Shape Builder Tool - Affinity Designer Tutorial

In this Affinity Designer 2 tutorial I will teach you how to use the Shape Builder Tool. I cover everything! Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, or even coming over from adobe, you are sure to find it useful. As always lots of tips and tricks along the way to speed up your design workflow and learn to use Affinity so it works for you.

This Affinity Designer course starts from the basics and goes all the way up. Each section is split into different categories so skip around to the part you want to watch:

To truly understand this tool I've split everything up into bite size easy to understand sections.
Make Your Selection
Action Button
Shape Building Basics
Shape Builder Shortcuts
Transfer Styles FX
Add Options
Banana Example 1
Saturn Example 2
Quick Break (Cat)
Shape Builder Important Options
Linked Shapes Example 3
Ice Cream Example 4
Grids
Grids with Gaps
Cut into Shapes

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If you have any questions or want to show me how to do something better, leave a comment, and don't forget to click like and subscribe.

NOTE: I'm Using a MAC, so any shortcuts I mention may be different for WINDOWS USERS. See the below for the WINDOWS:

- Mac Command key = Windows Ctrl key

- Mac Shift key = Windows Shift key

- Mac Alt key = Windows Alt key

- Mac Ctrl key = Windows Right Mouse button


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Affinity Designer Vector Packs
https://www.artistwright.com/vectorpacks


Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro
0:32 Make Your Selection
03:53 Action Button
04:53 Shape Building Basics
09:52 Shape Builder Shortcuts
11:09 Transfer Styles FX
11:53 Add Options
13:56 Banana Example 1
15:31 Saturn Example 2
21:27 Quick Break (Cat)
21:43 Shape Builder Important Options
25:03 Linked Shapes Example 3
29:05 Ice Cream Example 4
37:47 Grids
40:00 Grids with Gaps
41:47 Cut into Shapes
42:40 Outro

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