Serif Affinity Training Courses
Our Serif Affinity Training Courses cover Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
We host Affinity courses from introduction to advanced levels on Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
Tailored Affinity Training
We also specialise in tailored Affinity training whose content is designed around you and your company.
Online Affinity Training Courses
These are also available as online Affinity Training sessions in Zoom, Teams and Google.
Affinity Publisher Training Courses
We cover all the Affinity apps from introduction to advanced level in Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer plus bespoke Affinity training workshops tailored to your work or personal flow.
- 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
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.
Affinity Photo Training Courses
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
Affinity Designer Training 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
Affinity Training Courses FAQ
How do Onsite Affinity Courses work?
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.
How do Online Affinity Training Courses work?
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.
Who uses Affinity software?
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.
Affinity Publisher Introduction Course
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.
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
Affinity Photo Introduction Course
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.
Affinity Designer Introduction Course
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.
24 /7 and Weekend Online Affinity Training Courses
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 training courses.
1 /2 Day 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
How to Book this Affinity Training Course
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.
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Popular Courses – Affinity Publisher Training
The Affinity Publisher Course is also very popular and is 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.
