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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

Blend modes in Adjustment and Live Filter layers

In previous chapters, we covered the different types of layers, including the following:

  • Pixel
  • Adjustment
  • Live Filter

Up to this point, we have only really talked about blend modes using a Pixel layer, as in the images we placed over the others in the practical edit. However, both Adjustment and Live Filter layers have the option for blend mode adjustment as well, and blend mode adjustment on these types of layers can lead to some unexpected and beautiful effects in your work

Practical example

In Figure 8.15, we have a picture of a hot air balloon, typically a colorful object, but I have applied a Black & White Adjustment layer to it, turning it into shades of gray. We have included this working file in your downloads for this section if you want to try this for yourself (see the Blend mode for adjustment and filter example file). This example will only look at an Adjustment layer, but as the process...