5 Best Pen Tool Tips + Tricks for Affinity Suite: Photo, Designer & Publisher

Are you struggling to learn how to use the Pen Tool? Check out these 5 awesome Pen Tool tips! How many did you know? How many will improve your workflow forever?
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[@shiconotebook]

Thanks for the tips Mark, I completely forgot about using the "Rubber band mode", very useful!
If I may add one more tip to do with nodes that I use a lot:
If you want to center a node between two other nodes:
- Add the node anywhere on the curve between the other two --> select all three --> click on the "alignment" tool in the top toolbar and choose space horizontally and space vertically.
Unfortunately it only works on a straight line, not a curved one. Hope someone find this useful!

[@jeffreypostma6832]

Great tips once again. Some other things I find useful:
- Press shift while dragging the handle to constrain the direction to 90 degree increments
- While using the node mode, you can also press CTRL (on a Mac) to delete a segment of the line
- While drawing the shape, you can use the undo to go back a step (or more, if you prefer)
- In the Node mode, you can delete a handle you have drawn by pressing CMD + ALT (Mac) and clicking on a handle. You can also use this to create a shap corner when pressing a point.
Building up on this, you could do a video on the snapping functions in the pen tool and what they do. I find these can be very useful, but not very straightforward which button does what.

[@KruMark]

Great tips Jeffrey! I may steal some for follow up video ^_^

[@jeffreypostma6832]

@@KruMark Be my guest!

[@andreamoorcroft6127]

Thanks for sharing, I knew about breaking the handle to change angle but definitely learnt a couple of new great tips to help with my workflow.

[@KruMark]

Great to hear!

[@peggymccauley3651]

Thank you. Very useful.

[@MargoBeatty]

This was very helpful! Although I’ve been using Affinity Designer (former Illustrator user and dumped Adobe when they became subscription) I learned a couple of things I wasn’t aware of! I’m actually finding Affinity Apps much more enjoyable and easier to use. I don’t miss Adobe at all! Thank you for this video and many others that you have shared - I’m not finished catching up, but I will be watching more as I have time! I hope your channel gets more exposure, it’s really well done and I so appreciate what you are doing!

[@brodesignstudio525]

rubber band mode really useful for tracing, tq 4 the tip

[@kckdutton]

Thank You 🙏

[@KruMark]

Any time!

[@mohmmad8328]

thank you mark sharing to this video
all options are very useful

[@NickName_9536]

You are not wrong, as new user, pen tool has been a little confusing. Thank you for your clear explanation and examples. It makes learning new software much less frustrating. Have a great day

[@KruMark]

Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching ^_^

[@colemyst]

This has been really helpful, thank you so much.

[@KruMark]

Glad it was helpful!

[@muriellelecontehunt]

Very useful did not know about the Rubber Band Mode or how to do line, great day ahead, thank you!

[@KruMark]

Happy to help!

[@adriennefinlay9023]

Great tips! I learned something new. Greatly appreciated the video.

[@KruMark]

Glad the video was helpful! ^.^

[@g4mm4n0rm]

Thank you for your work I’m learning a lot from you 👍👍

[@KruMark]

You are very welcome ^_^

[@bennyoaks131]

Awesome tips!

[@KruMark]

Glad you think so! ^_^

[@JasonRamasami]

Dude this is great.

[@KruMark]

Thanks ^_^

[@limitone9564]

What is the key on Windows for the option tool? I'm using Windows and iPad, can you do ipad tutorials for Designer and Photo?

[@1dulceritmo]

Thank you 😊

[@KruMark]

Welcome!

[@planetproofreading2234]

Affinity does a FANTASTIC job of making you buy all of there applications just to get the tools you need, like PENCIL IN AFFINITY PHOTO- not there.