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Adding effects and choosing colors

Adding effects and choosing colors - Affinity Designer Tutorial

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Adding effects and choosing colors

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- [Narrator] So in the previous movie, I showed you how to use basic shapes to build out the foundation of your app. And in this movie, I'm going to show you how to apply some effects. Now, let's take a look at this icon here. It's using all the flat gray colors we used before. And, I tweaked it a little bit. There were a few things that weren't lined up the way that I wanted, so I didn't want you guys to sit through that process. And, I also added the light here in the top right, which was in my design, but in the last video, we didn't apply that, so I just added it here. So, let's go ahead and add some color and effects. I'm using some swatches here that I've created, so you don't have to go through and watch me double-click this and pick every color. If you'd like to use these swatches, all you need to do is go to this little icon here on the top right, and click Import Palette, As Document Palette, and then navigate to the Chapter Two folder, and there, you'll find this palette…

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