Thanks for the tips Mark, I completely forgot about using the "Rubber band mode", very useful! If I may add one more tip to do with nodes that I use a lot: If you want to center a node between two other nodes: - Add the node anywhere on the curve between the other two --> select all three --> click on the "alignment" tool in the top toolbar and choose space horizontally and space vertically. Unfortunately it only works on a straight line, not a curved one. Hope someone find this useful!

Thank You 🙏

Thanks for sharing, I knew about breaking the handle to change angle but definitely learnt a couple of new great tips to help with my workflow.

Great tips once again. Some other things I find useful: - Press shift while dragging the handle to constrain the direction to 90 degree increments - While using the node mode, you can also press CTRL (on a Mac) to delete a segment of the line - While drawing the shape, you can use the undo to go back a step (or more, if you prefer) - In the Node mode, you can delete a handle you have drawn by pressing CMD + ALT (Mac) and clicking on a handle. You can also use this to create a shap corner when pressing a point. Building up on this, you could do a video on the snapping functions in the pen tool and what they do. I find these can be very useful, but not very straightforward which button does what.

This was very helpful! Although I’ve been using Affinity Designer (former Illustrator user and dumped Adobe when they became subscription) I learned a couple of things I wasn’t aware of! I’m actually finding Affinity Apps much more enjoyable and easier to use. I don’t miss Adobe at all! Thank you for this video and many others that you have shared - I’m not finished catching up, but I will be watching more as I have time! I hope your channel gets more exposure, it’s really well done and I so appreciate what you are doing!

rubber band mode really useful for tracing, tq 4 the tip

thank you mark sharing to this video all options are very useful

You are not wrong, as new user, pen tool has been a little confusing. Thank you for your clear explanation and examples. It makes learning new software much less frustrating. Have a great day

Thank you. Very useful.

This has been really helpful, thank you so much.

Very useful did not know about the Rubber Band Mode or how to do line, great day ahead, thank you!

Great tips! I learned something new. Greatly appreciated the video.

Thank you for your work I’m learning a lot from you 👍👍

Affinity does a FANTASTIC job of making you buy all of there applications just to get the tools you need, like PENCIL IN AFFINITY PHOTO- not there.

Dude this is great.

Awesome tips!

What is the key on Windows for the option tool? I'm using Windows and iPad, can you do ipad tutorials for Designer and Photo?

Thank you 😊