Affinity Designer 2: Knife Tool and Scissor Tool Tutorial

[@echo_eco_ethos]

your channel is literally the best - I’ll be back with a super thanks as soon as I’m able to

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you Echo! I appreciate you taking the time to comment

[@mfrazeehvacc5012]

Thanks for being so thorough in this tutorial!

[@ArtistWright]

Cheers I appreciate that

[@BarcelonaLeba]

Your tutorials have taught me more than the top 5 channel on graphic design together!

[@ArtistWright]

Big love for that Obama

[@DanCasciano]

Nice job. I like the pace that you use to describe a tool and its effect. It makes following your video easy for an older brain. Thanks again.

[@ArtistWright]

Hi Dan, I appreciate that. I try to make tutorials that I'd like to see, the pace and description etc.

[@dabneyapplechunks]

Thanks - so clear!

[@ArtistWright]

Hi Dabney, im happy you are finding this video useful. I appreciate the Super thanks ♥

[@carlhughes1206]

Very nice Tutorial, really easy to follow. Best tutorial I've seen for Infinity. Well done!!!!

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you Carl!

[@israelfranco9104]

Wow! Clear and direct explanation. Thank you.

[@ArtistWright]

Cheers Israel!

[@ianwatson3393]

Comprehensive, concise, clear and helpful - as always. No flannel, no gimmicks. Thank you

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you so much

[@TedMattos]

Very helpful tutorial - I appreciate your taking the time to create it.

[@ArtistWright]

Hi Ted! Happy to hear its helping you, thanks for the feedback

[@greggbabish8552]

Excellent tutorial, clear and concise. Thanks.

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for watching!

[@dccd673]

This is awesome! I’m new to Affinity and I’ve been binge watching tutorials. I will add this to my AD playlist.

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you! Check out my other videos, I only do affinity designer

[@nordiclightphototours153]

I recently stumbled over your channel. What can I say! Just WOW. Your educational skills are second to none! Your step by step style is amazingly helpful. I am big fan from step by step tutorials / guides as it will help to viewer to exactly understand what you are doing and no guessing is required (what I see in many other tutorials). I just purchased all your pack to support your work (I am not sure if I ever will use them, as my domain of expertise is totally different - I teach people to photograph the Northern Lights), but Artwork must be supported, especially now with all this AI coming along. Thank you for you amazing work and I am looking forward listening in to more tutorials and seeing new ones. Thank you again. Cheers, Hendrik

[@ArtistWright]

Hello Hendrick, thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a wonderful comment, I'm happy to hear you like my teaching style. Also I really appreciate the support you've shown by purchasing from my website. You teach people to shoot the northorn lights, That's amazing! Yes I'm actually looking at how ai and mid journey works now, its incredible what it can do, will definitely deter some people from designing everything themselves. On the positive side designers etc can use it to their advantage for ideas

[@nordiclightphototours153]

@@ArtistWright More than Welcome. We can't stop AI..... But for me a an old school photographer, I started with Film, AI is going to revolutionise photography. To the better? I doubt it, but we can not put our heads in the sand and do not want to monitor this. A few days ago an AI image won in the Sony Photography contest for IMAGES! Well....here we see it....but when you are young, you need to follow AI carefully, but it should not overtake your own creativity....And here is the difference between Art work (designing), Photography and AI.. With the later you do not feel the emotion in the creation of something! For me as a photographer, I want to be out in the field and feel the excitement of the Northern Lights swirling around the sky of wonder the night sky starry sky. Nothing better then being a witness of this phenomena. I wish you a lot of luck in your business! You are mastering your skills exceptionally well... keep on doing this... it will pay off!

[@ArtistWright]

Totally agree with you there. I didn't know about the Sony award will have a look at the photo. I also started on 35mm so can relate. Thanks for everything, i just watched one of your videos, impressive!

[@nordiclightphototours153]

@@ArtistWright Cheers and thanks. ....... What I do not understand in Affinity Designer is, that they have not included a vanishing points grid! Makes so much sense, but it seems that Serif has no time to put it in :-)

[@ArtistWright]

Affinity has made some great changes in v2, but it does seem to take them a long time to include new features.

[@felitastic]

Very precise and chill video. Easy to follow and understand, also show lots of cool possibilities!

