Creating a vintage Christmas pattern in Affinity Designer with Tracey Capone

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi everyone! For those who were asking about a tutorial on how to create the loop brush I used in this session, here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGXIiIZ7hL2hgMU

[@Nadia.A.]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I’m new with Affinity Designer and your video is more than just about surface design but also about using tools in ways I have not known before ♥️

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @Nadia.A.! I'm so happy you found the additional info helpful! Enjoy your journey in to using Affinity Designer! ❤

[@WhitneySilberblatt]

This is one of the best tutorials I've seen for Affinity Designer 2. Thank you Tracey for sharing your knowledge! PS-I would love a tute on how to create the curly vector brush!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you found it helpful :) Already working on the tutorial for the brush; it will be up on my YT channel soon :)

[@nalanshawky1856]

I just found this video and watched it right away! As expected it was beyond fantastic! LOVED it.... Tracey Capone is my favorite mentor. Cheers! :)

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much! I appreciate it Bianca!

[@Friedrich-Fluecken]

Very interesting. Thank you. F.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

[@PeranMe]

Loving these shapes, you have a GREAT eye!

[@karenbluesky]

Thank you Tracey. This was an amazing class!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you for watching, Karen! I'm so happy you enjoyed it :)

[@mariapezzanoartist]

Wow this is amazing you are an amazing instructor

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much, @mariapezzanoartist! Thank you for watching, as well!

[@traceygarner4882]

Can not wait for this Tracey Capone is a fantastic teacher , i learn alot in her skillshare class

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

❤ Thank you so much Tracey! I truly appreciate that! Looking forward to seeing you here next Friday! :)

[@traceygarner4882]

thank you @@Tracey-CreatorCollage

[@madartblocker]

Bookmarked for later, thank you.

[@MTLizzy]

Tracey is such a knowledgeable teacher. Looking forward to it!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

❤Thank you so very much, @MTLizzy! I look forward to seeing you there!

[@RSHartsUK]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you Tracey, and the assets pack is a lovely bonus!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it, and the assets pack!

[@quiglag]

Great video. Full of design tricks.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @quiglag!

[@rosarodriguez8984]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. 🙏🏻❤️😚

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @rosarodriguez8984, and thank you for watching!

[@sechmettara]

Great! I'm really excited to learn from Tracy Capone.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @sechmettara! 🏵

[@SurfinPog]

One of the best tutorials!! Super easy to follow along, especially with the template! Thank you!!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @SurfinPog! Thanks for watching!

[@leannet3854]

Cheers to Tracey!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@leannet3854 thank you! ❤

[@jillwirsing7544]

I love your teaching style! Great job on this video!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you Jill!

[@yukoncornelium]

Yes! Tracey Capone!!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

☺Thank you @yukoncornelium!

[@ronallen2458]

Great tutorial. I wish it would have been in October so that we had time to order paper for this holiday season with these new ideas. :(

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you! The timing was a bit behind in that sense. Hopefully some of the methods taught will spark some ideas for other timely projects! :)

[@martinclay7557]

Thank you Tracey, I'm off to your channel right now.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

You’re very welcome @martinclay7557! Thank you for watching, and for checking out my channel!

[@shrigani]

excellent.... thank u

[@vveles]

38:22 Are you familiar with the "Transform Objects Separately" option (the button located right before "Convert to Curves")? Turning it on would save you a lot of time. It would allow you to resize the pairs simultaneously while preserving the offset. Turn it on then select each object in the pair (it will not work if you just select the group-select each object within the group separately; the transform box only appears around the object you selected first; this is normal when "Transform Objects Separately" is enabled; both objects * are * selected) and resize while holding Ctr+Alt+Shift.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@vveles thank you! I am, and use it a great deal. I don't find myself having to resize grouped motifs often, so I haven't used in that case. That is a great tip, thank you for sharing!

[@hopooba]

Nice work.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@hopooba thank you!

[@R-3000]

Excelente, buen trabajo, excelente vídeo, felicitaciones !!!!

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@r-3000 muchas gracias!

[@mwhite212]

I can't wait for this.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Awesome! I look forward to seeing you there @mwhite212!

