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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

Using blend modes in practical editing

Now that you know the theory, it is time to do two edits using the blend modes as our primary focus for the edit. There are an unlimited variety of ways you can use blend modes, and even if I could write them all down, you would get really tired of reading them. So, in this section, we will be using blend modes for two of the most frequent applications I work with in photo editing:

  • Blend modes and the application of textures
  • Blend modes for the addition of elements in compositing

Blend modes and the application of textures

During the workflow I laid out in the previous chapter, the last step was balancing and finishing, and part of my finishing process is applying textures to the top layer of an image to give it that last little bit of interest. This method requires two things:

  • An image that you are happy with and ready to finish
  • A texture that you can apply over the top

A texture is an image that has dynamics...