Web Development: How to Design a Music Lesson Flyer

How to Design a Music Lesson Flyer

Final product image — What You'll Be Creating

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to design a music lesson flyer design in Affinity Publisher. Using basic tools and techniques along with some fonts and photos from Envato Elements, you'll learn how to create this music lesson flyer template.

If you don't have the time to learn how to make a flyer for music lessons, you can always try Envato Elements. You will find a massive collection of music lesson flyer examples to choose from. This summer music lesson flyer is just one of the many examples.

Alternatively, you can use the music flyer maker from Placeit. Using the music flyer maker, you can build a flyer design directly in your browser. All you have to do is select a template that fits your needs, and then adjust the photos, the graphics, the text, or the colors with a few clicks.

What You Will Learn in This Affinity Publisher Tutorial

How to set up a print-ready document in Affinity Publisher
How to import and blend photos in Affinity Publisher
How to work with text in Affinity Publisher
How to create banners and badges in Affinity Publisher

What You Will Need

You will need the following resources in order to complete this pamphlet for music classes:

1. How to Create a New Document

Hit Control-N to open the New Document window. Select the A4 template, which will automatically set the Width to 210 millimeters and the Height to 297 millimeters.

Make sure that the DPI is set to 300 and, since you're creating this for print, select CMYK for the Colour Format.

Set the Bleed to 3 mm and then click that Create button to create your new document. Now that your document is set up, let's learn how to make a flyer for music lessons.

2. How to Create the Music Lessons Flyer Background

Step 1

Before you start work on the design, focus on the toolbar and make sure that Snapping is enabled.

Pick the Rectangle Tool (M) from your Tools and simply click and drag to create a shape that covers your entire canvas (216 x 303 mm). Set the fill color of this rectangle to C=100 M=60 Y=100 K=60.

Step 2

Download this Young Boy Learning To Play Piano photo and drag it inside your document.

Keep it selected and scale it to cover the entire canvas, as shown in the following image. You can do it manually or you can go to the Transform panel (View > Studio > Transform), check the Lock Aspect Ratio button, and set the Width to 216 mm.

Once you've placed the image as shown below, keep it selected and go to the Layers panel. Change the Blend Mode to Average and lower the Opacity to 80%.

Step 3

Reselect the Rectangle Tool (M), create a 200 x 287 mm shape, and fill it with C=2 M=3 Y=13 K=0.

With this rectangle selected, go to the toolbar, click the Alignment button, and then click the Align Center and Align Middle buttons to easily move your shape to the center of the canvas.

Step 4

Make sure that the rectangle made in the previous step is still selected, and press Shift-X to instantly swap the fill and stroke color settings.

Move to the context toolbar and open the Stroke attributes panel. Set the Width to 4 pt and don't forget to check the Align Stroke to Inside button.

Step 5

Reselect the Rectangle Tool (M) and this time create a 192 x 279 mm shape.

Center this new shape and then return to the context toolbar to lower the stroke weight to 2 pt.