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.

Watch the video tutorial below for a speedy run-through of the basics, or read on for a written guide.

More in the Affinity Designer tools series:

• Using constraints
• Using Grids
• The Pen tool
• The Export persona
• The Pixel persona

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