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you for that

[@ElBeeEss]

Excellent, sir! Saved to my Affinity playlist. xx

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you, also check out my Affinity Designer The Comprehensive Guide, it's a beast

[@ElBeeEss]

@@ArtistWright I'm on it already; what a gift! Do you have similar comprehensive epics for Affinity Photo and Publisher?

[@ArtistWright]

@@ElBeeEss excellent 👍 no that's the biggest tutorial I've made. Perhaps in the future I will make some Affinity photo tutorials

[@ElBeeEss]

@@ArtistWright I think they would go down a treat. But you're allowed a little time to recuperate after the Designer biggie. Do some laurel-resting for a wee five mins 😘

[@ArtistWright]

@@ElBeeEss Too right! totally need to hear that right now

[@jostineho7380]

Thanks!

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you so much I appreciate that alot

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

Rite Artist Dude, great tutorial as are the others I've watched hence the sub! Stay safe n well. TFS, GB :)

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for the sub I appreciate it. Currently working on a new Affinity Designer vector pack. Will add show it here once complete and get more tutorials uploaded

[@miro_juric]

Hvala!

[@ArtistWright]

Ti si zvijezda!

[@robb2869]

Excellent tutorial and easy to follow, thank you!

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you Rob 👍

[@KRYoung_dev]

I love your tutorials, thanks!

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for watching

[@philipperobert2050]

Merci ! Another great tuto! Unfortunately for me, the PC version seems to have a bug and crashes when I use the scissors on the sunbeams... There is a workaround but it's a shame. To be continued

[@ArtistWright]

Hi Philippe! Thanks for that I appreciate it. Ah that's a shame to hear, have you tried updating it? Also check your how much of your ram is being used by other apps, maybe its that.

[@hogsbass4817]

Excellent and easy to understand thanks

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for watching appreciate it

[@vexillonerd]

Nice tutorial.

[@ArtistWright]

Cheers

[@The_Gary_Hill]

Super helpful. I look forward to playing around with this feature, so many uses!

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks, it's certainly made my life easier.

[@cagneyreese7962]

Great tutorial. Can u make a tutorial on background, seamless pattern using only brushes panel

[@ArtistWright]

Cheers, maybe soon

[@Talaith-t3e]

This is very clear apart from you not explaining the PC options. For example you say to use CTRL+ CMD, but I thought CTRL was the PC equivalent of CMD (command)? Also what is the OPTION key?

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for the feedback, the option key is on a Mac keyboard. As I don't have a windows pc I can only rely on what the affinity help section says for that. Use the help tab in Affinity on your windows it's very useful

[@eric-w2j9i]

What is the windows shortcut for ctrl cmd? I cannot get this result .

[@ArtistWright]

Also I see how it might be confusing, I don't own a Windows so haven't tried it myself. Hit the official Affinity forum if you ever have any trouble

[@JoanneTaylorQabboJo]

That was a lot of fun, thanks!

[@ArtistWright]

Glad to hear it!

[@Bcheller65]

I'm using Designer 2.3.1 and seem to be unable to make a single cut through te sphere without it making a separate return trip to a point near the origin. I believe I've tried every combination of settings available, but can't avoid the "return trip". Is this a bug in this version? I KNEW IT: Immediately after writing you about the above-described problem, it virtually solved itself.

[@ArtistWright]

AHH there is an option to complete the shape in the context tool bar above

[@megatron3800]

is there a way to reduce node size? these nodes are disturbingly big

[@ArtistWright]

Settings>tools>tool handle size

[@bbbnnn8277]

AUTO CLOSE CHANGE - I'm on Designer 2.5.3. New to Designer. Your videos are an immense help in getting me going. In this video your discussion of Auto Close does not match what I'm seeing in the above version and does not perform as you show in the video. The Auto Close check box in your video to the right of the various options has been replaced by an Auto Close icon just to the right of the straight line icon. Clicking it does launch the Auto Close feature, but you need to get pretty close to the origin to complete the path. In your example you could launch Auto Close by checking the box and release the mouse (track pad in my case) far away from the origin and complete the path. Could it be this is operator error on my part? THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!

[@ArtistWright]

Hi there, you are right they changed it recently so it only auto closes when you are close to the node. To be honest I preferred the old way

[@BobC-u4g]

Me too, i don’t get their reasoning.

[@alextrebus4025]

I noticed that the knife tool as used in timeline 17:44 wil not cut with control key in my affinity 2.5.3 version , the red X will only appear if i make a selection of the broken line with the node tool( A key). It looks to my like a glitch in an update

[@ArtistWright]

I don't have my laptop to hand ATM but will check. I've not updated to the latest yet.

