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Design Made Simple
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Learn to use graphic design software like Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Photoshop.
I'm Nick Saporito; graphic designer, educator, and the creator of Design Made Simple -- my second channel (my main channel being "Logos By Nick".) All of my lessons are reinforced by 10 years of experience working with thousands of clients as a freelance designer.
Unlock your creative potential with my extensive library of design tutorials where you'll learn everything from logo design, desktop publishing, user interface design, branding design, and more. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions with voice narration.
I'm Nick Saporito; graphic designer, educator, and the creator of Design Made Simple -- my second channel (my main channel being "Logos By Nick".) All of my lessons are reinforced by 10 years of experience working with thousands of clients as a freelance designer.
Unlock your creative potential with my extensive library of design tutorials where you'll learn everything from logo design, desktop publishing, user interface design, branding design, and more. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions with voice narration.
Create Dotted and Dashed Lines In Affinity Designer
In this tutorial we'll be going over how to create dashed lines and dotted lines in Affinity Designer using the Stroke tab.
Want to learn more about how Affinity Designer works? Check out my Affinity Designer Master Class - a comprehensive series of over 60 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful: logosbynick.com/affinity-designer/
Join my mailing list and get 200+ free design templates: logosbynick.design/
🔗 RESOURCE LINKS
Need a logo designed? Hire me at: logosbynick.com/
Get my premium logo templates: logosbynick.store/
🎓 EXPLAINER COURSES
Inkscape: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
Affinity Designer: logosbynick.com/affinity-designer/
GIMP: logosbynick.com/gimp/
Adobe Illustrator: logosbynick.com/illustrator/
Take my logo design workshop: logosbynick.com/learn/
▶️ MY OTHER CHANNELS
Inkscape & GIMP tutorials: czcams.com/users/logosbynick
Mobile tutorials: czcams.com/channels/e7cPBY4S6XMQZQsf2eC_5w.html
💬 SOCIALS
Show me what you've made on Twitter/X: logosbynick
Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/logosbynick/
🎵 MUSIC USED
In Da Mood - Combustibles
CHAPTERS
00:00 Draw dashed lines
01:39 Draw dotted lines
02:14 Add to existing objects
Want to learn more about how Affinity Designer works? Check out my Affinity Designer Master Class - a comprehensive series of over 60 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful: logosbynick.com/affinity-designer/
Join my mailing list and get 200+ free design templates: logosbynick.design/
🔗 RESOURCE LINKS
Need a logo designed? Hire me at: logosbynick.com/
Get my premium logo templates: logosbynick.store/
🎓 EXPLAINER COURSES
Inkscape: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
Affinity Designer: logosbynick.com/affinity-designer/
GIMP: logosbynick.com/gimp/
Adobe Illustrator: logosbynick.com/illustrator/
Take my logo design workshop: logosbynick.com/learn/
▶️ MY OTHER CHANNELS
Inkscape & GIMP tutorials: czcams.com/users/logosbynick
Mobile tutorials: czcams.com/channels/e7cPBY4S6XMQZQsf2eC_5w.html
💬 SOCIALS
Show me what you've made on Twitter/X: logosbynick
Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/logosbynick/
🎵 MUSIC USED
In Da Mood - Combustibles
CHAPTERS
00:00 Draw dashed lines
01:39 Draw dotted lines
02:14 Add to existing objects
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Wavy Lines Conversion In Adobe Illustrator
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Non-destructive cutout effect in Affinity Designer | Tutorial
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Design YouTube Thumbnails In Affinity Photo
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Affinity Designer 2.4 Just Dropped! 🚀 Here's What's New...
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Repeat Objects Along A Path In Affinity Designer
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Thankyou brother
Thank you!
this is the only legitimate tutorial for this and its 2 years old and still works!
You’re amazing!!! Thank you!
the effects tab isnt there for me.
Cant you just select the bottom nodes of the first one and just drag them down?
Very interesting and useful ! thanks for the video
Thank you! What is so simple in Photoshop has taken me too much time in Illustrator. Thank you!
tyyyyy
Super thank you Nick! This is what I need 😁👍
very few people know the art of being articulate and to the point. thanks a million
Thank you, sir!
Super helpful! Thank you very much!
4:01 why does expanding object give me two different shapes?
select a --> double click on anchor point to move single anchor pint
Ótimo trabalho 🎉
Thanks a lot Simple & easy clarification
Awesome
Your thumbnail is lying you don't even teach how to do mockups on fabric with creases and folds.
Your animation is so buttery smooth, with what software did you use to make?
im having trouble with my picture can you help
Great tutorial! So sad that Affinity has no "Extrusion"-tool.
Very informative video❤️
RIP adobe illustrator
I love tutorials that show you how not to do it first cause I got that kinda time to blow.
Thanks! This really helped me out today 😎
At last I got how to you mockups easily! Millions of hugs😌
This doesn't tell you how to flatten an image it tells you how to merge layers, very different things.
I was getting ready to pay someone to do it for me
Stickers are gonna be sooooooo easy
Thank you so much for the concise information.
thank you
Thank you for an easy to understand informative video!
Great tutorial/tip. Short, to the point, clear. Thanks, it helped me a lot. IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE PERSPECTIV FREE DISTORT TOOL: - Select an Object - Click in the Toolbar on Free Transform Tool - A mini-toolbar of four tools should appear with the Perspective Free Distort Tool. If you don't see it, look UNDER the great toolbar, the mini-toolbar might be there. (Great work, Adobe! 👎)
Thank you so much
Very nice tutorial. Thank you.
esta bueno el tutorial pero por amor de dios hagan una herramienta que haga ese efecto si tener la necesidad de duplicar tanto corel draw ya tiene una
Thanks!
Thank you!
fuck your tutorial 💩💩
Thats great. Thanks for that. Now I want a dotted line to fallow a particular path. How do I do that?
Gee, that was simple enough to grasp. Maybe I will persevere with Affinity.
Thanks Bro.Your video is helping me a lot ❤❤❤
My main reason for trying to move away from Illustrator (10 years of professional use)is even after buying a high end Desktop with an i9 12900K that was the fastest purchasable CPU in the world at the time of purchase, illustrator will use only 1 cpu core and still lag on some projects, while affinity designer is buttery smooth on much more complicated projects, multithreading very well
thanks! concise video for texture
W Mans
this also works for affinity photo 😀
wtf? that was so helpful
If you want to change just a logo color on a cap, how to you keep it from changing the color of the cap too?
Why didn’t itit work for me? Does it need to be a certain format?