• Introduction
      • Affinity Designer
      • Features
      • New features in v1.9/1.10
      • Personas
      • Switching Personas
    • User interface
      • Interface Visual Reference
      • Toolbar
      • Persona Toolbar
      • Context toolbar
    • Get started
      • App registration and content syncing
      • Create new documents
      • New from clipboard
      • Open documents and images
      • Document setup
      • About bit depth
      • Viewing
      • Zooming
      • Document templates
      • Pan/Scroll the Document view
      • Editing files in other Affinity apps
    • Artboards
      • About artboards
      • Adding and removing
      • Selecting, moving and resizing
      • Renaming and viewing
      • Aligning and distributing
      • Design aids
      • Color and opacity
      • Moving artboard content
      • Exporting
      • Printing
    • Drawing curves and shapes
      • About lines, curves and shapes
      • Draw curves and shapes
      • Edit vector curves and shapes
      • Drawing pencil lines
      • About geometric shapes
      • Draw and edit shapes
      • Selecting and aligning nodes
      • Transforming curves and shapes
      • Using multiple strokes and fills
      • Expand stroke
      • Contouring curves and shapes
      • Cornering shapes
      • Fill modes
    • Color
      • About color
      • Color models
      • About color spaces
      • Color management
      • Using OpenColorIO
      • Selecting colors
      • Sampling colors
      • Global colors
      • Spot colors
      • Overprinting
      • Color chords
      • Gradient editing
      • Transparency
      • Transparency editing
    • Layers
      • About layers
      • Create layers
      • Selecting and editing layers
      • Arrange/manage layers
      • Layer opacity
      • Layer blending
      • Layer blend ranges
      • Image layers
      • Layer clipping
      • Layer masking
      • Using adjustment layers
      • Tagging layers
      • Layer colors
    • Object control
      • Selecting objects
      • Grouping objects
      • Duplicating objects
      • Aligning objects
      • Joining objects
      • Creating compounds
      • Distributing and spacing objects
      • Ordering objects
      • Targeting objects
      • Isolating objects
      • Finding objects
      • Transforming objects
      • Rotating and shearing objects
      • Rasterizing
      • Convert objects to curves
      • Styles
      • Copying and pasting objects
      • Using assets
      • Symbols
      • Object defaults
    • Placing external content
      • Embedding vs linking
      • Placing content
      • Resource Manager
      • Using stock photos
    • Vector painting
      • Painting vector brush strokes
      • Modifying vector brush strokes
      • Creating custom vector brushes
      • Pressure sensitivity
    • Pixel painting
      • Painting pixel brush strokes
      • Modifying pixel brushes
      • Creating custom pixel brushes
      • Erasing
      • Retouch
    • Text
      • Working with text
      • Importing text
      • Artistic text
      • Frame text
      • Text on a path
      • Shape text
      • Character formatting
      • Paragraph formatting
      • OpenType font features
      • Special characters and glyphs
      • Spelling
      • Text styles
        • Using text styles
        • Creating and managing text styles
        • Removing text styles
        • Text style types
    • Selections
      • Creating pixel selections
      • Range pixel selections
      • Sampled color pixel selections
      • Modifying pixel selections
      • Refining pixel selection edges
      • Creating outline selections
      • Flooding pixel selections
    • Saving and sharing
      • Save
      • Setting bleed
      • Working with SVGs
      • Export
      • Print
      • Share
      • Packaging
        • About packaging
        • Creating packages
        • Opening packages
    • Exporting
      • Exporting using Export Persona
      • Export Options panel
      • Slices panel
      • Layers panel (Export Persona)
    • Design aids
      • Using undo, redo and history
      • Clip to Canvas
      • Rotate document view
      • Grids
      • Isometric and axonometric grids
      • Ruler and column guides