[@senlyyt]

Good job..❤

[@alicecopatterns1503]

this is just what I needed - thank you so much

[@ArtistWright]

No worries!

[@electropainted]

Wow, you're a gifted instructor. these tuts are far better far clearer than Affinity's own...if you're not on staff at Serif, you shd be IMHO! lol(SKILLSHARE?)...for the first time, I want to abandon my lingering love affair with illustrator and really dive into designer(still miss trace and blend but oh well). thank you, brilliant

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you, I appreciate it. Nope im not on staff or skillshare but have contemplated It, I just want as many people as possible to get a chance to learn Affinity Designer for free. Who knows maybe it will be the next industry standard

[@darleneroach2848]

Thank you! Many of us can’t afford to pay for how to details for software etc. Your videos are very clear, so extremely helpful, much easier to learn…

[@ArtistWright]

@darleneroach2848 thank you, comments like yours help push me to make more. All the best

[@tradivoro]

Great tutorial, thank you..

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for watching

[@GRYL180]

Subscribed, Mate :) Very good video.

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you!

[@GatoL0c0]

The ctrl+alt and left mouse button shortcut to delete segments of a line between two nodes does not work in Affinity Designer 2.1. It took me quite some time to figure out that I had to switch to the node tool, then hold ctrl and then click on the segment to delete it. **edit** I'm wondering if this is just a bug that was introduced with the update. I can temporarily switch to the node tool by holding ctrl but I can't use it to delete a segment. I have to actively switch to the node tool to then hold ctrl to delete a segment with the mouse.

[@ArtistWright]

Hello mate, I'm on V 2.1 (Mac) and whilst still on the knife tool I can press control and command then click on any segment and it's working fine for me

[@GatoL0c0]

@@ArtistWright I figured it out! On a Windows PC, the shortcut is the CTRL + Windows Key (not ALT key), then mouse click. This was driving me nuts!! Lol!

[@ArtistWright]

Glad you got it sorted! Thanks for sharing

[@Mrflippyfloop]

Looks like it's changed again in 2.2.1 I can't get it to work unless I'm in the node tool.@@GatoL0c0

[@H.Schulz1401]

Hi, I followed your conversation and tried the things you did, but now in 2.3.1 it is like following: You pres "K" for the knife tool, make 2 cuts on the line, then you switch over to the node tool by pressing "A", then you simply pres and hold STRG and hover over the cut you want to delete, a small red X will appear beside your cursor, simply click on the part or cut you want to delete - and thats it, its gone. @@GatoL0c0

[@aledianin]

Amazing video ❤

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you!

[@kerrykolii3717]

Great tutorial 😊

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks Kerry! ♥

[@senlyyt]

Thanks for the tuto

[@ArtistWright]

Cheers

[@edgarherrera9546]

HI there I'm trying to cut a circle but when I do it wabbles, I want to know if there's a way to cut it perfect circle without going out of place. Thanks

[@ArtistWright]

If you are trying to cut a perfect circle out of a shape just use the ellipse tool to draw a circle then place it over your shape, select both and then either use the Boolean operations to subtract or use the shape builder tool

[@miro_juric]

Again, THANK YOU!

[@ArtistWright]

Hello again Miro, hope you are well! I appreciate the love 👍

[@miro_juric]

@@ArtistWright I'm good, thank you! I appreciate the knowledge and the effort to make these tutorials! It means a lot to me! I wish you all the best, cheers 👍

[@ArtistWright]

No worries, The more people that know how to use Affinity the better

[@benosborne413]

Excellent video

[@ArtistWright]

Thank you!

[@trevorgiant9181]

I can't hover over an icon and have the name or description pop up. Can I enable hovering?

[@ArtistWright]

In Preferences > User Interface, what is the Tool tip Delay set to?

[@trevorgiant9181]

@@ArtistWright Thank You! it was just a Tool Tip Delay adjustment.

[@ArtistWright]

Excellent news 👌🏻

[@graftedworks]

Again a very thorough video. No reflection on you, but these seem like the most unnecessary tools AD has recently added. I’m not sure why they were prioritized when the node tool, booleans, and shape builder all provide the same capabilities. Mysteries, mysteries. Ah well.

