The ultimate tool makers guide to the Affinity Suite

The ultimate tool makers guide to the Affinity Suite, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.85, with 90 lectures, based on 52 reviews, and has 498 subscribers.

You will learn about How to make digital brushes ( both raster and vector) using Affinity Designer and Photo How to Use hitfilm express to help generate base images for their brushes and overlays How to use physical materials to create brushes, overlays and color pallets How to utilize these tools in a real life project This course is ideal for individuals who are Designers looking to develop brushes and tools for use in their work or Photo editors and compositors looking to create specail effects, light effects and color effects in their art or Artists interested inn creating assets for posting on other platforms to augment their art endeavors It is particularly useful for Designers looking to develop brushes and tools for use in their work or Photo editors and compositors looking to create specail effects, light effects and color effects in their art or Artists interested inn creating assets for posting on other platforms to augment their art endeavors.

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Summary

Title: The ultimate tool makers guide to the Affinity Suite

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 90

Number of Published Lectures: 90

Number of Curriculum Items: 90

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 90

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to make digital brushes ( both raster and vector) using Affinity Designer and Photo

How to Use hitfilm express to help generate base images for their brushes and overlays

How to use physical materials to create brushes, overlays and color pallets

How to utilize these tools in a real life project

Who Should Attend

Designers looking to develop brushes and tools for use in their work

Photo editors and compositors looking to create specail effects, light effects and color effects in their art

Artists interested inn creating assets for posting on other platforms to augment their art endeavors

Target Audiences

Designers looking to develop brushes and tools for use in their work

Photo editors and compositors looking to create specail effects, light effects and color effects in their art

Artists interested inn creating assets for posting on other platforms to augment their art endeavors

As we know custom tools add a completely new aspect to an artist’s work, and there are ton of people out there creating them….so why aren’t you?

Are you competent in the Affinity products of Photo and / or Designer, but not sure how to go about making your own tool?

Are you not sure what to make, how to develop them…or even what the steps are to make your own tools?

Or maybe you are in interested in trading or one day selling your tools to those that are fans and follow your work… then this one is for you

I have been teaching the affinity Suite now for over 3 years to thousands of students and I want to put the power to create with this amazing software in your hands….along with so much more.

In this course we will utilize the affinity suite of products ( Designer and Photo) to create the following digital tools

Brushes (both Vector and Raster)

Overlays

Textures

Asset Packs

Gradients, LUTS, and Pallets

Mock ups

and so much more….

What sort of software and projects will be complete

We will be using Affinity Designer and Photo , but we are also going to be using a free software from FX home called HITFILM EXPRESS to bring the world of CGI into play when we make our tools, and as a totally optional piece of my workflow I will be showing you how I use Vector Magic to create vectorized textures for use  in larger projects….so from concept to finished tool, you see the entire pipeline we use to create professional tools for use in Affinity 

In this course we make the tools and apply them to 2 real life step by step projects….ONE BEING AN ILLUSTRATION , the other is a FULLY RENDERED PHOTO COMPOSITE…. if you don’t have BOTH Affinity Programs, no worries , easily 90% of the course content is applicable to BOTH software systems, so you will never feel like the course is geared toward one or the other

What kinds of topics are in the course
We polled Affinity users from some of the largest forums out there and asked them what they wanted to know when it came to tool building …and then we crammed it into this course , included in the course are topics on

Smoke and Flame brushes

Halftone brushes

Mock up creation

hand drawn strokes converted into vector brushes

Faking studio lights

Gradient pallets for color grading techniques 

What level of experience do you need to take this course

While this is not a beginner course, you do not need a  high level of Affinity knowledge to take this course, and as long as you know the basics you will be fine….HOWEVER  if you are new to digital art ( i.e. if you do not know what a mask layer or a blend mode are) , then this may not be a good fit for you

What will you achieve when you complete the course?

