From the course: Designing an Icon with Affinity Designer
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Slicing, file format, and exporting - Affinity Designer Tutorial
From the course: Designing an Icon with Affinity Designer
Slicing, file format, and exporting
- [Instructor] So I showed you how to import and place your design, then we used simple shapes to build the foundation of your design, then I showed you how to use the gradient effects and the layer effects. So now your design is complete and you want to export and I already set this up for you in the template, but we're going to add a new slice just so you guys can see the process of actually creating your own slice to export. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab one of these images, I'm going to hold down the option key, I'm going to click and drag, and I'm going to drag out a copy, and I'm just going to increase the size of that, and that's going to be our new slice that we're going to add. Now, to export and add slices, you need to be in the export persona, so go to the top left hand side, click on this little icon, export persona, and you'll notice that I already have some slices created here and this one doesn't have any slice around it, so that's the one we're going to…
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