Design A Digital Planner In Affinity Designer And Keynote

Free Download What you'll learn
Learn how to design a digital planner using Affinity Designer and Keynote
Learn the basics of Affinity Designer
Learn the basics of Keynote
Learn how to use digital planners in the app Goodnotes
Requirements
All you need to take this class is your iPad, The Goodnotes app or any other note taking app and of course your laptop or computer with Affinity Designer and Keynote.
Description
Class DescriptionHello everyone welcome to my latest skillshare class. I'm Jen Lezan and I'll be your teacher for this course. I'm a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run Bella + Sophia Creative studio. Aside from my work in graphic design and illustration, I really enjoy planning! I've shared previous classes on how to create your own digital stickers for digital planning and how to make a digital planner in Affinity Publisher. For this course, I wanted to share another way you can create your own digital planner using Affinity Designer for desktop and Keynote.I wanted to share some tips, my knowledge and help you build a digital planner that you can customize to your needs. I also find that digital planners are less intimidating as you don't feel so much pressure when creating spreads in them because you can always undo. Finally, digital planners are a bit more eco friendly than your traditional paper planners as you can reuse them over and over again and they make planning on the go really simple as you really don't need to bring anything else beside your iPad and stylus along.What the class is aboutIn this class, you will learn how to create a linked digital planner in Affinity Designer. I like using affinity designer for creating planners and printable because it is so easy to create precise shapes, space them evenly, add vector effects to the shapes and export them easily. While Affinity Designer doesn't have the linking function as Affinity Publisher, you can link all of your pages in Keynote and export the final file as a PDF to prepare them for your digital note taking app. It's also easy to add dates to the planner and keep the numbers and shapes properly aligned using the align tools.You can choose to create either a dated or an undated planner as your class project. I'll outline options for both and we'll go over the pros and cons of creating a dated vs. an undated planner. This course is a fantastic class to also really hone in on your layout design skill and get more comfortable with Affinity Designer - as you are going through the basic process of creating in the program and you get a tangible project that you can use after you are done.A few of the skills students will learnYou will learn how create your own digital planner in Affinity Designer. We will start with the basics of understanding the tool bars and functions in the Affinity Publisher workspace, then we will start to build out our digital planner. You will learn how to design basic layouts, create pages, get an understanding of the layers function in the program, learn how to create tabs and how to link those tabs to pages in your layout. We will also go over how to use the shape tools, the line tool and how to use the the move and align functions. You will get a better understanding of the layer FX tools and how to add things like embossing and shadows to make items feel more 3-D. We will learn how to create basic buttons and icons. Then, we will get your file linked up in Keynote and finally, we will go over how to export your file for use in note taking apps like Goodnotes. I'll show you how to load it into the app on your iPad and you will be ready to use your digital planner!To make things easier, I will be including the class project affinity designer template that you can edit and get acquainted with before you start your own. I will also include a PDF you can use. What you need to take this courseAll you need to take this class is your iPad, The Goodnotes app or any other note taking app and of course your laptop or computer with Affinity Designer and Keynote. I hope you enjoy the course, let's get creating!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: What You Will Learn
Lecture 2 What You Will Learn
Section 3: Your Course Project
Lecture 3 Your Course Project
Section 4: The Basics of Affinity Designer
Lecture 4 The Basics of Affinity Designer
Section 5: Designing Your Planner Cover
Lecture 5 Designing Your Planner Cover
Section 6: Designing Your Index Page
Lecture 6 Designing Your Index Page
Section 7: Your Year at a Glance Page
Lecture 7 Your Year at a Glance Page
Section 8: Designing Your Monthly Page
Lecture 8 Designing Your Monthly Page
Section 9: Updating Your Monthly Tabs
Lecture 9 Updating Your Monthly Tabs
Section 10: Designing Your Daily Page
Lecture 10 Designing Your Daily Page
Section 11: Designing Your Weekly Page
Lecture 11 Designing Your Weekly Page
Section 12: Designing Your Meeting Page
Lecture 12 Designing Your Meeting Page
Section 13: Designing Your Goal Planner Page
Lecture 13 Designing Your Goal Planner Page
Section 14: Designing Your Extra Page
Lecture 14 Designing Your Extra Page
Section 15: Exporting Your Pages as Slices
Lecture 15 Exporting Your Pages as Slices
Section 16: Setting Up Your File in Keynote
Lecture 16 Setting Up Your File in Keynote
Section 17: Adding Additional Pages in Keynote
Lecture 17 Adding Additional Pages in Keynote
Section 18: Linking Your Pages in Keynote
Lecture 18 Linking Your Pages in Keynote
Section 19: Copying Your Links to All Pages
Lecture 19 Copying Your Links to All Pages
Section 20: Exporting Your Final PDF File
Lecture 20 Exporting Your Final PDF File
Section 21: Working in Goodnotes
Lecture 21 Working in Goodnotes
Section 22: Course Outro
Lecture 22 Course Outro
Beginner designers interested in learning how to create digital planners or how to use Affinity Designer and Keynote.


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