[@uhoku_official]

Hi Tracey, this is a great tutorial, I went to subscribe to your personal channel. Just getting started with the Affinity Suite and am wondering if you have tutorial showing how you organized your workspace, how to create swatches and an assets library.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you, @juliegalaise455! I don't have specific tutorials on those three however there are a ton of basics tutorials on Serif's Affinity Designer KZbin channel, including about assets and the color panel. The Quick Start guide on their website is fantastic as well. I have been asked to do a tutorial on how I organize my space so that's coming but, as of right now, I don't have one out there about my setup.

[@uhoku_official]

Thank you Tracey, I’ll look those up. Much appreciated.

[@skins3738]

Nice use of the contour tool.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you!

[@yukkidraws]

Amazing work! How can I change the color background outside the artboards to a dark gray?

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Thank you @yukkidraws! You can change the background by going to Settings (both desktop and iPad) and then User Interface. You will see two options, one to change the overall background level and one to change the artboard background level.

[@yukkidraws]

Thank you! I found it.@@Tracey-CreatorCollage

[@jillwirsing7544]

Hello! This may sound like a strange question, but these are the things I worry about lol. When you create assets to use in various projects, what size should the assets be? For example, if I created a new file to draw an ornament, with the intention of saving the ornament as an asset, how do I size the file / ornament within the file, so that it will work in whatever file I drop it into? Especially if there are raster effects involved. Thank you!

[@hellssurprise9338]

I've lost my layers panel on the right of my software, how do I get it back? I can't see where to pin it in any of the menu's Thanks

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hello @hellssurprise9338! If you go to Window > Studio and choose Reset Studio, it should reset it back to whatever you had in place last. To pin a panel you don't have in there, you would drag it over to the side of the interface until you see it light up in blue. If you have nothing in place there now, hover towards the top, just under the top tool bar. Once you see a block light up in blue, you can release that panel and it should snap in place.

[@cjsim2]

Tracey, the pattern tile and pattern preview are not working in Affinity Designer 2.5 is there anyway around this?

[@mwhite212]

I regret to say the line/pressure technique is not working for me at all. When I expand stroke, it no longer resembles the shape I created with the stroke. I don't know if something happened during an update or whatever, but it looks like Affinity is automatically creating all the nodes as curved nodes.

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

@mwhite212, sometimes, expanding the stroke will create anomalies with the shape, depending on how the control points were set in the Pressure Grid. For example, if you have some nodes right on top of one another, and/or really close together, they can flip over one another. They can be adjusted, with the node tool once expanded but yes, there are times where you will get a really weird shape that you didn't necessarily intend. Most nodes on the expanded stroke will be smooth nodes, the exception being at the points where a butt cap was used and corners formed. Pressure Settings are definitely something I would recommend playing around with and trying different scenarios to see what you end up with; that way you know the limits.

[@mwhite212]

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thanks for responding. I'm reasonably familiar with Affinity, and I was banging my head trying to see if I had some obscure setting fouled up that was causing it.

[@elonrichardson1743]

What tablet (?) is she using at 0:31?

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi @elonrichardson1743! It's a Wacom Cintiq Pro.

[@elonrichardson1743]

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage thank you much

[@Lanord14]

aww I thought the technique is available for Affinity Designer V1...

[@Tracey-CreatorCollage]

Hi @lanord14! While there are a handful of tools I use in this session that are specific to V2, the overall pattern process, and much of the shape building of the ornaments, can performed in V1 using Boolean Operations and the Transform Panel. With the pattern creation, the only thing that you wouldn't have available in V1 is the Move/Duplicate function; you would need to use the Transform Panel and manually duplicate the motifs.

[@Lanord14]

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage thanks for the reply!! I will try to follow your tutorial here using the V1 and see if i can do it 💪

[@philipmorgan7802]

Affinity is more intuitive to use than Adobe and are not manipulating the economy with unethical trading and profiteering, Adobe following in the wake of Microsoft. Been using Affinity and despite the lack of photo-to-vector feature and an app for moving-video editing is more up-to-date. Adobe is old news.