      • Margins
      • Rulers
      • Measuring guides
      • Dynamic guides
      • Snapping
      • Curve snapping
      • Construction snapping for curves
      • Force Pixel Alignment
      • Constraints
      • Using snapshots
      • Assistant Manager
    • Layer effects (FX)
      • Using layer effects
      • 3D Effect
      • Bevel / Emboss
      • Color Overlay
      • Gaussian Blur
      • Gradient Overlay
      • Inner Glow
      • Inner Shadow
      • Outer Glow
      • Outer Shadow
      • Outline
    • Adjustments
      • Applying adjustments
      • Black and White adjustment
      • Brightness / Contrast adjustment
      • Channel Mixer adjustment
      • Color Balance adjustment
      • Curves adjustment
      • Exposure adjustment
      • Gradient Map adjustment
      • HSL adjustment
      • Invert adjustment
      • Lens Filter adjustment
      • Levels adjustment
      • LUT adjustment
      • OpenColorIO adjustment
      • Posterize adjustment
      • Recolor adjustment
      • Selective Color adjustment
      • Shadows / Highlights adjustment
      • Soft Proof adjustment
      • Split Toning adjustment
      • Threshold adjustment
      • Vibrance adjustment
      • White Balance adjustment
    • Workspace
      • About workspace modes
      • Changing the UI appearance
      • Accessibility
      • Customize
        • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Workspace
        • Tools panel
        • Toolbar
    • Tools
      • Design tools
        • Move Tool
        • Node Tool
        • Point Transform Tool
        • Contour Tool
        • Corner Tool
        • Pen Tool
        • Pencil Tool
        • Vector Brush Tool
        • Fill Tool
        • Transparency Tool
        • Artboard Tool
        • Place Image Tool
        • Vector Crop Tool
        • Color Picker Tool
        • Paint Brush Tool
        • Pixel Tool
        • Erase Brush Tool
        • Flood Fill Tool
        • View Tool
        • Zoom Tool
      • Shape tools
        • Rectangle Tool
        • Ellipse Tool
        • Rounded Rectangle Tool
        • Triangle Tool
        • Diamond Tool
        • Trapezoid Tool
        • Polygon Tool
        • Star Tool
        • Double Star Tool
        • Square Star Tool
        • Arrow Tool
        • Donut Tool
        • Pie Tool
        • Segment Tool
        • Crescent Tool
        • Cog Tool
        • Cloud Tool
        • Callout Rounded Rectangle Tool
        • Callout Ellipse Tool
        • Tear Tool
        • Heart Tool
        • Cat Tool
      • Text tools
        • Artistic Text Tool
        • Frame Text Tool
      • Selection tools
        • Flood Select Tool
        • Marquee Selection Tools
        • Selection Brush Tool
      • Retouch tools
        • Dodge Brush Tool
        • Burn Brush Tool
        • Smudge Brush Tool
        • Blur Brush Tool
        • Sharpen Brush Tool
      • Export tools
        • Slice Tool
    • Panels
      • 32-bit Preview panel
      • Assets panel
      • Appearance panel
      • Brushes panel
      • Character panel
      • Color panel
      • Constraints panel
      • Effects panel
      • Export Options panel (Export Persona)
      • Glyph Browser panel
      • History panel
      • Isometric panel
      • Layers panel
      • Layers panel (Export Persona)
      • Navigator panel
      • Paragraph panel
      • Slices panel (Export Persona)
      • Snapshots panel
      • Stock panel
      • Stroke panel
      • Styles panel
      • Swatches panel
      • Symbols panel
      • Text Styles panel
      • Tools panel
      • Transform panel
    • Appendix
      • Import and export file formats
      • Contacting us
      • Copyrights
      • Glossary
      • Importing Affinity add-ons
        • About Affinity add-ons
        • Extracting add-ons
        • Importing assets
        • Importing brushes
        • Installing fonts
        • Importing styles
        • Importing swatches palettes
        • Importing templates
    • Extras
      • Hardware acceleration
      • Third-party support
        • Using pen tablets
        • Using a trackpad
        • Using Sidecar
        • Using Surface Pen
        • Using Surface Dial
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Preferences
    • Expressions for field input
    • Field input