A session where I take you behind the scenes and show you exactly how I create a beautifully designed document using Affinity Publisher - from a blank page to a polished, professional layout.
Whether you're designing a planner, workbook, PDF handout, or any other type of document, you’ll learn valuable layout and design techniques you can apply to your own projects. No prior experience required—just curiosity and a passion for great design!
In this session, you’ll discover how to:
- Set up a clean, structured layout from scratch
- Use guides, layers, and styles efficiently
- Incorporate images, text, and decorative elements
- Make your designs stand out using Affinity’s powerful tools
- Export a final version ready to share or print
Looking for something specific? Check out the direct links to individual parts of the session:
- Start of Live Stream
- Start of Session
- Previewing the Final PDF
- Creating a New Document
- The Theory of Designing a Document in Affinity Publisher
- Global Colours
- Enabling the Baseline Grid
- Text Styles
- Master Pages (including Page Numbers)
- Creating a Cover Page
- Adding a Page for the Table of Contents
- Adding Text Content
- AutoFlowing Text and Basic Text Styling
- Styling a Full Page (including images, a Pull Quote and pinning)
- Adding Back Matter
- Adding Hyperlinks
- Creating a Back Cover
- Creating and Managing Document Sections with the Section Manager
- Table of Contents
- Exporting to PDF
- Q&A and lots and lots of chat!
