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Serif Affinity Training Courses

Professional Interactive Serif Affinity training delivered online with live instructor UK wide. Learn Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo the alternative to Adobe with expert-led, hands-on courses designed for individuals and business teams.

Choose online or Onsite at your premises and let our Affinity Trainer show you how to create professional layouts, graphics and images quickly and confidently, with flexible pricing starting:

Pricing starts at £325.00 per day but many clients choose tailored Affinity training for a team which is priced based on the amount of attendees and content.

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Affinity Publisher, Photo, Designer Training Courses (Affinity Studio Training UK)

On our Serif Affinity Training Courses (Affinity Studio) learn Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer with professional, instructor led training delivered online or onsite across the UK. From introduction and advanced Affinity training courses we also specialise in Affinity Studio workshops and craft courses such as Affinity Publisher for book design. All the Affinity Studio courses cover design for professional print and digital publishing.

Training can be customised to your workflow, projects and business requirements making it ideal for designers, marketers, self-publishers, small businesses or anyone transitioning from Adobe software to the Affinity suite.

Affinity Training Courses

  • Create, design and publish various spreads and layouts including brochures, flyers, reports on one of our Affinity Publisher course
  • Repair, retouch and enhance photography for print or digital output on an Affinity Photo course
  • Design vector artwork including logos, info graphics and social media posts in the Affinity Designer course

Affinity Publisher Training Courses

Affinity Publisher Training in the Midlands. Online and onsite Affinity courses

Our Introduction to Affinity Publisher training course gives you the ability to create, design and publish print and digital ready documents.

Add text and images then apply some text wrap to create beautiful professional spreads and layouts.

Edit your images and photo’s in Affinity Photo and bring them directly into Affinity Publisher to add striking graphics to your work.

View our Affinity Publisher Introduction Course

View our Affinity Publisher Advanced Course

Affinity Photo Training Courses

Affinity Publisher Training in the Midlands

On our Introduction to Affinity Photo Course learn how to retouch, repair and edit your images for business and home. The course covers the basic photo editing tools plus more advanced techniques.

  • Import, edit and export photographs
  • Make accurate selections using a variety of selection tools
  • Work with colour and tone
  • Layers and layer manipulation
  • Adjustment Layers (understanding layers v adjustment layers)
  • Affinity Photos tools & interface
  • Images and images formats, TIFF, RAW, Jpeg, PNG etc
  • Working with effects
  • Retouching and repairing photos
  • Images for print and social media
  • Affinity and text

View the Affinity Photo Training Course overview

Affinity Designer Training Courses

Affinity Designer Training in the Midlands also virtual online Affinity Courses

This introduction to Affinity Designer Course shows you  how vector art works and how you create and manipulate both new and existing artwork.

  • Understand Designers tools, interface and persona’s*
  • Setup new artboards and canvases (understand the difference)
  • Document settings & file formats
  • What is colour theory? You’ll learn to work correctly with colour and create exact proof colours, design gradients & transparencies and work with colour for both print and web
  • Learn vector tools for geometics and artwork including brushes, pen and pencil tools
  • Create art from type for logo design plus understand the theory behind font pairing and typographical styling
  • Export artwork to multiple formats /apply correct colour profiling
  • Optimise graphic work for social media and web export

Find out more about  Affinity Designer Training

Specialist Affinity Training - Book Design in Affinity

Affinity Studio Book Design Training Course for print and digtal publishing

Book Design Training in Affinity

We run a series of boutique design courses, one being designing books using the Layout and Pixel Tabs in the new Affinity Studio.

This Book Design course focuses on the practical skills needed to design clear, professional books using Affinity Publisher. 

Learn how to input text from word-processors, handle long-document workflows for self-publishing, format text and work with Master Pages for print on demand, Amazon KDP and Ingram Spark. By the end of the training, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to manage book layouts with or without images to design high quality publications.

Start designing your book

 

 

Canva Training Courses

Canva Training Courses with Affinity Studio

Canva Training

In addition to Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, Greta Powell Training also provides professional Canva training. This course is ideal for individuals and businesses wanting to create fast, consistent and professional marketing content without advanced design software. 

Canva training is available online or onsite across the UK and can be fully tailored to your brand, workflow and design requirements.

Canva training covers everything from understanding the interface through to producing branded templates, social media graphics, presentations and marketing materials. 

Sessions can include working with colour, typography, imagery, video, animation, layouts and exporting correctly for print or digital publishing. Training is practical and project-based, allowing you to work directly on the materials you need for your business or organisation.

This course is particularly beneficial for small businesses, social media managers and marketing teams looking to streamline design tasks and maintain brand consistency. Both Canva Free and Canva Pro users are supported.

Affinity Training Courses FAQ

In short, the new Affinity (V3) is a single, all-in-one creative app combining photo editing, graphic design and page layout into one workspace. 
 
All the apps are found in the main workspace and instantly accessible with a single click, there’s no longer any need to flick between the three apps anymore.
 
  • One App, No Switching: Think of it as having Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign under one roof. You can edit a photo, design a logo, and lay out a brochure in the same file without switching applications.

