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Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

By : Jeremy Hazel
Book Image

Professional Image Editing Made Easy with Affinity Photo

By: Jeremy Hazel

Overview of this book

In this book, you’ll explore the Affinity Photo program through practice-based learning as you make popular photo edits, learning the tools and techniques in conjunction with the workflow concept. Instead of comprehensive description of the tools, you’ll learn through practical application and understand why they work, not just how they work. This is neither a technical manual nor a workbook but a project-based hybrid approach that provides a deeper understanding of how to use each tool to achieve your goal. Starting with the fundamentals of navigating the interface, understanding layers, and making your first edit, this Affinity Photo book gradually increases the complexity of projects. You’ll go from single-layer edits, composites, and RAW development to putting together a complex composition using the tools that you've learned along the way. Additionally, you’ll learn the best practices used by expert photo editors for a flawless finish. By the end of this book, you’ll have a good body of work, be able to evaluate the edits you want to make, and achieve desired results with Affinity Photo.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundational and Navigation Basics for Affinity Photo
7
Part 2: Fundamental Concepts Used to Create a Simple Edit
13
Part 3 : The Practical Applications of Affinity Photo
19
Part 4: Finishing Your Edit and Building Your Own Artistic Palette

Part 1: Foundational and Navigation Basics for Affinity Photo

This first part will take you through universal topics in the areas of photo editing and digital art in general. You will find that these core techniques will serve you throughout your entire career, and while some of the chapters may seem rather mechanical, developing the muscle memory around what the program does and how to edit will be fundamental as the work gets more and more artistic later. Remembering mechanical drills early on helps you to create what is in your head later.

This part comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Fundamentals of Vector versus Raster Art and Basics of the Interface
  • Chapter 2, Opening Your First Document
  • Chapter 3, Layer Fundamentals – The Heart of Affinity Photo
  • Chapter 4, The Basics of Masking in Affinity Photo
  • Chapter 5, Selection and How to Achieve It in Affinity Photo