Affinity Designer 2: Knife Tool and Scissor Tool Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- Hello Designers and welcome to another Affinity Designer tutorial! Today, I'm going to show you how to use the Knife Tool and Scissor tool in Version 2. whether you are a beginner or an advanced user of Affinity its going to help as I cover alot of techniques, tips and tricks.
Learn multiple ways of cutting open and closed curves, I'll teach you how to create smooth cuts, sharp corners, single and multiple cuts, and cutting inside objects. I'll demonstrate how to apply these tools by using examples that are actually useful, including a T-shirt a surf line drawing, a monstera plant, a text glitch effect and how to cut and recolour.
Let's get cutting-edge with Affinity Designer!
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NOTE: I'm Using a MAC, so any shortcuts I mention may be different for WINDOWS USERS. See the below for the WINDOWS:
- Mac Command key = Windows Ctrl key
- Mac Shift key = Windows Shift key
- Mac Alt key = Windows Alt key
- Mac Ctrl key = Windows Right Mouse button
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Knife Tool Basics
1:31 4 Ways to Use the Knife Tool
6:05 Auto Close
7:15 Cut Inside Object
8:10 Single Cut
8:42 Multiple Cuts
10:21 Monstera Design Example
11:47 Cut & Recolour Example
13:41 Glitch Example
16:23 Scissor Tool
19:36 Surf Design Example
21:31 Outro
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Comprehensive, concise, clear and helpful - as always. No flannel, no gimmicks. Thank you
Thank you so much
Excellent tutorial and easy to follow, thank you!
Thank you Rob 👍
Thanks for being so thorough in this tutorial!
Cheers I appreciate that
Your tutorials have taught me more than the top 5 channel on graphic design together!
Big love for that Obama
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.
Hi Dan, I appreciate that. I try to make tutorials that I'd like to see, the pace and description etc.
affinity is drug addiction ✏Tool is fantastic 👍Thanks for great tutorial!
Ha thanks! New tutorial coming very soon
@@ArtistWright can’t wait!
Very nice Tutorial, really easy to follow. Best tutorial I've seen for Infinity. Well done!!!!
Thank you Carl!
Wow! Clear and direct explanation. Thank you.
Cheers Israel!
Thanks!
You are very kind 👑
Very helpful tutorial - I appreciate your taking the time to create it.
Hi Ted! Happy to hear its helping you, thanks for the feedback
Excellent tutorial, clear and concise. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Subscribed, Mate :) Very good video.
Thank you!
Thanks - so clear!
Hi Dabney, im happy you are finding this video useful. I appreciate the Super thanks ♥
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
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
@@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!
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!
@@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 :-)
Affinity has made some great changes in v2, but it does seem to take them a long time to include new features.
this is just what I needed - thank you so much
No worries!
I love your tutorials, thanks!
Thanks for watching
That was a lot of fun, thanks!
Glad to hear it!
Super helpful. I look forward to playing around with this feature, so many uses!
Thanks, it's certainly made my life easier.
Excellent and easy to understand thanks
Thanks for watching appreciate it
Great tutorial, thank you..
Thanks for watching
Very nice!
Thanks for the visit
Great tutorial 😊
Thanks Kerry! ♥
Nice tutorial.
Cheers
Again, THANK YOU!
Hello again Miro, hope you are well! I appreciate the love 👍
@@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 👍
No worries, The more people that know how to use Affinity the better
Excellent video
Thank you!
Thanks 🎉❤❤❤
Thanks for watching
Rite Artist Dude, great tutorial as are the others I've watched hence the sub! Stay safe n well. TFS, GB :)
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
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.
I know what you mean, I like it for line work as deleting different sections
Yeah, let's see ...! -) 🔥
Hvala!
Ti si zvijezda!
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!
Hi F.D. Thanks for watching and also taking the time to share your feedback and also thoughts on Affinity.
discovered you on tiktok. Kudos to tiktok
Good to know, and welcome to the channel!
Great tutorial. Can u make a tutorial on background, seamless pattern using only brushes panel
Cheers, maybe soon
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
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.
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
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
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…
@darleneroach2848 thank you, comments like yours help push me to make more. All the best
What is the windows shortcut for ctrl cmd? I cannot get this result .
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
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.
AHH there is an option to complete the shape in the context tool bar above
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
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
is there a way to reduce node size? these nodes are disturbingly big
Settings>tools>tool handle size
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.
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
@@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!
Glad you got it sorted! Thanks for sharing
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
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
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Enjoy
I can't hover over an icon and have the name or description pop up. Can I enable hovering?
In Preferences > User Interface, what is the Tool tip Delay set to?
@@ArtistWright Thank You! it was just a Tool Tip Delay adjustment.
Excellent news 👌🏻
the scissor shortcut dosent work for windows. v2.1.1 any help ?
Hi there, you can go into settings and look at shortcuts
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.
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
Sorry, that was a bit brusque, I was getting a tad frustrated. I found a workaround that does involve a few more clicks!
Glad you found the workaround, alot of my videos have the windows shortcuts in the description. So don't forget to check that. Cheers
Finally affinity is adding more and more of these tools.
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Yes they certainly are, why the other text?
Thanks!
Thank you so much I appreciate that alot