Affinity Designer Affinity Designer 5

Question 1

What is the primary advantage of Affinity Designer's 'vector brush' strokes over standard strokes?

Accepted Answer

They use pressure-sensitive width profiles that remain fully editable as vector paths

Answer

Vector brush strokes apply variable-width profiles to paths, giving natural brush-like variation while staying resolution-independent and editable.

Question 2

When using the 'Divide' boolean operation in Affinity Designer, what is the result?

Accepted Answer

All shapes are split at every intersection, creating separate closed regions

Answer

Divide cuts every shape at each intersection point and outputs all resulting closed regions as individual, separately colorable objects.

Question 3

What does 'Separate Curves' do to a compound path in Affinity Designer?

Accepted Answer

Breaks a compound path back into its individual sub-paths

Answer

Separate Curves reverses the 'Add' or compound-path operation, returning each original sub-path as its own independent object.

Question 4

How do you create a radial gradient in Affinity Designer using the Fill Tool?

Accepted Answer

Select 'Radial' from the fill type dropdown in the Fill Tool's context toolbar, then drag to set radius

Answer

With the Fill Tool active, choosing Radial from the type menu in the context toolbar and dragging defines the center and radius of the gradient.

Question 5

What is the purpose of the 'Snapping' candidate called 'Bounding Box' in Affinity Designer?

Accepted Answer

Snaps the cursor to the corner and midpoints of selected objects' bounding boxes

Answer

The Bounding Box snap candidate causes objects to snap at their own and other objects' edge and center reference points.

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