30+ Simple Touch Gestures in Affinity Designer iPad for Sewing!

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Touch gestures in Affinity Designer iPad make your workflow more simple and easy when working with sewing patterns.

Below I have written out the most commonly used touch gestures. Watch the video to see all 30 gestures for Affinity Designer iPad

General Touch Gestures

2-Finger Double Tap: undo

3-Finger Double Tap: Redo

Pinch: Zoom in or out on the canvas

2-Finger Rotate: Rotate Canvas (I usually turn off canvas rotation in the navigator panel for pattern editing)

2-Finger Drag: Pan Canvas

Tool Modifiers

Long-press: maintain aspect ratio

2-Finger Long Press: Resize from the center

2-Finger Press while Selecting: Duplicate selected object

Layers Panel

Swipe Left: Show menu-add to selection, delete, and blend

Swipe Right: Select multiple layers

Pinch: Group selected layers

Spread: Ungroup selected objects

2-Finger Tap: Select adjacent layers

Press and drag: Move layer

Double tap: Zoom to layer

Conclusion

Take out your iPad and give each of these gestures a try! It will take some practice to get use to and remember all of these. Consider printing off this cheat sheet created by Serif. It’s a great resource to keep handy!

Don’t forget to check out all of these other tutorials for Affinity Designer and the YouTube playlist specifically for Affinity Designer iPad for Sewing!

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