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How to scale down shapes in Affinity Designer

We'll wrap up our Affinity Designer tutorial for beginners by adding the final details to our design and learning how to scale down shapes.
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Drew MacDonald
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Drawing/Illustration Vectors Graphic Design Techniques & Workflow Affinity Designer
This post is part of a series called Complete Affinity Designer Beginners Guide.
How to use compound shapes in Affinity Designer

In the previous Affinity Designer tutorials, we learned how to use compound shapes and how to add a gradient fill. At this point, you've discovered all the most useful tools available in this design software.

Now that we're at the finish line of our Affinity Designer tutorial for beginners, let's go ahead and add the final details to our project.

Once we're done with this step, you'll be ready to export your brand new Affinity Designer creation!

Watch the lesson: Adding the final details

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We'll wrap things up by scaling both the bear and the iceberg down. To select all the right layers easily, follow the steps in this Affinity Designer beginner tutorial.

Step 1

On the Layers panel, expand the Rectangle layer. Select the following layers:

  • the bear (above the Rectangle layer)
  • the top and bottom outlines
  • the two iceberg groups
  • the compound shapes
Affinity Designer beginner tutorial: select the right layers.Affinity Designer beginner tutorial: select the right layers.Affinity Designer beginner tutorial: select the right layers.

Step 2

Right-click and assign these layers a blue tag. Let's also unlock them.

Tutorial for Affinity Designer: assign the layers a blue tag.Tutorial for Affinity Designer: assign the layers a blue tag.Tutorial for Affinity Designer: assign the layers a blue tag.

Find the color tags at the bottom of the menu

Tutorial in Affinity Designer: unlock the layers.Tutorial in Affinity Designer: unlock the layers.Tutorial in Affinity Designer: unlock the layers.

Unlock the objects by clicking on the locks.

Step 3

Now, on the menu at the top, go to Select > Select Same > Tag Color.
Affinity Designer tutorials: go to Select.Affinity Designer tutorials: go to Select.Affinity Designer tutorials: go to Select.

Select

Affinity Designer tutorials: now, go to Select Same.Affinity Designer tutorials: now, go to Select Same.Affinity Designer tutorials: now, go to Select Same.

Select Same

Tag Color

Step 4

Finally, we'll use the Move Tool to scale the selected layers down and center them.
 

Affinity Designer basic tutorial: scale down the selected layers.Affinity Designer basic tutorial: scale down the selected layers.Affinity Designer basic tutorial: scale down the selected layers.

Well done! Now you're all set to export your Affinity Designer project. 

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