Introduction to Shapes

Affinity designer comes with many prebuilt shapes by default.

You see the little gray triangle next to the rectangle tool, if you click on that little triangle, you can open up all of these other shapes that you can use.

Select the trapezoid tool and draw a shape.

Affinity gives you options to adjust the shapes, even these prebuilt shapes.

These settings are right up in the context toolbar.

For example, the trapezoid has a left point and a right point.

You can adjust this percentage to change the angles of your trapezoid.

If you wanted to, though, you could just click and drag on the orange nodes that you see on the shape. Try doing this.

Let's go ahead and practice another example.

Delete this then select the donut tool and hold shift to create a perfect donut shape.

increase or decrease the radius of this hole in the middle.

Adjust the start angle, the end angle,

the overall angle.