  • “Studios” (Workspaces): You toggle between “Pixel” (photo editing), “Vector” (design), and “Layout” (publishing) modes instantly, allowing for a seamless workflow.

  • It’s Free (mostly): The core professional software is now completely free to use forever. It is a major, non-subscription alternative to Adobe.

  • What’s the Catch? Advanced AI tools (like magic object removal or auto-expanding images) are part of a premium tier that requires a paid Canva subscription, but the core tools are free.

  • Updated Features: It includes new tools like Image Trace (turning photos into editable vectors), mesh gradients, and faster, high-performance rendering for large files.
 
It is basically a free, powerful, all-in-one creative tool designed to make working on mixed-media projects faster and easier

 

Onsite Affinity Courses are hosted on your premises by the trainer. We travel UK wide including most major towns, cities and their surrounding areas. 

The major benefit of onsite Affinity Training is that it has a far more personal approach than a traditional classroom delivery.

  • The course is focused entirely on you and your individual company requirements
  • There is no travelling involved for you or your team because the trainer comes directly to you. 
  • This is not a generic one size fits all course as training can be tailored to suit you
  • Dates and times are arranged to suit your schedule.

 

Pre-course online meeting /voice call

Prior to your training course we organise an online meeting to introduce your trainer and discuss the logistics, course content that works best for you and your team.

We also run online Serif Affinity Training Courses held with a virtual live instructor who you’ll have contact with throughout your course both via video, chat and sharing screens in real time.

Our Online Training Affinity Courses are delivered virtually to you by Zoom, Teams or Google at a time and date to suit your diary. 

Pre-course online meeting /voice call

Prior to your training course we organise an online meeting to introduce your trainer and discuss the logistics, course content that works best for you and your team.

Affinity works well for home users, freelance designers and any small (and large business) looking to create eye-catching professional designs for print, digital and social media. 

To be fair Serif Affinity suite is now integrated with Canva and extremely popular with people who are looking for a one time purchase of desktop publishing software that works well with this.

The software is for anyone looking to create and design spreads for print, enhance photography or draw and colour logo’s and artwork.

Find out more about the latest and free Affinity Studio Version 3

Learn to create beautiful spreads and layouts on this Affinity Publisher Training course. Our introduction Publisher Course is ideal for complete beginners or those looking to increase existing basic skills. 

Whether you are looking to design books, newsletters, social media design or websites this Affinity Publisher Training for beginners covers the tools & features you’ll need to achieve professional layouts and spreads for business or personal use.

The type of thing you could be using Affinity Publisher for would be flyers, business stationary, annual reports, newsletters, tender documents, website mock-ups and marketing materials. 

Tailored Affinity Publisher Courses

Any of the Publisher courses at any level can be tailored and adapted around you. We are currently building on our tailored craft Affinity courses.

Interested in laying out a book, designing the book and covers then exporting for print /on demand print or KPD /Amazon or Ingramspark?

Book Design on an Affinity Publisher Training Course

As well as working well with Canva Affinity Publisher smoothly transitions with the rest of the suite. You can simply jump into Affinity’s other ‘persona’s’ Photo and Designer to design and edit artwork and photography with the click of a mouse.

Our Affinity Publisher training is available onsite on your premises or as an online Affinity Publisher training session with a live instructor.

During this Affinity Publisher Course you’ll learn how to work with images and text to create a range of publications for print or digital output.

Take a look at our Affinity Photo Training Course for Beginners

This introduction to Affinity Photo course is perfect for beginners looking to improve photography, design social media graphics or just get a solid understanding of Affinity Photo and produce high quality images for print or digital.

Our Affinity Photo Training course is also hosted onsite across the UK or as an Online Photo Editing Course held with a live instructor.

We run this both as an onsite Affinity Photo Training Course hosted on your premises or as virtual online Affinity Photo sessions. All the online Affinity Courses are run with a live instructor and available on a 24 /7 basis for your convenience.

On this Affinity Designer course you’ll learn the tools, techniques and features you need to create your own artwork from scratch or to edit and refine your existing images.

We do specialise in tailored Affinity training so if you have a particular need with the software such as product design, logo creation or infographics for example please let us know and we’ll customise the course accordingly.

As with the other courses you’ll learn how to export your artwork for different destinations including print, web and social media.

View our Affinity Designer Training Course

Our online Serif Affinity Training courses are available on any time zone so we can offer 24 /7 evenings, overnights 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.

*We can only offer these hours for online Affinity training courses.

We realise that not everyone likes to have all their training over full days so we can split the full days courses into 1 /2 day sessions.

*Unfortunately we are unable to offer this for our Onsite 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.

Popular Courses – Affinity Publisher Training

Reborn as Affinity Studio the software is now completely free and as of March 2024 is now owned by Canva.

All Affinity training is in this version but still available in the older software versions.

The Affinity Publisher Course is also very popular and often purchased with Affinity Photo to design & create Photo books, brochures, newsletter, business stationery and novels.

On the introduction to Affinity Publisher course you’ll learn the tools and techniques needed to produce professional and eye-catching publications for print and web.

Find out more about the Affinity Publisher Training Course