Affinity Designer: How to use effects and styles

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With vector and raster tools combined, Affinity Designer is an affordable yet powerful alternative to Adobe CC. It’s available for Mac, PC and also iPad.   In this tutorial we're going to run you through the Effects panel, and how to create and use styles to apply effects quickly.

The Effects panel enables you to apply non-destructive effects to your vector objects – you can toggle on and off and tweak elements of the effects. Styles can be used to capture the steps required to create a certain effect. These can be saved as a template to be reused on future objects, ensuring consistency and saving time.

05. Import and export styles  

There is also the option to import and export styles. To import, click on the option menu (where you created your style) upon clicking the import option, a finder window will open from which you can open .afstyles files and use styles that other users have made. You can also export styles to use on other machines or share with other users.

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Tom Ludd is a Product Designer at Softr, and the founder of creativity.wtf. He previously founded The Designers' League, a community of more than 80,000 creatives, and has written for Creative Bloq on digital design tools. Tom also runs the brand and product design studio Prelude, which is currently working on Showcase, "a place to discover what's next at the intersection of tech and creativity."

Affinity Designer: How to use effects and styles

01. Access the Effects and Styles panels

02. Use effects

03. Tweak effects

04. Create styles

05. Import and export styles

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