external attendees.
  • Prior to the course we organise a meeting to discuss the training course
  • Flexible dates and times

This is an Introduction to Designer Course is perfect for beginners or those looking for refresher training. It can be run as a one to one session or for small company groups.

Lots of people migrating from Adobe Illustrator choose this course to become familiar with Affinity’s tools and techniques

It’s a comprehensive course so ideal for anyone studying or wanting to work in vector graphics.

The course is ideal for beginners or anyone with limited skills wanting to extend their knowledge.

Over the years the course has been delivered to a wide range of areas including content creators, artworkers, marketeers, designers, product designers, fashion designers and educators.

On this Affinity Designer training course you’ll learn how to create, edit and retouch images for a range of different purposes including digital media, print and the web. 

You will work with the interface, tools and Illustrator features to produce high quality artwork.

Our digital design courses are extremely flexible and can be tailored around you and your company so you can create artwork relevant to you.

For example you may want to change logos, colours and perspective of clothing or design high impact flyers and infographics or specialise in social media icons and logo design. It’s your choice and your Designer course. 

On this Affinity Designer training you will learn how to: 

  • Work with Illustrator Tools, Panels & Interface
  • The Illustrator AI Tools /Generative Fill /Generative Recolour
  • Use Illustrator’s Selection Tools
  • Create, Edit & Manipulate Geometric Shapes
  • The Drawing Tools
  • Use Illustrator’s Layout Tools Grids, Guides, Smart Guides
  • Illustrator Type Tools
  • Work with Images
  • Exporting /Printing to Print & Web

The full course outline is available at the bottom of the page. We constantly update our Designer Training content to incorporate new tools and new releases.

This course often runs as part of an Affinity Course incorporating Designer, Publisher and Photo.

Find out more about the Introduction to Affinity Publisher Course

Find out more about the Introduction to Affinity Photo Course

Vector artwork is a digital image created by geometric shapes and mathematical equations. It consists of lines, shapes, point which means artwork can be scaled without loss of quality.

  • Use to create Vector artwork (you can find out exactly what vector artwork is here) some examples would be:
  • Create logos, symbols, icons for screen, digital, print & video
  • Website Mockup Design
  • Design Packaging
  • Social Media Icons
  • Social Media Images & Posts
  • Infographics

 

Our Online Affinity Training Courses are available on any time zone. We offer 24 hour availability, evenings, overnight and during the weekend. 

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

Do you record the Online Adobe Illustrator Training Sessions?

We do but due to privacy issues can only offer this to one to one courses and closed company groups.

Please note we can only run this timings for online Affinity Courses

Booking with us

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

We will then get in touch and send the details of booking reservation and find out your timeframe for training.

We will 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.

Introduction to Affinity Designer Course - Overviews

Meet Affinity Designer

Workspace Setup

Navigate the Workspace

Preferences

Affinity Persona’s

Vector /Raster Artwork

Designer Panels

Working wiht Catoegories

Adding New Categories

Layer Panel

Create and Edit Layers

FX Panel

Work with existing FX effects

Create new FX effects

Brushes Panel

Pixel Persona tools

Shape Builder Tool, Artistic Text Tool,

Frame Text Tool, Colour Picker Tool,

Style Picker Tool, Measure Tool,

Area and View Tools

Selection Tools & Techniques

Selection Brush Tool

Marquee Selection Tools

Flood Select Tool

Auto Select

Pixel Selection /Smart Selection

More Colours

Select / Apply Colours

Create / Edit Colour Swatchescolour swatches

Appy /Edit Gradients

Colour Sampling

Sample Colour from Imagery

Stoke Panel

Adding Strokes

Editing Existing Strokes

Creating New Stokes

Affinity Designer Tools

Designer Persona

Move Tool, Artboard Tool, Node Tool, Point

Transform Tool, Contour Tool, Corner Tool,

Pen Tool, Vector Brush Tool 

Stock Images

Set up Pixels Account

Search for Stock Images

Close Group

Brush Panel

Using Existing Brushes

Editing Exisiting Brushes

Brush Stoke Width

Solid /Textured Brushes

Designer Exporting

Export Persona

Exporting with Transparency

Output Options