[@ArtistWright]

I know what you mean, I like it for line work as deleting different sections

[@FreihEitner]

Very nice!

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for the visit

[@FifaInspected]

I don't have auto close box. Any suggestions?

[@ArtistWright]

Try to see if there is an update, perhaps you are on an earlier version

[@michaelbobarev]

Yeah, let's see ...! -) 🔥

[@jagjeetgohil]

the scissor shortcut dosent work for windows. v2.1.1 any help ?

[@ArtistWright]

Hi there, you can go into settings and look at shortcuts

[@loudabarca8676]

Thanks 🎉❤❤❤

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for watching

[@megatron3800]

discovered you on tiktok. Kudos to tiktok

[@ArtistWright]

Good to know, and welcome to the channel!

[@JackSmith-ud9bg]

GOOD

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks

[@f.d.6667]

Hilarious - after 5+ years of begging from the community and 25 years after "legacy" software like Freehand/Illustrator/Corel, AD now has a knife/scissor tool. What an outstanding innovation! Seriously, while AD has some outstanding bells and whistles, it still struggles with the most basic of functions. *Fun to play with? Certainly. Real "productivity" tool? Definitely not.* Addendum: Thanks for taking the time to make this very structured and helpful tutorial!

[@ArtistWright]

Hi F.D. Thanks for watching and also taking the time to share your feedback and also thoughts on Affinity.

[@awfab3517]

I cant believe how complicated they have to make this. Corel draw its just pick the cut tool and roll it over the line and it will cut between two lines. If there is no two lines to cut between you just draw it and the cut through it. With simple shapes it works but when you have multiple lines its not working.

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for the input, they are updating affinity quit often these days so definitely give them your thoughts. They actually asked people for them recently as they will make changes based on what we want

[@rejointrident]

dude you forgot to mention you need to be in the NODE TOOL for ctrl+click to work with the scissor tool. if you are in the knife tool you will not be able to remove the cut section as you explained.

[@ArtistWright]

when you are in the knife tool and hover over a curve, you need to hold down Command (this temporarily switches you to the node tool). Whilst holding command, hold down Control also. You will now see the red x when hovering over the curve, click once to delete that section of your curve. Look at my video from 17:40 and 20:50 it will show it. If you are only using the node tool - You can hold Control only and click to remove a section from a curve. So basically you dont need to hold command if you are already in the node tool so its a simple Control and click. Hope that makes sense.

[@rejointrident]

@@ArtistWright weird. holding CTRL when on knife tool did not work for me. i get what you are saying but i was so frustrated until i figured i had to be in the node tool and press CTRL. maybe its a v2 thing.

[@ArtistWright]

Ah it could be , I'm using v2.5.3

[@carolinedaniell265]

👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@ArtistWright]

Enjoy

[@eric-w2j9i]

Sorry, that was a bit brusque, I was getting a tad frustrated. I found a workaround that does involve a few more clicks!

[@ArtistWright]

Glad you found the workaround, alot of my videos have the windows shortcuts in the description. So don't forget to check that. Cheers

[@devrod5862]

Finally affinity is adding more and more of these tools. John 3:16-19, Heb 5:9 Repent, get baptized, Obey Jesus all the way to the end to be saved in the end from hell, and make it to the kingdom of heaven

[@ArtistWright]

Yes they certainly are, why the other text?

[@catch_me_outside_how_bout_dat]

Casually recreating the finder icon and not addressing it

[@ArtistWright]

the knife tool?

[@catch_me_outside_how_bout_dat]

@@ArtistWright i will take a screenshot and post it to your twitter

[@johnlepore1562]

Thanks!

[@ArtistWright]

You are very kind 👑

[@leelittlewood4747]

Thanks!

[@leelittlewood4747]

One thing your videos have that others lack is: a big enough tool bar and layers panel!! I dunno how they look to you when you are making the tutorial, but by the time it gets to KZbin everything is fuzzy. Without a large tool bar on your end there is just a bunch of blobs on our end; very hard to read or follow along. (Also - light toolbars might be easier to see?) Veddy good, keep it up, cheers....

[@ArtistWright]

Thanks for supporting my channel! ❤️

[@ArtistWright]

Ahh yes i used to record in standard HD also, so would zoom in onto the tools I was selecting in post production. My latest videos are all in 4k so no more fuzziness. I've filmed a couple of tutorials in light mode but I find similar problems in the layers panel. I appreciate the feedback! Thanks