Hello designers and welcome to another Affinity Designer tutorial, in todays video you will learn how to create a DJ Controller / DJ turntables.
The main aim of this tutorial is to get you familiar with using the many different tools Affinity has to offer, along with using Shortcuts and techniques of design.
It’s beginner friendly and I’ll take it slowly and teach you step by step so you can follow along with me.
I will cover the following and much more:
- The Gradient tool including conical gradients
- Power Duplicate
- Quick Grids
- Corner Tool
- 3D
- Shape Builder Tool
- Style Picker Tool
- Contour Tool
- Move Data Entry
- Pressure (pressure profiles)
- Duplicate Around a Circle
- Boolean Operations
- Many Useful Shortcuts
Affinity Designer V2 (2.4) Used in this tutorial.
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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 What You Will Learn
0:24 DJ Controller Design Overview
1:00 Power Duplicate - Performance Pads
07:34 Quick Grids - Performance Pads
10:00 Duplicate - Move / Data Entry - Corner Tool - Gradient
20:02 Duplicate Around A Circle - Volume Control
25:25 Pressure / Line Thickness - Jog Wheel Tension
28:57 Shape Builder, Donut Tool - Techniques for Buttons
33:52 Gradient - Jog Wheel
35:32 Conical Gradient - Jog Wheel
37:36 Style Picker - Jog Wheel
38:18 Trapezoid Tool - Jog Wheel
39:18 Corner Tool - Jog Wheel
39:56 Duplicate Around A Circle - Jog Wheel
41:16 3D & Centre Circle - Jog Wheel
46:20 Contour Tool & More - Jog Wheel
48:03 Cutting Strokes, Guides, More - Jog Wheel
56:53 Highlights - Jog Wheel
58:13 Design Overview
59:12 Thanks for Watching
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