You get 2 of my professional brush packs that we DID NOT MAKE in the course, just for being part of it

You get all of the source files, brush files and you will have a complete set of digital tools made and customized by you …for you

You will have student support through the platform

You will have completed 2 projects, one illustration and one composition

Overall this is the course out there I wish I had when I got started , and I am proud to share it with you ..enjoy

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction and first project

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course and what to expect

Lecture 2: Downloads for this section of the course

Lecture 3: Introduction to digital tools

Lecture 4: What tools are we going to make and what does a pipeline look like

Lecture 5: Making your first digital tool

Lecture 6: Reverse engineering a tool to make your own

Lecture 7: Doing your market research to create your own toolbox

Chapter 2: Making Vector based brushes in Affinity Designer

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for the Vector Brush section

Lecture 3: What are vector brushes and what are they used for

Lecture 4: Making Brushes – intensity vs Image brushes and How to export both

Lecture 5: When to use Intensity vs image brushes

Lecture 6: Tools we will use to create vector brushes

Lecture 7: Making physical strokes on paper

Lecture 8: Scanning and adjusting the image

Lecture 9: Basic Brush settings and troubleshooting

Lecture 10: Where to go to get Vector Brush inspiration

Lecture 11: Making vector brushes in Affinity Designer

Lecture 12: Applying your vector brushes in a real life project-Skull

Lecture 13: Applying your vector brushes in a real life project- The snake

Chapter 3: Raster Brushes for Illustrators

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for the raster brush section

Lecture 3: What is a raster based brush and what is it used for

Lecture 4: Basic Brush settings Part 1

Lecture 5: Basic Brush settings part 2

Lecture 6: Where to go to get images for raster based brushes

Lecture 7: Making a texturizing brush from Concrete

Lecture 8: Making a seamless texture in Affintiy Designer

Lecture 9: Making a seamless texture in Affinity Photo

Lecture 10: Working in half tones with Affinity Designer

Lecture 11: Working with half tones in Affinity Photo

Lecture 12: Making a spray brush using multiple nozzle tips

Lecture 13: Making a flame brush using sub brushes

Lecture 14: Shading the snake- Application project

Chapter 4: Making textures and Overlays

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: What is a texture vs an overlay

Lecture 3: 3 places to find textures

Lecture 4: Making hand drawn textures

Lecture 5: Scanning and adjusting Textures VIDEO 04 040

Lecture 6: Vectorizing textures

Lecture 7: Making half tone overlays in Affinity PHOTO

Lecture 8: Shooting and making textures in Affinity

Chapter 5: Making Pallets, Assets and Styles in Affinity

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for this section

Lecture 3: What is an asset pack

Lecture 4: Isolating and vectorizing assets part 1

Lecture 5: Manually creating assets and making categories

Lecture 6: Public domain and Vectoring assets for packs

Lecture 7: Creating Pallets in Affinity Designer

Lecture 8: Creating styles in Affinity Designer

Lecture 9: Finishing the snake

Chapter 6: Raster Based brushes for special effects

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloadable files

Lecture 3: Making Flare brushes in Hit film Express

Lecture 4: Finishing the flare brush in Affinity

Lecture 5: Making smoke and Fog brushes

Lecture 6: Making fog brushes in Affinity Photo

Lecture 7: Making a lightning pack

Lecture 8: Making particle brushes

Lecture 9: Making assets from physical objects

Lecture 10: Making smoke and flame brushes

Lecture 11: Making Paper tear brushes

Lecture 12: Working with styles in Affinity Photo

Lecture 13: Making magic effect styles in Affinity

Chapter 7: Making Luts, Lights and Overlays

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for the section

Lecture 3: What is a gradients for use in photos

Lecture 4: Making color pallets from Physical objects

Lecture 5: Making Luts in Affinity

Lecture 6: Making studio lights in Affinity

Lecture 7: What is an overlay as I define it

Lecture 8: Making Overlays in Hitfilm Express

Lecture 9: Making Atmospheric overlays

Chapter 8: Making Mock ups in Affinity

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for the section

Lecture 3: Setting up and shooting poster mock up

Lecture 4: Layering the poster mock-up

Lecture 5: Adding Shadows and masking the poster mock up

Lecture 6: Adding images to the poster mock up

Lecture 7: Shooting and Laying out the window lit mock up

Lecture 8: Adding window light and finishing the mock up

Lecture 9: Embedded images lesson 1

Lecture 10: Utilizing embedded images in the poster from the course

Chapter 9: Making a composite using the assets we have created

Lecture 1: Introduction to the section

Lecture 2: Downloads for the section

Lecture 3: Setting up the atmosphere and inserting the mandala

Lecture 4: Working with glow, adding sparks and lightning

Lecture 5: Adding light and texture

Lecture 6: Color grading

Chapter 10: Thank you and wrap up

Lecture 1: Wrap up and thank you

Instructors

Jeremy Hazel
Professional artist and career creative

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