The book guide was brilliantly simple to follow. (*Actually, there was a wee problem with the fonts, which I’ll come to shortly.) I’ve worked on magazines and newspapers for most of my career, so to test myself and the quality of the guides in the Affinity Publisher Workbook, I chose something different: laying out an Alice In Wonderland book.Īll of the text, illustrations and fonts* are provided as free downloads, so you can work with the same source material as the guide’s author, allowing you to achieve the exact same results if you get it right.

Learn how to lay out a magazine with Adam Banks That print magazine guide, for example, is written by my friend and colleague Adam Banks – by far the most talented magazine editor/designer I’ve ever worked with, and who sadly passed away recently. For example, how to design a brochure, create a company report or lay out an entire print magazine.īetter still, these guides are written by experts in the field, not only Serif’s own staff. The manual section explains what all the icons, toolbars and buttons do the tutorial comes in the form of several step-by-step guides that show you how to perform real-world tasks in Affinity Publisher. The Workbook, like the Affinity Photo Workbook that went before it, is part manual, part tutorial. When they do make the leap, the superb Affinity Publisher Workbook will ensure that transition is as smooth as possible. Has there ever been a better time for Serif’s brilliant range of Adobe alternatives? With the gloomiest of financial situations unfolding, many folk will find they can’t justify the £50 per month that Adobe charges for Creative Suite and instead turn to products such as Serif’s Affinity Publisher instead – a genuine InDesign rival that costs £50 full stop (£48.99 to be precise), not £50 per month.

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